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Halloween World: No Way Home by AkatsukiDaybreak
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Halloween World: Snapshots of the Hallow Earth
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Halloween World: Records of Chaos by Weaver Plus
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Halloween World: Twelve Years Later by Weaver
Summary: A lot can happen in twelve years
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Halloween World: Emerald Hope's Bulletin Board
Summary: Set in spaceman's "Halloween World" AU. Tips on surviving Northwest Florida under the Red Sky.
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CHAPTER 38- HALLOWEEN WORLD WAR Part 21
- THE SECOND RETURN PART 10
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October 31, 2015 -
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The universe is defined as everything that physically exists: the entirety of space and time, all forms of matter, energy and momentum, and the physical laws and constants that govern them. However, the term 'universe' may be used in slightly different contextual senses, denoting such concepts as the cosmos, the world or nature.
The last barrier of the Event has been crossed. The Red Sky, which has prevented space travel for seventeen years, has been breached and now the universe is open to the world's growing population.
At first it was the advanced probes from the machine city Machina, the sentient Citadel City, and Mega Tokyo. They have begun to recreate the network of communications, weather, and astrological satellites that was wiped out during the creation of the Red Sky. These satellites are small, but they are constructed with nanotechnology and magitek making them thousands of times more powerful than the entire original network. These satellites use a combination of quantum entanglement pulse, teleport, and subspace technology to transmit data by bypassing the Red Sky. The technology also allows a far larger amount of data to be transmitted at a far faster rate.
Some probes have landed on the Moon and begun construction using nanomachines, fusing the broken moon back together as one giant satellite/space station.
This was only the beginning, as the people opened the Red Sky barrier wide enough to allow a space ship through. The Red Sky could only be opened for a couple of seconds, but it was more than enough for a ship to escape without the interference.
Some of the first ships to be launched were the Jurain and Galaxy Police ships. These advanced ships not only possess immense power for their size, they are also small ships. Most of a Jurain ship exists in a subspace pocket connected to the physical ship, which means that the amount they can carry into the depths of space is immense. Those ships were followed by a small fleet of 34.75 meter long Millennium Falcons and a 76 meter long J-type 327 Nubian royal starship (also known as the Naboo royal starship). With subspace storage, Hoi Poi Capsules, and enhanced astromech droids, these small ships could go on extended missions.
Those small ships were followed by the 345 meter long USS Voyager and 685 meter long Sovereign-class USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E), both enhanced by the far more advanced technology available and Magitek.
In orbit, thousands of AI-controlled robots armed with energy-matter replicators and nanomachines are constructing what will be known as the Aprilis and Junius space colonies. They use magnetic fields and deflectors to clean Earth's orbit of the debris field. The debris field is the remains of Terran space travel, ranging from giant satellites to lost screws, orbiting the planet. The debris is converted into materials used to help the construction of what will become orbital space habitats, each large enough to house one million people without subspace enhancement.
On board one of the larger ships, a group of Machina scientists are going over the data from the probes they sent out. The ship is over one kilometer in length and is filled with scientists devoted to research and exploration. The ship is filled with techno-sorcerers, cyborgs, and advanced sentient artificial intelligences inside androids, non-human robots, and some of the most advanced computers ever created by the Machina and Citadel City scientists.
The probes they have launched possess some of the most advanced and inventive technology produced by the new earth.
The first was a one meter long test probe which was able to travel at Star Trek Warp Speed of 9.9 and collect data from the solar system. It was followed by four Class Two probes, each two meters long and moving at Warp 9.999. Next were a hundred and eight Class Three space probes, each two meters long and able to travel at Warp 9.99999. It means one of the one hundred and eight could reach Alpha Centauri in less than four minutes. Twenty seven thousand six hundred and forty eight Class Three probes were launched recently, each able to traverse the Milky Way galaxy (100,000 light-years) in 3.31 minutes. Today, eighty-six million four hundred thousand Class Five probes have been launched, constructed from replicated matter. Each probe is fast enough to reach the Andromeda galaxy (2,000,000 light years away) in a day.
The data from the probes is processed in nano-scale teleport enhanced quantum computers, machines that are able to calculate in fractions of a second what would take a 20th century super computer a universal life time to calculate. Magitek time dilation fields allow the probes to do a century's worth of calculating before transmitting the data in an instant. The network connecting the probes uses quantum pulse technology that allows instant transmission without the delay of lasers or radio waves, and also allows transmission even if two probes are on opposite sides of the galaxy. Inside the massive science ship's equally massive computers, data that would take humans a hundred million years to process is processed in days by god-like AIs in time dilated systems.
"Have you seen the new TV shows that are popping up?" asks Number 01.
"100,000 HD digital channels from Magia Network alone. It's impressive how quickly people can become addicted to television. Since everyone has been affected by what were once fictional characters, fiction has become very important. There are thousands of channels dedicated to anime and manga alone," says Number 02
"People who have read the Files on different characters want to see the shows," states Number 02. "They have even divided the anime channels by genre. One channel for magical girls like Sailor Moon, Pretty Cure, and Magical Lyrical Nanoha, one channel for Mecha like Macross, Gundam, and Neon Genesis Evangelion, and another channel for martial arts like Dragonball, Flame of Recca, Rurouni Kenshin, and Yu Yu Hakusho."
"I get the point," says Number 01. "They've even expanded and enhanced the shows using memories taken from the characters. They take memories from magical Pensives or cybernetic data cores and download them into AI super computers. The computer then uses the data to create animation."
"I saw this one show that proved that human stupidity is as present as ever," says Number 03. "With the weakened Red Sky, competitive races and mock dogfights have sprung up: planes, hovercraft, mechas, zeppelins, etc. The show has a vote-in fan poll and a deadpool where you can bet on who'll die, when, and how. Awards and prizes are provided by morally questionable sponsors like the Sin City Consortium, Makai Hell TV, and the New FOX network."
"What channel?" asks Number 01 and Number 02.
"Here," says Number 03, as he activates his link and downloads the TV show episodes into the minds of the other two.
"Woah. That is stupid," says Number 01.
"I think my intelligence just dropped," says Number 02.
"Attention. Data Alpha Analyze is complete," says a female voice over the computer links. "Please review."
The three cyborg scientists download the data into their minds using the interface system and their eyes widen.
"This can't be..." says Number 1. "It's not possible."
"The data is uncorrupted," says Number 2. "These are facts, not fiction."
"Terraforming detected on Mars. Oxygen atmosphere. Two notable regions," says Number 3. "One matches colony data from the anime series Cowboy Bebop and the other is confirmed to be Adeptus Mechanicus! That's the machine priests from WH40K."
"Mining probes have found materials in the asteroid fields that shouldn't be there," says Number 1. "Orichalcum, Sakuradite, Gundanium, Elerium, Etherium, Kryptonite, Levistone, Naquahdah, Trinium, and Vibranium. There's also a large amount of unknown trans-uranic ore and strange property iridium."
"Deep Space Probes have detected a star surrounded by a ring of metal the same distance from the star as Earth is from the sun. The metal has been identified as scrith. They also detect trace amounts of Duranium, Keiyurium, Mithril, Nth metal, and Promethium," says Number 2, his eyes wide as the data flows through his brain. "Desert planet with oxygen atmosphere. Large organic life forms detected, identified as Shai-Hulud. I think I just found Planet Arrakis."
"How could we be finding all of this now!? The numbers are astronomical!" says Number 1.
"The probes followed the patterns of space time to increase their efficiency. Oh my God. The chaos magic... We are following the trail it created in the universe"
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Weddings
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Jade Chan is the animated Jackie Chan's Hong Kong-born niece (actually his first-cousin-once-removed, since she is his "cousin Shen's girl") who is already 'Americanized'. When she was a child she was adventurous, to the extent that she frequently disobeyed her uncle's advice to remain in safety, preferring to accompany Jackie as he went out on adventures and thus getting herself into trouble. Just as often, however, her quick mind and flexible thinking helped Jackie in situations where his moderate thinking and habitual caution were a definite hindrance.
In the world of Halloween, she spent years as a citizen of the supreme city of magic Magia. She was trained in chi sorcery and martial arts, becoming a combination of martial arts warrior and magic user. As she grew, she distinguished herself fighting against the incarnations of the Dark Council and forming alliances between Magia and the Thousand Kingdoms. It's amazing, but the young adventurous girl ended up becoming an important ambassador to what was Asia.
Jade Chan was appointed as one of several 'heiresses-in-training' in case something happened to the rulers of Magia. If the rulers were killed, her and several other women would become the new royal family along with the children of the current Queens. If the children of the Queen were still underage, the heiresses would hold their places until their coming of age. This has become a problem as Jade felt suffocated by the responsibility and has taken an 'impromptu vacation' (translation: she ran away).
Jackie, Tohru, and a dozen other citizens of Magia are on a quest to find her, which won't be easy since Jade has learned enough magic to disable every tracking and precognition spell in Magia. She needed those skills during a stealth mission to one of Griffith's bases in the southernmost Kingdoms of what was once China.
Jade's hiding place is unique as it's the most famous wedding of the year.
Godzilla, King of the Giant Monsters, has decided to marry Echidna, Mother of All Monsters.
Godzilla is a dinosaur known as a Godzillasaurus that survived the extinction and was mutated by nuclear radiation into the most powerful of daikaiju. He has become both Japan's nemesis and protector, growing stronger with every battle against another daikaiju. He possesses super regenerative power allowing him to heal bullet wounds between bullets, an atomic breath weapon as powerful as a directed nuclear explosion, and the ability to manipulate nuclear energy. In the world of Halloween, he has become even more powerful and intelligent, gaining the ability to talk using human psychics.
Echidna, whose name means "she viper", is known in the most ancient legends of Greek mythology. Echidna was described by Hesiod as a female monster spawned in a cave, who mothered with her mate Typhoeus (or Typhon) every major horrible monster in the Greek myths. In the world of Halloween, the feared Typhon was killed by the Pantheon for siding with the Dark Council. Echidna, who remained neutral, became the lover of the Earth's new giant champion Godzilla.
Since marrying a hundred meter tall, sixty thousand ton bipedal lizard and a hundred meter tall woman with the lower body of an immense serpent would be difficult, they both agreed to be reduced to humanoid size for the wedding. It was either that or look for a skilled priest/Mecha pilot with customized priest mecha.
Godzilla looks like a muscular Ainu man standing two meters tall with dark eyes, dark green skin, and wild green-black hair styled like his giant form's back fins. He's dressed in a Japanese wedding kimono.
Echidna looks like a beautiful Greek woman with long curly black hair, tan skin, and gold eyes. She's dressed like a Greco-Roman princess with two dark feathered wings coming from her back and Greco-Roman style jewelry.
The guest list is also terrifying.
On the groom's side of the room are the 100 meter adult Godzilla Junior, Goddess Mothra with a length of 36 meters and a wingspan of a hundred eight meters, a 100 meter tall Rodan with a wingspan of 200 meters, and an 85 meter tall Biolante in her 100,000 ton Rose form.
In their humanoid forms, Junior looks like his father, Mothra is a beautiful woman with silver eyes and long white hair reaching her ankles, Rodan is an athletic man with an angular face and wild red hair, and Bionlante is a Japanese woman with green eyes and long red hair.
The rest are from the Pantheon and the Japanese Self-Defense Force that worked with Godzilla. There is Kong, a clone of Atlantian protector King Kong, inside the body of his friend Jason Jenkins. Jason sits with his native girlfriend Lua, watching the unusual wedding. There is also Zilla, also known as the America Godzilla, who has been shrunk down to a mere two meters. Dr. Niko "Nick" Tatopoulos Leader of H.E.A.T. became the adoptive father of Zilla - Godzilla, after the death of the original in New York. He was invited to the wedding by an unknown.
On the bride's side are monsters most of which have refused to take the form of prey (humans). They include the massive invulnerable Nemian Lion, the serpent-like dragon Ladon, the fearsome Chimera, the regal Sphinx, the immortal Lernaean Hydra, the giant three-headed dog Cerberus, the giant two-headed dog Orthrus, the giant promethean eagles, and dozens of other monsters. It's interesting to note that while there are hundreds if not thousands of other versions of these monsters, the children of Echidna are the royal progenitors. An example is the Sphinx, which is the alpha male of all Andro sphinxes and his mate/queen is the most powerful of the Gyno Sphinxes. Andro Sphinxes are winged lions with human faces found in Egyptian art, while Gyno Sphinxes are found in Greek mythology and are represented as a monster with a head and breasts of a woman, the body of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and a serpent headed tail.
The only one of Echidna's children in human form is Grinhilda, whose true form resembles a Naga - a group of serpent deities in Hindu and Buddhist mythology. She looks like a beautiful woman with long black hair, dark tan skin, and gold eyes. She also has the lower body of an immense cobra with golden scales. In human form, her snake tail has become sculpted legs, and she is dressed in a sleek gold dress with gold sandals.
The reason she agreed to take human form is because Dr. Xander Cho Hakkai Harris, one of the Fem Fatale's Top Ten Male Youkai is also attending the party. She knows about his multiple wives and children, but that just shows what kind of man he is and the genetic potential he possesses.
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So much for my Happy Ending
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Not everyone is celebrating the end of the war and the defeat of the Dark Council. There are many minor characters that were either on the side of the Dark Council or were using the war to escape their personal problems.
In a small sea side bar known as The Edge of Beyond, people have gathered to drink themselves to death.
At one table, a man with dark hair and eyes sits at a table drinking whiskey. His armor is Mandalorian, but is generic white. The man's name is Jack and he was a clone trooper.
Clone troopers were an army of identical, genetically-modified clones created to serve in the Grand Army of the Republic during the conflict that came to be known as the Clone Wars. Cloned and raised in the cities of Kamino, the clone troopers, trained and drilled since birth, came to be regarded as one of the most efficient military forces ever to have existed in galactic history. This was not only due to their training, but also to their unwavering loyalty to the Galactic Republic and its leader, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine.
Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas had the gift of precognition. He predicted the coming war, and knew the Galactic Republic would soon face dark times. Sifo-Dyas secretly commissioned a clone army on Kamino, ostensibly to defend the Republic. Palpatine, a Sith Lord known as Darth Sidious, altered them so that when the time was right they would purge the galaxy of Jedi. Jack remembers Palpatine giving Order 66 and himself killing the Jedi who were once his friends and comrades.
Years later, when Palpatine was killed during the Battle of Yavin, a second hidden program was triggered causing the clones to become an army of mass killers. While the galaxy devolved into civil war with the death of the emperor, the clone troopers rebelled and took control. Armed with the codes to the most dangerous weapons in the galaxy, including biological weapons, they wiped out thousands of worlds of sentient life before they were finally killed.
In the world of Halloween, Jack's killer program was wiped out by a powerful psychic leaving him to endure the guilt alone. Not trusted enough to join the colonies, he became a wandering bounty hunter like Jango Fett, the man he was cloned from, and Boba Fett, his "brother" clone.
The next drunk is a tall, lean man standing six feet tall with blue eyes and shoulder-length brown hair. He's dressed in a dark blue uniform with a black leather jacket and gloves. The backs of the gloves and jacket are marked with a symbol resembling three gold stars connected by lines to form an inverted triangle and a silver S with a gold sword piercing it.
Jason White Junior is the son of Superman and Lois Lane, which makes him half-human and half-Kryptonian, but was raised the son of Lois Lane and her fiancé, Richard White. As a child he was sickly, suffering from a range of noninfectious diseases. He had weak unstable Kryptonian powers which gave him bursts of superhuman strength and a partial weakness to Kryptonite. He also grew up with a deep resentment of his father, Superman, who abandoned his illegitimate son twice.
When he got older, he absorbed enough solar radiation to gain the powers of a Kryptonian, but he was always being compared to his father. All the criminals that once fought his father, tried to get revenge using the weaker son. No one cared about Jason, only that he was the son of Superman. In the end, he committed suicide using a bomb laced with green kryptonite crystals, but in an act of revenge he made sure his father died with him.
In the world of Halloween, he was insane. He fought for the Dark Council against the other versions of Superman using a council designed powered armor to keep him at full power under the Red Sky. He was defeated by a version of Kon El, also known as Superboy, and this triggered a program in the Dark Council armor which bombarded him with red radiation. He spent six months in a coma and eight months with no powers and the same childhood illness. When he recovered, he escaped and has been on the run ever since. Jason doesn't even notice that he's crushed his hardened alloy beerstein like a piece of soft clay.
Near the corner of the table are two giant life-size versions of children's toys. One is a plastic spaceman with wings known as Buzz Lightyear and the other is a painted wooden cowboy with the name Woody. Their owner threw them out at age twenty five, when his own kids decided they weren't cool. They spent an unknown amount of time trapped and buried in a deep landfill; so much time that Woody began to rot and Buzz began to decay into bits of plastic and his batteries become toxic, corrosive goo. They awoke in the world of Halloween to find themselves no match for the most basic monsters and were used as target practice dummies for the Dark Council until near the end of the war. Now, they spend their days getting drunk on magic elixirs designed to effect their wood and plastic bodies.
The man crying by himself in the corner of the bar is named Jacob. Jacob is a tall, thin man with green eyes, light skin, short white hair, and an unshaven face. He's dressed in black cotton and PVC, with a long black coat and black wraparound sunglasses. He also carries a couple of large handguns with many extra clips on his belt, extra guns strapped to his boots, and knives hidden in the inner lining of his coat. He's looks like a badass fighter, but in reality he's a loser who was given skills.
In another world's history, he was happy as a computer expert. Then one day, he awoke to learn that everything in his life was false and that humanity was the energy source for a race of sentient machines. He had spent his entire life in a computer generated dream world known as the Matrix and unlike the others the only reason he awoke was because of a virus. He spent many miserable years with the people of Zion, forced to fight the machines and just when peace was declared he found himself in the nightmarish world of Halloween. He survived in various colonies, forced to fight monsters and Dark Council warriors, until his near death fighting an Arrancar. He ran away like the coward he has always been and now drinks to counter the guilt.
The last customer of the bar (it's a slow night) is Marty McFly. He was an ordinary teenager of the 80s, when his friend Doc Brown developed a time machine. Through a series of trips through time, making mistakes and correcting those mistakes, young Marty McFly helped his father become less of a weakling and encounter his future wife. After returning to his own time, Marty found that his formerly dysfunctional family is now happy and affluent. It was only after the time machine's destruction and Doc Brown's departure that Marty came to realization. He'd replaced the Marty that should exist in that time line, and he had no memories of the altered time line. It ended with him almost having a nervous breakdown because all the people he knew had different personalities and he was institutionalized for having reality issues. Finding himself in the world of Halloween, in a DeLorean time machine that didn't work, he thought he was insane, then learned he was fictional. The stress broke him and he's wandered for years, drinking, doing drugs, and pimping himself.
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Is Chaos, Chaos when it's Common?
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In the sky above Sin City, a figure floats surrounded by an aura of power.
He's a young man standing six foot one with a lean build and dark tan skin. He has heterochromia, with one eye being orange and the other being blue. He also has long blue-black hair with spiky orange locks in the front. He's wears a forming fitting uniform that covers everything except for his head. The uniform is black with dark blue markings on the back of his hands, lower legs, and on his chest over his heart. There are orange markings on his padded shoulders, on the hips, and a ring around his neck. The symbol on the chest is similar to the mark of the Green Lantern.
On his left hand are five orange power rings and one his right hand is a single blue power ring that pulsates with power. The light of hope and avarice pulsate with immense power, the orange flames flowing across his body and clinging to it with a possessive nature; the blue light shining like crystals across his body.
Eighteen years ago, the son of a marine dressed as a crazy survivalist like his uncle. His mother, not wanting him associated with her brother, added a few alien symbols to the costume making him a sci-fi survivor from a spacecraft crash. That night his mind was filled with memories of surviving years on an alien world where ninety percent of the animals and plants actively try to kill and eat you and the remaining ten percent just want to kill you. His most dangerous opponents were bio-mechanical creatures resembling the Xenomorphs from the movie Aliens and his last memory was of parasites bursting from his chest.
The young man had survived the world of Halloween's most vicious creatures. He fought against the monsters, the youkai soldiers of Naraku, the demonic ninja of Madara, the apostles of Griffith, and the Arrancar of Aizen, despite his low power. The only abilities he gained from Halloween were a regenerative healing factor and a precognitive danger sense, which kept him alive.
Deep in his heart, he possessed greed that knows no bounds. He wanted everything he never had and no longer has. When he was a child, his father denied him toys and video games wanting a son who would become an intelligent soldier. He wanted sweets and junk food, but his father forced him onto special diet. He wanted friends and parties, but his father forced him to train and study. His family didn't have much money beyond his father's control, but he wanted to be rich and take his mother away from his obsessed father. Deep in his heart, he also had hope for change and that what he desired would be in reach.
On the alien world, his counterpart survived by being greedy and cunning, finding shelter, weapons, and food needed to survive by taking advantage of every opportunity. He also hoped to one day escape the world and make his fortune in space.
In the world of Halloween, he killed monsters and then exploited them. He turned the heads of monsters over to colonies for bounties, but he would also take anything of value from the corpses. A dead dragon would lose whiskers, blood, bones, skin, horn, fangs, and claws, which would then be sold at high price. When he killed one of Naraku's soldiers, he would drain the poisons to coat his weapons and sell the rest to other hunters. When he killed a Madara ninja, he would take everything from weapons and scrolls, to clothing and food. He would even pluck the eyes out of those that possessed doujutsu. He captured Arrancar and tortured them for information that could be sold to the colonies. He even occasionally worked with the Dark Council, when it was more to his advantage. He also became an expert thief and stole from any colony that didn't pay him enough or refused to pay. This endless greed resulted in him gaining the Orange Power Ring of Avarice, transforming him into an Orange Lantern. Similar to the deceased Orange Lantern Larfleeze (aka Agent Orange), he is the only Orange Lantern, but possessing the ability to steal the identities of those he kills and create orange light replicas of them. This allows him to produce an entire army of Orange Lanterns to face his foes for him.
At the end of the war, he came to a realization. That Hope and Greed are merely two sides of the same emotion, that one without the other is self-destructive. Hope is the belief you will possess more in the future and Greed grants you the strength to continue on to the future. He hoped for the end of the war and he wants what the war-less world has to offer. It also enhances the power of will, while extinguishing the fear and rage in the hearts of people. That epiphany allowed him to gain the Blue Power Ring of Hope and allowed him to fully control his endless greed. He was also able to hear the voice of Tzeentch, chaos god of change, corruption, and hope, personified by change and magic. In that instant, he understood the master of subtle machinations and is patron to schemers and conspirators of all sorts. In that god, he saw a greater reflection and his greatest desire
"The limitless chaos falls from the skies,
The light grows, as all fear dies,
Hatred in hearts will face its demise!
With my power and my changing sign—
The Hope of the World is Mine!!"
Far beneath the newborn power, a group of Ferengi watch with reverence. The large-eared aliens are dressed in dark robes with medallions shaped like eight pointed stars that seem to move as a person's perspective changes. They are the followers of Chaos Undivided and they represent the world of Halloween.
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Pantheon Sector, Reikai - Spirit World
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Dream of the Endless
One of the seven Endless, inconceivably powerful beings older and greater than gods, Dream is both the lord and personification of all dreams and stories, all that is not in reality (which, in turn, Dream may define by his existence). He has taken many names, including Morpheus and Oneiros, and his appearance can change depending on the person who is seeing him.
The unreality of chaos magic that created the world of Halloween has made him both stronger and weaker. Every dream and story has been proven real and everything that exists is not real to others.
He's followed by the other members of the Endless; they answered the call as Endless is an Endless. Destiny, Death, Destruction, Despair, Desire, and Delirium sit with their brother.
They have gathered to discuss what the future holds, as the Halloween Event has changed things.
Next to Dream sits Death in her chosen goth girl form. Death is no longer alone, the shinigami and psychopomps (including the Grim Reapers) treat her like a queen and she can now talk to them about anything. The dead no longer fear her and greet her like a friend.
Destiny is a silent man in a hooded cloak and a book chained to his arm. Destiny's book is now mostly blank as the future has become chaos. Prophecies have become false and the only form of precognition that works only goes an hour at most into the future.
Destruction, who resembles a big, red-haired, bearded man, abandoned humanity at the onset of the human Age of Reason, because he knew they would develop the atomic bomb and would not be held responsible. Now, humanity possesses infinite potential and vast destructive powers, but with destruction comes creations. Every death gives birth to a new life. Every destroyed colony is rebuilt stronger.
Despair is squat, flabby and pale-skinned, with black hair, gray eyes, and pointed teeth. She senses the endless despair of the people of the worlds, but she can also feel their hope and strength. It makes her depressed to know how much stronger some of those people are then her.
Desire is a strikingly beautiful figure whose gender is mutable, becoming male, female, both, or neither as the situation warrants. Desire is the nigh-omnipotent aspect of desire and fulfillment, and in the world of Halloween he/she feels everything. During the Halloween Event, countless millions had their desires fulfilled when they became their costumes; the Valentine spells filled the colonies with desire. Day by day hundreds are being conceived by the desires of the living, who in turn will have desires of their own. He/she has a strong connection with Lust and the various incarnations of lust, desire, and love. It can also sense the new Lantern of Hope and Greed shining like a star in her mind.
Delirium is usually quite short, and thin, and looks no older than a fourteen year-old human girl. One of her eyes is blue, and the other is green. Her hair changes style and color constantly, as do her clothes. She is filled with madness and a happiness that has been missing, and she is the nigh-omnipotent aspect of delirium and sanity. The chaos that flows through the Earth like blood illuminates the minds of the world like a field of stars. She sees herself in everyone that lives and those that do not and those that fall don't fall alone.
"What is the first topic?"
"A future Dream. His name is Data."
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Makai - The Demon World
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Morningstar looks at his nemesis, fiercer than all the angels of heaven.
Paperwork.
He rubs his temples and applies a little magic to get rid of a headache, then looks up to see the beautiful face of Daimakaicho Hild, a fellow ruler of Makai. She is also followed by a man with grey hair and beard dressed in a long black coat. It takes a couple seconds for his sleep deprived mind to recognize Mephistopheles.
"What's the problem today?"
"We decided to catch up on our paperwork and cash in on the Faustian Pacts people owe us, but our lawyers are facing complications," says Mephistopheles. He was the one who wrote the original infamous pact with Faust.
"Eighty six point four million Faustian contracts were made over the past eighteen years. Most of them were unviable, because they either died before we could deliver or someone else stepped in before we could do the work. The ratio was one in three thousand one hundred and twenty five, leaving twenty seven thousand six hundred forty eight viable contracts. The problem is most of them have complications."
"What kind of complications?"
"Thirteen thousand eight hundred and twenty four were devoured by soul-eaters like Hollows. Thirteen thousand have transcended into a new state of existence, meaning soul society or spirit world detectives. Seven hundred and sixteen made multiple contracts over the years. One hundred and eight have achieved immortality."
"Multiple contracts? You like that mess with that Constantine jackass?"
"Not as severe since there's no danger of a civil war or attacking heaven."
"We can't do much about the soul eaters. We'll negotiate contracts with Captain-Commander Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto over use of his soldiers after the souls reach the society. The Past Life debts department should handle this. The Faust Contracts mean the souls belong to us, being inside an undying body means nothing. The immortals are still under contract. As for the multiple contracts, get the lawyers and see if the owners are willing to sell the contracts. In the case of those souls that can't be sold, have the two or more lords negotiate multiple use."
"It's workable. We have ninety eight percent of all dead lawyers with the other one point five as ghosts and Arrancar, and the remaining half percent in Soul Society. Still, we can't get past the paperwork."
"Have you thought of losing the hard copy and getting a better computer system?"
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Digital Frontier
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The Digital World (or DigiWorld for short) is a parallel universe to Earth that was made from computer data originating in Earth's communications networks. The Digital World's beginnings can be traced to the early twentieth century, with the activation of the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) - the first computer - which laid the basic foundations of the world. Subsequently, the first patented computer, ENIAC, was activated, and proceeded to build upon those foundations, shaping the Digital World. Over the ensuing years, through the continued growth of the electronic communications network on Earth, the Digital World continued to expand and grow, even after the ABC and ENIAC were shut down. There are multiple alternate reality incarnations of the Digital World, each one running parallel with the various multiple Earths that exist in the multiverse.
The world's communications networks were annihilated on October 31, 1997, but the new Digital World was born. It started small with small computer networks in bunkers and salvaged from the dying cities. The sentient machines like those of Cybertron, the neural nets of cyborgs, and communication networks of nanotechnology evolved it further. It was with the advent of commercial magitek that the balance shifted.
Clarke's law reads; "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," and Niven's Law reads: "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology." The truth is technology reaches that state when it's able to tap into higher dimensions and manipulate reality. Magic reaches that point when its users understand how they manipulate reality.
That new technology allowed a new reality to be created and grown, the basis for an alternate reality as the astral plane. While the astral plane was divided into the spirit world and demon world with the higher planes of the Pantheon and the true Heaven and the lower planes of the Netherworld and the True Hell, the Digital World was divided into hundreds of different planes representing the various forms and incarnations of computer data. The higher planes are ruled by the god-like Digimon known as the Sovereigns, also known as the Four Holy Beasts and Four Harmonious Ones. Azulongmon to the East, Zhuqiaomon to the South, Baihumon to the West, and Ebonwumon to the North. There is also a fifth member, Fanglongmon, who represents the Center of the compass and rules over the others.
The heavenly plane is ruled by the Three Celestial Digimon also known as the Three Great Angels- consisting of Seraphimon, Cherubimon and Ophanimon. The Dark Area is ruled by the Seven Great Demon Lords - Barbamon of Greed, Beelzemon of Gluttony, Belphemon of Sloth, Daemon of Wrath, Leviamon of Envy, Lilithmon of Lust, and their ruler, Lucemon Chaos Mode of Pride.
Thousands of children orphaned by the War have been adopted by the Digital World, each bonded to a Digimon partner. This is a powerful bond that gives both of them power and is permanent. Their children will most likely be bonded to the children of their Digimon.
In eighteen years, the Digital World has absorbed many other cyberspaces and alternate realities into itself, increasing its rapid evolution. Earth had a hundred million years to turn multi-cellular life forms into the current life forms, but if they evolved like the Digital World they would have been done in less than five years.
There is a sector known as The World, which started out as an MMORPG with a Cyberspace interface. It's now an immense fantasy realm ruled by the living Goddess Mana. There is Fight City, a city of dojos, gyms, training grounds, hotels, and massive arenas, born from action games especially tournament fighting games like Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Soul Caliber, and others. There is the Valley of Stars, where the immense artificial intelligent life forms exist as god-like entities.
A company known as Kaiba Corp once created a simulated reality software, but that virtual reality has grown and become another sector of the Digital World. A place where the monsters of the shadow realm can escape and live a more peaceful life
There is a sector of the Digital World that is connected to Australia, allowing Pokémon to come and go freely. It was made possible by Porygon, a man-made Pokémon composed entirely of programming code. In the depths of the Digital World, exposure to Digimon Data caused it to evolve at an accelerated rate. First into Porygon 2, then Porygon-Z, then beyond. After a dozen evolutions, it had become a god-like entity that was able to open the barriers.
There is one sector known as the Matrix, a dreamland where sentient life goes to forget the world of Halloween. The people that enter that world become normal people living in a normal 20th century world with no super-technology or super-magic. It's also the place where those who can't accept the reality of the world of Halloween go to live.
There are sectors resembling the world of Tron, the cyberspace of Johnny Mnemonic, the world of Lyoko, and even the 3D world of Questworld.
There are technological islands of humanoid sprites and binomes (anthropomorphic ones and zeros) floating in seas of energy and protected by programs known as Guardians.
"Did you hear? Netto and Maytu are having another child. I heard their NetNavi partners Rockman and Roll have managed to process another child. It looks like another case of born bonded."
"Chrome Digizoid. The strongest in the Digital World, and is vulnerable only to the strongest of attacks and other Chrome Digizoid. I have a supply of Blue, Red, and Gold. Blue is the lightest, Red is the strongest, and Gold increase a digital's offense."
"I heard you also have Black Chrome Digizoid."
"Do you remember that celebrity Chroma? Turns out she was Major Motoko Kusanagi of Machina Cybercrime. I guess those data dealers should have read the Files."
"I heard Radical Edward has a boyfriend."
"What, that crazy hacker girl that moves like a boneless cat?"
"That's Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivrusky IV."
"You mean that's Françoise Appledehli."
Harry Booth tunes out the group as he sits at a bar, drinking an energy drink
Harry Booth is yet another version of Harry James Potter. With the death and complete soul destruction of Voldemort, Harry Potter left the Wizarding world to avoid his fame and the rampant corruption. He traveled the world and eventually fought against a Dark Lord in South America, where Grindelwald's followers traveled with the Nazis that escaped Germany in the 1940s. He died in that battle and awoke in Halloween World being tended to by a militant wing of the Salvation Army - soup, soap, and salvation for the needy and pain for oppressors. They were originally people who wore joke costumes, but became former mercenaries and violent Christians, which allowed them to survive vampire and demon attacks.
With the permanent defeat of the various incarnations of the Dark Lord Voldemort and the Dark Council, Harry Booth, taking his name from Salvation Army founder William Booth, has been hunting down surviving Dark Council collaborators and sympathizers in the Digital World the same way his old Auror friend hunted down Grindelwald followers and Nazi Wizards. The Digital World is growing larger at an accelerating rate now that Washu has placed telecommunications satellites into orbit. It's filled with new AIs since many non-Digimon programs have become sentient for various reasons, thus making it a great place to hide out for wanted war criminals.
Under his robes, he has a Magitek tracer - a machine designed to sense hyper-dimensional reactions that indicate magic use or the machine tapping into the levels of power. He can also filter out magical creatures, technomages, and other creatures after getting a reading on them. Suddenly, the machine detects the registered signal of his current target.
"William of Cardiff Colony. Wanted for conspiracy with the Dark Council - Albion Theater. "
William is a man in his thirties dressed in blue robes and carrying the staff of a Juumontsukai/Spell-Caster also known as a Wavemaster in The World. He's tall standing over six foot with a thin build, dark ringed brown eyes and short graying brown hair. He gets up and tries to run, but Harry pulls a weapon from his robes and fires. The dark blue beam strikes William in the back causing him to transform into a statue of translucent glowing blue crystal. Blue lasers shoot out of the machine in Harry's hand and as they hit parts of William those parts dissolve into data particles that flow along the beam into the machine. In seconds, William has been captured.
Harry pulls a disc out of the weapon and holds it up, thinking it's a lot easier to capture criminals when you can store them away in data disks.
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Lagoon Bar
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The Black Lagoon Bar is an establishment owned by the Lagoon Company, a group of pirates/mercenaries that smuggled goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the 1990s. The Lagoon Company has expanded into the largest pirate/mercenary guild in the world of Halloween, with headquarters in the former United States and the new Roanapur in Thailand, a city founded by criminal organizations with the destruction of the original government.
The bar was run by Dutch, but has recently become the property of eighteen year old Jiro "Jo" Okajima, the blood knight son of Rock and Revy. He married his wife Amaya Zaraki and got her pregnant, which means he needs a slightly more stable environment to raise their future Blood Knight.
Jo notices a demon in human form sitting at the table. He recognizes the man as Whistler, a balance demon that works for the Powers That Be and whose real name is unpronounceable for a human as it consisted of a series of whistles.
"Stupid old fools."
Jo realizes the demon must be talking about his bosses. The Powers That Be is a term that refers to the first beings to exist in this dimension and who preceded the Old Ones. Having left the reality, these beings now watch over mankind and guide the forces of good. That's how they refer to themselves, but most people call them "The Powers that Screw You" and "The Powers that Sit on Their Be-hinds". With the end of the war, the old Powers That Be tried to throw their hat back into the ring and attempt some damage control only to get curb-stomped and out-manipulated by the post-Halloween gods, demons, and super-entities.
"They couldn't even stop the plans of the Flying Spaghetti Monster!"
The demons of Makai and the gods of the Pantheon may be extremely powerful, but unless they have near omniscience or are Cosmic Horrors they treat their champions with a large amount of respect. The PTB are a weak class of beings that treat their champions like tools and overestimate their power and influence.
"You don't insult Cthulhu! Even the good comical version!!"
Jo turns on the new television and gets a news report from Sunnydale.
"There is a police standoff at the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster where Fred 'Blob' Dukes has taken sanctuary after he ate the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, claiming he's innocent "by reason of deliciousness." Two hours ago, Mr. Dukes' wallet was lost during transport and, starving, he encountered the three anthropomorphic fast food items. He proceeded to devour Meatwad and Frylock in seconds completely unharmed by the shape-shifting of the first or launched fries of the second. After crushing the remains, he then drank Master Shake and crushed the container, effectively killing the Class F super-hero team. As the mutant is a devoted follower of FSM..."
Jo changes channels and finally stops on Black Lagoon on the Anime channel. He always likes to watch how his parents ended up meeting and how they interacted in their original world.
"You got anything a high level shape-shifter can keep down?"
Jo turns to see a tall athletic man with green eyes and brown hair. He also has slate gray skin with green circuitry-like markings near his cheeks and on his wrists. He's dressed in a black shirt, blue jeans, and black sneakers with a green jacket. He holds up his hand which turns into a set of claws, before reverting.
"My shifting is a little unstable, so it's hard to digest anything that's not liquid."
"You're a version of Ben Tennyson, Ben10, right?" says Jo, handing over the standard Polymorph Fruit Smoothie.
"Yeah, I was at least. It's Ben X now. A few years ago, I was killed fighting the Dark Council. The Omnimatrix overloaded trying to copy a creature that was too powerful and my cell structure broke down. Recently, a necromancer attempted to resurrect me as a homunculus minion, but the ritual backfired. Instead, my soul was pulled from the Soul Society into an advanced mimetic polymorph body. It means I'm a copycat able to duplicate the appearance and special powers of anyone I scan."
"Sounds useful, especially on a world with extreme diversity."
"It is, but my body has problem taking human form," says Ben pointing at his skin. "It confuses normal human with Homunculus Human."
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Sunnydale Hospital - Xander
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Dr. Alexander Cho Hakkai Harris is getting things ready at Sunnydale Hospital for a possible future problem. He's expanding part of the hospital and arranging for it to be connected the new school opening up.
Washu Science Fair. Now that resources aren't being diverted to the war effort, Washu is going to the local schools and arranging for a science fair to be held. Over a quarter of Sunnydale decided that now is a good time to take a vacation. Sunnydale has many people that qualify as Gadget girls and mad scientists, including their children. Xander's father-in-law Mayuri is the ultimate example of a mad scientist.
The hospital and emergency teams prepare for the inevitable catastrophe.
There is also much fear since the various incarnations of Washu Hakubi in Citadel City, Sunnydale, and Megatokyo have decided to open Infinite Science Academy, a massive place of learning connected by a network of magical and technological gateways to every major colony's school. It's supposed to be a place where people can learn anything, but people are already comparing it to Blake Holsey High, Furinkan, Mahora Academy, and the other insane schools. It promises to be a strange school considering it teaches both advanced science and advanced magic, especially magitek.
"Doctor Harris!"
"Nurse Jungle? I was looking over the construction," says Xander, pointing his thumb at the silvery goo growing into a building. In reality it's an immense mass of nanomachines constructing the new sector on a molecular level. "What do you need?"
"Mr. Adam Alward just came in with his wife Winry. He's caught an AI virus and he also wants some marital upgrades."
Mr. Alward is an evolved version of a T-1000 assassination android. T-1000 is an advanced terminator, composed entirely of a mimetic metal alloy, rendering it capable of rapid shape-shifting, near-perfect mimicry and rapid recovery from damage. Furthermore, it can use its ability to quickly liquefy and assume forms in innovative and surprising ways, including fitting through narrow openings, morphing its human arms into solid metal tools or bladed weapons, walking through prison bars, and flattening itself on the ground to hide or ambush targets.
During the War, Mr. Alward was created by the Dark Council to eliminate scientists within the machine city of Machina and sabotage their efforts. During one mission, he was sent to destroy the proto-forms - basic frames of a Cybertronian placed in status until a form can be chosen and/or a spark can be found. He was forced to hide as liquid metal inside a proto-form when Trinity Prime came to grant the new transformers life. The T-1000's liquid metal body fused with the proto-form's free-flowing, metallic matter layered over the basic robotic systems. The spark (machine soul) granted Mr. Alward sentience and independence, and Prime assigned a young woman to teach the transformer/terminator hybrid.
This version of Fullmetal Alchemist's Winry Rockbell, instead of being a Wrench Wench automail steel prosthetic mechanic from an alternate version of early 20th century, is a Gadgeteer Genius Advance Cybernetics engineer from the late 25th century. She, like most versions of her, is fascinated by any and all types of machines and tools, excelling in building and repairing technology, and taking pride in her work as a mechanic. Trinity Prime and the Engineer had her teach Mr. Alward, who eventually became her lover and husband.
"What kind of AI virus?"
"Class 5 Super Virus. It's a good thing we didn't use the cyberspace interface or we would have another Daemon."
Xander winces at the memory of that time-obsessed humanoid virus. She acted like a goddess, but planned on destroying everything. She was defeated by a weaker, but chaotic virus named Hexadecimel in her world and in the world of Halloween she was destroyed by a Gran Rey Cero under Aizen's orders.
Beep!
"Benjamin J. Grimm. Codename: The Thing. Team: Fantastic Four. The Thing possesses a smooth, rock-like hide as a result of exposure to cosmic rays. The mutagenic process caused his musculature, bone structure, internal organ composition, soft tissue structure, and skin to greatly increase in toughness and density."
"His problem?"
"Silicon-based fungal infection. It's known as Rock Rot to the rock-like creatures."
Beep!
"It's a half-incubus wizard version of British Super-Spy James Bond. As if the pure human un-magical versions weren't bad enough, this version contracted a case of magical STDs. You think a so called genius wizard would realize you should not sleep with thirty two different demon women in Makai without good protection."
"Eww. I hope it isn't that demonic strain of gonorrhea that causes the victim to urinate acid. I still have nightmares."
Beep!
"Clifford. He was a big red dog in his world, but in our world he's in the same class as the Three-Headed Cerberus and Two-Headed Orthus, the childen of Echidna and Typhon. He's currently suffering from severe indigestion and gas due to some evil demons he ate."
"What type of demon?"
"Hell hounds, ironically."
Beep!
"Which leads to our next patient. Gozer. A powerful creature from another dimension, also known as Gozer the Gozerian, Gozer the Destructor, Volguus Zildrohar, and Gozer the Traveler. Gozer is an ancient god, worshiped by the Hittites, Mesopotamians, and the Sumerians around 6000BC, who once traveled to a version if New York City to destroy that world. It is now a mellowed out shape shifter with a severe case of mutated magical sickness. The virus appears to be a hybrid of dragon and chicken pox that affects the sugary ectoplasm of its Stay Puft Marshmallow form."
"A hundred-foot tall marshmallow man with magical sickness. Hope he's not throwing up demonic caramel."
"No such luck," says Nurse Jungle with a wince.
Beep!
"What now?" says Xander, pulling out a can of headache medicine/soda.
"Multiple versions of Anakin Skywalker, mostly the Darth Vader versions, came in with light saber damage and flu-like symptoms. All sixteen were infected by an extremely contagious nano-virus that caused them to attack each other by manipulating their cybernetic limbs. Only eight of them were Dark Council, so the remainder are in the CRIB."
"Why did they call me?"
"The nano-virus is like a nanomachine version of the flu that injects a computer virus directly into the cybernetics. They would replace the limbs, but the nano-virus is in their blood stream and would infect the new implants. They would use EMPs to disable the nanotechnology but they are worried about the respiratory implants."
Beep!
"It's going to be one of those days."
"You mean a weekday."
"What's the case?"
"Tinkerbell. As in the character from J. M. Barrie's 1904 play and 1911 novel Peter and Wendy. She has also appeared in multiple film and television adaptations of the story, in particular the 1953 animated Walt Disney picture Peter Pan. She's a common fairy with a specialization in mending metal, also known as Tinkering, and has gained the ability to assume human-size from the Halloween Event. Other than that she has the ability to fly and generate dust that allows humanoids to fly, but often causes hallucinations."
"Problem?"
"Peter was killed by one of Griffith's followers which left her with anger problems. She had many dreams for the future that were ruined by an idiot human who thought Griffith was the Messiah. She used her ability to manipulate tin to create a brass spear and stabbed the man a hundred times. She was attacked by a giant robot on the way back and she literally ripped all of the circuitry apart by affecting the solder with her rage-fueled magic. She now has injuries sustained from an extended bar brawl, a result of alcohol, issues, and a loud mouth dwarf."
"Oh brother!"
"She was also brought in by a Welsh mutant named Megan Gwynn, also known as Pixie. She has decayed, blackened fairy wings that allow her to fly with great maneuverability. She also has the ability to produce a glitter-like substance that when coming into contact with living creatures causes hallucinations."
"Make sure to check Tink for hallucinogens."
" She also has a problem. Tinkerbell accidently hit her with a curse that causes her to become a tin magnet, everything that contains tin including pewter and brass is pulled towards her like iron towards an industrial electromagnet. She already has severe bruising, several cuts, cracked bones, and a concussion."
"Call the Fey Mages."
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Sunnydale Hospital - Summers
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Joyce Tsunade Senju-Summers, Head of the Hospital and Sunnydale Colony, is eating with her daughters.
"Eighteen years and the work load is still getting worse," says Joyce. "Yashagoro has a girlfriend in Megatokyo. Niwaki is a Jounin and is studying in the south. Forrest is on that diplomatic mission to the Thousand Kingdoms. Joseph is on a mission to Sin City and I only hope he doesn't end up like his father surrounded by those perverse women."
Buffy Selene Summers slurps her noodles, the turns to talk to her mother.
"Are most of the Narutos still calling you old woman??"
Joyce winces.
"I love them like nephews, but they can be so annoying. How are things going with the hunters?"
"Things have calmed down with the end of the war. When the Dark Council was active the horrors were very active and breeding rapidly, but the death of Griffith has caused them to lose momentum. The demonic aura in the atmosphere produced by the Dark Council could have been the cause."
"Makes sense I guess," says Joyc., "How about you Dawn?"
"Tired. Rachel Red asked me to babysit. Those kids are demonic nightmares."
Rachel Red Roth or Red Raven is another more demonic version of Dawn's own Raven form. She's married to a demonic version of Nightwing known as Hawk.
"It's to be expected. Both parents have violent demonic blood," says Joyce. "They're also reaching that stage in their development. "
"I know, but those kids were chewing on pieces of steel."
"Greek!"
The Summers' turn to see their newest addition to the family.
The addition is a dragon hatchling the size of a house cat with features from Oriental and European dragons, gold eyes, green and copper scales, and long black hair on its head with long whiskers and a long whip-like tail. He also has five small black claws on each paw, spurs on the elbows and knees, and a horn curving back over his head. In the center of his forehead is a medallion shaped like a silver half-orb.
Nibbles was once an extremely powerful dragon boosted by a Guyver unit, but has become a tiny fusion. Due to a glitch in the control metal reprogramming (which the programmer caught hell over), the composite being has regenerated as a dragon hatchling the size of a housecat and with the mentality of a precocious toddler. Nicknamed 'Nibbles' by the kids in the children's ward, psychologists recommended that he be mind-linked to an adult to help guide his maturation, similar to how Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki were connected.
Joyce's idiot husband Jiraiya wanted to take the powerhouse as an apprentice, so he snuck into the hospital room and mind-linked with the hatchling before Joyce could stop him. Joyce could only form a secondary mind-link with Nibbles to counteract Jiraiya's perverted influence. As the result, Nibbles has acquired a child/pet relationship to the family.
It can be difficult since the tiny dragon has a monstrous appetite, likes to sharpen his extremely hard claws, and has impressive powers. He has immense strength for his size, being able to lift a hundred times his weight, and a high energy particle beam breath weapon with a third of the output of standard Guyver Mega-Smasher cannon. That anger-triggered breath weapon can destroy part of a skyscraper and it's fear-triggered cry produces highly destructive sound waves like a Guyver Sonic Buster.
"Lunch is over there."
"Greek!"
"With the bio-temporal lock encoded into his cells, no one can manipulate Nibbles age. It will take decades for him to grow into the adult he was and during that time, he'll need periodic family therapy sessions and placement in a preschool so he can play with children his own age once the psychology staff approves it"
"He'll also need better anti-summoning charms to prevent access to the Guyver armor until he hits puberty," says Dawn. "He can already lift over twenty five hundred pounds, but with the armor he could lift two hundred and fifty thousand pounds. That's just his current strength alone."
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The Library - Giles Family
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Rupert Giles and his wife Janna are having tea while discussing a new visitor to the Library.
"So this is Diana's new boyfriend?" asks Giles, with a faint Ripper tone. His daughter barely avoided the Valentine Events, but now she has a boyfriend.
Magus Fiendfinder was a Dungeons & Dragons style half silver dragon with magic specializing in cold and ice and a career as a bard, able to use his artistic talents to induce magical effects. He survived six years on the world of Halloween before being impaled by an Arrancar. After his death, he went to the Soul Society and eventually became a Soul Reaper. Despite being in the human afterlife, he retained his dragon wings, strength, and durability even after death which helped him master his ice-based zanpakuto. His Shikai is a double-edged axe that can be played like an electric guitar, which causes opponents to freeze and shatter. He's also a kido master who plays spells like heavy metal rock ballads.
"Big File."
"There's more."
Magus became a Vizard, gaining the powers of a Hollow. This allowed him to absorb both spiritual energy and heat from the environment to boost his power and regeneration. The vizard power also boosts his ice manipulation to frightening new levels.
"Hence of the nickname of Frozen Metal King."
After being defeated after becoming a Vizard, Magus wished to evolve into yet another, more powerful form.
"He sounds a little power hungry."
"It's mostly a desire to stand out because he lives on a world of ever increasing powers. Did you know that a third of all Soul Reapers are Vizards? Did you know that over a thousand Reapers have achieved Bankai, most in the last six years?"
Magus was able to find a mad scientist that had access to cybertronian technology including protoforms, a transmetal driver, and a maximal DNA scanner His soul was placed into the protoform like a Gigai then the scanner and driver were activated. A DNA scan of a large western dragon was fed into the protoform, creating a Transmetal 2 Dragon similar to one of the Megatron incarnations. The driver allowed the soul to gain the abilities of a powerful spark.
"A part Hollow soul reaper dragon transformer? I didn't think out daughter had a machine fetish like that Winry girl."
"Keep reading."
However, having so much reiatsu in a mechanical body causes him to malfunction. He was reformatted by the Oracle Computer in the machine city of Machina into a smaller, but equally powerful Techno-Organic form. In his new T-O robot mode, Magnus regained his axe/guitar, but also has two swords that can be used as a glider or fly on the enlarged axe/guitar itself.
"So her boyfriend is an excessively powerful techno-organic part Hollow soul reaper dragon transformer and heavy metal bard. Our daughter knows how to pick them."
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HolyForge - Cordelia's Flame
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Cordelia Azula Chase and Itachi Uchiha-Chase watch as their children Seikahime, Aoi, Geshi, and Seiryuu manipulate flames to forge holy weapons. The people of the HolyForge, supplier of blessed and enchanted weapons for over a dozen colonies, recently developed a new process. It causes the weapon created to bond with its owner, growing stronger with the host similar to a zanpakuto. These bonded weapons can even channel various forms of energy, such as Ki and magic, into attacks and special techniques.
The only problem with the process is that the user has to do part of the forging process. The children with their fully developed Sharingan use ninjutsu to create streams of fire. The fire heats the collection of metal to the point where it melts into a homogenous liquid. Occasionally the steel workers add other elements to increase the strength and flexibility of the blade, and they are guided by Master Shiro Emiya who is known for creating the best forged blades in Sunnydale.
The metal is poured into molds and cooled into a near solid state. Special seals written on the molds regulate the cooling process preventing impurities or weakness in the metal. The hot blades are folded over and over again, slowly causing the straight pieces of metal to curve. They are coated with special clay to create the special edge of the blade.
In the time dilation field, days of work are done in minutes. Then the magic occurs, each of the Uchiha-Chase children holds a blade using false grips. They walk towards a platform topped with white flames. The stone platform is covered in symbols, while the smokeless white flames are supernatural like ghost flames. Each of the warriors takes their blade to the pillar and cuts their finger. They write kanji-like symbols on the blade in their blood, then plunge the blade into the white flame. As each blade enters the flame there is a small shockwave. As the blades are removed, the false grips have been replaced by complete tsuka including the tsuba. There is also a tattoo-like marking on the arm holding the sword, making the bond with the owner.
Seikahime goes to the test room, which is a circular chamber five meters in diameter and three meters high. As she stands in the center of the room, five objects are teleported in. The light clears to reveal five identical men with red eyes, white skin, and no hair. They have lean muscular bodies and are only dressed in shirts and shorts. The bioroid body doubles are mindless clones constructed in labs from the cell up and possessing no soul or intelligence. They are used for realistic targets when the demons and monsters are unavailable, or when a person needs a quick body or organ replacement.
Seikahime holds her blade like an expert, then with a push/pull movement slices the head clean off the first man. Then she turns and cuts off the second's. She decapitates all of the men in less than three seconds. The bodies are then teleported so that the torsos are stacked on each other's sides and held in place by metal rods. With one downward slash, all five corpses are sliced in half. She then turns and does five more slashes that split the heads, which are raised by rods. As she finishes the corpses, heads included, and rods vanish. A new target stands a couple meters from her and she looks ready for a special technique.
The Sacred Fire Princess runs her finger across the side of the blade, causing symbols to glow across its surface. The blade of the sword ignites into white flames, which shines off the wave-like hamon pattern. She raises her burning blade and does a single slash. An arc of white flames shoots from the fire princess and strikes the bioroid, slicing it clean in half. The two halves don't last more than two seconds, as the white flames spread from the cut and consume all flesh. The bones quickly follow the flesh and become fine ash in the wind.
"I love this blade, Shiro-kun!" says the princess, sounding like a school girl.
"The blade is as strong as the user. The greater affinity the user has for an element, the greater the affinity the blade will have. The blade acts like a focus and booster for the swordsman's abilities, but also gains new abilities as the swordsman does. The stronger you become, the more powerful the blade will become."
"How powerful?"
"One of my customers was a captain-level soul reaper. His blade had all of the abilities of his zanpakuto while he was in his human gigai. There was also a powerful half-demon whose blade can easily match the Tetsusaiga wielded by Inuyasha."
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Magia - City of Magic
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Queen Serenity, Princess Yue, Elf Queen Galadriel, Good Witch Glinda, and Magi Queen Zatanna Zatara have gathered to discuss the expansion of the city of magic and the progress on Project Exodus.
"Your Majesties!"
The five turn to see a young man with long white hair and crescent moon on his forehead come running in. He's dressed in a white shirt and pants with white shoes.
"Artemis? What is the emergency?"
"We have been contacted by the Time-Space Administration Bureau."
"The Interdimensional police group associated with the Nanoha characters?" asks Zatanna. "What's the problem?"
"That's just it. We are getting a communication from beyond the Earth Sphere!"
Queen Serenity is about to make a comment, when she and Princess Yui suddenly grip their chairs as a wave of energy passes through them.
"Your Majesties!?"
"It's alright Artemis. There was a power surge; Magia's energy output increased by... a hundred fold?"
Suddenly, a young woman with long black hair and the same crescent moon on her forehead rushes in.
"Luna?"
"It's the Sailor Senshi. There were explosions of magical energy and now they've all assumed more powerful forms. The Magitek says the mana taps, their links to their planets are no longer inhibited, in fact they are working three to four times more efficient they should!"
A man walks into the Royal Chamber. He's a tall man standing two meters tall (six foot seven) with silver eyes, pale skin, and shoulder-length straight white hair. He's dressed in a pleated black robe with the hood down, long black gloves covered in silver lines resembling computer circuitry, and a silver torc around his neck. He also holds a two meter long silver and black staff topped with a blue gemstone held by a cage of silver wires. He is Magia's Royal Techno-Mage and Magitek expert, Lord Reiichimaru.
"My Sovereigns, I have made a discovery. The reason behind the increasing power levels."
"We just found out!?" says Luna and Artemis.
"A time dilation field allows me to get several months of research done in a few seconds," states Lord Reiichimaru with a grin. "It's the Red Sky. It's no longer inhibiting the energy flows between earth and the outside. We are now tapping in the other worlds and the other dimensions. "
"That doesn't explain the TSAB contacting us."
"Actually it does. The Red Sky inhibited dimensional travel, but now everything is flowing and the TSAB registered this world in the same category as El Hazard. A very dangerous, dimensionally active world."
The Master of magical technology and advanced magic pauses.
"There is something you should know. All the Senshi are showing power boosts including the former members of the Sailor Galactica and alien senshi like Sailor Nemesis, Sailor Siren, Sailor Gaia, Sailor Jurai, and Sailor Vegeta. The only way for those planetary power taps to be working is for the planets to exist."
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Machina - City of Machines
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In the City of Machines, Trinity Prime and Angelica Spica (The Engineer) receive messages through their mental links to the city's supercomputers. They include the subspace transmissions from the satellites and orbiting space ships.
"The Red Sky's ability to inhibit electromagnetic activity has decreased, but it's absorption of ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma spectrum radiation has increased. Nuclear activity is inhibited to a larger degree," says the Engineer, reviewing experiments conducted on the star ships. "It's basically impossible to use nuclear power or detonate a nuclear weapon within the Sol system."
"Dyson Trees are growing at an accelerated rate, now that they have greater amounts of red spectrum light to fuel their photosynthesis. The tree communication network has increased in data density and speed," says Trinity Prime, absorbing data from the orbital satellite network. "New desert trees are growing in the Desert Kingdoms and New Human Empire."
"Activity detected on Mars? I thought this system originally had no life other than Earth," says the Engineer.
Beep
"Probes have detected deep space communications," says the Engineer, eyes wide. "Transmissions linked to the Files."
"Cybertron detected," says Trinity Prime. "Matrix confirms twelve billion transformers on planet, additional three billion detected on system colonies and moons. Communication established."
Beep
"Colonial space ships detected. Human and Zentraedi life signs detected. New Macross-class colonization ship detected. Detecting AIF-7S Ghost unmanned fighters, Cheyenne II defense robots, VF-171 variable fighters, VF-171EX upgraded variable fighters. Communication established."
Beep
"Detected: Earth-like planet in a binary star system. Identified: Daikuriku. Holy Magic generating aircraft detected. Identified as Simoun,"
Beep
"Probe 456624 has made contact with mono-gendered humanoid species. Identified as Arume. Emiru bio-weapon detected on ship."
Beep
"Probes 13026, 19885, 27855, 33105, 33641, 33994, 35659, 39870, 58622, 62868, 77706, and 90160 have detected intergalactic police operations. Identified as Galaxy Police."
"Probes have also detected ships matching files Jurai and Airai."
Beep
"Life detected on Triton!? Identified: Alien species of Yuki-Onna."
Beep
"Probes have encountered alien species resembling Japanese demons. Identified as Urusei Oni."
Beep! Beep! Beep!
"More planets detected and identified. Vulcan. Qo'noS. Andoria. Betazed. Cardassia Prime. Ferenginar. Romulus. Xindus. Stable Wormhole detected near planet. Planet Identified as Bajor."
Beep! Beep! Beep!
"Probes have detected alien worlds in distant galaxy. Identified as Coruscant, Endor, Kashyyyk, Korriban, Naboo, Ryloth, and Tatooine. "
Beep!
"Reptilian humanoid species detected in Andromeda Galaxy. Identified as Skrull."
"Ship detected and identified as Glorious Heritage-class heavy cruiser, High Guard ship Andromeda Ascendant."
Beep!
"Blue-skinned humanoid species detected in Large Magellanic Cloud. Identified as Kree"
"Ship detected and identified as Space Battleship Yamato, "
"Blue skinned humanoid species detected in Triangulum Galaxy. Identified as Vineans."
Beep!
"Human life signs detected in Pegasus Galaxy. Presence of wormhole network."
Beep!
"Alien ship encountered. Identified as Shi'ar Imperium ship."
Beep!
"Winged humanoid species detected on alien planet. Identified as Planet Thanagar."
Beep!
"Planet detected. Identified as Planet Khera. Kherabim and Daemonite life signs detected."
Beep!
"Someone shut off the beeper before it burns out!" yells the Engineer.
As they work, more and more planets, ships, and aliens are located by the probes. They are guided by unseen forces to the worlds created by the chaos. The amount of communications increases over and over again, and the amount of information being downloaded to the various science sectors seems to be doubling every second.
One conclusion can be made from the massive amount of data. On October 31, 1997, the chaos magic went further than Earth, a lot further. It changed the moon, it changed Mars, and it changed Triton. It changed everything.
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Sunnydale - First Contact
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A group has gathered for a meeting at Sunnydale Tower.
The most notable members of Sunnydale include Joyce Tsunade Senju-Summers, Buffy Selene Summers, Dawn Rachel/Raven Summers, Jiraiya Oil-Summers, Xander Cho Hakkai Harris, Willow Rukia Kuchiki, Cordelia Azula Chase, Itachi Uchiha-Chase, Rupert Giles, Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze, and his wife Hinata.
They also stand with Motoko Kusanagi and Data from Machina, Mage Ranma Saotome and Princess Serenity from Magia, Sir Integra Hellsing from Albion, Astharoshe "Asta" Asran representing the New Human Empire, Kenshin Himura representing Nihon, a liquid metal nanite android similar to a T-1000 representing Citadel City, Daniel Lucien "Oz" Ozbourne representing New York and The Eastern 9 Alliance, a young white haired man and a MewTwo representing Australia, and a Chinese mage/martial artist representing the Thousand Kingdoms.
The people they have come to meet have come from beyond the solar system. They arrive in an oddly designed blue space ship marked with the gold GP symbol. Five people step out of the odd vessel and walk towards the group.
The first is a tall, lean muscular man with dark eyes, blue skin, and short black hair. He has a cold superior look on his face and is dressed in a dark blue and black uniform. He carries a rather large gun in his shoulder holster. He shows the blood and arrogance of Kree nobility, but he also moves like a skilled fighter
"Ran-Varr. Kree Pureblood. Kree/Shi'ar Alliance Representive. "
The second is a Twi'lek. She's a tall beautiful humanoid with blue skin and a pair of shapely prehensile tentacles that grow from the base of her skull. She's dressed in a black shirt that exposes her stomach, tight black pants, and black boots. She also wears a GP jacket and carries a pair of small handgun sized blasters in her hip holsters along with a weapon that resembles a light saber.
"Detective Aira Secura. Twi'lek. Galaxy Police."
The third is a young woman standing five foot eight with blue eyes, pale skin, and long snow white hair reaching her waist. She also has pointed ears and is dressed in a sleek red dress.
"Lady Shari of Khera. Vulcan/Kherubim hybrid. Federation Representative. "
The fourth is a young woman standing five foot six with green eyes, green skin, and long dark green hair. She has reptilian features, large pointed ears, and sharp nails. She's dressed in a purple/black uniform with gold color armor.
"Lyja of the Skrull. Skrull Representative."
The fifth is another beautiful woman with brown eyes, light skin, and long black hair reaching past her shoulder. She's dressed in a light and dark pink outfit that looks Japanese with a white cloak framed by wood. She also wears a wooden head piece.
"Minaho Masaki. Aide to Seto Kamiki Jurai. Jurai Representative."
"You're Tenchi's aunt?" blurts out Xander.
"Ahh.. Yes." says Minaho, looking flustered. "You've heard of Tenchi??"
"Several versions. We also have a Seto Kamiki Jurai."
"LADY SETO IS HERE!?"
First Contact is chaos.
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On October 31, 1997, the Halloween spell went too far. It didn't change a town for a night, it changed the entire UNIVERSE forever.
On October 31, 2015, the barriers came down and the Universe called back. This is the Universe of Halloween.
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END OF CHAPTER 38 -
HALLOWEEN WORLD WAR Part 21
THE SECOND RETURN Part 10
NEXT...
HALLOWEEN UNIVERSE
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Author's Note:
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I need Encounter Characters
The people the scoobies and neo-scoobies encounter
Subject Name:
Type: What is he/she/it?
Origin: What series
Encounter:
Example:
Subject Name: Mirai Trunks
Type: ½ Saiyan ½ Human
Origin: Dragonball Z
Encounter:
Willow's group find him fighting Gero's new Dark Council androids. They help him win because the dumbass Dr. Gero didn't make them magic resistant. Kido Kamehameha!
I need Patients
What are your ideas for Xander's patients. OC and Crossovers.
Subject Name
Type: What is he/she/it
Origin: What series
Reason: What's the medical reason.
Example: 1
Subject Name: Motoko Aoyama
Type: Human- Martial Artist
Origin: Ken Akamatsu's Love Hina
Reason: Bitten by Rabid Plot Bunny and been writing trashy romance tales 24/7. Insomnia and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Example: 2
Subject Name: Aayla Secura
Type: Twi-lek - Jedi
Origin: Star Wars
Reason: Multiple blaster wounds. Comatose. Recommended: Multiple Organ Replacement
NOTE
All Characters may be used If not used for Costumes of their assigned characters. Which ones are selected will determine the story, as the plot is driven by the characters not the other way around.
Halloween World: Twelve Years Later by Weaver
Summary: A lot can happen in twelve years
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Halloween World: Emerald Hope's Bulletin Board
Summary: Set in spaceman's "Halloween World" AU.
Tips on surviving Northwest Florida under the Red Sky.
(TTH DOT)org//Story-17792
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