Opening File: Koosland
Koosland, also less commonly known as Planet Koos, is within the realm of Dee Dee's imagination and has been a birthing ground for philanthropic imaginary friends since she was a baby through her Semblance. This gave birth to the imaginary kingdom of Koosland. Koosland is an imaginary land filled with happiness and joy and fun adventures full of colors and sparkling magic and cartoonish fairy tale-like wonder. Dee Dee has the ability to make whatever she imagines real inside Koosland, and she has a portal to her not-so-imaginary land hidden through her imaginary friend Koosy.
Koosland is an imaginary world of happiness, beauty, where cute, harmless creatures live. Koosy is one of the most known inhabitants of Koosland who is also Dee-Dee's favorite.
Close File
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"Imagination is something we all are gifted with when we are born. It gives us the capacity for ideas and from those ideas we can evolve from living in caves to traveling in space ships. Imagination is what gives knowledge and wisdom the power to remake the world in our image." TOM said as the file closed. "It's with us when we are children and it remains us through our entire lives, even if we don't look like we rely on it anymore. Imagination can be the greatest gift, perhaps the greatest friend we can ever have."
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"Okay, we know where Fuzen's main headquarters is located thanks to Mrs. Sanban." Doc said, looking at the holographic map projected from his wrist computer. "We're close. It should be right about…here."
"I can confirm it." Genki pointed up.
The Saturdays followed her finger and spotted the Hibagon climbing to the top of Fuzen Headquarters.
"Guess his vengeance wasn't so easy after all." Drew commented.
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Mizuki reached the floor where Fuzen's office was and spotted the man sitting at his desk. With one swing of his mighty arm he smashed through the window. Fuzen screamed and hid behind his desk as the Hibagon landed on the floor.
"'You're a fine creature.' Your exact words, I believe." Mizuki growled as he tossed the desk out of the way and grabbed Fuzen…
Only for his hand to pass through Fuzen.
It was a hologram!
"Indeed I did." A voice said from behind.
Mizuki spun around in time to face a blast of lightning that slammed into his chest, electrifying his body as he fell to his knees, screaming in pain.
Fuzen stepped forward, wearing his Azure Samurai armor, his gauntlet firing the lightning blast at the Hibagon. "The mind controlling the creature, not so much."
Mizuki howled as Fuzen's lightning attack increased in power.
"You cost me a great deal tonight, Professor Mizuki. I have a lot of unhappy clients because of you." Fuzen stepped forward, pulling out his sword with his other hand. "Fortunately I believe you can still compensate me for the loss."
"Fuzen!" The crime lord turned his head, spotting Genki as she jumped through the broken window and quickly blocked her sword aimed at his head.
Up above the Saturdays were on the roof, ready to move in and help Genki and Mizuki. At least until Fuzen's thugs came out onto the roof, surrounding them.
"Do you think they were expecting us?" Zak asked, holding his Claw in both hands.
Shoko stepped through the surrounding thugs with her tiger flanking her. "Yes, we were."
The tiger growled, licking its lips at Fisk who growled back.
"Time to party boys." Shoko pulled out her combat knife and the fight began.
Fuzen growled as he clashed with Genki. "I've been waiting a long time for this, Sanban! If I have to lose my empire, I will make sure you lose as well!"
He launched a series of quick slashes at Genki who expertly blocked each and every one. "We will see about that." She said and kicked him back several feet.
Fuzen turned and ran out of the office with Genki hot on his trail. He rushed out into a large room, displaying various antiques he had…acquired over the years. He spun around, facing Genki as she caught up, parrying a slash from her.
"You think you might have me but I assure you I have the best lawyers in my pocket. Even if you do capture me my time in jail will be brief." Fuzen snarled as their swords sang, sparks flying with each clash.
"Not as brief as your time in the hospital." Genki retorted as she caught him in a blade lock and began to push him back.
Fuzen snarled, breaking the deadlock as his security entered, taking aim at Genki. "Blast her!"
The men raised their wrist guns and fired but Genki was already on the move. After sheathing her blade she aimed at the nearest guard and ejected the sword, causing its hilt to collide with his center of mass hard enough to launch him off his feet. Genki held the empty scabbard out so that the sword landed back in it, and then grabbed the injured thug and threw him over her shoulder at two more of Fuzen's men, knocking them down.
"She's only a single woman! Kill her!" Fuzen shouted in frustration, unable to believe that twenty armed men couldn't kill one Huntress, Demon Blade of the East or not.
'A single woman?' Genki thought with a smirk as she leapt into the air, twisting her body to dodge the red plasma blasts and spun her body to deliver two kicks that knocked two of Fuzen's men down.
She then dashed forward and drove her knee into a nearby thug's face, sending them flying into a wall and knocking them out.
She looked around, smirking at the intimidated thugs. "Still think you can defeat me?"
She unsheathed her sword and spun around, blocking a slash from behind by Fuzen. The two grappled for a second before Genki kicked the armored crime lord back.
"It is your choice, Fuzen. You can surrender and live or fight…" Genki held her sword in both hands now. "And meet your destiny."
"Spare me your bushido nonsense!" Fuzen shouted and charged at her. "Die!"
The two engaged in a fierce sword battle that almost appeared evenly matched but it was clear Genki was the superior warrior despite Fuzen's battle armor granting him enhanced speed and strength. Despite this he wasn't able to land more than a glancing blow against Genki, who put him off balance more than once by firing her sword from its scabbard at point blank range, usually into his armored chest or face. The Dust enhanced blunt force impact was felt through the azure plating. After sixty odd seconds of continuous, intense combat the two broke apart with only some scratches and bumps to show for it, with Fuzen worse off between the two of them but still ready to continue.
"You will…not defeat me." He growled, breathing heavily as they slowly circled one another. "My dynasty will not end here, Sanban!"
"Oh Fuzen," Genki sighed sadly and returned her sword to its scabbard, "it's already over. You won't be able to shuffle the consequences of your actions under the rug, not like before. There's no escaping from what happens next."
Fuzen's entire body shook with barely constrained rage before he unleashed a wild battle cry and charged forth, weapon held overhead. Genki waited for him, the picture of serenity in the face of Fuzen's fury.
He brought his blade down towards her. Genki triggered her scabbard's launch mechanism, adding extra power behind her own weapon as she tore it free, the blade coated in a visible aura as it sliced upwards…and severed Fuzen's sword, leaving less than an inch above the guard while the rest of the curved length of metal spun away and impaled itself into a wall.
"You-you…how?" Fuzen dropped the hilt and stared, aghast. "What are you?"
"I'm a mother who had to take time away from her family because of you." Genki replied, and bashed the base of her sword against Fuzen's face hard enough that his helmet's face plate caved in as he was knocked down onto his back, unconscious. "And the one who is sparing you a much worse fate at the hands of one of your victims."
She turned around, watching as the Hibagon stomped into the room and stood between him and the knocked out Fuzen. "Professor, stand down."
"He took everything from me." Mizuki snarled. "He made me a monster!"
"No, you will make yourself a monster if you do this." Genki replied. "Fuzen may have taken your human body but only you decide if you are a monster. I know you believe what you are doing is just, I know you swore to avenge yourself against the man who wronged you, but if you follow through with your revenge you really will have let him won. Being trapped in that body doesn't make you a monster, but rising above the obsession before it consumes is what makes you human."
Mizuki seemingly considered her words before…He knelt down, closing his eyes. "Take him."
Her Semblance told her he had actually listened to her and she smiled, knowing she had saved him from making a horrible mistake.
Back on the roof the thugs Fuzen had sent found themselves losing badly against the Saturday family. Doc punched down any thug near him with his power gauntlet while Drew deflected the incoming laser blasts with her sword. Zon would swoop in and knock down any thug in her sigh while Komodo would trip them with his tail. In the meantime Fisk was wrestling with the white tiger that was with the green skinned one armed girl that was apparently leading Fuzen's security.
Speaking of the green skinned girl…
She lashed forward, landing a blow on Drew that knocked the Saturday matriarch back.
"Mom!" Zak called, launching his claw at the girl.
Shoko smirked and dodged, grabbing the claw with her one hand and spun, pulling Zak off his feet and he flew at her. She delivered a spinning kick that knocked the Saturday boy down hard onto the pavement.
"Zak!" Drew shouted, glaring hatefully at Shoko and retaliated with a series of slashes that forced Shoko to step back and dodge every attack.
Shoko pulled out her combat knife and quickly retaliated against Drew who parried her strikes. The two fought, ignoring the rest of the fighting until Shoko spun around and delivered an elbow strike to Drew's face, knocking her back.
"Mom!" Zak shouted, getting up.
He charged at Shoko with a battle cry but Shoko jumped over him, grabbing him by the back his shirt and as soon as she landed on her feet she swung him over her head, sending him flying at Drew and knocked the two of them down.
"This is just sad." Shoko remarked. "I only have one arm and I'm still wiping the floor with you two."
Drew growled as she stood back up. "One arm is all you're going to have when I'm through with you!"
Shoko perked up the sound of sirens. "Maybe another time." She let out a whistle and the white tiger fighting Fiskerton stopped and ran over to her.
She hopped onto its back and it ran to the edge of the building, leaping off. Drew and Zak ran over to the edge, watching as the tiger leapt from rooftop to rooftop.
"Yeah, you better run!" Zak called out, mostly to make himself feel better.
The rest of Fuzen's thugs lied down on the roof, having been thoroughly defeated by the Saturdays as a police airship hovered over the building.
"So, we count this as a win right?" Zak asked.
His mother threw him a look and he wisely didn't make another joke. "Right."
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"Today was a shock for those inside Independence Mall who came for the chance to be Major Glory's honorary sidekick. Reports coming in now that a group of supervillains infiltrated the mall but were defeated by Major Glory, his fellow Justice Friends and several Hunters that were stationed there as part of the security. Fortunately no one was hurt or killed and the attacking villains were captured and are being sent to prison. Major Glory is currently unavailable for comment at the moment but we are sure more news will be made available very soon."
O'Reilly turned the TV off, grateful his grandson wasn't able to hear it and that he was not interested in watching the news.
He'd need to contact Fergle immediately and make sure him and Dee-Dee were all right.
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"Ah." Fergle sighed; glad to be back home and sitting on his favorite chair. "Now this is how I want to spend the rest of the week."
After being held up by the police and forced to answer their questions he just wanted to rest.
"Are you okay, uncle?" Dee-Dee asked, bringing in some tea to share with her uncle.
"I'm grand. Just glad to be back home." Fergle answered, happily accepted the tea. "What about you, Dee-Dee? How are you?"
Dee-Dee smiled. "I'm great. Just a visit to Koosy's home and I felt so much better."
Fergle looked up. "Koosy's home?"
"Yeah. Koosy has a home planet that I like to visit." Dee-Dee explained.
Normally this would be a cause for concern of her niece's mental health but Fergle knew better than anyone that the Dee-Dee's Semblance was extremely powerful and the Imagination Semblance was capable of extremely powerful feats.
"So, Koosy is your imaginary friend who has an imaginary home." Fergle said slowly.
Dee-Dee nodded. "It's how I came back to help you. I hid inside Koosy's home so you wouldn't send me away like you did everyone else."
"I see." Fergle said, slipping his tea.
He was slowly getting the idea of what Dee-Dee's Imagination Semblance was truly capable of and remembered something his father had told.
'The Imagination Semblance in our family is not only extremely powerful but's always active, from the moment of birth. Given Dee-Dee's own powerful imagination I am certain her Semblance was active even when she was a baby and that it has no doubt already created so much in Dee-Dee's mind.' Old Dexter O'Reilly explained after Dee-Dee first demonstrated her Semblance.
"But only inside her mind, right? It can't affect anything in the real world aside from her imaginary friend." Fergle pointed out. "Right?"
"Friend, Fergle, or friends?"
Fergle stared in shock at his father. "You mean…"
"Inside her mind her Semblance might have gone as far to bring so many creatures like her Koosy to life. It is likely this Koosy serves as the conduit to the source of her Semblance's creations. It's not that uncommon." Old Dexter continued.
"So when she talks about going to this…Koosland she's being truthful?" Fergle did a double take.
"A land in her mind that exists because her imagination combined with the power of her essence, creating something very real. A land that serves as the host of her creations and acts as the conduit for her Semblance." Dexter nodded. "There's no telling the limit of it or any kind of Imagination Semblance that has existed."
'I love that girl but she gives me the biggest of headaches.' Fergle chuckled as he rubbed his head. 'Already immune to my magic and took on supervillains. She really is just like her mother.'
Now he had just to explain to his father why his granddaughter was caught up in a fight with supervillains.
Not entirely something to look forward to.
Xxx
Cleaning up the mess left by his battle with Comrade Red was very quick, considering his speed and strength.
Still Major Glory had work to do.
Right now he was reviewing the footage from the battle in the mall between the various hunters and the Injustice Friends. White Tiger, Capital G and Krunk had secretly been sent there by Sebben after receiving an anonymous call from Comrade Red of all people while Tina and Action Hank acted as his official security. That was five professional heroes and hunters there to the six Injustice Friends when Comrade Red left to battle him.
What really caught his attention were the two children involved in the fight.
Dee-Dee O'Reilly, the heiress to the multi-corporation known as DexLabs who remained behind to help her uncle who had been with her. Fergle O'Reilly had cleared the mall of civilians and took on Dr. Diablos with his niece who managed to stay with him. The girl had summoned a strange creature to aid her against Diablos and with the help of the boy with her they had taken down a member of the Injustice Friends.
The boy was a monkey Faunus named Wallabee Beatles, born in Australia and moved to America a few years ago. He stayed and fought against Dr. Diablos head on and actually put up a good fight. If not for Fergle and Dee-Dee helping him the boy would have lost and most would have been killed. Glory paid special attention to how the boy seemed to vastly increase his speed and strength quickly called up the children's records.
(Name: Wallabee Beatles
Race: Monkey Faunus
Age: Twelve
Semblance: According to his uncle, Wallabee's Semblance allows him to store up Aura within his body overtime and can use it to increase his physical capabilities. The longer he stores Aura the more powerful it becomes when he unleashes it. Due to this Wallabee has put through physical training to ensure his body can handle the amount of power that his Semblance stores.)
(Name: Dee-Dee
Race: Human
Age: Twelve
Semblance: Dexter O'Reilly believes that Dee-Dee's Semblance has the power to bring anything she imagines to life and believes she is capable of much more. Further study required.)
That was a powerful Semblance and he was already aware of the Imagination Semblance that the O'Reilly heiress had.
Still, their bravery combined with the skill and strength they showed in the mall made them the perfect candidates to be Major Glory's sidekick and his future successor. He considered the effect transferring his powers would have on them.
With Wally it was likely his powers would continue to grow due to the effect of his Semblance. If his powers grew too much it might end up destroying the boy long before he could transfer them to a new host. There was also the fact that the Beatles boy had not even come to the mall for the audition in the first place. Still, given the right training he could become an extremely powerful Hunter to the point he'd be on par with the Justice Friends one day.
With Dee-Dee…It was hard to even imagine what his powers would be like combined with her Imagination Semblance. A Semblance with power to give life to anything in the girl's mind mixed with the Spirit of America could lead to a new hero far more powerful than its predecessors.
Two possible candidates out of the hundred he had seen.
'I believed I would be lucky enough to even find one but two? More than I ever thought.' Glory thought with a smile. "Better make the offer."
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"You should have seen it, Dad. I had those bad guys begging for mercy when I was done with 'em!"
"Sounds like you were brave, sport." Sid Beatles said, smiling as he patiently listened to his son's tale. "You must have impressed that Glory bloke."
Wally shrugged. "Meh, maybe. He kind of took off to fight that red guy."
"So you don't plan on saying yes to him if he asks you to be his sidekick?" Sid chuckled.
"No way!" Wally shook his head. "Look, I like the guy because he kicks bad guy butt."
"Not even if he offered to give you super powers like him?"
"Any guy who does that is okay with me but I am not a sidekick and even if he offered the same powers he's got I'd still say no. I want to be strong but I wouldn't do by doing a sidekick. I'd do it by getting strong my own with my own hands!" Wally punched a fist in the air. "I don't need fancy super powers to be as strong as those justice blokes. I can be as strong as them, stronger than all of them! Just watch me and I'll prove it!"
Sid smiled, brushing his hand through his son's hair much to the boy's displeasure. "Yeah, I believe you will, son. Why not you go tell your friends what happened?"
Wally smiled. "Yeah, I will!"
He rushed over to the phone and dialed the number for the Uno home.
A woman answered the phone. "Hello?"
"Hi, it's Wallabee Beatles here. Are Nigel and Abby around?"
"Oh, Wally. It's good to hear your voice." The woman on the other end, Nigel's mother sounded upset. "I'm afraid Nigel and Abby are not around."
Wally looked at the phone. "Huh? I thought they'd be back by now."
"They would be. They left with my husband to go fishing like they do on every Sunday but…They never came back."
"What?!" Wally gaped.