Halloween World Alternative: Adventurers
NewfieSpaceman
Special Completed: 23th of December, 2019
Edited: Not Edited
Disclaimer:
I don't own anything outside original characters. This is a fan fiction for entertainment purposes only. No profit or offense intended. This was created purely for Fun.
Note:
Halloween World was my most successful series and with another Halloween, I decided to create a small alternative version. Anyone can write in Halloween World Alt universe, just like the original.
It's time to play can you identify all the crossovers.
As the Undead Warlock Richard (from Looking for a Group) would say "For Pony"
Special
Special Thanks to gothicjedi666 for creating a Halloween World in his Jump Chan Gothic series. This Christmas Special is dedicated to you.
Special Thanks to NeoNazo356 whose Friendship and work on his various stories encouraged me to write my own.
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
In the Changed World, many fictional, legendary and mythological beings have become very Real. Many creatures existing only in books or tv shows now walk the Earth with the changing mankind. One of the unique beings are the Holiday Entities, personification of certain holidays and times. The powers of a user can differ greatly based upon what holiday entity they take the shape of.
In what was once China, Caishen - the God of Wealth - rides a black tiger during the Chinese New Year. His iron staff possessing the ability to turn stone into gold. He travels across the ancient land now filled with dragons, monsters, and martial artists seeking power and immortality. He even saved a Great Colony by turning a Stone Giant into pure gold, making it so heavy it collapsed on the greedy sorcerer who summoned it and crushed him.
During Valentine's day, Eros - God of Love, Lust, Sex, Eroticism and Sensual Desires - flies over the Earth in the form of winged angel, awakening the passions of lovers. After Halloween, he only possessed the cursed baby angel form for a single Valentine, a result of Western art influencing how they see his Roman form of Cupid. The Valentine Event broke his chains to reveal the primordial being of desire he is. He and Inanna/Ishtar/Astarte/Aphrodite/Venus have become very powerful divine beings in the New World.
During Easter, a giant anthropomorphic rabbit moves with insane speed and great leaps to deliver it's gifts. It hides away decorated eggs that only the good and generous can find, mostly young children. The connection to the Christianity results in the eggs being infused with holy magic. Any one who eats them is healed and cleansed of dark forces. Any demon that dares touch the sweet contents of the eggs will burn.
Jack Frost is a personification of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold. In the 19th century, he became being resembling a sprite acting more like a member of fairy folk, appearing as a sinister mischief-maker or as a hero. He protects children during the winter months, turning those that would harm them into statues of ice. Outside his authorities, he became lover of a Snow Princess named Elsa (one separate from Central City's own Elsa).
The Halloween Event was the most life changing event in human history, so the embodiment of Halloween is immensely powerful. King Jack Skellington is the personification of Halloween in the New World. The Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, a fantasy world filled with various monsters and supernatural beings associated with the holiday, merged with the legendary Jack of the Lantern to create a Pumpkin-headed supreme ruler. He holds back the Eternal Night, preventing what remains of the ancient chaos from destroy what little order the survivors and the descendants have created.
Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a legendary holiday entity who is said to bring gifts to the homes of well-behaved children on the night of Christmas Eve (24 December) or during the early morning hours of Christmas Day (25 December). An Icon of Western culture, his existence is know to all of the Changed World. An immortal, charismatic being of winter magic.
The modern Santa Claus grew out of traditions surrounding the historical Saint Nicholas (a fourth-century Greek bishop and gift-giver of Myra), the British figure of Father Christmas, and the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas (himself also based on Saint Nicholas). Some maintain Santa Claus also absorbed elements of the Germanic god Wodan, who was associated with the pagan midwinter event of Yule and led the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession through the sky.
Those traditions and historical connections grant power to the holiday entity, the beliefs and thoughts of people present and past elevating the being to pseudo-divine level, much like Heroic Spirits.
One part is St Nicholas the Wondermaker. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, prostitutes, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. A generous gift giver and protector, blessed by heavens. As a result, the personification of the Christmas Holiday is a being of Holy Magic. Everything he touches is infused with light, protecting the receivers from darkness and destroy all manner of walking dead and infernal demon in his presence.
Even his loose association with Odin grants him some abilities. Odin is associated with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, victory, sorcery, poetry, frenzy, and the runic alphabet. Santa is immune to the cold, induces Surprise, Parties, and the feeling of Happiness, and is a master of Ice Magic.
Hidden inside a magic pocket dimension near the North Pole is Santa's Castle (and Workshop). A huge beautiful castle of white stone and crystal surrounded by pure sacred snow, the skies either clear blue, snow clouds, or a starry night illuminated by the moon and aurora borealis.
This is the home of Santa Claus and his wife Jessica. As her husband is associated with Odin, she is connected to the goddess Frigg - Queen of the Aesir and the goddess of the sky. She was also known as the goddess of fertility, household, motherhood, love, marriage, and domestic arts. Those traits combined with the unpredictable Valentine magic, resulted the birth of several children over the past years.
The Christmas Elves are small humanoids with pointed ears and green outfits. They may be small members of fairy folk, but they possess the ability to instantly learn and understand the complexity and exactness of organisms, objects, etc. without the need of long-term or special education. While some small fairy can easily repair leather shoes and tin objects, they can build anything with the help of there magic. They can also grip any object with there magic, making it light as air, to easily carry it.
They place the "toys", those that were hand crafted, those magically crafted, and those magically copied, into Santa's bright red bag. The magic bag is connected to pocket dimension that can hold a billion cubic liters of presents, which Santa only needs to carry the weight of the large bag instead of many tons.
On Christmas Eve, Santa takes to the skies on his magic sled pulled by magic reindeer. He splits into many independent and equally powerful copies of himself to be able to reach all the worthy houses. His grand magic not only allowing flight, but ignore wind resistance, gravity, and obstacles. He's able to use his magic to become the snow itself to slip into homes and secure colonies to deliver presents. The endless copies of bag all connected to the same storage.
There are many copies of Santa Claus that don't survive the trip, killed by demons disguised as children, consumed by surprise monsters, or vanishing into strange phenomenon, but far more succeed. Santa is tough, not only delivering presents to goof and coal to naughty, but delivering punishment to the wicked. Many people who would abuse children find themselves facing Santa Claws - Santa Claus in the form of a immense monstrous Polar Bear - or his summoned demon Krampus. Once a beast-like creature from the folklore of Alpine countries thought to punish children during the Christmas season who had misbehaved, Krampus now serves as a spirit of vengeance .
When Christmas Day finally arrives, the tens of thousands of Santa fade away to leave the original to appear safe at home. Ready to celebrate Christmas with his wife, children, and elf friends.
Santa Claus - the Embodiment - walks into his castle from white snow outside.
The embodiment of the Christmas Holiday is a tall man standing almost six foot and despite his round stomach his hundred twenty kilos (two hundred sixty five pounds) is mostly muscle hidden under his winter clothing. He has ice blue eyes, light skin with rosy nose and cheeks, and long snow white hair with a thick wooly beard. He wears a white shirt with suspenders, covered by a white fur lined bright red coat, equally red pants, and polished black boots. He also wears a fur-lined red cap and black gloves.
Outside is a herd of arboreal woodland caribou, also known as a Reindeer, each surpassing two hundred ten kilo (four hundred sixty three pounds) average. The leader with the largest horns being a buck with a shiny red nose and red harness with silver bells. They are not the only animals as there is also a huge big-horned goat with many red ribbons, completely unaffected by the ice and snow.
His wife, Mrs. Claus to the world and Jessica to him, greets him. She used to be rounder and older like a stereotypical grandmother, but since the Valentine event she has become younger with only her hair remaining the same silver-white colour. She is also now a mother figure beyond caring for the elves.
"Have they arrived?"
"Yes. The Family has gathered."
"Indeed we have, Comrade."
Santa Claus looks at his counterpart, the Guardian Nicholas St. North
North is an immense man; tall, buff, and a little beefy. He has bright blue eyes, thick black eyebrows, and a long white beard and mustache like all great Santas He customarily wears a black fur hat, a long red coat with black fur trim, and a red plaid shirt. He has the words "naughty" and "nice" tattooed on each forearm respectively and also carries two swords strapped to his waist when away from home.
This Russian born Cossack is a member of the Guardians. They were created and chosen by Manny, The Man in the Moon, to protect the dreams of children from the Nightmare King, Pitch and bring joy to the world. Sandman (Guardian of Dreams), tooth fairy Toothiana (Guardian of Memories), Nicholas St. North (Guardian of Wonder), E. Aster Bunnymund (Guardian of Hope), and Jack Frost (Guardian of Fun) fought against the Nightmare forces with help from Katherine (Mother Goose/Guardian of Storytelling) and Ombric Shalazar (Father Time)
The Guardians have far easier time recently when Pitch Black was purified by Mother Nature. Part of her is his lost daughter and she was able to restore Kozmotis Pitchiner to before he became the Nightmare King.
"It's good to see you, Nicholas."
"It's good to be here. It hasn't been easy. We finally caught Freddy Krueger, that child killer empowered by the dream demons. He's been running from various psychics for last twenty years. We had to ask Shiki Ryougi to destroy him on a conceptual level to get rid of him."
"She's on the Nice List this year."
"Some lunatic got hold of Dreamstone owned by Dream of the Endless. We managed to get it back with the help of John Constantine."
"He's still on the Naughty List."
"Still upset, he used Saint Nicholas's bones for a ritual and then snorted the remaining bone dust like cocaine."
"..."
"Some cult of corrupt elves attempted to summon Dendar, the Night Serpent. The original primordial source of all nightmares in the Forgotten Realms. We managed to stop them in time and the consequences of failed spell took care of them."
"Those that help others may find themselves helped. Those that harm others may find themselves harmed."
"Karma. "
"Papa!"
"Papa!"
Santa Claus turns to his two adopted daughters.
One is a young girl standing under five feet with blue eyes and long golden blonde hair. She also has pointed ears and is dressed in white-decorated red dress with a red/white cap, red gloves, and red boots. She carries a large red/gold bow.
One is a young girl standing just over five feet with green eyes and long snow white hair. She also has pointed ears and is dressed in red/white robes of a priestess and a mitre (traditional, ceremonial head-dress of bishops and certain abbots). She carries a white/gold book and a staff.
Noel and Nicola were once normal human sisters before Halloween Event, dressed as magical fairy princesses for Halloween. During the harsh first years of the Changed World, Noel learned archery from a female hero and the Nicola learned healing magic from a Cleric. Eventually, there colony was completely destroyed by an invasion of monsters, but they were rescued by Santa Claus. Instead of being taken to another Colony, they stayed with Santa and Jessica, helping care for Valentine-born children.
"What is the matter?"
"Dinner is ready!"
"We also have guests."
Santa's sons are relaxing while drinking there Hot Chocolate .
The First son resembles his father the most. A tall, heavy man with strong arms and a round stomach. He has ice blue eyes, light skin with same blush, and snow-white hair under a red cape. He's dressed in a red coat and pants lined with white fur, black boots, and black gloves. He also wears a black holster loaded with ammo and a fancy black-gold gun
Nicholas Claus is the most involved of the brothers. He helps take care of the animals, helps the elves in the workshop, and helps his father. In the outside world, he can communicate in any language and is considered the most friendly and helpful of the trio.
The Second son is very tall man, lean and lacking the stomach of his father, with blue eyes, short snow-white hair, and a white goatee. He's dressed in a red shirt, black pants, and red/black boots with a fur-lined black coat and a black corsack hat. He current looking at the data on a Scroll, this one possessing red case decorated in white snowflakes
"Water supply loaded. Food supply loaded. Fuel and Energy Cells loaded. Shelter supplies loaded. Literature and Games loaded. We are looking good this year. I think we are ahead of schedule, unlike your girlfriend. "
Christopher Claus is the most brilliant member of the Claus family. While Santa Claus is a Master Craftsman, Magician, Toy maker, and Inventor, Chris is a genius of the Changed World capable of easily mixing the crafts, magic, and technology of thousand worlds. While the Elves can craft and copy many things with there magic, he makes technological and magical wonders. His biggest flaws is he like order and schedules a little too much.
"Vi, When is your girl going to get here?" asks Christopher.
The Third son is a tall, very muscular man with blue eyes, shoulder-length flowing red hair and short cut beard. He's dressed in a black shirt, dark pants, and dark boots with a dark fur-lined brown leather jacket. He looks more like a beefy warrior or lumberjack, than a man of Christmas. He's currently looking a fancy gold pocket watch.
Viggo Claus is a warrior, born with the fire of the Changed World in his blood. He would rather be saving people and slaying monsters, fighting along side Adventurers and Guardians, then crafting or giving out presents. He possesses immense strength and his weather magic was so strong at birth his parents named him Viggo, meaning "lightning".
"Jynx is working on a new invention. She'll be here."
"I can imagine it's going to be explosive."
Jynx is a tall beautiful elf with blue-green eyes, pointed elf ears, and exceptionally long golden hair. She is known as the Ambitious Elf Jinx. A master toy maker and inventor, Jinx believes she could one day become the greatest Santa anyone has ever seen. Other elves worry her creations could be classified as weapons, but sometimes that's the price of true ambition. In the Changed World, her weapon-presents are actually very helpful in the fight for survival.
"Rider Alter, Altera, and Lancer said they are going to be late." comments Chris
"They are some strange girls. Even for Servants with physical forms" says Viggo, arms wrapped around Jynx.
Servants are portions of Heroic Spirits, weak enough to exist on the mortal plane and be controlled by magi (magic users). In some rare cases, they can gain permanent physical forms that can continue to exist even without a contract to a magi.
Nicholas waves his hand and glowing snowflakes create an illusion in the air. Three women dressed in armor appear in the swirling flakes. One is a golden eyes pale beauty in black with white fur rimmed boots and a rimmed cloak. She carries a menacing red/black sword and a white sack. One is a white haired dark skinned beauty with red eyes wearing a daring red outfit. The Third is a gold-eyed pale beauty wearing skimpy armour, snow boots, and white fur wrap around her shoulders.
"What do expect. Rider Alter is a version of Alturia Pendragon that was blackened by the mud of corrupt Grail, then tried to erase her image by acting as Santa Claus. Altera was the overlord who established a great empire in the 5th Century, Atilla the Hun. She ended up with sheep servants. Lancer is Saint Jeanne d'Arc, who was reduced to a younger form and gained the title of Santa." states the Third.
"I still love them dearly." says Nicholas.
During the Halloween Event, characters from many worlds appeared, not all of them from Earth. Some came from fantasy worlds filled with sword and sorcery, while others came from alien worlds filled with advance science and strange beings. Many of those world did have winter holidays that featured gift giving.
The world of Azeroth is a world of conflict, a result of worlds colliding due to the demonic Burning Legion. The Alliance, also known as the Grand Alliance, is composed mainly of Humans, Ironforge Dwarves, Night Elves, Gnomes, Draenei, Worgen, and Panderan. The Horde is composed mainly of Orc, Jungle troll, Tauren, Forsaken, Blood elf, Goblin, and Pandaran. They have been both fighting each other and fighting against the Burning Legion and corrupted elements in many Wars.
Both The Alliance and The Horde celebrate the Feast of Winter Veil and they each possess there own equivalent to Santa Claus. Greatfather Winter is now seen as a kind old orc, or dwarf, who brings presents to everyone.
"I know many worlds celebrate days similar to Christmas." says Orc Greatfather Winter, drinking a Christmas-theme beer stein mug of Nord Mead
"The people of Azeroth have Winter Veil. The Thundercats and people of Third Earth celebrate Rammastide. The people of Krynn celebrate Yule. The worlds of Vana'diel and Hydaelyn have the Starlight Festival. The world of Lore, they celebrate Frostval, on Eberron, it's Festivult, and on Norrath, they celebrate Frostfell" says Dwarf Greatfather Winter, already a little drunk.
"The Equestrians celebrate 'Hearth's Warming Eve' and the people of Mewni celebrated 'Stump Day'. So where did you two come from?"
The first of the two is a pony with large ice blue eyes, snow white coat, and a long flowing black mane that shows the colors of aurora borealis. She has a long horn and white feathered wings that make her as an Alicorn. The markings on her rear resemble intrigue snow flakes
"It's complicated. In Equestria, Harmony is a powerful source of magic. Different people working together generates magic centered around there feelings. At first it was the original three tribes making peace and driving away the Windigos. Then, Star Swirl the Bearded and the Pillars of Old Equestria worked together to stop threats. Then, the Mane Six working together as friends to stop evil conquerors and monsters. Then, Young Six composed of different races came together. The Magic of Friendship is Harmony of many different races working together."
"So, how does that connect to you?"
Her horn glows and an image appears.
A group of adventurers are defending a group of damaged buses and injured people from demonic beasts.
One is a white-haired Priestess in white and gold robes generating shimmering barriers, while her partner is black-haired horned Warlock, dressed in black and red robes, is throwing explosive fireballs. The holy maiden and son of the demon king watch each other's backs.
A female soldier in soldier in high-tech blue armor and rifle, is fighting along side a golden-haired woman in gold-decorated medieval armor with a magic staff/spear. They make jokes as monsters continue to die in huge numbers.
There are six girls that fight together with familiarity. They all have animal ears and long hair extending into tails. Some of them even manifest wings.
A dark-skinned girl with purple eyes and dark purple hair streaked by magenta. She's using sparkling purple magic to send monsters flying back and protect allies. She sends one monster that gets far too close to a friend into the sky, where it's hit by a lightning blast from the Red Sky.
A cowboy hat wearing girl with bright green eyes and long blonde hair done in a braid. She has superhuman strength, throwing boulders and a 3 inch thick bar of steel from one of the buses as a club. The metal is already warped from the blows, but the country girl is still going strong.
A pale skinned aristocrat with blue eyes and long wavy purple. She's generating diamond-like force fields to protect her allies. She can also use them offensively, when she causes a shield to appear inside one of the monsters, splitting it in half!
A excited girl with light blue eyes and untamed magenta pink hair. She's charging various objects ranging from playing cards to sprinkles with explosive energy. She practically bounces around the battlefield, leaving explosions in her wake.
A curvy girl with green eyes and shoulder-length pale pink hair. She has several Mon (small tamable monsters) with her, that are using there special abilities to defend the survivors. She can clearly communicate with each one.
An athletic girl with pale blue eyes and Rainbow-striped (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet) hair. She moves with superhuman speed much like members of the Flash Family. She also can briefly manifest wings to gain height on her attackers. None of the demonic beasts have the reflexes to react to her and her blows are so fast only the tank-like beasts can resist the blows.
The leader is a girl with Cyan-green eyes and long red haired streaked with yellow streak. Her empathic abilities enable her to sense how people are doing and she can even heal others when she generates fiery red/gold phoenix wings.
On the ground is a shard of blue-purple-pink crystal, barely the length of a toothpick. As the replay of history is accelerated, the crystal absorbs streams of white light, pitch darkness, and purple magic. It grows like a plant seed, it mass of plant vines composed of translucent pink-purple crystal that glow with inner lights. Many monsters get close to the mass, but only the benign survive, as evil monsters crumble into fertilizing dust.
Finally, one Christmas night, one of the Santa Claus streak across the sky like a shooting star leaving a trail of sparkling magic and blessed snow flakes. The light and snow fall on the mass of crystal plants. As the last flake falls, the mass swells and shatters to dust to reveal a familiar Alicorn.
"Star Swirl the Bearded planted a seed that became the Tree of Harmony, a tree of magical crystal that the and his allies the Pillars infused the elements of harmony into. It's 'fruit' were used by the Mane Six and even after it was destroyed by Dark King Sombra, the Young Six's harmony/friendship was powerful enough to regenerate it. On this changed world, a single pony possessed a crystal splinter of the Tree of Harmony.'
'The Harmony of the Changed World, light magic and dark, holy and demonic, creation and destruction, all working together, resulted in the splinter growing. On Christmas Eve, I was born much like your Frosty. My name Harmonia, Alicorn of Harmony "
The second is a young humanoid girl with candy red eyes, white skin, and long white hair done in a braid. She has six arms, furry antenna, and glowing butterfly wings with black and yellow markings. She also has snowflake markings on her cheeks. She wears a red/white dress with white fur around her neck, wrists, and ankles
"My story is a mess. Centuries ago, a bunch of humans from Earth ended up on the world of Mewni after traveled threw a dimension of magic, literally floating an ocean of golden liquefied magic that drained there minds of memories. A living embodiment of magic known as Glossaryck, travelling threw time, gave the leader a magic wand he made from a baby rattle and baby Millhorse - a unicorn born from the magic ocean. The humans drove away the native monsters, founding a Kingdom. Stump day refers to the giant tree stump that sheltered them during the early days. They made a castle from it, but it burnt down.'
'In order to stop the genocide of the peaceful native monster races and there friends by a magical super soldier and her army, Princess Star Butterfly cast the Whispering Spell with the help of her mother Queen Moon, Queen Eclipsa, and Eclipsa's daughter Meteora. The anti-magic spell cast inside the magic dimension resulted in the destruction of all magic in there multi-verse. It also caused Mewni and Earth, apparently severed from each other by a magic spell to refuse together."
"Weird, but how does it explain you?"
Harmonia's horn glows and an image of the past forms. The Historia spell working for other people. Now, it's the Butterfly's turn to be revealed.
The image shows Halloween Night, many years ago. There are many children in an average town dressed in costumes ranging from monsters to super heroes to princesses. Halloween seems to be very popular in the town with the numerous Jack O Lanterns and other holiday decorations. There are cries of happy children as there pumpkin pails and pillow cases are loaded with chocolate, small packs of chips, and overly sweet candy.
There is a Latino boy with brown eyes and hair in red jacket and black pants who gives his demon mask to a younger kid so the little boy can go to same house twice and score more chocolate. Next to him is his blue-eyed blonde girlfriend wearing a red devil headband and holding a goofy "magical girl" wand. It's clear the older kids are mostly there to escort the younger ones and were cheap on there costumes.
Suddenly, a wind blow and the a wave of dark power ripples across the sky, turning it from it's normal evening sky to Red with flowing flames and lightning. As the sky changes above them, the world beneath them also changes. Jack O Lanterns rises on bodies of twisted vines as there faces glow with eldritch flames. Children dressed as ghosts crumble into dust, leaving translucent specters clad in cloth rags to scream into the night. Boys dressed as skeletons collapse as flesh dissolves into darkness and then bare bones rise from the ground. The boy that was given the demon mask, growls and lashes out with it's real claws at the old woman at the door. An attack that is stopped by his brother who dressed as spider-man and is now shooting webs from his wrists.
The blonde girlfriend collapses the ground in pain, glowing a golden light. Glowing gold liquid seems to drip from her eyes, noses, and mouth, and glowing cracks appear on her skin as she cries in pain. Two marks on her checks resembling hearts.
Her boyfriend is also glowing as he struggles to reach her, his glow is a more reddish-gold and the marks on his cheeks resemble crescent moons. Gold liquid is still dripping from his mouth, nose, and eyes, and his skin is crackling as he struggles.
As there hands touch, there is an explosion of light that scares away some of the demonic monsters. When the flash clears the boy and girl now both have antenna, six arms, and glowing butterfly wings. They hold each other and begin to cry for some reason they can't remember.
The image fades to darkness, then another image is shown.
A much older Marco Dias and Star Butterfly are shown, both wearing wedding rings and looking down onto there youngest child. She's a cute, chubby baby with golden hair and blue eyes like her mother. Outside Santa streaks across the sky like a shooting star, presents appearing in the baby room in a flurry of snowflake-like magical particles.
Then to the surprise of the parents, glowing snowflake markings appear on the baby's cheeks.
"When Star, Marco, and a few others from there world appeared during the Halloween Event they were flooded with magic from a thousand different worlds. Absorbing the mystical power like water into a dry sponge, since there world was magically dead. In order to survive, there bodies became linked to elements, places, and concepts, much like fairy races. My magic latched onto Santa's Christmas Magic around the time I was born. My name is Snow Butterfly."
The Changed World never stops changing. Many characters appeared during the Halloween Event, many were born or reborn after the Valentine Event, but more people appear every year. People connected to the hearts and memories of existing people. It's a curse that brings forth enemies and a blessing that brings forth friends and family.
The Great Gift-Giver Santa Claus looks at the man in front of him with an odd smile.
He's a tall, very fit man with light blue eyes, snow white, and a thick beard. He's dressed in red and dark blue with a long red scarf. He carries sword resembling a hi-tech cutlass and gun.
"Hello, my name is Nicholas Schnee and I'm looking for my daughter and granddaughters."
"My name is Santa Claus and I Will Help You."
Gift Shopping
Central City Mall
6th of December 2019
"I knows he's not my version of Dumbledore, but I don't trust the Prime."
Prime Incarnation is the name given to the incarnation of a character that is considered Canon or the version with the most authority.
Naruto Namikaze - the version of Naruto Uzumaki that was the seventh fire shadow of the village hidden in leaves, married Hinata Hyuga, and had two children named Boruto and Hiwari - is considered Naruto Prime. Kurama the Nine Tailed Demon Fox sealed inside Naruto is considered Kurama Prime, a fact that he's slightly smug about.
There are thousands of versions of Naruto (due to the original Halloween chaos magic reacting with Shadow Clone technique), but only one can claim to be Prime
Lord Harry James Potter - the version that defeated Voldemort, married Ginny, had three kids, and became the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement - is considered Harry Potter Prime. He's not the most powerful or intelligent version of Harry Potter, but he's considered the most common or average of them.
The reason why there is so many versions of Harry Potter is green eyes, black hair, skinny, and British are very generic.
"The one in charge of Hogwarts has the same obsession of the Greater Good, he just doesn't have the same amount of ego and megalomania." says Harry
"I get it. I get it." says Naruto patting his friend on the back, "Half the Militia was excited to meet a version of there biological dad Minato, a quarter couldn't care less because they had there own families, and the last quarter wanted to lynch him for putting the Kyubi inside of them."
The two versions having conversation while shopping are not common.
Naruto U. Diggers is a version of Naruto Uzumaki that was sent to another world to protect him from Danzo and the Akatsuki organization that hunted him. He was adopted by a powerful archmage named Theodore Diggers and his wife Julia Diggers (née Brigand), greatest martial artist on Earth and Arms-Master of the Jade Realm. He became a big brother to genius Gina Diggers, and the family grew with the addition of the last were-cheetah Brittany and there clone combination Brianna. Post-Halloween, he's not only part of the extensive Naruto Militia
"So, other than the invite to the Hogwart's Reunion, what have you been doing?"
"Searching for a good Christmas gift for Inuyasha."
"Inuyasha Higurashi? It's he a Yokai and Shinto?"
"The Council's Latest Plan. X-Mas Expansion. The more people celebrate the holidays the more blessings and boosts we get from the Seasonal Magic. It actually extends to Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, Las Posadas, Diwali, and Chinese New Year, but the Council is focusing on Christmas due to the Big guy in Red. The Adventurer's Guild issued a non-refusal Quest that all members must send a Christmas Gift to a Random Member."
Harry "Black Rune" Potter is a version of Harry Potter that didn't like being manipulated by his version of Albus "too many middle names" Dumbledore and learned more exotic magic including Rune magic. He fought the way he wanted against Voldemort and killed him, in the process absorbing the Dark Lord's magic and the magic of all of his marked followers. He was treated as a Dark Lord in the making until he jumped worlds, ending up in a version of Azaroth.
"Sounds Stupid. We already have a ton of expenses, especially with the kids growing up and grand kids appearing. The B-Days wrecked me for the last twenty. Do you know how many nieces and nephews I have!?"
Halloween Event (31st of October 1997) was the world was changed forever, becoming filled with fictional, mythical, and even historical figures. The calamities from the Red Sky destroyed much of the old world and armies of monsters and corrupt spirits ravaged the population. It takes a lot of resources to keep a colony running with shielded reinforced buildings and protective barriers, be they magic and/or technological.
The Valentine Event (14th of February 1999) was when a love/lust spell went out of control and every fertile woman and asexual being ended up pregnant. B-Day is a common Colony Holiday in around the 7th of November, around the time of over ten million births. With exception of temporal phenomenon or travelling threw spiritual worlds, most of there adventurers are around 20. It takes a lot of time and resources to raise a family.
"So. Inuyasha, huh? If I remember correctly, the Prime is in Japan. This version is mostly the same - a half dog yokai son of the great western lord, abused by humans and yokai, failed love with the Shikon Priestess Kikyo due to Naraku (grimace), killed Naraku with friends and finally marrying Kagome after she graduated high school and returned to the past. The difference is during a feast, a disguised demon tricked Kagome into eating the flesh of a mermaid." says Naruto recalling the Adventurer Database.
"I know this one. Mermaid flesh is poisonous. Nine times out of ten it will kill you, one time out ten it will mutate a person into a fish monster called a Lost One. Only one in million gain immortality." says Harry, wishing he was home, "A colony in Japan was kidnapping mermaids in order to create an immortality drug. A group of Japanese adventurers found out and shut them down."
"As a angelic healer like to say 'Heroes never die'." says Naruto, "They defy the odds as protagonists of there own stories. Dumb little demon ended up making Kagome immortal. She and Inuyasha ended up as Spirit Detectives in the Modern Era."
"So finding a gift for a half dog demon spirit detective and his immortal partner and wife?" says Harry, "..."
"So Harry, why did you almost get arrested last week?" asks Naruto, carrying storage scrolls loaded with presents.
Storage sealing scrolls, interspacial rings, and other inventory items are very popular this time of year. It makes carrying items far easier and no longer does Christmas threaten to pull there arms out there sockets.
"I was caught selling Twilight Diamonds."
"Twilight Diamonds? Your not talking about a Equestrian are you?"
"No! There is this race of ice-cold blood-sucking fairies that call themselves vampires. There fluids are crystallized and they even sparkle in sunlight. They have super hard bodies, but a few years ago, some people learned a specific form of non-earth magic can break them into Diamonds" says Harry, "I didn't kill them, a Real Vampire did."
"Who?"
"Alucard of the Hellsing Organization, he wanted to make Christmas Presents for his boss Integra and his childe Ceres Victoria." says Harry, "I didn't care he killed the pseudo-vampire loser, but I did pick up a few gemstones that Alucard left behind."
"Why did they try to arrest you?"
"The Council doesn't want Adventurers hunting Non-Hostile Beings."
"Council again."
"I did manage to sell the gemstones tho. To Twilight Sparkle of all people."
"The Alicorn Princess, the Anthro Magician, or the Human Scientist with Magical Powers."
"All Three. They all had very disturbing grins."
Another shopper is a tall slender beautiful woman standing 170.2 centimetres (5 ft 7.0 in) with impressive breasts. She has blue eyes, blue skin, and short black hair. He body is a mix of blue/purple with numerous glowing circuitry indicating her technological origins. She wears a black coat that doesn't provide warmth, but does reduce the illumination of her body.
"Cortana!"
Cortana, UNSC Artificial intelligence (SN: CTN 0452-9), was a smart artificial intelligence construct. She was one of the most important figures in the Human-Covenant war of her universe in which humans fought against an army of alien fanatics. She was the partner of it's greatest hero, John-117, also known as Master Chef. The last words she remembered before awakening in Changed World was her last words to her partner as she disappeared. "Welcome home, John,"
"Cortana!"
Cortana's new body is techno-organic, a mixture of organic cells and semi-organic nanomachines of unknown origin. She's a living being cured of her rampancy, while still possessing the a computer mind far superior than a normal organic. She had a DNA scan done on herself when she reached a sufficiently advance colony and learned she's genetically the daughter of her creator Dr. Catherine Halsey, who created her using a flash cloned copy of her own brain. She still has issues with her creator. Other genetic traits are similar to mutants and metahumans, which explains how her organic brain can still operate with a machine's efficiency.
Cortana turns to the two people that were calling out to her.
They are both from the world of Bloody Evolution known as Remnant. A world created by two brother gods as an experiment and abandoned when there creations rebelled. A world filled with soulless monsters of destruction known as Grimm, that exist only to kill mankind and destroy all of there creations
One is an attractive agile woman standing 168 cm (5'6") minus the furry cat ears on the top of her head. She has amber eyes, light skin, and ashen black hair cut at the shoulders. She wears a combat outfit that a mix of black and white outfit with traces of purple and gold. Her weapon of choice is Variant Ballistic Chain Scythe known as Gambol Shroud which can be pistol, cleaver, or kusari-gama.
"Blake."
She is Blake Belladonna, daughter Ghira and Kali Belladonna, a member of the Huntress Team RWBY.
She is a member of Remnant sub-species of humanity known as Faunus. Faunus are identical to humans but possess several enhancements and one animal trait per Faunus. They are a discriminated race which is why Blake was part of her father's White Fang. When the White Fang's leadership changed and it became a far more violent group, she only stayed due to her manipulative boyfriend Adam Taurus. She eventually left to become a Huntress, proving herself to be a Hero despite her tendency to run.
The other is a beautiful curvy woman standing 173 cm (5'8"). She has lilac eyes, pale white skin, and long wild blonde hair. She wears a combat outfit that's a mixture of Yellow, Brown, and Orange that evokes images of flame. She's currently wearing Dual Ranged Shot Gauntlets, known as Ember Celica in there bracelet forms.
"Yang"
She is Yang Xiao Long, daughter of Huntsman teacher Taiyang Xiao Long and the bandit leader Raven Branwen, half-sister to Ruby Rose, and member of the Huntress Team RWBY.
Yang has always looked for adventure and answers. When her step-mother Summer Rose died, she began looking for her mother Raven. She found the answers not with the woman that abandoned her, but with her teammates. She lost an arm trying to protect Blake against her abusive ex-boyfriend Adam, but she and Blake killed the insane Adam. When she awoke in the Changed World, she found her original arm restored much to her shock and confusion.
"Sorry, I was lost in my thoughts."
"Your still not thinking about The Pink are you?" asks Yang
"You were warned by her friends. That way lies madness." adds Blake.
"..."
"It's not like Pinkie Pie is logical." says Yang, "I was told that a group of adventurers encountered a psychopathic version of Pinkamena Diane Pie that wanted to kill her friends and bake there organ meat into cupcakes after dismembering them. A Majin - one of those pink genie people - turned her into bubblegum with her Candy Beam Flash, chewed her up, then spat her out saying it was too sweet! Then the gum reverted to Pinkie, only she was completely sane (for Pinkie) and had no memories of being a serial killer."
"..."
"Yang, I think that story made it worse."
"So, what are you getting John for Christmas?"
Cortana is grateful for having a distraction.
"I managed to get a few things he should like, but it isn't easy finding proper clothing."
Master Chef is seven foot two when in his classic Green power armor, but still John is six foot ten without the Mjornir Armour.
Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, more commonly known as the Master Chief, is a SPARTAN-II commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command. A super soldier from a black ops project that became the Hero of the Human-Covenant War. With over thirty years of active duty, he has become one of the most decorated war veterans in the United Nations Space Command.
"How old is John? I never asked when we met" says Yang
"He was born March 7, 2511 and before Halloween 1997, it was October 27, 2558. So he was technically 47 tho he spent nearly four and half years in cold sleep."
"We were both 19 back then."
"Normal ages don't apply to us. I was technically Nine years old when we met, which is ancient in AI years and my 'mother'/creator was 57 when I came online."
Cortana is still amazed at the insane power of the chaos magic (at the concept of magic itself). It transformed two unknown people into her and John-117, while somehow giving her physical form. A body that could handle Master Chef with his Carbide Ceramic enhanced Bones, enhanced muscles, and augmented nerves. Even her vision is a match for Chef's eye enhancements. The Valentine Magic that followed over a year later also countered the suppressed sexual drive caused by the Catalytic Thyroid Implant.
The group turn at the sound of child crying.
A little green-haired girl holding a Teddy bear with a torn arm. A little boy with blonde hair is looking very guilty.
Suddenly, a bespectacled Japanese man of average height and slender build appears next to the kids. He has blue eyes, fair skin, and straight, chin-length black hair framing both sides of his face. He kneels down and takes the torn bear from the girl, then pulls out a sewing kit. In literally seconds, he has completely repaired the teddy bear and returned it to the girl. She giggles then grabs the boy's hand and runs towards there parents.
"Still haven't lost your touch, Ishida."
Uryū Ishida, Gemischt (mixed blood) Quincy and Doctor, turns to see his friend Ichigo Kurosaki dressed in a white coat and carrying bags of presents.
The Quincy known as the Monks of Destruction, were mediums that fought against Hollows, but were hunted down because there powers completely destroyed the corrupted souls instead of merely purifying them. Originally, his enemy due to Ichigo becomes a substitute Soul Reaper, he ended up become his friend and joining his fight.
Ichigo Kurosaki is a Soul Reaper and anime protagonist. Ichigo is the son of Dr. Isshin Kurosaki, formerly Captain Isshin Shiba of the 10th Division of 13 Court Guard Squad, and Masaki Kurosaki, a Echt (Pureblood) Quincy. Masaki became infected by an experimental Hollow called White why saving Isshin and Isshin gave up his powers to save her. Years later, Ichigo was not only born part-Soul Reaper part-Quincy, but containing Hollow elements he absorbed from White.
"Ichigo. Your visiting your parents?"
"Yeah. It's still strange even after twenty years. I lost my mom when I was nine because of Yhwach and the hollow Grand Fisher, then suddenly Halloween happened and I found her and dad together. I even have more siblings and now I'm a grand father! Kazui and Ichika have a daughter!"
"No regrets."
"No regrets."
Ichigo then jumps to the side to avoid the surprise attack by his father.
"Knock it off, goat face. Your too old to be doing this stuff anymore."
"Too old?" says the six foot one clinical surgeon
"Your already a great-grandpa."
"How is little Kazuko?"
"She's doing fine. Orihime and Rukia are always around." says Ichigo, "How are you doing?"
"We got a new healer, Wendy Marvel."
"The Sky Dragon Slayer from Fairy Tail?"
"You know her?"
"No, but everyone knows about Fairy Tail. It's one of those groups that everyone in the know, knows about."
*CRASH!*
"MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS!"
The group turns to see a three meter tall robot Santa Claus tearing threw displays, chasing a bunch of children. It's a very heavy mechanical being since there are loud vibrations with every step. It's followed by a bunch of small robots and remote control toys, which are clearly being controlled by the robot Santa.
"This is your fault!"
"My fault you're the one that turned it on!"
"Stop talking and run faster."
"MERRY CHRISTMAS! MERRY CHRISTMAS!"
"Dragon Meteor Spark!"
A young man with spiky blonde hair appears with his fist covered in flame. As his fist collides with the Robot Santa, there is a focused explosion that tears a hole threw the machine. The holiday mascot falls back with it's broken head covered in smoke and sparks.
"Ignis Dragneel, Team 21, what's going on here?"
"MEEEERRRRRRRRYY.."
"Hold that thought."
Ignis is a young man standing 175 cm (5'9) with black eyes and wild spiky blonde hair. He's dressed in a sleeveless, gold trimmed, black waistcoat, open and untucked, exposing his bare chest, brown leather belt, and white knee-length trousers with black ribbon ties. He also wears sandals and a white scale-pattern scarf.
Ignis Dragneel, son of Natsu Dragneel and Lucy Heartfilia of the Fairy Tail Guild. In the Kingdom of Fiore, the most destructive and passionate magic guild is Fairy Tail and it's most (in)famous hero is Fire Dragon Slayer Natsu Dragneel. They took on every challenge from simply monsters and criminals, to the feared guilds of Grimoire Heart and Tartarus. They even saved the world, defeating the immortal Black Wizard Zeref and the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse Arcnologia.
"Meteor Dragon Piercing Fang!"
With his hand lit ablaze, Ignis pierces the steel of the Robot Santa's chest into mechanical and electronic components. The force is enough to knock the multi-ton machine back. Inside the machine, the fire magic surrounding his hand explodes like bomb. Fire erupts from the piercing hole, the torn neck, and from joints.
As the Meteor Dragon Slayer, he's proven to be chip off the old block. He's joined by two other members of Team.
"Stop!"
One is a tall athletic woman standing 183cm (6') with brown eyes and long scarlet red hair. She's dressed in black clothing and blue armour with a blue-black hooded cloak. She also carries a dark blue/black fantasy sword which is emitting a freezing cold mist.
Elena Fernandes, daughter of Erza Scarlet "Queen Titania" and Jellal Fernandes.
Erza Scarlet is a master swords woman whose Requip Magic allows her to switch between dozens of magical armours and weapons, each with there own abilities. Jellal is a former Wizard Saint whose Heavenly Body Magic is based around astronomical objects, such as meteors, stars and black holes. Elena has earned the nickname "Winter Queen" for her love of ice-magic blades.
"Phantom Frost!"
Elena's ice sword slashes the burning robot, not causing any physical damage as the blade passes threw, intangible as a ghost. The magic on the other hand extinguishes the flames and covers the broken metal skin in frost.
"I had it handled, Elena."
"Don't be so sure, Ignis." says Elena's partner.
The other one is her teammate and boyfriend standing only 178cm (5'10) with short dark green hair and dark brown eyes. He's dressed in a dark blue shirt, black pants, and black boots. He also carries six swords
Rico Zoro, son of Roanoa Zoro and Nico Robin of the (in)famous Straw Hat Pirates.
Zoro is a Master Swordsman, one of the greatest in his world and in the Changed World. Nico is an archeologist with the devil fruit power to produce her body parts on any surface including her own body, other bodies, and other objects, allowing her to create copies of them. There son has the ability to create multiple arms that can wield multiple swords, tho he avoid holding a sword in his mouth like his dad.
Rico slices open the metal skin, reaches in and pulls out a familiar black/yellow cylinder.
"A Microfusion cell!?"
There is a world where the transistor wasn't invented and a Cold War between China and America became Hot. The world was consumed by thermonuclear war and people hidden in underground Vaults emerged years later to find a world of mutants, robots, and fallout. One of the surprisingly advance bits of technology are the medium sized energy production unit, a self-contained fusion reactor
Magic and nuclear physics rarely work well together. While there are some magical engineering groups that are working on Fusion Reactor that use gravity-type magic, destructive magic coming in contact with nuclear material has caused several disasters in the last twenty years.
There was a case during the Colony Wars when a sorceress used a black magic spell against a nuclear-powered death ray robot and caused a blast that eclipsed Hiroshima!
The Leader of Team 21 is a handsome man of Mediterranean descent. He tall (6'1), fit, muscular, and lean like a champion swimmer. He also has bright sea-green eyes and disheveled, jet black hair, swept to one side. He's dressed in black clothing with armor that has an Ancient Greece theme. He also carries a pen that can transform into a sword called Riptide.
Perseus "Percy" Jackson, 38 year old Hero is the Demigod son of human Sally Jackson and Poseidon - Greek God of the sea, storms, earthquakes, and horses. He learned this when he was twelve years old when he learned of his strange heritage while trying to prove he hadn't stolen from the gods. His adventures never stopped and he eventually awoke in the Changed World next to his girlfriend and now wife Annabeth, daughter of Athena - goddess of wisdom, civilization, mathematics, warfare, city defense, strategic, law and justice, crafts, the arts, and skill.
He's led numerous teams, not just Central City's oddly numbered Adventurer Teams. He enjoyed saving people and fighting monsters, especially if it involved his domain - the ocean. He even got to see the hundred meter tall Godzilla up close when the King killed a giant monster crustacean Ebirah
The one thing he dislikes about the job other than paperwork he has to fill on occasion is dealing with idiots. He's having a bad day.
One is a beautiful human woman with green eyes, white skin, and shoulder-length candy red hair. She also has impressive breasts and youthful appearance due to certain drugs. She's dressed in a Blue/Yellow Jumpsuit marked Vault 69 and has a Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV -Personal Information Processor (PIP) that acts as a database for the wearer's personal information and inventory.
One is a beautiful Equestrian Pony with green eyes, white coat, and candy apple red mane that frames her face. He doesn't know much about Equestrians, but he bets if she was with foal, she would be stacked by Equestrian standards. She's also dressed in a Blue/Yellow Jumpsuit marked Stable 69 and has a PipBuck - a miniature, portable, Terminal-like device with limited magical functions.
Just as there are millions of characters from tens of thousands of worlds, not all version of the magical pony land of Equestria are same. While the first one's world was destroyed by thermonuclear war between US and China, the second was destroyed by a mega-spell war between Equestria and Zebra Empire.
"Candance 'Candy' Apple of the Vault"
The human female blushes at his voice, showing a combination of fear and lust. At least she isn't as bad as those girls in Regina Babylon, they would be acting on there lust.
"Candy Apple of the Stable"
The pony mare blushes at his voice, showing a combination of fear and almost worship. Well, he is a demigod of equines.
"I have to ask Wby!? Why a Microfusion cell?! There is a ban of nuclear power systems."
"We.. We didn't think it was a microfusion cell, we thought it was a spark battery." says Candy Apple (human).
"Spark batteries are small power cells of magical energy, the equestrian counterpart to power cells. " says Candy Apple (pony)
"How did you get them mixed up?"
"The batteries were already installed in the power core when it arrived from Vegas!" says Candy Apple (human) bouncing in her seat.
"Vegas?"
"The Robot Santa was originally from a Casino/Resort in Vegas." says Candy (pony)
"We were told that it made from an older robot made during the Colony Wars." Says Candy (human).
"Wait! It was made from Combat Robot?"
"Yeah. It's good to recycle." says Candy (human)
"Tho I think the computer core was either damaged or too aggressive." says Candy (pony).
"Combat robots in Nevada are more heavily shielded against magic, which is why they were allowed to have microfusion back then. Even then, they were sent without humans to dangerous targets, so if they did explode they would only destroy enemy forces.'
'As if it wasn't already radioactive enough when Palo Verde exploded after the Halloween Event"
There were 60 commercially operating nuclear power plants with 98 nuclear reactors in 30 States. More than half of them exploded during and shortly after the Halloween Event. There are less than six left operation after two decades. The only operational ones are in rare magical dead zones.
In the Changed World, more than water falls from the terrifying Red Sky. Sometimes it rains fire that scorches the world, sometimes it rains green poison that decays the old world, and sometimes it will rain blood that will raise monsters.
For many months, it also rained deadly Black Rain, a mixture of radioactive ash from numerous destroyed power plants (and a few fools with mini-nukes) and corrupt magic particles called malediction. It some places in the world, the black rain was countered by powerful beings, strong enough to be considered forces of nature. In some places, technology was used to counter the Rain. Some places in the world are radioactive wastelands that would remind the human Candy Apple of her own world.
"Who sold you the robot parts?"
Central City Adventurers' Guild
It's a very busy season for the Adventurer's Guild. Every since the council decided everyone would be a "Secret Santa", there have been many Quests. Mostly missions to various colonies to look for gifts or Hunting Quests to acquire materials for the Christmas holiday. The Leader boards show which Teams have the highest number of Quests divided by Rank. The Boards also show the majority of the Fifty Adventurer Teams are on mission.
Even the Receptionists have been pulled into the holidays as they are now dressed in little red dresses with white rims and caps. It looks a strange since the majority of Receptionists aren't human and the Christmas red clashes with there skin, hair, or horns. Some are from races that clearly from different religions and celebrate different holidays, but that doesn't matter to the Central City Council and there exploitation of Santa's Christmas Magic.
Team 4
Team 4's leader Osamu Midoriya is writing in the notebook app of his Scroll. While his father Izuku used to write about heroes, putting all his knowledge in paper notebooks before he was given a chance to be a Hero himself, Osamu is make electronic notes concerning presents. He has to get presents for his parents, his siblings, for some of his aunt and uncles, for his team mates, and the Random assigned person. He also has to review the new person's profile to learn what gifts are appropriate.
The picture on the scroll's video screen is a young woman with magenta eyes, pale blue skin, and short spiky hair that seems to be different shades of blue. She wears dark-rimmed goggle that are common with speedsters.
"Team 2 - "Blue Mercury", daughter of two famous speedsters. Rainbow Dash, a human student of Canterlot High who possess super speed due to the development of Equestrian magic. Father is a mobian, from a version where mobians are animal-eared mutants instead of anthropomorphic animals. It's possible, Mobius was originally Earth. The transformation was do to the Gene-Bomb bombardment by the alien Xorda. It's believed she is the daughter of Sonic, but no confirmation. The two were having a race before the Valentine Event.
Many strange pairings occurred because of the out of that control love/lust spell. All over the word, people who loved each other, people who hated each other, and people who didn't know each other at all came together for the sole reason of reproduction. The Valentine Children are in there twenties now, some of them having Children themselves, and make up the majority of the Adventurers .
"Speedster. Sonic. Can she swim? Does she prefers to run?" says Osamu going deeper into his thinking mode, a trait he inherited from his father. "Underwater Protection. Speedster Sneakers. Central City has the Best because this is the Flash's city."
"Well, he's lost in the mode." says Maria Morales, daughter of Miles Morales and Laura Kinney. "Sometimes I wonder if he has a Thinker ability in addition to his 'Plus Ultra' Quirk."
Plus Ultra is the descent of his father's Legacy Quirk "One for All" and his mother's "Gravity". He can absorb the "mass" of objects, making them lighter than air, and channel the "mass" to increase the force of his impacts. He can make a sixty ton monster as light as a feather, then add those six tons to the force of his blows.
Maria's own mutant abilities include all of her father's Spider-Man powers minus her dad's ability to generate electrical shocks, but she also has her mother's regenerative healing factor.
"No, I don't think Gourmet Chocolate would be a good present for my target, Veneno. Also, talk out loud, I'm getting tired of sounding crazy."
" ¿Por qué el chocolate es un mal regalo de Navidad?" asks the Klyntar Symbiote as it's face rises from Maria's clothing. The translation being "Why is Chocolate a Bad Christmas Present?".
It's creepy with it's wide eyes and mouth of sharp teeth, but the other Adventurers barely notice. Weirdness is normal is the general rule.
"Two reasons. One she's allergic according to her profile. Two, you would steal most of it, you Chocolate Addict."
"No es justo" (It's not fair)
"Stop worrying, Veneno." says Alexandra "Alex" Katarina Rasputina, daughter of X-Men heroes Colossus and Shadowcat. "My target is Maria, so I'll include chocolate for you."
"Eres mi nueva persona favorita!" (You're my new Favourite Person!)
"Why are only speaking Spanish? You speak English fluently."
"Práctica" (Practice) says the symbiote with a grin, which is rather horrific.
"Hey Kira, what are you getting for Adam Aran?" asks Alex, "I have one of his half-brothers from Team 2."
"Relaxation VR Gear." says Katsuro "Kira" Kiragaya, son of VR MMORPG Heroes Kirito and Asuna. "You put on a wireless Neuro Linker and you get transported into a peaceful virtual world. Blue skies, bright green trees and forests, blue oceans, and no monsters, like the Earth before the Halloween Event. I even have one based on Hyrule."
"Can you order three of them, I think I know who has the third brother." asks Alex
"Chernobog, triple the order from Dad's company."
The magi-tech pendant around his neck acknowledges his orders.
"Jawohl! Bestellung gesendet!"
"Yes, Sir! Order Sent!"
"I know Ancient Belkan designs speak German, but I have to learn to change the language setting." says Kira, as the little machine makes emoji faces.
"I have Iduna from Team 8." says cleric daughter of Shinji Ikari and Asuka Langley, "I'm a little worried. Iduna's mother Elsa is a wonderful person once people got her out of her icy shell. Her husband on the other hand is lunatic on the inside, a literally son of Satan!"
"Is it true that Elsa has lesbian lovers?" asks Maria
"Yes. Dark Schneider apparently doesn't care if his wives have lovers if they are female."
"Is they are male?"
"He has promised to introduce any male lover to Hell's Explosive Venom."
Team 7
"Come on! Tell me!" says Mary
"Not a chance, Mary. Your going to have to wait until Christmas." says Adam Aran - son of Link and Samus Aran, "Now can you help me find presents for niece?"
"Fine. How old is she again? four?"
"Yeah. Small, adorable, and a little spoiled. My nephew is nearly as bad."
"Royalty, huh?"
"Don't bother. Your mother is a Queen as well remember?"
Adam Aran, is the son of Hyrule's Hero of Time Link and Galaxy's Greatest Bounty Hunter Samus Aran. His half-siblings are the children of Link's other wives Hyrule's Princess Zelda and Mushroom Kingdom's Princess Peach Toadstool. As a result Aran is the most seriously trained of three oldest children, despite Link's effort to make sure all three are powerful.
Mary Russo is daughter of Mario "It's Me, Mario" Russo and Queen Bowsette. They were surprised when Mary and Adam started dating, but Bowsette has begun to pressure Mary about grand kids. Mary has been wearing down Adam since her last mission in October.
"My Christmas target is Bell, as in the Golden Rose." says Trevor, "She's prideful like her father, so I'm going to paint her portrait. I even used my psychometry on some of the items we recovered on the art museums "
Trevor Prentiss is son of Abe Sapien and Namorita Prentiss, the aquatic adventurer's psychometry allows not only to read the history of an object, but copy the skills of it's sentient user and creator. It doesn't matter if it's swordsmanship from a sword or painting skills from a
Renaissance painting.
"Going the Artist route, huh?" says Refaela, "James A. Stark is my target. We've worked together on many nano-machine projects and armour upgrades. I was going to show him a piece of cybertronian tech I acquired recently, now I guess I'll turn it into a present."
Refaela Salazar is daughter of a nano-machine shape-shifter Rex Salazar and the Earth-raised techno-organic cybertronian Sari Sumdac. When it comes to the technology of Transformers, she's an expert.
"I'm going the cheap route." says Masahiko, "Osamu is always making notes and researching, so I'll just buy memory and upgrades for his Scroll."
"Well if your going to be a cheapskate." say Refaela, pulling out a handful of packaged computer chips from her sub space Inventory, "Cybertronian Grade Upgrade, made by me, don't cost a thing."
"What do you want?"
"A future favor."
Masahiko Saegusa-Walters is the son of Jennifer Susan Walters, also known as She-Hulk. A super heroine who also acts as Private attorney for super heroes, with a Law degree from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). He learned from her how to Negotiate from her. He also know how to handle stress, which he learned from his father.
"... fine."
Handling his teammate is not as easy.
Team 8
"Mom and Aunt Anna love Christmas. They've been on Santa's nice list for decades."
"And your dad?"
"Dad's Earth hadn't had a Christmas in over four hundred years, Dad was genetically engineered to be core of the Dragon Knight to defeat the Destruction God of the Darkness Anthrax. He's also the Adam of Darkness, a literal Anti-Christ. A super violent hedonist who laughs as explodes people, so very Naughty."
Iduna Arendale known as Iduna of the Frozen, is the daughter of Ice Queen Elsa and the Explosive Fire Wizard Dark Schneider. It wasn't a pairing born of romantic interest but the result of the insanely powerful lust spell known as the Valentine Event.
"Tia Noto Yoko and Arshes Nei were born centuries after the apocalypse that turned dad's world from a super-technological Earth into a heavy metal dark fantasy world. My sisters love Christmas but that's mostly because of Mom and Anna's efforts."
Iduna also has half-siblings birthed by Yoko, Arshes, and Anna
"What about you, Akane?"
"Ranma celebrates Christmas and Gabriella just follows. The reunions are strange because of the multiple versions of Ranma and most of them are disturbed when they see me." Says Akane as she looks at her Christmas List.
Akane "Scarlet Sword" Saotome also known as Akane of the Flames is the daughter of Ranma Saotome and Gabriella Gabriev, but not the "normal" way. This version of Ranma is more than an superhuman martial artist lacking social skills due to be raising by an gluttonous idiot and cursed to turn into a woman with a splash of cold water.
"It's not that mom is a magical girl in her universe. A third of the Ranma and Rankos are magical girls and Nanoha has proved magical girl warriors can be bad ass. Nanoha and her friends have the firepower of giant military robots. I once saw Nanoha compete against Kira Yamato's Strike Freedom Gundam!'
'No the problem is I'm a Valentine Baby!"
In her world, this version of Ranma encountered life draining extraterrestrials and ended up becoming seifuku-clad magical cat-girl, much to her extreme embarrassment, in order to fight them. She finally managed to destroy the leader of the alien monsters, when she found herself in the Changed World.
During her adventures , she encountered a crazy alchemist making copies of people and accidentally created a hybrid copy of idiot master swordsman Gourry Gabriev (current husband of infamous Dragon Spooker Lina Inverse) and were-cheetah golem Raphiel (friend of the Diggers Family). This copy locked onto Ranma and became hopelessly in love "her".
"My siblings are treated normal, because they were born after Gabriel became Gabriella to make Ranma happy."
Orabella "Bell" Rosa Castellio, known as the "Golden Rose", ignores Akane's growing rant. She's always had problems with the other Ranmas. Most of there problems being due to being raised by Genma Saotome. Bell is more concerned with getting the best gifts for those she deems worthy. Her family and friends should get the best gifts, it's a matter of Pride.
Her parents' Escanor and Stella of Solaria already have the most impressive Christmas Tree in the colony. A rare Silver Pine decorated with polished silver and gold ornaments and ten million colourful lights.
"Should I get my friends miniature Silver Pines?"
Silver Pines are rare form of magical trees that are immune to the Red Sky Calamities, named because when hit with anything other than water or surrounded by illumination they become a metallic silver.
"No. I can do better than that!"
James A. Stark known as Iron Man Argent is also looking over his Christmas List. He's working on it with his AI assistant SEBAS
"SEBAS, Did I forgetting anyone?"
"Christmas Quest Gift Receiver Charles Vinsmoke of Team 9"
"I love his mother's café, got to make sure it's good."
"Suggestion, sir. I believe the present should involve cooking."
"Professional Knife Set with non-stick Adamantium coating. Interspatial Storage Ring. Coupon Book for Dad's Store. Done."
"Yes, Sir."
Central City's Tony Stark offers an expensive Adamantium coating for tools and weapons. It makes what it coats virtually indestructible to combat damage and the Red Sky calamities. It's not perfect as the iron-based super-alloy is vulnerable to magnetic fields and magic. The later was revealed when insane AI Ultron was destroyed during the colony wars. His nigh indestructible body was sliced to pieces by a magical attack and there was nothing to transmit it's consciousness into to.
Juno Parker looks at her list, it's a very long list. It's marked the Spider-Web contact list. The majority of the list is marked with white eyes inside red web icon indicating they are a member of the Spider Clan. After the Halloween Event, there were hundreds of spider-men and women. When the Valentine Event occurred, the population exploded. Almost every major colony in North America has a small number of Spider-Men and/or Women, with the majority being Parkers
"Why are there so many? Why so many multiple births as well?"
"Whose is Tsarfin?" asks Stark, looking over at her screen.
"Galina Tsarfin. She's a government-made clone of Natalia Romanova possessing the powers of a standard Spider-Man. She was part of a Harem that one of the Peter Parker's acquired during the Valentine Event."
"So, she gave birth to multiple kids."
"She gave birth to 12 from the Valentine Event alone."
"Oh My."
"It could have been a lot worse."
"What do you mean?"
"In her world, she gave birth to 123."
*Thump!*
One strange quality acquired by the Changed World is a malleability of physical laws in relation to certain people. One prime example is the ability to Anime Face Fall.
Team 9
"I'm broke!"
Moriko Kino is looking frustrated at her Christmas Quest.
"How am I suppose to get Crimson a present when I already used all my funds!?"
The daughter of the exiled saiyan warrior Broly and sailor senshi Makoto Kino has never been good at finances, being more skilled with physical activities and cooking.
"Do be so dramatic, I'll lend you some money for a cheap gift." says her half-sister Aoi.
Aoi Mizuno, Mizuna to Moriko, is the daughter of Broly and sailor senshi Ami Mizuno. She has the same high intellect as her mother, but actually has the fire power to back up her smarts.
"How cheap?"
"Gift Store Cheap. I'm on a Budget. Also, mama Cheelai is pregnant again"
"What!? But..."
"I'll put both our names on the gift."
"Thanks, Mizuna."
"Don't call me Mizuna!"
Charles Vinsmoke, Sanji Vinsmoke and Charlotte Pudding, stares at Griffin's list.
"You have that much Liquor!?"
"That's right. I have enough that this Christmas, most of my gifts are wrapped bottles."
"So why did you want to talk to be me about, other than bragging?"
"Can you make good Liquor-filled chocolates?"
"Yes. My mom makes gourmet chocolates and she taught me."
"I need a special order of romantic chocolates. I have a date for the Christmas Party."
"Even if you provide the alcohol, I'm still charging you."
The Phantom Sisters have taken the day off to visit there parents, but the pictures they have been sending to there teammates are hilarious. Three animated pictures appear on there scrolls.
Jade and her daughter Daiyu are using Shadowkahn dressed as Christmas Elves to decorate the building and despite being demonic constructs the shadow ninja look embarrassed under there wrappings. Jade's Uncle Jackie Chan is also helping, looking a little bruised.
Raven and her daughter Angela are talking to another version of Raven, while a bunch of green-skinned kids drag around her green shape shifting husband. Beast Boy may have become more powerful over the years, but he's helpless against his kids (even when they don't use there powers).
Samantha and her daughter Ida are casually watching a huge green dog run across the lawn. The immense dog is dragging Danny Phantom, Sam's tired husband and Ida's father. The ghost dog is Cujo, an old friend of the hero, unrelated to infamous monster dog of Maine.
Beep!
Team 12
"Oh you have to be kidding me! You got the Leader of Team 13!?" says Kumiko, her nine tails puffed up and crackling with energy. "Team 13 is filled with Obsessive Monster Hunters!"
Katsu "Crimson" Akashiya, Leader of Team 12, son of the vampires Moka Akashiya and Tsukune Aono, grandson of the Dark Lord Akasha Bloodriver, looks like he's getting a headache.
"Jonathan Quincy Morris, Captain of Team 13. Specialization in kitsune and vampire hunting. Numerous violations for attacking non-hostile monsters, especially vampires. Permanently banded from entering Yokai Town after an incident at Yokai Yakiniku"
"So why is he so messed up?" asks Kumiko, Fox Assassin, daughter of Ahri of Runeterra and Sesshōmaru
"According to the profile, his original colony Springfield was destroyed 7 years ago when there was an outbreak of Hate Plague. A version of Naruto went full Kyubi mode and used the tailed beast bomb."
Kumiko winces. The Tailed Beast Ball is the ultimate technique of a tailed beast, which can also be used by a host while transformed. Strongest of the Nine Kurama's Beast Bomb is essentially a nuke without the radiation.
"He then lost his family when they ended up in colony Lakeview. It was a colony that was run by powerful vampires. Those that were strong and could fight were turned or controlled, while weak humans ended up in the blood farms. Mr. Morris was only able to escape due to his grandfather.
"Lakeview. A bunch of vampire hunters wiped out that fascist colony. They burnt the place to the ground. Everyone in the blood farm was brain dead, so there was no saving anyone "
"The same ones that ending up raising Morris after his grandpa died of injuries."
"He's considered a true vampire hunter and he possesses a vampire bane repeating crossbow."
Bane weapons are magic weapons that are extremely efficient against a specific type of monster. When in the hands of a true Slayer, some with an affinity for killing a specific type of monster, of the same type, they can unlock immense power. A true vampire hunter with a vampire bane can kill thousands of master-level opponents..
"Where are Togako and Mayumi?" asks Caterina, daughter of Abel Nightroad and Seres Victoria. She 's looking threw a catalog for monster hunters, "I haven't scene them all day."
"I heard they needed to shop for younger siblings."
Kitobor Toy Store
"Play with me! Play with me!"
Togako Taisho, the Fox Sorceress, stands behind a shimmering barrier, protecting a group of children and several parents from there attackers. Outside the barrier, there are tens of thousands of robotic toys attempting to get to the children. Teddy Bears, Cute Dolls, Tickle Me Elmos, and even Transformers are swarming like ants against the golden barrier.
"I just wanted to pick up a few cheap toys!" says an angry Togako, her eyes turning red like her father Lord Sesshōmaru do before he transforms into massive canine form, but she calms herself. A giant nine-tailed fox would not be able to protect the people.
"Play with me! Play with me!"
"Hey parents, you have any useful powers?"
"I can manipulate stone, but the floors are made of synthetic crap and metal." says parent number one.
"I can cast illusions, but machines aren't effected by them." says the second.
"Play with me! Play with me!"
"I'm a medic-ninja, my jutsu library is small and I'm not armed." says the third
"I'm an Exorcist, but these things aren't Chucky. There is no cursed soul to remove." says the fourth.
"I'm a Pegasus Sorceress." says the fifth. Togako turns to look at her.
The sorceress is mostly humanoid with animal ears, hooves, tai, and blue-white-black feathered wings. She has gold eyes, blue skin/coat, and a long mane of white hair done in a braid. She's dressed in casual blue/black clothing. Next to her is her daughter who looks the same only with gray skin/coat.
"Weather magic?"
"Yes."
"Can you protect the others from lightning."
"Yes, Ma'am!"
Togako pulls out a pair of talismans as the barrier behinds. As one of the talismans glow, she strikes the barrier...
"Barrier Shockwave!"
...causing it to shatter and explode outward as a wave of rippling energy. The robotic toys are all sent flying backward, even the larger ones. The metal and plastic shelves collapse as the toys fly by.
"Wrath of the Storm God: Lightning!"
A bright light shoots into the air above the mass of machines, then releasing a huge bolt of supernatural lightning. Plastic skin and fake fur burn away from the metal endoskeletons, wire and circuitry overloads and burns releasing blue smoke, optics and small lights burst, and metal is burnt by electrical arcs. As the batteries and power cells melt, the horde of mechanical toys collapse in a burning pile.
Togako then turns to the owner of the owner. The Fox Sorceress, daughter of the legendary Tamamo no Mae, Fox Priestess of Peerless Beauty, is still angry.
The owner is a tall (6'1), very round man with blue eyes behind dark blue shades, a bald head, and a huge mahogany brown mustache. He's dressed in black with a red jacket, goggles on his forehead, and white gloves. He looks very nervous.
"Dr. Ivo Robotnik, also known as Eggman. Care to explain?"
"Most of my toys are made of recycled materials - recycling is a good thing. I used parts from my old robots and I guess the memory wasn't completely wiped."
"Why are you working in a toy store? You are a genius robotics expert!"
"The others were jealous of my genius." glare "My co-workers kept making fun of me! How I used animals as a power source. How I could have gotten the Chaos Emeralds if I had used one of my Hedgehog Robots. How I could have made long water levels with no air bubbles."
The customers, including children, heave a deadpan look on there faces as Dr. Robotnik breaks down crying.
"Lets just go" says Togako, "Wait, where is Mayumi?"
Ivy's Gardening Supplies
"I'm so sorry, miss."
Mayumi Minamino, the Bloody Rose Gardener, is wondering if she's paying for the crimes committed by her father as the great demon world thief Yoko Kurama. She currently has two very affectionate Pokémon and a plant girl wrapped around her.
Gardevoir, a Psychic/Fairy Pokémon officially known as the Embrace Pokémon and infamously as the Queen of Waifu Pokémon. One is a normal in green and the other is a shiny in blue. The third member is a green skinned humanoid with long red hair and purple flowers in her hair.
The Bloody Rose Gardener and her father are popular among the plant and gardening community. Fan girls can be major problems, especially since psychics can suffer sympathetic fanaticism - not being hard core fan, but being influenced by the psychic/emotional emanations of a fan.
"Miss, what's your name?"
"Rose Harlequin Isley, Mistress Mayumi. I'm the daughter of Central's main plant manipulator Pamela Isley. Do you known her? Or Aunt Harley? Do you want to see our private garden?"
Mayumi can feel a headache start. All she wanted to do was check out the Christmas Flowers.
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