04.08.2023
It is I, the Absolute Madman and I'm back with your weekly dose of Stranded! But first, my weekly dose of answering your comments!:
Fourthwallbreaker - (I took the liberty to spell your name correctly) First of - long time no see man! I was almost tempted to start fixing that wall you took out last time, but I knew you'd come back eventually! Yes, we have a cat-like daughter! It's a good thing that cats are know for being very calm, collected, domestic and orderly. We don't need another person causing chaos around these parts, right?
Rain Dance Jam - If I ever make a smut version of Stormy she's 100% calling him Izu daddy. This intrusive thought is occupying my brain at the moment, but I swore to keep the daughters out of the harem equation!
marc1970 - Damn, reading 150k+ words in two days is some real commitment! And the spaceship is a convenient way to set up some sort of a coherent ending for this story. One alternative that I was debating early on was having Izuku and the girls find some strange temple in the jungle and discover a portal leading back home which would be the eventual endgame for the story. However, things happened and the plot evolved hence we now have me as a canon event.
Comments responded to, so let's dive into the chapter! Crack warning though!:
There were a lot of thoughts swirling in both Izuku and Shiozaki's heads, but they pushed those momentary distractions to the back of their minds for the time being and focused on returning to their hidden valley. This was quite the important discovery and as such they needed to notify the others as soon as possible.
Finishing the breakfast whilst acting as if nothing strange happened was quite hard, but they pulled through nevertheless and soon enough were on their merry way. They had to admit, not having the hair on their napes standing at attention all the time was a much needed breath of fresh air.
They kept a close watch on Stormy, finding many similarities between her and Shuusa. Quick side note - would they be technically correct if they called the two sisters? It kinda sorta made sense since they were both created by the same person. Although, since they were two models from vastly different series, wouldn't it be better to call them cousins? Wait, did that mean that Izuku was now a dad and an uncle?! And the girls became aunts!
"Better not tell them that right away or they'll flip out!" Izuku quickly thought to himself as he came to the realization of what would follow if he were to let this information slip. Chaos. Chaos would inevitably ensue.
He was very thankful that the girls really took to the whole sharing thing as well as they did and didn't try to become either his or Shuusa's favorites. With the title of aunt thrown into the mix however, things could spiral out of control if they weren't careful.
The casual - and devoid of all sense of being in danger - journey back was even more pleasant than they expected, though it obviously paled in comparison with the two nights they spent together. Nights that both Izuku and Shiozaki would want to equally forget and commit to memory forever.
Izuku didn't want to see Shiozaki in a different light now that he realized what a bombshell she was and hoped to continue their respectful relationship by forgetting all the things he saw, heard and most importantly touched during this expedition of theirs. At the same time though, he simply couldn't stop reminiscing about the warmth of her body, the juicy softness of her skin or the feeling of her in his arms. Still, he wouldn't do anything in either direction unless he was completely sure it was something that Shiozaki herself wanted.
On the other side of the barricade we have Shiozaki, who was facing a conveniently similar conundrum right about this time. She tried desperately to purge the images of Izuku's sculpted body from her mind and erase all memories of what they did to stay warm as it went against many things she was taught from a very young age. She also wanted to forget about the part where she deliberately ruined perfectly dry blankets just to get another chance at finding herself in Izuku's powerful protective embrace. It's that very same embrace however that firmly cemented all of those things she wanted to remember in her mind. She felt so safe and loved even when so intimately close to him! It wasn't just physical either. Shiozaki really felt a connection in those moments, though whether it was merely Izuku's heartbeat resonating with hers or something much more remains an unsolved mystery.
Confused, but ultimately determined to never let their relationship deteriorate the way it did previously, the duo continued their trip back home, eager to take their mind off of each other and try to get to the bottom of the mystery that was Stormy.
Finding the entrance to their hidden valley took a few moments since they had to circle the whole thing around to arrive at the nearest exit, but getting in was as easy as ever.
Shiozaki pioneered the way, followed closely by the rowdy Stormy and with Izuku watching their back, also making sure that Stormy didn't try to worm her way out of this situation for some absurd reason. She seemed pretty relaxed for most of the time, but it didn't hurt to be cautious when dealing with unknown variables.
Once Izuku crossed over into the valley he saw Shiozaki standing completely still like a marble statue and Stormy covering her eyes with her hands - though he was pretty sure that she had her fingers spread out and could still see fairly well. Both of them were sporting atomic blushes, ones that could easily put many of his to shame even if he was giving it his all.
Izuku wondered as to what would cause them to start acting so strangely all of a sudden, but one quick glance deeper into the valley provided him with all the answers he needed.
"Get back here!" A very topless Momo shouted with a massive blush on her face.
"Nuh uh!" An equally topless Mina responded, running away with what seemed to be a very large bra in her hands.
The picture was completed by Kyouka - who thankfully was wearing her entire swimsuit and not just the bottom part - whose eyes were firmly glued to Momo's Bouncing Bountiful Boobas, Itsuka who seemed to be done with caring about stuff, Tooru who chose to focus on sunbathing - topless of course, because why not - and Kodai who was simply laying in the shade and enjoying the warm breeze along with Shuusa.
"One, two, three, four, five, seven plus me and Shiozaki, that's nine in total. Someone's missing…" Izuku quickly realized. He was too focused on figuring out who was hiding to feel that missing person sneaking up from behind.
Setsuna grinned deviously as she approached Izuku from behind, trailing her fingers around his midsection before quickly diving down, using his mostly erect dick as a springboard and imitating a diver with her hand. It would've been way cooler if she could actually detach her hand and have her dive from Izuku's cock but that's an idea that they could explore later. As in 'once we get back to Japan' kind of later.
"Nice cock G!" Setsuna complimented with the biggest grin she could manage without exploding with laughter seconds later.
"What the fuck did we come back to?" Izuku thought to himself as his soul left his body for some very much needed vacation.
Getting that rowdy bunch back in line was a task for sure - one of the tasks of all time in fact! - but it didn't deter our harem protagonist from succeeding. Although he had some trouble thinking due to excessive amounts of blood gathering far away from his brain. Setsuna - being the helpful lizard she was - offered her help of course, but Izuku already had plans for her so he tactfully declined before bringing order to the chaos.
Bringing order to the chaos included catching Mina and handing the generously sized bra back to Momo who took it immediately and hastily put it on. Next up was putting their respective bras on Mina and Tooru. It did some convincing - and a promise or two - but they eventually agreed to cover themselves adequately. Izuku was quite curious as to where the girls actually took those swimsuits from, but he opted to leave that question for later. The last - and probably the hardest - thing to do was getting Shiozaki out of her perfect statue cosplay. Thankfully Shuusa was already around and she volunteered to make some smelling salts to help her dad out.
The salts worked a bit too well however and resulted in Shiozaki almost passing out on the spot. They were somehow able to stabilize her fortunately and so they could finally gather around and share their discoveries with everyone.
Izuku was the main storyteller with Shiozaki offering her input here and there, both parties valiantly avoiding mentioning anything that transpired in the cave. There was an uproar once Izuku revealed that Stormy was their mysterious stalker all along, but the voices of surprise were quickly silenced since the most important part of the story was yet to come.
Eventually Izuku was able to retell everything that had happened including the wild chase across the forest, saving Stormy's life and finding out who - or rather what - Stormy really was.
That last reveal of course elicited an even bigger uproar and many gasps from the audience, but that quickly gave way to the girls frantically staring at Shuusa, then at Stormy and then back at Shuusa.
"What?" An agitated Stormy asked with her arms crossed, confusion written all over her face.
"So you two are basically sisters?" Mina was the first one to point out the connection.
"Sisters?" Stormy question with even more confusion before finally taking a look at the other girl. "Wait a minute… No way! 627069 is that you?!" Stormy exclaimed with a shocked smile.
The dark-haired girl quickly jumped right through the middle of their circle and plopped herself down directly next to Shuusa before anyone could even realize what had happened.
"It really is you!" Stormy shouted once she confirmed a couple of things. "Thank Omnissiah! I was so worried when I lost all communications with you! Where have you been all this time?!" Stormy bombarded the other girl with questions.
The others could only watch this strange interaction from the sidelines, too dumbfounded to act. Well, at least the two seemed to know each other so they had successfully confirmed Stormy to be the second rogue automaton that Martin mentioned when he introduced them to his Gaia Project.
"I got lost after losing connection to the grid. At least that's what I think happened…" Shuusa explained, though her words lacked certainty. "Thankfully father found me and took care of me." She added with a small smile and pointed towards Izuku.
Now the turns have been tabled and all eyes were on Izuku. And I really mean all eyes.
"You." Stormy said simply before once again crossing their circle and dashing straight towards Izuku. "What did you do to her?!" She demanded with a furious scowl on her face.
Izuku was caught off guard, first by suddenly having all of the attention directed at him and then by having Stormy stare him down from inside his personal space. She was way too close for comfort and way too angry for Izuku's tastes but before he could try and do something about either of those things, Shuusa stepped up to the plate.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing?!" Shuusa suddenly raised her voice, catching everyone - Stormy included - by surprise. She was usually nearly as calm as Kodai so to hear her shout like that was a shock to everyone.
"Well, didn't he kidnap you or something like that?" A surprisingly flustered Stormy asked, a blush creeping onto her cheeks.
"Did you really not listen to what I said? I told you that father found me and took care of me." Shuusa repeated her previous statement firmly, hoping to stop any further violent outburst from happening.
She was more or less successful depending on how you look at it. Shuusa managed to stop things from turning violent, but couldn't contain Stormy's following outburst.
"F-Father?!" She exclaimed with wide eyes and an even more flustered expression.
Once that sisterly reunion was going south, north and everywhere in between, Izuku and the girls finally managed to process the amount of crazy that was going on around them and regained their ability of logical thinking.
Izuku sneakily made his way towards Momo to propose a likely solution to the issue at hand. It was painfully obvious that they were way out of their league on this one and they probably won't be able to contain Stormy all on their own so it was time to call for some backup.
Martin responded to their call right away, his reaction speed eerily quick which prompted some of them to think that he was actually anticipating their call but they decided not to dwell on that thought to retain some semblance of sanity, which - with all the crazy floating around lately - was a very scarce resource to come by. Hehe, come.
Momo had yet to construct anything even remotely resembling a clock, but if they had to guess it took somewhere between five to ten minutes for Martin to arrive in all of his metal glory. Everyone decided to ignore the fact that he was piloting yet another vastly different suit of armor. What they couldn't ignore however was the presence of a second armor.
Martin left the safety of his creation immediately after landing and the group more or less expected the second pilot to do the same, but were left waiting for an extended period of time before Martin eventually caught onto their expectations.
"Sorry guys, my secretary is piloting that one and she'd prefer to save her grand introduction for another time." Martin explained with a grin.
Izuku and the girls all nodded to confirm having received the answer, but then something unexpected happened. Martin's secretary took a couple of steps forward, stopping right next to her boss with the right arm of the suit raised before slapping the man in the back of his hand with seemingly no holds barred. Now, the slap itself would be quite shocking in and of itself, but Martin's reaction - or rather lack thereof - really took everyone by surprise.
"You're the one who said that we keep my identity hidden for the sake of your future theatrics!" A clearly feminine - though slightly muffled - voice sounded from inside the armor.
This brief and very chaotic interaction gave Izuku and the girls a chance to check the secretary's armor from head to toe and that's exactly what they did. The armor itself didn't have any immediately noticeable features that would allow them to distinguish it from the previous ones. It definitely wasn't tailored to a female pilot due to the obvious lack of anime-styled boob armor, though the chest area was still the main focus of the design with a bright red cross painted right in the middle of the otherwise bone-white armor. The cross itself split onto the legs and arms of the suit, creating sharply contrasting lines that worked really well to bring the whole thing together.
"So, I got your message and thought that I'd bring a mobile lab with me so that I can give you some answers right away. It kinda takes all the fun out of it but I let you cook long enough with my final evaluation of Shuusa." Martin explained as if nothing overly violent didn't just happen and in turn slapped the shoulder of his secretary's armor. "That's where Doc comes in. It's nowhere near as sophisticated as what I got over on the Harrier, but it'll do."
Once again, Martin was way too casual about all of this, but that's probably how he was all the time. It really did make you wonder just what shit he's seen already to no longer be phased by pretty much anything. Well, it's probably wise not to dive into that rabbit hole, or any rabbit hole really. Unless we're talking about Mirko, cause god damn if that's not a good way to die!
"Alright, Martha, be a dear, take a blood sample and run some scans, alright?" Martin ordered, though he was kind enough to phrase it like a request.
The secretary - whom they now knew to be called Martha - obliged silently and approached Stormy rather rapidly for someone operating a metal suit of armor. A couple of hidden compartments opened as she walked, revealing scientific instruments, some of which even Momo had a hard time recognizing.
Stormy was surprisingly obedient and didn't cause any more disruptions as Martha took a sample of her blood and started running some scans. Martin went back to his own suit and opened the holographic display built into its left arm to have a look at the data coming from Martha's analysis.
Izuku and the rest huddled closely behind Martin, waiting patiently for him to share his discoveries with them. They heard him murmur to himself for quite some time before Martha eventually walked over and slapped him in the head once again.
"Oh, right, audience." Martin suddenly stated before turning abruptly to face the gathered youths. "So, just the fact that we actually managed to take a blood sample from a machine is enough to say that Stormy is no longer a machine. Just like Shuusa. I've absolutely no fucking idea how either of them transformed from automatons to actual humans and I don't even know where to start looking for the answer, so I'm afraid that's a question that will have to remain unanswered. Since Stormy is no longer connected to the main grid, I'm fine with you taking her in as yet another addition to this crazy family of yours." Martin explained everything in a very straightforward manner, acting as nonchalantly as ever.
Izuku and the girls sighed in relief, glad to finally have some confirmation regarding Shuusa's identity. They still had nothing on her origins and that's most likely how it'll have to be, but they didn't really care about that part either way. You don't have to understand someone to love them, right?
Their celebrations were cut short however when Martin sat down amongst them and slowly dragged his gaze over them all, commanding all of their attention for a few more minutes.
"I'm happy that you're happy, but there's something arguably more important than this that I need to talk to you about." Martin stated, effectively silencing any possible interruptions ahead of time. "You probably remember what I told you about the resonance and how you all ended up here, correct?" He waited for them to nod their heads before resuming his monologue. "I've been trying to find the frequency that brought you here in hopes of reversing it to send you home, but my attempts seemed to be way too late and all traces of the first resonance had already dissipated at this point." This reveal, whilst making close to no sense to most members of the audience, made one thing painfully clear - they might not be coming home afterall. Before they could start lamenting about that however, Martin stepped up with a hopeful alternative. "What I'm about to say might sound crazy, but it's the truth, so listen closely. As you already know, the universe in very fucking large and ever-expanding. It's been scientifically proven that it's very long and even wider than that. One thing that most worlds have yet to realize is that the universe is also very deep."
Martin was right - that really did sound crazy - but also somehow made sense? Seeing the confusion on their faces he couldn't help but elaborate in order to get his point across and make the next part of his monologue easier to explain.
"I'm talking about what most of you know as the multiverse. You know, that spiderman meme turned into a movie, canon event and all that jazz?" It seemed that breaking down complex explanations down to their most basic forms and throwing in a pop-culture reference was the way to go.
Various expressions of realization flashed across the faces of his audience before morphing into a collective display of shock. Martin kind of expected that to be the case, not many people would believe him at first.
"Are you implying that the multiverse is a real thing?" Momo, being the smartest-ass of the group questioned, disbelief written all over her face, though it was being overshadowed by a strong innate sense of curiosity.
Martin, being a very curious madman himself, had great respect for that notion and decided to humor the girl.
"I'm not implying anything, I'm spitting straight facts." Martin corrected her with a smirk. "I'll never get tired of watching people melt down at the realization of their own insignificance." He thought to himself, though he could already sense that Martha was about to slap him again, so he continued talking. "Come back down to us for a few more minutes." Martin ordered and was thankfully able to get Momo out of her nigh catatonic state. "Alright, now that you know that the multiverse is a real thing, I need your help in figuring out which Earth you're from." Martin stated, his armor walking up behind him and dispensing a holographic notebook and a pen. "I'll ask you some very specific questions, some of which- most of which you'll dismiss as trivial, but keep in mind that there is an infinite amount of multiverses that resemble yours down to the tiniest minute details." He warned them and continued only once he was sure that his words were not only heard but most importantly understood. "Splendid! Let's get this interrogation started!" Martin exclaimed with a grin.
Izuku and the girls didn't have a clue what questions they were about to hear, but it wouldn't matter anyways since they couldn't really prepare for something like that. Instead they opted to buckle up and prepare for a very wild ride.
I felt cracky today, so you get a really fucked up chapter. I hope you still enjoyed it though!
So, as I probably already spoiled somewhere in the past, this story is going to be a part of my own multiverse of fanfics. The multiverse itself won't be a crucial part of this story or anything like that, but this story will be a part of the multiverse as a whole. It'll probably make a sense somewhere down the line if we even get that far. All you have to know for this story is - there are many different Earths, each one with their own sets of Izuku and the girls so now Martin has to find the correct Earth to send them back to. Till that happens however they'll need to endure some hardships, angst, smut and most importantly bullshit on this planet before being able to go back home. We're nowhere near the end though mind you, so you don't have to worry about Stranded ending in a month or two!
Damn, that was a paragraph and a bit. Thankfully it was quite smooth to write. And you know what else is smooth? My transition to wishing you-
Have a great day and I'll catch y'all in the next update!