It's A Taken World
Chapter 11: What Of The Future?
The Usual Key...
"English/Japanese" Normal
"Magic/Pokemon/Electrical" Special
Also just a little note, when Ranma is a girl I will state her as a her/him and when as a boy he will be a him/her, so the main gender at the moment will show in front.
*Time Gate, but what time does the Time Gate reside?*
Sailor Pluto was slightly annoyed in the recent six years the timeline had changed like crazy and she could do nothing about it.
Why couldn't she do anything about it?
Well...
*FLASHBACK*
The Past Sailor Pluto was about to go onto earth to fix whatever was going to stop the creation of Crystal Tokyo, only to feel a tap on the shoulder. She turned and saw... her future self.
"Don't even try it, past me; you'll just make an enemy out of someone who has an army we can't defeat. Just sit back and let the river flow without trying to place rocks in it," The Future Pluto smiled, "You may find that a future without Crystal Tokyo might be better."
With that Future Pluto disappeared, leaving the Present Pluto to her own thoughts
*END*
So Pluto did what she was told, and didn't try anything like she used to do to get the timeline on the right track
She just hoped her future self was right...
*Privet Drive, Summer Holiday*
Iris was resting on her bed, enjoying some quiet time.
Well... as quiet as a mind that can see almost everything can get.
Her silence was cut off by the popping sound of... house elf teleportation?
'Why is he here?' Iris Requested/Thought.
The recalling showed some things, one, the House Elf was under the service of the Malfoy family. Two, Lucius Malfoy had half of Voldemort's soul and was planning to use it to shut down Hogwarts.
Iris quickly told the House Elf that she had a plan after he started telling her 'she mustn't go to Hogwarts.' She would have just not gone, but she needs to have the look of 'I am a girl that is learning magic, and not just leading the teachers on and acting like they are teaching me something.'
There was also the Horcrux thing; she also needed to get rid of that.
Everything was under control.
*Saotome Home.*
'Why am I always left at home alone?' Ranma thought to himself as he rested
'Oh well... I can't be bothered to cook anything; I'm just going to order some Pizza. Naruko told me this great pizza place, so I'm just going to call them.' His thoughts continued he pulled out a leaflet and dialled the number.
'Twenty digits? That is kind of weird.' The cursed boy/girl thought as he/she placed his phone to his ear.
"Dimension Pizza, any time, place or dimension. This is Urd, may I take your order?" The phone operator replied.
"Yeah... can I get a drago-pepperoni pizza, with a bottle of Eagleade, without the flight?" Ranma requested.
"Sure, can I get a name?"
"Ranma Saotome."
"We get a few Ranmas here; can we get a title to go by so we can hook onto your dimension?"
"Well I like to call myself the Jusenkyo Mage..."
"Oh that's a good enough title, what entrance should we take, vehicle, teleport into the house or just knock on the door?" Urd asked.
"Door please, wait... what do you accept as payment?"
"Well anything used as your dimension's currency works. Your order is being made now, delivery should be happening in about five minutes, no need for an address, we locked onto your house already."
"Okay. Thank you." Ranma hung up.
Five minutes later Ranma saw a flash of light from the window, and a knock on the door, Ranma quickly went over sifting through his trousers for some change, finding a large amount of acceptable currency in the place of his pocket money.
He opened the door to see a tanned woman in a quite revealing outfit with some strange ethereal markings on her face, a hilarious looking postman hat marked with a portal looking like it was made of cheese showing that she worked for Dimension Pizza.
"Delivery for Ranma." The woman stated in a familiar voice.
'Why is Urd working the phone and delivering the pizza?' Ranma thought as he nodded.
"That'll be..." Urd listed off the prices, which Ranma gave in Yen, along with extra as a tip.
"Thanks." The Worker said, before walking off.
Ranma decided to cut in before she could leave completely, something was suspicious about her outfit.
"Wait, lady!"
Urd stopped moving, turned, and gave a questioning "hmm?"
"What is with the whole outfit..." The woman cut off the rest of Ranma's sentence with a laugh.
"The Goddess of love needs to look good, doesn't she?"
"You're a goddess? Why are you working for a Multi-dimensional Pizza Company then?"
Urd suddenly started walking back to Ranma's house, casually walking inside and grabbing the pizza box as she did so.
"That is a long story, if you want to know, you owe me a couple slices. I'm on break anyway." Urd said tossed her Pizza Hat onto a coat rack with ease, deciding to make herself at home.
Ranma sweat-dropped.
Did this woman just enter his family's house?
'I curse whatever otherworldy beings who decided to mess with me... maybe the mouse curse water...'
*An hour later.*
"Wait, so your dad literally banished you from heaven, like a reverse grounding, and made you work at that pizza place?" Ranma attempted to confirm.
Urd nodded as she bit into another slice of pizza, which seemed to have lasted quite long and kept its heat.
After Urd finished with her mouthful of pizza, she decided to ask Ranma a question.
"So, kid. Why did you call yourself, a 'Jusenkyo Mage'? I mean quite a few Ranmas have a Mage title, even some with titles related to Magical Girl teams, but this is a new one."
Ranma decided to explain, Urd looking slightly amazed when the boy/girl showed his/her abilities. Ranma for some reason decided to give her some basic water curses, along with a self-made uncursing solution that she made.
Only slightly amazed, as a goddess she had seen many amazing powers anyway.
Pretty soon the pizza was finished, and Urd had to get back to work, so she quickly placed the pizza cap on her head and made a dash for the door, as she opened it a cheesy portal rather similar to the image that was on her hat was on the other side.
"Cya kid, thanks for the water!" She said, waving to the girl/boy as she went through the portal.
'I t-think I might see her more...'
*Naruko's superawesomepokehouselabwithalotoflandforpokemontochillin, AKA Naruko's Corral.*
"Come on Pichu, you can't just eat ketchup..." Ashlyn cried to the electrical mouse that seemed to have made home in Naruko's Corral, like quite a few other wild Pokémon.
"Pichu!" the Pokémon squeaked through a muffling mouthful of the condiment, which it had 'borrowed' from Naruko's kitchen. The rather large bottle of the sauce it had been carrying suddenly fell of its back, making the tiny mouse cry out.
Ashlyn took the chance to recover the man-made product, causing the rodent Pokémon to stop chasing after the moving bottle.
"Pi- Pichu?" It whispered in a 'don't go!' manner as it held a dainty paw out towards the bottle. Tears started welling in the cute Pokémon's eyes, but were stopped rather quickly when two ripe Pecha Berries were placed in front of it.
"Chu?" It said questioningly, it looked up to see the girl who was chasing it with a smile on her face.
"You should really be eating berries at your age, so you can get stronger. Ketchup is too sugary for it to do any good." Ashlyn told the small Pokémon.
Pichu quickly grabbed the two berries and waddled out of sight, leaving the girl to go back to the Corral's main building.
She still had a lot of work to do.
Naruko was quite a harsh taskmaster, but the girl felt as if she was learning a huge amount under her watchful gaze, when the time came for her journey to begin... she would be ready.
*?(I AM WARNING YOU...)*
Iris didn't feel like herself.
But she didn't care right now.
The blade in her hand glinted in the moonlight; her targets were a group of men... who didn't seem to be men anymore, they shambled around in a formation only their beast addled minds could understand. Wooden shields, Torches and bloodied axes held tightly in their brutish hands.
Iris prepared quickly, pulling out a dusty bone and siphoning the strange power it held into itself. She blinked forwards in a form of strange dust and plunged a clawed hand into the closest man-beast, her strange pincer-like hand (Book of Claw effect) ending the monster's life instantly.
This grabbed the attention of the other 'men' who rushed with unassigned fury and went through the motions of attacks, only for them to hit dust as Iris blinked out the way, and took clean swipes out of the three guardless men. They went down in an unclean manner, no matter how swift the attacks were, blood sprayed viciously onto the surrounding area, mixing with the charred corpses of previous hunts.
The last man-beast held the hardwood tightly, blocking with slight expertise. The attempts at blocking soon failed, as Iris flicked her blade, showing off the loaded barrel of the gun.
A silver bullet was planted firmly into the final man's skull.
Iris walked away, the old power of the bone dissipating and returning to its previous location of the aged marrowey object. Her blade dripped with the blood of five.
It might have been more, if Iris wasn't woken up.
"I-iris! Wake up!" Harleen cried as she watched her friend sleep, somehow the blade in the infinite sleeve had found itself in the girl's hand
And was somehow covered in blood.
At that moment Iris reacted to the calls, and her eyes flew open while she sprang upright on her bed.
"I-iris? Are you alright?"
"I'm fine Harleen... just get back to sleep."
The fairy-like being expected her companion's answer to be a lie, but accepted it for now and clambered back into one of Iris' sleeves.
Iris sat there, watching as seemingly fresh blood dripped gently from her sword and onto the wooden floors (She would clean it up later)
'What was that dream I had?'
Her Recalling didn't reply.
Iris suddenly realised there was a weight in her other hand and looked at it.
Gripped tightly inside it was a bone, an aged grey-white in colour and infused with power.
*Naruko's lab/house(not the Pokémon one)*
Naruko was rather enjoying her experiments right now, with Iris having sent her two rather special objects for her to play around with.
First, she removed Boldemort's soul shard from Ravenclaw's Diadem and shoved it in a special jar for later use.
Next she researched the enchantments on the Diadem, to see what made it so special.
Apparently a lot, because magic scans showed ROWENA RAVENCLAW'S MIND inside the Diadem, slightly tainted by dark magic, but mostly there.
As it turns out, the Diadem was pretty basic to begin with, as it just had some mind releasing magic that helped with learning to begin with, but soon Rowena decided to do something crazy and bound herself to the Diadem, letting her own Knowledge of magic get shared through the headgear when her demise were to happen.
So Basically Rowena's brain was inside it. Isn't that nifty?
Next object, The blood-red stone that was the Philosopher's Stone.
Making gold outa other metals was snazzy and all and the immortality juice was all good too, but one thing made the Scientist/Pokémon Professor/ QUEEN OF AN ARMY's mind tingle with many ideas.
It was an extremely powerful battery, compatible with anything magic or not.
So now Naruko was waiting on something she ordered from America.
The doorbell rang, making Naruko spring up and dash to the door. She opened it, to reveal a man with a tall wooden crate on a trolley.
"Sign here." The man drawled, showing a clip-board with some papers on them.
Naruko skimmed through them, to check if everything was in order and quickly signed the when nothing seemed to be a problem.
The man checked her signature, and nodded in acceptance before removing the trolley from the crate and wheeling the empty thing away.
Naruko picked up the crate with brute strength and brought it inside to her lab and placed it onto an empty metal table sideways.
Carefully placed crowbar pulls left the single wooden plank underneath the object.
That object being an animatronic skeleton.
Naruko's spectacles gleamed with insanity as she laughed loudly, enough to make the disgusting semi-conscious tar of Voldemort's soul shimmy around in its jar with fear.
*hours later*
Drills and many other mechanic tools resonated in the room as fur-like panels and skin-like panels alike were screwed into the animatronic skeleton.
Naruko turned off her drill and walked backwards to admire her handiwork, a cat-girl animatronic.
It was also rather Kawaii in a teen Ranma kind of way.
'Okay, now that is done, time to put in the finishing touches.'
Naruko placed both magic objects onto the machine body, the Diadem having a perfect slot on the head and the blood-red rock finding itself nestling in between the Animatronic's rather realistic breasts.
As the gem clicked into place, the animatronic's eyes flickered open, the large screen eyes installed for ultimate expressive abilities showed a 'installing ' message along with an installation progress bar.
'Wow, the mixture of magic and machine here is unreal,' Naruko's glasses flashed once more 'and it is all from my own design!'
The bar went at a fast pace, and eventually the eyes went black again, only to be replaced by a set of smart looking grey eyes.
The Magitech (Isn't that fancy?) machine brought herself into an upright position and turned to Naruko.
"Why did you have to install the internet into these systems? I am now tainted with the sight of so many things that I should not repeat" Rowena said to her current body's creator, her voice coming out slightly metallically.
"You needed to know about the world, I thought giving you access would be a more simple solution than doing it myself."
"You are lazy." The witch in a machine stated
"Most of the time, anyway... welcome back to life... sorta. What do you want to do?"
"Right now? Ban some sites from my mainframe."
"I'll leave you to it. I'm going to try and get a drink..."
*ten minutes later, Naruko's Corral*
"Shuckle, how goes the production." She asked the semi-wild Pokémon.
Technically Shuckle wasn't hers, but she had hired the Pokémon to make some things, and in return she would have a place in the Corral.
"Well, your lum-grape wine is doing well, the first batch is ready. I would be careful though; a dark type in the Corral caught a whiff of it and went kinda crazy, like they drank an entire barrel of it. He was a light-weight though, so you should be fine if you can handle the drink." The Shuckle replied in a strange accent.
"Thanks, I'll keep it in mind." Naruko said as she picked up two bottles with their stoppers sealing the liquid inside.
"You're welcome miss, now I have another bottle going right now, so I would like to me left alone." With that Shuckle retracted into her shell, a slight sloshing sound coming out as she did so.
'Okay, let's see...' Naruko thought as she pulled the cork out and took a large sniff.
'Woah...' Naruko gasped. She took a sip.
'W-w-w-WOAH' Naruko's mind went blank as her hair went from spacey, to pink highlights, to pink in the space of a couple seconds.
'That... is too good.' The now tipsy Mew-tated mumbled in their head before taking large gulps from the bottle.
'I think I am drunk... what do I do now?' The woman purred
'Well... I better not let this go to waste, maybe I can find someone to drink it with?' She giggled as she opened up a portal.
*A week? later*
Naruko had a major headache
'How can one have a headache a week after drinking?' you might be asking yourself.
She didn't really stop drinking, and it was very strong... Shuckle(s? What is the plural?) really do know how to make their drink, just look at Arceus, she got drunk from some of that stuff.
Anyway...
Naruko had a hangover, on the level of 'holy F*** literally the Hangover movie' level of hangover.
In fact on her shoulder there was a tattoo of a wolf looming over a full moon, so it was pretty much the Hangover movie in that way.
Why did she have that tattoo?
Well she was married now...
To Artemis...
How does that even work?
Well, she was pretty much a goddess, now she has some titles to go with that
'Naruko, Goddess of Rule-manipulation, minor Goddess of Dark and Mutation.'
She got that 'Rule-manipulating' title by breaking Artemis' vow without any repercussions (Yeah there was a moment when she had that equipment to do such a job, but you ain't seein' dat).
A nice thing about her new God(dess)hood, she gets a power boost from worship now, the she has quite a few followers to help with that, even the complete brainless Taken drones which also count as their mind is completely filled with worship help with that.
Ehh, you'll hear more about this later.
After kissing her wife('Still totally happy about this, won't live most of my life alone now.' Naruko thought) on the cheek she opened up a portal to her main dimension and walked through it.
Looking around... things didn't look like a week had passed, more like two and a bit had gone by instead.
Confirmation by her new house guest Rowena confirmed that, she had only been gone for about a day and a third.
'Eh this time difference shouldn't be a problem.' Naruko thought as she drank some water in an attempt to wash away her hangover.
'I need to remind myself not to drink any more of that stuff though... or maybe lock it away so no-one else can have it.'
*Around the time where the Weasleys get their supplies for Hogwarts in the second year.*
Iris really hates Gilderoy Lockhart.
She just wanted to get her 'required books' and suddenly she was grabbed by the shoulder and pulled to the press and blinded (in the way of regular vision) by camera flashes.
It was shortly after that he announced her was going to be teaching in Hogwarts.
'Not for long...' Iris thought, already setting up some ideas that included blackmail to get him out of Hogwarts.
These thoughts were moved for later inspection when a fight between Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy began, after the silver-blond haired man pressed the other man's buttons.
Mostly quipping about how poor the other man's family is.
Harsh.
Not as harsh as the other man's right hook though, wizards can use their fists if needed.
Lucius, now sporting a bloody lip (Savage) attempted a sneaky motion, and placed a black book inside a worn copy of a first year's book, probably the youngest Weasley's, and put it inside the cauldron the girl was carrying her books in.
Iris knew the book to be a Horcrux, and waited for the right chance to grab it, that moment being when the family was leaving the store at the time she was.
Another down, she would send it to Naruko later.
Once again, she split from her Aunt and Cousin, and made her way down the familiar Ally to her by far the most favourite shop.
Cigar Man nodded to her as she walked past his counter, which she returned.
Why was she here this time?
Well she wanted to get some gifts for other people, and felt that this was the right place to go for such a thing.
Looking around she saw a little flame in a jar, with a slightly black tint to it. She went over to it and saw that the fire got just a little bit brighter as her hand went close. She picked it up, as it seemed like the perfect gift for Tsunami, even if it didn't look that interesting at the moment.
A little more searching showed up another gem, a black gauntlet, which seemed to expel a rather sickening darkness that said seemed to whisper 'come on, try me on and get some awesome powers or something.'
She ignored the whispers coming from the gauntlet and picked up the glass portable case it resided in.
Iris then walked over to Cigar man and placed both things on the counter.
"What is with you picking out some of my more interesting things, little lady? You know the drill from before, you give me the coin, I'll give you the story."
The almost addictive sound of coins clanking together loosened Cigar Man's Cigar smoking mouth.
"Alright, the jar. That is a Pyromancy flame, some old magic from around the time your magic focus was made, it is very rare now but during those times it was still uncommon, as the art of Pyromancy was rather chaotic in nature. I have a few books not on display that go with the flame so if you want them, it will cost more as usual.
Next, the Overlord Gauntlet. It was used during older times also, and went in conjunction with a couple other objects to create and control an army of minions. Along with that it was used to channel some other darker magic. I got this one during World War 2, the family that first inherited the Gauntlet from its first user sold it to me along with the spells it uses after Grindewald found out about it. They died a few weeks later, I think that the man might have won the war if he got the gauntlet, so it was pretty lucky.
Anyway, you want em little lady?"
Once again, Iris left with an emptier coin pouch.
'I seriously need to stop buying from this guy, no wonder how amazing his items are, he literally makes them cost so much.' Iris thought as she placed the bought objects in her sleeves.
With that, she decided to go home.
ORBIT.
CYA.