Spells and Louds
Chapter 384: 1st Birthday of the month.
(August 2, FutureTech HQ.)
The massive Mobile battle platform is nearing the coasts of San Diego. The whole place seems kinda quiet and a Twinblade Gunship arrives and someone comes out of it, the man who also helps run FutureTech and was once an enemy to the allies and a powerhouse to the Soviet Union during the War of the Three Powers.
His name is Victor Abromovitch, and he just got back from checking one of their outposts near San Diego and is now back onto the Royal Fortress, with a tablet in hand and he's too busy looking at and all the things he checked on.
"I swear I don't really have to do this whole check on an outpost daily thing, way too boring for my standards" said Victor. He keeps walking and doesn't even notice that the whole place is empty. No aircraft flying around, no vehicles driving by, no troops marching and patrolling and now ships on guard duty.
Victor then stops and smells the air. 'Hmm, odd. I don't smell any scents of heavy duty machinery and natural recycled oils from our vehicles.' He then listens around. 'And no sounds of boots, treads, wheels, turbines and someone yelling something's about to blow up.'
He then stops looking to his tablet and he looks around. "Where the fuck is everyone?" He then realizes. "Oh god. I must be dreaming again, which means I can do this!"
Victor looks to the wall and charges at it, but then he hits it hard and falls to the ground. "Nope …. That was ….. Is definitely real …. That ….. That is not made ….. Made of Hershey's kisses. Ow."
Victor then gets up and looks around. "Okay, so this shit ain't no dream. So where the hell is everybody anyway?" He then walks around the base and all he sees are the AI sentry turrets online and some of the cameras. He waves at one of the cameras looking at him. "Hey! Where is everybody?!"
The camera just looks away and Victor sighs. "Well, better go and find those dicks." He walks around the base hoping he would find one of them around, a soldier, a friend or any living thing and no microbes don't count for him.
Victor goes around the mecha bays, airfields, armor facilities, war factories, naval shipyards, reactors, science structures, super weapon sectors and the Jaeger hangar, but no one in plain sight.
Victor then looks around with slight panic and with a new dilemma of fear and delusion. "No, no. No, no! It's begun, while I was gone the zombie apocalypse has started and now ….. Now I am the last man on earth?! No!" He feels like he should be crying, but he stands firm.
Victor then puts on some shades. "Then it's time to become a mother fucking legend!" He makes his way to the weapons bay and then he grabs as much guns as he can. He only carried ten, that's it.
He then makes his way to the largest area on the Royal Fortress. The man Airship Hangar, he heads to the elevator and he waits. 'This is gonna take a long while, I forgot how big it was.'
Then he realized. "Wait, if I'm the last asshole on earth, then how come the cameras are still running?"
As the main doors open he gets surprised by everyone there yelling. "HAPPY BRITHDAY!"
The sight of them startles Victor that he uses his Tesla Powers and shocks Leon who then collapses to the ground and his Yamper jumps on top of him.
"You know, my Yamper is the only one who does this to me. I don't need anyone else giving me more than 10,000 volts!" said Leon. Yamper goes to his face and licks him.
Carol then goes to Victor. "Whoa! Whoa! Victor, calm down. It's just us, no bad guys and sure as heck no zombies."
Victor sees Carol and he hugs her. "Oh my god! Oh god almighty! I thought you were gone, I thought you and these delusional people I call friends were all gone forever!" He continues to hug her and shed a few tears.
They were all confused by this, but then they recall watching him go around the Royal Fortress looking for them. "I guess this whole surprise idea was a terrible thing to do" said Martin.
"Wait, did he call us delusional people?" asked Sergei. "Because we all know the only guy here who is truly delusional is Boomer."
"Not wrong there" replied Boomer. "At least he didn't call me psychopath, or sociopath. Also, who's' idea was this again for a surprise birthday party?"
They all look to the blonde girl in violet clothing hugging Victor. "This is literally going to be awkward" said Lori. The others also had to agree.
Carol and Victor then break the hug. Carol then kisses his cheek. "I am so, so, so sorry Victor. This whole thing was supposed to be a fun surprise party, I didn't mean for you to get all so worried and think you were all alone. I forgot that you don't like it when no one else is around to talk to or have friends. Are you okay?"
Victor calms down. "Well, to the fact I thought this was a dream and then I thought this was a scenario from the movie I am legend. I am less to say that I would be okay, but in other words I guess I am slightly okay and not at all feeling upset or delusionally angry."
Carol didn't like the sound of that, she knows he's not happy at all. It scared him.
"Hey man, we didn't mean for any of this to happen. Although we did find it kinda funny for that one." Sergei points to the screen and it shows Victor going around looking for them and then thinking this was a zombie scenario.
Victor didn't seem to like what he was seeing. He then looks to everyone in the area, all of the Royal Defenders are there, General Railgun and the troops, The Pingrey's, Hollow for some reason and of course the Guardian. Carol holds his hand. "Are ….. Are you feeling alright?"
Victor then let's go of her hand. "I ….. I need to cool off." He heads out of the area and stands out on the balcony and yells. "It's my birthday?! How the fuck did I forget this shit!" He then starts shooting bolts of tesla in a fit of rage outside the Royal Fortress.
The others were confused and so was Carol. "He …. He didn't know it was his birthday today?!" She looks to Martin who realized.
"Oh yeah, Victor is not the kinda guy who can keep track of most things. When it comes to science experiments and advanced research and that kind of stuff we do around here, then he can keep track of that but the date of everyone's day of birth he can slightly recall."
Carol recalled that Victor nearly forgot about her birthday, and he was upset that he didn't know and now he's even more upset.
"So, what the hell do we do now?" asked Dana.
Then Victor comes back in looking a bit happy. "Okay guys, let's celebrate the day of my birth!" They all didn't seem to like this newly advanced happy attitude that was coming from him and so they did what he said and had a good time.
Though some part of Carol could tell he was not feeling okay. "Are you alright sis?" asked Loni. The parents of Carol and Loni also go to her.
Carol sighs. "Something's wrong and Victor is not telling me what it is, something he's been hiding from me."
Jack Cyber goes to her. "Victor has tons of classified history within the base and all of us do not have access to it."
The other Royal Defenders hear and this and so does Martin. "How the hell did I not know that one?!"
"Because only Victor Abromovitch has access to his own files and they are locked up tight like a steel vault and he has sworn an oath to himself to never, ever reveal what he has written down onto his files to anyone" replied Jack Cyber.
"Wait, how the heck do you know all of this?" asked Leni.
"Oh, I saw his files once and he caught me reading them and then he shot me like so many times and then he rebuilt me and gave me a foul warning" said Jack Cyber. "Turns out, friend or foe he will kill you on the spot and bring you back to life should you dare go to his files."
That did not fair for anyone to hear and same with Carol. Victor is her boyfriend and she wants him to open up to her, but she can tell how insecure he can be. She does know about his history with the War of the 3 Powers and how hard it was for him. 'Maybe the war is the one that made all of the secrets he has.' Carol has to find out on her own next time.
Then they see Victor cutting the cake with a riot laser, this was unexpected and also dangerous. Something within him is ticking and it was only a matter of time before he blows up like a tesla time bomb.
"Guys, I think Victor is gonna snap" said Boomer.
"Yeah, we can see that" said Lincoln. "He's already destroying the piñata Luan brought." They all see Victor using a sledge hammer to bust it open, even while blind folded and he looks like he's enjoying the slaughter.
Luan is a bit stunned by this. "Maybe next time, I shouldn't bring a piñata to a birthday from any of us, I guess it should just be a kid thing."
Boomer looks to her. "I like piñatas."
Victor drops the sledge hammer. "No one asked you dip shit!" He then grabs the sledge hammer and throws it to Boomer and the guy is knocked away and slams onto the wall.
"Okay, something is definitely wrong here" said General Railgun. All of them watch as Victor walks away from the scene.
"Enjoy my party everyone." Victor heads to the balcony to get some air. They all know something is wrong and Victor doesn't want anything to do with the celebration he has.
"I got this guys" said Carol. She goes over to talk to him, while everyone else has no idea what to do.
"Now what?" asked Linka.
Carol goes to the main balcony and she sees Victor sitting by the wall and looking out the distance of the open waters. Carol goes over and sits next to him. "Victor, I know something's wrong. Please, tell me what it is. I wanna know and I wanna help you, you don't seem too happy about the birthday party everyone helped make for you. The …. The one I planned."
Victor looks to Carol and he can see the determined and concerned look on her face. "Okay, okay. So, 24 years ago, which is the exact age I am right now. I have never been a fan of my birth. My dad died after he left my mother, the day he left was the die I was born and the same day he died. He owed a lot of people a lot of money and they never found out about the damned son. Me."
"My dad was a part of the Soviet science ministry for Joseph Stalin, I found out all the files about my birth and full history months ago and I did not like any of them. My dad …. He was sick and twisted master mind and he always was fond of experimenting on things, and he was ….. He was part of Yuri and his Psicorp. Yeah, he served the psychic guy way before I was born and all hell broke loose on the end of the line when Romanoff became Premiere."
"So, after I found out about my history, it then hit me. Even before I became part of this team, I felt like I hate my birthday, which is why I try my best to ignore that day, it just brings back bad memories that I dare not ever see again. That's why I avoid having my own birthday from the others, I mind wipe them."
Carol is shocked to hear this. "W-What?"
Victor sighs. "The day before my birthday, I make sure everyone who knows about me forgets when my birthday is, but I guess I forgot and now all this is happening. I still hear the sounds of gun fire from when my dad and the whole hospital was torn down by soviet troops."
Carol sheds some tears and hugs him. "I am so, so sorry. I ….. I didn't mean …. I am so sorry Victor."
"No, no it's not your fault. You didn't know, this was all my fault" replied Victor as he hugs her back. "My fault for not telling everyone about this and not mind wiping them as well. I know people wanna give me a party to make me noticed, but that's the one thing I don't want. To be noticed too much, I just want to go by the day as it is every day. Normal, average and less than appealing missions through the cosmos."
They then break the hug. "I understand" said Carol as she wipes away her tears. "We can call this off and we can go back to the way it is, we can just hang out just you and me and pretend this day never happened."
"Because it won't" replied Victor.
Carol is confused by what he just said. "What do you mean?"
Victor then has a device. "I push this button and my top secret protocols satellite will send down a blast that will eradicate everyone's memory of what happened today and it will all be normal as it is always."
Carol knows this is his choice, he doesn't wanna be seen on the day of his birth celebrating. "But, I decided not to." Victor then uses his tesla powers and he destroys the device.
"W-What are you doing?" asked Carol.
"I want everyone to remember this day, as the day I have never wanted. So that I won't have to mind wipe everyone again. This day of summer on August 2. I want everyone to remember that Victor Abromovitch is not a man who wants to have anything to do with his own Birthday, I know they're watching and listening to this and I am okay with that." He then looks to Carol. "Are you?"
Carol nods and she kisses him, then they break from the kiss. "Again, I didn't mean for this whole day for you. I should've just told you about it instead."
Victor then wipes her new tears away. "No need for that now my violet themed lover, I can never be mad at you. To the others sure, but not to you." They share one more kiss.
They soon break the kiss and head back to the others and see it has all been cleaned up, everything is gone and they see a Boomer clone wearing headsets and mopping.
"Huh, looks like they knew what to do" said Victor. He then gets a message from Martin. "Huh, looks like I got the day off, I guess I am available to do whatever the hell I want."
Carol holds his hand. "Be lucky no one brought any gifts, so what do you wanna do for today?"
Victor thinks. "The park might be a good idea."
Carol smiles. "Then let's go then."
Victor Abromovitch and Carol Pingrey both walk out of the main hangar bay and they head back to the top of the Royal Fortress and see everyone is back on track with what they do.
Patrols, scouts, aerial recons, satellite relays moving, the FutureTech base still working on G.L.A.D.I.S. and they spot Lincoln, Luna, Jordan and Neil doing some target practice with some dummies.
"Now this is a normal and peaceful day for me" said Victor. Carol chuckles from this and they both head to the Great Gate to make their way back to Royal Woods. Just the two of the, at Ketcham Park and pretending this day had never, ever happened.
The others just watch as they leave and they all sigh with some sadness for the guy.
"Sure sucks for someone like Victor. Wish we could at least do something nice for him" said Jordan.
"You heard what the man said, he would rather spend his day as it were a normal day here on the Royal Fortress" replied Neil. "Otherwise he will detonate and cause the world's biggest EMP."
Lincoln sighs. "We should go back to our training guys, let's pretend this day had never happened."
They all go back to what they were doing, they all wish this was a good day for the man who is their electrical ally, but they decide to just let things be as if they were and they now know for the next time. Do not celebrate a Birthday party for Victor Abromovitch.
(Skip, Spellman Estate.)
The Dazzles Tour bus is in front of the Spellman home and Michelle helps bring out all of Sunset Shimmer's things into the Tour bus, with some help from the Dazzles and Peter Sharp.
Sunset hugs her family. "I am so going to miss you guys so, so much!"
"And we're gonna miss you too sweetie" said Gwen as they all break from the hug.
"Stay safe out there and be the musical Equestrian girl you were meant to be" said Neil.
"Make sure you have the right outfits for the tour and don't have them mixed up" said Leni. "Otherwise the colors won't clash right and they could become something kinda awkward or ugyl."
"Rock on big sis, rock on and tag with the dazzles and show the peeps of the country who sunset Shimmer truly is" said Luna.
"Even though a lot of people know you through your Game Streams" replied Lincoln.
"We'll keep track of your tours through social media" said Linka. "And we'll also call to see how you're doing too."
"And like the last time when you were gone for one week for the Music Festival, I'll keep the room we share nice and clean" said Duchess.
"Have fun out there sis, and show them how cool you are" said Timmy.
"Just don't use any form of magic to deal with things" said Poof. "Even though people know about alien and magical stuff, we don't want them to think your using your magic too much."
"Don't make any form of trouble on the road and make sure Michelle does her best to help out" said Sabrina.
Lily goes over and hugs Sunset's leg. Sunset picks her up and hugs her and kisses her cheek making the 3 year old giggle. "Oh. I'm going to miss you too Lily, and all of you guys. I am going to make sure the world can see just how cool the Dazzles and Sunset Shimmer really are when we team up on stage!"
They do one last family group hug, this makes Peter and the Dazzles smile seeing this. Michelle then goes over to them. "Well, I guess we should get going now Sunset. The bus is all packed with our things and we are ready to begin the one week tour across the nation."
Sunset chuckles. "As ready as I'll ever be, time to rock and roll." she then heads off to the bus along with her Sylveon, while Michelle looks to the Spellman family.
"I don't know what else to say guys, thanks for letting me tag along with Sunset and the Dazzles to help them out with any problems they might have along the way and with Peter Sharp to help out as well and don't worry I'll make sure I live stream her concerts so you guys can see them too!" said Michelle.
Luna goes over and hugs Michelle. "See you next week dude, and be careful out there. There might be some folks who might not like you still."
They then break from the hug. "Don't worry, I can handle that. What matters, is that Sunset and the Dazzles are performing their best and showing how much fun they can have together on stage in front of thousands, or millions. You have my word guys, I will do my best to help them."
"We know you will Michelle Lewis" said Neil. "Now, get out there and show them how much of a better person you have become."
Michelle smiles and she goes over to the bus, she hops onboard and Sunset and Michelle wave goodbye to them as Peter starts the bus and they drive off, to the open road.
"There they go, off to the biggest tour of their lives" said Luna.
"Kinda sounds like something you dreamed of sis" said Leni.
Luna chuckles and she riffles her little brother's hair. "True, but that was the old me and my new dream is to see my little brother's life go through."
Lincoln chuckles as they all go back into the house. "That's more of an obligation than a dream sis."
Luna smirks. "Whatever is it bro, the whole thing stands as my job to keep you on track and fighting on through whatever evil is in our way bro."
Then Neil asks. "So, you kids are going to Great Lake City to check on the Part-Time teens?"
"Yeah." they replied, though they didn't seem amused.
To be continued ….
A/N: Not quite the birthday you were all expecting huh? And it looks like Sunset is off with the Dazzles, Peter Sharp and Michelle Lewis on the tour across the nation. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
Date made: 7/12/20 – 7/13/20.