You are now Alex, and you stand around your new weapon looking down on it. It took a few hours to gather the materials needed and another few to come up with the list in the first place. The blade looked similar to the original Monado, but with a navy blue paint job.
"There's one problem with it," Brandon says, "you can't use it."
"What! Why?" You ask.
"The Monado is no simple sword. It needs emmense power to work. It needs to be wielded by a god." He lifts up the weapon, "For example if I concentrate..." The glass in the center of the blade glows dimly and the metal separates, but no blade emerges. "Because I'm now a god, I can power it. However, I have nowhere near enough power to get it to work effectively."
"So what do we do?"
"Well, there's always the option of having you god tier, but that wouldn't solve the issue. It would just give us another person who can barely turn on the damn thing."
"Any ideas?"
"If we could somehow get your denizen to either give the sword power, or trap their soul within it, that would work. The denizens are much more powerful gods than we are getting to be any time soon."
"How are we supposed to do that?"
"I don't know about having them help you. The denizens are usually shady, deal-making assholes. But if you want to trap the sound of the denizen in the weapon then Duncan is our go-to guy. He's God powers would give him dominion over their souls, if we can kill them that is."
"Why do we need to kill them first?"
"Did you seriously just ask why it would be difficult to sever a soul from its living body? It's because dead bodies don't cling to their souls like an addict to denial!"
"Why do we even need the power of a god to make the Monado turn on anyway? Shulk used it just fine."
"While he may have used it fine for reasons pertaining to the story of the game, you are not walking the body of a sleeping god, are you?"
"Good point. So, when can we get this thing to work?"
"We'll have to wait until the prison break is done. I need more time to think on the subject, look for alternative means of power than either gods or strapping a car battery to the side of the sword. Anyway, we need to get to the meeting about the mission tomorrow."
After the talk you both start to head for the meeting to discuss the plan for the prison break. Before you head out you grab the sword which Brandon had dubbed the Monado Aperture. You arrive to find the others waiting for you and a few raise an eyebrow when they see the weapon on your back, but nobody asks any questions.
You all stand around a table as the penguin who you assume is Cain lays out a map of the prison.
"Alright," Cain begins, "According to our intel, Saph is here." He points out a spot on the map labeled "Cell Block C". Cain then continues, "There are several cameras in the halls, so we need to first get to the generator in the basement."
"There's one problem!" He yells, "You're a liar, Cain."
"What are you talking about?" Cain says defensively.
"It's true, he's lying! He knows full well that the girl we're looking for is in the medical ward, on life support."
"But why would he want to kill his second-in-command?" Mark says looking puzzled.
"She has information, if we continue on this path, she will die. He wants her dead so that she can't give up information on how to topple his little band of misfits!"
"You have no proof of this!" Cain yells angrily.
"I can see it now, I see you gloating victory as Jon and Alex just 'stumble across' her dead body. This isn't a rescue mission, it's just him tying up loose ends!"
"He's a traitor!" Yells one of the onlooking penguins.
Brandon takes a look at Mark, who dons a look of betrayal. "Mark, it's your choice how we deal with him. He is one of your consorts."
Mark looks over the penguins and takes a breath. "Throw him in the holding cells!"
With this call Cain is mobbed by penguins and is quickly hauled off to somewhere unknown which probably has holding cells.
"What the fuck just happened?" Jeremy looks at the team one by one.
"Umm...I think Brandon just saw the future?" Jon says with a confused tone as he shrugs.
"Yes, I did. Also that gives me one hell of a headache." Brandon says clutching his skull.
"Well that's all well and good, but what now?" Nate asks "Are we just gonn leave the penguin girl in jail?"
"No," Mark says, "We'll just use his plan without destroying the generator."
"How do we use a plan that we didn't fully hear?" Jon asks.
"I believe I can help there!" One of the penguins says, "I know the plans like the back of my hand. I was supposed to be the one who gives orders over the radio."
"Perfect!" Brandon says. "Perfect" most likely meaning "good, because I didn't have a back-up plan"
"For now the plan isn't important, I can revise it and we should be ready for tomorrow." The penguin says.
Now it's time to rest up for the REAL jail-break.
END OF CHAPTER 19