Evangelion: You Shall (not) Win This Time

03: This Is (not) As Easy as Cross Fit

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Morning had come at last as the scent of french toast, scrambled eggs, and apple wood smoked bacon filled the air, waking me from my meditation induced sleep. Which of course makes walk into the kitchen to see that Wynn, the "Eria" look alike, and the "Lyna/Mila" look alike were cooking up a storm. And thank god that they were, cause I was feeling pretty hungry right then and there (which I can't entirely blame on the Saiyan DNA, we humans have needs too). The three were somewhat in shock as I pretty much began to wolf down everything that they set out for me. Of course seeing this causes "Lyna/Mila" to pipe up about it, and I commend her for it.

"Wow, I've never seen anyone eat so much so fast before. Where does it all go?"

Hearing that makes me look up from my meal and say to her "Honestly, sometimes I don't know where it goes myself, and consider it a statement that I truly appreciate your cooking, girls. Seriously, this stuff is really well done, like, top rated diner quality stuff right here. Give yourselves a pat on the back for this stuff."

They were nothing short of awestruck as I had managed to finish like, 6 plates worth of everything by the time I was done, slumping back into my chair in satisfaction.

"S-sir, w-w-would you like y-your schedule for the day?"

I look up at Wynn with a face telling her that I was at least trying to be a nice who knew what he was doing as I replied "No need, I got all the details in my mind. First thing I have to do today is attend a meeting with an official to oversee the defenses that the JDSF will be using before the EVAs can be deployed, and I have another meeting afterwards with the head Major of field operations, Misato Katsuragi to discuss my involvements with NERV during our stay here."

The "Eria" look alike (I really got to learn their names at some point) chimed in about the matter by asking "Do you know exactly where you're supposed to meet 'em?"

To which I respond "I have the coordinates written down on a slip of paper, I'll just have the limo driver program them into the GPS before we leave for each stop."

They clear my stuff before getting things together for what they planned on eating this morning as I got up out of the chair to get ready for the day's events.

"Alright ladies, I gotta get ready to go out. Do you guys think you can take care of things around here while I'm away?"

The three of 'em simply nod yes before I step into the master bathroom to freshen up for the day. Of course I had to sneak a red sleeveless tee shirt and black sweatpants under the tan three piece suit I was wearing, and I had to hide a pair of black and grey slip on sneakers (I don't have time for laces, people) inside my suitcase. But once I took care of all of that, I was ready for meet with Mura for my first training session. The three maids see me off as I get in the limo and have the driver take me to the location where I was to inspect the JDSF defenses first before we drove off into the hustle and bustle of the big city. I knew that the drive to our first destination would take at least 30-45 minutes, which gave me some more time to read up on the basics of Warper energy manipulation, thanks again to "Beginner's Energy Manipulation for Dummies" (sure, I could have started working on stuff like Chakra control, but I wanted to deal with the most common form of energy used by Warpers, Ki first). The defenses that the JDSF had in place were pretty impressive...IF they were just trying to stop a normal army from taking the city, but it was nowhere near ready to fight an angel. 30 VTOLs, heavy artillery mounted all over the hillsides, and a freaking N2 rocket ready for launch should the need arise for it, these guys were ready for war. A losing war, but still. I try and think up of ways that I could probably get stuff off Merch to help build up the city's anti-angel defenses so they'd at least have some effect on the angel before the EVAs could step in and serve as a distraction while I shoot 'em down with my custom Unmaker once Rick was done with it, that is until the defense commander for the city approaches me.

"I take it that you don't think it will be enough to handle protecting the city, do you, sir?"

I turn my head in his direction before replying "Frankly, not for what I feel we'll have to face in the coming months. However, I think I do know a few people who can help bring this place up to my standards for what I expect."

The guy just looks at me funny before saying "Dare I ask who they are, sir? We already have the top military contractors in the world working on defending the city, how can we do better than this?"

"Let's just say that I know some of the hottest young minds in the field of national defense, and they're just itching to have their efforts be used by a major world power. Just leave all of that to me, and I'm sure they can make these fortifications a true force to be reckoned with."

He then salutes me before responding "Right, sir. I probably shouldn't doubt you, considering that you are the US representative of these operations."

"At ease, soldier."

Well, that was easier then expected, but now the hard part of my day was about to begin. My meeting with Major Katsuragi wasn't gonna be until late in the afternoon at the very earliest, depending on how drunk she was last night, which meant that I could skip to the start of my Warper training with Mura for the time being. I have the driver take me to the center of town where she and I had agreed to meet during the ride to the JDSF installation via phone call before I find her sitting in front of a fountain using they physical human disguise she said she would be using.

"Glad you finally showed up, I've been waiting here for about an hour."

"I couldn't help it, the meeting with the JDSF ran longer than I expected with the inclusion of the trip to the destination. Anyways, I'm here now, so where are we gonna go and train? I highly doubt doing it here would be easy since we would most likely draw attention to ourselves from civilians."

"You bring that portal gun that I asked you to?"

I nodded yes, but I didn't wanna show it to her since we were still in a heavily populated area before she replies "Good. Follow me, and we can get started."

We head into an empty alley way before she gestures me to hand over my portal gun, which I do before she locks in a destination and fires it off to create a portal that we go through. Were we end up could only be described as desert, and nothing but desert for miles with massive craters blasted into the ground all around.

"I get not wanting to harm civilians, but what's with this place? Is this some sort of Warper training ground or something?"

She responds to me "Nope, there aren't that many Warpers who train here without specifically having access to Spiral Energy like you do, which is why we're here."

That's when it hit me: we were in a version of Gurren Lagann so I could learn how to mix Ki and Spiral Energy together to further boost my powers...or something like that. There was one thing bugging me about this though.

"Wait, shouldn't we be worried about striking some underground village by mistake?"

"Nah, according to the coordinates that I put in, we should be here during the seven year time skip between the end of the Beastmen war and the start of the fight against the Anti-Spirals, so most humans should be relocating to the surface under Simon and Nia's leadership."

You know I had to ask to make sure my theory on why we were here was right, so I go "So, we're here so you can help me learn how to really use Spiral Energy to boost my powers?"

Which she replies by saying "In a way, yes. However, I don't know much about Spiral Energy, so we're gonna have to go find someone who knows how to use it to help with your training. And I think I know just where to go to find them."

I try to think of who we could go to in this universe who would have any idea on how to use Spiral Energy outside of a Gunmen during this point in the series. Lord Genome wouldn't be an option considering that Simon and Nia finished him off, pretty sure that Viral wouldn't be willing to help out a human, or at least third human during this time period, Kamina was long dead, Yoko would probably be more into the science aspect of it than its use in martial arts, so that only left Simon and Nia, but I doubt that either of them were any good at using it during this point in time either. Mura winds up guiding me into the center of a crater before facing me and saying "This looks like a good spot for you to learn about energy signature location."

"Energy signature location?"

Mura then explains the concept to me as she goes "Energy signature location is the ability to keep track of either one person or multiple people through their Ki, Chakra, Haki, in your case Spiral Energy, and other forms of energy used by powerful warriors. This is a mental skill that all Warpers should know, and can be easily learned through prolonged periods of mediation over an undetermined amount of time based on the adaptability of the person in general."

Yeah, I wasn't getting any of this, like, at all.

"I'm sorry, could I get that in English please?"

Mura just looks at me with a snide look before responding to me "Bottom line: if you can figure out how to do things easily with less time than other people would, you can learn how to do this a whole lot faster so we can get down to the good stuff."

"That actually makes more sense. Alright, let's get cracking."

She then instructs me to sit down in lotus position and close my eyes, emptying every thought that didn't need to be there so I could focus only on what truly mattered at that moment: finding a strong human Spiral Energy signature. It wasn't much good though, as I had only found a few weaker energy signatures from a nearby underground village that was in the midst of moving to the surface. I knew that she wasn't gonna let me give up without a fight, so I decide to keep trying until I manage to find something of interest.

"Call me a liar if you want, but I think I just picked up a few pretty strong energy signatures from within a nearby city, and they seem organic rather then mechanical."

"Good. Follow the signatures, and we just might be able to find my Spiral Energy teacher's aids today."

She then takes off into the air before realizing a little something that's kinda important: me not being able to fly yet.

"Oh right, I haven't taught you how to fly yet, haven't I? Oh well, not time like the present I suppose. And besides, I think those signatures you picked up can wait a little bit."

She lands right in front of me before going "Now, the key to using your Ki to fly is pretty simple: all you really have to do is focus your energy on levitating your body off of the ground. From there, flying's a cinch. Now then, I want you to do what you did when you found those Spiral Energy signatures, but this time I want you to focus on lifting your body off of the ground without using any physical effort."

Well, I was able to do what she wanted me to do the first time, so this was worth a shot. I get back into lotus position before closing my eyes and focus on getting my body off of the ground without actually physically moving it. It takes me a while to figure things out, but after about 20 minutes or so, I can't even feel the ground I was sitting on anymore. That's when I opened my eyes to see that I wasn't even sitting on the ground at all anymore, I was floating in the air by a few inches.

"Not a bad start, but you'll still have to keep focusing if you really want to fly like me."

I pretty much took that as a challenge because a few more minutes of focus, and I was doing something that we've all dreamed of doing during at least one point in all our lives (don't deny it, you wanted to do this too at some point): flying around in the sky like a crazed lunatic, and it. Was. Awesome...that is until I lost focus and faceplanted into a nearby lake (this was my first time flying, people. Don't judge me). Luckily, I was able to swim out before I look up to see Mura with a somewhat concerned look on her face.

"Okay, I guess that was a pretty good first try. But just so we can make sure you got this, let's focus on being able to jump extreme distances using your Ki first. Ever see that one episode of Samurai Jack where he trains with monkey Gs so he can learn how to "jump good"?"

I had to think about it since it had been a while since I had seen an episode of Samurai Jack, and I was struck with dimensional lighting before season 5 premiered before I finally remembered the gist of that particular episode, thanks to a RebelTaxi video of all things.

"I vaguely remember that particular episode."

"Good, because that's basically what you're gonna learn how to do."

She then points to a far off hill before saying "See that hill?"

I nod yes before she continues by going "I want you to focus your energy into leaping from here to the top of that hill. Just remember not to either overshoot it or not channel enough, or you're gonna probably be faceplanting a lot. Got it?"

I get what she's going for as I try to focus on landing straight on top of the far off hill, which I manage to do...after about 30-40 tries of either overshooting it, or just landing on my face mere inches from the actual hill itself.

"Not bad for a rookie. A little more practice with Ki jumping, and I think you'll be ready to try flying again."

"Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna be doing any more flying for a little while. For right now, I'll just stick with the long jumping."

Mura playfully replies to my remark by going "Oh, don't be like that. Now come on, let's go find those energy signatures you sensed."

"Alright, but we'll need to head back to town soon, I still have a meeting with one of the main NERV officials later today."

Mura then responds to this by saying "Alright, alright. We'll introduce ourselves to 'em and ask 'em to help train you, then we can go back to town so you can deal with your NERV stuff. Deal?"

"Deal."

She flies at a slower pace in order to let me keep up with her while I practice my Ki jumping until we reach the area that I had sensed the Spiral Energy signatures: a budding version of Kamina City, not as big as it would become after the time skip, but still pretty big in its current state. Even though most of the humans that had came up from underground and a good portion of the resistance fighters were currently hard at work building up the city into the massive structure it would eventually become, but there were still people out and about, enjoying their newfound freedom from the Beastmen and Lord Genome. The female Majin and I look around and take in the sights that were being offered before she turns to me and goes "Okay, we're in the city, now all we have to do is find whoever those energy signatures you found belong to. Think you can concentrate on finding 'em in this dense crowd?"

I close my eyes and try to concentrate on just where we could find who we're looking for until I manage to find 'em, pointing towards the large tower in the center of the city.

"There, in that tower, that's where we'll find 'em."

To avoid any more unusual glances from people then needed, we decided to walk to the center of town, where the massive Parliament tower resided before stepping into the giant structure. Well, I could easily say that where we were gonna find my Spiral Energy teachers was nothing short of insanely advanced technology wise, considering that the main lobby you step into upon entry was lined with holographic projections and moving screens you could walk through. Things were going pretty smoothly if I said so myself...at least until we reached the receptionist's desk.

"I'm sorry, but you can't go beyond this point without having an appointment first."

Dammit, bureaucracy: my old arch-nemesis rears its ugly head to foil my day once again. We had to think fast, knowing that we just couldn't barge in and cause a scene to a bunch of level 3 Warpers who didn't even know they were fictional yet since it would only cause more problems then it would solve. Well, when all else fails, you just have to play along...at least for now.

"Which is exactly why we're here, we need to make an appointment with a few people about some real confidential stuff. So if you could just let us through, we can make the formal arrangements with them personally."

I wasn't expecting the receptionist to buy it, and they didn't.

"Nice try, but to make an appointment, you got to go through the process first. Now, who exactly are you trying to reach out to?"

Of course we just had to hit another roadblock by not knowing who exactly we had in mind, which meant that we were pretty much caught in a dead end...at least that's what I thought until they came down to the lobby from a nearby elevator. I couldn't believe what I was seeing: 15 year old versions of Simon and Nia walking out of the elevator, but that wasn't all: I could sense it, they were the Spiral Energy signatures that I had picked up earlier.

"Hey. Uh, could you take care of things while Nia and I are out? She wants to grab some ingredients for dinner tonight, and I said that I'd go with her."

"Right away, sir, after I deal with these two."

The Spiral princess and the digger who pierced the heavens looked at me and Mura before Nia goes "I'm guessing you two are new to town, right? Is there anything we can do to help?"

There it was: the golden opportunity that we needed.

"Actually, yes. I need to make an appointment with you two along with the other members of Team Dai-Gurren about an important subject, and we were hoping we could get in at your earliest time tomorrow, but we could meet with you the day after if that would be acceptable."

To which Simon replies "I don't think tomorrow would work out for the whole team, but we can meet with you the day after if that's alright with you."

I was more than happy to take what I could get as I replied "That would be just fine. Thank you."

With our mission of the day accomplished, Mura and I step out of Parliament tower, discussing our next move.

"Alright, we got 'em to meet with you in two days, hopefully we can get 'em to help train you, but in the meantime, you and I are gonna go over some Ki basics, with a little bit of sparring between you and me for good measure."

Not even knowing what I was in for, I reply "I can work with that, considering that I'm gonna need as much training as I can get for what I have planned."

"Good. Now then, I believe you have a meeting to get to. What say you we reconvene once it's done for a little bit of sparing to end the day?"

"Sure, why not? We better hurry though, I'm gonna have to be there pretty soon."

Mura shoots off the portal gun again and gets us back to Tokyo 3 safely. However, she wasn't quite ready to let me have it back yet.

"I'll just hold on to this for a little bit. You can have it back when today's training is over."

"Riiiiiiight." (yeah, I didn't really trust her that much at the moment after saying that.)

Be that as it may, I didn't have time to argue, as I just met back up with the limo driver and got back on the road in order to meet with Misato. I wasn't too surprised that she chose to meet with me somewhere business casual like the cafe/bistro that the limo driver stopped at to drop me off, but hey, at least it wasn't a biker bar. I manage to find the violet haired Misato who was gesturing me to come over to where she was sitting, which I do.

"Major Katsuragi, I presume?"

I get responded to with her going "The one and only. So, you're the new overseer that the UN sent to keep tabs on us? I gotta say, I'm a little flattered that they would pay that much attention to our little old organization."

I chose to play my role to the calmest of my abilities and go "Well, with something as important as "Project E" being handled mostly by your particular branch of NERV, we had to at least have somebody make sure that things were going as smoothly as possible, and make sure that Commander Ikari doesn't get full of himself, thinking that he can do whatever the hell he wants with our money and our machines. Now, I don't think I'm stepping on anyone's toes when I say that your commander isn't to well liked among the majority of the UN council members, if not outright hated."

"Yeah, between you and me, he can be a real pain in the ass sometimes, but you probably would be too if you were in charge of humanity's last line of defense against possible world ending threats."

The waiter then comes and takes our orders, I chose to try out their Porterhouse Steak cooked well done with a cola to wash it down while Misato orders the pasta al dente...with a Bloody Mary as her choice of drink.

I had to ask her "Uh, don't you still have to drive places? I know it's 5:00 somewhere, but you know."

The response I got: "Relax, I took a cab here since my car is in the shop for inspection. I'll be fine just as long as I don't drink too much."

I suppose it could have been worse, she could have ordered a pitcher of beer and drank it all in one go. Our food and drink come shortly afterwards, and I manage to get through my 16 ounce steak rather quickly, much to Misato's surprise.

"Yeesh, did you even taste it?"

To which I reply "Yes I did, and personally, I think they did a pretty good job with searing it just right. You can tell that it was well done, just like I had ordered it."

The rest of lunch goes rather smoothly as we discuss my involvement with the Evangelions, and how NERV wanted me to have an organization appointed secretary to help keep me up to date on NERV affairs (more so because Gendo probably wanted to keep tabs on me). Once everything was all settled for the day, I rejoin Mura to get in a little more training, who I manage to find easily thanks to having learned Ki sensing with her.

"So, how'd it go?"

I'm actually kinda surprised that she would take interest in my affairs with the organization that I was planning on bringing to its knees, but being the person that my parents raised me to be, I respond to her question by going "I think it went pretty okay. Misato didn't pry too much into my personal life, and we mainly just talked about what I was going to be doing with the organization, and how they wanted me to have a personal secretary. Though I'm pretty sure the whole secretary thing is just a ploy so Gendo can keep tabs on me. Wouldn't blame him though."

"Well I hoped you enjoyed your little breather, because now we start training real hard."

She then fires off the portal gun to bring us back to the Gurren Lagann world, except this time, we were far away from Kamina City.

"Mastering Ki isn't just a mental game, there's also a physical aspect to it. But I probably bet you knew that already, having came from Earth Prime."

She wasn't wrong, you know. Having access to stuff like Wikis and episodes of Death Battle kinda gave me all the base knowledge of the subject that I had before hitting the books on how to actually do it. Then it only took another three seconds to figure out that I was in for a major ass kicking.

"But to make things a little easier for you since this is your first day of official Warper training, I'll make you a deal: you manage to land even a single blow on me, just one, then we're done for the day. However, it seems only fair to warn you that my max power level happens to be 3,000,000, so I doubt that it's gonna end that quickly."

Jeezum freaking crow, three million?! Now I know that I'm in for the mother of all ass kickings. Well, no use in resisting since there was most likely no way that she was gonna let me out of it without a fight, so I get into a defensive stance before she charges at me with a series of swift strikes that send me flat on my ass.

"That's it? Come on, I expect a lot more from a level 10, considering that you people can become more or less gods among Warpers. Get back up and let's do this again. And remember, you manage to land a single blow on me, then we can call it quits for the day."

What can only ensue is a montage of me getting the crap beaten out of me, getting back up, and getting my ass handed to me again. A cycle which goes on for a full two hours before I finally land a hit on her with a lucky blow to the stomach. I wind up lying on my back with my whole body aching from all of the repeated ass whoopings as Mura looks down at me in surprise.

"Wow, it took that long for you to land a blow on me, huh? I gotta admit that you did manage to still do it earlier than I expected. I was either expecting you to collapse from exhaustion, or us being at this all night, but this works too."

She then pulls something out of one of her pockets before dropping it onto my chest and saying "You might wanna eat that, it'll patch you up fully as if you never got your ass handed to you in the first place."

Hearing her say that almost instantly made me realize that she just gave me a ticket to instant recovery: a Senzu Bean, which I use what strength that I had left to grab the damn thing and place it into my mouth before chewing it up and sending it down my gullet. She was right when she said it would patch me up as I almost instantly feel like I never took a punch to the face repeatedly, or gut, or boy bags before getting back on my feet with my full power restored, only to see that Mura had her scouter out again while checking me out with it.

"Uh, I thought that we went over my power level when we first met."

To which she responds by going "I know, but I just wanted to check something."

The violet lenses device beeped before the female Majin spoke up and said "Just as I suspected, the amount of Saiyan DNA you obtained when you were struck with dimensional lightning gave you an ability known as the Zenkai Boost. I assume that you know what that particular skill does to you, right?"

Of course I knew what the basics of it were, but not wanting to sound stupid in front of someone who just beat the living crap out of me, I reply "If I'm not mistaken, the basic point would be that when a Saiyan is injured in battle and is able to fully recover, their power level is allowed to increase exponentially, eventually allowing them to gain the upper hand in battle with enough training."

Which she responds to me by saying "That's pretty much the gist of it, and judging from the readings that I just got, it seems that you having access to Spiral Energy is affecting the efficiency of your Zenkai Boost ability by increasing the amount your power level would normally increase."

Being curious about my current stats, I chose to ask "So, what power level am I at now?"

The Majin replies "About 76-7700. Give or take."

Hearing that my power level had spiked that much in only one day's worth of training and having my ass handed to me by someone who was obviously holding back as to not kill me was actually kinda surprising. But the ass kicking still hurt like hell though.

"Well, a deals a deal, I guess we're done training for the day. However, just because we're done with training your body doesn't mean that you can't train your mind. So I want you to read chapters 1 through 13 of "Beginner's Energy Manipulation for Dummies", because we'll be going over all of that when we start training again tomorrow. Got it?"

Getting ready to call it a day before hitting the books, I just reply "Crystal.".

I'm waiting for her to give me my portal gun when she decides to add one more extra bit of punishment for the day by stopping me and saying "Before we head back, I've got one more thing that I want you to do."

Oh great, what could it be now? Well, my mental question was almost instantly answered when the female Majin threw down what looked like a set of ankle/wristbands at my feet. And they looked like they were packing some weight.

"Those are training weights, I want you to wear them at all time...except maybe in the shower, that might get a bit weird and rank at the same time. Since your body is not only matured and enhanced by Saiyan DNA, but Spiral DNA as well, I thought I would start you off with 20 pounds on each arm and leg, so 80 pounds of extra weight in total. Whenever you're able to move around just as well as you would without 'em, I'm gonna add more weight in order to increase your training outside of our little sessions. Got it?'

I'm just left to reply "Like I have a choice?" before putting on each of the weights in their respective areas.

"Good. Now remember to read those chapters, because tomorrow, we're gonna work on you being able to shoot Ki blasts like it's nobody's business."

Well, at least something was gonna come out of the mass amount of reading that I had to do come tomorrow. And at least I've already got a head start being on chapter 3 already. Mura reopens the portal back to Tokyo 3 before finally giving me back my portal gun and flying off to where ever it is she goes when she isn't kicking my ass. Home sweet home at last as I plop down on the couch for some dimensional cable before I hit the books. Things were pretty quite as I decide to flip through the channels before the "Eria" look alike comes up to me and goes "Sir, this package came for you this afternoon, but I think it's some sort of prank. There's no way that the return address is real, because I've never heard of a "Toki Toki Town", have you?"

"I can't say that I have, but I guess it wouldn't hurt to at least take a peek at what's inside. Thanks for bringing me this to me, miss..."

"Eria, sir. Eria Aoi, at your service."

"Right, right, sorry. I kinda have trouble with certain names unless I deal with that person on a daily basis, like you, Wynn, and that one with the silver hair. Who is she again?"

"Lyna Hikari, sir."

"Ah, yes. Thank you."

"You know that it's okay if you can't remember our names all of the time, since you were willing to give me and Lyna jobs with Wynn, we don't really think it's something to complain about."

So I was right, they are duplicates of the "Charmer" monsters from the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG that they so easily resemble. Now I know that the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG fanboys who ship "Charmers" to one another are gonna have a field day if they ever saw this. I dismiss Eria before opening the package to reveal...news reports? And a note? I read through the note, which was sent to me by one Ryoshiro Nazo, who was pretty much telling me to both not trust the council in full, and to watch out for someone by the name of Josho Blackthorn, who apparently rose to both fame and infamy by killing off all the villains from the version of Wander Over Yonder, save for Lord Hater and Lady Dominator. Well, pretty much knew this was coming to me eventually, I just didn't expect it to happen this early. I already had my notions not to trust the council, considering that they were all two out of the three kinds of people that I often never tend to trust: bureaucrats, and politicians. And if you're wondering what the third kind of person is, it's doctors with the exception of maybe Moltar. This Ryoshiro guy had me intrigued, so I decide to use that new computer that I got which had access to multi-dimensional internet to find out a little bit more about this guy. Turns out he's part of some group called the Time Patrol, who are supposedly in charge of fixing errors in continuity within the Dragon Ball animes (and yes, that includes GT.). And apparently he's one of their top new recruits, with an average A rating in terms of mission completion, and a current base power level of about 91,000. Damn, that's pretty impressive. If I ever get the chance to meet up with him, I'm gonna have to thank him for the warning about this Josho guy, and maybe hit him up for some training advice. I know that I've got a lot to think about with this whole "Warper game" right now, but for the time being, I just wanna see TV from different dimensions. Flipping through the channels, what do I find? A universe where the characters from Gundam Wing and its sequel Frozen Teardrop are accomplished professional Duel Monsters players. Lo and behold, who was dueling while I was watching but the ol' "lightning count" himself, Milliardo Peacecraft (who's life point counter was at 800) facing off against his little sister, Relena (who's life points were currently at 4800). Now ol' Milliardo, he not only had "Star Eater" (ATK: 3200) on his side of the field, but also "Rare Metal Dragon" (ATK: 2400) and "Red Eyes Darkness Dragon" (ATK: 4100 due to its special ability) along side two face down spell/trap cards, and "Call of the Haunted" (which I assume is what he used to bring out "Rare Metal Dragon"). Relena on the other hand managed to get out the field spell "Sanctuary in the Sky" to help power up her face up monsters, "Guardian Angel Joan" (ATK: 3300 thanks to being equipped with the "Cestus of Dagla" equip spell) along with "Airknight Parshath" (ATK: 2400 thanks to being equipped with the equip spell "Black Pendant") with no other spell or trap cards on the field. It looks like things are pretty much set for the ol' "lightning count" to win it all, having only to attack with "Red Eyes" and "Star Eater" to do away with Relena's monsters, then dealing a chunk of her life points as damage using "Rare Metal Dragon", and finally finish the job with an all out assault the next turn should Relena not be able to make a comeback before then. Considering that Gundam Wing was the series that made many westerners (me included) both aware of and fans of the Gundam franchise, and how big a fan of Yu-Gi-Oh I am, I had to see how this duel turned out as Relena started her turn by drawing a card from her deck before playing the spell "Card of Sanctity" to draw an extra four cards, bringing her hand total to six (yeah, I was pretty sure that the universe that this duel was taking place in was using the anime effect of "Card of Sanctity", which I always preferred since the TCG version of the card totally screwed up the effect to the point where I don't even think it's even playable at all). Then came something I never would have expected from a deck used by Relena of all people: she activated the ritual spell "End of the World" and sent two "Nova Summoners" to the graveyard in order to summon "Demise, King of Armageddon" (ATK: 2400) in attack mode! Too bad Zechs countered its summoning by playing one of the worst troll cards in the entire game in the form of "Torrential Tribute" to destroy every monster on the field, including his own before Relena could activate "Demise's" special ability to end the game in her favor! Somehow I knew that she was pretty much doomed as I see her just set down a face down card to end her turn. Oh, but the troll-fest isn't over yet, as her brother started his turn by playing "Monster Reborn" to bring back a "Red Eyes Black Dragon" from his graveyard before sacrificing it in order to bring out another "Red Eyes Darkness Dragon", only this time, it's attack points were at 5000 thanks to the monsters he got rid of with "Torrential Tribute"! That's when his dragon attacked Relena to end the match, 800 LP to 0. If I ever decide to duel in that dimension against him, I'm not even gonna think about showing any mercy, and I'm gonna go all out with whatever cards I can get from Merch since my old deck probably wouldn't cut it. I was hooked, I wanted to watch more duels, but as it turns out, the match I was watching was the freaking main event of the evening as the show ended shortly afterwards. So, what am I to do? Change the damn channel, of course! Here I am, just flipping through channels while grabbing the book that Mura wanted me to go through and reading the thing (remember that I did get a head start) until I manage to find something that catches my eye: as it turns out, one of the Blackthorn family members has his own show, and he's currently getting buddy/buddy with the Crystal Gems from Steven Universe. Okay, maybe I can take some extra time switching between reading the chapters and watching this show, because I'm pretty interested in it. One butt load of chapters, a big dinner, and some more dimensional cable later, and I was ready to hit the sack for tomorrow, knowing that if today was a signal of what was to come, then I was gonna need all the rest I could possibly get.

(Current Power Levels (I'm probably only gonna be doing this up until the fight against Zeruel since I think by that point, power levels will have lost all meaning)

Desmond Bishops (me): 76-7700

Mura Tenin: 3,000,000

Shinji Ikari: ?

Simon the Digger: ?

Yoko Littner: ?

Nia Tepplin: ?

Viral: ?

Others to Come: ?

(Author's Note: Do look out for the Easter Eggs relating to some of Yoshi3000's works in this chapter. Brace yourselves, people, next chapter is gonna be two months worth of training in one chapter so we can get down to the good stuff: training Shinji and fighting against the Angels. So until next time, DSX62415, out.)