Dimensional Gate Screwover
is a crossover fic between the Monster Girl Encyclopedia, and the Disgaea series, written by Master CVG and cross posted to Fanfiction.net, the original story written on the Monster Girl Unlimited forums.
Following his ill-fated battle against Jedah Dohma, the unintentional dimension-hopper Nelius Raoul finds himself crash-landing into a new world, one where all monsters are female.... and that an old evil from his side of the cosmos isn't quite dead yet.
Story is rated M for violence, language and character death. Has a sequel in RWBY: Dual Eclipse.
Tropes within this story:
- Ancient Evil: Revenant is this, constantly reincarnating as a new Demon Lord after his downfall at the hands of human heroes. After his second incarnation, he had begun leaving notes for his future incarnations to use, and they proved invaluable. His Near-Villain Victory prior to being sealed was on the cusp of turning into The Bad Guy Wins.
- Apocalypse How: The Original Chief God wants to enact a Class 5, followed up by replacing all life with newer, more obedient forms. When it becomes clear that the current inhabitants and the Netherworld bunch have no intention of dying, it gets cranked up to Class 6, and threatens to escalate to Class X. However, as the Netherworld crew are all capable of the same level of power...
- Artificial Limbs: Nelius gets one shortly after his left arm is chomped down to its bones and muscles in defense of Epsilon. Given that Epsilon was about to die (and thus all information she had would be lost), she ends up using the last of her strength to magichange her body into his arm! This ends up having ramifications further on.
- Big Bad: The main one is Revenant, albeit assisted by Asagi Kurosugi.
- Back from the Dead: According to some files late in the story, Kurosugi, as punishment for her scheme in Prinny 2's Asagi Wars, was going to be soul-killed, as in rendered Deader than Dead. She had been imprisoned in the Underworld pending her execution, but managed an escape thanks to her supporters hiding out and gathering resources.
- Revenant is also a case of this, not only reincarnating but eventually he cheated imprisonment and death.
- Cute Monster Girl: A given, as this is the Monster Girl Encyclopedia. Epsilon, being a Desco-Unit, also counts.
- Dead Man's Switch: Kurosugi explicitly makes mention of one, which is holding the Holy-Eating Beast's progenitor. Once she dies, it's released.
- Distressed Dude: A Male Samurai named Virgil was held captive by a tribe of Amazoness girls. Nelius is tasked by Tomoe with rescuing him.
- Eldritch Abomination: The holy-devouring beasts. Revenant later uses one as a base for his new body... and then during the Enemy Mine situation, fuses with two more. The Chaos Gods also deserve mention.
- Due to the warping powers of the aforementioned Chaos Gods, Nelius gets hit with a concentrated blast of their power, causing him quite the number of issues down the line as he becomes a gigantic, mutated incubus. Later on we learn that Epsilon's soul was also affected.
- Enemy Mine: When Revenant proves to be quite the problem, the Demon Lord and her husband later team up with the Disgaea crew to put him down for good. This reaches a peak when the Chaos Gods end up rampaging about later on, as humanity and monster-kind reach a much better unity through survival. The Original Chief God was livid when this came to pass, and so hastened their final plans... which ironically gave humanity and monster-kind even more reason to unite.
- Eternal Recurrence: Mentioned in the MGE's backstory.In short..
- Explosive Breeder: The progenitor of the Holy-Eating beasts. It does end up seeking out food so it could replenish its numbers, and it takes this to an extreme once it does eat a holy soul Kurosugi had locked up.
- Eyes Do Not Belong There: Epsilon, being a Desco-Unit, has several of them all over her body. When she Magichanges her remaining self onto Nelius's arm, he gains one of those eyes on the back of his new hand.
- One of the Chaos Gods proves to have plenty of Extra Eyes across its body. The mutated incubus form Nelius is turned into also proves to have many of them across its body as well.
- Fantastic Racism: The humans belonging to the Order show very little tolerance for monster-kind, even casting an unkind eye towards the Disgaea crew for not being human. They do lighten up on their views towards the latter group as the story progresses. This is a deliberate mandate from the original Chief God, whom mandated that humans and monsters must fight each other so they couldn't unite under common causes. Seeing the current set up of the world only spurred on further completion of their plans.
- Downplayed with the Zipangu region, whom has managed to live alongside the youkai of the region long before they took their new forms... and while some are grateful to the Demon Lord for their new forms, they do note that her ways would lead to issues down the road.
- Fallen Angel: This is what happens to angels that get corrupted too heavily in the original setting, and of course there have been many in the Disgaea setting, with Female Healers being implied to have descent from them. The replacement Chief Goddess is unceremoniously turned into this and cast out of the Heavenly Realms. She ends up heralding the final arc.
- Forever War: Revenant and Kurosugi are looking to reignite it. Then the Original Chief God makes their return, who set the original plans in place for this world.
- From Bad to Worse: The story events sum up as such for the MGE-world.Got a minute?
- Gender Bender: All monsters of the MGE got turned into females when the Succubus Lord took power, influencing them to be much like herself.
- Gendercide: This gets pointed out as the main problem of the Demon Lord's plan, as humans and monsters interbreeding only produces more female monsters. Even if several human men were to be influenced and granted longevity, they'd also be facing inbreeding problems.
- Gods Need Prayer Badly: Origin, disgusted by how the world has gone, cuts off three of the Gods who sided with the Demon Lord from their power, leaving them to die. However, this gets turned back on him in the finale. When the whole world is bearing witness to what their god truly is like, they begin to denounce him, causing his powers to quickly deplete.
- Heroic Sacrifice: The Chief Goddess, after being tossed out of Heaven, chooses to use the remainder of her powers to contain Origin's attempted Taking You with Me. It works, but ends up burning out all of her power as a goddess, rendering her mortal.
- I Am Legion: Downplayed, but present, as Revenant convinced all the other imprisoned evils to merge with him to escape their prison. It worked, but the lock had a final trap meant to kill whatever broke out. Revenant managed to live via fusing with the remains of the other souls, inheriting several of their memories and skills, many of which were put to good use.
- Ill-Timed Sneeze: After managing to bust out of their holding cells, Farris and York have to bust back in to recover two other held allies. Sadly, York ends up sneezing during the sneak-in, altering a guard patrol and causing a battle to break out.
- Interspecies Romance: Another given, due to both source materials. This trope is averted as far as crossover romance goes, as the Netherworld crew has no interest in staying on the MGE world beyond the story's events.
- The Man Behind the Man: The original Chief God, whom is NOT happy about the way the world has gone in their absence.
- Medieval Stasis: Due to this, it made getting things to fix the Yoshitsuna Warship a royal pain, and thus forced the point of recycling things from within the ship to fix it back up. It becomes a serious plot point when it's revealed that the Original Chief God has deliberately kept this as the status quo so to keep everyone forced to pray to them, thus forcing faith so as to keep existing.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: All that Origin had to do was wait about fifteen more minutes for the Netherworld crew to leave before enacting his plan, then he could've had free reign to do as he pleased with the MGE world. Instead, when he tossed out the replacement Chief Goddess out, her trajectory of escape nearly hits the Warship Yoshitsuna, catching their attention.
- No-Nonsense Nemesis: Revenant is this, and Kurosugi shows elements of this as well.
- Deruella attempts to be this, but soon realizes that she's way out of her league.
- Noodle Incident: How did Tomoe find herself having to fight off four Dullahan at once?
- Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: By all rights, the Disgaea people are more than capable of straight-up erasing the MGE-verse in a single move. It's only the prospect of going home that stays their hand for the most part, and even then they prove incredibly powerful.
- Outside-Context Problem: This is apparent on both sides of the conflict, as the Disgaea-based crew and their abilities are utterly alien to the MGE, and vice-versa. Revenant and Kurosugi's tactics, alongside the holy-eaters also prove to be this for the MGE, as the source material states that all monsters have a connection to the Demon Lord... but the holy-eating beasts don't. As it turns out, the holy-eating beasts were a new creation by Origin, with no connection to the Demon Lord. This not only let them run rampant, but the Demon Lord's ability to turn monsters female is given a No-Sell by the creatures.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: What happened to Revenant prior to the story. His most recent form was killed, and during the events that lead to the current Demon Lord taking the throne, his soul was locked away.
- Another sealed away menace was the Chaos Gods, locked far down in Poseidon's domain. After his death at the hands of the combined forces, Revenant expended the last shreds of his soul to undo the lock. It takes a combined effort to re-seal them before they get too far out of hand.
- A brief mention later on shows that the holy-devouring beasts were sealed as well, but eventually subverted as they were outright newly created to try and cleanse the world.
- Spanner in the Works: The soul of the child. He was a former member of the Heavenly Host, but after having witnessed Origin perpetrating the cycle, he was forcibly reincarnated.... and every incarnation would have something horrible happen to him. Kurosugi had his soul and soulless body, but lost the latter during a scuffle early on, and then the former managed to escape. As both ended up with the group, and as Ada was keeping tabs on him, he decides to help the fractured Heavenly Host find a better way to cultivate the world.
- The Disgaea people prove to be this. As they've got an entirely different viewpoint about the conflict, they point out various problems with the Demon Lord's agenda, thus leaving the seeds for new ideas. Combined with the aforementioned child actually listening to these new ideas, this begins the world's rebirth.
- Status Quo Is God: Origin wants to reset things back to the pre-Succubus Lord days, so as to keep humanity forced to deliver faith to him. This ends up backfiring due to the aforementioned Spanner in the Works above.
- Super Mode: Nelius is able to channel his demonic power to become a shadow-cloaked being. He later dubs this form "Belderiver".
- Taking You with Me: Upon realizing that the world's creations could begin harming him, Origin decides to pull one of these, which is Lampshaded by Sif referring to it as "pulling a Sore Loser Protocol". The inhabitants and Disgaea crew then launch an attack to try and disrupt it. It works, but it tears open a rift, which ends up sucking in Nelius.
- Transformation Is a Free Action: When Revenant fuses with two of the holy-eaters, Nelius actually tries to disrupt the fusion by attacking. Sadly, the aura being produced shields Revenant until the fusion completes.
- Villain Team-Up: As mentioned throughout this page, Kurosugi and Revenant. A brief snippet before Revenant undoes the lock on the Chaos Gods' prison details how they met.
- We Have Become Complacent: The Demon Lord realizes this is what caused her downfall, as after fending off the weaker Chief God, nobody had proven strong enough to challenge her, and her transformation energies simply converted any human heroes that did get close. Revenant being able to subvert both points does a number on her.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Initially, the Netherworld / Celestia people whom were assigned to investigate this world found that due to differing magical rules, Dimensional Gates wouldn't work, forcing them to go under the radar. Carl later jury-rigs a gate spell that does allow for quick travel around the world, but ultimately it's the Yoshitsuna that allows them to finally leave the world and return home.
- You Have Failed Me: Origin says this to the many gods that sided with the Demon Lord, and of course to the current Chief Goddess. The ones that sided with the Demon Lord get imprisoned and left to die, whilst the Chief Goddess get tossed out so she could be murdered alongside the rest of humanity.
