"Alright so that's everyone." Delilah said as she, I, Saw, Luna, Sam and Dean were all standing in the usual training area within the Planet Room.
"So, why are we here?" Sam asked.
"You three are going to meet the Saint of Armageddon." I answered.
"Uh, are you sure this isn't going to be something religious?" Dean inquired.
"No, it's just his name or title that he goes by." I shrugged.
"Is he that guy we've seen walking around in robes and that weird very decorative headpiece?" Luna asked. I nodded. "How does he see out of that? It completely covers his eyes."
"Yes, and don't let his looks fool you, he is one of the strongest people on this planet."
"Considering Super Powers and such are a thing here, I can believe it." Dean said.
"I'm not all that strong," We all jumped, turning and seeing the Saint appear behind us. "Compared to others, I'm barely average."
"So why we bring these three here?" Saw asked.
"They will be joining your Party." The Saint said.
"Really?" I asked in surprise. "They just got here and you already want them to join our party?"
"Mind if I ask why?" Dean said.
"You three have skills. You come from a world that trained you to fight against enemies that were stronger than yourselves, so you three were taught to be well read and smarter than your enemies. You use ranged weapons as well as up close and personal weapons. So your combat skills are varied, on top of that, you have knowledge of Old Magic as well as an Alicorn, one of the most magically powerful species around. You three would make a splendid addition to Midoriya's Party." The Saint explained.
"Yeah, that seems fair." I nodded.
"I mean… I guess but we can't do all that any of them can do." Sam said.
"True, but that is also where Midoriya will come into play. You see, he has a very special ability called Copy Cat, as well as an ability called All for One. Using these two, he can transfer over certain powers of his to you and create a copy of it for himself to keep." The Saint said.
"Wait, so we can legit get super powers?" Dean asked, smirking now.
"Yes you can, and in some cases it's honestly rather easy to get super powers." I admitted.
"Now then, Midoriya, please give Sam there Overhaul, Dark Shadow, and a copy of your Pyrokinesis quirks." The Saint said.
I nodded, using both All for One and Copy Cat, I created copies of each of the three quirks and put a hand on Sam. "This'll feel a little weird at first." I said, using All for One and giving him the three quirks.
"O~kay! Yeah that…that feels weird…" Sam said quickly, his body shuddering a bit as his voice couldn't fully convey how uncomfortable he felt at having three quirks suddenly shoved into his body.
"You alright Sammy?" Dean asked.
"Y-yeah…just uh…" Sam shook his head. "That's a hell of a feeling suddenly getting super powers shoved into me…so what are these new abilities?"
"Simplest is my Pyrokinesis quirk, where you can breath and manipulate fire, next is Dark Shadow which is a sapient avatar from your own shadow that can help you…and Overhaul is very complicated in the fact that you can rearrange anything on the molecular level with just a touch of your hand…but you need to know how thing's work to do something like creating lead into gold or…not accidentally blowing up your leg." I explained.
"O-oh…" Sam blinked at my explanation of Overhaul.
"Right. Now then, Please give Dean Half Hot-Half Cold, Explosion, and Sugar Rush." The Saint said.
"Alright." I said, putting a hand on Dan and giving him the three quirks, wondering if he'll also find it weird to have something shoved into his DNA.
Dean shuttered. "Woah… yeah that feels… very, very odd. So, I can probably guess what Explosion does, but what do they do exactly?" Dean asked.
"So with Sugar Rush, the more Sugar you ingest the stronger you get, Explosion works by your sweat glands producing a special form of Nitroglycerin, and when it collects on your hands your hands have a special ignition point that directs all that force outwards, and Half-Hot Half-Cold is one side of your body produces and control's ice, and the other side fire, as both sides are used in tandem to ignore the down side of your body either freezing or overheating with too much use."
"Wow… All I heard was that I can eat all the sweets I want and just get stronger." Dean smirked.
"Like you didn't have bad eating habits before…" Sam sighed, Luna chuckling.
"Alright, now give Luna, Earphone Jack, Harden, and Acid." The Saint said.
"It only lasts three minutes per ten grams of sugar, and if you eat too much you will suffer from Hypoglycemia which…isn't fun." I warned him, as I moved over to Luna and gave her the three quirks.
"Woah, shit!" Luna yelped. I noticed the bottom of her ears change to form the tendril like earphone jacks as the one quirk's namesake. "Alright… that is definitely a thing… so, what do these- ah me ears!" She yelped as the new additions wiggled around.
I chuckled at her reaction. "Alright, so Harden is simple, as it hardens your body or specific parts of the body to be able to endure attacks, Acid is you being able to produce literal Acid from your skin and you can control the potency so it would act more like a slippery slime to sulfuric acid, with some training you can kind of turn your hooves into water guns, and you gain a natural resistance to Acid because of this…also your skin might change pigment due to it." I admitted. "Then there's Earphone Jack, which are controllable headphone cables that you can plug into almost anything, as it can be used for echolocation and the like…or you can use your own heartbeat as a sonic attack through a person, or if you have a speaker, a sonic wave."
"Woah, that could be useful." Luna said.
"Good. Now then, give Saw Poltergeist, Black, and Electrification." The Saint said. I turned to look at them confused.
"Uh, I already have powers guy." Saw said.
"True, however this is a lesson Midoriya must learn." The Saint said, turning to me. "You have been collecting and mastering these abilities and quirks, including the ones you ended up with because of Pyrokinesis. However, in the end you have been hoarding these powers. Because of this, you have been stunting your party members' growth. You even copied Saw's ability yet haven't done much with it, you copied it just to prove to them that you could."
"Listen, it's not my fault that when I got Pyrokinesis and Izukie's Heart and powers, I looked it up and I got over…two hundred quirks, so sorry that it's taking me a bit to learn them all first." I frowned, putting a hand on Saw's head and giving him the three quirks. "I mean seriously, when you think you only had a certain class and some teachers' quirks, only to learn you have the whole school plus a ton of pro hero quirks it's quite a thing when your brain is so overloaded with unholy amounts of pain for ten years…" I grumbled.
"Did I ask for an excuse?" The Saint asked.
Why did I hear boss music for a second there…?
"So, what do these quirks do?" Saw asked.
"Poltergeist is Telekinesis, Black is the ability to merge with any kind of dark color and move around in darkness freely, doesn't matter what the surface is you are now physically apart of the darkness so mass doesn't care and finally Electrification is you can now produce electricity from your body, either as a defensive aura or if you train it can be shot out from your hands like a Lightning Bolt spell, and you can absorb Electricity, though the downside until you can manage to work past it is that if you produce too much electricity your brain will short out and you'll be acting real dumb for the next hour…most of the time you'll just get a silly look on your face and give thumbs up cause that's weirdly the common occurrence."
"Huh… despite that downside for Electrification…" Saw said. He already seemed to be thinking how he can use them with his Sawblades already.
"Now then, lastly, give Delilah Blood Control, Black Hole, Jet, and Steel." The Saint said.
"Why do I get four?" Delilah asked.
"Your body thanks to Schrodinger's Cat is rather unique and easily able to adapt to any power it takes on and the stress it would cause." The Saint said.
"Fair enough." I said, gently taking Delilah's hand and giving her the four quirks. "And these quirks, Blood Control let's you freely manipulate your own blood whenever it's outside your body, also giving you immunity to blood loss symptoms even to the point of it being fatal, Black Hole is obvious as you can create small blackholes from your fingertips…though you are not immune to it sadly, Jet is like my Engine, but instead of engines on your ankles, you have holes in your soles that produce high pressure air that let's you fly for a limited time or move around at sonic speeds, though the air does come from your every breath so be careful…and Steel is like Harden, except instead of hardening your body your body turns into an organic version of Steel."
"I know Midoriya, I only saw you laugh like a madman and play around with them for weeks on end back home before we got dumped here." Delilah chuckled.
"I'm sorry it was cool." I pouted. "But yeah…I'm sure if you look in the Skill trees you can find immunities to stuff, but for right now the weaknesses are sadly there to stay for the moment."
"So, now we just got to learn how to use them…" Dean said.
"And that is where the rest of todays lessons will cover." The Saint said. "You will be working in pairs. Luna and Saw, you two will be working to learn your new quirks. Sam and Delilah, you two will work on yours together. Midoriya and Dean, you two will be paired together."
"Alright." I nodded. "So what's our training going to be?"
"Saw and Luna will head towards the docks and learn to use their new quirks and slay the enemies in the area, as well as gather any loot that appears. Delilah and Sam, you two will be doing the same but over by the Old Town area. Lastly, Midoriya, you will take Dean here and travel to the Farmlands and do the same." The Saint said, tossing a duffle bag he pulled from his Assistant at us. "There are some extra items for you three in here."
Sam, Dean and Luna walked up over to the duffle bag, opening it to reveal guns. Many guns.
"Oh hell yes." Dean smirked as he pulled out a sawed off double barrel shotgun.
"Now this feels familiar." Luna smirked as she pulled out a large revolver in her magic.
"Never thought I'd miss the smell of gun oil." Sam added as he pulled out a lever action rifle.
"Anything in there I can take?" Saw asked as he walked up.
"Bunch of handguns and… this?" Dean said, handing Saw a handgun and what I think was a machine pistol.
"That works." Saw nodded as he took them.
I then saw Delilah walk over to them.
"Really hate guns…" I muttered, walking over to the accursed things with Delilah.
"You don't have to take one." She said. "I'm just taking one to try them out."
"I'm going to have to use one of these thing's sooner or later and I don't like it…" I sighed.
"Not necessarily." The Saint said. I turned to him and noticed he was now holding two odd… I wanna say they were… they looked like some weird looking crossbows or… maybe dart guns? "These are Sharpshooter. I think you will find these a bit more agreeable for you."
"Uh…sure." I said, gently taking the two strange crossbows. "What are these?" I inquired, giving them a quick Scan as I've never seen weapon's like these before.
"These are replicas of All Maker King's Sniper. The Archer is the one who wields the originals. These copies however pack about the same amount of punch, and like a Keyblade, are intention based. Meaning they won't kill unless you want them to kill."
"Alright…that's really cool." I said, looking over the purple crossbow's and seeing the weird dart like arrow's on the bottom. "And I presume reloading is also intention based?"
"They reload from your own magic, just once they run out, swing them down and they will reload by pulling magic from your MP."
"That's good.' I nodded.
I picked them up, holding them felt-
"Take aim."
What?
"Shoot."
Wait, are you-
"Why won't you shoot!"
I jumped, almost dropping the weapons before they glowed for a second.
"Seems they've chosen to let you wield them to their fullest." The Saint said.
"They…they asked me to shoot something…" I said worriedly. "Wh-why did they talk to me?"
"Like a Keyblade, they are a form of sentient weapon. The King's Council weapons are interesting like that. Anyone can wield these copies, but only if they choose you can you wield them to their fullest potential."
"Well…that's good to know." I nodded, gently picking up the weapons again.
"Now then, go, be back by sunset."
With a nod we all walked out into the Nightmare and off to our areas.
It was a long walk to the Farmlands. Even with quirks… oh wait… I used Warp, forgetting about it for a while before appearing with Dean at the farmlands. Fields of dead wheat and apple trees.
"That was weird… and this place looks sad." Dean said as he looked around.
"Yeah, it is rather depressing." I said honestly. "So right now, we're around here to start murdering things, with guns and quirks." I said readily.
"Right… so how do I use these?" Dean asked, looking at his hands. "Is there like… a hand sign or a-"
BOOM!
Dean fell over as an explosion went off, his hands were facing his own face.
"Oh god! Are you okay!?" I asked worriedly.
Dean sat back up, some singe marks on their face and half an eyebrow missing. "Dude! I got fucking grenade launchers on my hands!" He laughed. "This is awesome!"
"You sweat Nitroglycerin so…yeah." I said honestly. "Small bonus is that you will always have flawless skin." I said. "All of your Quirks are mostly based off of intent, except for Sugar Rush, you will need to eat plenty of sugar, either through normal means or just straight from the bag."
"You had me at eat sugar." He chuckled as he stood back up. "So, this area is new to me. Aside from looking like Famine and Pestilence had an orgy here, what's up with this place?"
"This place is one of the best spots to find all our farming gear, seedlings, seeds, farming equipment, even Livestock sometimes." I explained. "Just have to make sure we kill the monsters before they kill the Livestock."
"Sounds fair." Dean said, pulling out his sawed off and checking the barrels to make sure there was ammo in there before closing it up and holstering it again. "So, you're from a version of earth that had super powers?" He asked as we waked down the road.
"We call them Quirks, but yes." I nodded. "More like X-Men, where everyone got powers due to genetics and all that."
"Lucky. All we had back home were monsters, demons, angels, and all of them wanted to kill us." Dean sighed. "Some days I was amazed humanity made it as far as it did…"
"Never underestimate the stubbornness of humanity." I said honestly. "Oh, there's also Lore to this place, so if you see random scraps of paper or books, pick them up and read them cause they can lead to some hidden areas."
"That's more Sam or Luna's strengths but I can grab them for them. So, these Assistant things…" Dean asked as he held up the arm that had the tattoo-like device. "Aside from a very handy… everything, what else do they do?"
Guess the Saint gave those to them earlier.
"Well, as you said it can do everything, but one of the most important parts of it is the Skill Tree…something I have woefully underutilized…" I sighed. "Upgrading my quirks is one thing…but the Skill Tree is something really important, as it can give you new abilities, or give your already existing abilities upgrades and the like."
"Cool. So, what should we be looking for?"
"Well, for now let's just look for some farming stuff and maybe kill some monsters." I shrugged.
"Alright. Anywhere or note we should look at?"
"Normally the barn is a good place to start." I said, heading towards the run down barn.
"Anything in there I should know about monster wise?"
"For the most part, just about anything can kill thing's as long as you have the right enchantments or strength." I shrugged. "Cause a lot of weapons can hurt anything from the corporeal to the incorporeal, and overall monsters are simple enough."
"Good, just like back home after… well, shit hit the fan." Dean nodded. We walked towards the barn where some undead farmers were stabbing some cow corpses.
I decided to test out Sharpshooter, aiming and… I missed. Again… miss. Miss… miss… what the…
"Dude, your aim sucks." Dean said, pulling out his handgun, a single shot took out the farmers with headshots. "Have you actually never used a gun or any kind before?"
"No, firstly cause I'm Japanese, gun laws and all that…and two, I never liked guns…unless you were some pro hero that needed a gun…gun's felt cheap."
"Right…" Dean said, holstering their handgun. "Alright, word of advice, pointing and shooting is only part of it. Aiming, now that's the hard part. Different guns have different aiming requirements. These things I noticed have a very minor recoil when you shot them, so try and practice often. Are they heavy?"
"Not really." I said honestly. "But…something about these feels like I…shouldn't have to aim…" I frowned, wondering why these feel so different than a normal pistol that I held before, and not because of their shape…
"Alright, well I don't know anything about magic but I know most everything about guns and aiming. So let's see… there." Dean said, pointing at a lantern that was hanging from the barn's cross beam. "Aim at that and shoot."
I took aim at the cross beam with my right gun, aiming carefully as I fired it at the beam.
I missed, the bolt of energy hitting the wall behind the beam but was… close…
"Alright, I see the problem. You are aiming wrong." Dean said.
"How? Considering these are dual weapons…" I raised them both up helplessly.
"For starters, you're trying to aim with only one eye. First off, that only works with rifles, mainly ones with a scope. For handguns, which these two basically are, you'll wanna keep both eyes open and rather than keep in line with the side of the arm you're shooting, keep it in line with the middle of your body, that way it makes aiming easier. Preferably you use both hands to make it even easier and help negate recoil. So, take one of those things with both hands, then aim."
"Alright…" I said, putting away the first one and grabbing the second one with my other hand, it being a bit awkward since it felt more like it was made to be one handed, and tried to do what he suggested as I fired at the beam again.
To my shock, I hit the bean just above the lantern. "Good, just a little lower…" Dean said. Nodding, I did and hit the lantern. It turning into broken glass and scrap metal. "And, there you go. One handed shooting takes more experience. It's a skill you have to work towards."
"Yeah…" I sighed. "Just…glad it's not a gun."
"Did you get traumatized or something?" Dean asked as we began looking around the barn for anything of use.
"Not really." I said honestly. "Again, Gun's just feel…wrong…cheap…like instead of doing something right, just waving a gun around and suddenly everyone would do what you want…"
"Heh, considering the world where I come from, a gun saved my life or my siblings lives more times than we can count, I'd argue. Look, at the end of the day, a gun is a tool. Yeah, a lot of people like to use them as an ace to win anything from wars to some petty argument. But at the same time, a lot of times the things I was fighting against either just got mad when you shot them or laughed cause it tickled them, and something tells me it's the same in this reality as much as back home, maybe even more so. Maybe using a gun is cheap, but for someone just trying to get by in a place like this, surviving, cheap is better than dead, right?"
"I mean…yeah." I sighed.
"Life ain't that simple kid. There's a lot of things that exist that we won't like, but we gotta make peace with what will exist and always will exist and hope we can change what should be changed." He added.
That managed to make me smile.
"Alright alright." I said. "Let's just get to gathering stuff and maybe monster fighting."
We looked around, aside some manure and more tools, there wasn't much. We headed towards the farm house, where I managed to use Sharpshooter to dispatch the undead farmers inside.
"Huh, this kind of reminds me of Bobby's house." Dean said as we were looking around.
"How so?" I inquired.
"Layout mostly. He lived on an old farmhouse that was his parents that he inherited after his mom died and… well, old bastard was gonna leave it and his scrapyard to us when he passed… That didn't end up happening…" Dean sighed as he pulled out some drawers.
"Well…maybe he's here?" I brought up. "Your friends and family could have also been Isekai'd."
"... I wish. I'd rather not get my hopes up." Dean sighed as he rummaged through shelves and drawers.
"You never know." I said, helping search through the place.
"... Have you?" He asked me. "Ran into someone you watched die just walk around here alive and well?"
I swallowed… Luna did mention… how many…
"Well…no, not yet."
"Then I'd rather not get my hopes up." Dean sighed. "I don't think I could handle that disappointment. Luna especially. Losing Bobby hit her the hardest."
I sighed. "Well…chance is always weird." I shrugged.
Dean said nothing as we looked through the house. There wasn't much aside some basic items and such.
Walking outside, Dean found a cellar that inside had some more tools, some old preserves and moonshine.
With all that collected we left and headed towards the next place. There was some demon cattle, more undead farmers. Some trial and error, Dean managed to learn how to activate Explosion and was having fun.
"Heh, wonder how the others are doing?" Dean pondered.
"I'm sure they're having a good time." I shrugged.
"The fuck is a Kraken doing here!?"
"I don't know, now run!"
"Booze!"
"WOO!"
"I'm sure they're fine."
We walked through the fields, Dean managing some flames from Half Hot-Half Cold and was quickly figuring it out. He even managed some ice too.
The next barn we looked around, finding not much aside some of the same.
Entering the house we found what looked to be a family all dead at the dinner table.
Dean just walked around them as he searched the kitchen.
I helped search for anything of use. "So, how long have you been with Luna?" I inquired.
"Luna came into our lives when we were just kids. She was probably about two or three then." Dean said.
"Well…that sounds like a good time to be isekai'd into the family." I said honestly.
"Heh. Hard to imagine though. Any other Hunter in our situation would have… not been as kind, but Sam and I were kids, she was adorable and Bobby was well read and knew some legends about Alicorns. There wasn't much but once Luna could talk, and Bobby learned she understood English, she was brought into the family properly. Dad even warmed up to her quicker than expected."
"That's good to hear." I nodded.
"Yeah. We've had a lot of good times, even when things were hard or… scary."
"As long as you have family, that's what's most important." I nodded.
"Yeah… all we have now is each other." Dean sighed.
"Well…you have us now, even if we're not family we're still friends."
"Heh, maybe. Knock back a few more drinks next time at the bar and then we can try and be friends." He chuckled.
"Eh, still not a fan of alcohol but sure."
"Maybe because you haven't given any of it a real try? I mean, you sip at the beer you do drink like it's the worst thing in existence."
"Because Beer tastes like piss water." I said. "Sake is fine but that's the first time I've been trying alcohol and…it doesn't taste good."
"... Okay, normally I don't say this but you being Japanese and stating you only like to drink sake sounds like a stereotype. At least try a rum and coke or a screwdriver, if made right you should barely taste the booze in those. Unless your intention is to get wasted in which case the flavors should be fighting for dominance on your tongue."
"Then why shouldn't I just buy an actual drink at that point?" I asked.
"Because you still want to get drunk but you want to take your time getting drunk." Dean said. "You drink booze mixed with other stuff, it both flavors it and dilutes it, letting you drink more and enjoy some flavor with your booze and get a few more miles out of your drinks before you get really wasted."
"...I mean, you know better about drinking heavily."
"Damn straight." Dean laughed. "Though from how that Saw guy drinks, he probably knows about as much as me."
"Considering he's immortal now he can drink as much as he wants and not care."
"Lucky."
"I mean…the brand of Immortality that's being handed out sucks ass, cause you feel everything…and it'll never stop…"
"I feel like that's kinda on brand for how immortality is supposed to work." Dean said as we walked towards a large apple orchard, the trees all dead, sick or withered to dry husks.
"Except when you think having your head blown off you'd pass out…no, you are conscious the whole time." I said carefully, looking around the dead orchard for anything specific.
"Now that is weird but also feels appropriate." Dean shrugged. "I mean, even if you did pass out wouldn't you wake up immediately after? Or if not then isn't that a liability?"
"I mean, your body stop's functioning if you 'die', but you still feel and experience everything…and it's horseshit." I frowned.
"Still feels on brand. So, you immortal too then?"
"Yes, my special brand of immortality is Mortal Sun, which I got from eating a Sun Phoenix egg…they like to sass me and whenever I regenerate I burst into flames."
"Huh. Sounds flashy."
"If it wasn't for me being immune to fire, I would never be able to move cause I would be in so much pain…" I said. "And that's even after ten years of this…"
"Huh… think anyone has ever gotten used to it and just… numbed it out completely?"
"You are talking to that exact person." I said readily.
"Really?"
"I have had to deal with this pain for ten years straight…it's pain…"
"So, you also just completely heal up right?"
"Yes." I nodded.
"Okay but like… how? Like, do you heal once the injury has happened and if so, what if the injury is like, still in process, like you've been impaled does your healing try to heal through the object or does it not kick in because there's a spike or something stick in you still and if so are you just stuck like that until someone of yourself pulls you off of it? What about if you get a spear through the head, are you just stuck there lifeless unable to heal or will you somehow manage to move and pull it out yourself or what?" Dean asked.
"It's worse." I said with a frown. "Hated every single second of those kinds of things…"
"Ouch. So, what about Saw and Delilah? There's similar to yours?"
"Delilah is Schrodinger's Cat so…I have no idea, and Saw has Chaos immortality so it's…weird." I said carefully.
"Huh… So, what about like, poisons or paralytics?"
"If it's non-lethal I get to suck shit for some reason." I said honestly.
"Huh… But these skill tree things, can't you invest in immunities to counter that?"
… I have REALLY been dumb with that…
"Now I can, it's just that I've been so turbo busy that I haven't had the time to look through the skill tree or even think about what I want to do with it. Cause I have upgraded my Quirks and still have…way too many Skill points over the ten years but…still."
"Well, maybe start with practical ones like things that nullify all that. Heck I know I would. Maybe some stuff that could increase my overall strength and shit so I don't get hurt, break bones or tire so easily." Dean said.
"Yes, I know…and it's going to drive me insane when I get back home if I ever get down to looking at the Skill tree…" I sighed.
"I say just pick what feels right. Can rarely go wrong with a gut feeling." Dean said, pulling out his sawed off and shooting up at one of the trees. An invisible enemy dropping from the dead branches that Dean shot at, he then fired the second shot off in the head, ending it as he turned and gave me a grin. "See, rarely wrong."
"That's fair." I nodded, as my Dark Shadow swirled around Dean and grabbed onto another invisible enemy and tore it in half.
"Okay, that thing is cool. Didn't you give Sammy one of those?"
"Yes I did." I nodded. "But I can't give you more than three at the moment due to you not being used to…well a lot of things."
"Heh, hey, three as it is is really cool. Kinda wish I could test out that Sugar Rush one, eat sweets and punch the shit out of monsters? Sounds awesome." Dean chuckled as he reloaded his shotgun. "So how old are you anyway?"
"Twenty nine, you?"
"Twenty eight. Kinda surprised you're a year older than me. Sammy is twenty four and based on how old we guessed Luna was when we found her, she's now twenty four." Dean said.
"Alrighty then." I nodded. "Yeah…I've been doing this for a long time…been in this reality for fifteen years…jeez I just realized how long it's really been…"
"Heh, time flies when you're having fun I guess." Dean chuckled.
We went back home at sundown, Dean and I didn't find much but he got practice with quirks and I got practice with Sharpshooter.
We made it back to the bar in the town and eventually Delilah and Sam showed up, followed by Luna and Saw who were laughing like mad.
"Well you two had fun." Sam huffed.
"We found a whole ship of booze and set the docks on fire." Saw chuckled.
"In our defense we were three bottles in between us and that shit was strong." Luna giggled.
"While glad you had fun, we had to deal with a fucking Kraken." Sam frowned.
"If I didn't have my legendary ability I wouldn't be here…my fur would never be clean…" Delilah shuddered.
"Right…well, me and Dean got to do some normal searching through the Farms." I shrugged.
"We got attacked by the kraken of the ravine…" Delilah huffed.
"Just… how in the fuck does a literal kraken just… fit in that?!" Sam growled. "It had mouths… on every tendril…"
"Sounds like you need this." Luna said, pulling a bottle of rum from her Assistant. Sam took it and began drinking right from the bottle.
"Jeez, you must have not had a good time." I said, even though Delilah wrapped her arms around me and was trying to give me a full body hug.
"It wasn't good…" Delilah grumbled.
"How long did it take to kill?" Saw asked.
"All day. Spent all my ammo, Delilah died like, six times, and were it not for that Dark Shadow thing also being able to use Overhaul and my figuring out that Pyrokinesis thing, we'd still be there." Sam huffed.
"Oof." I said, wrapping my arm around Deliliah and giving her a quick hug.
"No fun…" Delilah pouted.
"Did it drop anything?" Saw asked.
Sighing, Sam pulled out a very eldritch looking trident that looked rusted and stained, covered in algae and mold but seemed to emit some power. He then raised a finger and the rum from his bottle flowed out the top, and he shot it into Saw's throat.
Saw coughed a bit. "Shit, warn me before you deepthroat me." He spat.
"Any liquids in my vicinity with this thing I can control… so, kinda cool…" Sam sighed.
"I mean…having Poseidon's Trident is a good thing." I admitted.
"Actually it's called Cathulus Toothpick." Sam sighed.
Saw, Dean, Luna and even Delilah all laughed at that.
"Really?" I asked. "That name is…so sad…"
"Eh, it does fit given it looks like crap." Sam shrugged, putting the weapon back into their Assistant. "Other than that it did drop an ass ton of fish, human and non-human remains and a couple jars of it's own blood which according to the description this thing gave me when I stored it," Sam said, sharing the wrist his assistant was on. "Is a useful ingredient in crafting poisons and in certain magic summonings."
"Awesome." I nodded. "Could go for some rem if you sell it to the right person."
"Think I'll hold onto it for now." Sam sighed, picking up the bottle of rum and drinking from it again. "At least you two had fun." He added, motioning to Luna and Saw.
"It's honestly the most fun I've had in a while." Luna chuckled.
"Told ya, sometimes you just got to knock a few drinks back and set the world on fire, even just part of it. Makes a whole lot of difference." Saw smirked.
I rolled my eyes. "That's because you just found a ton of booze."
"Yes." Luna said immediately, downing some of her own rum.
"You clearly have never experienced the joys of casual arson." Saw chuckled.
"Because that tended to be illegal with what you two were doing." I frowned.
"I didn't see any cops."
"Me neither." Luna added with a smirk.
"Still…" I frowned. "So anyways, did you two learn anything about your new powers or did you just get drunk?" I asked Luna.
"I figured out these things are really tough and even jamming them into a wall I can hear whatever is inside a building." Luna said, her earphone tendrils wiggling around. "Acid was useful in opening unwanted locks, and Hardening was weird. Felt stiff all over."
"I figured out that Poltergeist thing. Using it with saw blades and Electrification let me set up arcs of electricity shooting off all over. Didn't get to use Black much but it was interesting. Kinda reminded me of Shadow Walker's back home." Saw said.
"Fair enough." I nodded. "And you get used to Harden."
"Should I ask what a Shadow Walker is?" Dean said.
"You know that thing where people are weary and suspicious of something that's human like but it's not human? What's that thing called?" Saw asked.
"So they personify the Uncanny Valley?"
"They're one of the reasons that's a thing back home." Saw shrugged. "Not all that dangerous, mostly they're the reason small pets when let out at night were never seen again. Usually they prefer caves, abandoned buildings and subway tunnels. They don't attack humans but man did they terrify people."
"Sounds about right." I nodded. "Magical creatures can be scary from time to time."
"So your world had monsters all over the place to?" Sam asked.
"Yeah but the majority stayed away from human settlements and kept to the magic rich territories. Sometimes a manticore, dragon or something nasty would wander close or even into a town or city but local military dealt with them." Saw said.
"Heh. Lucky. Monsters back home for us were everywhere but all hidden in plain sight and they all either looked human or were former humans who after becoming a monster fully embraced their new biology and bloodlust."
"That must have sucked."
"It did. More often than not a Hunter was labeled as a serial killer or mass murdering psychopath for taking out the monsters that were very well blended into human society."
"Ick, good thing I lived in a hero society, where villains and bad guys tended to look the part." I said honestly
"So there was a lot of bias based on looks, powers and I can only assume expectations placed upon people because of those with powerful, useful quirks and everyone expecting them to use them either as a hero or villain?" Saw asked.
"Or you're like me who was born quirkless and was treated so outlandishly poorly it's not even funny." I rolled my eyes. "I mean…I get what All Might said, even with powers it's still dangerous…but to hear my idol tell me I can't was heartbreaking…"
"Be Batman." Dean said. "Or Green Arrow, Hawk Eye, Tony Stark, hell in a world like yours you mean to tell me there wasn't one Quirkless hero?"
I thought back. I remember hearing of a few but they all… died…
"I mean…they were some of the first casualties…" I admitted. "And while yes, I could have used my intellect and such intrinsic eye for detail to help heroes…I could have easily been a knowledge broker for villain's just as easily and…well when you want to be a hero so bad like All Might…"
"Are you admitting you'd have sold Info to the villains to spite this All Might guy?" Saw asked. "Why Midoriya, there is hope for you being a less than goodie two shoes." He smirked.
"I wouldn't want to do such a horrible thing, but I've seen some…other versions of me do such things." I sighed. "I would never be a villain."
"Then don't do it to be a villain. Do it for the money. That's what I did." Saw shrugged.
"That could be considered villainy…" I frowned.
"That's called getting work where you can."
"Gotta agree with Saw on this one." Dean said.
"Yup." Luna nodded.
"Regrettably so can I…" Sam sighed.
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah yeah, whatever." I shook my head.
"Well, if that's all I am gonna head out cause unlike you losers I have a life." Saw said, dodging my own saw blade that was shot out at him as he jumped out of the booth and out the door.
"Yeah you better run!" I shouted.
"Eh, he has a point. He is the only one of us getting laid." Dean shrugged.
"Excuse me?" I asked, grabbing Delilah.
"Getting laid regularly and having fun with it." Dean said.
"Well I'm sorry that relationship's are more than just sex, and the fact that you think getting laid is 'having a life' then you need some priorities checked." I frowned.
"You've gotten better." Delilah said, patting my cheek lightly.
"I agree with Midoriya here." Sam said. "Just about all your past relationships were sex focused Dean."
"So? What's wrong with wanting to just get laid?"
"Still say you're overcompensating." Luna said.
"Then you haven't been in a proper relationship Dean." I frowned. "And yes Delilah…our destroyed bed proves that."
"I'd still like more though." Delilah added. "I mean, you have so many quirks that would completely rewrite our sex lives and you are wasting very kinky opportunities."
"One thing at a time you horny cat." I said. "There's a lot of things to do…and I'm still working through a lot of things."
"So he's been like this for how long?" Saw asked.
"Four days. He popped open a blank notebook, his Assistant Skill Trees and has only stopped to sleep like… four hours a night and eat." Delilah said.
"And he's completely unresponsive?"
"Yes! I tried everything! And I mean everything, it's like a statue but he's moving!"
"Hmm I have an idea." Saw said. Suddenly the overwhelming scent of vodka hit my nose, making me gasp.
"Holy crap that worked!?"
"Yeah, pure vodka will do that to the untrained drinker."
"You shoved it up my nose!" I yelled, coughing as my nostrils and throat burned like hell.
"Well I could have poured it down your throat or up your ass but I didn't have a hose or funnel."
"I'm going to make you choke on your own arms." I growled. "Alright…so the Skill Trees…" I grabbed a bottle of water I always kept at the ready whenever this happened and downed some of it. "Oh boy…"
"So what did four days of I assume self research tell you about them?" Saw asked, butting the vodka back in their Assistant and looking at me with some crossed arms.
"There's…" I shuddered. "There's too much." I whined. "I tried to think this through…I tried to come up with some sort of list I can go down…but then it just…kept opening up more things when I thought about it…just more avenues for things, skill tree's crossing over to give better abilities, there are abilities that only appear when you be so hyper specific with a thing that it makes everything you did outlandish…" I said weakly.
"So in other words, you have no idea what to do."
"Not a single bit, especially when this fucking showed up!" I said, showing off the Shadow Hunter skill tree. "There's a Skill Tree for the Shadow Hunter I accidentally fused with! Like…how does this thing even have a Skill Tree when this should have been a complete fluke?"
"Someone is more of an over-thinker than you?" Saw offered.
"I want to say that's impossible, but I feel like I'm already being laughed at for even attempting to think otherwise." I answered.
"Cool, so are you gonna pick anything or just complain about the options?"
"I can do both!" I said.
"Are you… bragging about that?"
"Why would I?" I asked, starting to put my Skill points into a build I think would fit with what I can do.
"So what are you going to do?" Delilah asked me.
"I'm going to do a more…Brawler style build." I said. "Since that intersects with Quirks and another Skill Tree I'm thinking of doing as well…then there's so much more…" I sighed.
"I take it once you have a good enough brawler build you'll go and work on the next?" Saw asked.
"Probably…unless this thing throws me a curveball with some other things out of nowhere." I said, going to the Brawler tree and starting to put points into things.
"You just jinxed it, you know that right?"
"And then I will cry because I just spent four days trying to plan this stupid thing…" I said, going along the path. "Bone and muscle density…speed…stronger attacks…" I muttered, going through my skills and putting the point or points necessary to activate it. "Now…for the cross section…" I muttered, grabbing a skill that connects Quirk's and Brawler, which basically connected the two together so that both my Brawler Tree and Quirk tree share each other's bonus's…
[Legendary Ability Added]
EX-FUCKING-SCUE ME!? I immediately searched for this brand new ability in some frantic hand gestures. "What do you mean I got a legendary ability!?"
"You can get more than one of those?" I heard Saw say as I found it.
[Gene Lottery: Once a week you gain a random genetics based ability.]
"Uh…magically, and I got Gene Lottery…once a week, I can just…permanently gain a genetic based ability…" I said…as I started to cry. "Why!? I didn't know that I could get a legendary ability from the Skill Tree!?"
"Normally you only get them from random chance." Delilah said.
"Does this make Midoriya super lucky or super unlucky?" Saw asked.
"... Both?"
"Ugh!" I threw my hands up in the air, even though I started to hear some roulette wheel as if the legendary skill was taunting me.
[Gene Lottery Has Activated!
New Genetic Ability Has Been Added!
Obtained Paragon Template Genetic Ability!
All Stats increased!
All Resistances increased!
All Skill's obtained upgrade by one level!
Luck increased!
Damage Reduction Acquired!
Skill Acquired, Epic Body: You're body is now a formidable weapon, your natural weapons are now considered of Epic class]
"Wh-what?" I asked helplessly, deciding to look at my stats…everything went up…by quite a bit. "The…hell…"
"A Paragon?" Saw looked over and saw what I was freaking out about. "Bitch, you just keep getting luckier and luckier."
"I feel like someone is either proving a point or having a laugh." Delilah hummed.
"Possibly both. Also, I call bullshit." Saw said.
"Y-yeah…" I said, looking up what the hell a 'Paragon Template' was…and when I looked it up, it was from Dungeons and Dragons and it talked about them being the pinnacle of a race through genetic means, an 'Epic Level Creature' as it were and…this fits with what my stats look like. "I'm…certain this is just a fluke…" I said weakly, as I saw all my stats and…well, while the jump was high, it wasn't as high as I was originally fearing. "Well…while I did become a lot stronger, it's not as big as I was fearing…" I sighed. "Just…surprised that I got an 'Epic' level template from what it says here…though I suppose we have been fighting things that would need that as a baseline…" I hummed.
"So, what does that make you then?"
"Well, says here that Paragon is the 'pinnacle of a mortal race', so while I got a lot of bonuses…huh?" I questioned, noticing that there was another thing that popped up.
[Power Recognized and within proper boundaries
Divine Spark Acquired: Paragon evolved into Lesser Demi-God, Divine Skill Tree Available]
"Oh are you fucking kidding me?" I groaned, putting my face in both hands.
"Wow. So you're a god now? Sweet! I always wanted to curse a god out!" Saw said. I looked up, confused only for him to grab my shoulders. "You c-"
What Saw said I… don't know if most of that was the same language. It was colorful, graphic, disturbing, and honestly I felt insulted, disturbed, a little violated somehow, and even scared.
When Saw was done I was… just… speechless…
"Holy shit dude…" Delilah said, mouth agape.
"I can now cross that off my bucket list.* Saw said with a smile as he reached… into his fur coat and pulled out a small notebook and pen, quickly crossing something in it out then putting it back.
"R-right…" I said slowly. "Anyways! Back to my crises here…"
"You're panicking over getting stronger when for weeks now you've been panicking over not being strong enough." Saw summarized.
"I'm not panicking over getting stronger, I'm panicking over getting another Legendary ability that then randomly gave me some really strong genetic ability, that just turned me into a demi-god…I just wanted to do some Skill Tree stuff…" I whined.
"I mean, you still can?"
"This completely throws everything out of whack though! Now I have to look at the Divine Skill Tree with all of this…"
"Oh bitch me a river, just finish getting what you were gonna get then look at the other shit…" Saw groaned.
"I actually agree with Saw here." Delilah said. "Just get what you were planning on getting then look at other stuff after."
"Fine fine…" I grumbled. "Planning goes right out the window…" I muttered as I went back to trying and getting everything back in some order.
I finished getting everything I originally planned on getting, and with that I sighed. Well, that's that… now for- ouch!
I winced as Delilah was pulling me by the ear. "Food, sleep, then you can go back to your unhealthy study habits." She growled as she dragged me into the kitchen.
"Ow ow ow! Delilah please sta~hp!" I whined as I was dragged by my ear.
I could hear Saw laughing…
She almost tossed me on the kitchen table, where I was seated next to Daisy and Rudy, who were playing with Alice and Nick, my two youngest from Poppy… who was also… pregnant… again…
At least she's learned good cooking skills.
"Hi dad." All the kids said.
"Hey kids." I said with a warm smile.
"Do you have a cat kink or something?" I jumped as Saw was suddenly in the chair next to me.
"Can you not?" I asked with a frown.
"Fluffy!" Alice said, immediately jumping out of her chair and into Saw's fur.
I was… reasonably concerned… knowing Saw…
To my surprise, he just laughed, and patted her head. "Yeah, I'm fluffy."
"Well…glad to know Alice likes you." I said honestly.
"Heh, I'm a giant cotton ball, of course kids are gonna want to be around me." He said as Nick, Rudy, and Daisy all got up and we're noW petting his fur. "Told ya." He laughed.
I grumbled a bit. "Yeah yeah…so what's for food?"
"I'm making a lovely veggie soup Master." Poppy said.
"Master?" Saw asked, the kids now done petting his fur and went back to their seats to draw.
"So…Poppy is a Breeder…and due to the Chaos Guild Lust literally rewriting her very being…I'm her master now…"
"... Wow… so she's just, completely…" He looked at my kids then back to me. "Obsessed with you?"
"Since I took off her blindfold and the Coding went to work…" I sighed. "She is…she has been deemed my property and…if I don't 'use her' every so often she…goes into a manic depression…"
"Shit… that's…" He looked back at the kids real quick. "Not right. And… the kids?"
"They are natural born, healthy children, normal as any other born from mothers that aren't Breeders." I answered.
"Good." He sighed. "Is she… the only one?"
"She's the only one I have." I said.
"How'd you end up with her?"
"Well…when I first found her, I thought the merchant roaming around with her was into Human Trafficking, which is horrible…so I fought him and he shot himself in the head…Patches jacked all the extra crap while I took Poppy." I answered.
"So, you found out after about the whole… Breeder thing?"
"Yes…and the downside of having a Breeder and…just being on this planet to begin with…"
"How so? Aside the whole… pleasure slave thing?"
"Well, it started me off on the slippery slope called a Dark Skill Tree…so funny thing about Breeders, is that due to them having their entire person rewritten…they're technically not giving consent so says the rules of the land…"
"... Shit." He huffed. "That is… well that's beyond my lines of things I'm willing to do…"
"Welcome to Armageddon, where the truly depraved can do whatever they want whenever they want and people that want to stop it get mocked or killed." I said, gaining a twinge of passive aggressiveness in my voice as it ended as I stared at Saw.
"Huh. No wonder you were so touchy when we met."
"Yeah…now ya know…" I sighed. "And you were stuck in a Violence facility, where they do what Lust does, but instead of turning them into Breeders, they break their captives…turning them into mindless bioweapons…"
"I got that much while I was there. Honestly it wasn't anything I didn't see before back when I became this." Saw said. "Still, don't expect me to go nice on them. I see one of those freaks, they're dead."
"And while…I want to keep people alive, especially given I got Memory Stealer…I suppose there isn't much I can do to stop you wanting to do that…"
"Consider it their long overdue karma. I did a lot of… unsavory things working for gangs, but human trafficking and kidnapping is where I always drew the line. Got a lot of c- talked down to, for being willing to kill but not kidnap or traffic… I just knew death would be preferable to a life… like that."
"I know…" I nodded. "And there will be a stop to it.'
"One way or another…" Saw added.
It was some days more I spent looking at all my new skill trees. It was a lot… even more. Yeesh, I know Scotch told me about this all but this is insane actually seeing it.
"Midoriya!" I jumped at seeing Rin rush into the room. She was breathing deeply. Did she run here? "You have to see this!"
"What's wrong?" I asked, getting up quickly.
"It's Saw, you just have to see this!"
I ran with Rin into the planet room. Once there, I nearly fell over… the town square was full of… Breeders. Some people were unconscious on the floor, and in front of it all was Saw… he was completely crimson and still dripping blood.
Next to him was The Saint.
"The fuck happened!?" I asked incredulously.
"I went on a job." Saw said. "I need a bath…" He huffed, suddenly… I saw him use Warp and teleport away.
I just looked to the Saint.
"Excuse me, I don't remember giving him Warp, and where the fuck did you take him?" I asked.
"He asked me if there was any Lust markets in the area. I took him, after giving him Warp and teaching him to use it." The Saint said. "There are sixty two Breeders here. And nine merchants Saw didn't kill."
"The fuck…" I frowned. "Why didn't you inform me at all?"
"He asked me not to."
"Of course he would…" I growled. "So…why did he let these nine merchants live?"
"I don't know." The Saint shrugged. "Maybe he wanted to save some for you? He did say he needed to vent some frustrations when he asked me for this. Maybe he was all out of frustration when these nine came along?"
"... How did you give him Warp?"
The Saint looked at me, tilting their head. "Did you think you were the only one with Copy Cat Midoriya?"
"Would have been good to know that…" I grumbled.
"It wasn't necessary for you to know." The Saint said. "Besides, I believe you have… something to do." He said, motioning to the nine merchants.
"Alright." I nodded, walking over and pulling out Memory Stealer. "First time doing this…" I muttered, putting the blade against one of the merchant's and trying to use it's ability to take their memories.
"Here." The Saint said, putting the merchant on their back. He then took the tip of Memory Stealer and placed it over the merchant's chest. "Now, stab them, and do not remove it until the cards along the blade stop flashing."
"Right…" I said, before stabbing the Merchant with Memory Stealer like he instructed.
[Memory Stealer Active]
The cards along the blade began showing an almost bar of white move from the top of their empty faces to the bottom. When it did, it reset the bar.
[Memory erasure in process… 9%... 14%... 34%... 46%... 68%... 91%...
Erasure Complete!
Converting memories into Power, Energy, and Echo Cards.
Skill Trees Reset In Progress…
Complete!
42 Unused Skill Points collected. 204 Abilities Detected. Deleted. Converting into Skill Points. 102 Skill Points Collected.
144 Skill Points Total!]
The cards along the blade stopped glowing, and removing the tip the person was still breathing and… that was it… whoever they were before was… as good as… gone…
"Oh…" I muttered. "This…this doesn't feel right…"
"One last thing." The Saint said. He then handed me… another Keyblade?
It looked like a tree, the tip had a small nest where a bird was looking over some eggs, one that was hatched. The grip and guard were the roots, and the Keychain was a small… Phoenix?
"And…what's this?" I asked.
"Second Chance." He said. "What better to pair Memory Stealer with?"
"And…I can guess that Second Chance…gives these people a second chance?"
"As they are once Memory Stealer is done, they are basically an infant in an adult body. Second Chance reverts a person's body to that of an infant and they then age back to adulthood naturally. With these two, they will never know they were once someone else."
"Alright." I nodded, now feeling a bit better about this situation. "And…I believe I just stab them with Second Chance?"
"It must be a fatal strike for the effect to kick in. As they are, one hard swing will do it."
I nodded, striking down the one Merchant that I absorbed all their memories from.
Immediately, the effect took place. Their body cloaked in a blinding light I had to look away from. When it faded… I heard crying. I looked back down, seeing the formerly adult coyote man was now just a small whimpering newborn pup.
I gently picked up the pup and lightly cradled them. "It's…it's alright." I said softly.
"As for who will tend to them, well, you have options." The Saint said, looking out at all the Breeders. "Birthed or adopted, just tell them to and they will care for the reborn."
"Well…I suppose that works…" I said carefully. "Does Second Chance and Memory Stealer work on them?"
"No. While it would in a sense, reset them, they'd immediately be renowned once they saw someone. And if you used second chance on them, best you don't. Code runs far deeper than these two Keyblades can reach."
"Crap…" I sighed. "Well…it was worth a shot…"