I was up the next morning early, helping the merchants transfer over personal lodgings and cargo. Thankfully they were working very quickly on their own and I was on my way to…
I paused, seeing Davy was elbow deep in Shift's mouth… "Morning." Davy said, waving his free arm at me.
"Mo-ghin." Shift said.
I blinked…then rubbed my eyes and did a double take. "Uh…what?"
"Shift has two stomachs. One digests, the other is like a bag of holding. Over the years with the help of my Embument ability, we've all kept personal items we never wanted to lose in there. Unfortunately, the longer something is in that stomach the harder it is for Shift to find it so…" Davy said, pulling their arm out and holding what looked to be staff made from wood, bones, leather and was engraved with various detailed runes. "No." He huffed, tossing it over to a pile of stuff that Meg, Bigs and Shift seemed to be sorting through.
"This would be easier if it showed up in that Assistant inventory but it doesn't seem to count as the same inventory space." Shift sighed.
"Strange, can't you fuse the two?" I inquired.
"If you know how, please inform." Shift said.
They opened their mouth again, Davy reaching back in and after a bit, pulled out a large metal trunk. "Got it!"
"Oh finally." Shift sighed, rubbing their throat.
I watched as Davy kneeled down and opened it, the lid flipping over and revealing various wrapped items.
"Oh? What's all this stuff?"
"Old memories." Davy sighed, reaching in and pulling out one wrapped item. Unwrapping the old cloth, inside it was a pistol. It looked to be semi automatic, a forty five I think and had the silencer on it. "Hello you. Long time no see." He said, smiling a little. "This used to belong to my boss/friend/ex back when I worked at the Agency, Holy. She used to shoot me with this all the time."
"Neat." I nodded, though I took a moment to think. "Hmm…I think I have a weapon I can give you all." I admitted, pulling out Starlight and hoping this would work.
"You have a fucking Keyblade?!" Davy yelled as he jumped to his feet.
"Called it!" Meg yelled out with some laughter.
"Yes, yes I do." I nodded. "And I believe I can each give you one."
"If we're talking about getting a childhood weapon, I want in on this." Tony said, walking up to the group.
"Hey Tony, what are you doing here?" I inquired.
"I wanted to ask the other's here if I could…attempt what me and Davy did." Tony said honestly.
"What did you two do?" Shift asked.
"I ate his hand and got Immortality through Ice powers."
"How the fuck does that work, David's fire!?" Meg yelled.
"He ate his ice affinity daughter." Davy said, everyone else giving Tony a look.
"It's not as weird as you think!" Tony said quickly. "I have a Legendary Ability called Consume, and whatever I devour I get stronger, if I eat the whole thing I get it's powers to some extent…and apparently, one of the thing's that makes Consume even stronger is when I eat a willing participant…their soul and consciousness is with me always…and my daughter asked me to do this cause…well, she was suffering from some terrible separation anxiety…"
"... My guy, I'm a literal cannibal and even I find that weird and kinda fucked up." Shift said.
"Eh, he ate his kid, call him a Greek Titan or something and let's move onto getting Keyblades already!" Davy said.
I tried not to laugh… I failed…
"It's not funny!" Tony snapped.
"I'm sorry…just…it kind of is." I laughed. "Oh dear…sorry…so anyways, Keyblade time…and maybe also Tony figuring out if he also eats a piece of the rest of you he might gain new powers."
"Can I… not take part in that whole… getting part of me eaten thing…" Bigs said, looking worried.
"Try it and I will rip your tongue out of your mouth and shove it up your ass." Squeaks said, making Tony jump. I noticed all the hairs on his back were standing on edge as the mouse lady glared at him.
"Okay, so one, that's fine sir." Tony said to Bigs. "And two, there's this magical thing called 'asking to do it', cause Davy agreed and cut off his hand and let me eat it, cause again…asking for permission is a very important thing." Tony huffed, even though he still looked scared shitless of Squeaks he dared sass the mouse with a good point.
"Tupaya sobaka, kotoraya dumayet svoim chlenom, a ne instinktami." Squeaks huffed.
I'm sorry what?
I was confused but I noticed Meg, Davy, Bigs and Shift were all chuckling.
"Uh…what language was being spoken here?" I asked.
"Squeaks' is Russian." Davy said. "She called you 'A Dumb Dog who thinks with his dick and not his instincts'."
"Yeah, we all sometimes slip into old language habits when cursing or swearing or… just to remember how to speak in it." Shift shrugged.
"Moya tochka zreniya ostayetsya v sile." Tony frowned, which actually shocked the others at how well his Russian was.
"... Eto ne znachit, chto ya pozvolyu tebe." Squeaks added.
"Let me guess, you learned it while banging a russian?" Davy asked Tony.
"I have hung out, and slept with, almost every nationality and have dabbled in a lot of things." Tony said honestly. "You learn a lot when you like a promiscuous life, like also learning how strip clubs are actually viable ways to see if the stock market's gonna go through a slump." Tony said honestly.
"Huh…yeah you have a point there." I said in surprise.
"Anata wa hontōni meinu no naka no tsuno inudesu." Shift said. Okay I know that was Japanese. I've seen enough anime to recognize it.
"Dakarakoso, kyūkyoku no shinrai wa shinshitsu ni aru nodesu." Tony said in Japanese as well, what I can only say is fluent but I'm not sure what he said while Shift gave a nod in agreement.
"I haven't found a translator in my assistant yet, can someone please translate?" I asked sheepishly.
"Shift said I'm really the horn dog amongst bitches, which is true." Tony admitted which made Shift chuckle. "And I responded with 'That's why the ultimate trust is in the bedroom'."
"Enough with the pervert talk in various languages let's hurry up already!" Davy said, having found a holster for the pistol and putting it on.
Tony looked at Davy for a moment. "Por favor cálmate, lo conseguiremos." Tony said, in what was clearly Spanish as Davy looked at Tony in mild surprise. "But I will agree, I do want a keyblade."
"Alright alright." I said with a chuckle. "You all can confuse me with languages later, first is to get your keyblades."
"¡Así que date prisa antes de que tus antepasados te saluden en el más allá por ser más lento que un perro muerto en el camino!" Davy added, huffing at Tony.
Tony huffed. "No hay necesidad de ser grosero."
I raised the handle of Starlight to Davy. "Are you going to grab my handle or are you going to argue some more?"
"Fine, fine." He said, gripping the handle of the keyblade. "Are you gonna recite that oath thing?"
"Well…" I thought for a bit, cause I could make a joke, but considering how stupidly eager Davy looked…I might as well just do the chant and not the joke. "In your hand, take this Key. So long as you have the makings, then through this simple act of taking, its wielder you shall one day be. And you will find me, friend—no ocean will contain you then. No more borders around, or below, or above, so long as you champion the ones you love." I recited the chant.
"Huh…" He said, letting go of the handle. "I got a notification… how long until something happens?" Davy asked.
"Uh…I don't know." I said honestly. "Either it could be immediate, could be tomorrow or years from now." I shrugged.
"Boo…" Davy sighed. "Welp, back to my memory chest." He said, heading back to said chest.
I performed it for the others as well, and once it was all done I walked back over to see what else was in this thing. I saw Davy now had a machete in his hands. It was old but looked new, and seemed to radiate with his magic…
There was also a lot of stained blood on it.
"And that's you…" He said, putting it down and taking out a sleeve for it.
"Ya know…for a weapon that has your fire, I'm surprised it has that much blood still on it…"
"I last used this thing a little before the war broke out. I completely forgot I never cleaned it…" He sighed, taking out another wrapped item. This one was much larger. He smiled as he gently took it, unwrapping it with care as I saw what was inside. It was a Thompson machine gun, a drum mag, and the whole gun was elegantly engraved with silhouettes of what I assume are Nokori, along the barrel and the stock. Written in metal on the stock were the words 'Silver's Venom'.
He wiped the gun down, the metal still shining as if it was never used.
"Well, that's neat." I nodded.
"This was a birthday gift I got for Silver." Davy chuckled. "She loved old gangster movies, so I managed to find a gunsmith to make this for her. By then I learned how my Embument worked and it was the first item I intentionally imbued. She loved it, even if she only used it once."
"Yeah that's fair." I nodded. "Can't go wrong with classics."
He put a strap on it, loading the drum mag into it before slinging it over his back. There was a lot of stuff in here, but the last thing he pulled out was a folded leather jacket with denim patches on the back where the image of a phoenix was printed on them. "Long time no see…" Davy seemed to say to the jacket.
"And just like that, you've officially finished your nineties 'action adventure' protagonist look." I chuckled.
"Oh shush." Davy said, chuckling as he stood up. "This is what I wore when I was doing vigilante stuff. Ended up becoming my 'hero outfit'. Silver got it for me. She thought the phoenix on the back was being clever…" He laughed.
"Ya know, I was making a joke, but apparently Silver was a big fan of nineties hero shows." I chuckled.
"She was a nerd… owning a book store will do that I guess." He said, closing the chest and putting the jacket on. I was surprised it fit. Even more so when the bag began glowing bright red, then hot white as his wings suddenly burst out of the back. The light and head fading and his wings looked almost like they were sticking out of perfectly fit holes for them on the back. He then put the guns and machete back on himself. "Never imagined I'd be wearing this thing again…"
"This world is just full of surprises." I said honestly.
"Yeah… not all of them good though…" He left to drag the chest into his house.
I went to check on stuff. I found Luna going though all the various guns the merchants had out for people to pick up and use or grab. We were gonna be going into battle soon.
"Hey Luna, how you doing?" I asked softly.
"Hey, just looking over the guns here and grabbing some new rifles for the fight." She said, looking some over. "The mutation types though are gonna be the fun part." She smirked.
"Mutation types?" I inquired, not sure if I heard of this specific thing with guns yet.
"Yeah, you know, Armor piercing, hollow point, magic, enchanted, elemental, metal variation, explosive." Luna listed off.
Right… I remember when I first got here I shopped around and saw they sold bullets that were basically mini nukes… among other kinds…
"Yeah…there are plenty of dangerous bullets around." I said honestly. "Mini nukes as bullets being one such bad thing…"
"Maybe but against whatever is coming, better to be overkill than be killed." She shrugged.
Right…
"Yeah…" I sighed, scratching my head. "Just…hate how a lot of things are going wrong all at once…"
"Well, could be worse. Davy and them might not be here to help. Plus aren't you always going on about doing the right thing for people because of heroes duty or some other cringe stuff?" Luna said.
… Cringe?!
"Did you just call me 'cringe'?" I asked in shock. "The hell you mean 'cringe'?"
"Dad… I mean this with no disrespect… but you're cringe at times."
"You're cringe." I countered with a pout.
"You're just proving my point by saying that since you have no real retort or counter argument."
… Shit!
"I'm not cringe." I frowned. "And the fact that you think what I do is cringe, then half of your shenanigans are cringe." I huffed.
"What shenanigans? All I do is watch reruns with Tina and look out at the unending ocean all around. The only ones who are ever up to shenanigans are the chaos quintuplets and… they have been disturbingly quiet for the last few days."
"Either they understand the severity of our situation, or they're about to figure out how to make some stupid explosive that'll deal with the problem…and I'm scared about both reasons…"
"While I fully believe those four would try and make a bomb, and probably succeed, I doubt they'd be able to make one to deal with whatever is coming our way tomorrow. Even if they stole supplies that are all around at the moment."
"Well…I still wouldn't be surprised." I said honestly. "Just…" I sighed. "This sucks…"
"This is life here. I just wonder how this battle will affect the greater picture. If at all."
"It might affect it a lot considering the other Chaos Guild's might start targeting this area." I sighed. "Or, at least Alex who has a personal vendetta against our Nokori guests."
"True. Wonder why he's bothering? Yes they killed him but if he's been here as long as they have, wonder what's fueling his drive. Like, what's his obsession with them specifically?"
"Revenge is a powerful motivator, especially when someone claims they're 'god' and gets struck down." I said honestly. "Or just because they just hate them…"
"That's impossible." I totally did not scream as Squeaks appeared next to me, looking over some of the weapons. "Alex is a Sociopath. He can't feel emotions at all."
"How did you do that?" Luna asked.
"I can warp wherever I see. Think of it like that one power from Dishonored. I actually learned a lot of those in-game abilities I could do."
"Neat." I nodded. "But if he can't feel anything, then why is he targeting you even now? You'd think he would have gotten a hobby instead of…this."
"In a way, we were his hobby." She said, picking up a knife and looking it over. "Back home, Alex was a renowned genius in the field of magic and science. Specifically in weaponizing even the simplest of spells and technology. Maybe he just still views us as his possessions, or maybe he still just wants to test and experiment on us until he is satisfied. Either way, as much as I despise the man, we can't ignore his intelligence or skill. And with two hundred years honing that skill and knowledge, gods know what we will be facing tomorrow."
"As long as we keep the people, and our turtle friend, safe…that's the real goal in this confrontation."
"That should be top priority then." Squeaks nodded.
"How should we do that then?" Luna asked.
"Well…either beat the thing as fast as possible before they get a chance to attack, or drag them off to a remote island." I said honestly.
"Against an unknown enemy that approach might not work so well. Perhaps if we knew what kind of BOW he was sending at us we could plan better…" Squeaks pondered.
"My best guess is some hybrid of all five of you, so they have a perfect counter to anything you can do." I admitted.
"That would make sense but it's also rather obvious. I'm just worried if this enemy will be… like some of the other's he sent at us prior or… worse…"
"And what were some of the other monsters he sent after you?"
"Well, at first most were various punks, gangsters and even actual mercenaries and hitmen, but later on they somehow started sending a more… refined version of the Failed Nokori. We called them Volatile Nokori. Like most Failed Nokori, they lacked any and all of the human mental faculties, but the Volatile variants were savage, yet intelligent and worst of all, obedient to the letter. A perfect weapon, soldier, and monster."
"So what made them difficult to fight considering…what you all can do?" I asked.
"They learned. They worked in packs… and they would retreat if they knew a fight would end in their deaths. Some even learned to use weapons. To make it worse… they… reproduced… quick."
"Does that mean…" Luna spoke up.
"A single nest could overrun a city in about a year. And the first generation Volatile Nokori, whoever they were as a person before was lost once they became those…creatures."
"So it's not that they're strong or smart, but because they reproduce way too fast." I nodded. "War of Attrition…great…"
"From what we learned, from birth to adulthood, it only took a Volatile Nokori a month or two… depending on the meals they were fed. They are… anything. And I mean anything."
"That's fucked up." Luna said, looking a bit green.
"Took almost two centuries for us to find and eradicate the last nest of them back home."
"Well then…" I frowned. "Hopefully this won't be a war of attrition then…"
"If it's just the one, we should be fine… last we knew they didn't reproduce asexually…"
"Welp, explosive and incendiary ammo then." Luna said.
"Right, so assume they can reproduce asexually cause this bastard probably had plenty of time to upgrade them…" I frowned. "And considering…" I blinked…before my eyes widened. "Oh…oh no…"
"What?" Luna asked nervously.
"Uh…unless he's really that spiteful…he…might have just made…Immortal Volatiles…" I said worriedly. "So that's a big thing to worry about."
"The…children can't also be immortal…right?" Luna asked worriedly.
"If he learned how to make them reproduce Asexually, which at this point would be practically cloning, then yes, they would have every ability the 'original' had…"
"If that's the case let's hope they at least share some of our weaknesses still." Squeaks said. I did a double take at them…
They… have… weaknesses?!
"Well…I know Meg has a weakness to darkness, but what are your weaknesses?" I asked nervously.
"Mine specifically, before arriving here I'd only really be hurt by my own magic or the four other base magics used in a single spell. After, I learned that the element Nothingness can Inflict fatal damage to me." Squeaks said.
"Right, I did learn that Nothingness and Void are the polar opposite of each other when learning about Keyblade stuff." I admitted.
"Which is strange to me as Null didn't have such an opposite back home. Different reality realization really hit when we learned that."
"What about the others?" Luna asked.
"Well, I can guess that Big's weakness is Light due to him being a Shadow Dragon…but Shift and Davy I'm not sure…"
"David and Shift, Nature and Chaos. Magically speaking they are the exact opposite of one another and thus are the only ones that have the capacity to truly injure one another. Shift's regeneration happens at the cellular level, meaning as long as there's one cell of theirs left, Shift can reform. David can be stunned however. When it comes to his healing and regeneration it only kicks in when his body detects lethal chemicals or magics have been used on them, so he can be paralyzed and put to sleep with those methods. Alternatively, if he is hit with a hard enough attack from Chaos Magic it alters his regeneration."
"Right…" I said carefully. "And Alex would know all of this…shit…"
"How does it affect his regeneration?" Luna asked.
"Random ways. Once David regenerated the opposite gender, they returned to normal after another regeneration. Another time, they regenerated as an infant, and remained that way for a week before returning to normal. He doesn't remember being an infant but Silver was more than happy to watch over him while he was like that, and she took lots of pictures."
"Oh he must have hated that." Luna chuckled.
"He was embarrassed, but he and Silver always had a brother-sister relationship and in the end he didn't mind it, he doesn't remember and it let Silver live out a fantasy she always wanted." Squeaks said with a smirk.
"Well…that's good to know." I nodded.
"So what do we do about these weaknesses?" Luna asked.
"Worst case scenario, I can open a Null Rift…" Squeaks said. "I did that in the last fight with Alex and… well, it's useful but rather… unstable."
"You'll have me and Tony at your backs, Alex doesn't know what the both of us can do so it'll be a good trap for whatever he's throwing at us."
"Maybe. Either way he'll quickly learn after this is over-"
"Hey David Two a thing happened!" I heard Meg shout. I turn- are you fucking kidding me?!
In Meg's hand, she was holding the Kingdom Hearts Two version of the Ultima Weapon Keyblade.
"Looks shiny." Squeaks said. "And kinda fits."
"Oh what the fuck!?" I whined. "I had my keyblade longer than all of you and I still haven't gotten mine."
"So uh…is it a bad time…" I heard Bigs say nervously, as I looked over and…he had Sweet Memories.
"Bruh…" I groaned.
"That the one that doesn't have a damage stat if I remember… also fitting." Squeaks added.
"So… Meg get's Ultima Weapon… and Bigs' get's Sweet Memories…did anyone else magically get their keyblade?" I asked weakly.
"Why is it so fucking huge?!" I heard Shift yell, followed by Davy laughing.
I looked and saw… Shift was holding the longest, and hardest hitting Keyblade in any of the games… Chaos Ripper… it actually did look funny given how short they are and how massive it was.
"Well…they say big things come in small packages." Tony admitted.
"Why are you all getting your Keyblades immediately!?" I whined. "Though…my pain can be tempered a little with how hilarious this looks."
"Maybe in your male form it will look more fitting." Davy offered.
"Maybe…" Shift said.
"Still…" I frowned. "Seriously, this is some nonsense.."
"You haven't known us long enough to know this, but nonsense is kind of our specialty." Davy said.
"It's true. We're all varying degrees of crazy, weird, unhinged or just odd." Squeaks nodded.
"So you'll be perfectly fine in this place." Tony chuckled.
"Yeah…" I sighed. "So…all I have to wonder is what Keyblade is Davy and Squeaks going to have all of a sudden?"
"What about Thunder Pupper?" Shift asked. "Didn't he do the oath thing too?"
We all looked over at Tony.
Tony hummed, before raising his hand…and it a flash of light and the crackle of thunder, we all saw…"Oh come the fuck on!" I whined. "How come you get Leopardus!?"
"Huh…" Tony said in surprise, the leopard themed lightning Keyblade fitting perfectly for him, the lightning bolts that formed the blade were more blue but I could probably chalk that up to Zinogre having Blue lightning as their theme…"Well, that's really cool."
"Well, guess that just leaves Squeaks and I." Davy shrugged. "So, just hold out your hand and-"
What appeared for Davy made me want to cry…
In both hands he held two identical Keyblades, their colors identical but swapped. Kingdom Key, and Kingdom Key D.
"Holy…" Davy said as he stood there holding them in shock. "You didn't say you could get two!"
"You're not supposed to, what the hell!?" I shouted, actually getting more mad here.
"Well, sucks to suck…also the fuck are these?" Squeaks said, as I looked around and…
"What?" I asked in confusion at seeing the two Keyblades I've…honestly never seen before. "Okay first, bullshit that two people got two keyblades…and two, the hell are those?"
In Squeaks right hand was a key lade that looked… fancy. The tip was a wolf's silhouette howling over a moon, Twilight Thorns traveling down formed the blade, the grip looked to be a hollowed out heart shaped frame for the hand guards.
In her left hand was a pitch black Keyblade with a wide predatory eye that seemed to grow tendrils off its side at the tip, flowing them down to form the blade and it had no hand guards, the tendrils merging at the end to form the grip.
Neither had a Keychain either.
"Hmm… the one on the left fits but the fuck with the right one?" Davy asked.
"Uh…do either of you know what the hell those things are?" I inquired to my mental roommates.
"Nope." Abby said.
"I do…" Toshinori said. The concern in his tone worried me. "The one on the left, that's Void Key. It's a Keyblade of the Void. The first and only of it's kind. Back in the war it was host and parasite to an artificial void, it gained consciousness and in the war inflicted so much deviation, often killing it's welders. It got so bad All Maker King personally fought and ended the entity, but an imprint of it's rage was forever left on the weapon. As far as I know it's never selected a new wilder since but in the event it did, King crafted a twin, Rise From Nothing, that would summon itself to whoever Void Key chose as a new wilder."
"Right, so apparently you have obtained two one of a kind Keyblades, the one of the left is Void Key, once a parasite and now home to it's imprinted rage…and the one on the right is Rise from Nothing, a Twin keyblade created by the All Maker King to negate the side effects of Void Key, and will appear to whoever has Void Key…"
"How do you know that?" Tony asked in surprise.
"I…how do I word this without sounding more crazy?" I said nervously.
"David Two, look at who you're surrounded by. Trust us, crazy is normal for us." Davy said.
"You were weirded out by Tony's story of why he has his daughter's soul inside of him." I frowned. "Well…for me, I also have the Soul of another person in me, or…well, they're classified as Echo's, and from what I've been told it only happens when someone goes Mad and is…killed by the Time Walkers." I admitted. "The one in my head is All Might, who was here before…all of this." I motioned to a general 'everything' here.
"Huh. Alright, cool."
I looked back over to Squeaks, Void Key seemed to suddenly gain an aura of pitch black energy, void, I realized and I swear I could hear whispers.
Squeaks put Rise From Nothing down, raised up Void Key's tip to her face so she stared it in its eye… then flicked her finger at it. The aura and whispers both stopped. "Behave…" It tried to make the aura again… and again she flicked it in the eye. "Behave you…"
This repeated a few times before it stopped, Squeaks nodding as she picked back up Rise From Nothing again and walked off.
… Somewhere I feel like a very old and powerful being is… laughing their ass off.
"Right…" I said slowly. "Just…gonna shelve this with the other things that make me pissed about being so stupidly weak…" I grumbled.
"To be fair, we don't question Squeaks." Davy said, patting me on the back. "We just accept her antic's… especially after Glub Glub…"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"And you were worried when Void Key picked her."
"N-not my fault that fucker's been a massive pain in the ass."
"Heh. Even still, she tamed it without intervention from Rise From Nothing. Just imagine, now that Rise From Nothing is also in her possession, she could become a duel user of Void and Nothingness, a rare combination in reality. She could be quite useful for you."
"Yes, she will be very useful."
"Yeah, it would be very useful, especially with what's going to happen."
"Speaking of, are you excited for the Keyblade that whiny David is going to be getting? It's the new one and it even comes with a legendary Ability just for having it. Should hopefully help them feel less inadequate compared to those five."
"I mean, when five literal gods appear, as well as the thunder pupper themselves, right out the gate be so much stronger than the guy that trained for years on end, I'd be a bit pissed to…and yes, I am excited cause the keyblade is going to be awesome."
"Heh, considering how much you'd bitch when the same happened to you back in the day, I'm not surprised you sympathize with them so easily. Still, things are going to get very interesting on Armageddon. Some of the others are watching over the two other groups as well."
"Things will get interesting, but who's watching over the other groups? Cause I'd rather not take bets again on 'who spoils the heroes the most'...well, I mean we both know who is watching over Tony and Tina…"
"Yes… that horny cunt… in any case, this will be a very interesting day tomorrow. I'm curious… none of those five have ever used even half the full extent or capabilities of their powers… and then David there… this is going to be very interesting."
That night I couldn't sleep. None of us could really. Bigs, Shift and Meg were all going to be guarding the main house, my house as all the people and such were in there.
This left me, Davy, Squeaks, and Tony as the main defense and attacking force. The four of us were sitting around a fire just… waiting.
"Really hate this…" Tony growled, pacing back and forth slowly like a predator defending his territory.
"Was this how you felt before you got sent here?" I inquired.
"Yeah…an encroaching storm…and I would be powerless to stop it…" Tony said, his fur sparking as Fulgurbugs kept collecting around him.
"... Doesn't that itch when they do that?" Davy asked.
"No actually." Tony said. "See, Fulgurbugs are an evolution to your standard Thunder bugs, as they are in a symbiotic relationship with my race, as the electric affinity Zinogre have supercharges the bugs and in turn would supercharge myself and my own combat abilities." Tony explained. "Plus, all the electricity keeps my fur clean of any bugs and bacteria, so that's always a positive."
"I get that." Davy nodded.
"Few times bugs ever bit me they usually died…" Squeaks said.
"I can confirm, fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes all died a little after biting her." Davy nodded.
"That makes sense." I nodded. "This tension though still sucks…"
"Yeah. Wish we had some drinks." Davy sighed. "Hey, you two wanna know something funny?" He asked, Tony and I giving him a raised brow. "Once, during a party, everyone there knew about my powers and such and were wondering if my regeneration would kick in if I drank a lethal amount of alcohol. So, bored and curious myself I started knocking back bottle after bottle, and eventually it did kick in. Turns out my head can ignite the high level of alcohol in my body when it does and I just explode immediately. Regeneration sober but the hangover was there." He chuckled.
"Sucks about the hangover, hangovers suck." I said honestly.
"On the bright side I make a very good explosive when wasted." Davy shrugged.
"I remember that party… that was just a little after Meg's first play." Squeaks nodded. "Was a huge success. What was it again?"
"The Epic Saga Musical."
I chuckled. "And what was this epic saga about?" I inquired.
"It follows the story of a soldier during the whole major events of the Odyssey and such. Them being picked and taught by Athena. It was a play and Musical Meg treasured very much and being able to direct and cast it meant the world to her. Course, the girl was a bit intense about it from start to finish…" Davy chuckled weakly.
"Yeah. She had us all learn instruments for that…" Squeaks said, actually shivering.
"Unless they were a slave driver about it, it might not have been too bad."
"You try learning all the various chords and keys and tones and learning to read music sheet paper for two weeks straight on minimum sleep fueled by a forced diet of energy drinks, meal supplements and a desire to see natural sunlight again before you die…" Davy said.
"Yeah…that sounds about right." I said slowly.
"Ugh, I remember someone like that…" Tony shook his head.
"Meg is a good person, but when it comes to the stage, she's rather… passionate about helping people reach their full potential. You should have seen what she put herself through." Squeaks said.
"I can imagine." I said honestly.
"That being said, she's also batshit crazy at times." Davy added.
"Which isn't surprising with all the nonsense I've learned you people get into."
"Oh no, she was nuts even before she became a Nokori…" Davy said, looking Into the fire. "I watched that woman chug thirty six Monster Energy Drinks, headbutt a four foot thick concrete wall until she broke through it, charge through a tank, ride a manticore like it was a rodeo bull and didn't stop until it died two days later, bitchslap a man to death, and then ballet dance over her would be assassin's crotch until he died from the injuries… Shift might basically embody Chaos Magic, but no one is more chaotic than Meg… and the worst… she eats Pineapple and Anchovy pizza… and I once saw her put ranch on ice cream…"
"Yeah, she's not right… also never let her cook… ever…" Squeaks added.
"Well…" I said slowly.
"Huh…" Tony said.
"Bright side, her control over Light and such let's her make hyper realistic illusions, and she uses those a lot in her shows. Saves a ton on special effects." Davy shrugged.
"If she adds density to her light constructs they can attack also." Squeaks added. "It's how her Light Weapons can hit you. She can add density and mass to light."
"Hard light Constructs." Tony nodded. "Sounds like a grand ol time."
"Her favorite constructs though are her Light Pole, and Light Mallet… The mallet is usually anywhere from the size of a car to the size of a two story building and hits just as hard when she swings it…" Davy sighed. "Not fun being on the receiving end of that… I speak from personal experience."
"Neat." I nodded.
"So, either of you two have stories to share?" Squeaks asked Tony and I.
"Eh, not really." I shrugged. "Lived a relatively plain life before I got here."
"And I doubt you want to hear plenty of my sexcapades, though for context on that whole musical thing's with someone that really wants someone to learn to play good music…yeah, try having to deal with at least part of that slave driving nonsense by a BDSM Milf."
"That sounds…both hot, and terrifying." I said nervously.
"It was a little more terrifying than hot but…yes." Tony admitted.
"Yikes…" Davy said.
"I mean, she was a master, both with instruments and BDSM…one of the few times I was scaroused the entire time." Tony admitted.
"Bet the Mind Blowing Milf sex was worth it."
"Oh you have no idea, we made sweet sweet music together." Tony chuckled warmly.
"Also seriously, how horny are you?" I just had to ask.
"Yes." Tony answered immediately.
"Yeesh. I never got that… like, at all…" Davy said.
"To which part? Plowing a sexy BDSM Milf or just my outrageous libido?" Tony inquired.
"Both… I'm Demisexual, I told you that after kicking you in the clearly well used family jewels."
"Yes, and you're still an asshole for that." Tony stated. "And that…" Tony took a deep breath…oh boy, I know that kind of deep breath, it was him deciding whether to say something that might start an argument or if he shouldn't say anything. "You literally could have been a decent person and said 'no thanks, I'm married'..." He frowned.
"Personal experience has told me people who flirt and ask for sex first don't think with their brains so I hit them where they do think, plus Shift is a former sex addict. They already fell off the wagon once and… it wasn't a good time for anyone when It came out…"
"And I didn't ask for sex first, I flirted." Tony said. "And again…you could have said 'no'."
"He didn't ask for sex first, he just did some harmless flirting." I admitted. "You went straight to violence there Davy."
"And for Shift…well, I understand what it feels…I really do…" He sighed bitterly.
"Violence is never the solution…" Davy sighed… then smirked. "It's the answer." He chuckled. "But, sorry… just… this whole reality just… I worry sometimes. I've only ever felt… attraction and romance towards someone three times in my life. It's something I don't want to… I don't want to lose it because this reality views sex so casually."
"Trust me, I understand." Tony said. "As someone so deep in the sex world, I understand what you mean, your heart is in the right place, and you are allowed to believe in it, be with the one you love and be happy with that…" Tony stated with open and caring honesty.
"But…?" I inquired.
"It's…hard to explain without sounding like a jerk, especially when at the time back on Earth before I got isekai'd the first time…I had a few to many death threats sent my way, both on the internet and in real life because of what I had to say because of my experience."
"It's alright. You don't have to explain it, we're just wired differently for that part of ourselves and that's all there really is to say about it." Davy shrugged.
"Yes." Tony nodded. "I understand where you're coming from, and I believe you have the right to do that…even if I swing both ways harder than a metronome on steroids…there is this one woman that still holds my heart…"
"Oh really? This lady holds the key to your heart? And here I thought your penis ate it long ago."
That got a chuckle out of Tony.
"Good one, but no…and I suppose holding the key to my heart isn't exactly the right phrase for it…" Tony said carefully.
"She completes you, body and soul?" I inquired.
"Yeah…more like that, and while she's also as horny as me and Tina…see, this is also why I argue there's a difference between sex and love but people still fight me on this." Tony huffed.
"That is also true." I chuckled.
"I'll admit there is a difference, but for some they consider it one in the same." Davy said.
"Which are those that fight me on this." Tony chuckled. "Oh boy…even though I'm an expert in sex it's…still hard to explain thing's sometimes, especially when it comes to stuff like this so I don't sound rude."
"Let me guess, most of the people who gave threats to you were religious?"
"No actually, not 'most'...but there were at least the more devout crazies, what I can say the 'most' are is on the other end of that nonsense…"
"Oh~, your year was in the Twenty Twenties right?"
"Twenty twenty two." Tony said honestly.
"Hm?" Davy seemed to ask.
"Oh, it was the year our Earths were." I explained.
"Yeah, it was some…big ass nonsense." Tony said sheepishly. "Global Pandemic being one huge thing that causes it to happen on every century's twentieth birthday just has to happen…"
"... Your earths sound fucked up and I come from the planet with man eating mythical monsters and shadow secret rich groups and dirty world government dealing that turned a fifth of the world population into Nokori, over one fifth of them being Failed, Evil, or Volatile. Aka, monsters…"
"At least we never dealt with a plague." Squeaks shrugged. "Just a world war."
"Oh, that almost happened when the Plague was starting." I admitted.
"Yeah, that was some bullshit." Tony shook his head. "
"Did the near genocidal countries also pull a Hitler on the sick people?" Davy asked.
"No, but we went through three variants of said virus because nobody wanted to wear a facemask." I said honestly.
"Thanks America, and thank you Trump." Tony frowned.
"Who's Trump?" Davy and Squeaks asked.
"Imagine a manchild that looks like a carrot that always fails upwards managing to become president by duping an entire political party full of stupid people." I said honestly.
"Just so he could publicize a brand new tv network that never took off." Tony added.
"Wow… sounds like an idiot." Squeaks said.
"Should a way back to our respective earths appear, can I tag along to yours to burn it to the ground?" Davy asked. "Just everything, even building foundations."
"Trust me, a lot of people would thank you for that." Tony admitted.
"Yeah…just…a lot of things need to be burned to the ground." I said sheepishly. "I mean, you don't have to take our word for it, just look at Twitter."
"Never cared for it back on my world." Davy shrugged.
"Didn't it get shut down back home?" Squeaks asked.
"Think so, think it went bankrupt or something."
"You lucky bastards." Tony groaned.
"Yeah, while we had to deal with Twitter being flooded by people from Tumblr, then it being bought out by a manchild that had a kind of decent tech company funded by his dad's emerald mine and piledrived into the ground."
"... Maybe your earths would have benefited from having various dangerous magic forests and landscapes…" Squeaks said.
"It would be awesome, but that still wouldn't change the fact that people are completely batshit insane." I frowned.
"One problem is that a disturbing amount of people believe fantasy is reality, so let's defend literal pedophiles and nazi's because they don't like fantasy stuff like us." Tony said, which made Davy and Squeaks look at him like he was batshit insane.
"He's…sadly not wrong…" I said nervously.
"... Okay, it's no longer asking, should a means to your worlds open up, I am burning them to the ground. All of them. No survivors." Davy growled.
"It will be like what you did to North Korea, but global." Squeaks said.
"Well…I mean, there are still good people, just that the 'disturbing amount' is bigger than zero…" I said nervously.
"Yeah…it's uh…it's not a good show." Tony shook his head.
"So Squeaks, what story do you have?" I asked, wanting to move past hearing our worlds getting nuked from orbit by a pissed off god.
"Well, what would you two like to hear?" She asked.
"Well, we heard something funny with Davy, heard something lewd from Tony…how about something cool from you?" I inquired.
"Not sure what to say. Aside from being purchased from the Russian orphanage when I was five, brought to Leto, turned into a Nokori and then experimented on for some years before the others all broke me out, there isn't much about my life I feel needs or deserves telling." Squeaks said. "Until I was eighteen, David, Shift, Meg and Bigs all worked to try and give me a sense of normalcy in my childhood."
"Sorry to hear that Squeaks…" I said sadly. "But…at least you have a family that cares about you all this time."
"I was very lucky to have them…" She nodded, smiling as she looked at the fire. "I don't remember much of the orphanage. I remember it was usually cold, I was often hungry, there was the scent of cigarette smoke everywhere… I didn't even have a name while I was there. They just referred to me as 'girl', or 'runt'… It was David that named me."
"Heh, to be honest I didn't think you'd want to keep it… was supposed to be a nickname or just something we could call you to get your attention since you didn't speak english or any of our other languages. It was what you responded to the most back then." Davy said.
"I remember. That's why I kept it. It's the first real name anyone gave me."
"Sometimes the simple things can be the most important when it comes to family."
"Well, you might not have much to tell, but I do." Davy said. "Raising this little monster was one of the most terrifying things any of us has ever done and that included the time I saw Silver's browser history." He shivered. "That woman was lonely and single for way too long…"
"I wasn't that bad." Squeaks said.
"Squeaks, need I remind you of Glub Glub?"
"Excuse me, Glub Glub?" I asked with a growing grin.
"Oh I need to hear this." Tony said like a gossiping teen. "Spill it."
"Well, when Squeaks was eleven she wanted a pet, thing is any animal with a flight or fight response whenever she got near them immediately chose flight, swear to god, one jumped right into moving traffic once." Davy started, making Squeaks pout. "So, one day Squeaks is messing with her powers since Null is an unknown magic and she's the only person in history with the affinity for it, and she conjures up a Null portal, and out swims this tiny little pitch black goldfish that's just swimming through the air like it's in water. She named it Glub Glub and it became her pet for a while. At first, despite being weird it was fine… until one morning we woke up to find the formerly tiny pet fish the size of a megalodon and eating the couch. Needless to say, home repairs were needed, Glub Glub was sent back to wherever the fuck it came from, and Squeaks was given a pet rock as an apology/compensation."
"Jimmy the rock died on me too you know…" Squeaks huffed.
"You threw him into the Hulda Forest yelling 'Be Free' and that Driad was just so confused!" Davy laughed.
Both me and Tony laughed. "Oh, oh please tell me she drew little wing's on Jimmy as she chucked him into the forest."
"... kinda. When she threw it, it sprouted bat wings and just… flew into the woods." Davy chuckled.
"Alright, I'll admit, that was bad…" Squeaks said, smirking a little.
"Oh, should I also bring up your first Halloween with us?"
"My first… oh, OH! Oh I forgot about that!" She said, covering her face.
"What did she do?" I asked, and while knowing this will probably be mildly traumatizing, it would probably still be adorable.
"Okay, so this happened a while after we found her and Meg and we all got settled into a routine and eventually Halloween comes along. This is Squeaks first Halloween ever so we're all working overtime to make it the best for her. I'm talking Halloween Town, Scary God Mother, both playing whenever, carved pumpkins, various decorations, even Silver got in on it to help. So we take Squeaks and some of Silver's kids and we all go Trick or Treating. First few houses, all fine, they love her little witch costume… then we come across this one house. The owners were being racist. Now, normally I'd burn down this house with them inside but there are children present and I picked a really bad year to dress as a scarecrow, so I'm expecting Yuri and Leon, two of Silver's kids and trouble makers to get their mischief on… no. Squeaks kicked the door down, looked the people dead in the eyes and walked up to them and took the candy bowl. They tried to stop her once the shock wore off… Squeaks turned her head a full one eighty, audible pops and cracks. They scream, she turns it another one eighty, full three sixty back around then walked up to the others and offers them some of the candy too."
"The spirit of halloween has come to your doorstep, and they want candy." I laughed.
"My horror show can't be this cute." Tony laughed.
"Several of the kids, Silver included, kinda threw up once they processed she did that. Squeaks was just… oblivious to what she did. Needless to say, that was a very good halloween." Davy laughed.
"I can do it on command now." Squeaks said, demonstrating as her head spun around like the devil itself possessed her and it spun around completely three times, audible sounds of breaking bones and snapping meat were heard before she stopped. "It makes a great party trick, especially if everyone else has been drinking a bit too much. Or a fun way to scare off bible thumpers."
"Yeah that fits." I nodded.
"Then there was her Undertale phase." Davy smirked.
Squeaks actually blushed!
"I need to know this." Tony said. "What was her Undertale phase? Please tell me she had a Sans plushie."
"If we're going with what she normally does, either Flowey or Chara would fit better…but was it Papyrus?" I asked, looking over and seeing Squeaks cover her face, as I wasn't sure if it was because of our guesses or just the topic.
"... Napstablook." Davy said.
"Okay…our guesses were awful, but that's actually adorable." Tony said honestly.
"Her first crush and it was a shy ghost." Davy chuckled. "Oh the fan art she drew, the merchandise she bought… the fanfiction she wrote…"
"You said you never looked!" Squeaks… squeaked!
"Oh honey, it was adorable. Cute little romantic fluff." Davy said, getting some whacks from his adopted daughter.
"How can you be this adorable and yet so terrifying?" Tony asked.
"Because the power of cute, that's why." I chuckled.
"I was fourteen…" Squeaks groaned.
"And for being a teenage author it was well written." Davy said, patting her on the back.
"Given how often I spent at Auntie Silver's place and hung around Evy, if I didn't learn to write as well as I read I'd have probably been more embarrassed…"
"Well…yeah that sounds about right."
"And then there was prom." Davy added.
"Oh, that was a night no one forgot." Squeaks added, laughing darkly.
"What did you do?"
"Okay, so imagine all the students having set up an Enchanted Forest themed dance… so this little laws of nature defying thing somehow manages to bring in actual creatures and plants from the Hulda Forest… and surprisingly no one died." Davy said.
"Heh, it wasn't that bad." Squeaks shrugged.
"Girl you brought a baby Manticore, a hatchling Hydra, a Flesh Eating tree, a Gnome, a Spotted Rattle Tale Jaguar, and fucking Druid to the Prom to act as both the entertainment and to announce the king and queen."
"Well…that's uh…quite a prom." I said honestly.
"And that was without a date." She chuckled.
"You did turn a few people down." Davy said.
"Eh, not getting a date is fine." Tony shrugged.
"Though I'm sure if we're lucky we can meet Napstablook in person." I added. "Cause this world is fantasy made reality, so anything's possible."
"Har har." Squeaks said, though she was smiling.
"While partly a joke, I am being serious here." I said honestly. "So far I've personally experienced Team Fortress 2, Kingdom Hearts, and the SCP Foundation…well, and Bioshock in my life in this amazing and crazy place."
"I'm aware, but I was fourteen and it was a phase. I still find the ghost adorable but I wouldn't want a relationship with them."
"... Wanna see something cool?" Davy asked us.
"Sure." I nodded.
With that, Davy looked up, and around. "Keep an eye on… that tree." He said. In the distance, I could make out the silhouette of a tree. Davy raised his hand up, two fingers pressed together and as he snapped, the tree burst into a bright flame from mid trunk to leaves and branches.
"Neat." I nodded.
"It's called Remote Detention. Basically I let my magic travel to a place within my line of sight and once it's there I trigger it to set off a spark, creating fire or even explosions. I can do it if I have a good enough mental map of an area and can figure out where a target is outside my line of sight I can accomplish the same result. I usually prefer my line of sight though. It's easier, and my eyes are only outdone by my sense of smell."
"The nose knows after all." Tony nodded.
"Yeah, it's how I knew you just appeared back in the Rapture Dungeon when David Two and I were down there." Davy said, putting his fingers back together. "It's been a useful set of skills… even back when I was still learning them… it was hard to sneak up on me."
He snapped his fingers, the explosion in the distance behind him about knocked me over.
Standing up, the flames all around the place lit up the area, showing the skeletal body of a bipedal being with animal traits and biology.
"I'd say it's early, but it's already Midnight…" Squeaks said as she and Davy stood up.
The skeletons' flesh and organs regenerated rapidly. It looked a mix of reptilian and canine, a scaled hide across its neck, torso and long tail that ended in a stinger. Four wings regrew and flared out, the arms and legs regrew a dark blue fur as did the head, their face resembling something between a fox with six ears and a snake pair of eyes as its slit reptilian eyes glared at us.
"Glad I wasn't the only one to notice." Tony said getting up and preparing himself for a fight, their fur starting to stand on end but also starting to form ice crystals which I found mildly curious.
"Try and hit it with ranged attacks Squeaks, Tony, mid range if you can." Davy said as he pulled out that machete. It glowed white hot then in a burst of flames turned into a flaming sword of biblical depiction. "Time to show me what you can do, David Two."
With that Davy was already next to the enemy, swinging down on it and the creature catching his blade between its hands before kicking him back.
"Right…" I thought to myself, activating Full Cowling and Engines, as I vanished with Recipro Burst, pulling out Starlight and using both Harden and Steel on both my body and Starlight to give it extra durability as I swung straight into the bastard's midsection.
The creature ducked, their body giving sickening cracks and pops as it bent back in an unnatural way to dodge the attack.
Tony shot off blasts of electricity, they hit but didn't seem to do much as it simply shot electricity back at him, the wolf yelping from the impact and being sent crashing into some trees.
Davy popped back in, swinging down on the target, who again bent their body In a sickening crack and tearing noise as it then grabbed the both of us and tossed us over and onto Tony.
Bursting from the ground appeared a giant Skeletal hand that grabbed the thing, I looked to see Squeaks, her hands covered in void as she seemed to be controlling the hand and trying to crush it.
It broke out, breaking a finger on the giant skeleton hand before dropping. Squeaks yelled as I noticed the same finger on her hand was broken in the same way.
"Anyone else feel like this fucker is a DC villain… that one that can contort his body and such?" Davy asked as we got back up. "What was their name?"
"Gotta be a bit more specific there, cause there are a lot of characters with weird flexibility." Tony said, firing off more lightning.
"If we're talking about Plastic Man than we'd be fucked eight ways to sunday." I said.
"No, the fucker that was like, a thief that fought batman and I think stole from Catwoman too?" Davy said as he pulled up the forty five, it glowed white hot and changed, growing a bit larger and then before and when he shot it, it sounded like a cannon going off as the projectile blasted near the enemy. The explosion knocking them over at least.
"Problem with Batman is that his rouge's gallery is too fucking big." I commented, using this moment to swing at them again while they were dazed from being knocked back.
"Ugh, this is why I think DC is bullshit…" Davy said as he was on the other end of the enemy, the two of us taking a swing only for it to grab our weapons, pulling them and slamming us against one another before kicking us both into more trees. "Marvel, now they have a cast of memorable villains." He groaned as we started getting back up.
"Y-yeah…" I coughed, getting back up and thankful that I upgraded Steel and Harden this much that I didn't get too hurt. "Marvel is better."
Tony charged in at the creature, ready to bite down on them. They grabbed his upper and lower jaw, and tore him in half before tossing his body aside. Ice was already forming around him.
"Ouch, he's gonna feel that for a while…" Davy said as he fired off more Embument charged gunshots
"Well…shit…" I said worriedly, now having to be extra careful because I am oh so not immortal.
Another Skeletal hand burst from the ground, Squeaks using it to swipe the creature and knock them back.
Davy rushed ahead, trying to swing at this thing.
Damn it, even with Generation having been going for a while, what do I do?
"Come on…I have all these quirks, Generation has been going on for hours…" I thought to myself, trying to figure out something, as I dashed forward using Dark Shadow as it managed to slash at it's legs as I stabbed in a downward angle to get it even if it dodged.
To my surprise, I managed to land a hit, the tip of my keyblade bounced off its chest. For a brief second though… I swore I saw a… lock appear over its chest. Even if it was just for a moment… I saw it.
It reacted, spinning and kicking my-
Crack!
My arm broke in two, and the impact force knocked me across the ground. Shit! Okay, shit!
That lock… despite this pain that's it, that Lock!
"Guys! Use your Keyblade, if you see a Lock try and unlock it!" I said, using Creation to create a healing potion and downing it, feeling my arm regenerate the damage as I tried to hit the bastard again with Starlight to try and find the Lock again.
Without saying a word Davy, Squeaks and Tony, who was back and in one piece again, all summoned their Keyblades and charged at the monster.
"Hey! That fucking hurt!" Tony yelled as he swung, a blast of lightning supercharging along the blade as he managed a hit. I saw the lock appear again as it went flying.
Squeaks then appeared where it landed. "I'm normally not one for swords, that being said," She started, swinging both and slamming into it, sending it flying back again. "Never to late to learn."
Davy wasted no time charging at it, pointing both keyblades tips at it. They impacted on the chest. The lock appeared again, and shattered.
The creature took several steps back, staggering before collapsing onto its back.
Erupting from it's chest, I saw black and green energy flow out of it and swirl around until it formed a sphere of ones and zeroes… code?
"It's good to see you're still as strong as ever David." The code spoke, a monotone voice that dripped with… coldness.
"... Alex…" Davy said.
"Uh…what the fuck…?" I said nervously. "How do you know Code?"
"I learned a lot in my time in this reality, and I'm still learning with each and every day. Such vast and endless knowledge, if I knew a fraction of what I know now back then… did you enjoy the test? ZK-0422 is part of a very special batch I created recently. Powerful, obedient, near Invincible, and disposable." Alex said.
"Still kidnapping people to make your toys?" Davy asked through grit teeth.
"Oh no, I've far moved beyond the need for living subjects. I can just craft the cells and bodies piece by piece. Empty bodies with no minds, no hearts or souls make obedient and rapidly replaceable test subjects."
"Well…shit…" I said carefully. "So…did you put the Lock in there on purpose for our little 'meeting' or was that just an accident?"
"It's a safety measure. Keeps the code from leaking, despite what I can accomplish I'm still a beginner with Code, not an easy power to learn but what I can do, performed well enough against the four of you."
"I mean, when your hobby is fighting five god level beings, I'd be disappointed if you sent something that fell over to me and Tony who are nowhere close to that kind of power." I said, even though I knew Davy and Squeaks weren't going all out against the thing.
"Ah yes, you two were an unexpected variable. Still, you two preformed rather intriguingly against ZK-0422. Might just be worth testing you two as well if you insist on cohabitating with Subjects one through five."
"Is there a point or are you just talking to talk?" Davy snapped.
"I thought you'd like to catch up, after all you used to love listening to me talk David."
Davy bolted, I saw both his Keyblades glowed red hot, bursting in flames as he struck onto the sphere of code. His wings caught fire as well and then, a crack. He sliced the code sphere in half, and the energy faded away as the flames and lights show died down.
Squeaks walked over, giving Davy a hug.
"Well…that could have gone better…" I said carefully, as Tony carefully walked over to the body and lightly poked it with Leopardus to see if it was still alive.
I walked over, kneeling down and looking at the Nokori body. It was breathing, and it's eyes opened but they looked… dull and empty.
… An empty body. Alive and nothing else… no soul, mind or heart…
I used Scan.
[Scan Complete!
Name: N/A
Race: Nokori
Age: N/A
Gender: Male]
"Right…so does anyone have a spare soul lying around?" I inquired.
"I doubt that's something that someone just has…" Davy said, he and Squeaks walked over to us. "What should we do with… Ah, Ragdoll! That was the fuckers name! So what should we do with Ragdoll here?"
"Well, currently he's alive but…without anything to make him live." I said, trying to think of how we could do this. "And who knows what Greed has to sell, they could have a soul machine just laying around somewhere."
"Ah yes, the latest model of soul, fresh off the assembly line." Davy chuckled. "Even if they did I doubt they'd sell the whole machine…"
"Maybe we can… uh, David Two, your keyblade is doing a thing." Squeaks pointed out.
I looked at Starlight, that started to glow with light that was only growing in brightness.
"Uh…okay?" I said nervously. "What is going on now?"
"Your true Keyblade is coming!" Toshinori said.
The light shined brighter and brighter, nearly blinding me before it faded. In my hand where Starlight was now I gripped a whole new Keyblade. The tip looked akin to a set of doors, one was wide open as a white flowing energy of sorts with dots of pink orbs with little hearts in them flowed out, forming the teeth and the blade. The handguard and grip of it was shaped like the Kingdom Key, the keychain at the end was that of a heart surrounded by a white light.
[Notice! Starlight has returned to Kingdom Hearts.
Keyblade, To Be Made Whole, has chosen you as its wilder!
Notice! To Be Made Whole comes with the Legendary Equipment Ability, Restore Life.
Stats:
Att: 20
Def: 14
Mag: 17
Ability: Restore Life - Using a large quantity of energy, you can give an empty vessel what it needs to be alive or create a new missing soul or heart for a being lacking them.]
"Well…that's…convenient." I said honestly. "Alright, cool…so let's try it out." I said, gently putting the tip of the blade on top of the Nokori's chest and tried activating Restore Life, given I probably had enough energy with Generation to do what was needed.
Immediately it felt like… my hand became fused to the grip, I felt like it was a vacuum sucking all the energy it could from me. The Keyblade then began sending a pulsating energy into the Nokori's body.
The sensation lasted for a bit… then started again.
[Notice! Unique Soul Creation Required!
Scanning Inventory for applicable Object to Infuse with Soul.]
Wow, guess that whole fusion thing is important even like this…
[Object found! Use Object, Enchanted Backpack, for fusion?
Yes?
No?]
Enchanted… right! That was the backpack I used… when I first got here… that was forever ago…
Yes.
[Accepted! Generating Soul. Fusing Magical Object…]
The energy within the blade shot Into the body, and that was that.
"... The fuck was that?" Davy asked.
"That…was Restore Life…" I said, trying to stand up…but I fell to my knees as I felt exhausted. "Okay…even with Generation…this thing takes a lot out of me…"
"I'd imagine making a soul and heart isn't easy…" Squeaks said.
The Nokori began to stir. They sat up and looked at all of us. Their eyes looked far less hollow and they appeared to look less reptilian now and were emerald green.
"Uh, hey…" Davy said, kneeling down next to them. "Can you speak?" He asked, the Nokori tilted their head in confusion at him. "Probably a no… guess a soul and heart doesn't equal having a mind or… memories…" He sighed. "Your name is Ragdoll."
Tony chuckled.
"R-right…" I sighed. "Well…it's a good thing we have Miss J to teach him everything he needs." I said honestly.
"Who?" Davy asked.
"Wait, you're talking about the SCP?" Tony asked in surprise.
"Yeah, so Miss J is a sentient AI in those 'school time learning' disks, she is super smart and can help teach anyone anything in a matter of days, it's how I learned how to use Creation really well…just haven't fully had time to test it out half the time."
"Weird… but useful." Davy shrugged. "Come on, can you stand?" He asked Ragdoll, helping them stand. They had legs more akin to Meg and Squeaks, animal like, and took a bit to get some footing before finding their balance. "There you go."
"Hey Davy…" Tony spoke up. "When… Alex was talking, why did he emphasize-"
"It was a long time ago…" Davy said, cutting Tony off. "It's late. Let's just get to bed." He said, helping Ragdoll walk along towards his place.
Squeaks sighed.
"Did he?" I asked Squeaks, not needing a super intelligence quirk to put context clues together in this situation.
"... Yeah." She nodded.
"Well…shit…" Tony sighed.
"Yeah…he'll tell us in his own time." I sighed, looking down at my new Keyblade…To Be Made Whole…"At least…things will get better from now on."