I saw that I was in a dark void of sorts, me knowing exactly what was going on. I could sense him very close to me.
"Very clever, Ziegler. Trying to stop me in my dreams, huh? Well, guess what? I am not an easy one to break!" I shouted as I then punched my fist to the side, me smirking at how, just as I sensed, he was right there. He growled at me doing this as he then tried to grab me with a slew of giant arms of darkness, but I dodged out of their reach and punched him again by making my arm stretch like Mr Fantastic!
"Your mind is strong... much stronger than anyone I've seen before," Ziegler glared at me as I smirked.
"Then you know that you aren't going to succeed, right? Whatever the hell you want to do with me, I won't let it happen!" I growled at him.
"Peh, I didn't expect you to know what I want. I sent you here for a simple reason. Vados needs defeated, yes... but he needs something removed from him. Otherwise, your world may very well be invaded by him," he said, me frowning at him.
"And why would I believe that? Then why'd you try to attack me in the orphanage?" I asked in anger.
"Did I ever once attack you? Did I ever once do anything to harm you or your little cat friend?" he asked, me thinking at that, but keeping my eyes glued to him. I... had to admit it. He never once attacked me, just tried to spook me.
"Then why choose me? Why not talk to Dorothy instead?" I frowned at him.
"Because of one simple thing. She can't speak a word of English and can't learn how to do so. I even had to give your kitty friend some knowledge of Nexomon tlak so he could understand you," he said, me looking at him with a raised eyebrow.
"What?" I asked him.
"Just listen. The object that needs removed from Vados is something that Amelie gave him in secrecy to even Edward. A special computer chip that Vados doesn't need to survive, but it allows him to travel to other worlds. It's only a matter of time before he reaches yours. And if that happens, your people would be in worse shape than they already are," he said, me whistling at his true words.
"Damn, that's probably the biggest burn I've heard yet. Fine. If you're truthful, I'll try to get that chip removed from Vados at some point. But only on one condition," I said, him looking at me with a small smile on his skull-like face. "When I do this, you are to appear and get in my gold Nexotrap. I'm going to finish this adventure through to the end and I don't need you interfering," I said, him chortling at me.
"Very well, always the completionist. After all, you completed Senran Kagura to 100 percent and that game is filled with boobs and butts," he said, me then getting red in the face.
"Shut up and let me wake up already! And stop looking at my brain without my knowledge!" I shouted. And then, immediately after that, I felt myself jolt awake.
"Shh, she looks like she's waking up," I heard Nora say as I opened my eyes wearily, me smiling at how Coco was laying on my stomach and that all of my friends were watching over me. Even Saria was there, but I could tell that she was trying to hold in her emotions and failing slightly, as her hair was glowing every few seconds.
"You earned five hundred awesome points for what you did back in that building, Sunny. I didn't think you had psychic powers, but you sent your memories of what Lydia showed you to everyone... Saria hasn't been able to talk since and Videl has been watching over you for the past 5 hours relentlessly," Ross smirked as I then looked to the right and smiled at how Videl had her goggles off, and she was looking to be tearing up flames in her eyes.
"Thanks, Videl... I'm grateful," I smiled at her.
"I-I'm just so happy you're alive... Saria and I also learned from some of the residents that they also heard your memories... and I even got some calls from my mining buddies, and they said that people in Palmaya, Lateria, and everyone in the Drake Isles heard your thoughts... and everyone is now against Amelie and what she's been doing in secret..." Videl said before then blowing her nose with a tissue.
"I think I might need a pick-me-up... Coco? Can you spray me with some Elixer?" I asked, him then nodding as he reached into my bag's pockets and then sprayed it on some of my wounds, me sighing in relief as I felt much better, but I did still have sore muscles. "Thanks... I'm gonna try to get up now," I smiled as Coco jumped off me and I got off the bed and felt the muscles ache from being used, but I had to move.
"You're tougher than the rest of us. We've been out cold for a whole day, and we still have wounds on us. You were at the brunt of the explosion from what your thoughts say, and you healed up the fastest, but also slept for only 5 extra hours," Lydia smiled at me. "I just hope that this information gets relayed to the other Guildmasters in Edward and Xander, so they understand how bad the situation is. They know everything about what Amelie's been doing and are in her good graces, so hopefully they realize that their secrets are revealed and people all over are spreading the word at what they've learned."
"I hope they don't learn one other thing, but I'd rather not say what it is..." I sighed.
"What would that be?" Ross asked as Saria frowned.
"Because of her mother," Saria frowned, me seeing that she looked troubled again.
"Um... Saria?" I asked.
"I can sense it... overwhelming power locked in your soul... power I haven't felt since I had fought a powerful Tyrant in the past," she said, me looking at her with a sigh as Ross and Nora looked at me in confusion.
"Wait... is that true, Sunny?" Nora asked, me putting my face in my hand.
"That was supposed to be secret, Saria... thanks a fuckin' lot," I groaned.
"Why didn't you say anything? Even to us, your best friends?" Ross asked, me being grateful that even he, the loudmouth of the group, was being softspoken. We didn't need anyone to overhear.
"Think, Ross. Amelie hates Tyrants... she made Vados to hunt and defeat Tyrants that aren't him. If Amelie found out that I'm the offspring of a Tyrant, she wouldn't think twice about killing me..." I sighed.
"After seeing how scary she got and after learning what she did in her spare time, I believe that we should, indeed, keep this secret," Videl said, that making Saria sigh.
"I still feel terrible... which isn't good... I need to not feel, after all... the fact she never told even me?... I feel betrayed," Saria frowned as I saw her hold her head and she then let out some kind of blast from her head, which ended up making Ross and Nora gasp and hold their heads.
"AUGH! What the hell is wrong with you?!" Nora asked in pain.
"S-Sorry... I got too worked up... I didn't mean for you to see that..." Saria said, me tilting my head.
"Um... what happened?" I asked her.
"She uh... likes eating out girls," Coco smirked.
"Saria, please, there are children here," Lydia frowned.
"It's not like she meant to... to be fair, I've done worse," Videl admitted.
"Like what?" I asked with a smile.
"I'll only tell you, since I feel that you can be trusted. Just look at my mind with yours and you'll learn it," she said, me using my psychic powers... and I saw that they had gotten a bit weaker since I'd used them last, so I could only see one thing at a time, one person at a time. And the thing I saw first? Her having a thing for her brother, who was five years older. Oh, and the fact that she'd ended up killing a guy in the past that tried to rape her.
"Yeah, I'd say that's worse... but I understand why you did that," I admitted to her as I then stretched my arms to try and get the aches out. "Now to get back to work... where did Amelie go to?" I frowned.
"Can't you use your brain to find out?" Ross asked.
"After that last stunt? My brain needs a break for a bit... my range has decreased drastically, and I can only look at one thought at a time, one person at a time..." I said, that making Nora push her glasses up.
"It's still so weird to hear you talk English so fluently... I guess that with every new strength you get, your English diction increases," Nora smiled.
"Yeah..." I sighed as Videl then got a call on a pager.
"Yes, what is it?" she asked into it. "Huh? The boom sticks are 3 hours late? And you want me to send someone to retrieve them to make the bunker?" Videl asked into it, like she were actually a game character. She then looked at me and Coco and then smiled. "I think I have the perfect duo to send out to find the lost delivery guys. They'll handle it, don't worry," Videl smiled as she then hung up and she looked at me and Coco. "Can you at least still fight the good fight?" she asked me, me nodding at that.
"I may be sore, but I can still use my Nexomon if nothing else," I smiled.
"Then get on it! The delivery guys were supposed to arrive at the town 3 hours ago from due east. Find them and get them over here. Then, if all goes well, you'll follow me to a building to the west of town and we'll blow the reinforced entryway. And I'll even let you light the fuse," she smirked, me smiling at that.
"You were already making me happy, but now you struck oil," I smiled at her. I then walked out of the building... only to immediately shiver at the feeling of the frigid air on my skin... but then I used my fire powers on myself to just be warmer, and I sighed contentedly at how I felt more at ease. And Coco sighed happily as well.
"Well, that's one use of firepower. Just use it to keep warm in the snow and you don't even need a parka," Coco smirked at me. We then went to the east and proceeded to make our way through the places, which included the giant ice block and some more cultists. And only when we'd gotten to a good area to talk privately did I speak to Coco in Nexomon tongue.
"I need to tell you something, Coco..." I said, him looking at me with a smile.
"Yeah? What is it?" he asked.
"I wanted to let you know... Ziegler appeared in my dreams. At first, I thought he was going to attack me, but he actually told me that he brought me here for a very specific reason," I said, Coco looking at me in confusion.
"And what kind of a reason would that be?" he asked.
"To remove a small addition that Amelie gave to Vados, a small computer chip. If kept on him, it'll allow Vados to travel to different alternate realities, and my world is very much one of them. I need to find out how to get that computer chip removed from him... Ziegler said he'd only join my cause if I can do so," I said.
"And why trust someone known as a grim reaper to this world? He might very well want that computer chip for himself, you know?" Coco frowned.
"That's why I'm going to remove it and then, after removing it, I'm going to demolish it. Just in case it is a trap," I said, Coco smirking at that. "But there is one other thing I wanted to mention... I've been thinking about everything with everyone in our group... Videl, Ross, Nora, and some others like Lydia... I want to tell them that I'm not the real Dorothy, but I don't know if that'd make them hate me or not," I said, Coco frowning at that before simply holding onto my hand with his paw-like hand.
"It'd take a lot of guts to say that to them. But if they were willing to still be friends with you despite knowing you're a Tyrant, I'd say that shows they'd believe you on the second thing," Coco smiled at me.
"Thanks, Coco..." I smiled at him as we finally reached the abandoned house. And when we did, I looked in the front door windows and saw that the group within was held captive by the cultists, and that it included Ton-E.
"Great, the Kiss reject is in here," I frowned.
"Kiss? Wasn't that a very ancient band that appeared 3000 years ago?" Coco asked... and when he asked that, I did a legit double-take at what he said.
"W-W-What did you say?..." I asked, him looking at me in confusion.
"I said that Kiss was an ancient band... is there something wrong... with... wait..." Coco said before he then opened his eyes wide as I did. "Oh my god... are you saying that this isn't actually a game... but your world in the future?" he asked me.
"H-Hold on, let's walk through this... first, get out of earshot," I said, us going to the roof instead. "First question, what do you know of Pokemon?" I asked.
"It's a very, very old game series. Only, like, 5 copies are still around, each of different games, like Pokemon Sword, Pokemon Conquest, Pokemon Snap, Pokemon Coliseum, and Pokemon Legends: Arceus," he said, me gawking at that. The last one was in development before I'd been sent here, not actually around!
"What's the oldest RPG you can remember off the top of your head?" I asked.
"Oof, the oldest one?... I'd have to say Chrono Trigger," he said.
"Oldest fast food restaurant?"
"McDonald's? Maybe?"
"Oh my god... t-this is... this is insane..." I gawked as I looked around me, seeing that a couple different Nexomon nearby had heard me and were slowly coming towards me. Not attacking, just confused. "This world... this world of monsters, talking cats and dogs, and advanced science... it's my world in the far-off future... but how?" I asked in shock.
"Ziegler, right?" Coco asked.
"I don't know if he'd have that power, actually... and does that mean that Dorothy is my descendant? Is Deena a distant descendent to me? Am I going insane?" I asked in confusion as a Branipus then looked at my mind.
"Statistics show 1 percent insanity, 99 percent hot gas. Don't eat enchiladas around me," he said, me then facepalming myself at what he said.
"Not the time for stupid jokes! I'm literally having a mid-life crisis, here!" I said, the Branipus then backing up at my outburst.
"S-Sorry, my queen," he said, me sighing at this newfound knowledge.
"Then I guess I have another thing to get off my chest... that this world is my world, but over 3000 years in the future... and I need to know how my world became filled with Nexomon, too," I gawked.
"I think I know how, though... they say that the world drastically changed back in the year 2099 because of some nuclear war that happened. Humanity almost became extinct even back then. But then, the different creatures turned into Nexomon... the very first of their kind, maybe? And then, nearly 2000 years later, Omnicron became the king with his children?... I dunno, I barely passed history class," Coco said, me gulping at that.
"We're wasting time just standing around asking nonstop questions. We need to break into this building and get those people rescued... and to do that, we'll need my Nexomon, including Byeol... you ready, Coco?" I asked, him nodding.
"Only if you are... we'll talk more after we beat the snot out of them," he said. We then jumped down the hatch in the roof and, get this, right onto the shoulders of Ton-E! He immediately lost his balance and fell face-first on the floor, me hearing a bone break in his left arm, causing him to scream in pain.
"GAAAUUUGHH! What the fuck?!" he asked in anger as the other cultists then looked at me in shock.
"I-It's her, boss! The one that our lord wants!" the other cultists shouted in fear as I simply looked at them and sent out my whole team, them gasping and doing the same, only for their team to get completely wiped out with just one attack from each of my Nexomon to each of theirs! Yeah, all of my team was now level 45 thanks to the amount of Nexomon and Nexomon Tamers I faced in the Drake Isles (that I hadn't mentioned, since it's unimportant to the story) and all of them were in their final evolutions.
"Byeol, meet baddies. Baddies, meet Byeol," I smirked as he then snickered and the two criminals that were still standing looked to be feeling very stressed before eventually passing out from it, me then grabbing Ton-E by the other arm, since I saw he was trying to reach for his teleporter.
"Aw, where ya going, buddy? You don't want to stick around?" I asked, him snarling at me.
"How the hell did you get so damn strong?" he asked me angrily.
"I am what I am, and that's all that I am, I'm Sunny the Superslam!" I said in a small Popeye diddy before doing a duo of whistles, which made Coco frown at that.
"That's... probably a reference that nobody will get," he frowned at me as the other miners looked at me with smiles.
"Thank goodness you came by when you did... so what are you going to do with them? And could you tell your big one to stop staring at us?" the one miner asked, me smiling at him.
"Byeol, be nice to the miners. I'm going to start letting you roam around outside your Nexotrap for awhile, but you can only use your powers on bad people, okay?" I smirked.
"Oh, but of course, my lovely princess!" he smirked before then simply turning his head to the rear and watching the front entrance.
"So, full disclosure, is that a Tyrant?" one of the female miners asked.
"Peh, if Amelie can make a Tyrant out of a science experiment and claim it to be for the good of the world, I'd say that anyone can have a Tyrant so long as they use it to help others. And Byeol's only real strength is making people fall asleep because of his uneasy stare," I smirked.
"Yeah, we heard everything happen, but we didn't know if we could believe it... until we saw that image of that monstrous creature," the one miner gulped.
"Enough about that... we came to get the boomsticks for Videl. Do you have them available?" I asked, them nodding as they provided me with 6 boxes worth of Taranite. AKA, one of the biggest explosives that could be used in my home state of Pennsylvania without a license!
"This is going to be SOOOO cool!" I smirked widely as I then finally hopped off of Ton-E and he was still in pain from his arm.
"You ain't gonna leave me be like this, are ya?!" he asked, me then stopping in place and sighing. I then proceeded to try and use a power in me. A power that I didn't know if I could use yet... I tried to think of nature, healing, Nara, life... and eventually, I managed to surprise everyone in the room when I managed to emit a green aura from my hands and into Ton-E's broken arm, which made the bones crack back into place and heal completely! He then gawked as he moved it about before looking at me in shock.
"Consider it as an apology for embarrassing you twice in a row... but maybe stop trying to do criminal activity? After all, I doubt that Mother Nara would be pleased to know I healed some criminal with her powers," I said. And I did say all of it in English. Coco gawked at me blabbing that out, but it also made the miners look at me in shock... but as for Ton-E? he looked absolutely flabbergasted.
"Y-You... you're... how?!" he asked in shock as I simply smiled.
"You're free to believe me or not believe me, but I will say this. There is an heiress out there to become the next queen of the Nexomon. And she plans on ruling kindly and justly. It is up to you on how to weave that narrative to someone else," I said as I then took the Taranite and left the house with Coco and Byeol by my side. And once out of earshot, Coco then spoke.
"You do realize that you probably screwed the pooch too early, right?" he asked, me sighing at that.
"Does it look like I care, Coco?" I asked as I simply frowned at him.
"Not really... but why don't you care?" he asked.
"Because now that I know that this whole reality is MY reality in the far, far future, I want to do things my way or the highway. I'm going to be telling everyone I meet about my true heritage, especially since they all know that Amelie has flown off the deep end. It'll just help to cushion the blow when they learn that, if I'm kept alive and claim mine and Dorothy's birthright, then we'll be able to stop this war with the Nexomon," I said, him then thinking about that before speaking.
"Huh... that plan is either pure genius, or the worst plan in the history of plans," he said, me frowning at that.
"Oh yeah? What do you know of the Watergate Scandal?" I asked.
"I told you I'm not good with history... but... yeah, i do know about it..." he frowned.
"Basic gist, president tries to cover up conspiracy, one of his aides goes undercover to reveal the truth as 'Deep Throat', president found out as being a fraud and a scammer, and he resigns after saying "I am not a crook"... To be frank, I'd say that Amelie's story may just be a futuristic version of that story, don't you think?" I smirked, that making Coco smile, finally.
"Hehe, if you put it like that, I guess that the similarities are very similar! Just keep this future and past business between you and me though, okay, Sunny? Because I doubt even Omnicron's kids would believe you being from that far in the past... which year was it again?" he asked.
"2021, the month of November. Just after Thanksgiving," I said.
"Hmm... and this Thanksgiving is a?..." he said, me about to explain it before he smirked smugly. "Ah, I'm just ribbin' ya! Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday besides Christmas," he smirked at me, me frowning as I then picked up a handful of snow and tossed it at his face. He frowned at that immediately before then giving his mischievous smile and point. "I deserved that one, I guess," he smirked.
"Yes, yes you did," Byeol smirked.
"I can hear some Nexomon tongue too, y'know?" Coco frowned.
"How cold of you," he said, me then guffawing unintentionally at the terrible joke. "Thanks, I'll be here all the time."
"If only tomatoes were still around... I'd pelt you with one for that," Coco smiled.
"Aw man! No tomatoes? What about ketchup?" I asked in annoyance.
"We make it using cranberry juice and mushed bananas... what did they use to make it in your time?" Coco asked.
"Tomatoes, sugar, vinegar," I said. And Coco gagged at that.
"Ick, that sounds terrible..." he sighed.
"It is, but it tasted soooo good! Especially on hot dogs and burgers!" I smiled... and then my stomach grumbled. "Oh great, now I'm hungry! Okay, when we get to town, I'm taking a breather to share some food with me and my team," I smiled.
"Aw, thanks," Coco smirked.
"Yes, yes, you're also getting food, Coco," I smiled as I patted him on the head. I had quite a lot of questions to ask Ziegler and Deena when I saw them next. And all of them relating to how the hell I got here, about this place being the future, and if I was even able to go back.