"Well, we definitely started out in a big way with our time here." Frosta said. "We met a media star and a pretty eccentric and likable oddball who was raised by a robot."

"Despite what happened before, I think it's great we met Shiki, Rebecca and Happy's identical twin. Shiki seems to really wanna go on an adventure, and we can give it to him." Hope said.

"Though it looks like he has his attention elsewhere." Ace said as Shiki was staring at a holographic cube before Rebecca clicked her pendant as it split into multiple ones.

"That big square…it exploded into little squares." Shiki said in awe as a video of Happy-2 and Rebecca in a cat outfit started playing.

"You're watching Rebecca and Happy's…" Rebecca started. "Aoneko Channel!" she and Happy-2 said at the same time. "Meow wow!"

Shiki looked at Rebecca and Happy-2 before turning back to the cube. "Meow wow."

"Don't mock us!" Rebecca said with angry white eyes.

"Is he imitating us?" Happy-2 asked.

"So…." Adora said looking at the video, trying to ease the situation. "This is B-Cube, right?"

"Yup, and this cube I'm holding allows me to tape, host, or even watch a lot of videos." Rebecca said. "And we're not the only ones who do these videos. There's lots of B-Cubers just like us."

"And the more people watch our videos, the more we get paid." Happy-2 added.

"That's so awesome!" Shiki said before trying to look under Video Rebecca's skirt before the cube shifted and only showed her upper half.

"What, you thought this thing wouldn't have censors?" DW typed.

"Yeah, there are a bunch of anti-pervert firewalls for guys like you." Rebecca said.

"Sanji's a good example." Simon whispered.

"So you two go all over the Sakura Cosmos and find cool stuff to make videos on?" Eddy asked.

"It's more than that, we get to explore all sorts of planets we normally never get to see." Rebecca said, showing pictures of different planets before stopping on a particular one of Shiki with his arm around Michael as she quickly closed it. "Sorry."

"Shiki…" Ace said, putting a hand on his shoulder.

Shiki put his hand on top of Ace's as assurance and then headed to the window. "I'm gonna make 100 friends in the universe… no, more than that!" he said with happy confidence. "I'll do whatever it takes, and search every planet out there!"

"You're pretty serious about that dream. If you're gonna go all over the galaxy, we should probably get you set so you can travel without limits. Rebecca, is there any way to get Shiki cleared to travel all over the cosmos?" Vashyron asked.

"Yeah, I know just the place. Planet Blue Garden." Rebecca said. "We'll take him to get registered for an Adventurer's license."

"Wow, so even the Future Universe has Adventurer Guilds!" Steven said.

"Looks like you're all covered, Shiki." Hope said.

"I'm gonna be an adventurer! Meow-wow!" Shiki said in excitement.

"Don't do that." Mermista said.

"Hahaha. I like this kid!" Goutou said.

"So, what do I do until I get registered?" Shiki asked.

"What do you think about being our personal bodyguard?" Rebecca asked. "You guys can come along too if you want."

"That is true, we only know so much about the Sakura Cosmos, so traveling with you could help us learn more about it." Shantae said.

"(I'm not sure it's a good idea to tell Rebecca about our search for Sunstar. We don't wanna risk putting her in danger.)" Hope thought. "(It's better to just have fun while we're working.) So then Rebecca, why don't you show us the way to Planet Blue Garden?"

"Here, I'll upload the coordinates." Rebecca said, transferring Blue Garden's coordinates to the Galaxy King's main hub.

From there, it didn't take long for the heroes, Shiki, Rebecca and Happy-2 to arrive on Planet Blue Garden, the Planet of Adventurers. On the surface of the planet was a giant futuristic city with water streams and spheres floating above and around it.

"This place is huge!" Shiki said. "There's nothing but big buildings everywhere! And all these people. Do you think they all would like to be my friend?"

"I get the feeling Shiki's gonna need some lessons on how to make friends properly." Zephyr said to Princess Twilight.

"Luckily, I have plenty of them." Princess Twilight said.

"Hey…what's that?" Jexi asked, pointing to a large hologram of some sort of feminine entity.

"Mother…the greatest legend of the Future Universe. She's rumored to have created it all. This Universe, Cyan, the color god, all of it." Jet said.

"Huh. That's quite an interesting bit of detail." David said.

"She's just as this book depicts her." Simon said. "She's able to grant any wish who meets her."

"I think…I've met her before." Shiki said.

"Hahaha! That kid and those idiots think Mother's real!" one of the guys said as a number of them started pointing and laughing.

"Is there something you find funny?" Spade said with a hidden glare that stopped them cold.

"Are we gonna have a problem sir?" a guard said approaching Spade. "Move along, before we make you move."

"Spade, I think you should take it easy." Hope said.

"My apologies." Spade said.

"Let them think the way they want. Their words are none of our concern." David said. "Best thing to do is to just ignore them."

"Yes, they are not worth the effort." Spade said.

They soon left the building.

"Why were those guys laughing earlier? Do you think they'll still wanna be my friend?" Shiki asked.

"Look…this is a hard lesson, but not everyone is a good friend to have." Gray said.

"Yeah. It all depends on judge of character." Francisca said.

"You just gotta keep at it." Happy-2 said before he, Happy, Carla and Pantherlily were trapped in glass by some guy before he rocketed off with them.

"What the heck?!" they said.

"What luck. Rare cats from Excede. They're mine now." he said.

"Excuse me, sir. I believe you fancy yourself quite the researcher. Cats from Excede, hm?" David asked, playing along with his ignorance. "Well, unfortunately, we've kind of grown attached to them, so if you don't mind…"

"Give them back!" Shiki yelled as he was running across the buildings.

"Damn it, what's with these guys?" the thug asked himself as he kicked his ride into high gear and raced ahead.

"So uncivilized…" David said as he revved up his motorcycle and gave chase.

"What? You still have an antique like that?" the thug laughed. "You must be way out of style if you're riding around in that!"

"You can't beat the classics." David said. "Besides, least on mine, I won't be brought down crashing to the ground."

"The hell are you…" he said before Shiki grabbed on.

"Magimech Attack! Gravity Center!" Shiki called out, forcing the bike and them to crash down into the ground.

"Aw man, Bro paid for that…" the thug groaned as he got up, the Excede still inside the glass. Noticing the crowd around them, he pulled out a pistol and shot it into the air. "If you all know what's good for you, then get out of here!"

"Happy's! Carla! Pantherlily! Are you guys okay?" Shiki asked.

"Happy? That's a weird name to give twin cats." the thug said.

"It is not weird! It's perfect cause Natsu/Rebecca gave it to me." they both said.

"What's going on?" a voice said as a large man with bolts in his head approached with other thugs.

"Whoa! Is that a human?!" Shiki said.

"Bro! Look what I found! Cats from Planet Excede!" the thug said.

"Wow! You brought back something valuable. Cats from that planet always go for lots of cash." he said.

"Give back our friends!" Rebecca said as she caught up with the others.

"Like I said, we've gotten attached to them. So let them go now, and no one gets hurt." David said.

"You heard the man, hand our friends back to us, or this is gonna get ugly." Al said.

"No way. These cats are worth lots of money." the thug leader said.

"Hope that money goes to your hospital bills, then." David said. "Cuz you just might need it."

"Boss, these guys use some strange powers. And I think the blond is some guy who likes old junky stuff." the thug said.

"Hmm…probably Ether Gear. Hmm…if I whack someone like that…I'll be famous!" the thug leader said, bringing out a large Gatling gun as he started firing randomly all across the street.

"Take cover!" Archer said as the group members blocked and dodged out of the way of the gunfire.

"Hey, take it easy Bro, we're still in the line of fire!" the thug holding the Exceed called out, until he fell and broke open their cases.

"Happy!" Rebecca called out to her Happy.

"Rebecca!" Happy-2 cried out.

"Let's…make them pay." Rebecca said as Happy-2 started beeping as he soon transformed into a pair of twin pistols.

"What the what?!" Mari asked.

"Her Happy is… a robot?!" Gemini asked.

"Now…I'm gonna make them pay for kidnapping you!" Rebecca said as she opened fire on the thugs, landing perfect headshots on each of them.

"This girl is not like Lucy. She's totally crazy!" Natsu said. "And I am joining in. No one takes my Happy either!" he said, joining in on the beat down.

"Doesn't matter how many of them there are!" the thug leader said adding two more turrets to his Gatling gun before resuming the firing.

Everyone evaded the shots as Shiki floated himself and Rebecca into the air.

"You should have a clear shot from here." Shiki smirked.

Rebecca smiled devilishly. "Your Gatling gun is fast…but my Happy Blasters are faster!" she said, firing at the leader, taking him down before gunning down the first thug that started the trouble. "Oh, and no worries. These are ether bullets so they won't kill you. But I can't promise they won't sting." she said, acting cute.

"You know…looking at her…I really don't think she needs bodyguards." Jexi said.

"Ditto." Ace added.

"Yep. She seems pretty capable of handling herself." David said.

"So Happy-2 is a robot? I didn't even sense he was a machine." Keebo said.

"Yep. There are others like me out there. I was in an accident a while back. That's why my whole body's a machine now." Happy-2 said.

"But that doesn't change who he is inside." Rebecca said.

"That's something we can all agree on." Pearl said. "Now that that's done with, we should probably get back to having Shiki registered."

"Right…the reason we came here." Jexi said.

"Yeah." Jet said. "We're just lucky it was some petty thugs and not some high rollers."

"High rollers?" Jexi asked.

"This part of the galaxy…has the six deadliest crooks you've ever seen. Each of them are terrifying. They're known collectively…as the Oracion Seis Galactica." Jet said.

"Oracion Seis? Hey, isn't that the name Cobra's group used to go by before they joined Spectra?" Bow asked.

"Come to think of it, I recall another world that had a group of the same name." Spade said.

"Yeah…definitely a work of Mashima. See, in the real world where I'm from, he likes to reuse classic names and faces from his older works into his newer ones." Lan said. "Though try not to think too deeply about it. It may break your minds."

"That explains a lot." Shantae said.

"So these three worlds share the same universe basically." Stoj said.

"Not really. Two of the worlds: Natsu's and the one Spade's thinking of are in the Magic Universe. This one is in the Future Universe." Lan said.

"Well, this world does have a bit more of a sci-fi feel." Sachiko said.

"Anyway, let's not get too much into it. We gotta get Shiki signed up to be an Adventurer, don't we? Let's start there and see where we go from there." Hope said.

"Yeah, let's go!" Noel said.

From the distance, three figures observed the group, and among them spotted The Darksquad.

"They're alive…" one of them said.

"It is a relief to see they're alright." another said.

"So what now?" the third asked.

"For now we wait until the right moment to reveal ourselves. After all, we owe them for what they did for us." the second figure said. "Glory to Mankind."

In a different part of the cosmos…

"Princess!" a grunt said. "It's the son or grandson of the demon king! He's left Granbell and was sighted on Blue Garden!"

"Are you sure?" a woman asked.

"Yes! Positive!" he said before the woman rose up. Her appearance was similar to Erza's except she wore all black and had an eye patch over her right eye.

"The time has come." she said.

Oracion Seis Galactica

Captain of the Skull Fairy

Elsie Crimson