EternalVerse Saga

The Invader

Ryan and The Invader had long disappeared many minutes. Josh realized that he had not finished sending a signal for help to The Divine because he had been interrupted by battling with the invader, so he raised the ring to continue.

"O-ring...Contactum Divinum." He commands the ring.

The result was that the ring glowed and flickered for several minutes, but there was no audible or visual response in his field of vision. It means that for some reason unable to communicate with The Divine.

"FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! What the hell happened?! Where have they gone?!" He muttered anxiously.

Josh calmed himself and tried to think of what he should do next. "I need to do something quickly! First, contact The Time Patrol Team as Ryan said. But if that guy comes into our Niverse, does that mean they're being played? I hope some of them still survive...."

"O-ring...Contactum Temporis Circuitus Quadrigis."

The results remain the same. The ring still hasn't responded. No one survived this attack.

"O-fuck..." He swore in stress, holding his temples.

While he was confused like a lost person, a warp ring appeared in front of him. It wasn't teleportation from another universe because anyone from another world had to go through only the portal gate. Someone must be from this world and had to use time power.

Some sound of gunfire emanated from that warp ring. It sounds like an automatic gun because it was rapidly fired. That definitely couldn't be Ryan because he uses a revolver with a low rate of fire that is scaled on the scale of real weapons on Earth. Josh can't figure out who it is because the only Time Watchers in this world are him and Ryan. Not to mention The Time Patrol Team being attacked and disappearing.

"What the heck?!" He was startled and fell back one step.

No one had yet come out of the warp ring, but continuous gunfire could still be heard. Josh reloaded his pistol and took careful aim, waiting for whoever came out, he would shoot immediately. stress makes sweat flow nonstop. He swallowed hard, trying to steady himself. Anxious eyes focused on the target, He knew the brain was being eaten away by fear that made his hands shake. It is impossible to predict what will happen next because now he is the only one left.

"Stay chill, Josh. Just shoot any motherfucker that comes out of that ring!" He said to himself while not lowering his pistol for a second.

The gunshots got louder, which meant something was coming out soon. Suddenly, Someone rushed and jumped out of the warp ring, that invader guy. It looks like he's running away from someone behind the warp ring, judging by how he rolls out to gain a foothold and his sword guard prepares to attack incoming.

A huge number of bullets pierced through and came out from the warp ring. The Invader receives parrying, blocking every bullet by slashing, cutting bullets half in pieces. Before he jumped back flip and regain guarding again. But there was no time for him to take a break. Josh saw him and immediately pulled the trigger and shot without holding back. 

He must hurry to do something before the people from within the warp ring come out and attack him.

"O-ring...Stamen perdere circulum" 

When he finished commanding his ring, the warp ring was destroyed, shattering like glass breaking and shards flying.

"What the..."

Josh was amazed by the invader's ability to use the ring's power because what he had just done was the use of the ring's ultimate control. No one could do that if it weren't for a Time Watcher who was familiar with the power and unlocked the liberation level. guess that is just one part of the ring's total power he has.

"W...Who are you exactly?!" He asked the mysterious person.

"Don't get in my way." The invader answered, his hoarse voice sounding like an old man's.

"I knew that you were a Time Watcher too. your expert in using the ring's power, you're not a new Time Watcher, right?"

"It's not your damn business."

"Then tell me where you took Ryan?! You killed him, didn't you?!"

"Nah...Yes, I killed...I killed you guys in hundreds of worlds."

"What the fuck do you mean?!"

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, I have to go to Prime-Niverse if possible. Whoever stands in my way must die...."

"What?! That's why you randomly kill people in other worlds for that?"

"It's not your damn business too. Back off, or I'll send you to die in another world instead."

"You invading other people's worlds is not enough. Do you still have a demand?" Josh points his pistol at him, indicating that he will not back down.

"Huh...Are all Joshs in the other world this stubborn like this?"

"What did you just say?"

"Dang it...Just send this stubborn into the grave like his friend and it will be over."

Josh heard him grumble like that and felt devastated. Anger completely took over him.

"Motherfucker! Where did you take my friend?!" he shouted angrily as he fired at him.

The Invader changed his tactics. He left his sword and it disappeared, chose not to deflect the bullets but to teleport himself from one point to another, which was safe. However, The Invader teleported up to him and used his martial art in close range, Krav Maga, to disarm Josh. The pistol flew out of his hand and disappeared into green ashen dust before dropping to the temple ground.

When the weapon fell out of his hand, he tried to conjure a ring to take the weapon back up, That was useless. He was kicked and thrown backward. There was no chance for him to call back his weapon. Luckily, he rolled back to his feet and got his boxing guard ready to fight. If he wants to show off his skills with his bare hands, that's fine by Josh.

There was no time for them to take a breath. The two of them exchanged punches. The speed of their fist is faster than what a normal human could do. 

Josh is a boxing expert was the basis from the time he was a human. This allowed him to deliver a quick hook punch, with it is strength if a normal human being would fall backward and not be able to get up. But not with this person from another world who was able to avoid by rolling a punch and not getting hit by a punch, also counterattacked Josh with a Dempsey Roll. 

"Augh! This fucker knows all how to fight?!" 

Josh slid back out of the way to avoid the attack. His face was covered in bruises from fists. The foe's physical strength was greater than he had estimated. He is thinking of ways to win while still having footwork and preparing guard. The Invader has not yet attacked but stands and observes the opponent discreetly, after that, he slowly waves his hand to invite Josh to come in for him.

At that moment, Josh used the teleportation method to attack through the warp ring. He leaped and teleported back and forth to find an angle to attack, The warp ring and his body appeared around the opponent like a group of moles emerging from an underground hole. but no matter what he did, his many punches were still blocked.

He eventually gets grabbed by The Invader who then suplexs him in wrestling style, dropping his head to the ground. Josh was badly injured from the impact, with blood gushing from his mouth and nose.

"Augh..."

Not enough, he was also thrown a few more times with Judo moves, single-handed shoulder throw, and shoulder wheel.

"No...Not again!"

Josh was about to get a body drop, he rolled his body before slamming to the ground to dissipate the impact and then kiped up.

When he can stand up once, he tries to grab his opponent's arm, using the fastest flying armbar, a Brazilian Jiu-jitsu technique. He thought The Invader had too much of a throwing ability, and was too difficult for him to handle, even though they were the same size. So he hopes to take advantage of ground boxing to fight instead. Even though it wasn't his main skill, he had at least used it to take down many people.

But it went against his expectations because his opponent used his strength to counter with a Powerbomb, preventing him from locking. Josh hit his back on the floor and had to stop trying to armbar.

Even though he tried to counterattack with tackles and other ground boxing techniques. The Invader knew every move and countered him with a gator roll, and entered Josh's back back for a rear neck choke.

Meanwhile, Josh was the one being choked and locked down on the ground, His face was pale from not being able to breathe. He had a few seconds before he fainted. His mind was blank, not knowing how to deal with his opponent.

"I...I...can't... breathe..."

Before fate gets even more cruel to him, A warp ring appears again, The gunshot rings out again, and Bullets spray. The target is the man strangling Josh. He realized this and quickly gave up everything and used teleportation to dodge the bullets. After that, the gun owner appeared and jumped out of the warp ring.

"Charlotte?"

He couldn't believe his eyes. Charlotte, the friend of him and Ryan's girlfriend who was once just a human, had become a Time Watcher. Her middle finger on her right hand has a ring, confirming it. But she was different from the ones he had met before. A perfect blonde girl, who was the cheerleading club president that every man adored. Even though she changed from dressing sexy to showing her firm like she always wears, tube top and short jeans to a green cape and Watcher's tunic, she still looked good. But what has completely changed is now, her have a gloomy face filled with suffering. Even those fascinated eyes had changed to be filled with hatred and vengeance.

Her arrival told him that the Time Paradox was happening. It was bad news that confirmed his friend had died. And Charlotte's return is to demand justice.

"This fucker killed Ryan, Josh...I came to kill this retard!" Her voice was mixed with both sadness and deep anger. If look closely, it sees tears flowing down her cheeks.

Everything is chaotic now. Ryan's death, the Time Paradox where Charlotte became a Time Watcher. It means that everything is out of control. Perhaps the invader had destroyed the Niverse system here before he arrived. This might be a catastrophe that is about to happen in his world, the time system is collapsing first.

"How is that possible..." Josh lay on the floor, confused.

"Listen, asshole! My future that I should have with Ryan was already destroyed once, but when I found out about Ryan's sacrifice, he had to do everything for me, and you! You fucking killed him in the Pacific Ocean!" She pointed at the invader with an angry face, her eyes showing endless anger in her heart. He stood still and did not attack.

"You already know," Josh said

"Yeah...The memories in Ryan's ring told me everything." She answered Josh without taking her eyes off the man who killed her boyfriend.

"Do you know what he said before he died? He said... 'I love you, Charlotte. I have always loved you. I just want to hold you for once.' And he had to freeze to death in the ocean all alone!" She said and cried in pain.

"I'm sorry, Charlotte..." Josh felt the same pain. Whenever he felt alone, only Ryan was there to comfort him. But now it is no more. Physical pain is not as bad as emotional pain.

"That is the fate of all of us, including me." The Invader says something with some implications.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP! Scumbag like you don't even have the right to speak! You took everything from me! who I love died...everyone died because of you!" She shouted angrily.

"Wait, what do you mean, Charlotte?! You said everyone died?" Josh's eyebrows furrowed even more confused than before.

"You don't know what this fucker stole?"

"No...I don't..."

"He stole Tarl-a-sax! The Earth right now has completely collapsed!"

Josh thought that everything was connected from the beginning. Starting with the attack on the Time Patrol team, breaking into the Temple of Time, killing Ryan, and causing Charlotte to twist time into a Time Paradox for one thing, the heart of this world: Tarl-a-sax.

The result of stealing the artifact of Niverse's balance is the destruction of everything, every living thing, and the universe of that world.

"No... that's not true." Josh felt like he was sinking into darkness.

"It's truth, Josh and I'm the answer," Charlotte answered painfully.

"Lauren..."

At that moment, Josh decided to do something he never thought he would do to make sure that everything wasn't a lie. Even though he already knows.

"O-ring...Nunc me ad Tellurem reduc!"

A warp ring appeared in front of him. He scrambled to his feet and jumped into it, returning to the Earth he had come from for a long time. While Charlotte doesn't even try to stop him, doesn't want to make anyone live with her lies like she always does for herself.

"Sigh..." The invader, who was observing everything, sighed.

Charlotte returns to confront her nemesis once again. "Now...DIE! O-ring...Obtestor Telum Meum!"

She commanded the ring to conjure up her weapon, a glowing green light formed into a NATO assault rifle with a full weapon kit in her arm.

The Invader said nothing more. He conjured up his sword once more to fight.