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Author's note: Originally posted by Anon e Mouse Jr. on 2018-01-20. This is the first of two chapters posted today.

Disney/Kingdom Hearts Loops, Chapter Twenty-Eight

28.1 (Harry Leferts): [Kantai Collection] / [Frozen]

The Special Destroyer Fubuki sat up in her bed with a gasp. After a moment, she blinked as she looked around. 'I... What? This isn't my room...' Suddenly she groaned a bit as she felt a bunch of memories in her head. 'I'm Princess Rebecca? Bucky?' Getting up, Fubuki walked over to a mirror and looked at the girl in it. 'Is this some sort of dream? Or... Was what happened before a dream?'

Gently, she touched her fingers to the mirror and hissed as ice formed before it began to crawl across the surface. Quickly, she yanked her fingers back before looking at them. 'That... Didn't feel like it was a dream...' Reaching up, Fubuki took a deep breath as she rubbed at her brow. 'The last thing I remember was greeting the Admiral and then... I woke up here? But I also remember going to sleep in this bed last night... I...' Sliding down, Fubuki groaned as she held her head in her hands. "What is going on here...?"

Anna frowned as she watched her "Sister" walk around. Things had gone mostly according to baseline. Except the queen wasn't Elsa, but someone else. Worse, sometimes the person was distracted. Resolving herself, Anna walked up to the girl replacing Elsa and tapped her on the shoulder. "Can I talk to you in private, Rebecca?"

Blinking, the girl nodded a bit. "Of course, Omou... I mean, sister."

And that was another thing that gave Anna some clues, sometimes her sister spoke Japanese before correcting herself. Once they were in a locked room, Anna turned toward her sister with a frown. "Can I ask if you've experienced anything... Odd?"

Her voice slightly strangled, the other girl stared at her. "O-odd? How do?"

Crossing she arms across her chest, Anna raised an eyebrow. "Like time repeating?" At the confused blink, she frowned a bit more. "You know, as if events happened that you remember but haven't?"

Now she had the other girl's attention. "There was this one odd dream, or I thought that it was a dream until I was able to do it... But you'll think it's silly..."

Feeling like she was getting somewhere, Anna took a step forward. "What sort of dream, Becky? And what are you able to do?"

Almost a minute passed before Becky took a deep breath and began to pace. "I had the oddest dream a few years ago, which has stuck with me ever since. In it, I was a Destroyer, the Fubuki. But decades after I was sunk, I returned after being called to help against these beings known as Abyssals..."

While she continued, Anna's eyes widened. 'Okay... This I didn't expect...' Anna waited until she was done, but was further surprised when it seemed like metal parts of a ship manifested themselves around the young woman in front of her. "Oh wow..."

Reaching out, Anna touched it as the person who had replaced Elsa frowned. "You're not freaked out?"

With a chuckle, Anna shook her head. "Nope! In fact, I can tell you that wasn't a dream... And neither is this." Seeing the confusion, she shook her head. "See, it begins with this giant tree..."

28.2 (katfairy): [My Little Pony] / [Sleeping Beauty] (also compiled in MLP Time Loops as Loop 180.10)

The naming ceremony was underway, and everything was going smoothly. Which is why not a single Awake Looper was surprised when a gout of black and green flames erupted in the center of the room. Cadance and Shining Armor sighed and stood ready to protect their daughter, Twilight Sparkle readied a spell, and everyone went through their usual preparations for dealing with shenanigans. They were a little surprised when the flames died down to reveal a tall human woman dressed in black, carrying a staff with a crow/raven perched on top of it.

Maleficent.

She started to speak, blinked, looked around. With a frown, she reached into a dagged-edged sleeve and pulled out a paper.

"Oh, 'swirl, then thump.' Well, that explains it." She turned to face the Royal Couple, bowing. "Do forgive me; I seem to have gotten my directions a bit confused. I've ended up at the wrong christening. Since I'm here, though, and since this is clearly a special child- heir to the throne?- yes, I thought as much- I could curse her instead if you like? After all, she has to grow up with some overwhelming obstacle in her way. The curse I've got prepared is hardly appropriate in this setting, but I'm sure I could come up with something that would do."

There was a moment of stunned silence, the Twilight stepped forward.

"That's very kind of you, but we've already got an ancient prophecy, and-" She would have continued, but Maleficent held up a slim hand.

"Say no more; I understand perfectly. Tiresome things, prophecies; you hardly need a curse on top of that. In that case, I really must get going. Again, I do apologize for interrupting."

And she was gone. Shining backed down, shooting his sister a look.

"We'd been going along just fine, and suddenly we're in one of those Loops."

"'Fraid so."

"Any reason why you didn't stop her?"

"I knew we were in a Fused Loop early on and checked; Aurora's been replaced."

"Oh?"

"Ramoth."

"Oh." Shining grinned with more and seemingly pointier teeth than a pony should have, then turned to the crowd. "Okay, where were we?"

28.3 (GMBlackjack): [Gravity Falls]

Yggdrasil rather often decide to take the symbols of the zodiac literally, and that ended up giving the Gravity Falls Loopers… unusual powers.

Dipper could actually grow pine trees at will at this point, summoning them like spiky weapons.

Mabel shot stars. She also shot kitten fists and rainbows. Dipper still wasn't sure if the kitten fists are part of the symbol or just her being her.

Wendy, the elusive ice bag, had been bestowed with ice powers, able to control the cold around her.

Robbie was given the twofold ability to completely destroy any love in the area (which he rarely used) and summon vast seas of blood to conquer his opponents.

"TREMBLE BEFORE ME FOR I HAVE COVERED YOU IN BLOOD TIDAL WAVES! AHAHAHAHAHHA!"

He took it a little too far sometimes.

Pacifica, to her initial annoyance, became good with animals (particularly llamas). She could, with a snap of her fingers, get any animal to listen to her and do what she wanted. Warrior princess riding a llama had happened more than one time. Warrior princess trying to teach a llama to drive had only happened once.

Gideon simply became an actual psychic, able to know things that he shouldn't be able to, able to levitate certain things, and even able to see out of some of Bill's "eyes," though the eldritch triangle objected to this.

Soos could confuse people just by pointing at them. Usually this was only enhanced by what he said normally.

McGucket had learned to use his eyes to see any kind of force, magic, light, or even things that shouldn't exist. He could see everything through his magic lenses. It actually made him seem more crazy.

"I SEE A TOOTIN BANJO RIGHT THERE!" Nobody else saw anything, but the banjo really was there. It was a mental afterimage from McGucket playing it two days ago.

Ford's symbol had represented itself in a few ways. First off, Ford was able to generate giant hands to manipulate things of almost any size, able to make as many six-fingered hands as he wanted out of any material. It also gave him an astounding capability to remember and record information in his mind, making the jPad simply something he kept for his own pleasure and for the benefit of others.

And Stan…

"Grunkle Stan?"

"Yes Pumpkin?"

"What does your symbol do? What even is it?"

"Well, Mabel, you see it gave me a really powerful ability."

"What's that?"

"The ability to keep eating snacks for eternity without getting any fatter."

And like a fish eating food, Stan threw another piece of popcorn in his mouth. "See?"

Mabel nodded seriously.

28.4 (Vinylshadow): [Kingdom Hearts] / [Prototype]

Roxas stared at the hooded figure who had been stalking him for the past few days.

"Axel?" he hazarded.

"Alex, actually," the figure replied.

"Are you part of the Organization? A Nobody?"

"That...is a pretty good question, actually. You see, I'm technically a sentient supervirus who took on the face of the man who created me. So, in some way, I guess I'm a Nobody."

"What was the name of your... uh... creator?"

"Alex Mercer."

"So you took his face and name."

"And body and mind. Well... kinda. He was a crazy sociopath who wanted people dead."

"You're making my head hurt."

"Believe me, trying to make sense of your world isn't a walk in the park either."

28.5 (Vinylshadow): [Kingdom Hearts] / [Prototype]

"So you're Axel?"

"Yup. And you're Alex?"

"Yup."

"...Normally, when you become a member of the Organization, we rearrange the letters in your name and add an X in it. Xigbar the Freeshooter was Braig, Xaldin the Whirlwind Lancer was Dilan, Vexen the Chilly Academic was Even, Lexaeus the Taciturn Stalwart was Aeleus, Zexion the Cloaked Schemer was Ienzo, Saïx, the Luna Diviner was Isa, yours truly the Flurry of Dancing Flames was Lea. Demyx, Luxord, Marluxia and Larxene are currently unknown, but we can make a few guesses as to what their names used to be."

Alex blinked and shook his head. "What's with the fancy titles?"

Axel pouted. "What? Don't you have some way of introducing yourself? Or do you simply call yourself Alex Mercer?"

"I'm the Blacklight Virus given human form and memories."

"So you're Laxer Creme, the Blacklight Virus."

"No."

"Well, there's "Mr. Cereal" but that kinda ruins the naming scheme."

"Screw you."

"Take me to dinner first."

28.6 (GMBlackjack): [My Little Pony] / [Warhammer 40K] / [Gravity Falls] (also compiled in MLP Time Loops as part of the MLP Loops - Gravity Falls chapter)

"I call this meeting of Chaos Gods anonymous to order!" Pinkie yelled clapping her hooves. Slaanesh, Tzeentch, and Nurgle joined in. Khorne just grunted, obviously a tad bored. Bill did nothing aside from looking like he really didn't want to be here. The chair reserved for Discord was empty, with only an kumquat in it. Nobody questioned this.

"Now Bill…" Pinkie said, turning to Bill. "How have you been dealing with your chaotic desires the last few Loops?"

"HAVEN'T UNLEASHED UNIMAGINABLE TERROR AND HAVE BEEN DOING A GOOD JOB SUPPRESSING THE CHAOTIC DESIRES. I'VE DONE WHAT I WAS TOLD. WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO DO?"

Slaanesh ticked. "Oooooh… you're fallen into suppression. Not good…"

"…WHAT?"

Tzeentch nodded. "By nature we are chaotic beings. If we try to suppress our nature, we lose our minds in the most damaging of ways. Apocalypse causing ways. It will also wrench at your very soul, tearing you apart from within."

Nurgle agreed. "Trust me, we would know."

Khorne grunted. "Remember that I wasn't awake at that point-"

Tzeentch let out a snort. "And that changes the point of this how?"

Slaanesh chuckled. "He's just trying to salvage his dignity before we get into the details. Why I remember-"

Pinkie held up a hoof. "We are not here to tell embarrassing stories of each other. That's for next meeting. We are here today to assist Bill in his adaptations."

Khorne grunted. "Still don't see why we don't just smash sense into him."

Pinkie facehooved. "Khorne, you know that wouldn't work."

"It works a lot more often than you'd think."

"I DO AGREE WITH THE BLOOD GOD. SMASHING WOULD BE VASTLY PREFERABLE."

Tzeentch grinned a very evil grin. "He would prefer the smashing. That means we're doing it right."

"I OBJECT TO MY DISCOMFORT BEING A CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS."

Slaanesh smirked. "Didn't you revel in the discomfort of others baseline?"

"THAT'S BESIDE THE POINT. I WASN'T TRYING TO MAKE THEIR LIVES BETTER-"

Pinkie unfolded a scroll. "I will make a new world, a fun world. A party that never stops with a host that never dies." She looked up. "This is from your speech with baseline Ford, trying to argue your case to him. You did believe you were making the world better."

Bill was silent.

Tzeentch spoke up. "Now Bill, Chaos God of Alien Geometries and Random Weirdness, we're here to teach you have to be a Chaos God that other Loopers can live with without completely denying your nature. Chaos is just a part of reality as anything else, but like everything in existence, too much of it is bad for you."

"Except for-" Slaanesh began.

"I do not need to hear any of your perverse arguments right now." Tzeentch interrupted. "It'll go against the whole point of this. Bill, you do not have to deny yourself. You can have your fun, you can use your powers for your own enjoyment. You can prank others and laugh at their expense."

"In fact we recommend it." Pinkie said, grinning. "PARTY PRANKS FOR ALL! Show your fellow loopers what it feels like to have confetti pelt them in the face from all directions at once!"

"…most Loopers' faces do not point every direction." Khorne observed.

"TRUST ME, IT'S RATHER EASY TO MAKE A FACE POINT ALL DIRECTIONS. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WRAP THEM AROUND A DIMENSIONAL CONSTRUCT AND BLAST AWAY."

Tzeentch nodded. "The triangle is right. Care to elaborate Bill?"

"WELL FIRST YOU'D HAVE TO ADAPT AROUND A FIFTH-DIMENSIONAL MATRIX. I'D RECOMMEND USING SOME KIND OF FLESHY ROPE FOR CREEPINESS FACTOR AND…"

As Bill monologued, Pinkie smiled. Progress.

"So how was the meeting?" Ford asked.

"IT WAS FUN! And AMAZING! And we did a lot of discussion of multidimensional pranks!"

"YOU LOT ARE SO DOOMED IT ISN'T EVEN FUNNY." Bill chuckled. Pinkie grinned.

Ford was mildly scared. "Well, the Stan o War is ready for another launch. Ready to explore the world?"

"OF COURSE!" Pinkie yelled.

Stan, from the boat, yelled back. "WOULD YOU GET THEM IN HERE? THE PORTAL'S FREAKING OUT AGAIN!"

Ford rolled his eyes. "Coming Stanley!" He ran in, to see the portal activate and deposit a grey unicorn mare on the ground.

Ford nodded. As expected. It was Littlepip again. She always arrived somehow just before the Stan o War took off. And she was always ready for adventure. This was the fifth time it had happened.

He walked into a hallway, making sure he was alone. Then he called Bill.

"Quite the coincidence that she has appeared again, isn't it?"

"YEAH, TOTALLY IS SIXER. GUESS THE TREE THINKS THE STAN O WAR NEEDS TO CONTINUALLY BE CREWED BY THE SAME CREW, REGARDLESS OF REGULATIONS-"

"It's not Yggdrasil doing this." Ford said, tapping a wall absent-mindedly.

"OH?" Bill said, a hint of concern in his voice.

"Yggdrasil, while connection forming, does not generate non-Loopers whenever they are needed every time without fail. Sometimes, yes. But five times in a row? Yggdrasil is not that orderly. Not that predictable."

"WHAT POSSIBLE EXPLANATION COULD THERE BE SIXER? IT'S NOT LIKE ANY OF US CAN JUST REACH INTO THE CODE OF YGGDRASIL AND PULL HER OUT. THAT'D BE ABSURD! YOU THINK TOO HARD-"

"You're storing her within the TriNet." Ford said, turning to stare at the triangle before him. "It makes sense, she appears every time this crew gets together, you are the only one who is always present, and it's the only way there could possibly be enough space to store her. Trying to store her in any single Looper mind could be disastrous as her personality evolves and changes. However, your Net is not a single Looper mind." He turned back to Bill. "You are sacrificing your valuable storage space for someone who was just a solidified dream when you met her!"

Bill was silent.

"Why?" Ford asked.

"SHE'S FUN AND DESTRUCTIVE, AND I HAVE PLENTY OF EXTRA SPACE NOW THAT I DON'T NEED TO COME UP WITH SOME GRAND MASTER PLAN. IT WASN'T A BIG DEAL ANYWAY, DIDN'T WANT TO TELL YOU KNUCKLEHEADS THOUGH BECAUSE YOU'D HAVE THIS EXACT REACTION."

Ford knew Bill wasn't telling the entire truth, but he decided to let it slide. "Alright. I just wanted an explanation."

"GOOD SIXER, NOW EXCUSE ME I HAVE A… THING TO ATTEND TO."

The sound of Stan screaming and Pinkie laughing could be heard coming from down the hallway.

Bill chuckled, beginning to float away.

"Bill?" Ford asked.

"WHAT NOW-"

"Thank you."

Bill blinked, stunned into silence. Wordlessly he turned around, drifting away.

Ford smiled. There was hope for that triangle. There really was hope. He was very surprised.

28.7 (Harry Leferts): [Inside Out] / [Kantai Collection]

Riley Awoke to find herself standing on water saluting a group of people, some of whom she recognized as wearing United States Navy uniforms as her mouth continued to speak. "USS Riley, DE-579 reporting." Blinking at that, she looked herself over and noticed that she had parts of a ship on her as if it was a costume. What looked like a mini naval cannon was strapped to the top of one hand with her middle finger through a hoop-like trigger. Something told Riley that pressing the trigger would be very bad at that moment. 'I'm... a ship?'

A moment later, she shook it off as the man wearing a USN Admiral's uniform nodded as he stood beside a Japanese man in a different uniform. "Welcome back to the world of the living, Riley. I think that I speak for all of us when I say that we're glad to see you."

Hearing the cheers, Riley blushed some and hooked the cannon to her side. "Uh, it's good to be back, Sir..." While she slowly made her way across the water toward the ladder, a form of movement that made her think of skating on the ice, Riley frowned. 'Uh, guys? Are any of you there?'

Seconds later, she heard Joy's voice inside of her head as she felt a warmth that made her smile. 'Yes, we're all here, Riley. And Awake... I have to say, this is...'

For a brief flash, she felt terror welling up as Fear shouted. 'THIS IS HORRIBLE! WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE AND-'

With a frown on her face as she reached the ladder, Riley could feel some annoyance. 'Never mind him, Riley. He's just freaking out because the mindscape's changed... somehow. Place looks like some kind of ship bridge...'

Now fully onto the ladder which groaned under her for a second, Riley blinked as the ship parts on her vanished in a cloud of sparkles before she shrugged it off. 'O... kaaay... I think that I'll have to get back to you guys...'

Reaching the top, Riley grasped the offered hand and was hoisted up to where the Admiral was waiting. After a moment, he nodded. "Let me introduce myself, I'm Admiral Richardson of the joint forces. Beside me, is Admiral Goto of the JMSDF..."

As she listened, Riley nodded along as she could somehow hear her emotions going through her memories. However, any thoughts was suddenly stopped as a brown haired woman shoved her face nearly into Riley's and made her stumble back. "Whaaaa!"

Before she fell back though, she felt her wrist clasped tightly and easily pulled back before the woman smiled at her. "Hi! I'm glad to meet you, I'm the Fast Battleship Kongou! Lead ship of the Kongou class!"

Still slightly shocked, Riley swallowed down a quick burst of fear and gave a shaky smile. "I'm Riley, fifth of the Rudderow class I guess..."

Kongou hummed as there was a slight twinkle in her eye before she nodded. "Nice to meet you, Dess! Now I think that I should be getting you to the mess hall!" Twisting, she grabbed Riley's wrist and began to drag her along. "I'll take care of this, Tei-to-kuuu!~"

All Goto did was facepalm and groan. "Dammit, Kongou..."

Meanwhile, Kongou dragged Riley out of sight of the various amused and bemused sailors and into the hall before she slowed down. Then Riley felt a Ping and sent one back as Kongou watched her with one eye closed. "You Awake and feeling Loopy, Dess?"

Eyes wide, Riley just nodded. "I. uh, am Loopy, but also well Anchored..." Reaching out, she shook Kongou's hand. "I'm Riley Andersen of the Inside-Out Branch."

Taking her hand in her's, Kongou nodded and shook it. "I'm the Anchor of the Shipgirl Branch, Dess!"

Still confused as she continued to walk beside the other girl, Riley coughed a bit. "So, uh... where are we going?"

Her head tilted to the side, Kongou raised a finger. "We're going to the Mess hall. You'll be needing food very soon."

Before Riley could ask, suddenly she bent over in pain from hunger as her stomach growled. It felt as if she had not eaten for more than a week. Suddenly, she felt a pastry shoved into her mouth and she quickly chewed and swallowed, it helping relieve her hunger pains by a small amount. "Mmm, wha-"

Once more, she felt some more food shoved into her mouth by Kongou who sped up with her. This time, by the point she swallowed they were in the mess and Kongou was a whirlwind of activity before piling a plate high with various foods and placing it in front of Riley. "Go on, eat, Dess."

Riley just stared at the enormous amount of food as Disgust could be heard in her head. 'Ugh, does she really expect for you to eat all that? That's going to make you just balloon.' More hunger pains shot through Riley before Disgust sighed. 'On the other hand...'

Slowly, Riley began to dig into the pile of food as Kongou began to explain what was going on. 'Wait... evil spirits in the form of warships have risen up and taken over the world's oceans... and only the spirits of warships past can fight them? Spirits like us?'

Inside her head, Anger scowled. 'She's telling the truth... besides, you got a new Core Memory.' He then glanced out the screen as a new island formed, this one looking more like a pool with a ship floating in it. 'Ask her what's the deal with those guns.'

Swallowing what seemed like half a chicken, Riley took a drink of soda and then sighed before asking. Raising an eyebrow, Kongou sipped her tea. "Your weapons function the same the weapons the warship that you represent had. They make look small, but they hit with the same punch. Though unlike the originals, they can harm spiritual beings, Dess."

That caused all activity in Riley's mind to come to a halt before she slowly looked up. "Spiritual beings...?"

With a nod, Kongou smiled. "Dess!"

Mouth dry, Riley swallowed. "Could they... hurt something like the Slenderman?"

Frowning, Kongou slowly nodded again. "Dess, they could hurt the Slenderman as it is a spiritual being." Now it was Kongou's turn to be confused as Riley grinned and cheered before the Battleship's eyes narrowed. 'I wonder if...'

Having finished eating enough that a large family would have been stuffed, Riley felt comfortably full. 'I still can't believe how much I ate...'

Inside her head, Sadness sighed a bit and Riley felt some regret about leaving the mess hall. 'I wish that we could have kept eating for a while...'

Anger scoffed a bit. 'Considering everything we've heard, we ate more than enough.'

Suddenly, DIsgust spoke up. 'I suppose that we should be happy that we don't need to worry about getting fat no matter how much we eat...' Then Riley could feel her grimace. 'Though why you are eating those things...'

With a shrug, Riley bit down on last bit of the steel ingot covered in motor oil in her hand before chewing the mouthful. 'They're strangely good for some reason. Like one of those chocolate covered cookies or something.' Swallowing, Riley let out a soft sigh. 'Which is really weird now that I think about it.'

Giggles could be heard inside her head before Joy spoke up. 'Well, Disgust just threw her hands into the air.'

Nodding, Riley couldn't help but smile a bit. 'So did any of you find anything out while I was...'

It was a moment later, she felt her smile widen just a bit as Joy laughed a bit. 'Stuffing your face? Yeah, we found quite a bit out.'

There was a chomping sound and for some odd reason, Riley had the image of an annoyed Anger chomping on a cigar. 'For one thing, more than just Headquarters looks like a ship's bridge. The mind workers are all still there of course, but... you also got what seems like a crew.'

Blinking, Riley concentrated and she could somehow feel boots hitting the deck as various crewmembers walked through her halls. She could also feel the food in her stomach somehow being made into bunker oil for her fuel tanks, ammunition for her guns, and the galley being filled with supplies. If she had not been used to it due to her emotions, she would have found it rather uncomfortable. As it was though, Riley only nodded and accepted it easily. 'Yeah, I can feel them.'

Inside of Headquarters, Anger sighed as Fear gave another scream and ran out of the way of what he knew was an amused, though no real features were visible, shadowy human who checked some of the new instruments. 'Yeah, just great.'

A moment later, Riley was snapped out of her thoughts as Kongou leaned down and stuck her face just inches from Riley's own. "Are you okay, Dess?"

Jumping back a bit, Riley held a hand to her chest as she tried to ignore Fear for a moment. "Don't do that!" However, all Kongou did was smile as Riley calmed down. "Um, right, sorry about that I was just talking with my emotions."

That caused Kongou to blink a bit and hum. "Your emotions?"

Her hands in her pockets, Riley took a moment to look herself over as she passed by a mirror. On her was an outfit that was a cross between a Naval uniform and a schoolgirl uniform, her yellow sweater jacket over it. Something that caused Disgust to grumble. "Yeah, my emotions. In my branch emotions are like, tiny little people who live in your mind and help control you during day to day life."

Kongou only nodded at that. "Like a shipgirl's Bridge Command Crew?" At the nod, she smiled and patted Riley on the back. "Sounds normal, Dess. If anyone not looping asks, just say that you're talking with your bridge. No one will give it a second glance."

It was then that Riley noticed that they were outside what looked like a classroom from the 1940s and blinked. "What is this place?"

Placing a hand on Riley's shoulder, Kongou steered her into the room and gestured around it. "Since this was on the way to the Destroyer Dormitories, I thought that I should show you. This is the Destroyer Classroom and here you'll be taught what you need to know."

Utterly confused, Riley looked around. 'Wait... there's a school for shipgirls?'

Both Disgust and Anger groaned. 'Isn't this just great now...'

Having noticed a schedule, Riley walked up and examined it. 'Hmm... some of these are kind of normal but others...'

Fear whimpered a little. 'Wait, anti-submarine warfare!? Anti-aircraft warfare?! We don't know any of this stuff! What if we fail?! Or not learn enough and have a sub hiding underneath our bed!?'

Blinking, Riley just frowned a bit. 'I... don't think that might happen.'

Inside Headquarters, Anger grinned a bit. 'Heh, torpedo practice and naval cannon accuracy, eh? I can get into that.'

Unseen by Riley, Kongou looked at the messages on her iPhone and then nodded as she put it away. Skipping over, Kongou waited until Riley turned toward her and smiled. "Teitoku and Yankeetoku just sent a message that you've gotten your assignment." What Kongou didn't tell Riley was that she was the one who made the suggestion for placement.

Reaching the door, Kongou knocked on it and waited and after a few moments a young woman answered the door. Eyes wide, Riley took a step back as said woman chewed a toothpick in her mouth as her one golden eye observed the looper lazily (the other being under a eyepatch. Beside her head floated two metal horn-like objects. Suddenly, the woman leaned down and grinned. "You scared? Fufufufufu."

After a moment, Riley could feel anger shoot through her and knew that Anger was at the controls as she got into the woman's face. "Like heck I am!"

Several seconds passed before the young woman grinned even more widely. "Good to see you got some spunk then." Holding out a hand, she waited until Riley shook it. "Name's Tenryuu, Light Cruiser in charge of Destroyer Division Six, or DesDiv6 as some call us. Biggest badass on the base."

Knocked a bit off kilter, Riley nodded a bit. "Uh, I'm USS Riley, DE-579... Destroyer-Escort."

Tenryuu only snorted a bit before flicking Riley's forehead a bit with a slight smirk. "Be proud of being a Destroyer-Escort, kiddo. Some of the biggest badasses come in small packages. Look at Sammy B for example. Kid's considered a pint-sized Battleship for a reason." Slowly, Tenryuu turned toward Kongou who nodded. "So you're a looper then, huh?"

Eyes wide for a moment, Riley nodded. "I'm normally the Anchor for my Branch, so..."

All Tenryuu did was nod before placing an arm around her shoulders. "Well, congrats, you're a member of DesDiv6 until further notice. Just to let you know, we mostly do resource expeditions and such. So don't expect huge battles or anything, though we get into our fair share of fights out there on the seas." Seeing the slightly worried look, Tenryuu chuckled and jerked a thumb at herself. "Don't worry yourself too much, Big Sis Tenryuu will watch over you. Ain't nothing that will get to you as long as I'm around."

With a smile, Kongou nodded. "Dess! Tenryuu is best Chunnimomboat!"

The Fast Battleship didn't even react as Tenryuu got into her face with a growl. "What'd I tell you? I'm a big sisboat! Not a momboat!"

A twinkle in her eye, Kongou grinned a bit. "Which is why Inazuma and the others call you mom, Dess?"

Blushing, Tenryuu growled. "Shut the fuck up." There was still a grin on Kongou's face as Tenryuu guided Riley into the room and slammed the door on said Fast Battleship's face. Snorting, Tenryuu gave a shout. "Okay girls! Front and Center now so you can meet our newest member!"

Not even a moment later, four girls roughly Riley's age were lined up in front of her. One of them with brown hair and what looked like fangs in her mouth grinned. "Wait, we got a new member?"

While she smirked, Tenryuu nodded and patted Riley on the back. "Yup! This here is Riley, a Destroyer-Escort. Now, she's a looper like us and Awake, so I expect you girls to help take good care of her, okay?"

Getting nods, Riley smiled herself as the four shipgirls greeted her happily. 'Maybe this won't be so bad after all...'

Of course, that night she did get a little freaked out when she heard noises under her bed and found USS Harder sleeping there because she felt it was safe...

The Abyssal Convoy had been making their way between some islands when they got ambushed by shipgirls. While the Abyssal Ni-Class ran to try and fight off the four Destroyers and the one Light Cruiser, the Wa-Class transports tried to run for cover. Unknown to them, another shipgirl was hiding in the lee of another island before she charged them.

When she came into view of them though, Riley shuddered in both disgust and fear. The Wa-Class looked like dead, pregnant women whose lower bodies were attached to a sphere of eldritch, blackened metal. Their pale skin stretched tightly over their bones except for their protruding bellies, their arms bent back far enough that the shoulder was likely dislocated while the wrists were literally bolted to the metal sphere. What was worse though was that they had no heads, but just an Abyssal organism where their head should be. 'Oh... Oh God...'

Inside her head, Disgust retched a bit. 'WHAT THE HECK!?'

Fear just shivered. 'Oh no, oh no, oh no! What are those things!?'

Growling, Anger took control of the console. I have no idea, but we're going to be sinking them. Riley!'

Able to finally shrug off her disgust, Riley took a deep breath. "I hear you. Launch torpedoes!" On her hip, what looked like a metal box with three cylinders tilted until it fired all three into the water. Two of the Wa-Class were sunk almost immediately before the third torpedo just veered off. "Ugh! BURORDS!"

Suddenly, Fear spoke up. 'Incoming planes!'

Catching sight of them, the 40mm and 20mm began firing at the incoming Abyssal fighters while Riley began to blast away at the remaining Wa-Class with her five inch cannons. None of them were really that armored and thus soon they began sinking. It helped that she was soon joined by the rest of DesDiv6 who had used the distraction she had caused to destroy or scatter the remaining Abyssal Destroyers and added their weight of fire.

Not long after, the final Wa-Class screeched and exploded as torpedoes hit it, leaving nothing more than an oil slick on the surface. Taking a deep breath, Tenryuu flicked some oil off her blade and nodded. "Good work there girls, that should hurt the Abyssal's supply lines some." Frowning, she glanced over at Riley. "How you doing over there, kiddo?"

Shuddering, Riley rubbed at her arms some. "I-I'm okay... but those Abyssals..."

All she got was a nod as Inazuma patted her on the shoulder. "Yeah, the Wa-Class are one of the more disturbing ones..."

Glancing around, Tenryuu sniffed a bit. "Yeah, I hate those things... Just think of it this way, kiddo. Those things? They're not normal Abyssals, not with the way that they're strapped down. You're probably putting them out of their misery." Tenryuu just shot a look at the rest of DesDiv6 to warn them to be quiet as Riley looked down at the water. 'Best not tell her that in some variants, those things are what happens to normal human women captured by Abyssals.'

Akatsuki frowned a bit as she glanced to where the sun was slowly sinking. "Shouldn't we leave, mama? Just so that we're not caught out here?" Skating across the water, Hibiki grabbed what looked like a large drum that was floating in the water. "Besides, we should grab any supplies we can."

With a frown, Tenryuu nodded. "Good ideas, both of you. Inazuma? Ikazuchi? Help Hibiki. Riley? You're with me and Akatsuki. Do a patrol of the area and if you see anything on your radar, let us know."

Nodding, Riley began to skate across the water, feeling her emotions comfort her. Even after the battles she had been in, the raid was one of the more disturbing by far...

Riley was calmly sleeping after a busy day when suddenly music began blasting through the windows and her eyes shot open. For several moments, she tried to get back to sleep by shoving the pillow over her head before Anger took control and she growled as she threw the covers off and got up. "Who... is... making... that... racket...?!"

At the windowsill, Akatsuki groaned. "Naka is still angry that none of us is paying attention to her midnight livestream so..."

Beside her, Inazuma sighed and facepalmed. "So it seems that she's trying to stir up interest by playing music from the games... again."

Scoffing, Ikazuchi shook her head. "You would think that the ass kicking that Hoppou gave her the last time when she woke her up from sleeping during her visit would have taught Naka not to pull this stunt."

Inside Riley, Anger was cursing up a storm as Riley herself felt her annoyance rise. For a brief moment though, she blinked as Joy snatched control before she did something she could regret which caused Riley to listen more closely to what music it was the orange traffic cone of a Cruiser was playing. "Wait... isn't that the song from that game? Uh... Undertale?"

Listening for a moment, Hibiki frowned and then nodded. "Khorosho."

However, Inazuma drew their eyes to something as the song repeated. "Uh... guys? Isn't that Haida coming out? And she looks really annoyed..."

Sure enough, when Riley poked her head around Akatsuki's and looked out, there was the red haired shipgirl, HMCS Haida, walking out from the dorms. What really caught Riley's attention was that one of her eyes was blazing with blue energy. "Er... what the heck?"

Ikazuchi just pulled out popcorn from somewhere and shrugged. "No, Sans didn't replace her or anything. It's just one of those strange variants where Haida for some reason has a shipgirl version of Sans' powers."

Over the wind, they could hear Haida's voice drift over. "What do you think you are, Naka? Invisible or something? Whatever, you're about to have a BAD TIME." It went without saying that Naka tried to run for it, only for what looked like ship railings to spring out of the ground and block her path. Clearing her throat, Haida continued as Megalovania came to an end and was about to restart. "Let's do this then. It's a lovely night out, the stars are shining, crickets are chirping, children are sleeping. But on nights like tonight, Cruisers like you... SHOULD BE BURNING IN HELL!"

It was all that Riley could do but blink as what looked like Haida's original and full sized warship turrets appeared beside her floating in mid-air before they began to fire at Naka. "What in the world...?"

Handing Riley some popcorn, Inazuma nodded. "Haida-San is really cool."

As she watched, Riley only ate popcorn as she watched the rather epic beatdown. Said beatdown ending a few minutes later when Haida, somehow, summoned her original hull and promptly smashed it into Naka at full speed. Then it vanished as Haida dragged Naka off toward the Admiral's quarters after turning off the music. "Uh, guys?"

Turning toward Riley, Hibiki raised an eyebrow. "Hmm?"

Slowly, Riley grinned. "Do you think that Haida could teach me to do that?"

For a second, Hibiki shared a look with her sisters and shrugged. "Maybe. She might want to challenge you to a game of hockey first, though." Hibiki then blinked as Riley's grin widened some and she pumped her arm into the air. 'Wonder what all that is about...?'

With a gasp, Riley hit the mat and rolled out of the way of the foot stomp. However, she was unable to get out of the way of the foot that lashed out as she tried to get to her feet and knocked her onto her back. Moments later, a fist hovered inches from her nose as two red eyes stared into hers. Slumping, Riley nodded as she panted. "I... give..."

Grumbling, Anger crossed his arms a bit. 'I hate losing...'

As she straddled her, Enterprise gave a smile and nodded. Much to Riley's annoyance, the Carrier barely seemed even winded. "Good, you know your limits at least." Standing up, Enterprise reached down and hauled Riley to her feet before clapping her on the shoulder. "You've also been doing a lot better."

Still annoyed at losing, Riley grumbled a bit and shoved her hands into the pockets of her shorts. "Still lost."

That only got a snort from Enterprise who smiled a bit wider. "And I've been doing this a lot longer than you. I'd be surprised if you picked up the fighting skills to beat me."

Frowning, Riley shook her head a bit. "It's so weird though... I mean, I've never really learned how to fight but now? Somehow I know how to fight and a whole bunch of different ways."

Slowly, Enterprise nodded a bit as her eyes took on a far off look. "Yeah, I know what you mean. But us shipgirls are made up of the experiences of our crews and the love they had for their ship. What they knew, we knew as well and we only need to work at putting that into practice. A lot of loopers who show up here don't really think of it, but if you want to learn how to fight?" She then tapped her head. "It's already up here ready and waiting for you to look through it and practice to get used to it. Heck, kiddo, you're kind of lucky. Not only do you have normal street fighting, but you also got knowledge from the Taiwanese crews your hull had right up until 1992."

As she blushed, Riley rubbed the back of her neck. "It's not that impressive..."

Enterprise only scoffed at her before ticking off her fingers. "You know several ways of fighting with a knife now, you know how to wrestle, you got normal brawling. On top of that, you got knowledge of a few kinds of Kung Fu as well as that Tai Chi stuff and can handle a sword or bo staff. Heck, Yamato told me that you're pretty good at the nunchucks as well. Trust me on this, kid, you got nothing to worry about."

Inside of Headquarters, Joy bounced a bit at the console. "She's right, Riley! You got a lot of skills now that you didn't before! And they're all awesome!"

Giggling at the feeling of pride and happiness that went through her, Riley nodded. 'Yeah, I guess that you're both right.'

Of course, Enterprise only raised an eyebrow before ruffling Riley's hair. "So, what do you say, Kiddo? Want to go another round?"

Eyes wide, Riley gave her a slightly shaky smile. "I... uh, am feeling kind of tired actually right now so maybe later?"

With a grin on her face, Enterprise chuckled. "Sure, maybe later. Let's hit the showers then."

Riley made a show of taking a sniff and then waving her hand in front of her face. "Whew! That might be a good idea!"

Making a playful growl, Enterprise reached out and tried to swat her head only for Riley to dodge and head for the showers. For several moments, Enterprise was quiet before she glanced to the side. "So, what do you think of her progress?"

A slight frown on her face, Yamato stepped out into the light and turned to look in the direction that Riley had gone in. "I, Yamato, must admit that she's advancing in leaps in bounds. It reminds this Yamato of Fubuki in some ways."

Her arms crossed across her chest, Enterprise only nodded. "Yeah, I got the same feeling too. That said, she's really improved and should be more than a capable fighter for any non-looper she comes across..."

28.8 (Vinylshadow): [Kingdom Hearts]

Roxas Woke up facing Riku in front of Memory's Skyscraper.

The Nobody glanced around, seeing that they were surrounded by hundreds, possibly thousands of Neoshadows. He noted the Oblivion Keyblade in Riku's hand then squeezed his own hand, feeling the hilt of Oathkeeper sitting comfortingly in his grasp.

"So, before I beat the snot out of you, shall we dispose of the audience?" Roxas asked, sweeping his arm in an arc and destroying several rows of shadows.

"Like you stand a chance," Riku retorted, obliterating twice Roxas' number.

"Well, going by Baseline, that's definitely a possibility," Roxas muttered, using Event Horizon to wipe out dozens of Neoshadows with every strike.

"You got lucky," Riku growled, activating Darkstrom.

The two Keyblade users locked blades, pushing against each other.

Off to the side, Axel and Namine shared a bucket of popcorn, watching the two bicker.

"They're like an old married couple," Axel said, shaking his head.

"I think it's sweet," Namine said with a giggle.

28.9 (lord Martiya): [Disney] / [DuckTales]

Donald was savoring the wait. Just a moment, now, and his uncle would show him the pool.

"As usual, nephew, you're WRONG! But wait 'till I turn on the lights!" Scrooge said.

As he would do any time they were in that variant, Scrooge showed Donald and the nephews the immense wealth contained in the Money Bin. Three cubic hectares of cash. A pool of silver dollars (plus some lesser coins and banknotes of larger value) that was a hundred feet deep. A sight awesome enough that even a visiting Gilgamesh had shown him respect. But this time, Scrooge was in for a surprise.

"It's smaller than Unca Donald's!" the nephews said.

"WHAT! PROOF OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!"

"Okay, it did happen." Scrooge admitted when he saw the two hundred feet deep pool of cash hidden under Donald's house.

Picking up so many silver dollars every Loop and not spending it had been worth it... Now, how could Donald put together the same sum in less time?

28.10 (GMBlackjack): [My Little Pony] / [Gravity Falls] / [Bar Loop] (also compiled in MLP Time Loops as part of the MLP Loops - Gravity Falls chapter)

Big Mac cleaned a glass, observing the various patrons. One table in particular caught his eye. Sitting at the table were five ponies, though only three of them were usually equine in form. There were Loopers Lyra and Pinkie, both talking up a storm. Between the two of them was Bon Bon, who was doing surprisingly well in the conversation for not being a Looper.

Across from them was a red unicorn stallion with obviously artificial wings and a six-fingered hand cutie mark, Ford Pines. His brother, grey earth pony Stan, was standing behind him, secretly taking bets on how long it took for Bon Bon to get a "what the freaking fudge" face as he called it.

The five at the table were having a good laugh and reminiscing about times on the Stan o War, Bon Bon and Lyra serving as their audience.

Pinkie was currently the one talking "-and then Bill went KAWOOSH and there was a big explosion, and Blackbeard just went-"

"NOPE" Stan said in a mocking impression of Blackbeard. Everyone laughed.

Then the doors to the bar flew open, and everyone went silent. Standing before them was a tremendous yellow alicorn - as tall as the Emperor - wearing a top hat and an eyepatch. The stallion had the Bill Cipher Zodiac as a cutie mark, making it obvious who it was. He walked to the bar and sat down, frowning at Big Mac. "Something strong enough for a Chaos God, stat."

Big Mac nodded, getting the drink.

"Oh and something for the dream as well." Bill said, generating Littlepip on the stool next to him. Littlepip wasted no time belting out a chain of swears at Bill.

Bill sat patiently while Littlepip devolved into rapid breathing. "You quite done?"

"NO! How does one accidentally summon me while in a duel with Slaanesh? HOW?"

"Chaos." Bill responded, grumpy. "Doesn't matter anyway-"

"Slaanesh kick your pants again?" Big Mac asked, tossing some brain bleach to Littlepip who accepted with scary intensity.

Bill glared at Big Mac. "YOU DO NOT WANT TO PUSH THE ISSUE. SUFFICE IT TO SAY THERE WAS A DUEL. I WAS NOT PLEASED BY THE RESULT."

"Not pleased?" Littlepip yelled. "You-"

Bill censored the resulting spiel because it was likely to scar the minds of those present. Slaanesh got really creative, needless to say.

"Look, Pippy, you only exist because I say so. I could remove you at any time I wished. So shush."

Littlepip's face turned scrunchy before she chugged some brain bleach.

Back at the other table, Lyra spoke up. "Grandpa Ford? Question."

"What is it Lyra?"

"Bill stores Littlepip on his TriNet right for your Stan o War voyages, maintaining her and everything right?"

"Yes."

"Why does he not store others as well? Many people would like to pseudo-loop like he does-"

"Ah…" Ford said, nodding sadly. "Well, you see there's a problem with the system."

Lyra cocked her head. "How so?"

"Look at Littlepip's tail." Ford said.

Everyone did so.

"Why is it red?" Lyra asked.

"Well we were in a Fallout Equestria loop and…"

The crew of the Stan o War surveyed the wasteland, all in pony form (except Bill, who decided to be a geometric chaos being early on.)

Littlepip frowned. "Yep, there I am. Running out of the Stable." She sighed. "Sometimes I wish I actually replaced people rather than just being something Bill cooks up every time he feels like it…"

"I could override the default mind and put you in its place, though that would destroy the original mind." Bill commented, choosing to not use his normal voice. He had claimed he'd just grown tired of it, but in reality it was because it made people cover their ears whenever they heard it.

Littlepip shook her head. "Yeah, not an option."

Pinkie - who was replacing Silver Bell - grinned. "Maybe you can help me throw actual parties? Huh? Wanna spread cheer?"

Littlepip considered this while Stan of all people got an idea.

"Hey Dorito-"

"I AM NOT A DORITO." Bill yelled, returning to default.

"Sure whatever. She's always complaining about a little Littlepip in her head - can't you just wave your magic hands and put her inside the other her's head?"

"ARE YOU CRAZY? THAT WOULD REQUIRE A-" Bill blinked, finally comprehending what Stan just said. "Hold on a sec… That just might work…. Hey Pippy, want to make the little pony thing literal?"

Littlepip blinked, pondering this for a second. "I don't see why no- WHAUGH!" Littlepip yelled as Bill levitated her into the air and then clapped his hands. He dusted them off. "Good, she's inside this world's pony now. What should we do for now?"

Pinkie grinned. "WASTELAND PARTY!"

"I like your style." Bill chuckled. "I'm going to pay the Goddess a visit first though. 'Great and Powerful' needs to be kicked down a few pegs by real power. I think I'm going to use sharks this time. Coming Stan?"

"Can we use mermen? I've always wanted to freak gods out with mermen."

"I don't see why not. NOW AWAY WE GO!"

Littlepip came too, aware she was inside a mindscape. She prepared herself to become the little pony in her head. It was rather meta, to be frank.

The body she was in opened her eyes, revealing a Stable ceiling. Littlepip began to plan how exactly she, as a little voice in her own head who knew about the future, was going to go about this…

She (the body) stood up, groaned, and looked down at her white hooves.

Wait what- white?

Blackjack blinked. Was that a tiny voice in the back of her head screaming obscenities? Were subconsciouses supposed to know words she didn't? Was it inventing words on the fly?

Best not to think about it right now, it was time to get ready for work. Security pony. Yay.

Littlepip screamed. "BILLLLLLLLLL!"

"You put her in the wrong body." Pinkie said, observing Blackjack talking to herself from a distance.

Bill shrugged. "Eh, wasn't intentional. I did try to cut a few corners by just having her consciousness seek out the most prominent character in the Loop. Forgot momentarily that she wasn't the only hero around here."

Pinkie giggled as Blackjack chugged more whiskey obviously to spite the little voice in her head.

"Be more careful next time." Ford cautioned. "While it's funny right now, several more times would get tedious."

Bill rolled his eye. "Yeah fine whatever."

A few Loops later Bill was bored, so he waved his hand to summon Littlepip.

Blackjack stood before him.

"…WAIT WHAT?"

"Oh. Hi Bill."

"HOW DID- WHY ARE-?"

Blackjack looked down at her hooves, frowning. "Wait no… Oh fudge it. I thought I was out of this body-"

Bill blinked. "LITTLEPIP?"

"Yeah. And there's a little voice in my head screaming to me to go drink some whiskey." She glared at Bill. "This is all your fault and I'm going to find a way to make you pay. Right after I satisfy Blackjack's apparent need for whiskey to get her to shut up."

Little- Black- Littlejack? Walked off.

Bill just floated there, not entirely sure what had just happened.

"…We discovered later that when he stored Littlepip at the end of that loop, he took Blackjack with her by accident." Ford continued. "The TriNet was apparently unable to keep the two of them separate, so… the retrieval code became glitches. Sometimes you get a Littlepip in Blackjack's body with a tiny Blackjack in their head, sometimes the opposite. Sometimes you just get a fusion of the two of them, while others it seems to be just Blackjack or just Littlepip. It gets really confusing when Bill retrieves more than one at once, each one completely different from the others. He has no control over the randomness."

"What exactly caused this?" Lyra asked.

"As it turns out the TriNet is not well designed to store actual individuals, much like a Pocket. In the refreshing the TriNet goes through, something as complicated as an actual person - or pony - cannot be kept separate from other similar codes due to sheer complexity. They meld together and cannot be removed, and Bill cannot create a secondary retrieval code. We're really lucky it works at all." Ford sat back. "Does that answer your question Lyra?"

Lyra nodded. "So… is Littlepip-Blackjack stable?"

"About as stable as you." Ford responded.

"SWEETROLL." Lyra burst out, then blushed. "Uh, sorry about that, we're having a sweetroll war…"

Ford chuckled. "Indeed."

At the bar, Littlepip drunk herself under the table. Bill chuckled.

Bon Bon never made a "what the freaking fudge" face, much to Stan's disappointment.

28.11 (GMBlackjack): [Gravity Falls]

Bill was a difficult being to punish - due to his nature he had to be some kind of higher being or else his mind would just crack from the influx of TriNet information, and it was hard to keep a powerful creature like him from having fun.

But the Admins had eventually discovered something that would drive him insane. It was a custom punishment Loop that could be inserted in the background of any Looping universe. Bill's consciousness would be stored fully in a pocket dimension that there was no way out of - a kind of Limbo. Bill would receive initial memories and information from the TriNet, and then be completely alone for anywhere from a few centuries to a million years. Essentially however long the Admins thought he needed to stay in time-out.

He sometimes generated Littlepip/Blackjack, but both had expressed extreme dissatisfaction with this. At one time the words "I fear what would happen if I was kept alone here with you for a century. I'm not sure if I'd grow extremely attached to you or try to murder you in every way possible. It's best for both of us that we don't find out" came out of her mouth. So Bill kept her visits few and far between for both their sakes.

So aside form analyzing the TriNet for new information and occasionally bringing the unicorn into existence from time to time, he had to learn to entertain himself.

He had grown tired real quick of ordering pizza from himself. And the size of Limbo was small, just a mile cubed. He had made tiny civilizations, a city made entirely of copies of himself, and a star that burned cold.

The problem was that he was alone, anything he created he knew inside and out, and even though the copies could mess with him sometimes, they rarely were able to do anything truly surprising.

He grew annoyed. "CAN YOU JUST LET ME OUT OF HERE ALREADY?" He screamed.

The tune of "it's a small world" began to play.

"NO! NO! ALL I DID WAS CRASH A LOOP! IT WAS BY ACCIDENT TOO! HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT THE GNOMES WERE MADE OUT OF URANIUM? I DON'T DESERVE THIS! STOP! NO! NO!"

"It's a small world after all-

it's a small world after all-"

"FOR THE LOVE OF HATING LOVELY THINGS PLEAAEAEAEAEASE MAKE THEM STOOOOOOOOOOOP…"

They didn't.

28.12 (Awesomedude17): [One-Punch Man] / [Pirates of the Caribbean]

Saitama couldn't believe it.

It was a Fused Loop and one of the visiting Loopers was managing to dodge his punches almost by accident.

He was not letting this criminal get away with stealing money and booze.

Saitama let loose a series of normal punches, but the swaying man was dodging each one with ease.

After several minutes, Saitama gave up.

The man then put a toupee on Saitama's head.

"Sorry mate, but your bald head was distracting." Captain Jack Sparrow said.

"How'd you dodge my attacks?"

"You were attacking me? I was looking for my hat." Captain Jack walked off, leaving a flabbergasted Saitama.

28.1: Welcome to the Loops, Fubuki.

28.2: Maleficent being surprisingly reasonable.

28.3: ...Yeah, that'd be convenient.

28.4: Prototype is a strange series.

28.5: Okay...

28.6: He really is improving.

28.7: Given Riley's experiences, I can't blame her reaction.

28.8: Oy.

28.9: Good question.

28.10: And so a loophole is dealt with.

28.11: I never thought I'd say this, but poor Bill.

28.12: That's Captain Jack Sparrow for you.