I probably shouldn't be doing this but...

I really hate future me, future me is just gonna have to deal with updating two stories consistently.

"Are you sure about your decision Mister Hino?" The elderly driver asked from the front of the limousine, "I'm not saying I am doubting you... It's just that one would assume someone of a high position, such yourself, would rather study at a much more well known and prestigious school, like Crystal Prep Academy for example."

Eiji smiled at the man as he sat behind him before responding. "Come on Mister Shy, you speak like you don't know me." He said, garnering a soft chuckle from the man. "I have told you before, you don't need to speak so formally with me, I'm too young to be called Mister. You have earned that at the very least, you've been the most loyal person I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. And to answer your question, I am one hundred percent sure about this thing. I don't want people to befriend me just because of my position, and besides, this school is probably not too much of a downgrade even if we compare it to something as high-profile as Crystal Prep."

"I understand... I still remember the day we met, both of us were too nervous to even start a simple conversation... Though, time really does fly huh?" He spoke with a thoughtful demeanor. "I still remember you used to be so quiet, then again, you have just been recently released from the hospital back then because of what happened at Afri-..." The elder man caught himself droning on too much, Eiji's face takes a much more depressed expression as he was reminded once more of his most shameful moment, turning away from the man and looking through the window instead.

The rest of the ride remained silent as Eiji continued to process his memories.

"This is it, my ending... At last, I am finally complete..." Maki said with a hint of joy and sadness.

The Medal Vessel collapses on itself as a black-hole like void of nothingness emerges from the remains of the Human-turned-Greeed Doctor Kiyoto Maki, which destroys all of the medals in the area and engulfs the remains.

Eiji struggled to keep himself stable and afloat as the void pulled the purple medals from the Taja Spinner.

Ankh's ghostly apparition disappeared as the Ankh's medals were pulled out of the OOO Driver.

"Ankh!" Eiji screamed, quickly moving to grab for the crimson medals while his armor dissipates.

At the nick of time, he managed to catch Ankh's Taka medal, or more precisely, one of its halves.

Soon after that, he too gets caught in the pull of the void.

"You always did get me in trouble Ankh... Take care of yourselves everyone..." Eiji somberly said as a farewell to everyone he will leave behind.

He closed his eyes, placing the Taka medal in his chest, as he submitted himself to his fate.

Light...

Bright white light filled Eiji's eyes as he opened it.

Adjusting himself for a moment, he found himself to be in a hospital room.

Sitting up straight, he looked around, his body ached with every inch of his movement.

A few seconds later, the door to Eiji's right opened to reveal his mother with a medical group right behind her.

"Oh! My dear baby Eiji!" Her mother nearly screamed in pure joy, running to Eiji's side to hug him tightly.

Tears drip from her eyes and onto his back, Eiji dumbstruck and confused at what was happening to him.

"M-Mother?!" He was too bewildered to move, his mind unable to process everything.

"You had us so worried Eiji! We thought we were going to lose you forever!" His mother cried in his shoulder.

The doctors asked her to move away for a moment so they could check up on Eiji's health.

"You were asleep in the state of medically-induced coma for an entire year and so, Mister Hino, we had to do it to you just so we could allow your body to repair itself." One of the doctor explained to him while he was checking something on the machine on the side of Eiji's bed.

"Umm... Excuse me Doctor, but what happened exactly?" Eiji asked, still very much confused.

"Well... Where should I start then?" He asked himself, while writing down data from the machine on the paper in his hand. "How much do you remember about you visiting Africa?"

Eiji's eyes widen, the horrifying memory of the little girl's death flashed before his eyes for a second.

"E-Everything..." He said, the doctor nodding his head in sympathy.

"You have been found lying bloody and nearly dead under the rubble of a building, guarding a young child with your life." The doctor said, shocking the younger boy to the bone.

"W-Wait... You don't mean..." Just as Eiji was about to finish his sentence, the door opened once more, the girl was the one who had just arrived, battered and bruised but alive nonetheless.

"Thank you very much big brother Hino!" The girl said gratefully to Eiji with tears in her eyes. "I-I'm so sorry, it's because of me you're like that... If only you saved yourself..."

Eiji tried to move only to flinch in pain again, the doctor rushed to his side to help the boy. "T-That's not true! Alfreed, for as long as I am alive, I will always try my hardest to reach out to grab whoever needs my help!"

Alfreed's eyes lit up with admiration, the girl was moved aside by a man in a black suit, the doctors looking away, almost pretending to be doing something just so they would not be involved with anything.

The man was holding a speaker with a phone on it, the clapping of hands could be heard from the device.

"My... My boy Eiji must have taken that from me... You know, you could make a great politician with words like that, you almost sounded as if you actually believed what you were saying." The voice said in an amused tone.

"Father... How come you aren't able to come visit me personally?" Eiji said in a scornful tone, already knowing the answer to his own question.

Eiji's mother turned away, unable to watch two of her most loved people fight.

"I am terribly sorry for I am unable to come over my son, I am awfully busy with my job right now. I promise I will make up for it once I am done with everything I'm doing." The man said, Eiji not believing a letter of what he said to be any true. "I have to thank you though, your little act at Africa has boosted our family's popularity to the masses by miles! I have to say, I'm very proud of you Eiji." A snap of a finger could be heard from the device as the man turned around to walk away, Alfreed staring at the man's back in fear and Eiji in contempt.

A few seconds after the man left, the entire room and staff breathed out a sigh of relief, Eiji's mother nervously laughing to try and brighten up the mood. "Heh, heh, heh... You know your father Eiji, always looking out for us even though he has important stuff to do." Eiji wanted to refute that, but had no more strength to do so. "Don't worry, I'm sure he absolutely will not miss your sixteenth birthday." Her mother said with a frightening smile, creeping out everybody else in the room.

Eiji chuckled for a second before he fell back on the bed, his body still weak and tired. He turned to the child smiling at him, so he smiled in return. Realizing that everything he fought for as OOO and everything else before that was all for naught was truly disheartening, but finding out that he has manage to save Alfreed was more than enough to make up for it. Though it was all too much to comprehend for Eiji's burnt out brain. He was sure he has lived far more than a single year in his supposedly imaginary world.

His hands shifted to his head to massage it as it gets struck with agony, he noticed something drop from his hand and onto his lap.

Picking it up to inspect it, tears formed in Eiji's eyes as he realizes what the object was. "Ankh..." He whispered, drifting off back into the world of the unconscious.

Eiji took a moment to once again fix his clothes once more, he was wearing a suit, something that was more of a decision of his mother than himself. He did not want to take away his mother's smile so he went along with it.

If he was made to wear something that sounded as uncomfortable and unnecessarily professional as a suit, he would most likely have had it custom made to suit his tastes, and indeed he did, he took the liberty of having everything be sewn by a tailor that Mister Shy knew of, Eiji trusted the man enough to have him commission it for him.

Eiji had designed the clothes himself, taking inspiration from OOO's TaToBa form as a sort of homage to his other self.

The jacket was tanned yellow, the dress pants had a dark green color, the mandatory black shoes that was the only thing his mother specifically instructed him to wear, and a velvet necktie that had the broken half of the Taka medal clipped on it to wrap it all up.

Eiji had to say, he expected the tailor to be good but the outfit has exceeded his expectations twice.

A few minutes passed before the limousine came to a halt in front of the school.

"This is it, Canterlot High School..." Mister Shy declared, muttering a quick and polite 'thank you' to the man, Eiji opened the door and walked out, straightening his clothes up once more, readying himself to take his first steps to socializing with people his age.

'Hopefully this goes better than my previous attempt at high school...' He thought to himself, scratching the back of his head.

Before Eiji could begin to walk away, Mister Shy called up to him. "I almost forgot to tell you something!" Eiji turned to the man, peeking through the lowered window. "You might meet my daughter there, if you do see her, please try getting to know her, she's almost as timid as I am. She's just your age and has pink hair so you'll probably know who she is just by looking at her."

Eiji has long gotten used to humans having weird hair and skin colors, he had once thought it was the medicine making him hallucinate, apparently, this was a normal thing in the real world, though he swore that people used to have a shorter range of colors.

'The real world was far too different from the world I knew, even back before my visit to Africa. Even if we chalk that one up to being part of the imaginary world of OOO or me just being a very forgetful person, nothing I know of can even begin explaining how part of the Taka medal is with me right now...'

Shaking that train of thought away, he stuck out a thumb to the man with a smile. "Of course Mister Shy! I'll do my best." The man smiled before nodding to Eiji, he raised the window back up, and started to drive the limousine away.

He breathed out to prepare himself again.

"Alright, for real this time. Let's use this second chance to the fullest." He told himself as he started to walk towards the door of the academy.

In a dark unidentifiable location were five figures kneeling in front of another sitting on a throne, another figure stood by the throne.

"I'm afraid it is as we feared my king... The boy who posed as OOO has been awake and alive for years now, our assassination attempt has failed, I must apologize for not noticing it sooner." One of the beings said in a deep voice.

"Worry not... I am much too weak to confront him just yet, I shall rely in you once more to finish that impostor once and for all..." The being on the throne spoke with a booming voice that could shake the ground. The servant bowed to his king in gratefulness. "Do not mistake my generosity as pity, if you fail to do as I say, death would be a more preferable fate than coming back to my face." The king turned to another one of his retainers. "Dizmel, you shall accompany Dogatz in his task." He turned to the rest of his servants. "As for the rest of you... All of you shall go and search for them."

"Yes my lord!" All of the king's servants said in unison, bowing their heads.

After that, they all stood up and turned to do as they were ordered.

"And so the game begins... Hopefully, this impostor OOO shall provide me with enough amusement... What do you think?" The king turned to the figure to his side. "You should know the answer to that question... After all, you spent an entire year with him."

The figure at the king's side responded with a scowl, which made the king smirk in amusement.

"Very well... I guess we shall find out soon enough."

Ooooohh~! Evil people speaking with BOLD text~

I sort of have an idea with what I'm planning to do with this but I also sorta don't.

This fic will probably not be updated as frequently as my other one but I shall try my best to do at least one chapter each week.

I wanted to just sort of stick Eiji in the EG universe but then all sorts of other ideas happened and I had to adjust the world until it looked almost like an entire different thing.

I want to talk about the other things I have planned with this fic but don't want to spoil anything so we'll just leave it at...

Thank you very much for giving this fic a chance, please leave a review if you want to see more of these or you can just tell me your overall thoughts on this thing, and peace out!