Visitors From Another Time

Vistors From Another Time is an episode of Council of Creators: Side Stories written by KoopaGalaxain. Canonically, this episode takes place in Late 2018, a few days after the events of the two Season 2 Christmas Specials.

Plot
Date: December 29, 2018, 10:00 AM Location: The Creators' Bar, Ustin, Universe 1

"...And there, how about that! Try removing a piece from the tower now, I dare you!" BRK chuckled, placing his newly-removed Jenga piece atop the increasingly-wobbly tower. Indominus, Scoobs, Wolfzilla and Koopa both stared at the insecure structure intently, trying to plan their next moves.

Scoobs was next to attempt to rearrange a piece, and did so by carefully tapping sections of the tower that appeared loose until he found a wooden brick that would give way. He too placed it next to BRK's piece as lightly as he could.

After a while, everyone else who had been playing had completed their turns, leaving Indominus as the next player in line. An awkward pause followed as the Creator tried to figure out where to remove a block. Taking a chance, he nudged the tower, and before he could realise the mistake he made, it was already over. The incredibly wobbly construction fell in an instant, scattering the pieces across the table.

"Good game!" Wolfzilla exclaimed. "You're getting better at this every time, Indominus." She mused.

"Ah, I'm not so sure about that." Indominus replied with a shrug. "You guys seem to be much better at this than I could ever try to be."

"Welp, don't think about giving up just yet. You brought the tower this far, didn't you?" Wolf replied.

BRK joined in, showing Indominus a photo of the tower that he had captured with his 3DS just before it fell. "We couldn't have made this thing look as strange as it did without you, friend."

Shrugging again, Indominus got up from his seat. "Eh... I'm gonna go and see what's on television. There might be something interesting showing." Walking past the Christmas tree, still looking as proud as ever, Indominus sat down in an armchair near the television after picking up the remote.

Koopa was busy rebuilding the tower so it was ready for the next game, when he heard the television being turned on. Expecting it to be an episode of Indominus's favourite anime, he was surprised by what he heard. If he had long ears, they would have been raised in intrigue.

"And now, we will visit the sea off the coast of Ustin, to see what creatures live in the water there!" The host of a biology program said in a chipper tone. "I wonder what we shall find there?"

"Well I never!" Koopa thought to himself. "If this is something Indominus also likes, then that's pretty darn cool."

Scoobs and BRK, who had also heard the television turn on, were now both standing alongside Koopa. The host was now wearing a diving suit, floating underwater next to a large eye with a green iris. BRK immediately recognised the creature the host was floating beside as a wild Bokreg.

"As you can see, these creatures are normally quite friendly, provided you approach them in the right way." The host continued on. "These are Bokreg, and you might remember them as having visited Ustin City in large numbers a year ago."

After a few more minutes, everyone continued their daily routines. Scoobs was busy thinking up new weird and wonderful designs for Kaiju, Koopa and BRK were discussing Fist of the North Star, and Indominus was still watching episodes of the same documentary series, much to the passing interest of the other Creators. Cdr and Nerd weren't at the bar today; they had both decided to visit a museum in Ustin for the day.

Suddenly, the sky outside began to flicker! Everyone in the bar immediately got up and went to the window to go and look at what was happening. Had a giant monster appeared in the sky? Was a spaceship blocking out the sun? Indominus's jaw dropped when he saw what was really causing the strange effect.

The Sun itself was flickering, glowing brighter then darker at a rapid pace. It almost looked as if the sun had been replaced with a dodgy lightbulb. At the same time, the alarms mounted next to the Universe Gate began blinking and sounding their chimes at an ear-bursting pitch. Koopa ran over to the displays, and to his horror, he found that the alarm's location was from the Universe Gate itself. Something was forcing its way through!

"WATCH OUT!" Indominus yelled, as a long pink appendage shot out of the Universe Gate, feeling its way along the carpet. Edging towards the bar itself, it got uncomfortably close to knocking a set of Martini Glasses off the counter, before Wolfzilla instinctively dumped an ice bucket over its tip. A shrill screech echoed out of the Gate as the tendril-like limb retracted back towards its origin, only for a glowing red light to appear in the now gloomy expanse that lay beyond the gate's entrance. Emerging from the gate, the creature made its full appearance known.

The abomination that stood before the creators appeared to be a gigantic brain with four black beak-like sets of jaws lying just underneath its massive cerebrum. The tendril that it had attempted to attack the creators with was attached to its brain directly, meaning that it must have been some sort of spinal cord. Its giant glowing red eye sat in the centre of the pinkish, quivering mass that was its 'head'. All four of its jaws opened, and it began to speak.

"Greetings, Creators... I am Yzik, an Andromedan. We are a race who lead an empire that spans multiple universes. I have been sent here to ensure you are eradicated."

"Are you behind what has happened to the Sun?" Wolfzilla asked with a piercing glare.

"Huhuhuhuhu... yes. That is Imperator Dyson, our star harvester. Already your star has our wonderful machine's mechanical jaws bearing down on it. This pathetic 'Sun' shall be drained of its energy until nothing is left but a dark and cold husk. We require the energy to advance our civilisation, and to power our war machines to assist us in taking your Universe."

"I'm afraid we can't let you do that." Scoobs uttered bluntly. "Regardless of what you intend to use the energy for, you are not going to get past us without one hell of a fight."

"I figured you'd say such a thing." Yzik replied with four smirks crossing his face. "It's fortunate to us that we have been watching the exploits of you and your friends for quite some time - Come, my imitations!"

Striking the ground with his tendril, Yzik began cackling as the silhouettes of five monsters faded into view, before brightening to reveal their true appearances. Before the creators stood perfect duplicates of Raptor Rat, Son, Tremolex, Dragonish and Shocktra. Each of the duplicated monsters roared in unison, the noise shaking the walls of the bar slightly.

"Well then, looks like today's about to get interesting, huh?" Indominus asked, wiping a bead of sweat from his brow.

"It sure seems so!" Wolfzilla replied.

"Alright, let's show these imitations that they are no less pathetic than the things they're copies of!" BRK yelled, and the battle was on!

Right away, Scoobs attempted to attack Son, but found that his punches simply phased through the brutal cyborg. The same could not be said for Son's own knives, which cut deep into the Creator's skin. Everyone in fact was finding out the same thing; Wolf's fireballs phased straight through Shocktra's own flames, which struck the Creator head on; Koopa was no match for Tremolex's Noxious Liquid, BRK was badly burned by Dragonish's Dragonfly Flame, and Indominus was having difficulty keeping up with Raptor Rat's endless chain of punches and kicks.

"I've figured it out!" Koopa yelled, dodging another burst of sludge from Tremolex. "These imitations... they're just that! They're illusions, designed to protect Yzik! If our attacks phase through them, they can hit Yzik on the other side!"

The Andromedan was too occupied using his psychic powers to create the illusions to notice the Creators gathering in the centre of the room. As predicted by Koopa, the illusions formed a line to try and defend their master, but it was no use. The combined beam techniques from each of the Creators flew straight through the illusions and struck Yzik. Howling in pain, the alien was set ablaze, and burned away into nothingness, the illusions fading just as quickly. Remarkably, the bar had escaped intact.

"Oh joy, we won't need to rebuild!" Indominus quipped, much to the amusement of the others.

"Still though, this mission of ours isn't over yet. We've still got to deal with Imperator Dyson, and then whatever else the Andromedan Empire has to throw at us." Scoobs mused. "For now, I suppose it's best if we deal with this whole thing one step at a time, and the biggest step lies before us now; Let's take back the Sun!"

"But wait... won't we need a spaceship for that?" BRK asked.

"No need to worry, I know just the guy who can help us." Wolfzilla replied.

Thirty minutes later...

"Seriously, you guys again?" the security guard at the entrance to the Ustin Space Force base groaned. "You do realise you blew up the last spacecraft we loaned you, even if you managed to stop a catastrophe from taking place, and my higher-ups had to foot the bill. They're not exactly going to be pleased if they find out you managed to get in and take another ship without their permission to do whatever you want up there with it."

"Yes, we are serious." Wolfzilla insisted. "Have you noticed that the Sun is flickering like a dying candle? If someone doesn't get up there and deal with what's going on, this planet's about to get one heck of a lot colder... to put it into perspective, you're going to need more than just that cold weather outfit of yours to avoid freezing to death - a lot more, in fact."

To this, the security guard sighed. "Well... you're right, but I don't think the Space Force will let me keep my job if I let you five through."

"Don't worry, we've got that covered. If I even hear a whisper from them about getting rid of you, I'll personally come and defend your case." Wolf explained emphatically. You're doing a good thing, sir, and the whole solar system will be a far greater place for it in the end."

"...Alright, I'll let you through again." The guard then walked into his kiosk at the security checkpoint and began rummaging around in a cardboard box. "Hey, would you look at that, the cards you got when you headed up there the last time are still in here, and for you, Indominus, here's a new one for this occasion. Here you go." He said, handing the five Creators their keycards.

"Thank you, sir!" Indominus replied excitedly as everyone walked through the checkpoint. "I've never been to space before, but I rode in one of those astronaut simulators once. It was quite a lot of fun! Space documentaries are also really cool." he then mused as the group made for the launch pad.

"I've learned more about Indominus in 2 hours than the whole time The Creators have been a thing." Scoobs thought. "It sure seems like there are hidden depths to his character."

Ten minutes later...

"Ugh, it sure is crowded in here, what with that big solar probe taking up all the room." BRK moaned, frustrated by the lack of space inside the tiny capsule he and the others were stowing away in.

"Well, this is the only rocket due to launch today, and I don't think we have another chance at doing this, so we'll have to make do with what we've got." Koopa replied. "The good thing is that I've been checking this device out; the engines are something else. If I can find a way to tinker about with it and allow manual control, we can fly straight for Imperator Dyson with this thing. He then retrieved a blowlamp from a toolbox he had been carrying and got to work.

Ten more minutes later, the rocket had lifted off, and was now close to breaking through the atmosphere and deploying the payload. Everyone was now seated inside the space probe, a space even more crowded than the interior of the rocket, but it had to do.

"You have no idea how long I've been waiting to say this..." Indominus giggled, "...but Captain - engage warp thrust!"

Right as the top of the rocket opened, Koopa threw the throttle lever all the way forward, and an engine mounted on the probe fired. In moments the makeshift spacecraft was free of its mothership, and flying through space at incredible speed on its journey towards the Sun.

Council Of Creators

 * Koopa
 * Scoobs
 * BRK
 * Indominus
 * Wolfzilla
 * Cdr (mentioned)
 * Nerd (mentioned)

The Andromedan Empire

 * Andromedans
 * Andromedan Ambassador Yzik
 * Andromedan Major Zexon
 * Andromedan Leader Kafaros
 * Imperator Dyson

Andromedan Imitations

 * Raptor Rat
 * Son
 * Tremolex
 * Dragonish
 * Shocktra

Kaiju

 * Bokreg (Cameo)