Chapter 2
"Right, Mr. Swackhammer!. Yes, sir, Mr. Swackhammer!."
Swackhammer eyed his five employees at each one with seriousness. For starters, he eyed the long black hair fourteen-year-old boy wearing his long sleeve blue formal shirt with a black tie, with matching long blue pants and black formal shoes. The boy is also Swackhammer's chief financial officer.
"How many tickets have we sold thus far this year, Mokuba?." Swackhammer asked before ordering Masane to fix him some time and juice.
Mokuba gulped nervously while looking at the data on his laptop. "Well, Mr. Swackhammer, we've sold just...86 tickets."
The boy looked up at his friend who was sitting in front of him and looking at him with worry on her face. The woman is Shego. Shego had on her substitute teacher outfit since it is appropriate for her job as chief-security-officer and that she can't afford to buy anything else, since her boss is currently cheap on their paychecks. Currently, Shego was filing her nails while still eyeing her best friend.
"How much money are we making this year, Mokuba?. Please tell us it's good.", said Shego, taking the moment to drink her coffee."
"To be honest here..." Mokuba paused to look back at Swackhammer who motions him to say it, while mentally knowing what the results are. "We're making minus profits. Our finances are super low here. The only thing that is keeping us afloat is the hotels and the crazy charges of our merchandise. which that alone is depending."
"Should we really care about the customer's opinions?. I mean they aren't employees or anything.", said Shippo, getting everyone's attention.
At that moment, Swackhammer reached for his cigar box to pull out his special one and grab the lighter from the fox demon.
"Now, you listen to me, Shippo." Swackhammer looked at all of them with seriousness. "Listen to me all of you. The customers are always right. I'll say it again, the customer is always right."
With that, he continued preaching and got too distracted to realize that he accidentally set Shippo's tail on fire while lighting his cigar. Of course, Kale quickly put the flames out by using the nearby fire extinguisher, or otherwise, Shippo would be a dead demon. Shego sighed in boredom as she leans back into her seat while continuing to file her nails. Masane and Kale on the other hand were both nodding and kissing up to Swackhammer while he talked his lungs off.
"What is your great solution to our problems, Mr. Swackhammer?." Mokuba asked before switching the screen on the tv to his favorite anime show. "Because we don't need just some random attraction."
"Agree." Swackhammer puffed a few puffs while pondering on the solution. "We need something...wacky!. Something that screams adventure!"
"Wacky, right!." Masane poured another round of alcohol for her boss with enthusiasm.
"Adventure?. Absolutely!." Shippo spoke while playing with his white fidget spinner.
Swackhammer then turns his chair around to face the window with his back facing his employees. "Something...up to date!."
"Up to date?. Sure, we can find something up to date.", said Shego.
"Something. Something. Something."
Swackhammer became brain stuck at the moment as he completely stopped talking and ponder more. He rubbed his chin while holding the cigar and watch the ash fall off and hit the floor. Wanting so hard to figure out what kind of attraction that will help his amusement park. He needs his business to run well and not bad or else he'll have to apply for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, Shego looked at Mokuba who had his complete attention on the tv with a sly smirk on his face.
Shego raised her brow before turning her attention to the tv as well and gasped with a surprise, which turned into a smirk as she now understands why Mokuba had that look on his face. Two looked at one another and nodded in agreement before spreading the idea to their friends, who all smiled in pure joy despite their boss's silent thinking.
"Hey, Mr. Swackhammer?." Mokuba begins with a grin on his face. "How about something...KonoSuba?."
Swackhammer turned back to face his workers in confusion and tilted his head. "Kono...what?."
"KonoSuba!." said Shego, Mokuba, Shippo, Masane, and Kale.
The five immediately pointed their fingers at the tv and caused the alien to look at the tv to see what they were talking about. At first glance, he looked surprised and astonish to see what he was seeing. The tv showed multiple screens of each random episode. On the first screen, it showed Chris holding onto her pants and begged for Kazuma to give back her panties, while the teen was waving them with laughter and looked crazy. On the second screen, it showed Aqua panicking inside a cage while sitting in the lake trying to purify the water quickly as wild gators were trying to bite their way in to get her, while her party watched and did nothing. The third one showed Megumin blackmailing Kazuma by claiming to play all the kinky games that he wanted to do in order to be in his party.
And finally, the fourth screen showed Darkness telling both Kazuma and Aqua of what type of man she was interested in marrying. The last one had gained Swackhammer's full attention as he got out of his seat and spoke joyfully with a huge grin.
"That's it!. Now, you five are talking!." Swackhammer saw the happy faces of his loyal employees while walking his way to the multiple screens tv. "That's the word that I'm looking for. KonoSuba. How good are their ratings?."
Mokuba quickly typed into his laptop and said, "There ratings are skyrocketing and counting, Mr. Swackhammer."
"And merchandise sales?." Masane looked along with Mokuba and said, "Their Pop-figures cost range is in the thousands."
"Excellent!. You five go and bring me Kazuma and his party. Better yet, bring them all that is in KonoSuba.", said Swackhammer.
Before taking a victory puff he then spotted Shippo walking up to him with a nervous facial expression. The young fox demon fumbled with his hands before speaking up to his boss.
"Um, Mr. Swackhammer, sir?. I just noticed something. Kazuma and his party including KonoSuba itself are on earth." Shippo shrugged his shoulders and hands. "What if they refuse to come to Moron Mountain?."
Shego, Masane, Kale, and Mokuba stood in silence and waited for Swackhammer's response. The alien boss looked at the boy with a shocked look and said, "Excuse me?. What if they refuse to come to Moron-Mountain?."
With that, he aggressively grabbed the fox demon by his tail and ignored the painful yelp, and had him face him at eye level. Let alone giving him his evil grin.
"We make 'em.", said Swackhammer spoke with wickedness.
(mutters) "A...Awesome," responded Shippo trying to fight the pain, and gave a smile.
"Make 'em!."
All six celebrated on the brilliant plan at work as the idea is downright fantastic. The idea of both catching and enslaving the characters of KonoSuba to be their number one main attraction of Moron Mountain.
A year later, at the Bank of America Stadium, John is playing NFL football for the Carolina Panthers as their quarterback and not doing an excellent job at it either. He and his team were playing against the New Orleans Saints with a score of '25-3' in the first quarter. Since the start of the new season, John has been playing poorly as the new quarterback. He kelp overthrowing the ball to his receivers or causing multiple interceptions for the past two months. It was a lot worse in the preseason but still, even John did not expect to be this sorry.
"Down, Set, Hut!." John grabbed the ball and pull out to see an opening but then saw two defenders coming straight for him.
He threw the ball to the sidelines, for the multiple time in his first season and making it a 1st and 2nd on the field again. Now, usually, you be booed by the crowd if you're not performing well unless your John King. Since after all he is the one to put Charlotte on the map through his years in the city's NBA team and bringing them endless championships. And so they can not help but cheer him on despite him playing sorry.
"Hey, he may look terrible out there but he sure is looking good doing it." one of the teammates said on the bench.
"Yeah, you can't teach that skill at all. Can't teach but learn from it." another teammate agreed while eating his granola bar.
Back on the field the Saints called a timeout and gave John and his team the chance to take a small break. One defense player from the Saints has taken the chance to talk with John who happens to be a huge fan of his. Of course, John did not mind at all about talking to his fans of any age as he has the reputation of being down to earth.
"Yo, man, I want to say thanks for signing my son's football and taking a picture with me." said the heavy-set white male. "And now he treats me like a superhero."
John chuckled at this and said, "No problem, I love to do absolutely anything for my fans."
"Yeah, and you're doing an amazing job of it. Say, I know that I'm shouldn't tell you this, but we're going to an all Blitz on you."
John looked at the guy with a plain facial expression. "Oh?. Thanks for the heads up."
Meanwhile, at the booth watching the game both Carolina Panthers and Charlotte Hornets owners were watching John's performance with great pity. Especially for Michael Jordan. MJ looked on with regret on encouraging one of his most prized star players/friend to retire. If he only knew that John was going to perform this bad in football then he could have told him to hold off on the idea of throwing the towel just yet. Still, like any other friend, Michael comes to his games in a show of support and let alone holding his spot on the Hornets team in case he changes his mind.
"Well, at least we now know one fun fact about John King." David Tepper looked at Michael. "He sucks at football like a boss."
Michael leaned back into his black leather chair with a sad look. "I know. I thought he was going to do great but...I guess not."
David nodded before grabbing his bud light. "Mmmm, I guess he still hasn't yet gotten used to being in a different sports environment. I mean, it is only natural for anyone who switches sports and has yet to find their rhythm."
"I feel exactly like that when I retired from basketball and went into baseball. You can say that I'm in the same boat as him.", added Michael, before reaching to grab his burger to eat.
David took the moment to think on a perfect idea to fix the issue for his new quarterback. It has to be something useful. Something that will motivate and inspire John to do better in every game. Then it hit him. He turned around to find the person that he needed to help his player to adjust to being a decent football player. Which is a young adult football/basketball fan who happens to be one of his workers at the stadium. The person that David has in mind is a young adult Mexican-American girl of the age of 18, with a black ponytail wearing a home game number six Panthers jersey that John is currently wearing and one of his merchandise gears at the Panthers gift shop or on the NFL website. Her pants and sneakers were matching black to go with her jersey.
Her name is Betty. Betty Haley. Her body type is slightly busty for an average young adult. She won the special golden ticket that includes an access pass to attend this game and get the chance to meet the owners of both her favorite sports team of different sports brands. Let alone wanting to meet the great legendary NBA Hall of Famer, John King, as she too is his die-hard fan and would do anything to meet him. And I mean Anything. And today was her lucky day.
"Hey, uh, Betty?." David caught the girl's attention.
Betty turned around to see the person who called her as she had a large tray of fresh fully loaded nachos in her hands and a few stuffed in her mouth. She looked to see David Tepper motioning her over to him and Michael Jordan and saw the sweetest opportunity ever. With no hesitation, she quickly ran over towards them while bumping into the people who were around her and came close to David's side.
"Ah, yes sir, Mr. Tepper?." Betty asked with enthusiasm.
David smiled at her and said, "Hey, listen I need a favor from you. I would like for you to be Mr. King's personal trainer. Now, I want you to help him to improve his gaming in football and making him feel comfortable doing it. On top of that, make sure no one bothers him and makes sure he stays happy about playing for his favorite NFL team. Understood?."
In response, the girl instantly grinned from ear to ear as this is the biggest break that she longed for since the day she applied for a job at Bank of America stadium.
"Yes, sir, you can count on me!." Betty spoke with more enthusiasm and rushed out with zero hesitation.
Michael watched the young woman exit herself out of the booth and looked back at David. "Good luck, David. Because you are going to need it. Especially for John's sake."
"You're not wrong about that, MJ. Not wrong at all," said David, as he turned his attention back to the game.
Back on the field, John had managed to get his offense team to reach 3rd and Goal and was told by the head coach to fake the ball to his runner back and run it to the end zone on his left side. However, John believes it was going to be another all blitz and wanted to do a hail mary.
"Down, Set, Hut!." John grabbed the ball and pulled back to find the open person.
Unfortunately for him, he was wrong. The defense team had blocked his wide receivers on the touchdown pad and one of them was assigned to do a QB spy on him. It resulted in John running from the defensive player and try hard to find an available player to throw the ball to, but quickly got tackled down by another defender who had all eyes on him. Once the referee blows his whistle, John got up off the ground with a tipped-off look on his face.
"You should have done what I've told you." came the Head Coach.
John removed his helmet off his head and just walked back to the sidelines and did not want to hear his mistakes. He marched his way to the bench with a 'Not in the Mood' facial expression on his face while being swarmed by his teammates. All kissing up to him saying that he is the best QB in franchise history and managed to look badass on messing up in the game, compared to their mistakes.
"Should have called in sick." John begins thinking to himself. "Man, I can not get a big break. I'm able to be successful at being the only NBA player to come out undefeated in history, being able to run multiple franchises that I love to eat at with my childhood wife, and able to both participate and create multiple charities which I enjoyed every second of it. But can not play great in football. Damn."
"M...M...Mr. King?."
John broke his train of thought to look up at the young adult standing in front of him.
"Uh, yes?."
Betty cooled down and put her handout with a not too forced of a smile. "Hi, my name is Betty. Betty Haley. I'm your new personal trainer starting today."
"Personal Trainer?." John slightly tilted his head. "Who said I need one?."
Betty quickly sat down beside her hero after he motions her to do so. "Mr. Tepper said so, Mr. King."
"Now, I know why. Well, listen I really don't need a personal trainer but..." John stopped to notice the girl's facial expression.
He observed her for a quick few seconds to see her eyes begin to slowly water up and tell right away that she is a huge fan of his. The one thing that John hated the most besides getting robbed or bullied was hurting someone who is a fan of yours. Scratching his fresh-cut low fade head, John relaxed back before giving Betty a friendly smile.
"But then again, I don't mind having some help." John saw how quickly Betty's face had changed from sad to joyful.
"Oh, Bueno!. Because I won't let you down, Mr. King. In fact, I'll make sure that you feel absolutely comfortable playing football let alone improve. Plus, I'm also is tasked to make sure that no one bothers you and makes sure you stay happy. And I for one am confident in making it all happen.", said Betty, while moving a few strains of hair off her face.
"Ok. We will start by grabbing ourselves some tasty Pelican's Snowballs. Sounds good to you?." John asked before offering a fist bump to his favorite fan.
Betty instantly fist-bumped her hero with a cheesy grin and was about to change to a new subject until suddenly something huge had flown over the stadium. It caused everyone to stop at what they were doing and gasped with shock. Some players stood out of the benches with shocked looks on their faces and can not say a word as to what it was. John looked at everyone for a few seconds before looking back at the sky where the former unidentified flying object had just passed by.
"Um, any idea on what the hell was that?." He asked, before looking at the young adult.
"That's a million-dollar question in which I don't have the answer to, Mr. King," said Betty, still eyeing the sky.
Meanwhile, in the sky, the ufo that flew over the stadium is a spaceship that looked like a blue dragon which is piloted by Mokuba who is wearing his informal outfit, as he and coworkers/friends were flying straight forward. It took a whole year of preparation for the five to both to comprehend the world of KonoSuba and study the tactics of Kazuma and his party. Turns out, the world of KonoSuba is located underground underneath a nearby Walmart where a pure multicolor energy light orb is hovering. Meaning that this orb is the gateway to KonoSuba.
"Hang on," Mokuba told his friends when spotting the huge colorful energy orb.
"We're hanging on alright. Both on our seats and stomachs.", said Shego, wearing her green jumpsuit and currently holding her stomach.
"I thought you said you know how to fly with care?." Masane asked before barfing up into her barf bag.
"Y...Y...Yeah!." Shippo threw up in his own barf bag. "Oooooo, there goes my lunch."
Mokuba slightly turned his head to face his friends with an irritated look. "If you guys have a problem with my driving...then call 1-800-kiss my ass."
"Don't bet on it, Mokuba.", said Kale, holding her vomit in her mouth.
Mokuba shook his head as he disliked backseat drivers before facing back at what he was doing. It did not take long to find the energy orb as it lighted up the dark tunnel as all five admire the beauty. At that moment, the young Kaiba flipped the switch on the controls which insanely boosted the rockets to help cause the spaceship to zoom right on in the orb. Once inside the energy orbed sphere, the vortex has pulled the whole ship into hyperdrive and making the five be forced back in their seats. Watching the multiple lights all around them as they zoomed through them in two minutes.
As the two minutes have reached their end a huge bright light shown up in front of them. Suddenly the opening theme song of KonoSuba (Fantastic Dreamer) begins playing and then showed the title of the place.
KONOSUBA
God's Blessing On This Wonderful World!
"Now that is badass," commented Shippo with a look of awe.
"Damn skippy." agreed Masane, who too was in great awe at the sight of beauty.
Neither Shego, Mokuba, or Kale could not find the words to say at looking at the face of the name brand. As they drive through the shining light sign they broke through the plain and found themselves in the world of KonoSuba. Mokuba reached the built-in radar and turned it on to help find their targets while steering the ship. It did not take long for the radar to pick up the one of them as it was moving quickly as if it were running. And it was not lying.
There on the ground in the open field were one adventurer was running for his life. Kazuma Satou was trying his hardest to get away from the swarm of giant-sized poisonous acid-spitting beetles that he had accidentally disturbed their slumber, once after using a short energy consumption of explosion magic on a bunch of giant frogs. He did not expect to spend the whole day running for his life from giant incests and wanted to just do one stinky quest without getting killed in the process. But mostly it's like almost every day for him.
"Dammit...Dammit...Dammit!." Kazuma yelled through his lungs and feel his asthma kicking in. "If I ever get out of this I'm freaking stealing all three of their panties and keep it as a trophy!. Of all the days, Aqua, Megumin, and Darkness have picked today to some me-time!."
Kazuma was about to run out of energy and feel himself slowing down, and feel the foul breaths of the beetles touching the hairs on the back of his neck. "Damn this is it!."
BOOOOOOMMMMMM!
Kazuma stopped running before turning to see what stoped his potential death. To his surprise, he saw what appeared to be a spaceship to his astonishment before looking down at what's left of the beetles. Seeing nothing but scattered burning guts and outer shells. Then he looked back at the giant blue dragon spaceship that then began to open its mouth before seeing five people stepping out with pure confidence on their faces. Kazuma eyed the five and can not tell if they are either aliens or people that got reincarnated and selected a pretty awesome weapon to bring to the world.
"Crap, I wish I've picked a spaceship and instead of that sorry ass goddess of mine." thought Kazuma, before hearing the unknown visitors.
"One giant step for..." Masane interrupted Shego who was trying to act tough as she had the flag of their jobs amusement park symbol and said, "One giant step for the name of our great boss and Moron Moutain!."
Masane struck the flag pole down hard on Shego's right foot as the poor woman screamed out in pain and in return angrily grabbed the woman's short hair and pulled the hell out of it. Masane yelled out in pain before getting even. Leaving Mokuba, Kale, and Shippo to watch with embarrassment on their faces.
"Huh, what are the chances of watching hot babes pull each other's hairs?. Man, spending points on increasing my luck skill was worth every point." Kazuma thought to himself, before spotting the five quickly speed-walked their way towards them.
"Um, what is up?." Kazuma looked at the five.
"Oh, nothing much," Mokuba spoke up first. "Hey, listen we're looking for an adventurer by the name of Kazuma Satou. Have you seen him?."
"Yeah, we need to see him.", said Kale, shyly hiding behind Masane.
Kazuma looked at the five with a blank expression on his face. He can not believe that they are searching for him and do not have a single clue that they were talking to him now. But since they did save his life he was willing to reveal himself.
"I'm Kazuma," Kazuma said smiling friendly.
Unfortunately for Kazuma, all five pulled out their space plasma guns at the teen and can not believe this.
"Hey, what the hell?!. I thought you guys are friendly?!." yelled Kazuma.
"You idiot what do you take us for?." question a serious Shippo.
"What?. You think we're stupid enough to see you without the aid of self-protection?." Masane asked seriously with both hands on her gun.
"Don't move a muscle or try to perform the steal technique and take our guns. Or else I'll shoot a hole through her head." Kale warned as she pointed her gun at her hand.
"W...W...W...Wait!. Hold up here!. What do you guys want from me?!. Is it money?!." Kazuma asked with his hands up with panic in his voice.
"Pfft, as if. What we want from you, Kazuma is to gather your party and all of your friends in this world." Mokuba grinned and snickered like an evil person. "Because ya are going for a ride."
"A ride?. A ride to where?." Kazuma asked both hesitant to do anything at the moment and curious about what they mean by that.
Shego smirked as she leans towards the teen and whispered into his ear. "You all are going on a one-way-only trip to Moron-Mountain, where you guys will be our very new attraction and entertain our guest...forever."
"Ah, shit. Should have stayed in bed today. Being an adventurer truly sucks ass. How am I going to explain this one to the guys let alone tell everyone in the village? Damn." Kazuma thought with a miserable facial expression.
