The day after Bethesda managed to absorb a dragon soul (and so after the precedent chapter). Him and THQ are actually training to make Bethesda learn at least some basic magic spells

"Okay, so now stay focused."

Bethesda have is eyes closed, he is focus himself, while he is holding a simple stick

"So, you feel the object in your hand."

"Yeah."

"Okay so try imagining that you want to store this object. But without actually moving your arms"

Bethesda clenches his fist on the stick, but he breaks it

"Fuck."

"That's okay, magic tend to be harder to learn when you are adult."

"Yeah I know but its the 76th stick that I broken."

"Um, then we will stop for today."

The night is falling and the master and his student are drinking beers somewhere in a forest on the mountain range

"And so, he told me that I couldn't use magic as weapon! So HIPS Made a gun that shoots dubstep!"

"That's funny HIC master, a gun that shots music! HIPS I wouldn't even had an idea like that! But by the way I was wondering, how old are you?"

"pretty fucking old! I'm nearly 62!"

"62! you look like you are only in your 30s!"

"That's UGH it little fucker! We makers tend to live longer, and of course it make me look 2 times younger." THQ says as he finishes up his bottle of beer

[Some moments later.]

The two man are a way more drunk right now

"I'm returning to the house. Think to put down the fire, master." THQ says while starting to leave the area

"Yeah, yeah."

Bethesda looks at a bottle and grab it without thinking and pour the liquid on the fire…

The fire suddenly rises up on Bethesda

...Without paying attention that it wasn't a water bottle

"EUGH FUCK!" Bethesda yells surprised (even if he wouldn't have been surprised if he wasn't drunk), he quickly reacts by rolling away, which is a difficult when you are drunk


GAMINDUSTRI

GRAVEYARD

10H00

THE DAY AFTER


"So, one of our squad sent for the investigation sent us some interesting things, there was a site that was found this morning in middle of a forest in the north-west mountain range that got burned, we found some bottles. It was not far form where the weird event that happened two days ago" The officer says to magic while showing her one of the beer bottle.

"You are sure that's its not one of your squads that got drunk or some junkies?" Magic responds

"Well we don't think so."

"Fine, let me take care of this."

[Later.]

Magic enter the lab and quickly find "Badd." She says to the middle aged man

"Uh?"

"I need you to find who used these bottles." Magic says while showing to him the bottles

looks at the empty beers bottles "I'm not sure I-i can do that."

"You managed to find out that was Bethesda who killed your son with only some revolver casing, so now get to work! You got all the materials that you need." Magic says while pointing at the lab diverse tools and machinery

[Later, again.]

"So you found out? Magic says

"Not yet." Badd responds

[AGAIN.]

"Okay I got the fingerprints analysis results."

"So who this is?"

"I think we found out, there is the fingerprints that corresponds to Bethesda one and another one that corresponds to THQ."

Magic punch the table, recoils in fear

"After all the time we spent to search for Bethesda, he was actually living in the mountain range with that saboteur! I'm gonna take care of these two, it's not very far form there." Magic says while starting leave the lab

"Wait, why she stay here during the war if she that powerful? She could have annihilated the planeptune army." Badd thinks, staying in place


NORTH-WEST OF THE MOUNTAIN RANGE

18H00

THE SAME DAY


Bethesda is holding a stick with his two hands like yesterday, trying to magically store it again, he is in an intense focus, eyes closed and standing still, he hold his breath

"Nice Bethesda." A voice says

Bethesda open his eyes and looks at his hands, the stick is gone, THQ is in front of him

"Well its quite a basic thing. Now you will have to make it reappear again, it will be a way easier, so don't worry just think about the object that you stored, and you will want to get it back." THQ says

Bethesda focuses again, a light glow on his hand for a few seconds and then, the stick reappears in the same hand

"Good, you know the basics no, keep in mind that the spell works like an inventory in a video game: you can't put an unlimited amount of items, at least its how it works for most people, there always some exceptions. I will make you learn some spells tomorrow."

Both Bethesda and THQ head to the house, they walk for a moment until something get THQ attention

"Get down!" THQ says to Bethesda

THQ put Bethesda on the rocky ground, behind a larger rock

"Look." THQ whispers

They see some ASIC troopers, accompanied with a bunch some kind of weirdhumanoid-draconian-roboticcombinationcarrying a axe

"So, no trace of the two guys yet?" One of the trooper says

"That's weird they should be in that region tough." Another one responds

"What is that weird shit?" Bethesda says, looking at the amalgamates

"Shut up!" THQ says

The guards stops moving

"Shit." THQ and Bethesda whispers

"You heard that guys?"

"Yeah it comes form the rock. Surround it."

"I take them form the right, you the left" THQ whispers to Bethesda which responds by a nod

Bethesda draw his steel sword and put his horned helmet, he wait for the soldiers to come to him, he get a few sweat drops as he hears the foots steps getting closer

The trooper find Bethesda and point his rifle on him "Hey you!


B.A.T.S


ASIC Trooper: Left arm (60%)

ASIC Trooper: Left arm (60%)

ASIC Trooper: Torso (75%)

Bethesda slashes the left arm of the trooper, amputating the trooper, he then stab the trooper in the stomach

The trooper fall on the ground, dead

Bethesda quickly grab the rifle with one hand and shot the head of the other trooper who had his gun starting to aim at him, which results in a bloody mess

The amalgamate charges on Bethesda with its axe ready to strikes on him

CLING

Bethesda rise his shield to block the attack

BANG BANG BANG BANG

On the right side of Bethesda, shots have been fired on Bethesda arm"argh!" he yells and making him lose focus

The amalgamate get ready to strike again but get hit in the face by THQ, the dragon like creature falls on the ground

THQ then pick the axe then throw it on the trooper who shot Bethesda, cutting the trooper head In half… on the vertical axis

The amalgamate attempt to get back up but get slammed on the ground by THQ weapons

THQ then proceeds to violently bash the monster head, again and again until he eventually dies

Bethesda looks up at THQ and most especially his weapon

"What the fuck is that weapon?" Bethesda says looking at the weird ass weapon

"This is the Penetrator." THQ says while wielding his huge purple sword-dildo

"You can kill people with that? It look flaccid-" Bethesda says but almost immediately spits blood

"Oh yeah. But by the way we should quickly return at the house. You are pretty badly injured. Here make a compress with these cloths." THQ says while getting cloths in a pocket

Bethesda then use the cloths given by THQ to do a compress on his arm

"Uh, uh here we meet." A voice says

The two man turn back and see a tall woman with a grayish skin and a pink hair wearing a black armored bikini with multiples pairs of black wings with some neon colors behind her


MAGIC

ONE OF THE CRIMINALS OF THE FREE WORLD AND THE LEADER OF THE ASIC 💀


"Let me introduce myself, i'm Magic the leader of the ASIC. I might let you alive THQ if you giv-"

"hol up, an armored bikini seriously? That must be the stupidest idea ever."

Magic stoic face changes to an angry one

"So, what do you want?" THQ says

"...Give me Bethesda and I will let you live." Magic says

"Go fuck yourself and you goddess."

"You dared to talk about Arfoire like that?! Then I changed my mind, I will kill you and get Bethesda anyway."

"She defeated 5 goddesses, so she must be really powerful, let's go together." Bethesda says

"No you are badly injured. Get out of there, i'm sorry to say that your training is over."

"What do you mean? I only know how to store items. I can't stop now!"

"Try to find someone else then. Like you said she beaten 5 goddesses so she can maybe easily beat me too."

"I see, thanks for your teaching." Bethesda says and starts to run in the direction of Planeptune

"Uh, i'm going to quickly catch him anyway." Magic says

"Bet?" THQ responds as he get the penetrator

THQ then dashes with his penetrator on Magic

Magic blocks it with her scythe with ease

Magic yawns "That's it? I thought you can do better than that." Magic then says

"I'm only warming up." THQ says

Magic then violently kicks THQ in the stomach, which make him recoils, she then follows by striking her scythe on THQ

THQ protect himself with the penetrator, THQ after hit Magic cheek with his elbow and follows by hitting her head with the penetrator

"Ugh, how something that ridiculous and flaccid can hurt like that and be that resistant? I must immediately kill him." Magic thinks

THQ strikes Magic with penetrator but Magic manage to punch THQ so hard that he get thrown off on far away

THQ crashes on a rock, THQ is in a bad state, he feel serval broken limbs and the suit that he wears usually is nearly destroyed "That bitch hit me hard but im not yet defeated!"

Magic then dashes with her sytche to kill THQ while he's still stunned

But a white light emerge form THQ, Magic is blinded but she continues flying to THQ but she get hit by an energy wave followed by Dubstep music

(Saints row IV dubtsep gun theme start playing and yes I recommend playing it for that part.)

The master arise, his eyes went form red to purple, he now wears a white fedora with a purple band on it, the rest of the suit he's wearing stayed the same, his dildo weapon got replaced by a gun that shoot dubstep, there is also some pair of purple and brown mechanical wings that resemble to the wing of a bald eagle

"It must be the secret power of makers." Magic says

"Exactly but its not a maker power, its the power of the superiors makers or known by the name of the Administrators, now get your ass ready you whore." THQ says and then shot a volley energy

PEW PEW PEW PEW

Magic blocks the volley with her scythe "Form what I heard this power allow to the makers to transform like the goddesses and obtain a similar power. that mean if I rush up to Bethesda, THQ shall catch me and maybe even kill me."

She then get hits multiple time due to the energy blasts have to tend to separate to three other one which "lock" her, but not enough to to really fatally wound her, she then slowly goes backwards

THQ follows her without stopping shooting "I'm not going to let you go like that, this is the moment, if I kill her, The ASIC will be leader less and so an easier target. Its my time to get revenge!" He thinks, he never been that motivated before

Magic then takes off and tries to escapes

"She is trying to escape. Then its truly the moment." THQ thinks while also taking off

[After a few minute of aerial pursuit which is basically Magic trying to dodge and block THQ attacks]

PEW

THQ finally manage to hit one of Magic wings, she then go down and hit the ground hard

(Music stops)

THQ lands in front of Magic with pointing the dubstep gun on her "Its over. Form today you started your own downfall and the one of the ASIC and I shall kill the others CFW's by myself. Any last words so it will be recorded as the reason of the end of your syndicalist organization?"

"You fool, I dragged you where I wanted to."

THQ don't search further and decide to pull the trigger

PEW

THQ shots at the head of magic but before the beam reach her, a wave of energy erupt, pushing back THQ

Magic with an incredible speed get back her scythe and with one hand violently slam THQ head on the ground at multiple times

THQ see the gamindustri graveyard and see that's he's considerably closer realize "Shit, I see her power is based on how close she is form the graveyard." His view start to get blinded by blood

"That's what you get for threatening us, insulting our godesses. Im sorry to say that you will have to join your son. But vae victis."

THQ put his last forces to get up but Magic steps on him with her heels

"That was stupid to follow me and now you are trapped."

"Well, I fucked up, I hope Bethesda managed to escape. Its up to you now and the others." THQ think, he knows that his life is going to end there "Uhm, no they are totally gonna beat them." THQ smiles in a small relief

And Magic strikes her Scythe on THQ

LIFE DOESN'T FORGIVE WEAKNESS, NEITHER FOOLISHNESS

[…MEANWHILE.]

Relic is curently having a talk with Histoire, but then something peak his attention and he start looking away in direction of the mountains

"What's wrong?" Histoire asks

"I feel like someone i knew just died." Relic responds


MOUNTAIN WEST OF THE MOUNTAIN RANGE

PLANETPUNE-ASIC BORDER

AT THE SAME TIME AROUND 18H-19H IN THE EVENING


Bethesda is running trough the border while getting chased by a group of ASIC border guards

"Get that mother fucker!" A guard yells

"Fuck! I should have waited the night. I threw my empty revolver to stun a guard but I got immediately spotted after doing so. And my shield can't block bullets." Bethesda thinks

"Dammit he's fast! If he manage to cross the river we can't get him!"

"Shot his leg!" Another guards yells

A guard ready his rifle and take an aim at Bethesda leg

"Fire!"

BANG

The bullet flies and reach Bethesda leg

Bethesda gaps and falls in the river

"Good shot! Let's pick him up now."

The guards reach Bethesda who is laying in the river, lifeless

"I think we killed him."

"Yeah that's suck, let's pretend that we didn't see him."

The guards leaves

[A few hours later. In the night]

"Its him? His hair grew a lot! And he's not wearing his usual clothes"

"Yeah I think its him."

Bethesda body get dragged on the other side of the river and then on a relatively hidden area

"Iffy, I think he's dead." Compa says

IF sighs"How we explains that to Histoire?"

Bethesda suddenly starts to spits water and coughing

"AAAHHHH!-" Compa scream in fear

"Shh." IF put her hand over compa mouth

Bethesda start mumbling in an untranslatable gibberish

"I wonder how he survived for that long. Quick use the Med-Pack

Compa then stabs Bethesda with a Med-pack, he convulse, Compa stab another one

"Thanks girls." Bethesda says

SMACK

IF then slaps Bethesda

"Why?" The inventor asks

"It was for throwing me outside of the tunnel, and for another reason." IF says and sighs after "But anyway its good to see you alive. Let's go."

The makers then get to the city

[The day after.]

After getting some rest: Bethesda, IF and Compa went to the Basilicom to see Histoire

"Greetings IF, Bethesda and Compa." Histoire says to them

"Hello Lady Histoire." Both Bethesda and IF says

"Hi Histy!" Compa says

"So, Bethesda where you went? That was a moment you have been gone." Histoire asks

"Well I escaped form the prison with the help of my adoptive sister." Bethesda says

"She was there?" IF asks

"Yeah she told me that she was with a mercenary group fighting for the MOD, she help me to escape when she heard that they planed to give me to the ASIC. So with a horse that she gave me, I escaped trough the mountain range but I started to starve and then someone called "THQ"

"THQ?!"

"Let him finishes." Histoire says

"Sorry."

Bethesda then resume "He Found me and he told me that he will help with my problems about magic, during that time I discovered that the reasons about the dragons body suddenly disappearing it was due to me unconsciously absorbing them and since it wasn't conscious it didn't allowed me to learn magic, but now I can control it."

"And can you do magic now?" Histoire asks

"Well a very basic thing."

Bethesda then take his helmet, he focus for a few minutes

"So?" Compa asks

"Wait." Bethesda responds

The helmet magically disappear

"Oh, its just that basic inventory spell." IF says

"Hey! Its hard to learn when you are older!" Bethesda responds in an irritated way

"He's right. Magic is a way harder to learn when the body is getting older. In general they learn when they are kids." Histoire says and she take a breath

"And I learned something very powerful."

"Really?" Both IF and Compa responds, IF then follows "Then what neptune said about you is right: you are really a generic OP OC, what's the next step? Get an harem?

Bethesda gets even more irritated "I swear if you continue like that to taunt me with neptune, I will you two force to be with me and do some "harem" things that you see in some fanfic with H scenes for no reasons."

IF thinks for a second while blushing a little "Uh I think I will stop now."

"I know you like me anyway." Bethesda winks to IF

IF blushes even more "Yeah as a friend!" IF says in a mix of anger and embarrassment, like if she was trying to hide something "Anyway just show us your trick now!" She then pass to the other subject

Both Compa and Histoire are giggling

"So it's a spell that when I yell something. It unleash a powerful shock wave, it stunned a dragon and probably can make people deaf."

"Oh, let's get outside then, I don't want to have a huge hole in the Basilicom."

They then move on the balcony, Bethesda is looking at the sky.

"So get ready!" Bethesda warns the girls "FUS RO DAH!"

"..."

"There was supposed to be something to happen?" Compa asks "all you did is just yelling something that mean nothing."

Bethesda is just standing there "Why I can't do it again?" he thinks "FUS RO DAH!" he retry but nothing happen "I swear I did something like that! Against a wyvern or I don't know!"

"Sure, sure its not like we are gonna believe you just like that." IF comments

"I agree with IF on this, I never seen someone using a "shouting magic" Histoire says to Bethesda

"I Belive you Bethesda."

"Thanks Compa." Bethesda responds "That poor girl seem quite naive even after what happened during the war. But at least she believes me." Bethesda thinks about Compa

"So, do you know how long your escapade lasted?" Histoire says

"No, not precisely at least."

"It was 2 years and a few months."

"Damn, I was away for that long."

"Its the other reason why I slapped you." IF says with a smile

"So what happened when I was away?"

"Well. The situation got worse, our shares dropped down to 11%, we are trying to fight the ASIC influence but they seem to somehow managed to turn a lot of the people for them. Well it could have gone even lower if you didn't help us before you disappeared. But if you was there you could have maybe prevented to have the share drops."

"I don't think I would have changed a lot of thing unfortunately. I'm an inventor not an influencer."

"And do you was at least aware on how hard we searched for you?" IF says

"Yeah, sorry for making you worry."

"Also we the sharicite is almost ready. We are starting to prepare the operation to rescue the goddesses. IF and Compa are gonna take part in it." Histoire says

Bethesda almost instantly responds "Can I also join."

"You are sure about it? You will be more useful in a lab then on the field."

"Its partially my fault if the goddesses are in that situation. I didn't warn them. And well it also applies to Compa at some point."

"I decided to come because Nep-Nep and Ge-Ge are also my friends!" Compa says in the same burning determination that she had during the war

"No, that's fine actually you can come too. But please don't mess it up." Histoire says

"By the way with THQ we encontered the leader of the ASIC."

"What?!"

"You heard me, her name is Magic she said that she would let THQ live if he handled me to her, well of course he refused and he decided to fight her when I could run away, and then I attempted to cross the border."

"And what happened to THQ?" Compas asks

"No idea. He told me he was in the ASIC teritory to cause them problem and he planed to die there."

Everyone stay stoic except Histoire who gasps "So its what Relic was feeling?" She thinks

After that the makers exit the Basilicom and start walk to their homes

"So Beth, how was your reunion with your adoptive sister?" Compa asks

"Well a bit unexpected, she told that she will come join me after the war ended at Lowee."

"About that, the war ended."

"So who won?"

"Well, a few months before we found you. The MOD concluded a cease fire with Lowee. Yet the 4 nations governments doesn't recognize them as an independent nation. Only the ASIC recognized them. Their territory is at near all of the east of Lowee."

"Oh. Including the global expo?"

"Yes."

"You know, things were gone pretty bad in gamindustri, Planeptune due to the war with the ASIC got billions of credits of damages, Lastation same thing but due to a terrorist attacks and Lowee lost a third of their territory in a deadly war..." Compa says

"And about Leanbox?"

"They have to deal with piracy."

"Yeah its basically what we are all doing no?"

"No I mean there is literally pirates."

"Yeah its what we call people who do piracy."

"No I mean on the sea! Bandits sailors!" IF says

"Oh. Well I guess that… War, War never changes."

The rest of the trip is silent, they arrive to Bethesda apartment after minutes of walking

"Well here I am. Thanks again girls." Bethesda says

"Its my job." IF says

"Its okay we are friends!" Compa says

"By the way IF, can I ask you something?" Bethesda asks

"Yes?" IF responds

"Can you help me learning magic?"

"...Nope."

"Why?"

"I'm too busy to teach you anything, and since we are at equal power I don't want you to become even more powerful than me like that."

"Okay then I will ask Histoire then."

IF and Compa start walking away

"Oh and wanna come with us? I'm going at my home with IF, wanna come instead of just going alone in your apartment?"

"No, that's fine. And I already slept enough with you two, especially IF. And i also need to think alone about some things. Goodnight girls."

"Well see ya! Compa says

Bethesda waves at them and start walking inside the building while Compa and IF continue to walk away


An inventor tale part 1 Vol3: Dragon soul

THE END


Well and this is the end of the first part of the story, the next part is gonna takes place in re:birth2 (or at least this AU equivalent, there is so much thing that happened that might change some things).

This chapter is a way longer (more than 4k but its also because I wanted to make a proper end to the part.) and it was supposed to be finished earlier, well if you wonder is that it have something to do with r/place

So about the 2nd part is going to be more focused on the makers that on the goddesses (and probably the whole fanfic is gonna be like that.) its also gonna have potentially less chapters but more volumes

I was planing to take a little break before starting the 2nd part, in between I'm gonna make an extra chapter about Id, its probably not the last one i'm gonna do, I will explains more the concept of the extra chapters once i'm gonna make this one

I also planned to make a joke chapter in the 1st April but I was too busy to work on it so its quite canceled (at least until the next year.)

And lastly I was planing to make a crossover fanfic that unlike this one, its quite a meme fanfic which is 100% parody and nothing is serious, just to make fun of fanfics in general: Its about shaggy that get isekaied into gamindustri. I will work on that, I planed it to be a short one tough because I might repeat myself on the joke.

And most importantly you can see that I gave a specific title to game publishers: they are called administrators and they can also transform, tough it doesn't make them god or goddesses since it doesn't work with shares unlike the CPU's. But it will be also very important for later (in the equivalent of Victory II)

Well i'm still open to criticism so don't hesitate to leave a review to say what you thought of the first parts (and maybe make a ranking of the 3 first volumes) so I can improve myself or leave one if you guys got a question (I will maybe not responds directly to some questions since it might spoils what I planed for the story tough) even if the chances of me getting reviews are quite low considering the medium number of people who read it but it doesn't matter.

WELL THANKS FOR READING AND SEE YA LATER!


BONUS SCENE


Compa and IF continue to walk away form the building where Bethesda lives

"What he meant by especially IF?" Compa asks

IF face changes to a small shock on her face "Uh. Nothing sexual if you wonder."

Compa raise an eyebrow (Vine boom sound plays)