Francisca was looking nervous as she was lined up in the Administrative Building.
"Is something wrong, Francisca?" Harumi asked.
"Yeah… Most of the students are getting physical checkups today. I'm nervous because my sisters and I don't exactly have any medical records." Francisca said.
"Don't be worried, Franny. I'm sure we'll all have perfect health in our new bodies, right Zan?" Flamberge asked.
"Indeed. So there's no need to worry, Franny." Zan reassured.
"Besides, medical records were included when Tails made our student records." Twilight said.
"But the one that's the most worried is Aelita. She wasn't exactly human all that long." Harumi said.
"That's right. She was admitted here when she materialized in the real world. No records, no vaccinations, nothing." Kaede said.
"After today's check up, we're planning on making some medical records for her." Miu said.
"Let's just hope nothing goes wrong in the process." Madoka said.
"I'm sure things will go fine...I think." Ranma said.
Just then Aelita was heard screaming inside the Nurse's office.
"And there's the I think." Ranma said as he ran into the nurses to see the nurse possessed by XANA as she grabbed Aelita and jumped out the window. "Dang it!"
"And I thought I'm the one who jinxes the situation." Hope said.
"XANA's possessions are getting stronger and stronger. We can't last against them." David said as he texted Jeremie.
"Hmm… I think I might have an idea." Miu said.
"Well, don't just stand there gawking, spill." Kokichi said.
"Jeremie and I have been coming up with ideas of our own ghosts possessing you guys. Therefore, you can fight the people XANA controls on equal terms." Miu said.
"You mean activating a tower ourselves? Isn't that a bit risky?" Kaede asked.
"I know what you guys are thinking, but unlike XANA's ghosts, you'll be in complete control and maintain your free will." Miu said. "And unfortunately the process is limited to one person per tower."
"Plus there's the chance that XANA and Gospel could take control of both you and Jeremie's towers and make things worse." Korekiyo said.
"It's risky, I know, but this test is the only way we'll have a fighting chance." Miu said.
"Fine...test it on Odd then. He'd probably make good work of the power boost." Dan said.
"Alright. I'll just have to bring him to the factory so I can get to work." Miu said.
"We'll be counting on you. Right now we have to slow down that possessed Nurse." Al said.
"So much for our first physical exam…" Flamberge said as she leaped out the window.
"You'll get your chance once we fix this mess." Francisca said following them.
The group followed Yolanda the Nurse to the Factory. On the way there…a young woman is seen running through the forest with what looked like a young man with yellow hair.
"Not much longer now, Eze. Once we reach the school, someone is bound to help us drive off those Pokemon." The woman spoke.
"Yeah, and I can tell my summoner is here as well, we need to hurry. I just hope the others are alright, Sachiko." The man known as Eze said.
"I admit, I'm worried, too. But they're stronger than they look. They'll be fine." Sachiko said. "Though...I get the feeling we aren't alone."
"Yeah..I feel it too." Eze said. "Jump!" He said as they did as coming out of the ground were several purple snakes with rattles on their tails along with an Arbok leading them.
"Ekans and Arbok. Seems they were following us underground." Sachiko said.
"Two of the escaped prisonerssssss. Sssseems thisssss is my lucky day." the Arbok said.
"Don't get so cocky, snake. You won't find us easy opponents." Eze said as he summoned a large jagged saw like sword in his left hand and a fan in the right as they both surged with lightning as a ring of thunder drums appeared behind him. "As the reincarnation of Ramuh, I Eze of the Six Heroes shall strike you down! Sachiko, you with me?"
"Of course." Sachiko said as two daggers appeared in her hands.
"Get them! Use Acid!" Arbok ordered as the Ekans started firing acid at them as it was melting away at the trees it hit.
"Man you're lousy shots. Brave Burst, Fulgore Caelestis!" Eze yelled out as he slammed his sword Batootha onto the ground as a large lightning bolt struck two of the Ekans.
"Who said we were trying to aim for you?" Arbok asked them smirking.
"What is he… Eze, they were aiming at the trees to block our escape route!" Sachiko said.
"Yesss. A way to make sure you don't run. Also...to make it easier to capture you. Toxic!" Arbok said as they started spewing toxic liquids around the area.
"Super Brave Burst, Varze Superbia!" Eze called out as he summoned a cyclone with his fan as surged with lightning as it sucked in some of the Ekans and acid.
"Eze, stop!" Sachiko said.
"Why? What...Ahh!" Eze shouted as some of his veins had purple in them.
"Poison. We've been poisoned." Sachiko said.
"Yessss….itssss a special little trap we do for all escapees. Firssst we cut off an escape route. Then we'll use Toxic to poison them. Don't worry, we will give an antidote...after we return you to your cellssss of course." Arbok said.
"Like hell. Gale Blade!" Sachiko called out as she performed a three-hit combo on Arbok.
"You little...you have no chance of essscape!" Arbok said before they saw some of the trees breaking apart. "What in the?"
"Hiyah!" a voice said as a tree broke in half as coming in was Chopper in Kung fu point.
"A giant animal!" An Ekans said.
"Wait...he's one of the Dimensional Heroes!" Arbok said.
"Huh? A...a walking reindeer?" Sachiko asked.
"Chopper! Boy are we glad to see you!" Eze said.
"Huh? Am I supposed to know you?" Chopper asked going into normal point.
"It's me, Ramuh." Eze said.
"Huh? Whaaaaaoowww!" Chopper said with interest. "So you became a super strange warrior person like Shiva and the other guy!"
"Yup, that's right! But also, do you have any remedies we can use? We've been poisoned." Eze said.
"Correction, Eze. YOU poisoned us." Sachiko said. "But...anyway, my name is Sachiko Yukimura. I wish we'd introduce ourselves better, but we're kind of in a situation right now."
"It's okay. I'm a doctor. I can get rid of the poison." Chopper said.
"Rah...I will swallow you whole!" Arbok said coming at them.
"Horn Point!" Chopper said as his antlers grew as he dug underground.
"He turned into a stag beetle now?" Arbok pondered.
"Horn Cannon: Elf!" Chopper shouted as he rammed into Arbok sending him into the air. "Sachiko!"
"On it! Sparrow Counter!" Sachiko called as she slashed up in the air, and then did a cross slash, sending Arbok downward.
"She...she defeated Arbok!" one of the Ekans said before they went slithering off in terror.
"Whew… That should get them off our backs for a while." Sachiko said. "Chopper, was it? Thanks for the help."
"No problem. I better take you two back to the ship. I need to administer an antidote for the poison." Chopper said.
"Gotcha. Lead the way." Sachiko said.
Meanwhile, the others had reached the factory as Odd was subjected to Jeremie's new program, turning him into a Specter for their side. However, Odd's power boost only lasted for about 15-20 minutes before his power suddenly started draining.
"Miu, I'm losing power. Is that supposed to happen?" Odd asked.
"Um… Well…" Miu started.
"That's what I thought. You're using your 'I hate to say it, but you bombed the exam' voice." Odd said as he started running.
"Wonderful, the Ghost program only lasts for 20 minutes tops before it slowly drains out. It's like the Fusion Technique, only this was 20 minutes instead of 30." Hope said.
"Dragon Ball Z? Seriously? N-never mind that. At this rate, XANA is going to gain the advantage over Odd." Miu said before there's an alert. "And XANA just took control of my tower, great."
"So that means Yolanda's even stronger than before." Flamberge said.
"Not if we have anything to say about it. The tower I took control of is in the Mountain Sector." Miu said.
"Looks like he's pumping more life force energy into Odd." Merlin said. "This is bad. For a normal human...this will likely kill him."
"That means we don't have much time. You're going to have to make a detour." Miu said.
"Berge and I will stay here and clean up the mess then." Francisca said.
"Yeah! You guys go to the mountains and deactivate the tower. We'll clean up the mess with the Gearheads here." Flamberge said pointing to the Crab, Kankerlats and Blocks.
"Alright, I'll help Aelita and Yumi regain control of the tower in the Mountain Sector, please Franny, Berge, be careful." Zan said before flying away.
"Its us and them now, Ulrich." Flamberge said. "But I think we're outnumbered 5 to 3."
"I can fix that. Triplicate!" Ulrich said splitting into three.
"I'll take the Blockheads. Franny, you get Krabby over there." Flamberge said.
"You've got it." Francisca said.
Flamberge, Fransisca and the three Ulrich's split up as they took on the enemies from each side.
Flamberge sliced a block in two as she kicked another over the edge, the third tried to stop her with its Freeze Ray, but after a successful hit, Flamberge escaped by suddenly regulating her body temperature and shattering her way out.
"Cool! I can control my body heat!" Flamberge said as she and Ulrich double impacted the Block as it exploded.
Francisca took to the air and swung her axe at the Krab, slicing it in two as it was destroyed. She then proceeded to shoot ice shards at the other Krab, destroying that one as well.
'Hurry up, Aelita." Flamberge said as Aelita made it into the tower and deactivated it.
"Okay...looks like my tower got shut down." Miu said. "Ulrich and the others should have the Forest tower cleared up by now, so make your way back there."
"It definitely wasn't easy, what with XANA erasing some of the Sector and putting fog in." Yumi said.
"Indeed. I'm just glad we made it in time." Zan said.
"Um, guys? XANA's still got Yolanda." Miu said.
"Alright, we're on our way." Zan said as she, Aelita, and Yumi headed to the Forest Sector.
"You better hurry. We don't have a lot of time before she gets to us. Or at least finishes off Odd." Connor said.
"Don't say things like that!" Mari said as she bonked Connor on the head with a frying pan.
"Ow! Why does she always do that?!" Connor asked. "Better question, why do all the girls keep hitting me?!"
"Maybe...because you say things the wrong way and it ends up upsetting them." Spade said.
"You're right. I seriously need some help with talking to girls that keep hitting me…" Connor said.
"At least you don't give Connor a hard time, Betty." Hope said.
"That's cause we've been together for a few years. I'm not below hitting him because we've done so much. But I agree with him, he needs help talking to girls that sadly AREN'T just me." Betty said.
"Will you two stop the old married couple routine and get serious? We're still in...aw crud." Pit said as the nurse had made it up the elevator. "Don't hurt us!"
She was about to strike before the ghostly presence within her left as she collapsed to the ground.
"Just in time, Aelita." Connor said.
"Yeah, now we just need to get Yolanda out of here and back to school." Simon said.
"We'll still need to explain why she jumped out with Aelita so suddenly." Harumi said.
"We'll say it was the stress of work that made her go into a frenzy like that. Sounds like a likely excuse." Volt said.
"Yup and it's because she wanted to get fresh air and take Aelita with her." Al added.
"Fair enough." Volt said.
After Yolanda has recovered, the groups went back to the Sunny where they meet the new arrivals.
"Sachiko!" Harumi said as she ran to her.
"Guys? You're here, too?" Sachiko asked.
"Trust me. We were as surprised as you. What happened to you? How did you get here?" David asked.
"Well… After Dragon was defeated and Akihabara was restored, I joined the tennis club. I was on my way home from practice, and before I knew it, I ended up in a Viperia cell." Sachiko said. "Thankfully me and some of the prisoners tricked the guard into surrendering the cell keys and we escaped and separated to try and find some way back home."
"I'm...still surprised that you managed to survive the Tragedy until then." David said.
"Oh come now. You of all people should know by now that I'm a lot tougher than I look. Chopper showed up earlier and helped me defeat one of the ninja masters pursuing us." Sachiko said.
"Yup. And he managed to bring us back here thankfully." Eze said. "Also, I am glad to see you and everyone else are safe, Ty."
"I'm sorry, do we know you… wait a second…" Ty said. "Are you a Reincarnation?"
"That's right. Name's Eze now and I'm the reincarnation of Ramuh. And also a member of the Six Heroes." Eze said.
"Once we escaped, the two of us ran together until Arbok trapped us." Sachiko said.
"She even used moves like Gale Blade and Sparrow Counter." Chopper said.
"That sounds a lot like...Haseo." Kirito said.
"That's right. While I was hiding out in the Tragedy, a light hit me and I ended up gaining the moveset of the Terror of Death himself, Haseo." Sachiko said.
"Ah, that explains it." Asuna said. "Though… That does make your Awakening conditional."
"Conditional? How?" Sachiko asked.
"Enhanced go through Awakenings to gain access to the most powerful techniques of the people they got their abilities from." Mayumi said.
"Yes, but Haseo has an Avatar called Skeith. Unfortunately, you won't be able to go through an Awakening unless you have a Skeith of your own." Seryu said.
"And it's not like we can actually meet him, since he's a virus from an MMORPG." Rainbow said.
"I see… That does pose quite the problem." Sachiko said.
"We don't need to worry about an awakening right now. Tell us, counting you and...the show off...how many other prisoners were with you?" Jexi asked.
"There were two, but we seperated, so I don't know where they went." Sachiko said.
"Aside from the insult, I'm sure they're safe." Eze said.
"Hey… Sachiko. Since you don't have anywhere else to go at the moment, why not come with us?" David asked.
"I'd be more than happy to. We have a lot to catch up on anyway." Sachiko said. "Though, I'm sure my family would be worried about me."
"If you're worried about them, we can write them a letter once this whole thing is finished." David said. "That's how we check up on our folks back home."
"Welcome to the Hero Alliance, Sachiko." Ty said. "And uh… welcome back I guess, Eze."
"Uh...yeah, not the best way to greet someone you haven't seen in a while." Eze said.
"Sorry. This whole reincarnation thing is really throwing me for a loop." Ty said.
"It's...a little hard to get used to." Sectonia said.
"But you got used to us after a while, right?" Selena asked as she held Zelos's hand while referring to Vargas, Medusa, and herself.
"In your case, it's because you've already been connected with someone when you were still a summon." Mayumi said.
"That is true." Selena said. "It was when I first met you all in Valentia, correct?"
"Yep. When you almost turned me into an ice statue." Zelos said.
"Zelos was still a little bitter about that moment because of his childhood trauma with his mother's death." Lloyd said.
"Oh, I am so sorry if I hurt you in anyway, Zelos. Do you forgive me?" Selena asked.
"Of course I do. I knew you didn't mean anything ill by it. I should've just given you some space that time." Zelos said.
"But at any rate, there's still one more ninja master to deal with and two more prisoners to find." Hope said.
"Agreed. And after that...we're dealing with Viperia head on." Jexi said.