🪄Magic Fish🪄
The machine in front of Destiny Fish and Time Fish powered down, having successfully launched its payload.
“No!!!" Screamed Destiny Fish.
"What is it, Destiny?! What just happened?!" Time Fish yelled at him.
Eyes wide, Destiny Fish robotically turned to his buddy, "This machine copies Shattered egg… World Fish’s Shattered egg,”
Time Fish felt his stomach turn to ice, “You’re joking. What kind of psychopath would copy THAT spell!?”
“Smarties are wack, dude! But forget that; We gotta get out of here!” Destiny Fish started flying upwards, turning back to urge Time Fish to follow.
Time Fish stayed still, however. Now that he knew what was happening, [Time Sense] informed him of how much time they had left. He stammered, "W-w-we don't have enough time. We're all dead. Unless…” He drifted off, calculating something in his head, "Bro, I think I can buy you enough time. You can make it if you go now. Run!"
"What are you talking about dude? C'mon…"
"THERE'S NO TIME!! GO NOW DESTINY!!!" Time Fish shouted.
Destiny Fish flinched. He had never seen Time Fish raise his voice like that. With one last pleading look behind, He turned and swam away as fast as he could.
Time Fish swam straight down to the ground. He slammed into the soil and screamed the magic words, “Frozen Moment!”
From his wand, a bubble of time spread out covering the ground. It rapidly expanded outwards in every direction. Within moments it covered thousands of kilometres, coating the entire planet in a translucent red-orange time bubble.
Outside of the bubble, birds flew, Smarties fled, and time flowed as normal. But inside time was completely frozen; nothing moved anywhere, right down to the planet's unstable core.
Time fish felt his magic power drain at a frightening pace. With a small bubble the size of a fish, he could freeze time on the insides for centuries. But on an entire planet, his vast magic power would drain dry in one minute, and thirteen seconds; his [Time Sense] told him so.
Time Fish breathed a sigh of relief. That was all the time his bro needed. He held his wand tightly to the time bubble and waited.
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The various magical fish all over the planet grew concerned by the sudden retreat of the Smarties. When the world began to tremble and they felt Time Fish's spell wrap around the planet, concern turned to panic. Something terrible was happening.
Gate Fish opened a portal to where he had left Dream and Music fish, but neither were there anymore. Cursing, he opened a portal to space where Divination and Laser Fish were, “Tell me where everyone is! Something is wrong. I'm gonna get them out of there!”
Divination Fish didn't ask questions, instead going straight to work. Looking deep into her glowing esca, the first fish she located Mental Fish, hidden deep in the ocean.
A portal opened beside her moments later, “Mental Fish, come through! Where’s Narcissist Fish?” Gate fish called through the portal.
Mental fish startled at the sudden voice. She rushed through the portal and hid behind Laser Fish. One word appeared in their minds, “Dead.”
They felt numb shock wash over them. Laser Fish soothed Mental Fish while the others got back to searching.
Divination Fish next found Sky Fish and Gravity Fish. They swam through the portal, severely injured, but alive.
Yeti Fish was recovered next, he informed them that DNA Jellyfish and Pain Fish went chasing after the fleeing Smarties into the sky. As there are no flying Yetis, he stayed behind.
“Oh no… I found Normal Crawfish and Virus Fish,” Divination informed them and relayed the location to Gate Fish.
“Why ‘Oh no’?” Gate Fish asked, opening the portal.
Deep underground, in a shield bubble that had saved them from being frozen in time, Normal Crawfish shook Virus Fish, “Don’t play around babe, say something!” She shouted. Tears ran down her face
Virus Fish’s one remaining eye stared up, lifelessly.
The portal opened beside them, and Gate Fish peeked through, “Goddess,” He exclaimed, seeing Virus Fish’s corpse.
Normal Crawfish looked up with teary eyes, “Gate Fish? Virus won’t wake up. Help!”
Gate Fish cast a bubble around the two and gently pulled them through his portal. The gathered fish inspected Virus Fish, but it was too late, he had succumbed to his wounds.
The group was startled when Virus magic suddenly exploded out of his body into the universe.
A perfectly healthy man on Earth was strolling down the street, minding his own business. He coughed, "Damn, must be catching something," he murmured and continued on his way. He had indeed caught something. He had just become patient zero for the world's next pandemic, COVID-20.
Divination Fish snapped back to her senses after gawking at the magic explosion and quickly got back to searching again. Suddenly, her esca lit up like a beacon. She jerked her head back and shielded her eyes from the blinding light,
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“What the flipper was that?!” she cursed.
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Hidden in a canyon, Music Fish sang to calm the shivering Dream Fish. He looked down and saw the time bubble below him pop. Moments later, fire consumed them.
Dream magic exploded out of Dream Fish and into the universe.
On a pristine beach, somewhere warm and tropical, a random lady who has no relevance to the story, stood at a beautiful wedding altar, handmade from driftwood. She looked into her beloved’s eyes and he looked back with a dreamy smile, filling her heart with warmth. It was perfect, this was her dream come true.
The priest standing in front of them asked, “... And do you Sarah Beara take Darren McClarren to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold, from this day forth until death do you part?”
“I… I…I BWEEEERRGGG!” Without warning, Sarah vomited rancid green chunks all over her beautiful, white, wedding dress. Gasps rang out from the onlooking crowd.
The altar chose that moment to break under their weight. Sarah, Darren, and the priest all fell gracelessly into a pile of sand and driftwood. One particularly sharp piece of wood somehow managed to stab right through the priest's heart, killing him instantly. Gasps turned to screams as the crowd freaked out.
A stray dog ran over, seemingly from nowhere, and urinated on Sarah's already ruined dress.
Upon seeing this, the maid of honour inexplicably decided it was time to reveal her big secret. She stepped forward and shouted at the groom, “Darren, I'm pregnant! It's yours,"
Darren gasped and looked up at her, "But you can't be pregnant with my child: I'm pregnant with yours!"
Anyways, enough of that nonsense. Needless to say, Sarah’s dream wedding was ruined. As were countless other dream vacations, dream homes, and dream cars all over the universe.
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Music magic exploded out of Music Fish’s body and into the universe.
On Earth, in a suburban garage somewhere, The lead singer of some band that has no relevance to the story had an idea. He turned to the other members of his band and said, “Guys, maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong! Garage bands are so overdone, that’s why no one likes our music! We need to try something new!”
“Like what?” the drummer asked.
The singer held up both hands, “Hear me out: Ska, meets dubstep, meets classic country and western!”
“...Wow… that’s… WOW! Why hasn’t anyone ever thought of that before? Now that you say it, it's like, such an obvious match. Hell Yeah! Let’s do it!” the cowbell player cheered.
The rest of the band joined his cheer and thus the Ska-Steppy Western music genre was created.
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DNA Jellyfish and Pain Fish raced into space. Originally they were chasing their enemies but once the planet exploded behind them, they became the ones being chased. The Smarties were redoubling their efforts to finish off the remaining magic fish now that they were caught off guard.
DNA Jellyfish formed a shield out of his remaining minions to protect himself from the lasers raining down on him from every direction. He had a very limited supply of space-faring minions and those he had were being decimated every second. He thrashed about in fury as lasers pierced his soft flesh. A portal opened behind him and he was yanked through.
Pain Fish was not as lucky, he had no spacefaring minions. Lasers tore into him. He screamed the whole time, enjoying the pain but not enjoying dying.
It was over in moments. A laser pierced right through his skull and finished him. His lifeless corpse continued to be riddled with more laser blasts until pain magic exploded out from his body and into the universe.
On Earth, billions of people stubbed their toes at the same time. It hurt like bloody hell!
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One minute, thirteen seconds after being cast, Time Fish's spell had ended. The time bubble burst and the worldwide shaking resumed. Time Fish relaxed, smiling up at the sky towards where Destiny Fish had Fled and said, "Live well Destiny Fish. Love you, bro," Moments later, fire consumed him.
Time magic exploded out of Time Fish’s body and into the universe. A lot of things happened in an instant.
Time froze.
Time reversed a second.
Time resumed again.
Time travel became possible.
A single soul travelled back from timeline A to timeline B.
Reality nearly shattered from the paradox.
Time froze again.
Time magic disconnected from reality.
Time travel ceased being possible.
Finally, time resumed normally.
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Remember that timeline where Tomas got eaten? Let's see what happened over there.
25 years had passed since the Matriarch ate Tomas and the church of the wolf rose to power. Outside a hidden bunker on the moon, church soldiers lined up outside a large pair of blast doors, preparing to breach them. Deep inside the bunker, the walls shook from all the explosives being thrown at the outer door. The last remnants of the rebellion rushed frantically to finish their work.
Ricky, the vice leader of the rebels, bolted in the final component on the machine they were working on. He looked over at the little, green alien, Einstein, who had just finished calibrating into her console. She gave him a thumbs up.
"I'll go get the leader. Everyone get ready!" Ricky called out to the room
Everyone rushed to their assigned computers as Ricky went to knock on the door to the leader's room, "We're ready." He called through the door.
It slid open and out swum the rebel leader. The unusual fish swam through the air as if it were water. He was covered, head to tail, in horrific burns and scars, almost none of his beautiful, golden scales remained. He wore an eye patch over his left eye, his fins were mangled and he was missing half of his tail. Despite all that, he looked strong, he looked undefeated. Destiny Fish, the rebel leader, swam like a king.
The last living magic fish looked upon the last living rebels with his last remaining eye. The brave men and women were silent, staring back at him with respect. When he spoke, his voice came out as a croaky whisper, "This is it, everyone. Thank you, for bringing us this far and for never giving up on our cause. This is the moment we’ve been fighting for. We will never get another chance like this to make things right,"
He swam up to Ricky, "Ricky, you understand what you’re signing up for. You know the consequences should you succeed and the consequences should you fail. Even still, you volunteer?" He asked his vice leader.
"I do, boss… I’m so afraid that my knees are shaking. But, even still, I will go. For everyone in this room. For everyone we’ve lost. I swear to all of you, I will succeed in my mission!" Ricky said heroically.
"You are the truly bravest amongst us." Destiny Fish said, a tear rolled down his face. "I only have one spell remaining. I shall cast it on you in hopes it may help you on your quest, even if only a little."
Destiny Fish spat out his wand from inside his body and spoke the magic words: “Destined to Wield the Destined blade of Destiny!” red strings of destiny shot out of the wand, surrounding Ricky and disappearing inside his body.
Destiny Fish swallowed the wand back and coughed, “Don’t let the spell’s long name fool you, it has nothing to do with blades. You are now destined to find an item of significance to you. You’ll probably end up finding a lucky coin or a lost set of keys hehehe… COUGH COUGH COUGH” he broke into a coughing fit. He held up a mangled fin to ward off Ricky’s concern, “Still, I hope it serves you well.”
“Thank you, sir! I am deeply honoured” Ricky bowed. The bunker shook again from another explosion outside.
"It’s time dudes! Ricky, get into position, you should give the go order yourself. May destiny guide you… bro."
The roomful of rebels collectively gasped. Everyone knew that there were only two others in all of history whom Destiny Fish referred to as ‘bro’.
Ricky just smiled, jumped into the machine, stuck his chest out, and shouted. "Einstein! Hit it!"
The machine whirled to life and began spinning around Ricky. Faster and faster, glowing dimly, but getting brighter by the moment and lighting up the room. Sparks flew and the sound of energy rising reached a crescendo. The ceiling lights dimmed and flickered as power was drained from all sources into the machine. For a fraction of a second everything stopped, and then an explosion of energy blasted out from the machine that knocked everyone in the room backwards.
Ricky was gone. The room was lit up by a newly formed electrical vortex in the middle of the machine. Nobody made a sound, staring at the vortex until it sparked and faded out of existence.
The lights in the room flickered back to life. Everyone got to their feet. The machine and the computers were completely ruined. In the centre of the room.
From above a new sound began. It sounded like giant paws digging through Earth, "So she came personally. Perfect! Everyone to arms! It's time to make our last stand!" Destiny Fish roared.
The room erupted in cheers.