*Camera turns on.*
*In front of the camera is ZS Connor and Dark Prelate Mitchell.*
ZS Connor: "Welcome back to the DA Pre-chapter commentary. You know me as ZS Connor…"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "And me as Dark Prelate Mitchell…"
ZS Connor: "Just a little side note. I'm fine and ready to do this again."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Yeah, Triple-M said that we aren't allowed to commentate alone, and we're the only ones qualified to commentate for this story…"
ZS Connor: "Besides Triple-M and IceBite...but hey, we're back to do this now."
ZS Connor: "Anyways, from what I saw from the last chapter...It was eventful to say the least."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Including the fact I broke the Fourth Wall...AND got a reply back!"
ZS Connor: *Annoyed* "Besides that...We got a new chapter ready to go."
*A moment of dead air passes.*
ZS Connor: "... ...I forgot, was it you or me who had to start the chapter this time?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "I...don't recall…"
ZS Connor: "Want to settle this by a coin flip?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: *shrugs* "I guess…"
ZS Connor: *Pulls out a 'normal' coin and holds it up showing tails.* "Okay...I'll call tails."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "Then I guess I'm heads…"
*ZS Connor counts down for the flip and does so when he reaches 0. The coin does flip in the air for a bit...before it lands with the tails side up.*
ZS Connor: "Well...Guess that means I'm doing it."
*ZS Connor goes to the terminal and starts the chapter.*
*Chapter 11 starts.*
Chapter 11: Two Dancers and a Traveler
After getting away from the Ruins of Time with Naga's Tear and another child from the future, the search continued on.
Also in that time, Connor and Olivia continued to spend more time around camp to be with each other whenever they could. That eventually resulted in Connor showing up at Olivia's tent one day.
Once Olivia let him in, they talked for a bit...before Connor asked an important question.
"Uhm...Olivia...I want to know what you think...about us?" Connor awkwardly asked.
"I...don't know what to say...I mean… …" Olivia retorted as her face started to redden.
"I asked because I love you and wanted to know if you felt the same way. So, do you?" Connor said, this time confidently.
Olivia continued to blush and was silent...before she said, "I...do. Ever since you asked me to be a part of Zilver Sero...I realized I've been more confident in myself. And it's because of you being there to help along the way."
"Then that means I can do this then…" Connor said before he took a knee…
...pulling out a small ring box, opening it to show the ring he picked out…
As he followed up by placing it one of his hands, then taking Olivia's hand…
"I promise to be there for you...If you'd do the same for me, my lovely dancer." Connor proposed as he held the ring in the air.
Olivia accepted the ring as her red blush on her face disappeared. "You won't have to worry, I'll always make sure to dedicate time for you as well, my dashing partner."
The two of them ended up kissing before Connor stopped to ask if Olivia would perform one of her dances. She said yes and performed one in the privacy of the tent. Once she was done, Connor smiled as he saw the dancer demonstrate her talent wonderfully.
Meanwhile, Daniel was finishing up contacting his people on his Archipelago and on the Sumus, full name Cogitamus Ergo Sumus, a starship that'd been following him (both following him physically and following his commands) since the Warhammer 40,000 Universe. After contacting them, he got up to leave his tent to walk around. As he was leaving, however…
"Hey."
"Oh, Morgan. Hey...what's up?"
"...There's some stuff I wanting to ask you about…" Morgan replied.
Daniel nodded, and opened his tent flap. "Alright, let's go sit down and talk about it…" Morgan nodded and entered the tent, Daniel following. Once the duo got sat down, Daniel asked, "So...what do you want to talk about?"
Morgan reached for her bad, and pulled out a pair of three-item sets. "These...they seem familiar, and...I don't know why…Do you know what they are?"
Daniel looked them over, confirming his suspicions. "These are definitely Core Medals...Specifically, you have the Legendary Combo and the Invincible Combo, Burakawani and Putotyra."
"You know what these things are?" Morgan asked, hopeful.
"Of course I know them…" Daniel replied, before pulling something out of his own bag...a set of purple Core Medals. "I have them as well…"
Morgan's eyes widened. "Those are just like...mine...gah!" Morgan suddenly grasped her head, a pain shooting through it.
"Are you alright?" Daniel asked, concerned.
"Gah...yeah...I'm fine...I think...I remember...they were given to me by someone...someone close to me...I...I don't remember who…"
Daniel thought it over. He could tell her it was his future self, but she was barely accepting the 'time travel' stuff as it was...telling her it was his future self could potentially be too much for her.
"... … ...I'm sure it'll come to you eventually…" Daniel finally replied, putting a hand on Morgan's shoulder, "Until then, don't...worry about it too much...it'll come to you eventually…"
Morgan looked at the hand, then back at Daniel, before smiling. "Thanks...I'll try…"
Daniel smiled back at her.
A day or two passes, as the group ended up finding themselves near the landmark known as the 'Great Gate'. If they were going to continue their search, they would have to cross it.
A massive set of walls arranged in between two large bodies of water that acted as a barrier along a land route that required traveling through some mountains to get there. Sevon and Lenora had some trouble during their part of getting up past the steep parts.
Thankfully, the steep part was over as they reached more normal ground as trees could be seen as far as the eye could see. Eventually, they found the end of these trees and saw the 'Great Gate' up ahead.
Admittedly, Connor and Daniel were aware of what would happen here and their expectations were met as the events played out. Once they were done, Sevon and Lenora got everyone organized for the battle that was going to be starting shortly.
When it came time to start the battle, Connor and Olivia stuck together as some other people in the group headed off to get inside the Great Gate. These two, however, stayed behind and headed south instead.
"Wait, why aren't we heading in the same direction as everyone else?" Olivia asked Connor as they got further away.
"Because I saw somebody heading this way. They may be an enemy, or somebody who isn't aware that brigands took control the area." Connor answered back.
With that, the two continued going south till they found a young man in mercenary attire with a shield like piece of armor covering one of his shoulders.
The two approached the young man, who just focused on Connor given that he was wearing his armor and helmet. He did notice Olivia, but as already stated, his attention was on the other person.
"What are you doing out here?" Connor asked the young man.
"I'm out here as a charming rogue to outwit and overperform against some detestable ruffians. If you don't mind, I need to get going if I am to earn a sweet kiss from the fairest maiden waiting for me." The young man answered back before trying to leave.
Connor blocked the young man by getting in his path. The young mercenary just went around till he saw Connor move to block his path again.
"Pardon, would you let me pass? I can't show off my wonderful, expertly trained skills in harrowing combat if you continue to obstruct my path."
"You can do that when you talk to me and my partner first. I suggest you talk to her first before you turn your attention back to me." Connor retorted.
Feeling that this was the only option, the young mercenary took the hint and looked back at the strange armored person's female partner…
Before he suddenly stopped and blinked a few times.
"Wait. You must be Olivia, right?" The young man asked.
"Uhm...Yes. That is my name. How do you know that?" Olivia asked, a bit confused.
"This may be very difficult to understand...But I'm your son, Inigo. I...came from the future before I ended up here. 'Inigo' said. "And in case you still doubt me, I offer this as proof."
Inigo pulled out a ring...The ring looked like the one Connor gave her when he proposed to her. Olivia reflexively checked the ring on her finger and saw they were the same. The exact same size, color, and gem...all there.
When Olivia came to the realization that it was the truth, the two embraced each other. Connor stepped towards the two as they stopped. Their faces were red from the rising emotions of embarrassment and the sight of it showed that they were very much alike.
"Connor, did you know he was going to be here?" Olivia asked as she recalled her earlier question.
"No, I didn't know he was going to be here." Connor lied, believing this was not the right time to bring up how much he really knew.
Inigo's face cleared up as he asked, "Pardon, if I heard my mother correctly, your name is Connor?"
Connor took a second to respond. "Yes, that is my name. And let me guess, your father had that name as well?"
"Yes, he did." Inigo answered back.
A few second pass as Connor takes off his helmet, allowing his face and head to be seen. "I gotta say, seeing my own son with my own two eyes is quite an experience."
Connor took the time to note Inigo's hair. Its color was the same as his own...Brown, with a small visual sign that it used to be a bit more blondish in the past before it settled to its current coloration.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the battlefield, Daniel and Morgan, who were paired up for the battle, were fighting a group of assassins. Daniel had decided to change out of his Dark Prelate's Garb, and was instead fighting wearing a set of carapace armor, covered in a greatcoat with a high collar and a decorated mantle over it, wearing a wide-brimmed hat on his head. He was currently garbed in his Rogue Trader outfit, wielding his main weapons as a Rogue Trader: a Lucius Pattern Hellpistol and a Nemesis Force Sword, a gift from an Ordo Malleus Inquisitor he worked with to end a Chaos Threat. He also possessed a Rosarius, which provided him with a protective field; a Targeter; a Scanner; a Hellpistol-type Digital weapon; and a Psyber-Raven familiar, which remained overhead, serving as Daniel's 'eye in the sky'.
Morgan was using her main weapon, the future version of Crescent Rose, named (rather fittingly, due to its appearance by this time) 'Revenant Rose'. It was called such because the weapon was damaged and patchwork, due to the broken pieces requiring her to reuse them to replace them, since she didn't have the tools necessary to truly repair it.
One of the first things that Ruby did when she and Sevon found Morgan was take her to give Revenant Rose a serious tune up. The weapon still resembled its patchwork counterpart, but its internals were up to Crescent Rose's standards.
And now, said weapon was being put to work, fighting these assassins.
A clash sounded briefly as Daniel's Force Sword struck an assassin's sword...only for the Force Sword, supercharged by Daniel's Psyker abilities, to slice through the sword, also cutting through the assassin's torso, gutting him.
He turned to Morgan. "You doing alright over there?!"
"Yeah, doing fine!" Morgan called, swinging Revenant Rose at one of the assassins, slashing him in half.
"Alright, good!" Daniel called back, before spotting an assassin approach from behind her. "Behind you!" Daniel shouted, raising and firing his Hellpistol.
Morgan turned in time to see the assassin, a hole melted in his head, fall to the ground. "Thanks for that?"
"No problem!" Daniel called, before they got back to the fighting.
Connor, Olivia, and Inigo quickly caught up to the group after their little reunion with the son from the future passed. The trio of family entered the structure and saw everyone else fighting off the enemy.
Though as quickly as they caught up, the same amount of quickness applied to the fights that ended with the enemy losing as their ranks dwindled.
At some point, as they advanced further into the structure, the trio ended up running into Daniel and Morgan.
"Nice armor you got on, Daniel. Felt like changing up your appearance for once?" Connor said as he noticed his friend's current look.
"Kinda, yeah...this is the gear and equipment I used as a Rogue Trader of the Imperium of Man, back in the Warhammer 40,000 Universe…"
"Well...I'm no fashion expert, so no word on if this or the one works better in terms...Whatever terms matter…." Connor awkwardly said. "Oh...And the young guy following me and Olivia is Inigo. May want to introduce yourselves."
"I'm afraid there's no need. I recognize who these two are, Daniel and Morgan. Though you do seem very different compared to the last time we meet, Daniel." Inigo quickly said in response.
"Yeah, that's a distinct possibility…" Daniel replied, before he spotted another assassin, and turned, taking the assassin down with his Hellpistol.
"And that's our cue to stop talking. See you two around." Connor said to Daniel and Morgan. Then he told Olivia and Inigo that they better get to fighting before any more assassins show up.
The trio left, leaving Daniel and Morgan to get through the rest of the structure.
The battle dragged on for a bit as the group continued to advance through the Great Gate. Once they arrived on the other entrance, the leader of these brigands was quickly taken out by Inigo, with some help from Connor.
Then the group made sure to check this part of the battlefield over, just in case there was any reinforcements or something else. The search found that there was no more enemies around...and that meant the battle was over.
However, the belief of victory evaporated as some weird colorful triangular shapes suddenly appeared out of portals that opened and closed in a moment. The instance these shapes touched the ground, matching colored energy spread out in in specific patterns over the ground out away from the group.
"Alright, what the heck?!" Daniel exclaimed.
"Oh…Just when I thought...I finally got away…'They' finally found me...after all this time..." Connor just said aloud, shocked.
"...'They'?" Daniel asked.
"Demons. 'They' are a bunch of Demons I had the misfortune of running into during my travels. The fact I can see 'Geo Panels' means they got a force already out here." Connor tried to explain.
"And what are 'Geo Panels'?"
"See those fields of colored energy around those triangles? That's what a Geo Panel is. They can inflict either good or harmful statuses depending on whatever type of those triangles belong to that color."
As Connor went over more about Geo Panels...A blue creature can be seen on top of the staircase for the entrance into the Great Gate. From what could be seen, it was some sort of blue penguin like creature with a bag wrapped around it and wooden peg legs.
As soon as it spots Connor, it runs back into the structure quickly before anyone in the group had a chance to fire at it.
"...And what...is that?" Daniel asked.
"That my friend...was a Prinny. The lowest part of the chain in power for Demons…" Connor noted. "Of course, just like every other Demon, they can still be very powerful...Not to mention, if you see one, there maybe an actual army of them out there."
...Just as he finished saying that, that same creature reappeared. Then came another one...and another. They just kept coming...till that entrance was full of them.
Just like the Chaos Space Marines….A outside force brought its way into the world...To make yet another potentially dangerous fight for the group.
*Camera switches over.*
ZS Connor: *Nervously* "Wow, that's quite a predicament that the group is going to have to face. Thankfully...There's no chance anything like that can show up here."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: *facepalms*
*A few seconds pass by.*
ZS Connor: *Looking at his co-commentator, losing his nervousness* "Did… ...You seriously think I'd jinx us and it was going to happen?"
*A few more seconds pass and then some more for good measure.*
ZS Connor: "See? What did I tell ya?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "... … …"
ZS Connor:*Just continuing with the commentary.* "Anyway, that was the chapter...We found out that I got together with Olivia finally and we found Inigo...Who's my son."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "And I interacted with Morgan quite a bit…Oh, plus I unveiled my gear and equipment while I was a Rogue Trader..."
ZS Connor: *Checks the time* "And we're still got plenty of time left in our segment...But we'll call it here for now."
*ZS Connor goes to turn off the camera...except it never got turned off. It was still recording.*
*ZS Connor picks up the coin off the ground.*
ZS Connor: *To his co-commentator.* "So, want to know something funny about this coin? It's actually a trick coin. Both sides are the same."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "... … …"
ZS Connor: "Here is where it gets funny. I made sure to pick tails to ensure I was the one who had to do the work. And if you happen to call tails, I would have still done the task in your place anyway."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "... … …"
ZS Connor: *Being genuinely honest.* "Okay, I get it. It's not funny...But c'mon, I did it to show you that I'm not always trying to mess with you. You're my friend after all."
*A moment of silence passes.*
ZS Connor: "Look, I'm sorry if I've been a jerk back in the past if you want me to also say that."
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "..." *sighs* "...Whatever…"
ZS Connor: "Okay...so, how about we go take a break and go play an actual fair game for once?"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "… … ..I guess…"
*Just as the two try to leave, a small portal opens up and what they and the camera comes out from it...is a Prinny.*
ZS Connor: *In disbelief as he facepalms* "Oh you have to be kidding me…"
Dark Prelate Mitchell: "I TOLD you…"
Prinny: *Looks at the camera.* "Hey, this thing is still on. I'll turn it off, Dood."
*The camera gets turned off.*