It's been a month since that incident with Three and those monsters. Been silent on his end so far. Frankly after learning about his past and losing his love…

I felt bad for him.

My days were spent on patrol's, training with All Might which has been just awesome, and dates. Thanks to Debby for organizing this mess of a love life. Plus my regular dates with Logi…

I've definitely grown more… feminine, since that little talk with my mental selves and better enjoying the way he makes me feel. So, I was gonna start today with a date with another one of my male Lover Class.

"His name is William." Debby informed me as I sat in her little office. "He's currently only twenty four, loves engineering and is human."

"Anything else?" I inquired. "Want to know everything I can to help make this date good for them."

"Well, honestly there isn't much on his file from the Matchmakers Guild. Aside from his favorite food being pizza he's actually quite the boring one."

"Huh, weird." I said. "Well…gonna have to just do this date the old fashioned way."

"He is waiting for you in the kitchen now Boss."

With a nod I headed off. Alright, going in kinda blind but hey, we both like pizza at least.

Walking into the kitchen I was met by who must be William. He was tall, maybe half a foot taller than me, combed well kept hair, and wore well kept checkered button shirt, well pressed pants and some rather old school shoes.

He was also watching the Kitchen make all kinds small food items. "Fascinating…" He said, a notebook in hand and writing stuff down.

"Yo." I said to William.

He jumped. "Oh shucks!" He yelped as he looked at me then laughed at himself. "You startled me."

"Didn't mean to startle ya William." I said sheepishly. "So what were you writing down?"

"Oh, well, I like watching the machines do… all that." He motioned to the kitchen self cooking. "It's incredible. If I didn't see it I'd never believe it." He added. "Like nothing that existed in my memories. Or home? The whole Prize Pod Person thing; still wrapping my head around."

"Understandable." I nodded. "So where did you come from?"

"Earth, like yourself from what I've been told, but the year's different. You're really from the year 2020?"

"Yes I am." I nodded. "What time for you?"

"1952." Wow! That… explains his appearance. I thought his fashion looked a bit outdated. And his language. He did yell Shucks, over a usual swear.

"Alright, I can understand a lot more of what you're currently dealing with." I nodded. "But what do you think about all of this?"

"It's honestly still hard to believe." He admitted. "Frankly, I want to learn how to build this stuff, but I kinda doubt I will even understand how these things work."

"I believe in you." I nodded. "Cause even if you don't understand it now, sooner or later you'll figure it out. All you need is hard work, determination, and time."

"Well, from what Marianne told me, time is definitely something I don't have to worry about." He chuckled. "Well, all that aside I suppose you and I should get on with this date?" He asked, closing his notebook and placing it on the table. "Don't suppose you got any recommendations? I have no idea what is beyond this farm."

"Yeah that's fair…and I'd like to go to a restaurant you'd be comfortable with instead of other places…" I hummed. "Well, there's always Cracker Barrel, sure it's seventeen years later in your time, but it's an old and homey kinda restaurant."

"Um, is the name literal or… what is it?"

I chuckled. He is literally a man out of time. Kinda makes me feel like that girl in Blast From The Past.

"It's just the name of the restaurant." I said, pulling up my assistant to see if there even was one around here.

To my joy, there was. It was in the main mall but that's alright. Can give him a tour of the town and the mall. His reactions will… probably be a lot like mine my first few days here… and I'm still getting used to things to be honest. Huh. Wow I have come a long way.

"Okay. Well, shall we then?" William asked, giving a slight bow and held out his hand for me to take.

"What a gentleman." I giggled, gently taking his hand. "Let's get going."

The ride there was adorable. He kept exploring the car like it was, well, the most amazing thing ever. Once we were in town I almost had to leash him. He was amazed at all the buildings, machines, and even the people. Even if he spotted a lot of the more… openly nude people walking about. Still, despite his time era he never got offended by anything nor looked at anything with disapproval. Just pure wonder.

Arriving at the mall I had to promise him we'd look around after we ate. Finally through we made it to the Cracker Barrel and had our seats. "Very country." He commented as he looked around. "So surreal. Outside is sci-fi fantasy technology and in here, wood tables and old rusty road signs." He said with a smile as he looked around.

"Yeah, Cracker Barrel wants to give you that old cozy country feeling." I nodded with a smile. "One of my favorite places to eat when I was younger actually."

"Good memories then?"

"Yep." I nodded with a smile. "One of my favorite's was actually playing checkers with an older gentleman as a kid, it was nice simple fun."

"Games are always fun, regardless of age." William agreed. "So, David, what should we talk about?"

"Hmm…" I hummed. "Well, what do you want to talk about?"

"Honestly the technology and such. But I doubt you wanna chat that away for hours. Not really a date material. Hmm, well, what about hobbies? What's a hobby of yours?"

"Well, my current hobbies are playing and collecting games." I answered. "Gotta do a lot of that considering I lost my collection back home."

"Video games?"

"Yep." I nodded. "I've also been collecting board games cause there's a lot more here than I thought."

"But what is a video game exactly?"

"So Video Games are…" I took a moment, trying to think of how to explain it to someone back in the early fifties. "Hmm, so it's really hard to explain, but…a video game can be technically anything really, one of the simplest I can think of is taking Chess or Checkers, and putting it on a TV if that makes sense." I explained, most likely very poorly but I wasn't sure how to explain it when the earliest game I know came out was a version of Pong named 'Tennis for Two'.

"Huh. Interesting. Guess that came out some time later."

"Well, it didn't start becoming popular until like…the early eighties." I said honestly.

"Ah. I was thirty years too soon then." He chuckled. "Are they fun?"

"Most are, they've stuck around since the day I was sent here." I said honestly. "They are all really fun, but it's all up to the person in the end."

"Makes sense. Mine are mostly learning about machines. How they work and all that stuff."

"That's fair." I nodded. "As long as you're enjoying what you love to learn."

"I do. And once I learn some more it will be a lot of fun."

We eventually ordered our food and I tried to catch William up on the last 70 years of human history. At least from my world.

"So, let me see if I got this. The year twenty twenty started off with a major plague pandemic." I nodded. "A racist old guy became president." I also nodded. "And everyone on this… internet, made jokes while entitled people complained about wearing masks and not getting a vaccine cause they believed the government put microchips in them to track them with… five G towers…" I nodded. "Despite them all having those mobile phones that do that anyway."

"Exactly." I nodded. "It's absolute horseshit, backwards nonsense, and I have had many people in their fifties and sixties try to tell me how I'm wrong from stating the absolute obvious." I frowned.

"Well, even in my era that's just not right. And people were a lot more bluntly racist and bigoted. Openly too." William said, taking another drink of his soda. "So strange that the smarter humanity got the dumber it also got."

"It's not so much that humanity got dumber, it's more to the fact that we're basically giving every stupid person a microphone and their own echo chambers to group in." I said honestly. "I find it funny how back in your day, you called people out on being an idiot and everyone joined in, but nowadays people try to defend other people's stupidity for being just as stupid."

"Definitely puts a lot into perspective. Makes you wonder where all the idiots got the confidence to do stupid stuff like that."

"When they learned that they can say stupid shit as loud as they want without anyone knowing who they are or where they live." I said honestly.

"No accountability, so they dive head first into their darkest thoughts and desires with next to no consequence." William nodded.

"Pretty much yeah." I nodded. "It's sad that so many stupid people can say whatever they want and get away with it."

"And I imagine because equally stupid people hold seats of power they can get away with it when caught?"

"Pretty much yeah." I said honestly. "It's fucking dumb."

"It's incredibly dumb yes." He nodded. "No offense but your world sounds rather… upsetting, all around. They say in times of crisis people's true colors show through and if that's your world's response to a crisis, a global one at that…"

"And it only gets worse from what I read up." I chuckled. "And the funniest bit is that people were joking that every year that ends with 20 had a plague…too bad that they were right…"

"Well, that's not good."

After our meal was finished we started walking around the mall. William was amazed at everything around him, and I even tried to get him to update his clothes.

Sadly, his tastes are fairly set as he mostly went with some casual dress shirts, pants, with the most colorful addition to his wardrobe being a purple cap that looked oddly good on him.

Once the shopping was done I took him to an arcade where his mind was blown by the cabinets. Made me consider buying a few later to expand my video game room. "So these things died out when home consoles became more popular and affordable?" He asked as we played an arcade cabinet of Mario Bros.

"They're still around thankfully." I said honestly. "A lot of people still play on Arcade Machines, but Arcade's like this are a bit more rare."

"On your Earth or here?"

"On Earth." I allaberated.

"Ah. Well, this is definitely a marvel." He said, looking the cabinet over.

"Yes it is." I nodded.

"Um, sir, ma'am?" We turned to see one of the arcade workers, a female cheetah anthro, walk up to us. "Um, I'm afraid you need to leave…"

"Did we do something wrong?" I asked nervously. "What did we do wrong?"

"No, it's just that some of the cabinets here are sensitive to…him." She said, awkwardly pointing at William.

"Me? I don't have any powers or anything." William said. The worker motioned to some cabinet that seemed to be glitching out in flashes of black and purple. "And, I'm doing that, how?"

"They react that way anytime someone of your… reflection gets near. Stand too long near them and they'll be too damaged to repair…" She said, looking rather nervous and avoiding William's eyes.

"That's…really weird that William is affecting technology like this just because of his…wait, you said 'reflections'...what do you mean?"

"It's nothing against him, the Cabinets are Fazbear made. They always do that around Afton's…"

The gears in my head froze instantly… Afton… William Afton…

I'm on a date with William Afton?!

"Jesus christ…" I grumbled. "Alright Will, we need to get out of here cause…I now know what problem is going on."

"Good, cause I'm lost. What company is even called Fazbear anyway?"

I almost laughed at that… ooh boy… should I tell him…

I walked with him to a nearby fountain and we sat on it's edge. "You okay? Since she said my last name you've been… a little off?" He asked me.

"So…in my timeline, there's this game called 'Five Nights at Freddy's', a game series where you have to play a Security Guard who has to watch over a Pizzeria at night, while also trying not to get jump scared by 4 different Animatronic." I started. "So uh…that hidden story involved you…a lot." I said carefully.

"Hidden story? Also, what's an Animatronic… is it like a robot? Why are robots trying to scare you?"

"Animatronic are Robotic Puppets, and in game, the Animatronics think you're an Endo-Skeleton that isn't wearing their suit…so they try and forcibly shove you into a Suit with all the electronics in there and well…it's not a fun time."

"That is… definitely unsettling… but what does that have to do with me?"

"So…later on, we learn that literally everything that's going on is because you…magically found a new metal called 'Remnant', which is a material that can only be made from smelting steel with uh…human suffering." I said carefully. "And William Afton learned this by…shoving five kid's into Animatronic's and their Soul's kinda…fusing with them, the animatronics being Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken, and Foxy the Fox Pirate." I explained nervously. "So I'm going to say one thing and ask you another, first, you are not this terrible person, and I have no idea how you were affecting those Fazbear branded items…and two, do you want me to just show you all the games so you can maybe understand better?"

William was silent for a while. Clearly absorbing all that information. After a while he finally spoke up. "Honestly… no. Learning that I'd… rather have nothing to do with that… ever, if I can help it." He said, looking down as he held his head in his hands. "That's just… a lot to take in. I wanted to get into building machines to make people happy in some capacity, not… that twisted… shit." That was the first time all day I heard him swear. "Pardon my french."

"It's alright." I said softly, putting a hand on his shoulder. "Trust me, you are not that terrible person, and you never will be." I said softly. "Just…we'll at least have to check in with someone to at least figure out what caused that whole bit with the machine's, cause you shouldn't have weird powers over machines…only a certain computer virus version of yourself can do that."

"I have no idea what that even means and I'm concerned…"

Eventually we just went home. The answer we got came from an unexpected source.

"It's called the Godhood Ripple Effect." Marianne said after getting home and asking her. "Basically, all those other William Afton's made the Animatronics and the Remnant and all that life and death techno necromancy stuff that in some of these variations he is actually classified as a God. Because of this there is a ripple effect involving these God reflections and their mortal reflections in which the non godly variations have some small bit of this power despite it not being within their abilities or skills."

"So… it can't be removed or taken away?" William asked.

"It can be suppressed, but not easily."

"Well…that fucking sucks…" I frowned. "So how do we suppress it?"

"Well, there are several options. The most common is that William uses these abilities to eventually master them to suppress them on his own. Another is that a rare ring can create a barrier around him that minimizes the effect. In his case, he'd probably need to be touching the item to affect it. The last option is that he just avoids the places and items and people made or affiliated with Fazbear and all those companies."

"Well, how rare is that ring?" William asked.

"Well, to buy it costs 9.6 Octillion rem. To make, most of the materials are found in level four dungeons."

"Well…crap…" I started. "Well…looks like we're going to have to train your powers to suppress it all.

William sighed. "What will this… power do?"

"I have no idea. Because it's not in your Abilities and is more or less bleed off from the other, God variations of you, it could do anything." Marianne answered.

Despite the revelations and info dump William faced, his date ended well, and now Debby had another scheduled for him. Soon. He'll need me.

For me, today I was at my TF2 classes again. Now, I was onto Demoman, and honestly I was looking forward to this one. I planned on keeping that grenade launcher in my usual weapons slots.

"Alright, time to have fun with all the explosives and a big bottle of whiskey…" I muttered to myself in a bit of joy.

The Demo teachers eventually showed up and they were drunk, but not too drunk it seemed. "Alright ya daf nitwits." Red Demo started. "Explosives as a primary and secondary means of attack are often best utilized in strategic situations. The pipe bombs the Grenade Launcher uses are Custom made, so they're easy to make yourself, and just as easy to buy." He said, tossing unloaded Grenade Launchers to everyone.

I caught mine carefully. "So, what kind of grenades can these fire?" I asked, not really knowing what kind of grenades they fired, all I knew is that they tumbled harder than their drunken step's and they blew up extremely nicely.

"They are made to fire custom built pipe bombs that, as a safety feature are made to detonate only after a short few seconds pass once fired and will explode In either a proximity or on impact of the target. While a normal explosive grenade is fine and all, mine are designed to roll, slip in and roll under and bounce around. This allows an experienced user to perform trick shots and get around enemy fortifications in unique ways."

"And then the Loch n' Load exists." I commented.

"We don't talk about Bruno." Red Demo replied, making us all laugh. "Alright, alright, jokes aside the ammo is set to activate only after being fired. Now, who here knows why?"

"A wireless Arming trigger in the weapon barrel." Someone answered.

"Correct! Once the pipe bombs is shot out the barrel, it passed the trigger and arms the thing and sets the timer."

"I suppose that's why there's that extra line in the pipe? I believe that's the part that ignites the reactive bit's to cause the explosions?" I inquired

"Yes, actually. The middle part there holds most of the wires and electronics of the bombs, while the top holds the explosive and the proximity/impact detonator."

"Neat." I nodded. "Must have taken forever to figure that out."

"The hardest part was finding a potent explosive for the thing. It is a shame sometimes, building such elaborate mechanics and machines just to destroy them. But, it's always a great feeling to see them blow."

"Cheers to that." I chuckled.

"Now, next is a fan favorite." Blu Demon man spoke up, pulling out the Sticky Launcher. "I believe this needs no introduction." He said, tossing them to everyone.

I grabbed mine, very happy to have these.

"And last," Red started.

"But not least." Blu finished as the two pulled out a few cases of their iconic booze bottles.

They passed around the bottles. Each one was actually full.

I cracked it open, taking a sniff and- whoa! Is it possible to get a buzz from smelling alcohol? Cause I think I did.

"Holy damn, what is this made out of?" I asked. "I think I just got a buzz from the smell alone…"

"Australian Whiskey. Ain't nothin stronger." Blu said.

"We usually down a bottle before a match, and use the bottle itself for a melee weapon. But, given it takes a tolerance or abilities to handle this stuff, most like to use it as a Molotov." Red said.

"A waste." Blu added.

"But wouldn't it do more damage when it's full?" I asked.

"Yes, but it's still a waste to discard good booze like that." Red replied.

The next few hours went over how to reload the launchers, how to repair and clean them and lastly how to make the pipe bombs and sticky bombs.

When classes ended it was time to go home and do more patrolling. That was thankfully uneventful and easy, so I finally got home and had some free time.

I'm gonna use my launchers!

Almost immediately I rushed off to the nearby Hazard zone. I spotted a few random monsters and started loading the weapons.

"Alright ya cheeky little bastards…" I muttered giddily, fully loading it and prepping it. "Time for you to taste some wondrous explosions."

I started with the pipe bombs, the red flashing projectile soaring and landing near the random monsters. Once it did, it blew. The explosion tore them apart into chunks of gore and visera that stained the ground.

Awesome!

"This is amazing." I purred happily. "I'm never gonna get used to this wonderful feeling."

I ran around and blew up several more monsters with Pipe and Sticky Bombs before finally heading home for real.

Upon my arrival I was greeted by the smell of cooking food and the sight of Luna and Abby watching TV in the living room.

"Hey dad." Luna said with a wave.

"Hey." Abby said as I sat next to her and she kissed me. "Have fun?"

"Yes, yes I did." I smiled. "How are you two doing?"

"I saw that show version of me. Kinda weird I'll look similar to that as an adult." Luna said.

"You'll be beautiful when you're an adult." Abby said, giving Luna a pat on her head. "I've mostly just been at work today."

"Fair enough." I nodded. "And I've been out enjoying the wonders of explosions."

"I'd make an innuendo but there is a kid here." Abby chuckled.

Before bed that night I went on another Digital Realms date with Logi. We still largely called each other by our online names but that was fine.

Today we were actually doing something different. This server was a rather well made recreation of The Titanic ship, but it won't sink.

Logi was dressed in a formal suit… and so was I. He chuckled at seeing my suit. While his was a standard black, mine was a deep blue. "Got tired of dresses and heels?" He asked me from our spot on the deck.

"Dresses are fine, heels can suck it." I said honestly. "You have no idea how happy I am that I don't need to wear those cursed things."

"Fair. My sister's always complain about them too." He nodded. "So, where shall we go first? This server is a bit empty so we won't likely be running into many other people. Wanna look around, eat or reenact that one movie scene?"

"Of course." I said happily. "Let's have some fun."

Our first stop was the front end of the ship. It felt as good as you'd expect declaring yourself king of the world. After that, we made our way to the main ballroom where we had a meal then danced a bit. Formal dancing was different, but a prior date of ours already taught me enough to appear confident in my movements. After that simple pleasure we toured the ship some.

"I'm surprised they even recreated the cargo." Logi said as we were now in the cargo bay area of the ship.

"Whoever made this sure as hell didn't want to half ass it." I said honestly.

"Clearly. All authentic to a T. I wonder…" Logi said, opening up a Model T strapped to a large wood pallet. He honked the horn on it. "Wow. The details people add to the Digital Realm worlds never ceases to amaze me."

"When you have nothing better to do and a lot of time, anything's possible I guess." I shrugged.

I really enjoyed these online dates with Logi for two reasons. One, he was adorasexy. Two, because time here is faster, I can actually spend a lot more time with him. I've actually considered dating more of my Lovers Class this way because it lets us experience all the joys and such in much less time than Physical Realm Dating.

Technically speaking, this would mark our… fourth month dating in Digital Realm Time.

"Wonder if the luxury suits have luxury drinks?" Logi asked.

"Want to find out?" I asked.

With a grin we both made our way to the first class suits. They did indeed have fine wines and other various liquors. Despite this Realm being digital it all tasted real, and sure as heck could get you hammered.

"So, how has your work been?" Logi asked as we sat on the large, extra fluffy fancy bed. A bottle of amazing wine for each of us.

"Eh, it's going fine." I shrugged. "Thankfully I haven't had any other…incidents…"

"Yeah. Saw that on the news. Ouch. Armageddon monsters are a nightmare." He said. "Mine has been more of the same, but I have considered changing jobs."

"Changing jobs? Why's that?" I inquired.

"Just been thinking about it." He said, taking a sip from his bottle. "You do the same job for years, sometimes a change is nice or needed. Heh. When I was little I thought about joining the Adventurers Guild."

"Well, joining the Adventurer's Guild would be a neat idea." I nodded. "Why didn't you go there first if I may ask? Family business or did something else?"

"Heh, no. Being the runt Mom was super overprotective of me. Used to swear to The Mother that if I ever joined she'd follow to make sure I didn't get hurt, and frankly that was kinda embarrassing…"

"Sounds like a mother to me." I chuckled. "But you look like you can bench press an eighteen wheeler without breaking a sweat…"

"Heh, well again, I am a runt." He reminded. "Still, part of why I got into gaming and D&D was to cling to that dream in some way. And since Digital Realm Combat can fairly convert to Physical Realm Combat, well, I think I'd be pretty good."

"I'm more than certain you would do great things in a fight." I said honestly. "Not sure how good you are in combat, but would have loved your help dealing with those SCP bastards."

"I would have imagined. Majority of them are Level 5 Void threats." He added. We both took a swing of our wine at that one. "Even worse, there's multiple of them all over Armageddon."

"Considering I needed All Might of all people to help me deal with them…I can imagine how much of a pain they are." I said honestly.

"Oh, I almost forgot." Logi said, turning and handing me a long necklace box. "Happy four months."

"Oh my god…" I said, gently taking the necklace box. "Thanks Logi…I should have gotten you something as well…" I huffed, thinking I should have done something now as I gently opened the necklace box.

"It was meant to be a surprise, so I don't mind."

Inside the box was a long silver chain necklace. The item attached was some odd looking… almost looked like a Keyblade but it was off.

The tip was an eye, wide and looking out with tendrils almost growing from it. The blade was a mix of the same tendrils wrapped around a symbol of a planet, the symbol for biohazard, and a leaf all wrapped in the limbs going down the body of the blade. The base part held a handle that was simply the end of those tendrils.

"I know you have been more, well… feminine and all but I figured this would be better. It's a necklace based on the design of an extremely rare, Legendary weapon called Darkest Hero."

"It's really cool, and I love it." I said happily. "Also, Darkest Hero? Jeez, that sounds like a Legendary weapon that's for sure."

"Well, according to stories it is part of a set." Logi informed. "Darkest Hero, Brightest Hero, Wrathful Hero, Anti-Hero, Fallen Hero and lastly, No Hero."

"Well, gotta stay on brand that's for sure." I chuckled.

"Heh, yeah but their unique abilities are broken, by both pre and post War standards."

"What can they do?" I inquired.

"Well, Darkest Hero is said to, when wielded in combat, match its Magic, Attack and Defense boost stats by whatever the wielder's opponents are. Then they stack onto their wielders."

"Okay that's pretty powerful." I said in surprise.

"Brightest Hero is said to make their wielders Immune to all status ailments regardless of type, power or anything. Total immunity, plus boosts resistances to near total immunity."

"When you really want to style on that one status effect abusing asshole." I chuckled.

"Wrathful Hero is said that, if used with any berserker style combat or magic will grant total physical damage immunity and nulifes all pain, and regenerates you so fast, you never even notice the injury. Heals the exact millisecond it is made."

"That basically says 'you haven't even seen the depths of how pissed I am'."

"Anti-Hero is said to allow the wielder to control any monster from the Hazard zones, even Armageddon, so long as your will is stronger than theirs."

"Would have been fantastic to have when fighting those assholes…"

"Fallen Hero allows all your party members to remain alive even after their HP hits zero or they receive a fatal blow so long as its wielder remains alive with at least one HP."

"Amazing." I nodded. "Would certainly help in larger group's or harder dungeon's."

"And lastly, No Hero nullifies all your opponents abilities. Canceling them out in combat, at the cost of doing the same to your own though."

"When you want an honest duel with no external bullshit involved." I nodded.

"That includes Legendary Abilities."

Now I was shocked. That was… overpowered in the right hands… or wrong ones…

"Okay yeah that's pretty overpowered…" I said. "Which…can be bad if it's in the wrong hands…."

"Yup." Logi nodded. "They say if someone gathers all six, they can fuse them together to form True Hero, giving them all the six blades powers In one. No one knows if that's true though, since not every blade has ever even been found. Only two confirmed owners for Anti-Hero and one for Wrathful Hero. The rest have never been found in a dungeon ever."

"That's…interesting." I said honestly. "Would be a nightmare for those hunting it down to be perfectly honest."

"Yeah. Only reason people know they exist is because the family posts a database of every spawnable item for dungeon loot. Gives pictures and descriptions and stats, but no odds of finding them or what type of dungeon Is most likely to have them. Adventures take it upon themselves to fill that mess in."

"And drop rates can range anywhere from 'it's common enough' to 'it's about as rare as getting a handjob from someone in the Family'." I joked.

"Not the analogy I'd have used but… good enough." Logi shrugged.

With a smirk I put the necklace on.

[Enchantment Detected: Regeneration

Your wounds heal 20% quicker.]

"You also got it enchanted?" I asked in shock.

"I actually enchanted it. It's a converted item, I made it in the Physical Realm, brought it here and you can take it with you back. Metal Working and Enchantments was something my dad taught me, and I was thinking maybe I could do that for a living. People always want enchanted goods."

"Thanks Logi, this is amazing." I said lovingly.

"Th-thanks. Heh." He said shyly. "Was glad to have met you. A real, solid relationship like this is pretty rare these days. I hope we meet up in the Physical Realm someday."

"I would love to meet you in the Physical Realm." I said happily. "Would be a wonderful day all around."

We took each other by the hand and kissed. His fuzzy lips tickling mine. As we let passion take over I ended up on top of the big fuzz ball, the two of us laid down on the huge fluffy bed, and when we realized our similar moods we both stopped and collected our thoughts.

"Are we… going to do this?" Logi asked, blushing a bit.

"I mean…" I blushed as brightly as Logi. "If you want to…cause I'd like to do it if you'd like to…"

His response was to pull me into another kiss. I kissed back, and all too quickly our clothes were off. Time to see how realistic this Digital Realm can get~

"Heh, sorry. I forget how much… smaller humans usually are compared to me." Logi apologized as he carried me around. Last 'night' here on this titanic replica was… amazing. What the others usually take in turns and several rounds to make me limp and sore and rather stretched, Logi did all on his own with his monster he packs down there. I just hope those sheets get deleted cause I'm still quiet… full from all he poured into me.

I'm 100% sure my Physical realm body is also a mess. Thank God I had the foresight to start this date in my gaming room alone.

"Worth it." I giggled like a loon.

"Heh. Glad you enjoyed it." He said, giving my still afterglow high self a kiss. "So, guess we should get something to eat before heading to the next Server."

"That would be great…" I said. "Hopefully…the next Server will let me walk without a limp…"

"Heh, again, sorry. For a while there I was pretty sure I wasn't gonna… fit." He said with a blush. "Still can't believe you managed it. Let alone that… other stuff."

"Where there's a will, there's a way." I said honestly.

"And you certainly proved that." Logi added, blushing as last night's not so little adventure in the bed was still very fresh on both out minds.

We are a simple meal of eggs, bacon and such before heading to the next Server.

I was still sore, but still very happy too. Well, I don't mind being carried anyway. "This Server is called Cosmica." Logi said. Our clothes changed when we got here, our suits replaced by a rather comfy yellow jumpsuit. Everything around us was metallic with bright lights. Eventually we arrived at a door that opened automatically as Logi approached.

We were greeted by an observation deck, and through the glass I saw galaxies, so many stars and… it was like looking at Voyager photos from NASA… but, it's right there.

"It's…beautiful…" I said in awe.

"This server is honestly my favorite." He said, walking down to one of the empty couches around us and sat down, still holding me in his arms. "It's an exact cosmic replica of my great grandparents' home universe, the planet they came from is technically here, even if that isn't actually it." He said, the view suddenly zooming, but it felt more like this ship we were on was moving. To my surprise it zoomed towards the Milky Way, then to Earth's solar system. But, there was an extra planet. One in the same orbit as earth around the sun, but on the opposite end. Perfectly. "That other planet is my species' homeworld. Pre War. Electron."

"You're talking about 'Pre-War' stuff quite a bit." I mentioned.

"It's an interesting bit of history. Everything then was so different. So… separated, finite. I know, not many people really care about pre-war history, but I always found it interesting. Part of why I love you. Where you come from, it's like that era David."

"Really now?" I inquired. "I mean, from what little I've heard about Pre-War, it still had all this wonderful stuff to it…just a lot more fighting."

"Yes and no. It's hard to explain, but I'm mostly referring to history from before The Family."

"Fair enough." I nodded. "So my fluffy history nerd, what neat things do you want to talk about with all that history?"

"Anything you're willing to hear. In the pre-war reality my great grandparents came from, Electron and Earth shared a solar system, and worked to aid one another as they developed. Even if Electron had an advantage Earth lacked."

"And that advantage was big adorasexy ferret people?" I asked. "Cause that's an advantage no one can argue."

Logi chuckled. "No, we had, at the time, a rare resource that normally formed within asteroids. Electronium gem deposits. For some reason, Electron was full of them. They affected the way everything evolved there, hence my species' natural electrical abilities. It was an unlimited natural resource. Earth had none, but they did have magic. Even if the records said they nearly lost it all."

"Lucky bastards still had magic." I huffed.

"Not much. Like I said, they nearly lost it all when the last true Temple of Magic that earth had mysteriously burned to ashes. Thankfully one of them survived, brought magic teachings back to the people, and began mixing them with technology. That one monk single handedly jumped Humanity and Electronians thousands of years in technological development."

"Luckies." I pouted. "Even if it didn't involve Electronians, I would have loved to have been apart of that magic-tech nonsense, that sounds awesome."

"Well, you are a part of it now. And you've definitely been enjoying it." Logi said, giving a kiss to my cheek.

"Yes, yes I have." I giggled happily, lightly petting my wonderful ferret boyfriend.

We sat there enjoying the view of this alternative solar system. A calm, relaxing moment with just us two here. Eventually I was finally able to stand and walk again and once I was walking we explored this Space Station some. It was neat, kinda Star Trek like in some ways.

We eventually made it to the next Server. This one I picked and I wanted some nice combat action. This Server was based on some Physical Realm dungeons. Been a while since I've been in one.

The entrance was a large stone tower, old and worn stoneworks of snakes, birds and fish covered it and especially the door.

"This is definitely neat looking." Logi said.

"It does indeed look neat." I nodded. "So, ready for some good ol' monster slaying?"

"Sounds fun." He said with a nod.

We entered and found ourselves with some simple leather armor, leather shield and a short sword. We then got a notification.

[Thank you for entering this recreation. If this is your first time on any of my servers, then you will be automatically equipped with basic gear. Any items you find along the way are free to swap out your beginner gear with and are usable on all my other servers.

-Pickleooo]

"Well, that's kind of the Creator." I said warmly.

"It is." Logi nodded.

The first floor was all stone. Worn and slightly damaged with torches for light along the wall. The monsters we came across were simple Shadow Creatures, and killing them was easy.

"Starting off simple." I commented. "Which is a good thing."

We came across a main chamber with several Shadow Creatures and a chest with some healing potions and rem.

The majority of this floor was like this and once all the monsters here were dead we were able to advance to the next floor.

It was the same as the other one, hallways, chambers, and monsters and cheats with loot.

"So, watch any good anime?" Logi asked as we walked through the floor.

"Eh, moreso catching up on old anime's, like Fire Force." I said honestly.

"I've been rereading Goblin Slayer."

"Goblin Slayer's good." I nodded. "Should probably read up on it sooner or later."

"Hear the dungeons they make based on it are so brutal you need to sign a release of liability waiver before entering."

"I mean…when it would be designed with 'you will literally be raped'...yeah I can see why." I said honestly.

"Yeah… drops epic loot though from what I hear."

"Epic Loot, or getting raped by literal goblins?" I hummed. "That sounds not worth it."

"And yet people take the risk." Logi sighed.

The next few floors were all really simple. We did get some new weapons though. Logi swapping his short sword for a club and I swapped my short sword for a longer sword.

The next floor we arrived on was a single large room. A rather nasty looking Manticore sat in the center, growling at us.

"Well, mini-boss?" I asked, readying myself for the boss fight. "Or a full on boss?"

"I think this is a full boss?" Logi said.

"Right then." I nodded. "Manticore's do tend to be bosses."

"If we manage to cut the tail off it will be a lot easier. Their poison is a notorious bitch." Logi stated.

With a nod, we began to walk closer and around either side of the beast. With two of us, it's attention will be split and make it vulnerable.

With Logi and I on opposite sides of it, the Manticore was struggling on who to attack first. Logi made that easy by charging at it. Once it turned to face him I charged in and went for the tail.

I managed to hit a soft spot between it's tails armored plating and hacked it off, leaving the stinger dangling from a thin but of flesh.

It roared in pain, quickly moving to attack me but Logi slammed his club into its skull. As he did that I moved in, digging my sword into it's throat and as it struggled, went limp.

It's now dead body faded away into nothing. Logi and I were rewarded with a bottle of Manticore poison, its stinger, teeth, claws and hide.

"Fantastic." I nodded. "That was a lot easier than I thought it would have been."

"If we tried soloing it, it would have been harder. Most tough monsters are like that. More than one opponent and they don't know who to prioritize."

"Understandable." I nodded. "But that was fun."

"It was." Logi said with a nod. With that we continued on with the dungeon.

I exited the digital realm half an hour later. A full month in the digital realm with just Logi and I. We did a lot… Including each other… a lot.

As I expected, despite not being able to enjoy him, my Physical Realms body was quite sticky… Thank God I went with a leather couch for my gaming room.

After cleaning that and taking a much needed bath I went to bed. Marrianne immediately wrapped her feathered arms around me. "You sure had fun with your online boyfriend~ Half an hour, have a good month?" She asked.

"It was incredible." I said happily. "Also…absolute monster down there."

"Ah, that explains why you took a rather long shower." She chuckled, giving me a kiss. "I'm going to have to meet him, given it seems like he may end up with all of us here at some point~"

"I would love that." I admitted. "Him being here would…be so wonderful."

"Heh, just so long as Abby, Mike and I get to date him too. This is a big group harem, only fair we get all our affection from as many members as we can. And with all the Lovers Class we all have a lot of people to be with."

"Of course." I nodded. "Gonna take a while, but I'm going to love every single one of you."

The next morning I was meeting with that enroller from that School planet for the kids.

She arrived fairly early, and was some kind of Griffin. Feral body type too. "Are you David Alchem?" She asked me.

"Yes I am." I nodded politely.

"Good. I'm Miss Bronze Feather. I have the documents for you to fill out here." She said. I let her enter and we took a seat in the living room where she gave me the papers from a saddle bag she wore. "I understand they are Prize Pod children. A rare but not unheard of occurrence. I have the proper papers here."

"Yes they are." I nodded. "And it was a surprise when I got the three of them…still trying my best to be a first time parent."

"I can imagine. And people think accidental pregnancies are bad." She said with a chuckle. "So, tell me about them?" She asked as I began filling out the paperwork.

"Well, there's a child version of Luna, a little too smart for her own good sometimes for a five year old, but she's sweet." I started. "Then there's my two little rabble rousers, Timmy and Tina. Timmy is a ten year old human, energetic and happy as can be, and Tina is a sweet little four year old Panda girl that's full of energy and optimism." I explained, writing down everything that I needed for the proper paperwork.

"I see. Well, they will be enrolling a tad late but I can have a test administered to determine their strengths and weaknesses regarding education for children of their own age range. From there classes will be made and they will receive some review homework to help them catch up with the classes. That just leaves the issue of how long will you keep them enrolled?"

"How long are kid's normally enrolled here?" I inquired. "Cause…I had to go through thirteen years of it back in my…original world."

"Well, typically children are enrolled from preschool and kindergarten til grade five. Grades six through eight are optional but recommended, and grades nine through twelve are completely optional."

"Right then." I nodded. "Why's high school optional?"

"High school- right. Forgive me, your assistant Debby informed me you were an Isekai. Well, the way The Family structured the modern educational system was to prioritize daily, everyday use knowledge first and foremost, and then as they age favor those who actively seek higher education. There is no Elementary, Middle and High Schools in our educational system David. Just grades K-12, with only k-5 being mandatory. As these are the grades where everyday mathematics, literature and such are taught. The reason grades six through eight are optional but recommended is because the children are still that, children. Once one reaches age 14 they are considered an adult in society's eyes, and grades six through eight refresh known information and teach them how to manage finances, jobs, and other valuable skills."

"Luckies." I frowned. "Wish I had this kinda schooling when I was growing up."

"You are more than welcome to enroll yourself. K12 offers a large variety of adult classes to better learn information missed or just to keep one's mind fresh or learn new skills. We openly welcome all Isekai like yourself for these classes at all times as well."

"Hmm…" I said, thinking a bit if I should do a few classes just to touch base. "And there's nothing wrong with doing something like that?"

"Not at all. Why would there?"

"Just wondering, cause I'm pretty sure there'll be those few assholes who would probably laugh." I shrugged.

"Which is why our educational systems are built to favor those who willingly seek to educate themselves. Any who do not wish for that can ignore k12 the day they turn 14."

"Fair enough." I nodded. "Eh, can't really hurt." I shrugged. "Might as well get a little refresher on thing's, could learn something new."

"Excellent! We offer our courses in the Physical, Digital, Sleeping and various other realms for your convenience."

Hm, well, the Digital realm… Time does move faster there. I could do months of schooling in just an hour. Wow, looks like the Digital Realm is the ultimate time management cheat now that I think about it?

"You know, the Digital Realm is really handy for when you have to do a lot of things with little time." I said honestly.

"Yes, it's actually one of our more popular means of educating both children and adults."

I nodded. "And it's going to be all around great…won't need to do an all night study session ever again…"

"If you'd like, I have spare enrollment applications. You can sign yourself up for some basic Isekai classes for yourself that can get that started."

"That would be great, thank you." I nodded.

She pulled that paperwork out of her Assistant and I finished up with the kids enrollment papers. Mine were similar, but not exactly so. Once all that was done she said we'd get some letters about it in the mail within the next few days.

With that done I was all set to meet back up with Cassidy. Since becoming a herm we've gotten closer as friends.

"Took your time." She said as I stopped from my speedster run here. Today we were checking out a new park that was built.

"Yeah, just had a lot of paperwork to deal with." I said honestly. "How're you doing Cassidy?"

"Went on a date with Nikkie yesterday. Given she was built for… pleasure… was pretty hard to hold back. Still, it is nice to be around another Synthetic like me." She shrugged.

"I understand." I nodded. "Glad you had fun with Nikkie."

"Thanks. She's really nice, and wants to become a combat model like me. I've been working on helping her make some compatible combat programming and weapons." She said as we started walking down the park path.

"That's pretty cool." I nodded. "What do ya have so far?"

"Nothing ready for install. I need to first take a copy of her main OS and mine, which was the easy part. Taking apart the copy of my combat programming and making compatibility patches is the hard part. So far what I have now would allow her to at least pick up a weapon, but not use it. That's gonna take some more time…"

"I can imagine." I shrugged. "Need any help with it? Even if I might not know much about…how all that works, I can help get any items you need to make it simpler."

"It's alright. Items aren't the issue here anyway. The issue is our OS systems being so different. It sucks that unless you're in the same class or build as one another, cross Synthetic programming is always such a pain. And that's without getting into the types of synthetics."

"Like trying to build a GBA Adaptor to an XBox 360 or something?"

"If that analogy works for you, then sure. The main issue I'm running into is the fact that her OS is extremely strict on installations. Meaning she was built as a mass produced prostitute. I imagine a lot of brothels might have her exact model if we looked."

"That's a little strange." I said honestly. "Sounds like you might need to replace a thing or two to try and get past all those limitations if updates aren't enough."

"I'll probably have to find an update file and jailbreak it. Have her install that and from there things will turn out much easier. It just sucks all the crap Synthetics have to deal with when we spawn with limited programming but free will and souls."

"I understand." I nodded.

"So, how have things been with you? Noticed work and such keeps you pretty busy. We haven't been to a dungeon in forever."

"Work has been fine." I shrugged. "It's been…dates that have been taking up most of my time, especially with Logi…"

"Heh. I heard from Marrianne. Sounds like you've been quite the girl since he came into your life. And to think not a month ago you were embarrassed to buy your own clothes and underwear."

"I mean…it was still weird." I said honestly. "But yeah…he's wonderful. And hey, I have free time, want to do a dungeon or are you busy?"

"I'm free. And being freelance I work on my own schedule. Maybe we can find one to go through."

"That would be good." I nodded. "Only been to a Hazard Zone once and that was to have some fun with my new Grenade Launcher and Sticky Bomb Launcher."

"Heh, nice. Hm, wonder what dungeon we should go to though? It's been a while. Doubt we can get John to join us, he has his shop now."

John got a shop?

"When the hell did that happen?" I asked in surprise.

"A few weeks ago. One of the properties got destroyed in that attack, and John bought it at a deal. Set up a little store where he can repair, sell, and trade gear. He figured since you got a job, Marrianne set up her clinic, I do freelance and Abby and Mike are part of the weather teams that he should do something too since we're settling here."

"Fair enough." I nodded. "Might wanna check it out one of these days."

"Good idea, cause he has quickly gotten popular since Travelers and Adventurers heard he can repair high level gear. Though given he's a friend he might take special requests from us. Well, that aside, have you been keeping up with local news?"

"Sadly no." I shook my head. "Been busy with a lot of things…"

"Well, word is that in a town nearby some residents have been gone for a while. According to the news, they actually took a trip to Armageddon. Been two month now that they've been gone."

"Well that's not good." I started. "Who were they?"

"Two families. Apparently the son of one of them had a Synthetic like me and was hoping to get all her upgrade modules, and they were most likely to spawn on Dungeons in Armageddon. They were planning on using the Tourist Method to do this. Though everyone is saying that they probably ran into Armageddon's Welcoming Committee and were shot down. And when you travel between worlds, your respawn is reset to that world. As if that's not bad enough, Armageddon has some seriously messed up rules regarding respawns."

"Well…that's gotta suck hardcore." I said honestly.

"Yeah. On Armageddon, the rules are that there are no Safe Zones, Respawns are completely random, and the world itself will adjust its own difficulty depending on how 'easy' you are doing in an area."

"Now is this 'welcoming committee' actually people from Armageddon or is it those Chaos Guilds I randomly hear about?"

"Little of both. Being so deadly, those who reject the ways The Family set up this reality or despise this place or them often take residence on that planet. It's a perfect hiding place for Chaos Guilds. It's also called the Nexus Guild's backyard. The Welcoming Committee is a chaos guild that aims to make it a point that, unless you're one of them, you are not welcome there."

"Dicks."

"And the more you learn about the damned planet the worse and worse it gets. I just hope someone from the Heroes Guild manages to find and save them."

"At this point, why not just glass the planet?" I asked. "Just…one of the strongest Family members drops by and shatter the thing?"

"They try and not do that. After all, that can fuel the rogue Isekai guild members beliefs, and it would just be back when the new year hits. Everything planet wise, even the planet itself, will be back at midnight on new years. Besides, that would just scatter the Chaos Guild members to all kinds of planets, and that would be bad for everyone."

"The Isekai Guilds are really fucking depressing…but are people that pissed that they'd be delusional enough to join Chaos Guilds?"

"Happens all the time… and others… don't get choices…"

"Jesus christ…" I muttered. "I mean…I can kinda understand, because people are homesick and miss their old life…but at a certain point, you just have to take a moment and realize that 'hey, new life of anything's possible'..."

"Yeah, but those aren't the worst members…" Cassidy sighed. "I know Marrianne told you about one of the major Chaos Guilds being a Slaver group, right?"

"Yes sadly…and the fact that Slavery is still a thing is terrible…" I sighed.

"Well, in a world like this, where would such a group acquire such… merchandise, in abundance?"

"They…they can't be enslaving Prize Pod people…can they?" I asked worriedly. "Cause…not many people would actively go there…and Prize Pod people are just…random drops…"

"And Armageddon is a huge dungeon, and drops appear there like anywhere else. Servant and Ally classes, put into Chaos Guilds and brainwashed into liking it… and Lovers Class… used to breed new members born into the Chaos Guilds."

"Sweet fuck…" I shook my head. "Absolutely disgusting…I seriously hope I never have to deal with those assholes…"

"You might. After all, they hunt people with Legendary Abilities… Yours is one of their top most sought after. It's why you best keep that under wraps as much as possible. After all, if word or rumor got out…"

"Uh…" I started. "How uh…so the better question is, how petty is Three?" I asked nervously.

"You best ask Katsuki that."

"Yeah…and while I highly doubt Three would sell me out, cause one thing he hates more than me is Chaos Guilds…he's still an asshole."

"True, in any case just remember to be careful. Maybe stick to your new weapons to avoid using… that ability, just in case."

"Which I am oh so happy to do." I said, pulling out my Grenade Launcher in question.

After this conversation, I need something to take my mind off… that…