*Ponyville, Equestria; June 8, 2021; 2:30 PM*

Twilight, Cade, Auburn, Oreonna, the Now-Revived Elements of Harmony and Princesses, as well as the entirety of Skirmish's old squadron sat in the Map of Friendship room, all seated around it.

"Incredible..! Everyone's been revived..! The Dragonballs worked!" Twilight cheered.

"Heh.. Good to be back.. and not as a ghost!" Rainbow Dash added.

"I'm honestly curious as to how the Farm's been doing.." Applejack wondered.

"I think we're all dealing with a bigger problem here." Cade stated.

"Cade is right.." Richtofen stated, walking inside along with Kat, Agent Mako, and Agent Karis Thorne.

"K-Karis..?" Rainbow gasped.

"You know her..?" Fluttershy asked nervously.

"Hmm.. You must be Rainbow's friends.. I've heard a lot about you." Karis smiled.

"You don't seem to understand ze full scope of ze Illuminati's wish, Twilight..." Richtofen solemnly shook his head.

"What do you mean..?" Rarity asked.

"What wish?" Blast Radius asked.

"Twilight used the Dragon Balls. Vegeta told me about them.." Oreonna concluded.

"Well... not untrue.." Richtofen commended.

"It wasn't Twilight who made the wish. She was brought in for questioning." Vegeta began, walking inside.

"V-Vegeta.!!" Twilight shrank back immediately, recognizing his energy immediately.

"I was unaware there were Dragon Balls beyond this universe. The Illuminati's are... particularly interesting." Vegeta explained.

"Y-You know..?" Mako wondered.

"I've only recently found out about them, but they're... slightly different than the ones used on Earth or Namek." Vegeta stated.

"I think we should bring in Liss at this point.." Auburn stated.

"No need..!" Liss greeted, panting as though she'd been running miles."

"Secure her! We're still at war, here!" Luna shouted.

"Luna, wait!" Celestia demanded.

Skirmish's fellow guards laid down their spears, allowing the white-haired cat faunus a moment of rest.

"You've been studying them, right?" Twilight wondered.

"Yeah.. we've been looking into them..." Liss stated.

"Did you find out anything important?" Twilight asked.

"I should be asking the same of you three." Liss glared at Richtofen, Twilight, and Mako.

"What was the wish, Twilight?" Cade demanded in a respectful tone.

Twilight held her breath.

"The Illuminati told me this in confidence, but.."

"Spit it out, already." Kat demanded, starting to glow a bright orange.

"W-We wished back everyone who died in the past 16 years!! From that invasion Uncle Flick and Summer were in, to right now.!!" Twilight cried out.

The whole room was taken aback. THE WHOLE ROOM.

"You selfish idiot!" Vegeta shouted.

"E-Everyone?!" Cade gasped.

"That is, including The Inquisitors?!" Rarity shouted, completely flabbergasted.

"Twilight... Is this true..?" Celestia asked.

Twilight was completely shaken.

"I only recently found out... Doctor Monty contacted me one day ago... He said something Re-appeared.. Ze Monster at Magnolia.."

Even Auburn was shocked. "Lilith..?"

Richtofen nodded.

"Zhat's.. when I put two and two together.. They've manipulated us all." The doctor stated.

"Everyone... No doubt about it... Cinder's probably in that fray somewhere.." Cade concluded.

"Not just her, Corvus too." Luna glared, her tone sharp with hatred at her and her sister's killer.

"What now?" Burning Ember, Skirmish's former commander, asked.

Celestia furrowed her brow, trying to quickly think of a way to solve all of these problems.

"Cade, Auburn.. Are you two in contact with both your mother and father still?" Celestia asked.

"Yeah.. He called up about a day ago.." Cade replied.

"I saw him enter a ship, along with some cloaked woman and his brother." Vegeta explained.

"So, he's with your grandmother and uncle." Oreonna stated.

"This should be interesting.." Cade sighed, obviously not looking forward to this.

"Oreonna, contact your mother and have her meet with Alexander and Yang as well. Kat, Mako, and Karis, Go with them. Alex needs to regain our trust." Celestia ordered.

"Ma'am. With all due respect, I should pay Agents Winchester and Viktor a visit." Karis stated.

"I'm sure that problem will take care of itself. Besides, if Alexander is going to trust anyone besides his kin, it would have to be you." Celestia explained.

"Y-Yes Ma'am..!" Karis saluted, her old training coming back to her.

"What about us?" Haunting demanded, slightly less cold than usual.

"You'll be accompanying the Elements on a Peace Conference at the Dragon Lands. We'll need their side in this war." Luna decided.

"Kat, bring together your Foundation." Mako ordered.

"With all due respect, The SCP works on securing anomalies, containing them, and protecting the general populace, not on personal missions like this!" Kat protested slightly.

"We might be going to war, Kat. May as well bring them along." Karis figured.

"A-Alright.." Kat agreed, walking out of the room and calling them up.

"Liss, Contact the Ocelots, the White Fang, and Chieftain Belladonna of Menagerie." Celestia demanded.

"WHAT?! Since when have my people ever been united in anything?!" Liss gasped.

Uniting the Faunus again... After so many years of infighting?!

"We may be facing a common enemy." Celestia stated.

"Honestly, who would you rather have them fight for; You, or that Taurus psychopath?" Cade scoffed.

Liss sighed as she ran off. He was right.

"I'll get to work contacting ze rest of Primis... It's a better re-introduction than zombies." Richtofen figured.

"One more thing, Cade. Contact Evan and his crew. They'll be needed at a time like this." Luna figured.

"Already on it." Auburn replied.

"And, Vegeta..." Celestia asked.

The Saiyan Prince sharply turned to face Celestia.

"Yes?" Vegeta inwardly groaned, shaking his head.

"If you know anybody who can help with this situation, please let us know." Celestia pleaded.

"If the need ever arises, Horse." Vegeta scoffed, leaving the building.

*Ruins of Lithia, Adenien; June 8, 2021, 2:40*

Ryders stood guard around the city as construction crews, man and machine, continued re-building the city after it's destruction a little under six months ago.

Progress had been going smoothly, with most of the city by now rebuild, the roads paved, and power reestablished. All that was needed was to refurbish the houses and apartments for the displaced cityfolk and restore the bi-rail transport system that bridged the Three Cities.

Corvus had been sneaking through the construction site for a day by this point, searching for a way out.

"How the mighty have fallen." Corvus heard a woman scoff. A familiar woman.

Corvus turned her head to face her.

"Cinder. I should have known." Corvus scowled.

An aging Cinder Fall, the one from Cade's Timeline, stepped out of the shadows.

"You held such power in your hands, and had it all snatched away..." Cinder mused, shaking her head.

"What do you want?" Corvus demanded angrily.

"Well, both of us are now without power, but we do have our counterparts.." Cinder smiled.

"I killed mine, Cinder. There's no way she'd agree with this." Corvus scoffed.

"Oh, how naive.. You know full well the threat we're all facing. Simply tell her." Cinder smiled to herself.

"And what's in it for me?" Corvus shook her head.

"Life, Corvus... Hazel.. Tyrian... Lilith... They've all returned. With our powers, we'll force Alpha to tell us where Xavier and his creation is hiding." Cinder explained.

Corvus glared disapprovingly.

"Very well, then.. Where should we start?"

*The Subterrains; June 8, 2021; 3:00 PM*

The "Reformed" E.R.C had been very efficient with refurbishing the former Inquisitor base, with it's own Command Center, Dimensional Mapping Computers, and even bunks repaired, updated, and repurposed for their use.

Only problem was, the only things available to them were what was within the base and whatever the soldiers could provide.

'Dammit, If only Evan and the others were here.. We'd be completely resupplied by now!' Alex silently cursed.

"Alex!!" Yang shouted from outside the command room.

Alex groaned to himself, what now?!

As Alex stepped out, he was greeted by a somewhat dense crowd, some faces familiar, others very familiar.

Yang stood by the side as Ruby, Weiss, Blake, all of Team JNPR, Kat, and Agent Mako walked into the subterrains.

"Wow... it seems like forever since I was in here..." Pyrrha gaped.

"Yeah.. It's weird..." Weiss stated.

"I'm just glad we're all okay..." Ruby smiled, even a little sorrowfully.

"Alex... We heard about-" Blake began to explain.

"No time for that. We have to stockpile supplies and prepare for a planet-wide search for any Inquisitors. Where are Cade and Auburn?" Alex demanded.

"Right here." Auburn called monotonously.

Alex turned around, dropping his sword in shock as he saw who Cade and Auburn brought with.

Between his two future children stood an older, raven-black haired woman.

"Agent Thorne.. I.. figured you'd..." Alex stammered, any semblance of composure broken.

"Don't sweat the formalities.." Karis smiled a little to herself, raising a hand.

Alex not only grasped her hand, put pulled her into a small hug.

Yang had been stunned. Any affection on Alex's part was a rarity. She knew what Karis had meant to him, but she couldn't help but feel a slow burn in the pit of her stomach.

"At ease." Karis calmly ordered, as Alex scrambled to re-assert himself.

"R-Right... Kat, Agents, I'll.. meet you two in the conference room in a few. I just called Professor Ozpin, and we'll be discussing just what the hell is going on." Alex stated, walking off.

Karis shook her head a little. She knew what had happened as she watched over the others in the afterlife

Even so, the intelligent, contemplative, and authoritative young man before her now was a far cry from the scared, lost, and hopeless boy whose life she had saved twice by this point.

She was.. almost proud in some way.

"You must be Agent Karis... Alex told me a lot about you.." Yang greeted with a slight aloofness.

"Your children told me about you as well... I'm... sorry about what happened between you two.." Karis solemnly apologized.

"Might we move along? There are more serious matters. There'll be time to resolve your failed relationships later." Kat asked, annoyed as she walked into the Command Room.

"... Okay, what's up with her?" Karis wondered.

"It's kind of a long story..." Cade shrugged as the group stepped inside...