The chat group fell dead silent.
One second.
Two seconds.
Three seconds—
Then the entire Multiverse Chat Group exploded!
Messages surged like a tidal wave:
"HOLY F—KING SH*T! ISN'T THAT THE GATEKEEPER URIEL?!"
"God Almighty, wasn't it already contained by the Foundation? Why's it here?!"
"Damn it! What the hell has Hollis done now?!"
"First the Leech Boy, now the Gatekeeper? Bro, you're thirstier than Wang Wei pining for his lost love!"*
(*Wang Wei: A Tang Dynasty poet famous for his melancholic verses about separation.)
The multiverse chat devolved into chaos.
Three-Body Universe | Earth
Luo Ji stared blankly at the Gatekeeper materializing on the screen, wondering if he was hallucinating.
"Impossible…"
Site-13 wasn't even part of this world! So why was the Gatekeeper contained there?
Marvel Universe | Kamar-Taj
The Ancient One's heart stopped the moment she saw the Gatekeeper. Her terrified gaze locked onto the screen as if struck by lightning.
"The divine entity… Gatekeeper?"
Memories flooded back—the Gatekeeper, led by Yahweh, annihilating Earth. Her long-calm heart trembled anew.
Honkai: Star Rail Universe | Herta Space Station
Herta's shock crescendoed like waves. She never expected the Gatekeeper to appear here. Worse—why would Hollis do this? Was he trying to speedrun their doom?
But then—
The screen flickered. Herta's pupils constricted. Time seemed to freeze.
Just as the multiverse audience reeled from the Gatekeeper's arrival, it didn't attack. Instead, it turned toward the Leech Boy.
The colossal Type-20 Leech, provoked, abandoned its assault on the team and screeched, lunging at the Gatekeeper instead.
The multiverse collectively short-circuited.
WTF?!
Since when did these two start fighting?!
Sherlock Holmes Universe
Watson gasped, epiphany striking.
"So that's his plan! No wonder he dragged everyone here… No wonder he made the轮回 (Reincarnation Team) open the冷藏室 (cryo-chamber)!"
He muttered, half-admiring, "This guy's a lunatic!" Turning to Holmes, he grumbled, "You knew all along, didn't you?"
Holmes puffed his pipe, smirking. "Obviously. Recall how that leech grew so large."
He gestured at the screen, where the leech's bulk dwarfed even the Gatekeeper.
"It devoured half the site to reach this size. Tell me, Watson—would such a creature let the Gatekeeper pass unchallenged?"
He exhaled smoke. "Using monsters to fight monsters… A madman's gambit, but brilliant."
Watson frowned. "Think the Gatekeeper can win?"
"Unlikely. But—" Holmes' expression suddenly darkened. His eyes darted to another corner of the screen—where a second cryo-chamber had been opened.
On-Screen Chaos
The Gatekeeper and Leech Boy clashed.
The Gatekeeper's greatsword unleashed searing flames, slicing through black tendrils. Charred leech-flesh rained down as the creature shrieked.
Enraged, it lashed out with dozens of appendages—
Then—
A low hum resonated across dimensions.
Everything froze.
Every soul in the multiverse stared, breathless, as something emerged from the cryo-chamber's mist.
A stag-like entity, draped in pine-green and cream fur, its neck elongated. Where a stag's head should be—a human face.
Antlers of marble-white and obsidian spiraled, etched with glowing blue runes. Above it, nine crystalline orbs orbited like silent celestial bodies.
The creature stepped forward.
The world bowed.
Multiverse Meltdown
The chat group imploded:
"WTF?! WTF?! IS THAT THE STAG?!"
"GOD NO! A HIGH-ELDER OUT OF CONTAINMENT?!"*
"First the Leech, then the Gatekeeper, now THIS?! This is a goddamn deity deathmatch!"
(*High-Elder: A term for supreme cosmic entities in SCP lore.)
Marvel Universe | S.H.I.E.L.D.
Nick Fury's hands shook.
Natasha leaned against a desk, legs buckling.
Stark's knuckles whitened around his arc reactor key.
All eyes were glued to the screen.
On-Site Apocalypse
The Stag's gaze swept the room. Where it looked, reality fractured.
Then—BOOM!
Black tendrils smashed into the Stag's crystalline barriers, vaporizing into ammonia and helium.
The Stag turned.
A three-way battle erupted:
The Gatekeeper's flames warped space.
The Leech's tendrils regenerated endlessly.
The Stag's orbs reshaped matter itself.
The facility collapsed around them.
Escape
Hollis roared, "MOVE! NOW!"
The team sprinted upward, lungs burning. Behind them:
A researcher collapsed, whispering, "God have mercy…"
Deadpool whooped, "FCK YEAH! GET 'EM, BIG GUYS!"*
-士官长 (Master Chief) glanced back—just as a metal cylinder erased Irantu from existence.
Munru urged霍利斯 (Hollis) to flee.
Hollis grinned, "Go. I'll buy time."
Munru hesitated, then nodded. "Don't die, human."
As the team reached the surface, Site-13 imploded behind them. Flames geysered from the wreckage.
Aftermath
The rescue team's radio crackled:
"Master Chief, this is Command. Status?"
A pause. "…Irantu's gone. Hollis stayed behind."
The screen panned to Site-13's ruins—where three silhouettes still clashed in the inferno.
The multiverse held its breath.
They had escaped hell.
But hell was still raging below.