I own nothing except maybe abilities of Ainz, possibly some timeline bends as well. I will update disclaimer as needed.

The idea for this was... something. I was sitting on the toilet and it popped into my head. That seems to be the location where I get the most of my ideas. This requires further research.

CHAPTER 1: A Skeleton and A God Walk into a Void...

Truth stared at the being that appeared in its realm out of nowhere. It stared back with burning red eyes.

"What are you? Where did you come from?" Truth said curiously. "I know of everything in the universe, but I have no idea who or what you are. You don't even have a Gate on you. Clearly you aren't of this world."

He gazed at the being, confused at what the hell it was. It appeared to be a sentient, living, skeleton wearing a purple cloak with gold trim, and holding a strange Golden staff, which looked a bit like a Caduceus. The staff itself had seven snakes around it, each with a differently colored gem in it's mouth.

The most interesting thing was its eyes, which appeared to be a burning red flame, commonly known as soulfire to those who were familiar with it. The few beings with this soulfire for eyes were souls bonded to armor, which this skeleton was clearly not. Even if a soul was bonded to the skeleton, how could it move? It has no visible means of staying together and not becoming a pile of bones. But, then again, soul armor shouldn't be able to move either.

Then the skeleton spoke. "I could ask you the same thing. What are you? Clearly some kind of boss monster, but this place is rather strange." Its voice was deep and charismatic, not exactly what one might imagine from a skeleton.

"I am Ainz Ooal Gown, Elder Lich, Dark Caster, and Overlord of the Great Tomb of Nazarick. As well as the only remaining one of the 41 Supreme Beings. I was sent here by a method unknown to me. If I had to guess it would be a [World Tier] item. A dimensional one at that from what I can tell.

Truth nodded, taking in the skeleton's position and accepted his explanation as the truth. (Heh. Truth. I made a pun.)

"I am the Truth, God, One, Everything, knowledge incarnate. I know all about everything in this world as I am everything. Except for you. You are not of my domain." he grinned.

"My world is made up of equivalent exchange. You are aware of what that is, yes?" Truth asked. Ainz nodded his confirmation. "As of now, I have no idea how to get you back to your world. If you were to assist me with a little, ah, issue, in my world that could affect me, I will do everything in my power to assist you. I'll even ask some other higher beings that are out and about somewhere." it says, waving it's arm in a general direction.

"That sounds interesting." Ainz said aloud. 'This should be useful. I don't have any of the items I would use for dimensional transport or long distance, so this is my best very to get back. Plus, it should be fun. I could always go as Momon again.' Ainz turned to face the white figure. "

Truth's grin stretched impossibly wider. "Let's play a game. Just a trust exercise. We take turn answering each others questions, only saying an answer if the other will answer it as well. A warning. If you refuse to comply with the rules and don't answer a question I answered first. You will have a bad time." Truth explained, smirking.

Ainz jawbones twisted into the approximation of a grin. 'Finally, a challenge.' he chuckled internally. "How about limited questions, perhaps, three each?"

Truth grinned. 'Clever, limiting your opponent early on, huh. I like you.' he thought excitedly.

"Very well."

Ainz tilted his head. "I must let you know, I am one of the 41 Supreme beings, we are equivalent to Gods, and I personally have killed some myself. Their remains went into making this staff I hold. I warn you as well."

Truth frowned. "Was that a threat? You believe you can harm me in my own domain?" he says in his echoing voice.

Ainz chuckled at the irritation on the God's face. "Not a threat, merely a statement of my power. Now that we both have made ourselves clear, let us begin."

Truth took the opening, and began. "What do you mean, you have killed Gods?"

"That's a simple one. I have lived in two worlds before this one. I am not sure of one of them, but the second one has Gods behind the religions there, leading their priests. Some are fair and kind, whereas most of them were dark. My comrades and I located the Gods on our quest to create the ultimate staff, made specifically for me. When we found them, we fought them in long raids and eventuaply killed them, taking the magical essence from them after. In the world I came from I was one of the strongest known beings. Now, tell me about you.

Truth's face scrunched up at the phrases it didn't understand. "I am a higher being, tasked with dealing with interlopers to my realm. I can do anything, mostly I make deals with puny mortals using Equivalent Exchange."

The Ainz put a hand on its chin in thought. His soulfire eyes flared. He raised a hand and pointed it at Truth. He then used a spell that he often forgot to use in both YGGDRASIL and the New World, as it wasn't needed in YGGDRASIL when you had already memorized the known enemies stats, and the spell only showed the name, level, job, and race, no abilities or attacks. All races are able to use the spell, so it wasn't useful for most points. In the New World he had completely forgotten about it.

{Discern Entity}

Name: Truth

Race: God

Jobs: GateKeeper, Judge, Toll Giver

Level: 100

Karma: 0

"Interesting." Ainz non-existent brows furrowed. If this "God" was level 100, then he would be the same as Ainz in Level. But were they the same in skill?

He was broken out of his musings by Truth. "What was that? Was it that 'magic' you spoke of?" the God grimaced at the word.

Ainz nodded. "All I did was take a look at how strong you are." Truth opened his mouth and asked.

"How strong am I compared to you?" he asked curiously, interested in how this measure of power applied to him.

"Ah ah ah. That is one of your questions, Truth!" Ainz exclaimed. Truth's grin dropped straight off its face when it realized that Ainz had tricked it.

"As you say." it said, dissapointed.

Ainz grinned, his bones clacking, and responded. "According to the spell, you are a level 100 Godly Creature. You are a Gate keeper, and you are aroubd my level in power, but I know not of your skills compared to mine. I do hope we dont have to test our abilities, at least not against one another. It would be quite an even fight if we were prepared for one another's abilities.

'Now that's interesting. I assume the levels go up to one hundred. I have to be careful, since he can possibly bypass equivalent exchange, and he has other powers as well.' Truth considered.

Ainz quickly thought up a question. "Tell me about your world and the issue you spoke of. It sounds interesting, and you wouldn't be a Gatekeeper if you aren't stopping things from going in and out. And I want to know what I'm facing for this favor I'm doing for you. That will be two of my questions."

Truth nodded "That's true. My world has many countries, but the one that is significantly more important than the others is Amestris. Amestris is almost perfectly circular. It is a militaristic state, and has a Fuehrer. It doesn't have physics, but rather Alchemy, which is the manipulation of elements by channeling tectonic plate energy through a Transmutation circle." An example circle appeared next to Truth. "This is a Human Transmutation circle. One of the two laws of alchemy is never to do human transmutation."

"Why so?" questioned Ainz.

"When an alchemist uses any transmutation circle, they open a Gate within them, a Gate of Truth," A large ornate black Gate appeared with what looked like Latin and lines all over it. "which allows the Alchemic energy to flow through them. If they use a Human transmutation circle, then I have to intervene. The entire point of Human Transmutation is to bring back the dead. Unfortunately due to natural laws I do not want unbalanced, I have to... intervene. They are brought here, and in exchange for knowledge, I take something they value greatly. A part of them to be exact. For example, if you have a great vision, such as an army commander, I will take your sight. If you wanted a child, I will take your reproductive organs."

Ainz winced. "Ouch."

Truth nodded. "It is a fair punishment. I take something from them because they need to be punished for playing God, but in exchange, they gain some knowledge. It may be anything, mostly you learn a little more more about everything you know. And now, as for the explanation as to our deal. When killed, people's souls enter a cycle of rebirth, keeping the world in balance. Someone figured out how to make a condensation of those souls, via mass death at once. It creates a philosophers stone. These stones can bypass my equivalent exchange, but stop when they run out of souls. There are artificial humans in Amestris, some high ranking officials, each with a different ability. There are seven, each named after the deadly sins. Their goal is to create an enormous philosophers stone somehow and then use it to kill me. The result will be this world being destroyed, and whichever homunculus eats me, they get ALL of the souls in the world as power, forever. I need you to do a deal. As I cannot leave my Gate, and you need a way home, which will take time, I thought you could be my vassal down there in Amestris. I will send you messages periodically to check in.

In all honesty, it didn't sound too bad. These homunculi sounded similar to the Guardias of Nazarick. Although it they were like that, it would be quite difficult for Ainz to beat seven of them in a fight, he couldn't just us an instant kill spell, because the spell targets the victim's soul, and the homunculi have many souls. And there was also another issue. "How am I going to be undercover and get enough intel if the country is militaristic? Their secrets must be hard to get to."

Truth nodded happily. "Exactly. Buuut, as you are having to enter my world, whose main ability is Alchemy, the army has state alchemists. I would like you to become one. As you leave my Gate, I can bend the rules a bit. So you can have a Gate of your own, and willgain enough alchemical knowledge to pass the test on your way through. I assume you have a way to disguise yourself?"

Ainz held his arms out to the sides, and used the spellset {Create Greater Item}, which made what appeared to be a set of ornate armor over him, with two large broadswords on his back. Each of the swords has a crescent flare to it at the tip of the sword. In reality this was an improved setup of his Momon disguise, with an extra ring on his hand that held a glamour on his body underneath that simulated a real body, although it could do little more than be touched. It was still weak, and would shatter under large amounts of stress, so him using it is a minimum priority. His eye slits were slightly wider, allowing his soulfire eyes to be seen through it. It didn't matter too much, it was only seen it you were trying to see his eyes, and even then, looked a bit like just really reflective eyes.

Truth whistled. "Fancy. Are you ready?"

"As ready as I'll ever be." he replied.

"Very well then Mr. Skel-e-ton" itsaid in an echoing voice, teasingly. Truth's entire demeanor changed as it fell into the script he uses every time for when people show up from the Gate. "I am Truth, but you can call me One, All, God, the Universe, but most importantly, I AM YOU!" a copy of the Gate by Truth flickered into existence behind Ainz, and he sensed a flickering of his magic, as if he was using an item, but not quite. The Gate crashed open. Ainz turned to see black creeping hands grow from the gate, pulling him into a giant eye. The hands wrapped around him, pulling him into the Gate. As he was slowly being dragged backwards, Truth used his last question.

"Ah, yes, my last question. What kind of magic do you specialize in?" Truth called.

Ainz laughed aloud at the irony. "Why Truth! I thought you would never ask! I specialize in undead magics!" he cried cheerfully as the door slammed shut. 'Man, that'll throw him for a loop.' Ainz snickered mentally as he fell backwards. He turned to see images and knowledge flashing into his mind, feeling new alchemy abilities being added to his mental list of spells, and how to transmute without a circle. 'That will be handy'. He turned as he got through the blackness, and a bright light was ahead of him. He covered his eyes, and then everything went dark.

Truth sat there stunned at the answer to his last question, then started cackling and clapping his hands with glee. "Oh yes! This is going to be VERY entertaining!"

AN: Ainz in armor with his glowing eyes must look a lot like Alphonse. *wink* *wink* *cough* *cough*

All ideas are taken into consideration when I write this. Also, anyone who knows chemistry or whatever can tell me scientifically what Kimblee does to the human body to make bombs? Like what elements does he move around? And would those chemicals exist in human bones, therefore Ainz? It would be nice to know so I don't just have to figure it out myself later.

It is I, Nyx, Lord Momonga's Disciple! The ETA for Chapter 8 of GEDN is about a week, minimum, maybe two max. I have writers block with the Shalltear pairing in that story. :( But fear not! This chapter will have copious amounts of plot! Leveling Up! A hopefully half-decent pairing! And... A House Elf?! And In the Realm of the Dragon Who Lived Reading, we will have new characters at least every other chapter for a few chapter! YAY! Stay tuned for more updates on what are hopefully some of your favorite stories! Suggestions are welcome. Thanks!