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Chapter Twenty-Five – Results

Trickster awoke, which was strange for he couldn't remember going to sleep. The other thing he thought was weird is the metal flooring he was sleeping on. Sitting up, he clenched his head as it throbbed in pain. Taking a quick glance at his surroundings, he had no clue where he was. There seemingly was nothing: no stars, no planets, no ships, no debris, nothing.

Standing up, all he could see was the metal walkway that went on forever in a grid. The only other things were these stasis pods connected to the walkway every couple of feet. His engineering curiosity got the better of him as he got on all fours and went real low on the ground to see no supports whatsoever and he couldn't fathom how they were being powered. He approached the first stasis pod and wiped away the built-up condensation on the fiberglass.

The occupant was a small blue creature with several large spines sticking out of his back. The only thing not blue was his belly which was a light gold-brown. His two articles of clothing were cartoonish white gloves and a pair of stylish red sneakers.

Trickster pressed a button on the control panel and displayed his stats.

"Name: Sonic the Hedgehog, Powers: Super Speed, Chaos Energy Absorption; From: Sonic Universe, Current Status: Alive, In Stasis." Trickster backed up, "What's going on?"

He looked to the next stasis pod a few feet from Sonic's and ran over, wiping away the condensation. This time, it was a young woman dressed in a blue sleeveless shirt. Her tinted dark skin accentuated her brown hair that was tired into a ponytail near the back and two long strands in the front. Trickster opened her stats screen.

"Name: Korra, Powers: Manipulation of All Four Material Elements, From: Avatar Universe, Current Status: Alive, In Stasis." Trickster turned and started running to the next pod, "What the hell?"

Wiping away the condensation, it was a full grown man wearing a strange costume. Trickster failed to recognize the pattern of red, white, and blue, not to mention the the large white 'A' on his forehead and the hermes wings on his head. Opening his stats, he quickly said.

"Name: Steven Rogers aka Captain America, Powers: Super Strength, Level One Regeneration, From: Marvel Universe, Current Status: Alive, In Stasis."

Trickster looked down the row and there were easily hundreds more. As he turned to look at the entire grid as far as he could see, there were easily thousands. Dropping to his knees, Trickster slammed the ground with both fists.

"All these people..." He clenched his teeth, "What monster could have done all this?"

"You did, Trickster." He looked up to see himself floating above him.

"Or the more accurate statement would be, I did."

"What? How are you floating? Why haven't our essences mixed? What's going on here?"

"Please, this will all be over in a moment." Trixster raised his hand at Trickster, who saw the danger and dodge rolled out of the blast's way.

"What the fuck? Don't you know we are both Trickster."

"Yes, you are the Trickster from reality while I am this Dark Future's version of yourself."

"You knew."

"I've known since near the beginning. After all, " He showed his right forearm and it was glowing with three artifacts that were inside the forearm itself, "I know everything."

"No way...you...you...have all three God Objects?"

"Yes, that is where our paths diverge from each other. You remember the incident where Enigma had abandoned us to die on the Moon Planet of Babaranga?"

"He left because he was finding help. There was no way he could bring me in with the tether as damaged as it was. He cut the line and sought help while I found a way to survive."

"The Astro Mech we used to procure the rare ore had taken damage and Enigma saved himself. We crashlanded on that Moon Planet where the poisonous atmosphere was so corrosive that the Mech didn't last thirty minutes and the spacesuit we designed would last even less."

"But he came back and saved me. It was four hours later and I managed to survive due to the miraculous discovery of...the God Sphere!"

"Yes, we both discovered the God Sphere that had been hidden there due the planet's high toxicity. Unless you crashlanded near it by a stroke of luck, no one would find it before being consumed by the corrosive gas."

"But Enigma came back, didn't he?"

"He did four hours later as he did for you. However, I chose to keep the God Sphere whereas you returned it to where it was hidden."

"No man should wield that much power. Creating the ultimate spacesuit, immune and impervious to everything. The instant I was rescued, I wished it away. That's why I returned it."

"I didn't. So much power, I could create anything by merely thinking it. There was no longer any challenge to life and I grew to depend on it. Even then, it wasn't enough, so I went searching for the other two God Objects."

"And you found them, the God Cube and the God Prism."

Within five years, I had power like no one ever had. I started conquering world after world, whole armadas would fall from the wave of a hand. Enigma and Alicia tried to stop me, but...you can guess what happened to them."

Trickster shook his head, "No...you didn't...and...what of Daedalus?"

Trixster stared blankly, "Who?"

"You...you! You're nothing like me!" He started running, but was pushed back magically and rolled along the ground.

"Enigma, the most powerful shapeshifter ever, could not stop me. What made you think you could?"

Trickster smiled as he stood up, "Because we are the same." He lifted up his head to glare into Trixster's eyes, "If you have the God Objects..." Trickster raised his right forearm and the three God Objects appeared in his forearm, "then so do I."

"Hmph, it doesn't matter. All that means is we are on equal footing and nothing more. I will defeat you and add you to my prison."

"Prison? All this is a prison?"

"Yes, my conquest of my universe had caused quite a stir in the dimensions. Other dimensions became available and I conquered them, too. Everyone I came across tried to stop me: Avengers, Freedom Fighters, Avatars, Justice League, Thundercats, all of them and none prevailed. How could you stop one who has the power of the true God at his fingertips?"

"Like this!" Trickster threw his right arm forward and instantly turned into a large steel gauntlet equipped with various weapons. He shot a volley of rockets, missiles, lasers, and bullets from the same gauntlet and continued to unload round after round as he got to his feet. After a while, the smoke cloud was too big and dense to see anything. He stopped and waited for it to dissipate slightly, trying to see anything. All that was visible was a bunker where Trixster was.

"My turn?"

Trickster was hit as if by a train and thrown high into the sky. He threw his fist behind and created a springboard covered with pillows in mid-air facing him. Taking the full impact. It wound up and shot him toward a walkway. Willing himself a large mattress to land on, Trickster bounced a few times before coming to a complete stop. As the world spun, he stumbled back onto his feet. A wave of his finger and the dizzy feeling of nausea was instantly healed.

Trixster floated up, scratching his chin, "That mattress? Made of Cloud Cloth?"

"The softest and most durable in the universe. That bunker...God's Blessing, right?"

"The more accurate term is God's Adamantium."

"Is Power the only reason you did all of this? What about all that others have given you?"

"Even you might know, Trickster, all that truly matters in the end are the results of your efforts, not the methods you go about then."

"Yes, because what do methods matter? Did Enigma or Alicia care what methods you used?"

"Stop it."

"Not true? Your best friend and your wife knew what you were doing. Why didn't they support you when you started conquering the universe? If they truly loved you, then they would have helped, right?"

"Shut up!"

"Did you lose your ability to retort when you got all that power? Are do you regret killing them, the only two people who truly loved you and what did you do? You stabbed them in the back!"

"I said shut up!" Trixster yelled and batted his hand across, sending Trickster flying up once more.

As the world spun around him once more, he smiled, "Well, that could have gone better."

Yumi didn't know when she was more nervous, waiting for the examination or waiting for the results. Either way, Ulrich was there, petting her hand and comforting her as best he could.

"That's it. I can't take it anymore! I'm going to die, aren't I?"

"Yumi, relax. I'm sure whatever those guys did to you isn't fatal. They wanted to use you to make money, right? Then, the procedure they used isn't fatal."

"But, the process wasn't complete when you interrupted it. I just..." Yumi cried into her hands.

Ulrich let her cry for a moment before inching his way closer next to her and brought his arms around her. She leaned into his shoulder to cry.

"I don't know, Yumi, I don't know what the results are going to be and I don't know how this affected you. Nor do I know what the results are."

"Don't know? Don't know? How is this comforting me?"

"What I'm trying to say is though we don't know. All I can do is be here to face it together with you. After all, I'm your boyfriend and I will always stand by you no matter what."

"Ulrich..." She sniffled and wiped away her tears, "Thank you, that was...so sweet."

The door to her room opened and the doctor stepped out, "Miss Ishiyama?"

"Yes, is it bad?"

"Actually..."

"Oh no, it's worse."

"Actually, it's good news. I've ran every test related to what they done to you and the results look promising."

"Promising? What...what did they do to me?"

"As you said, they modified your body to be more for the athletic types. Your body destiny reads about somewhere around 3G's, otherwise you're fine...well except for...um...gosh, how do I put this?"

"Ulrich..." She started getting worried again.

"Doctor, maybe you could tell me and I'll break it to her."

"Even then, it's...a little delicate of a matter to touch. Maybe, it would just be better if I gave you your chart and you can see for yourself."

Passing her the Datapad, she took it and looked at the screen to see all her statistics both the old and the new. Both Yumi and her boyfriend looked at them with a quizzical expression.

"What are we looking at exactly?"

"Scroll down the page and you should see what I mean."

Using it like a touchscreen, she pressed her finger down and dragged it up to get the page to scroll down. They again looked at the screen perplexed until they caught the subsection title of "Anatomical Features – Female" and saw the old data highlighted in white as the new was highlighted in green.

"If I'm reading this right..." Yumi looked down at herself, "that means my bust size went up by one cup and my...behind has been made tighter."

The Doctor blushed as he started to pack up his things, "I see everything is in order here, I will just be going on my way. Don't worry about the bill, I've sent it to Gabriel."

"What about this?" She handed the Datapad toward him.

"No, you can keep that. The hospital will retrieve that for the post-examination, which should be in about two weeks."

"Okay...if you say so."

As the Doctor left, another two arrived at the apartment.

"Sorry, we're late." Sam said, "It took us a while to find this place."

"Odd! Where were you?" Ulrich asked.

"What, just me? What about Sam? She was gone as well."

"My best friend disappears at the youth club and didn't even give me a heads up. How did you think I'd feel?"

He walked over to Ulrich and wrapped an arm around his shoulders, "Sorry, it's just if we'd left at that moment, Sam would..." He whispered something in Ulrich's ear before pulling away, "you see what I'm saying."

Ulrich pretended to clear his throat, "I guess that's reasonable."

Sam rolled her eyes and grabbed her boyfriend, pulling him back next to her side as Yumi tried not to show any feelings about this whatsoever, though she blushed a little. Sam looked at Yumi and her expression changed, she brought an arm over her.

"Yumi, how are holding up?"

Wiping another tear aside, a small smile appeared, "Better actually since I got my test results."

"What test?" Odd asked, "Did something happen?"

"Odd, I told you that while I was in the Warrens, I heard Yumi had been captured. Then, when we..."

"Wait, you were in the Warrens?" Yumi asked.

"Yes, I was and I will get to that in a minute. Then, when we..."

"You never told me any of this!" Odd exclaimed.

"I was going to and it must have slipped my mind. You were chatting a lot on the way over."

"I needed to get all that off my chest because that alien girl was all over me."

Yumi gave him a playful nudge, "Odd, you interstellar dog."

"Hey, not you, too. I get it enough from these two."

"Sorry, just thought it was funny."

"Well, it was, but that's still no excuse. So, what's going on with this test?"

"It's nothing of true importance and the test says there's nothing bad going on, so I'm good, I'm good." She nodded.

Ulrich raised a finger up, "Give him a minute."

Odd scratched his chin and looked at Yumi, "Did your boobs get bigger?"

"Hole in one!" Ulrich gestured as if swinging a golf club.

Though the moment of playfulness ended there as both boyfriends could feel that they were in hot water with their girlfriends.

"Odd...why are you still looking at other girls' boobs?"

"Ulrich...why are you making light of my situation?"

"We...Him...Me...I..." The guys said in unison as sweat starting to bead down their faces, knowing that was no right answer.

As the two were trying to weasel out of the situation they brought on themselves, Jeremy and Aelita were smiling as they were seated on the couch in the living room.

"They do know we're sitting right here, don't they?"

Aelita smiled and rested her head on his lap, "Let's just sit here and enjoy the comedy a little longer."

"Aelita, you're down right evil, you know that?"

"Yeah, I know." Her smile grew a little wider as she looked up at Jeremy before looking back at her friends being who they truly are.

End of Chapter Twenty-Five