The team left the Citadel of Iteration with Thalor's warning burning in their minds. The path to the Cradle of Code was no ordinary route—it spanned across layers of broken timelines, each echoing fragments of what could have been. They traveled aboard an interdimensional craft constructed by Reggie and Isabella: the Aether Skimmer, powered by a stabilized core made from the ancient rune.
The journey wasn't quiet.
In the Realm of Rusted Crowns, they battled twisted monarch Echoes—remnants of fallen empires.
In the Glacierverse, they faced mutated ice titans whose powers mimicked Jake's Mythatrix forms.
But nothing prepared them for what came next.
As they reached the Threshold Rift, a swirling storm of dimensions that guarded the Cradle, the skies blackened. An oppressive silence fell.
Then—Reverance appeared.
But it was no longer the humanoid glitch they faced earlier. It had grown.
Tall as a skyscraper. Clad in living armor forged from collapsed universes. Dozens of mirrored faces twisted along its body, showing warped reflections of Jake, Reggie, Isabella, Vanessa, and even Candace and Linda.
> "You walk toward rebirth. But I am the final version," Reverance echoed, voice vibrating through reality itself.
The Aether Skimmer shook violently. Isabella routed power to the shields.
Jake gritted his teeth and activated his Mythatrix Apex Form: Solar Draco-Wyvern—a blazing golden creature that roared with primal fury.
Remy activated his Arcanodrive Leviathan Form, morphing into a colossal sea serpent of glowing runes.
Candace phased out of the cockpit, diving through the walls of the ship midair like a phantom. She blitzed toward Reverance, punching through its shoulder while in Phase Drift.
Linda, floating beside the ship and surrounded by lightning-infused storm clouds, let loose a tempest that shattered parts of the dimensional sky.
> "We're not afraid of you!" she yelled.
The battle raged across the Rift—a clash of timelines, metagenes, and pure will.
In the end, Reggie unleashed a powerful Resonance Pulse from the Dimenswatch, destabilizing the Rift long enough for the team to flee through a collapsing side portal.
They landed hard—outside the Cradle of Code.