As we approached the ship, we noticed a few things. One… it was big. Like, maybe half the size of the Turtles. Second, the outside was something stone like but it was floating on some kind of power…
"Wow…" Meg said as we all were looking up at it. "I can feel the Gravity fuckery from here…"
"The fact you can sense that is concerning…" Holy said.
"Well…this doesn't look like any ship I've seen before." I admitted, putting that question to myself to rest. "So, wonder who's manning this giant thing."
"... Aliens." Meg said.
"Meg technically speaking we're all Aliens…. This reality is full of aliens…" Romero said.
"Even more Aliens…" Meg said.
"Well she's no help. Anywho, should I fly up there or what?"
I decided to SAVE real quick. "Well, it's a ship so why don't we try to hail the thing." I said.
"How?" Holy asked. "We basically sailed right under it and it or whoever is on it hasn't done shit."
"Then I'll fly up there." I said. "Given they haven't attacked yet means they're at least somewhat friendly…" I said, using Float and flying up high towards the weird ship.
I was accompanied by Romero. We landed on top of the hull. This close we noticed it was caked in a layer of dirt and wrapped in old roots.
"This thing looks like it was in the ground before showing up here…" Romero hummed as we walked around the top of it.
"Yet somehow it's working perfectly fine…" I hummed, searching for any hatches or something to let us into this thing.
As I was walking around here, Romero burned away some of the roots and dirt-
"Hey, neat, it is metal." I heard him say.
I turned and saw that the burned away part was indeed a very shiny, slightly worn metal.
"Huh…" I said, brushing aside some of the dirt…the metal was all black. "Hey, did this thing look like a giant cube to you?" I asked. "Cause if so…than either this is some weird monolith like thing…or it's the world's biggest Black Box…"
"Weird ass black box. I mean, it's kinda blocky but not a square. Hmm…" Romero hummed, blasting the exposed metal part with his fire some more. When he stopped the metal was still intact. "Well that's new…"
"Something that can withstand a simple blast from your fire without a scratch? That is new." I admitted.
"Not just that…" Romero hummed as he walked over, tapping the spot with his hand. "I can kinda sense magic in this thing. In the metal itself…"
"Okay…" I frowned, brushing more of the dirt aside and seeing if I could Scan this thing now that I got a better look without all the dirt and roots.
[Scan Error!]
Now that is new…
"Uh…so I got a Scan error…" I said carefully.
"Sounds like whatever this stuff is made out of doesn't like being scanned… hmm…" Romero hummed as he stood up and walked over some more of the taller bits of the upper hull. "Hey I think I see an entrance… hang on!" He said. There was then an explosion of fire and heat.
When it died down I got up there and saw for myself… this is a runway, the kind for something landing or taking off… and I can see a doored off entrance.
"Right, so this is the runway…so where's all the planes?" I frowned, finding this place weirdly…empty.
"Well, if this thing was underground, probably tucked away in the hanger but I doubt this used planes…" Romero said as we walked up to the large doors.
"True…hmm…" I hummed, looking over the place as I followed along to the doors.
We walked up to the doors. Romero and I shared a look before he shrugged and knocked on them. "Pizza delivery!" He added.
I gave him a deadpan look. "Really?"
"You'd be amazed how many times that actually worked for me." He replied.
"I really shouldn't be surprised." I admitted.
The doors did in fact open. We backed up. On guard just in- OH MY GOD!
"Hello? I was unaware we had guests. The system must still have issues…"
I blinked. I looked at Romero, who also Blinked in shock. Standing before us was the humanoid vibranium robot with the power of the mind stone himself… Vision.
"... Well, sued by Disney is a new one for me…" Romero muttered.
"Uh…well, I didn't expect to see Vision today…"
"Oh, you know of me?" Vision asked. "Well, still allow me to introduce myself. I am Vision, first mate of The Eternity."
"Right and The Eternity is… this big ass ship right?" Romero asked.
"Correct. An Archival Vessel with a single goal, archive all life across the universe."
"Well…I suppose I was right with this thing being a Black Box." I admitted. "But I have a question…do you know where you are?" I inquired.
"Unfortunately no. All our communication systems and satellites are offline at the moment." Vision said.
"We are definitely in another realm."
…
Floating from the doors was a skeleton… with a familiar amulet around it's neck and magic cape…
"... Why hello Doctor Steven Stranger Things." Romero said without missing a beat.
Don't laugh…
"W-well…" I coughed, trying to get myself under control. "You are currently on Armageddon, where it hates Signals of every kind unless it stays on planet…and this planet is the amalgamation of every End of the World Scenario one can think of." I explained. "My name is David Alchem, current King of New Earth, and this is one of my Advisor's, David Romero."
"Sup." Romero nodded.
"And currently you are above my Land turtles, so do you need help?" I inquired.
"We will mostly need to repair the damages to the systems and once that is done, figure more things out. Perhaps it is best if you two met the Captains, Strange what are you doing?"
I turned and saw the undead Steven Strange was looking over Romero.
"What manner of creatures are you?" Steven Strange hummed.
"Eh, explained that so much I honestly don't want to explain it." Romero said with a huff.
"He is a Nokori, basically a soul fusion between a magic item, an animal or magical creature, and a human." I explained. "Some are average and super fluffy, other's are lucky enough to have the power of an entire fucking Galaxy at their finger tips and still think chugging a pint of ice cream to cure a hangover was a good idea."
"It was one time…" Romero grumbled.
"Incredible." Strange said.
"Meh." Romero huffed. "So is there anyone else from Marvel's cast of…"
I turned to see what made him pause and blinked yet again as I saw what appeared to be a blue holographic Tony Stark appear.
"How are you here Stark?" Vision asked.
"I got free roam of the ship now. Now there's nowhere you can hide from me." The hologram Tony said with a smirk.
"So…this Reality works on a lot of different rules…" I said sheepishly.
"I've seen this comic, I want one reason not to nuke this ship." Romero said pointing at the hologram Tony.
"A nuke alone would not scratch The Eternity." Vision stated.
"I can do more."
"That won't work either." I said, having Romero look at me. "If my Knowledge of Marvel Comic's means anything…no, you literally can't do a damn thing to this." I said.
"And rather than explain why you're just gonna say I can't because comic logic is somehow applying here?"
"Because you have the power of a Galaxy at your finger tips, they have the power of Infinity, hell, they probably have something that makes this beyond infinity, cause Marvel is bullshit like that." I said. "Well, at least the Comics cause…boy fucking howdy…"
"Wow you really overestimated us." Tony AI chuckled.
"We did come across some entities in the past that used some kind of power of abstract but the Captains dealt with them." Vision said.
"None of that made sense to me, all I need to know is how many more of the now Disney owned franchise are in there?" Romero asked.
"Just us." Doctor Strange said.
"Alright, that's fair." I said, though I was confused by what the AI meant by 'overestimated'. "Hmm…well, what is in this place?" I inquired.
"The rest of the crew that are all working on repairs, the Garden, The Zoo, The Prison, Armory, Quarters, Cafeteria, storage, engine room, ECT." Vision said.
"Right so who are you captai-" Romero started. His wings suddenly flared out and without hesitation blasted into the open doors.
I swear I saw stars forming in his fire that time!
The explosion managed to rattle the ship.
"Dude the hell!" I shouted. "We're trying to be friendly no-" I then leaped away as Danger Sense was practically screaming at me. "Okay…what the fuck…"
"Interesting." A low voice that spoke with age and authority spoke. Echoing from the smoke as I could hear footsteps.
What walked out of the smoke were the charred skeleton of…something but as flesh regrew over their body the bones changed shape and grew and shrink until they looked human, actually, they looked like an albino black haired version of Romero, completely with the avian feet, feathers and skeletal wings.
Vision gave a bow. "Captain Death, you've assumed a new form."
"In honor of the new guest. Rare I see a Phoenix with such power."
Captain… Death…
"Why...why are the Captain's the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?" I asked in fear, knowing that if one of the bastards was here, either the other three were not far behind or they were already here.
"Three." Death stated, giving me a glance. "There's myself, my sister Famine, and my brother Pestilence. War is… the black sheep of our family."
"You're… actually Death… no wonder my primal instincts went off. Last time that happened was when Alex became a 'god'." Romero said.
"Yes. You who embodies endless cycles, rebirth and creation, and I who is the end of all things. Ironic given this ship is made for the preservation of life, life War wishes to destroy."
"Strange that your brother War isn't here." I said carefully. "So…what are your siblings like?"
"Famine is a major foodie and Pestilence is a man whore."
"Pff- Ha!" Romero laughed.
"Well…I suppose…" I said with a shrug. "So…sorry about that Captain…it's not everyday one literally meets an embodiment of Death."
"Not the worst way I've been welcomed." He shrugged. He then took a deep breath of the air and sighed but grew a small smile. "Tell me… do you know of a Group known as The Family?"
"Yes, they are the ruling body of this entire Reality." I answered. "Where they are and how to talk to them…I don't know."
"That is fine. Fact is, if we are here, then odds are War is as well. And that, is quite the concern." Death stated. "Vision, how soon until the repairs are done?"
"Three days." Vision said.
"That will have to do. So, you're the… king of the World Turtles below?" Death asked as he looked over at me properly now.
I felt a cold chill rush down my spine when he did.
"Y-yes." I said, trying to grow a spine here. "I am the king of the turtles down there, while ultimately small in this ever expansive Reality and possibly infinite sized planet…it's something"
"I see. What's your population? I sense a pocket dimension down there so I assume your true kingdom hides within?"
"Well…yes and…uh…may I ask why?" I asked nervously.
"Isn't it obvious?" He asked with a smirk. "If War is here as well and the fact this Planet is called Armageddon as you say, the air is ripe with death and blood, then you're going to need our help. My ship has one primary goal, Archive Life across the universe, but now we're no longer in my universe it seems. So, time to begin it's the second purpose of our ship. Rebuilding life. May not be across the universe as intended, but something tells me there's more than enough to both explore and rebuild here."
"Yes and…yes." I nodded. "Though I am concerned cause there is this group of people called Violence…" I said nervously.
"Hold on, let me guess what their MO," Tony AI started. "They sell girl scout cookies?"
"And if you say no they try and throw genetic abominations of battle at you until you say yes." I chuckled.
"Sounds interesting. This is gonna be fun." Death said. "Pestilence! Famine! Get out here!"
There was a sudden rush of all kinds of insects big and small that collected into a pile that then melted and molded into a human form. Clothes included. Pestilence was a well fit, but also not to large male that dressed in what looked like a black T-Shirt with pants and boots, yellow eyes and black hair.
Walking out from the shop was a woman that had tan caramel skin with bound red hair, golden eyes and she had a… full bodied figure standing at a towering eight feet tall… Famine?
"Sup bro?" Pestilence asked.
"We're in the realm of The Family, and we have work to do." Death said.
"Hope the food is tasty." Famine said with a smirk.
"The food is amazing and uh…I didn't expect either of you to look…like this…" I said carefully.
"What were you expecting?" Pestilence asked.
"Not…this to be honest." I motioned to both of them. "But this is also the first time I've met a version of the Horsemen so what do I know?"
"Versions?" Death asked. "Others like us exist here?"
"Most likely, yeah." Romero nodded, shooing the undead Dr. Strange away from him.
"So, I…honestly don't know the size of my new population now that I have an entire planet that keeps growing…" I said carefully. "But thank you for the help."
"Doesn't Township tell you?" Romero asked.
Oh… it should actually…
[Current Population: 6,921,133,098
World Turtle Population Requirements Met!
Pocket Dimension Requirements Met!
Check details for evaluations and expansion options!]
Oh crap I forgot all about those! Wait I can upgrade the pocket dimension?!
"Uh…okay, so I completely forgot, we have close to seven seven billion people and…let's see what evaluation and expansion's I can do…" I said, bringing up the Township screen to see how I can upgrade all this stuff.
"What is… Township?" Death asked.
"Some super special bullshit sim city builder power Alchem got." Romero said.
"Yeah, it's not fully bullshit technically, it just became bullshit because of Empire." I said honestly. "So…you three are going to need a lot of explanations…"
"Already bored. Taking the quick and easy way." Pestilence said, suddenly in front of me and grabbing me by the shoulders. I only got a yelp out before he kissed me… tongued me and woah…
That's new…
He broke the kiss, giving me a smirk.
"Must you extract information that way? Just touching them is enough." Famine said.
"This is more fun, and this she-male is one kinky bitch." Pestilence said. "I mean, I've done kinkier but still, impressive for a mortal."
"Give a hermaphrodite some warning next time." I admitted. "And uh…that was mildly new…"
"I have a lot of experience with lots of species~"
"I…can imagine." I said carefully. "So, just need to make physical contact to do some weird memory transfer thing?"
"Among other things~" He said, giving me a wink.
"Say no if you value your self worth and pelvis." Famine said.
"Why must you cock block me sis?" Pestilence asked.
"Someone has to."
"Oh…then uh…keep him away from Tony…" I said carefully.
"I already know who that is thanks to you." Pestilence said with a smirk.
"Keep it together Pestilence. We have work to do and things to learn. I'm excited to see what kind of new possibilities and ventures are in this world of the All Makers." Death said with a smirk.
"Unless you magically find it, you can do basically anything and everything." I said honestly. "But what I should do is get you all apart of Township, it's an important thing to also help a lot of others understand you're all friendly."
"I suppose that is fair." Death nodded. "What must be done?"
Alright so open up Township, and-
[Notice! Recruitment of Death, Famine, Pestilence, and the Eternity Crew will result in new options within the Township Creation Menu!
Total Eternity Crew Population: 200,000
Add Eternity Crew and Captains to Township?]
"Well, I just need to press a simple confirm and…" I said, pressing confirm to adding the Eternity Crew and the Captains to Township. "And then there will be…a lot more nonsense that Township has to offer…"
[Township Added Eternity Crew and Eternity Captains to roster!
Notice! The Eternity Has Now Been Unlocked As A Buildable/Upgradable/Modifiable Structure/Territory!
Eternity Technology And Facilities Available For Township Production!
Notice! Eternity Zoo/Garden Have Allowed Township To Develop Child Abilities; Create World And Create Life!
Notice! Eternity Prison Has Allowed Township To Develop Child Ability; Fortress!]
Oh boy…
"Uh…by the by…what's in the Prison…" I said carefully.
"Mostly criminals guilty of galactic crimes. Multi Planitary Genocide, Slaughter of Passive/Good Gods, and some beings that's existence made little sense in the universes natural laws or were difficult to explain by them. Some completely seemed to ignore them." Vision informed.
"SCP's." AI Tony said.
…Oh…
"Uh…yeah I don't like that…like at all…" I said slowly.
"I feel like you told me what that was but I forgot…" Romero hummed.
"It's…best to show you…" I said carefully. "Cause explaining the nonsense that is SCP is…a lot different than seeing it."
"Hold up, before we start, are any of these things dangerous?"
"...Depending on what they have…that would be most of them, and no, they can't be killed for…some reason…" I said carefully.
"... Well that just sounds like someone didn't try hard enough." He chuckled. "I'm gonna go get the others cause I already know Meg is gonna want to see these things." Romero said before quickly taking flight and heading down.
"...I want you to hide 682 as fast as you can." I immediately said quickly.
"You assume we know which one you're talking about." Death said. "The prisoners all have names or are named depending on characteristics."
"The Hard to Kill Reptile, hide them before-"
"We're back bitch!" Romero said happily with the others.
"...Feck…"
"Well, this will be interesting." Death smirked. "If you wish to tour the prison and… meet with the prisoners, then so be it. Follow me." He said as he walked into the ship.
"Why the fuck does he look like you Romero?" Holy asked.
"They can shapeshift, I guess, he's Death, as in Death, and since I'm a Phoenix he felt it appropriate we look alike." Romero stated.
"I had so many wet dreams with that concept…" Shift said.
"I'm aware…" Romero said.
"Right…so just going to mention that please don't fight these things…" I said carefully.
"Too late, I'm hyped!" Meg said gleefully as she followed Death.
"Well, if anything, this will be interesting." Squeaks said with a shrug. "Nice looking ship at least."
"... The lot of you are this magical how?!" Dr. Strange asked incredulously.
"Romero is fuzed with a Galaxy Phoenix, Squeaks is literally a Void being so fuck if I know, Shift is a Chaos God due to an evolution but was a powerful Shapeshifter, and Meg fuzed with a Consetlation Deer made from the corpse of an Elder God."
"Alright… and what about the Dragon and the moth lady?"
"Apparently Bigs here was fused with the…third strongest Dragon race in this Reality…and Holy…actually, what did you fuse with Holy? Cause I wanted to say 'She fused with Mothra' but I don't think that's correct…"
"No, far as I can tell it was just a common Moth." Holy shrugged. "My magic came from an enchanted object so, unlike these chucklefucks I'm one of the many that got the shorter end of the stick. Got by on combat skills and Marine Training alone."
"Natasha and Clint would have enjoyed your company I can just tell." AI Tony admitted.
"Who?" Holy asked.
"She's never seen Marvel!" Romero called out from inside.
"Gonna have to fix that, and I'm also going to have to rush after them before they split this ship in half…" I said as I ran off after them.
I caught up with the group, Holy accompanying as we rode an elevator down to a large and long hallway.
"This is the Level Zero Floor. Prisoners of no threat are kept here. Mostly it's actually for their own safety." Death said.
"Neat." Meg said as they all immediately walked out of the elevator and began looking in the cells… or maybe the rooms. The people and such here aren't a threat… so not really prisoners either.
I decided to take a look into some of the rooms to see who was in here.
The first door I opened I looked inside and saw… oh… my… god…
It was a large machine with two metal doors on each end, the large middle section having just a panel with a turn dial of rough, course, 1:1, fine and very fine, and then the starting switch.
The Clockworks…
"Oh…oh no…" I muttered. "They're…genuine articles…oh dear…"
"It looks like a box." Meg said, making me jump in surprise as I didn't hear her walk up behind me.
"Don't do that…" I muttered. "So that thing is The Clockworks…where you put anything you want into one port, than you put the settings from Rough, Course, 1:1, Fine and Very Fine…don't ever do Very Fine…it does weird and very dangerous things." I said carefully.
"..."
"..."
"..."
"..."
"I said no!" I yelped as I was trying to pull Meg out of the room.
"But It will be fun!" She countered, dragging me back into the room.
"Then you won't get any cookies after this." I stated bluntly.
"... What kind of cookies?" She asked, pausing her march towards the machine.
"Triple Chocolate was the first that came to mind." I stated.
"... Tempting… Keep going…"
"Two dozen."
"... Three and a gallon of milk."
"And this will be for the entire trip through here, got it? I don't want you or the other's blowing up this place cause let's fuck around and find out." I huffed.
"Cookies and milk first."
I groaned, as I used Creation and created said three dozen cookies in a bag and a gallon of milk. "Here, they're all ready for you, cookies are warm from Half-Hot, Milk is cool and refreshing from Half-Cold…"
She quickly took both from me. "For now." She said, then walked out of the room.
"Welcome to my hell." Holy said from the doorway. "Wanna make some matching jackets?"
"Yes…I might as well help make the jackets when having to be a cat wrangler here…" I grumbled.
"Cool. They can say 'Idiot Tamers' with all their faces on them but mine has a circle and arrow pointed at Romero saying I date him." She chuckled.
"Yeah that sounds fair." I nodded.
After that talk I walked out of the room and into the hallway- OH MY GOD!
"What is that thing?" Romero asked.
"It's like living jello." Shift said.
"We call that one The Kid, has a talent for making people happy." Death said.
"They're so cute and squishy." Bigs said, holding a semi round blob of orange mass that seemed to be making little chirps and gurgles from no real source.
999!
"And that is SCP 999, The Tickle Monster, to sum it up they are a being of Pure Joy and Happiness that can't ever be broken, as it can help cure Depression, PTSD, and it's one of the only beings that can either halt or…in this Reality, possibly even cure the Pure Hatred that is SCP 682."
"This thing?" Romero asked with a gesturing finger at the orange blob of happiness. "Weird…"
"Can I keep them?" Bigs asked Death.
"Well, maybe? Up to the Kid. They only eat Candy though. Meat or most anything else doesn't seem to agree with them." Death said.
"Ah, like Pixies." Holy said. "At least back home, little things were only able to ingest sugars so they ate highly sweet fruits and even would steal candies from stores."
"They were like Racoons but tiny and sparkly." Meg said with a nod.
"Tiny Sparkly Trash Panda's…that sounds hilarious." I chuckled. "But yeah, so Kid here is also said to be the child of a Multiversal ending God because one of his seven bride's decided 'fuck spawning in cataclysmic entities for someone that want's to burn down the Tree of Knowledge that's holding up all of Creation and it's countless Multiverses, I'mma do my own thing' and spawned Heroes or this adorable ball of gelatin." I chuckled.
None of them were paying attention as Meg was feeding 999 cookies.
"Glad to know that after seven thousand years they haven't changed much." Holy chuckled. "Huh… Yeah I can see Bigs raising that little ball of goo."
"Yeah, and as you can see," I motioned to Holy, as the Kid was eating the cookies with glee and having all the Nokori gang smiling like there wasn't a care in the world. "They are a being that personifies Joy and Innocence and will risk life and gelatinous limb to protect life."
"Hmm…" Holy hummed. She then walked up to the kid, giving it a few pets. "Get bent." The little goo ball seemed to make some chirps of slight confusion but also sounded happy regardless. She then walked over to me. "Surprisingly that worked."
"And how did you feel after coming into contact with Kid and...why did you choose to take Custody of them?"
"Curiosity." She said. "And, it felt nice. Kinda gave me a feeling I hadn't felt in a long time." She said, checking her new Custody of The Kid and likely his stats and such. "Hmm… Interesting."
"What up?" I inquired, as I did notice her entire body seemed…less tense, like she seemed to finally believe there was a moment of rest and joy.
"All his stats are at zero. Physical and Combat, save MP and HP."
"Well, he is a natural born pacifist but…all at zero? What are his HP and MP?"
Holy pulled up a holo display for me to see… woah…
[The Kid
HP: 999,999,999,999,999,999,999/Max+999,999,999,999
MP: 999,999,999,999,999,999,999/Max+999,999,999,999]
I looked at those numbers… then back to the little blob…
"...Huh…" I said slowly.
"How is it I always end up overseeing the overpowered god-like beings?" Holy hummed. "Huh… No Abilities but… How many new Skill Points have you obtained since we spent all those ones earlier?"
"A hundred and twenty skill points right now." I answered.
"Alright. Welp, this will be interesting." She said.
Suddenly, The Kid glowed, then their form changed shape and…
…
…
He was now a tiny little orange dragonoid, similar to Bigs, actually.
"... Bigs is a dad now!" Meg said.
"Uhh…" Big said.
"Yay!" The Kids said… actually speaking.
"Uh…what did you do?" I asked Holy carefully.
"I think Bigs is now the new dad of that kid, and this is only gonna get weirder." Holy replied.
"Right…" I muttered. "So…how are you feeling?" I asked the now part dragon child.
"I hag hands now." He said, his fingers wiggling in front of me. "I got feet." He said, swinging his new legs and feet. "And I can talk!"
I held myself together the best I could, because Kid was…was just so adorable! "Keep it together Alchem…" I muttered, trying my best not to just grab the former slime now dragonoid and hug the hell out of them.
"Boop." He said, poking my nose.
…
…
I broke like a Faberge Egg in a Maelstrom as I grabbed and hugged them happily. "You're just too adorable!" I will deny I made a girlish squeal but I'm certain it happened either way.
He hugged me back and… I felt like for the first time in over ten years… everything was alright.
After that, I felt like I had a very calm feeling wash over me. Bigs picked the Kid back up and we continued on with the tour. There were a few things I didn't know what they were, and some I recognized.
Level one was next. It was unanimously decided that Bigs and The Kid were to head back home. Since the ones here are at least a little dangerous.
"Oh, hello. More visitors. Had I been aware I'd have tidied up." The Plague Doctor said from inside his cell, the wall made entirely of what I think is a special reinforced glass. Here they were, the infamous, iconic plague doctor… but he looked… different… he looked… old.
"It's nice to meet you Doctor, and it's alright." I said with a raised hand. "But for everyone else, this is the Plague Doctor, a man of science and medicine that has some…special abilities." I said carefully.
"Oh, don't be so modest." The doctor said. "My touch kills. Plane and simple."
"Huh. Cool." Romero hummed.
"Weird. How?" Meg asked.
"Stops the Heart instantly." The Doctor said.
"Yes, any living being he physically touches dies instantly." I said. "His life's work is to cure the 'Great Pestilence'...whatever that actually is…oh, and also he makes zombies somehow." I explained
Holy and Romero shared a look… then grinned widely.
"Oh no…" The others all said.
"No." I told them both bluntly.
"You can't stop me." Romero said.
"I can and will." I frowned.
"It's gonna be East Liberté all over again…" Shift hummed.
"So before bad things happen…mind if I ask you a question Doctor?" I asked politely.
"If you wish." The Plague Doctor said with a nod.
"Well, I'll try and answer any of your questions after this and…when I get a harness leash for these two," I motioned to Holy and Romero. "But you look…aged as it were…does Time affect you?" I asked carefully, not sure how to say this weird topic.
"Yes. It took many years, thousands and millions of years. Were I to give my physical age a number, in human years, I am in my mid seventies."
"Huh…that's not something I honestly expected." I admitted. "But to answer a possible questions, my name is David Alchem, and you and everyone else aboard this Ship is in the 'True Reality', a place where anything and everything is possible with some hyper specific thing's that…aren't allowed."
"I could tell. I felt the change when we arrived here. I know my body, and biology better than anyone, or anything. I know I am not what I once was, entirely. My shape and form is the same, but there is a drastic difference at the cellular level."
"Yeah, your new cellular structure is basically…mostly you but also a blank slate." I said carefully. "It's a lot of science stuff that my doctor wife knows a lot better."
"So… about those Zombies…" Romero asked.
"We keep his creations in storage." Death said.
"East Liberté… all over again…" Shift repeated.
"Not yet you two." I frowned.
"Ah, it was the most fun I had in years, and one of my best dates with Romero." Holy smirked.
"Well, that's good to know, but at least let the zombies be in a space that is safe to commit mass zombie murder and not in the ship…"
"Eh, inside the ship, the bloody ruins of a walled off part of a city, potato patato." Romero shrugged.
"Hey… what if some of the other BOW Nokori that Alex made ended up here, like Saw?" Holy asked.
"... Oh my fucking god is that how he vanished from his cell?!"
"Awh if that's true, be nice to see him again." Shift said. "You two got along great."
"When we weren't fighting each other and causing mass collateral damage, yeah." Romero nodded.
"He is so gonna get you for the whole 'Kick Back Played On Kazoo On Loop' thing." Holy said.
Romero laughed.
"Sounds like a fun time." I chuckled. "Can't wait to meet him."
"You'd like him, he's way more traumatized than I or any of us were back in the day and arguably just as unhinged as Meg, but smarter." Romero said.
"Yup." Meg nodded. "Gotta respect that buzz saw shooting ram."
"So what if Chainsaw Man was actually a Buzsaw Ram?" I inquired.
"Pretty much." Squeaks shrugged.
"... I just had an idea." Romero smirked.
"Gain Chainsaw Man powers and blast Kick Back when you find Saw?" Holy asked.
"You know me so well." He chuckled.
"I feel so sorry for this poor ram…" I shook my head. "Anyways, let's continue on our journey."
"Fine, but we will be back for those zombies." Romero said.
"Agreed." Holy said with a nod.
"Alright, well it was nice meeting you Doctor, and maybe we'll find a way to get you out of that Cell and be with the people again." I said readily, knowing there must be ways of suppressing or 'turning off' that Deathtouch thing he does.
"Actually, let me check something." Holy said. She then walked up to the glass wall. "Now, I'm gonna tell you something, so please despite how it sounds, respond positively." She said.
"Alright." The Plague Doctor said.
"Get bent."
"... Huh. Unexpected but not that bad." He shrugged.
"It worked." Holy said, already pulling up her Custody thing of the doctor.
"For Context, Holy here has an ability that, with that trigger phrase, let's her take 'Custody' of you, making you stronger and also she can do a lot of other things to help you." I told the Doctor. "She just…says 'Get Bent' cause she likes to swear."
"Here it is. Doc's got an Ability called Death's Touch and… huh, well how about that…" She hummed.
"What up?" I inquired.
"Says here he's cursed."
"Cursed? Me? How strange." The Doc said.
"A curse? That seems…strange…what, was there an Irony Witch around?" I asked, finding it strange that it was a curse and finding it even more ironic that he was cursed to have Death's Touch when he was supposed to be a doctor.
"Doesn't say who cursed him, but it does say it's a Level Five Divine Curse. So it's not easily broken… Hmm…" Holy hummed.
"I learned some Curse Nullification Magic. Maybe I can do something?" Meg offered.
"You actually learned magic? That isn't just part of your normal abilities?"
"Seven Thousand years leads to a lot of boredom so even I was forced to… learn…" She shivered.
"Meg learning things? What, did you all take a day to ice skate in hell?" I asked.
"Well no but Romero did accidentally end up there for about a week." Squeaks said.
"That was an admittedly fun week… got to torment a lot of people who I sent there initially again." Romero smirked.
"Right, so mind curing the Good Doctor here Meg?" I inquired.
"Sure." Meg said with a smile and nod as she walked up to the glass. She looked the glass wall up and down… then punched it, the glass shattering to tiny shards. The Doc immediately backed up from her display of force.
"That glass was made from Vibranium sand." Death said.
Meg just walked up to the Doctor, held a hand over him and light began to glow from her palm. As it did, then began to appear the image of a yellowish eye with a red iris and an equally red aura around it appear. The Eye seemed to be burned by the light and eventually, it faded away.
"Done!" Meg said, smiling as she walked out the hole in the vibranium glass wall she made.
"Huh…" I said, deciding to make a SAVE real quick before walking through the hole…and raising my hand up for a handshake. "Well, let's test this out.'
The Doctor seemed quiet, still as if in a trance.
"Uh…Doctor?" I asked softly and worriedly.
"I… I remember…" Doc said.
I looked at him…he…"What do you remember?" I asked carefully, cause if this was how he became an SCP…how he remembered his past…oh boy.
"I was… I was one of the creations of the Scarlet King. He… made me, made me to give medical aid to his warriors… but I began to experiment. My magic and my methods while advanced, the science and biology amazed me. He found out and cursed me to forever be blind to the pain I caused, seeking a cure to an illness that existed only in my cursed mind… He stripped me of my magic and left me as this…" He said.
"Ah. Pissed off god. Adding him to the list of Gods to kill." Romero said.
"Uh…the Scarlet King is not one of those thing's you fuck with." I said nervously. "To be honest, while he might be on this Planet…he might be one of the worst places to be." I said nervously.
"Alchem." Holy spoke up. "Don't peak their curiosity with dangers. Bigs might listen but these four might just want to go there quicker. Besides, odds are if he exists here then this Family is probably stronger than them meaning with time and Skill Points and Abilities he can get his shit pushed in like anyone else."
… I hate that she has a point…
I sighed. "Also…yes, from what I've been told the Family are the strongest beings in this existence and there was a whole war thing about it…it's been well over ten years since I last heard anything about it." I explained. "So…good new's Doc, you can obtain your Magic and much much more in this reality, plus you can learn all sorts of new and fascinating medical knowledge." I said readily…but then frowned as it feels like this exact situation happened not too long ago.
"I see… I need some time to adjust… I've lived for so long and all my memories of my time with the Scarlet King are… strange… worse… I'm now very aware of all the ones I have killed in my years practicing medicine."
"That works. I already deactivated your Death's Touch Ability." Holy said.
"And just know Doctor…after all this time, you now have friends and allies…oh, and also, Kid is now a Zenextro Dragon just so you know." I said with a quick little shoulder pat.
"Wait he's what!?" The doctor asked in both shock and mild panic at the news.
"Yes, that adorable bundle of jelly just turned into an adorable ball of scales and draconic might that is probably the…fourth strongest draconic race in this reality." I explained.
"... I need a drink and a nap." The doctor said weakly.
"What's your poison?" Holy asked.
"Wine preferably."
Nodding, Holy pulled out a wine bottle from her Assistant and gave it to the doctor. Then she pulled out five more and then gave those to him as well. "When you're good to go, find me, my boyfriend owns a really good bar."
Romero owns a bar?
"And you didn't offer me any drinks?" I asked accusingly at Romero. "I thought we were friends, what the fuck."
"You never asked, and for the last two months before your wedding you had a kingdom to run solo… also after the wedding I'm still not sure if you're knocked up or not so…" Romero said.
I… actually don't know yet if I am or not either cause… I uh… was with a lot of my partners… Oh boy…
"Well…I'm pretty sure I should be considering…Tony…" I said weakly.
"You're pregnant with triplets, one's a strange wolf creature I've never seen, one's a fairy, and the third is pure human." The Doctor answered as he…practically downed the whole wine bottle in one go.
"Oh…" I said slowly.
"So no booze for you." Romero said.
"That's an interesting combination… also given what Tony did to you last time I'm amazed it's just the one." Shift said.
"Yeah…that is a bit surprising but…well, I suppose my body only could have handled triplets before I became SuperHuman." I admitted.
"You had thirteen with Tony the first time." Squeaks said.
"Than hell if I know…maybe it's having to share space with the other babies in me…" I sighed. "Pregnancies are weird…"
"Or maybe it's because the orgy you had meant not all that was shot up into you got the chance to get into you." Holy said.
"That makes sense." Romero said.
"Nasty." Meg said.
"Eh." Shift shrugged.
"No wonder Pestilence liked you so much." Death added.
"He's going to like Tony a lot more I will give you fair warning…"
"Maybe, but you're his type. Biologically breedable." Death said.
The others proceed to lose their shit laughing.
"Yeah yeah, laugh it up, Romero will understand fully when he finally grows a pair with Shift and Holy." I admitted.
"First off, Shift has been top and bottom, sub and power, many times in our marriage." Romero said.
"True, both as male and female." Shift nodded.
"And when we dated before and did it, we'd take turns." Holy said. "Plus, Shift and I aren't together, we just share Romero."
"That's why I specified Romero in this love triangle, not talking about Shift making Romero squawk like a swan in heat."
"I do not Squawk!" Romero shouted with a furious blush.
"When I pull your Tail Feathers you do." Shift chuckled.
HE HAS TAIL FEATHERS?!
"Hold up there my fine feathered friend, show them." I said quickly with a shit eating grin.
"Over my cold dead body…" Romero glared.
"No need, I keep each one I've pulled out." Shift smirked.
"Traitor!" Romero yelped.
Shift pulled out a fairly long, maybe a little over a foot long feather that shimmered on it's own, glowing and giving off faint embers of multi-colored light that the feather itself seemed to reflect as the colors seemed to move and dance when moved.
"Haven't seen those in a while." Meg chuckled.
"Silver only ever got to snag a few for herself." Squeaks said with her own chuckle.
"I have thousands." Shift smirked.
"Lucky." Holy chuckled.
"You all suck…" Romero huffed.
"Not fun when you're on the receiving end huh?" I asked with a cheeky grin.
"I can appreciate a good roast and joke… but I'm self conscious about the feathers." Romero said.
"They're so pretty though." Shift said.
"Like a pride flag flowing out your ass." Holy said with a smirk.
"Aren't you two supposed to be on my side?" Romero asked.
"The power of teasing know's no sides when it's all in good fun." I chuckled. "Alright, enough teasing our adorably flustered birb, onwards to either curing more SCP's of their problems or just…showing off SCP's cause this has been rather enjoyable so far."
"Is there one around here we can fight?" Meg asked.
"Well, on this floor? There is one." Death said.
He lead us to a metal box that sat in a cell that was walled off by energy barriers. I could hear loud crying from inside it.
"... So they're a bitch?" Meg asked.
"No, and honestly it's in…rather poor taste considering what this being is." I said.
"A bitch?" Meg asked.
"It's not a bitch, what I can guess from the Crying is that this is the Shy Guy, a being that has pure white skin, indestructible bones, is able to rip through tanks with his bare hands and will hunt you down if you so much as see even a pixel of his face." I said. "And…given I just saw the Doctor I have a guess as to what Shy Guy's story really is…" I sighed.
"It's cause he's fuck ugly right?" Holy asked.
"It's because he was most likely cursed as a child that was constantly mocked and laughed at by his looks and was most likely abused by some people that cut him…"
"You know Meg stopped listening a while ago right?" Romero asked, motioning to the fact Meg was now walking into the box.
"Does she ever listen?" Holy asked.
There was then a LOUD scream of rage… and then the box began getting knocked around from the inside, dents and a few holes forming from what I can only assume was the brawl inside it…
"Well, Meg's having some fun." Squeaks said.
"Hey Meg! See if he's really cursed!" Holy called out.
"And next time listen before you go charging in or you won't get another batch of cookies!" I called out as well. "Gonna need a special child harness for that girl I swear…"
There was then another dent formed in the exact image of the Shy Guy's face, followed by a rather… sickening and even metallic crack and snap.
The screaming then stopped. Then from the holes there was a bright glowing of light…
Then Meg walked out holding an albino bald child. "He was cursed." Meg said with a nod.
"And how do you feel fighting a sad child?" I asked with a frown, creating a blanket and helping Meg get the child bundled up.
"I mean, he wasn't a child as that Monster." She shrugged. "Though I don't know why someone would curse him. He's a little cutie." She smirked.
"So what was that crack and snap noise?" Holy asked.
"Oh I may have on that last attack shattered his spine but I did heal him before I cured his Curse so, it's all good." Meg stated.
"Well it's a good thing you managed that cause…uh…" I checked if the poor kid was sleeping first to make sure I didn't mention his death when he went against that concrete peanut.
They seemed out cold. And thankfully breathing.
"Right, so you were this close to killing him on accident." I whispered as I made a thin line with my fingers. "Said if you snap his bones it produces a weird toxin that would have melted him from the inside out…" I whispered, hoping to not wake the child or have them hear me as I informed everyone.
"Oh… so that's why when I did that his skin around the area immediately started bubbling." She said. "Is that like a sickness that needs to be cured or a genetic defect?"
"You are grounded for a month Meg if you go charging in before I fully explain things again." I said, using Scan on the poor child to see if that was a defect or if that was something else.
"You can't ground me, I'm not your kid! If anything I'm Holy's as she's the person I listen to on command."
"... I can hear Silver laughing from the afterlife…" Holy said with a glare at Meg.
"Then ground her harder please." I said. "As a part of the Idiot Tamer's Club, please help me…" I mildly pleaded.
"Fine… Hmm… What's an effective grounding method for her… I haven't grounded anyone since Luke was ten…"
Luke?
"Uh…who's Luke?" I inquired.
"My son. Had him before we became Nokori and we both got captured and turned. He was fused with a lamb though, which he hated. Always said he wished to be a lion." Holy chuckled.
"Yeah. Luke was cool, though he did think it was weird when he found out Holy and I were dating." Romero said.
"Only taking a guess but child brain might of thought 'don't birds eat moths?' or some silly nonsense like that…or just some other things I don't know about." I shrugged.
"... Luke was twenty one when Romero and I were dating…" Holy said.
"And this is the first time I know about any of this so please get off my back about it." I admitted.
"Heh. Well, he was twenty one, I was twenty three at the time, and Holy was forty four." Romero said. "It was the fact we were so close in age but he got over that since Holy was happy."
"And if he disapproved, A, he was already an adult so not like I had to worry about his opinion, and B, he was glad I was with someone… Luke's dad wasn't exactly a good guy and left before he was even born. Deadbeat."
"All fair and good." I nodded. "And Romero…nice." I said simply.
"Did you just…" Romero looked at me. "I mean…you're not wrong, I mean look at her, she's amazing." Romero motioned to all of Holy.
"Exactly." I chuckled as we shared a quick little fist bump.
"The fact that you two just shared a brain cell there is both funny and concerning. That means either Romero is going up in mental capabilities to you, or you're going down to his level. But, either way, thanks for the compliment. I'm well aware I still got it. Actually I think since getting here I'm technically younger than I was physically when Romero and I dated?"
"Oh yeah, that's easily a mid twenties body type you got now." Meg said with a nod.
"Oh… that explains how I pulled off a few things easier than before…"
"Yeah, I think unless you either allow it or something else, your body stays at its physical peak in our ageless existence." I admitted.
"Oh now that is the best news I've heard in the last month." Holy chuckled.
We then began to regain the tour-
"So do any of you want to adopt this kid or am I keeping him?" Meg asked, still holding the sleeping former Shy Guy.
"I'll adopt him if you don't want to." I said honestly.
"Cool cause the last thing anyone, myself included, is for me to be in the position or role of mother. I barely took care of Squeaks when we escaped the lab."
"I had food, books and some basic lessons." Squeaks shrugged.
"I fed you canned crap and noodles made with Red Bull for the broth." Meg said.
"And as we all saw from my stats, it did nothing to me." Squeaks smirked.
"Regardless, I fear parental responsibility." Meg said as she then gave me the kid.
"That is all fair…parental responsibilities are not for the faint of heart." I said, gently taking the bundle and cradling them, seeing their face and…they looked so cute and innocent…how hatred and vile actions can cause such an anomalous shift is…still beyond me.
"So, shall we continue?" Death asked.
"Probably later. Should catch up with Bigs and let Alchem check out their new son." Holy said.
"Yeah, this has been…rather enlightening, all things considered…and we've only barely scratched the surface of this Prison section and barely even touched on whatever the hell is in this giant Ship all together."
"What do you mean the armory has EVERYTHING?!"
"This armory also counts as a manufacturing plant that 3D prints all weapons and munitions and even the ones magical in nature. All we need is some programmable matter to make the bodies of the weapons and the advanced magic replicates basically any and all magical properties of the weapons. Well, most. Seems that Romero guy's machete and your Keyblades are outside our capabilities." The Tony AI said.
"Yeah, Romero's Machete is made from magic and Keyblade's are a part of a Fundamental Force of Reality." I answered. "But…everything…oh boy…"
"Yeah. Well, most everything I guess. Funny you had the same reaction as our last new crew member. Some Griffon lady. She's actually the only crew member unaccounted for."
"Really? What was her name, maybe I know where she is." I said, 'cause if she was technically apart of this crew I could probably use Township to find her.
"Uhh… Plory, right, that was her name. She took a rifle, some handgun and I think a .44 but I don't remember."
"Thank you." I nodded, bringing up Township and looking to see if she was apart of it and if I could locate her. "She is apart of the crew, so technically Township should work…"
Let's see… ah, here she is! Plory and… her two sons. She has sons? Twins it seems. All three are… wow that's far away…
How the fuck did she end up way out there and litterally everyone else end up here?
"Okay, so good news and bad news." I said. "Good news is that she's alive with her two sons, didn't know she had kids but cool, the bad news is that she's about a few billion light years away from here in a place called…Demonic Invasion…well that sounds fun." I said simply.
"Kids? Oh right she did get that one himbo griffon that was from the zoo that was given intelligence and such. Huh, good for them."
Wait what?
"Excuse me?" I asked. "I'm missing a thing or two, what are you talking about?"
"Right so, the Zoo, it's where we keep a whole population of every species, intelligent and feral, of every species across every planet we come across. Literally on average five hundred to seven hundred thousand per habitat and since keeping actual intelligent beings in a zoo is ethically wrong, the ones that are from intelligent species we made their ancestors, clones from genetic samples collected via special drones, only modified them to be mentally feral, therefore, more animals than intelligent beings. It's part of a whole means of repopulating planets and creating a crew instantly for The Eternity when/if needed. That's where the baby, or egg daddy came from. A naturally born intelligent organic had to approve the whole process and since she and this other guy she was with were the only other ones to find the ship and be recruited and such so she met with the Zoo AI, Noah, and that's where pretty much all the organic crewmates on the Eternity right now, save one, well, technically two but the other guy is kinda being rebuilt cause War did a number on him."
…
I then remembered those new child abilities Township said I got…
"Okay so…that explains somethings…" I said carefully. "Oh boy that's…that's going to be a thing…good to know."
"So, want any weapons or anything cause I can make a lot and I have a lot of stuff cataloged already."
… Do I dare ask…
"...I know it might sound weird, but can you make the Superior Iron Man Symbiote Armor?" I asked.
"A classic and a personal favorite of mine." The AI chuckled. "I'll get right on it."
Before my eyes lines of blue lights moved along and rapidly began forming the shape of the armor. After barely a minute, the armor was done. Oh hell yes.
"Neat suit." I jumped as Romero appeared behind me. "Dude seriously?"
"I'm sorry, but I was more focused on my cool new Superior Iron Man suit and also that…the Zoo exists…" I said carefully.
"Oh yeah, I was just there. They already got a whole exhibit with the Monsters, Nokori, and other species. Whole lot of new people in the making. Granted they're all feral, but that can change quick."
Huh… that's interesting… also fast…
"Anyway, guess what I found?" He asked with a smirk.
"What did you find?" I inquired.
"Boom!" He said, holding up a small brightly glowing blue stone. Wait hold up!
He then vanished, appearing behind me and he let me know with a tap of my back.
Is that an Infinity Stone?!
"Where the hell did you find the Space Stone!?" I asked in shock and surprise.
"Storage. They apparently have them all, though Steven has the Time Stone, The Mind Stone is stuck with Vision, and I picked this thing up. I then gave the Reality Stone to Squeaks, the Soul Stone to Bigs, and the Power Stone to Holy. And if you are wondering, yes they are all fine and Holy is having a blast being able to have a combat duel with Meg and both tank the hits and deal damage as well as her."
"Right…well, glad to know that there is no 'you'll be burned to cinders' bit because an individual wasn't strong enough…" I sighed, as I waved a hand and the symbiote armor started to morph into a liquid and wrap around me. "So, what else did you find in Storage? Cause so far this place can have every non-magical or at least super magical weapon imaginable."
"Oh yeah I also found this." He said, pulling out from his Pocket something I recognized. That's an Electronium Crystal. "Some special crystal thing. There were a lot of these things."
"Huh…that's an Electronium Crystal, wonder what that and other Gem's are doing in there." I hummed. "Try absorbing it, it'll give you Lightning Powers." I said, lightly stretching as the Symbiote Armor was getting used to me and I it.
"Seriously? Huh… Alright." He shrugged. "... How do I absorb it?"
"You squeeze it in your hand, you get the notification, and press yes." I said.
"Huh. Alright." He said, doing just that. He then wobbled.
"You okay there?" I asked worriedly, as the only time that wobble feeling came to me was with the Void Crystal but that was a basic Electronium Crystal…
"Felt a bit light headed and… there's some notifications that popped up… Uh… huh… Uh, Alchem, you said it just gives you electricity powers, right?"
"I mean, that's what normally happens, I have no idea what happens if a Nokori or some Elemental does it." I admitted. "But what happened with you?"
"Uh… one sec." He said, shaking his head. "Alright, so it says here… 'Nokori Biology Detected. Natural Nature Core Magic Affinity Detected. Merging Energy To Core. Core Merger Successful. New Species Branch Available. Galactic Storm Phoenix Race and Powers Available'… Well I've never heard of a Galactic Storm Phoenix before…"
"Well…the best I can imagine is…swap your Fire for Electricity and there ya go…" I sighed. "Oh boy, I can see where this is going…"
"Uh… alright?" He said. "How… do I do that?"
"I don't know and…the best I can say is either look in your Assistant or…feel the Electricity, like I do with my Electronium Gem." I said, bringing up a hand and creating a ball lightning.
"Huh…" He said, first looking into his Assistant. "Alright it mentioned something about a race… yeah, here it is… There's Galaxy Phoenix… and there's Galactic Storm Phoenix… Okay let's try…" I saw him tap something that only he could really see.
Instantly, all the feathers visible from his shirt and legs and wings changed colors. No longer bright shades of red, orange and yellow, now they all turned to shades of blue, gray and black.
Woah.
"How you feeling there my new electric birb friend?"
"Uh… different…" He said, looking the changes over. "Like… You know that feeling you get when there's like a lot of static cling in your clothes? That but… on the inside?"
"Yeah I sometimes get that feeling when using Electronium and Discharge at the same time." I answered. "Not as much as you I can imagine but still."
"Huh… wait, is this just a me thing because of the Phoenix or does this apply to all the Nokori? How far does this go and what are the limitations?" He asked, his tone a mix of curiosity and caution as he was looking one of his feathers over, some small sparks of electricity coming off them.
"Uh…I don't know about swapping races, but I'm pretty sure it'll work out like what you experienced with all the other's, the Element becomes a part of you and…" I groaned. "Hold on, Tony, mind making me a Sword?" I asked real quick.
"Sure." They said, making a basic ass longsword and I grabbed it.
"Now, there's a thing I was told a while ago about a certain item, called 'Core Stones', most likely a thing from Rising of the Shield Hero…but I want you to take this and try and absorb it like you did that Elemental Gem…" I said, thinking that the 'Core' aspect would probably do something silly. "Cause either this does nothing and I'm glad my dumb thought was wrong…or you can magically absorb a weapon and have it become a part of your being so like…if you absorbed a gun you can turn each feather into a gun and machine gun wings…"
"I can try?" He said, taking the sword and gripping it the same as the gem. "Nothing's happening… Hm… Maybe it needs to be something that can be absorbed… Or maybe I need a way to absorb things that normally can't be?" He hummed. "Weird… might be an unexpected side effect of the way the ritual works…"
"Well…do you have another one of those gems?" I inquired. "Squeaks? I know you're here, mind coming out?"
"Just because I can appear doesn't mean I'm always around you, you know?" Squeaks said, making me jump as she appeared behind me.
"But you enjoy making me jump every time it happens." I admitted. "So, got another Gem on ya Romero?" I inquired.
"Uh, yeah here." He said, pulling one from his Assistant and giving it to Squeaks.
Squeaks took it, shrugging as she squeezed then absorbed it. She also wobbled for a time before shaking it off. "Huh… same for me… Hmm… Apparently the mouse that was fused with me was an Alpha Null Mouse. Now I have Alpha Thunder Mouse." She said. When she selected it, nothing changed on her, save her eyes, going from all pitch black orbs to now having blue irises.
"Well, your eyes are now a pretty sparking blue." I said simply. "How does it feel having lightning powers?"
"... Like when I was a kid and got the zoomies at my first christmas." She said.
"So full of energy." Romero said.
"Yup." She nodded with a smirk. "Huh… does feel weird not being linked to null… Wonder if this affects my other powers…" She said, moving her hands and a blue portal opened on the ground and emerging from it were the skeletal hands, but this time they sparked with plasma. "Huh… interesting…"
"...Okay so first, the Plasma hands are awesome…and I just imagined a little Squeak's getting the zoomies running around seeing all the Christmas decorations and…that is just adorable."
"It was." Romero smirked.
"It was my first Christmas ever. You know what we got for Christmas at the orphanage? Canned Pears. Old ones too…" She pouted. "Speaking of, Christmas is really close. Then after that is that Update, right?" She stated.
"Oh fuck you're right! You know what that means?" Romero asked with a smirk.
"Meg's play of A Christmas Carol." She nodded.
"Yup. This is gonna be fun." He nodded.
"Oh boy, that sounds like fun, but I'll be enjoying some of the twenty four hour marathon of the Christmas Story." I chuckled. "Classic."
"Also true." Romero nodded.
"Speaking of Christmas, did you already get all your kids' gifts?" Squeaks asked. "Between the Kingdom paperwork, wedding and now all this you haven't had a lot of free time?"
"Yes, I have been gathering everyone's Christmas gifts now that I have some free time." I said simply.
"That's good. I've gotten everyone's gifts, including Magnolia." Romero said.
"Was Holy surprised to meet her?" Squeaks asked.
"She was actually happy to meet her. Magnolia herself seemed really interested in Holy."
"...Do you think we'll meet…anyone else that's of a positive past now that Holy is also here?" I inquired.
"I dunno. So far Holy says that she, well, for one, confirms that there is an afterlife. She said she remembered dying with us all around her… then she was, she said it was like she was under water, and emerged above it in a huge room where some humanoidish biblically accurate angels helped her onto 'processing' where they basically gave a review of her life, some paperwork and other stuff then she was led to a doorway where she walked out into a city. Said she met Obsidian, some old friends from her time in the Marines, people who died in the war… She was there for a while, being part of the groups that greeted Citrine, Silver, and a whole lot of others, but unfortunately they get little news on the living world. Said she was just at her place doing some exercises and the next thing she knew, she woke up on that island and, well, the rest we know." Romero said.
"Kinda like us…" Squeaks said. "That means the dead aren't immune to… whatever brings people here to this reality…"
"Heh, the afterlife kinda sounds like a mixture of Customs and a Retirement Home." I chuckled.
"Huh… kinda does." Romero chuckled.
"In any case, if others do show up, we unfortunately have no way to know this. Seems they appear randomly and even if they appear, from how you said you got here, they might not even show up on this planet." Squeaks said.
Hmm… that is true… damn. Well, either way, this will be interesting if we do meet more.
"Yeah, this is a definitely a whole thing." I admitted. "But we might be taking a quick trip to a new Area of the planet due to one of the ship's crew being in the Demonic Invasion part of this planet."
"Right… and given what you have said, just how far is this new part of the planet?"
… Uh… very far… Several… trillion… lightyears…
"Several…trillion…lightyears…" I said carefully.
"... Look, that's a LONG ass distance and while we might be long lived and such… there's no way in hell we are gonna be able to just casually travel that distance at our sailing speed."
Fuck… I know he's right too… Although… I can still upgrade the Turtles…
Wait…I forgot, I can upgrade the Ship. "Stark, how fast can this ship go?" I inquired, bringing up Township and seeing what nonsense I need to upgrade this Ship cause if this was some nonsense comic book ship this thing was probably fast as fuck.
"At full power, twice the Speed of Light, three times the speed of light if we overclock. Used to have a whole travel network of Warp Gates but those didn't travel here with us it seems." Tony said.
"What about using this?" Romero asked, holding up the space stone.
"The fact you can even hold that is still hard to understand but for all we know, it might have a limited range now given it, well, a lot of things seem to be working differently here compared to our original universe."
"Yeah, I doubt the Space Stone has the 'infinite power' as it used to…" I said, looking up what I needed to upgrade this thing that can apparently move twice the speed of light. "Also…seems rather…slow, all things considered…" I said, as there were some ships that casually move that fast, Star Trek's Enterprise being the first thing that popped into my head.
"Oh I'm sorry do you have a ship that was built after the first planet to develop life in the universe died, came back to life and created an endless army of demons and monsters, Captains included, whose purpose is to archive life across the universe not play Speed Racer in space."
"I mean…it depends on when you had all Six Infinity Stones cause then that would have solved all your problems, even if we're talking about the MCU…but you do have a point as I don't really know what Marvel Universe you all came from specifically." I said honestly.
"You also don't know how this ship even works so stop talking about it like you know how to repair it."
I huffed.
"Well then fine, you won't get any fancy upgrades." I said, as I looked at Township to see what was needed to even upgrade this fancy thing.
"No need, I'm making myself a body similar to Vision's and Romero here is gonna make me a techno furry." He said.
I then looked at Romero. "What? Even I'm curious if that will work. Gonna try and do the same for Strange cause… yeah the whole Skeleton Thing… no… He's already made Bigs pass out five times and made Magnolia cry from fright so…"
"Okay, Strange makes sense…and I'm scared what'll happen when you try and mix Nokori Biology with Biological Vibranium…" I said.
"Honestly, I just want a body that can get drunk." Tony said. "Vision made me way too much like the original Tony."
"...Did Nick Fury look like Samuel L Jackson?" I asked.
"Who?"
"...Do you know who Mace Windu is from the Star Wars movies?" I asked.
"Yeah. Good movies."
"Did Nick Fury look like that, but older?"
"No, the two looked nothing alike." Tony said.
Huh… alternate Universe stuff then… crap.
"Right, okay that gives me some knowledge on you being from a different Marvel Universe." I said honestly. "So from that standpoint…Vision liked comic book Tony more and that guy was an on and off Alcoholic." I said honestly.
"Again I'm based off the Tony he knew, going as far as to reprogram a simulation of memories of his leading to his death, and personality." Tony said. "Also at this point I am genuinely certain you are talking out your ass."
"Hmm…" I hummed, but frowned as I realized…upgrading this ship takes a lot of shit…"Well shit, this place needs a lot more material's to upgrade…but let's see what new 'Child' abilities this thing has." I said, looking up what Township meant with the 'Child' section here.
[Township - Child Abilities:
Create World: Because of the Function of the Eternity's Garden, you can create full 57,268,900 square mile sized planets. Complete with various ecosystems, continents and animal life.
Create Life: Because of the Functions of The Eternity Zoo, you can rapidly turn the feral, primal variation of the intelligent species within its zoo into fully intelligent beings with proper souls, hearts and basic knowledge on various topics from within the Eternity Knowledge Archives. (Limited to 1,000 a week)
Fortress: The Eternity prison holds many beings from simple entities of abnormal existence to beings of galactic level crimes and cruelty. Fortress allows the user to ensure none escape, gives you a full detailed list of their crimes, biology and their changes of reformation and requirements for reformation.]
"Oh boy…let's start some shit." I muttered, deciding to Create a full as World in the Garden.
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Holy shit there are already… 9.2 Decillion planets already in there! And variations of them from throughout their times before destruction…
Wow they already have an earth here! Makes sense given Vision and such…
"Damn, that's a lot of Planets…" I said in honest surprise.
"How many?" Romero asked.
"Nine point two Decillion planets all with their own ecosystem, animals, plants, the whole shebang…" I said honestly.
"Wow… so… I just had an idea…"
"What up?" I inquired.
"Could this ship make more World Turtles?"
… I can MAKE world Turtles!
"As long as I get a DNA sample of them…yes, we can make as many world turtles as we want." I said simply. "
"Cool. So can you upgrade the pocket dimension inside the mountain?"
"Yes, yes I can because the population of both turtles have far exceeded the cap." I said, bringing up both Turtles and trying to upgrade the both of them.
[Notice!
World Turtle Upgrades Available!
Turtle Size will Double in size and ground space.
Notice!
Mt. Ebott Turtle Internal Pocket Dimension will also Double! Pocket Dimension will now have a reachable Moon and Sun!
Accept Upgrade?]
I most definitely Accept those upgrades and was ready for more nonsense having both of them double in size.
From inside the Eternity, I felt the outside shake. Woah…
[Notice! Turtle Upgrade Requirements Met!
Turtle Size Will Triple!
Turtle Pocket Dimension Space Will Expand Large Enough To Hold Three Planets!
Accept Upgrade?]
Another?! Oh… Oh how many of these have I accidentally built up?
"Uh…okay…let's keep upgrading…" I muttered, accepting the upgrade again.
Again, I felt things shake.
[Upgrade Complete!
Notice! World Turtle Upgrade Requirement Complete!
World Turtle Sizes Will Triple!
World Turtle Sailing Speeds Will Double!
Turtle Internal Pocket Dimension Space Will Grow To Accommodate The Size Of Nine Planets!
Accept Upgrades?]
Yes, I will accept cause…damn that's a lot of planets.
Another shake.
[Upgrade Complete!
Population Requirements For Next Upgrade: 20,000,000 Inhabitants.
Notice! Space Within The Mt. Ebott Turtle Pocket Dimension Has Now Given You the Ability To Transfer Pre-Existing Planets From The Eternity Garden To Your New Pocket Dimension Space!
Transfer Will Accommodate and Ensure New Planets Can Survive Their Locations With Newly Created Special Geographical Planning Feature!
Create Planet Now Grants You The Ability To Create Suns!]
"Oh! That's…that's definitely something." I said honestly. "I can now move the Planet's from here into the Pocket Dimension and it'll accommodate the survival of everything…and I can also just create Sun's."
"Neat… actually… shouldn't I be able to do that normally given…?" Romero asked.
"You should, that fire blast you did on Death created Stars so…" I shrugged.
"It did? From my angle all I saw was fire and bright lights."
Huh… guess that is all you'd see from that angle…
"Eh, fair." I admitted. "But yeah, so the pocket dimension is now six times bigger and can support a lot of planets."
"Cool. Hay… if I was to fly up into that space, do you think I'd be able to fly around in the vacuum of space?"
"Well…you are a Galaxy Phoenix so I don't see why not." I shrugged.
"Hmm… Meg probably could too… given her thing. Wouldn't be surprised if Squeaks could… given Shift is now basically a chaos god, they might just be able to breathe up there like there was air."
"Yeah that's all fair." I shrugged. "Space travel is now at least in a safe condition instead of outside."
"Hmm…" Romero hummed. "Alchem, You said Empire lets you select roles that are basically giving people titles and abilities and such, right?"
"Yes and yes, I was planning on giving Holy one of them as it lets her give her stats to ten people…and with Perfect Custodian it would be a stupidly good loop."
"Right, but what I'm saying is that, if it did that when it turned or gained Empire, does that mean Township has that possibility of Roles just by itself?"
Huh… actually… let me…
[Township Roles!
Delegation Roles for Township Residents.
Security: Allows from crafting of defenses and weaponry from Township crafting, as well as the construction of prisons and jail cells.
Agriculture: Allows crafting of agricultural fields and rapid mass water and harvesting.
Construction: Allows the building of homes, infrastructure and repairs of any constructed facility.
Production: Allows the creation of factories and mass production facilities.]
"Okay, so there is a lot of things with Township Roles…" I hummed.
"And this whole time you've been doing it solo…"
I facepalmed.
"I've been busy with a lot of things, eat me." I grumbled.
"Uh, no. But, that does give me ideas… If used properly, all these roles and all you can do now, well, your Empire thing gives you Skill Points every time someone is born to your kingdom, and the biggest issues with maintaining large populations is food. Even the New Earth Kingdom has trouble at times with what we have available… but between the Tech of the Eternity and your Township roles. Litteral planets dedicated to agriculture and farming, plus our already existing portal tech for transport…"
"Won't ever have to worry about food again…and if I give intelligence to the people in the Zoo…and they breed like mad…oh boy things are about to get fucking silly." I said with a growing grin.
"Right, well, guess we should get started."