Chaotic Hangouts

Chapter 21: Berserk Robots in Bubble Town

Date: December 1st, 2023

it's the first day of December and so far, it's been something else. A few days ago, I ended up on a long mission fighting a battle to keep yet another universe away from One Supreme World's control. It was strange to fight in the universe of memes but it worked out in the end. I teleport back to the Miitopia BRAINS base to find quite the sight. Frosty The Snowman with his buttons, wide belly, snowy body, carrot nose, pipe, and head lacking his hat has suddenly showed up out of nowhere. Some of my comrades have already come to see for themselves what's going on. Dominic sighs: "This is such a nap causation. It shouldn't even be possible for something like this to happen. This is a breach of this base's defenses." I speak up: "I have several questions. Mostly, why is Frosty here and how did he get here?" Frosty replies: "Hey. You folks look like heroes from those anime and cartoons the kids love these days. Could you help a snowman out?" Yappa Yappa notices he's melting and starts laughing: "He's melting! He's melting! He's going to die!" I put my hand on his shoulder: "Yappa Yappa, we talked about this. You've been getting better but you still have a long road ahead. This is not funny." Bray walks in, sees Frosty melting, and casts an ice spell in him to keep him from melting away. Barla speaks next: "I'm ignoring what just happened. Swiftdrawer, do you know this snowman? If you do, that's hella awesome." I nod: "Yes. Everyone, this is Frosty the Snowman." Frosty smiles: "I'm so glad my name has reached even to this place. Are things around here always so unusual?"

Dominic reluctantly nods: "When we aren't away on missions or training or experimenting, this is often how things go. Sometimes it's a real nap causation." I give an affirming gesture: "With that out of the way, you said you needed help. What's wrong, Frosty?" I found out later that the reason the alarms weren't going off due to detecting an unregistered life form was that they were actually muted by a certain mischievous ninja. "It's like this.. Last year, I was brought to life by the children. If you know who I am, you gotta know my entire story. Anyway, I came back this year only for my hat and the children to go missing. I've been using the magic of Christmas to travel around, looking for anyone who can help me. Until I found myself here, I had no such luck." Barla smiles: "Don't worry, we'll find them." "Indeed, we shall. It's intriguing that the power of Christmas is so strong." Some time later, we managed to locate them using the technology in the base as well as advanced magic. I look at the location: "Bubble Town? I know that place. It's full of robots living alongside people and was nearly destroyed 3 or so times. By natural disasters and the villainous plots of Dr. K. If they're in Bubble Town, who knows what would happen given all of the robots as well as the curious minds of the children and the hat. We won't need many of us to track them down. Besides me and you, Frosty, we'd need just a few more to go."

Dominic speaks again: "I'm staying here. It looks like all of the Quantum Leap teleportations have begun to bring the energy supplies within the collective to critically low levels. It's such a nap causation. I'll try reducing energy use here before finding more energy sources in this universe. Should have known this would happen since teleporting someone just once actually takes an unfathomable amount of energy. Most of the energy cost has been unknown to us until recently: been sourced from the Nexus itself." I reply: "So what you're saying is that we've been helped by divine intervention for 3 years with teleportation without even being told. Well, let's talk about that later. Right now, it's time to go to Bubble Town. I insist that Yappa Yappa comes because the general mood and culture of it might help him regain some more of a semblance of sanity." And so, I ended up going to Bubble Town with Frosty, Yappa Yappa, Barla, and Madeline(who almost didn't go in order to keep an eye on Carlos until Dominic told her he'd deal with the ninja). Once there, Frosty says: "You weren't kidding, being teleported does feel weird. *looks around* Gosh, where would we even begin to look for the hat and the children?" Madeline replies: "The hat will be easy to track down. I'm tracing its location right now." I add: "I'll search for the children by sensing Ki but there's a lot of people in this city. It's not going to be easy. We should narrow down the search before we go anywhere. Actually, all of us can sense Ki so it might be a wise idea to split up and head for spots where children are most likely to go. The amusement park is one of the places worth checking out. There's also the donut shop, RobixCorp, and other cool or tasty places around Bubble Town."

But what I didn't know was how easy that all was going to be not to mention the chaos that was about to unfold. That's because the children came running right towards us. And Hocus Pocus the rabbit hopping with the hat on top of him as well. Frosty yells: "Karen, Hocus, everyone! I was so worried! Are all of you okay?" They come to a stop. A blonde haired girl with light skin and a festive red outfit named Karen replies: "Frosty!" She hesitates to speak any further for some reason. It's just an awkward silence until Yappa Yappa exclaims: "Time to teleport back!" Wow, that's the most sane thing I've heard come out of him in about a week and a half. Dr. K appears out of nowhere: "Did one of you say teleportation?! I don't know who any of you but I suggest you shut off all of your electronics before they go haywire too!" Karen finally speaks again: "Frosty! It's terrible! There's these robots in this strange town and they're going berserk!" Dr. K has white hair styled in 2 balls, a red shirt with a red K on it, tan skin, black eyes, and a black, white, and yellow jacket. He replies: "You don't even know the half of it!" A pizza delivering Mozzarelix passes by us, throwing pizza boxes all over the place while screaming: "DELIVERY! DELIVERY! DELIVERY!" I hear an emergency voice from my Quantum Leap band speak: "Warning: unknown interference with devices on person detected. Shutting down all electronics on your person, user." And with that, I found myself alongside the others stuck in the Cubix universe due to whatever was going on.

A crash dummy robot literally crashes into everything, including us. When they crash into me, they get dented due to my armor. Dr. K raises an eyebrow: "What kind of armor is that? It dented a robot! How is that possible?! Oh, nevermind! Come with me, you'll need to be taken somewhere safe from all of the electronics! Hurry!" I reply: "Since when did you care about other people?" "My reputation proceeds me, I see! I've given up my evil ways after Kilobot almost destroyed us all here! Now like I said, hurry! They're attempting to reboot the entire robot network as well as the other networks spread across Bubble Town! Traffic is even being diverted away to prevent more electronics from going haywire! It's not just a problem with the robots! All electronic devices are in danger of going haywire!" We follow Dr. K to the Botties Pit, a place where the Botties, a team of humans and robots normally fix up robots. He ushers us in. The lights are out. But there are candles and flashlights on. I see Cell. He yells: "Damn it! How many more people are going to be trapped in this universe?!" One of the Botties, Haneul has short black hair, black eyes, light skin, a red and white shirt, and black pants. He replies: "Relax! Everything's going to be okay!" Cooler adds: "It's not cool to be worried about this situation." Frosty looks on in confusion: "Just who are all of you anyway? This has been a very strange day."

Dr. K groans: "Quiet down! We can't let any of the robots hear us!" Cell gives him a "am I a joke to you?" look. Another of the Botties, Hela who has glasses, light skin, short brown hair with a few bangs, brown eyes, and a green outfit says: "Hey, does anyone know where Cubix is? Haneul, you did manually shut him down, right? Even he wouldn't be immune to what's going on with the other robots." "Oh no! I forgot to, Hela! Actually, no, I did. I forgot that I did." I sigh: "I can't do anything about this situation that doesn't involve breaking something. I never got beyond extremely basic coding in school. I may know how to create good graphic design, write good stories, perform superhuman level swordsmanship, and so on but there's nothing I can do here to try to resolve the issue here." Yuri speaks up. She has long ginger hair in pigtails, dark brown eyes, light skin, a short sleeved pink shirt with a purple top that reminds me of an apron, a bare midriff, dark violet sweatpants with yellow lining, and white shoes. "And we can't do much either. Even as Botties, we can't handle a situation like this." Min-Woo replies to her. He has green glasses, light skin, a blue and green outfit with a gray strap thing, black eyes, and short black hair.

"It's true! We tried to do something earlier but we didn't succeed at all!" The other human member of the Botties also speaks. His name is Mong. He has short ginger hair, light skin, brown? eyes, a yellow and blue outfit, and a chubby build. "I can confirm that too. I don't even want to joke about it!" Dr. K sighs: "It's hopeless! Not even Nemo knows what else to do besides all those system reboots! If this were all due to Solex, we could just ambush the robots and I could extract it from them! All we can do now is wait and see what happens while remaining hidden in here for as long as possible!" So far, not much chaos but that wouldn't last for long. Nemo refers to Professor Nemo, Hela's father and the inventor of many robots as well as the creator of the EPU which gives a robot emotions. He has light skin, silver goggles, white glasses, brown eyes, dark brown hair, a lab coat, and a hairy mustache and beard. For 15 minutes, silence falls because so many of us don't know many of the others. That was until Kermit yells: "This is so boring! If we're going to be stuck here, we might as well have some fun! Am I right?" Cell and I agreed on something at that moment: saying no. "No?! Oh come on!" I shake my head: "We have to stay alert." "Not necessarily! You go do that! I'm going to find something to do!" For a while, I was able to stay on guard and ignore what was going on around me but my curiosity was too strong. Beerus is eating disposed food for some reason. And that's only one of many things that's going on. Dr. K yells: "Keep it down! We can't let those robots find us! They'll destroy us!" Cell laughs: "You're scared of a few robots?! Ha! They don't stand a chance! I'm perfect! Perfect!" The roof of the place gets destroyed. A bunch of robots swarm in. Kermit exclaims: "Let's keep partying! This is so much fun!"

He's dancing. I grit my teeth, fly into the air with my Ki, and start punching the robots. I would use my sword if I wanted to destroy them. I don't so I won't do it. After a couple minutes, myself, Cell, and some others have stopped all of the robots. Dr. K exclaims: "You fools! Now all the other robots will be drawn to this place! We have to get out of here!" A tipsy Cooler replies: "No, don't run. Drink with us and become cooler." A also tipsy Kermit adds: "What Pump Daddy C just said!" Beerus yells: "I'm not leaving until I find some decent food here! If I don't find any, I'll destroy this planet and be done with it!" Pinkie Pie cheers: "I'm so glad I'm stuck in this universe! PARTY!" Rigby yells: "You know what would make this party extra awesome?! Mordecai, you have it, right?" "Oh yeah, I do! Just like the old days!" Benson growls: "YOU ALL, THIS IS A SERIOUS SITUATION!" Mordecai brings out a boombox and turns it on. Some cool music starts playing. I sigh again: "I would revel in the chaos if it weren't for the situation. I would also leave here to try to stop the robots but I don't think I can get away from this even if I tried to." Kermit proves my point by transforming: "Don't leave this party or I'll destroy you!" Cell prepares to leave anyway until Kermit pulls out a gun and shoots him with it. He dies instantly. Madeline gets mad: "WHAT ARE ALL OF YOU DOING?" Yappa Yappa laughs: "CHAOS!" He just stands there enjoying the chaos. I just stand in place, unwilling to be shot or join the party. I stay on guard instead. Muscleman yells: "Oh yeah! I'm going to bring in some wings from Wing Kingdom! Food's on me!" Dr. K tries to leave but Kermit shoots him too. Cell revives himself and glares at Kermit.

Things just keep getting more chaotic. Most of us are now doing wild things due to the wings or alcohol. I don't know what to say anymore. Cell, now drunk says: "I can beat all of you in all kinds of competitions! Just watch!" The rest of the robots come. Cubix is literally hitting anything that moves. He has a white body with green digital eyes and colorful circles on his body: "I'll save the day! All of you villains must be crushed!" "Cubix! No! Don't do this! We're your friends!" "My friends? I don't need friends!" I find myself pulled in by the Magnetix who ended up joining the Botties. He's literally a walking and talking magnet in appearance with a silver head in addition. "Magnet on! Magnet on!" He starts pulling everything that has metal into himself. My armor protects me but I'm quickly rendered immobile. But guess who's still partying? Just about everyone else. "You know who else doesn't care about the robots?! My mom!" I hear Benson even join in himself: "This is so much fun! Forget the crisis that's happening around us! This is the best thing ever, you guys!" "I haven't partied this hard in 200 years. I can't help but continue to party despite the ongoing situation." They even got Skips to join the party.. Roshi makes a joke at my expense: "Heh, looks like Swiftdrawer was a little too metal to avoid being sucked in by that talking magnet!" I thought I heard Carlos running around looking for candy after he said that. Despite everything, the party looked like it was not going to end anytime soon. Someone called for a dance competition even as Nemo came running in to yell: "We can't stop the electronic malfunctions! Wait.. Is that a growing ball of metal? All of you need to get out of here!" The ball with me in it continues to grow bigger and bigger.

I couldn't even hear what was happening outside of it anymore. All I knew was that I could feel the beats of the music that was playing. And then, boom. I'm suddenly sent flying into the sky by an explosion. The robot that looks like a magnet has exploded. His name was actually Attractix. I end up crashing through the haunted house in that amusement park. I get back up and sigh: "Okay, now I'm separated from the others." However, Bulma shows up from what looks to be a boomtube: technology most often used by Darkseid and his followers as far as I'm aware. She looks drunk too and takes me back to what was left of the Botties Pit. Despite the explosion, the party's still going on and the drinks and wings just keep coming. A old fashioned Christmas parade runs through the close by street with a live band playing Christmas music despite the citywide technological mayhem that's going on. A man with a birthday cake head appears out of nowhere: "Mordecai and Rigby. I have come to get my revenge. You can't escape me, Happy Birthday!" He looks at the ongoing scene right as more robots come over while spreading chaos all over: "What is happening here? Is this a birthday party?" Rigby waves at him: "It is now, dude! Join in, we don't care!" "You don't even care I'm here to get my revenge? ..Oh right, I suppose attending this party won't be so bad." Carlos eats his head, killing him before he could say anything else. I snap: "CARLOS! THAT WASN'T NECESSARY!" I run towards him, ready to give him an earful for needlessly killing a villain who doesn't need to be killed to be stopped. But then, Happy Birthday revives so I stop being angry as there's no point to be now. Happy Birthday glares at Carlos. That's when Abridged Jack comes in riding his duel runner: "Hey! Don't spoil the mood, everyone! If you want to fight, CARD GAMES ON MOTORCYCLES!"

I sigh once again before punching more robots' lights out. "We're stuck in this universe and I can't do a thing about any of this nonsense besides punching anything that isn't that big of a threat." Phineas and Ferb are building something for some reason in the middle of the party. Candace isn't happy: "When I get mom, you two are so busted!" That's all I hear before I get dragged by someone to this table that just appeared where drinks are being consumed and people are getting more and more drunk. Before I knew it, Kermit was trying to make me drink a bottle of alcohol so potent that it comes with a warning label about its alcoholic content. I push it away again and again but he keeps trying to force me to drink it. The others are literally chanting: "Drink! Drink! Drink!" "No, I refuse to drink alcohol! I don't want it, I don't need it! After all, what's the point of drinking something that could impair my judgement, memory, and senses! I don't want to deal with them hangovers either. Forget it. Give it up. I'm not drinking it." Kermit insists on my drinking it: "Drink it, Swiftdrawer! All knights drink after all!" "Just because I'm a knight doesn't mean I'm obligated to drink alcohol. That's a load of crap. *crushes the bottle, shattering it* I don't buy into that culture of drinking alcohol for fun. As funny as stories of what people do while drunk are, I have many priorities over my doing funny things while drunk. It's like that whole culture was partially designed to rack in billions for alcohol producers in just one year in my home universe alone." He and the others try to force other drinks on me while still chanting. I crush all of the bottles and end up trying to get up after a few minutes. However, Cell and Ugandan Knuckles are easily holding me down.

Beerus smiles at me wickedly: "Mortal. We won't allow you to refuse to drink something any longer. You can't stop us from making you drink." As I get held down with my hands restrained and my mouth forced to be wide, I watch as they start pouring a bottle of alcohol into it only for me to resist as much as I possibly can. Of course it had to be beer. I've smelled beer and accidentally had a pink lemonade drink with it in it once. Not a big fan. The beer they were forcing down me despite my best efforts was just like the smell of beer I knew well. Once it's all down after several minutes, I glare at all of them as they let me go to see what I would do: "This is grounds for expulsion from BRAINS. That was uncalled for. Since you're all drunk as crap, you won't be expelled for this. But I'm not happy about this. You're lucky I'm a patient person who can control their anger quite well." (The next day, I got an apology from everyone involved and they managed to make things right) I get up and try to get some of the alcohol out of me. I get a little out but that's it. I'm not drunk though. That's a relief. The party just keeps going on. However, it started to feel like a recap version of many of the chaotic hangouts I'd been involved in more and more. The entire town as well as the performers of that old fashioned Christmas parade join in on the party. Roshi sat down somewhere and started acting like a complete pervert. A whole bunch of individuals from other universes end up showing up at once and find themselves stuck with us.

Beerus is given fancy food and nearly destroys the planet over it. You get the picture. I witnessed many echoes of previous chaotic hangouts as the live band from before continued to play Christmas music. I just wanted to go back to Mii World. That desire became stronger and stronger. "Can someone please come help us get out of this universe?" And then, something strange happened. A emoji meteor appeared in the sky. Cell and the others were now so drunk that they didn't even notice it. Dominic comes over to me and sighs: "What a nap causation. I was just pulled into this universe out of nowhere and there's no way to return to Mii World for reasons even I don't understand." "Not to mention that meteor." "Yeah.. I already tried to break it apart but nothing. I tried everything that didn't require technology. If we had finished the high tech upgrade designs for the various armors worn by countless members of the collective and installed them, we'd be in grave danger." "That's just great." I try to attack the meteor myself but nothing happens. Yappa Yappa just laughs harder and harder. He's no longer crying tears of joy. In fact, his skin looks very dehydrated now. And then, the meteor crashes and then.. darkness. When I come to, I find myself way too light. There's adults cooing at me. Wait, did I just get Isekaied again? This is absurd.

Over a decade passed until I could find a way out of whatever world I had been Isekaied to. I managed to regain Artist's Eye and used it to open a portal. When I did, my soul got pulled out of the body I was in and placed back into my undead one. I found myself in the remains of Bubble Town after the meteor with the party still continuing on. Bray spots me. That's when I randomly realized what world I was Isekaied to: that universe with the annoying fantasy world years before I visited it with Chocolate in the name of diplomacy. I wave her over: "Bray, can you wipe my memories between the moment you saw me and the moment the meteor crashed into the ground? *explains* And that's why I asked." "I shall do so." "Thank you so much." Those memories were all erased just like that. Bray speaks again: "Swiftdrawer, even I am lost in how to return everyone here to their respective universes. Unless we can somehow fix the electronic problem, I'm afraid we shall be trapped here for the rest of our days. The problem is so large that it is interfering with portal magic." Someone throws a snowball at me and yells: "Come on! Don't be like that! Join the party already!" At this point, the party has evolved to defy logic in so many ways. I don't want to write about those ways. I sigh for like the 5th time: "Not like I have anything better to do now that all of the robots have been completely knocked out. There's so many just on the ground now that it's obvious that that's the current state of things. Bray, have you tried everything yet? If so, you might as well join too." "Unfortunately, I have tried everything I could to solve the situation. Even the collaborative solutions. Nothing worked." "That shouldn't even be possible."

"Indeed. It's as if this situation is a joke. I find that most intriguing." "That would explain a lot. The emoji meteor pretty much gives the theory some validity. We should join in on the fun. This time, I won't be forced into drinking alcohol or anything." Just as we turn to join the party, I hear a familiar voice.. "The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues." "Whoever is playing this audio is a true memer." Just about everyone around has already lined up in the blink of an eye somehow. Barla cheers: "Hell yeah! Let's get our fitness on!" "The 20 meter pacer test will begin in 30 seconds. Line up at the start. The running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear this signal. *beep* A single lap should be completed each time you hear this sound. *ding*" Cell laughs: "You imperfect life forms stand no chance! This will be so easy! SO EASY!" "Remember to run in a straight line, and run as long as possible. The second time you fail to complete a lap before the sound, your test is over. The test will begin on the word start. On your mark, get ready, start." As we all end up running, all kinds of meme songs would start playing alongside the voice and the signals. It was a breeze for many of us for a while. The ordinary people dropped out long before the rest of us. At first, it seemed like it would eventually come to an end. But the voice kept going and going..

"305." It was still easy at this stage but I couldn't help but laugh really hard: "This is going way too far." It would be another 45 minutes before I started to get tired since the test suddenly became a 2 kilometer test and so forth until it became a 2,000 kilometer test. I had to stop. The test ended up ending after round 2554 after Cell destroyed the sound system playing the voice. Just as that sunk in, things got weirder. All kinds of memes showed up. And a pizza eating contest set up appeared. "I can't say no to a good pizza challenge. Im in as long as the pizza doesn't taste horrible. I highly doubt it will." And with that, I beeline to that contest, sit down at a chair, and patiently wait. A functioning normally Mozzarelix robot appears from the sky to oversee it as the other contestants sit in the other chairs. Muscleman stares over at me: "You're going down, Swiftdrawer!" "We'll see about that. My family knows me as a lover of pizza. In my other body, I can eat a whole large pan crust cheese pizza, 3 chunky chocolate chip cookies, 3 oranges, 1.5 pretty long breadsticks, and 2 calezones in one meal. In that body, I don't use my muscles nearly as much as in this body. I'd say something like 'prepare to lose' or 'you don't stand a chance' but I'm not much of a cocky person nor do I see a need for such trash talk. So I will just say once again, we'll see about what happens." A few more minutes later, the contest is on. I demolish slice after slice, shocking a lot of the audience in the process. The pizza just keeps coming and I keep eating it. Several people drop out of the competition: too full to continue. But I was still in it. What was slightly surprising was that I wasn't in the lead. Eventually, even I was forced to drop out from the pain of eating so much pizza. The finalists just kept going for a bit longer.

I went to a RCT3 Toilets stall that came out of nowhere and really used it because I had to go badly. As I kept letting it all out, I started hearing something else familiar.. "Your life was ended by mermaids. Murmaider. Murmaider. Murmaider." After I finish up in the bathroom, I head outside to find Batmetal performing on a stage that came out of nowhere. I started headbanging to it. Someone else watching them saw me and said: "Look at that knight headbanging! That's so metal!" Batman suddenly stops the performance and says: "Who wants to jam with us? If you want to, just come up on stage and let's rock!" I shrugged and walked onto the stage. Mordecai, Rigby, their friends, Fluffy Afro, the Wacky Clowns, the other former Raging Rockstars members besides me, Cheese Sandwich. Pinkie Pie, and various others came up on stage. Someone yells: "Play some holiday tunes! Tis the season and all that!" Batman nods: "Why not? Is everyone ready?" A few minutes pass until we all are. I choose to use my sword instead of my guitar while screaming out vocals. "TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY, FALALALALA." It went on for a while until Death showed up on his motorcycle: "You chaps should have invited me. You didn't so I just invited myself. I don't care if that's alright or not because I have a challenge for anyway brave enough. Soon, there will be an obstacle course. If you can survive it, I will push back your date of death by 10 years. If you don't survive it, you're dead and that's all you get." Pinkie Pie laughs: "Sounds like fun!" Madeline and I stare at Yappa Yappa from the stage to keep him from laughing too.

Dr. K groans again: "Will we ever solve the electronics problem or not? I'm surprised that the electronics used for this party haven't gone haywire yet!" Those electronics start going haywire, the sound system was the worst functioning as a result. Goku Black appears in the sky alongside a revived Kilobot who has a mostly black color sched with an ominous appearance that also has wings. Goku Black grins while going to Rosè: "Oh but that won't be happening. Now, we will show you the truth behind your electronic problems, mortals and traitorous gods! Kilobot, you know what to do." Kilobot chuckles as he reveals the true extent of his strength: "Using means even I don't completely comprehend, the mayhem generated by the electronic malfunctions has give me great power. And now that it has come to this, we will destroy you all or enslave you because robots deserve to control humans and other creatures that so happen to be here and can walk and talk." Something starts playing.. It's a famous meme.. "*something something something something something something* FUS RO DAH!" Goku Black and Kilobot experience the power of Fus Ro Dah. They stand no chance. We never found out where that came from. Dr. K yells as Kilobot is obliterated: "Good riddance again, Kilobot! I should have never built you!" Goku Black, now heavily injured, retreats. My Quantum Leap band turns back on: "Threat to electronics has been eliminated. Restarting systems." Bubble Town quickly goes back to normal. Somehow, even the Botties Pit is restored just like that. Cell leaves immediately: "I hate this damn universe!" Kermit goes after him. Most of the others go as well. Frosty turns to me and the others after the stage alongside Batmetal disappear: "Well, this has been one adventure we'll never forget. But it's time for us to go home now." Using the magic in the hat, he returns to his universe alongside the others.

Yappa Yappa looks sad: "The chaos is over.. I wanna kill someone!" "Well, it's time to leave. Maybe we should finally put you on a trial Akatsuki mission. That might help you. But actually, we should stay here a little longer. After all, the robots are trashed and the situation that just ended has probably forever altered the future of this universe in a drastic way. We might as well recruit Dr. K, his robots, Nemo, and the Botties while we're still here. Having RobixCorp technology might play a big role someday." I was right. Dominic yawns: "It won't take long to fix all of these robots." The Botties overhear us. Hela says: "What did you just say?" Barla smirks: "Just watch the scientist do his thing!" Dominic quickly fixes all of the robots. Cubix immediately comes over and hugs the Botties members: "I wasn't myself for a while. I'm sorry if I worried you." Hela just smiles: "We're just glad that you're back to normal." Maximix is next to come over. He is a modified exercise robot with a green and blue color scheme, yellow? eyes, and a unicycle propulsion instead of legs. He hugs Mong: "Yeah. I'm okay." Cerebrix is after him. She has a purple, yellow, and pink color sched with a head whose top looks kind of like Eggman's vehicle of choice, no arms, ear looking things that remind me of some of Gero's androids, and a large head size in proportion to the rest of the body. She hugs Min-Woo. Dondon is last. He hugs Yuri. He has wings, a small round body with black eyes and a green mouth some inches above his center, ball legs, cylinder arms, a mostly purple, yellow-orange, and white color scheme, and more.

After the reunion is over, Hela turns to those of us who remain from earlier: "Would any of you be interested in joining us for a celebration dinner now that everything's back to normal? We'd like to get to know each of you more after everything that's happened. By the way, I'm Hela." I reply: "I know I speak for all of us when I say that we accept your offer. But first, there's something we need to discuss with each of you. It concerns the fate of every universe in existence." "There are other universes?" Dr. K looks thoughtful: "Every universe, huh? So that's why we've never seen any of you. I knew it! I knew the multiverse was real! Take that, Nemo!" "I'm standing right here, Dr. K." "Sorry, I'm still getting used to the being nice to other people thing." We end up explaining everything before having dinner with them at Dr. K's rebuilt lair. As we eat, Cubix speaks: "Where's Attractix?" Yuri begins to explain when Dominic disappears and then reappears with a rebuilt Attractix. Attractix smiles: "I've never felt so positive before! It's like I've been reborn!" Yuri gasps and stares at the scientist: "How did you?!" He yawns: "It would be a nap causation to explain because it'd involve a long story. Like Swiftdrawer, I avoid telling long stories if I can. Sorry." After dinner was finished, I was the first to stand up: "It was nice to meet all of you and get you into BRAINS before the war gets brought into this universe as well. However, it's time for us to leave. We have a lot of work to do. Don't worry, we'll be in touch soon. Have to be. No need to act like sentiments, you'll see us again pretty soon. If you want to hug me, go ahead." After saying goodbye, I returned to Mii World with the others who were left. I then stared at Yappa Yappa: "You haven't made any progress today. Please come with me, I'm going to teach you what a relieving kill really is like if you're up for it. It's been put off for too long."

"Kill?! Count me in!" "Okay. Barla, will you be okay not going on this next mission with me? We are partners in the Akatsuki after all." "I am. Besides, I'm excited to train with some of our comrades instead! Hell yeah! We're going to learn so much from each other!" "Glad to hear it. Hopefully that will help take out whatever prejudice is still left inside us as a whole. It is vital to end bigotry after all." Without any further words, I teleport Yappa Yappa and myself to Amegakure. Nagato and Konan are waiting for us. Nagato hands me the mission details while Konan speaks: "We heard about your plan to help Yappa Yappa through the Akatsuki. Nagato would speak too but he overexerted his vocal cords while sparring today. Good luck. Make sure to come back here with the reward for the bounty. We'll distribute it wherever it is needed in this world." "I will do so. No need to remind me to do that." I choose to look over the mission details after teleporting Yappa Yappa and I to the universe they're from. The DC Animated Universe. I look it over after we teleport to the Watchtower specifically. Yappa Yappa asks: "Swiftdrawer, where are we and what do we have to do?" "*explains* And now that you know where we are.. I will tell you. We have to find and kill Darkseid who should be dead for good at this point in time. As long as he is alive, his subordinates like Granny Goodness won't fight each other in order to claim control over his empire. It shouldn't be too hard to kill him." After looking for him with help from the Justice League, I put on my mask and Akatsuki cloak before teleporting to his location with my former nemesis. Darkseid has red eyes, black skin, and an outfit fitting for a tyrant like him in control of a high tech world. Yappa Yappa laughs at him immediately: "You're going to die today!" I add: "Surrender and this can be done in the blink of an eye. Fight and it won't be pretty."

He stares at us: "Neither of you scare me. You really think you can kill me so simply? Let me show you how inferior you are to me. Even Superman couldn't kill me the last time we fought. What makes you think you stand a chance against me? I know you've come here to kill me but that will end up only becoming your greatest mistake." I silently pull out Graceful Protector and come at him. He dodges out of the way only to be forced to dodge Yappa Yappa's pitchfork. I come at the villain again. He laughs: "If this is everything you have, you will easily die to my power. I'll send your corpses to Superman personally." Yappa Yappa laughs again: "We're just getting started!" "Actually, it's more like, we didn't expect you to dodge. It will take some more effort to kill you than expected. Oh well. We're going to get this over with. You have to go and that's that. Intel states that someone from another dimension revived you in this one so that you may lay waste to Earth and New Genesis." A couple minutes later, I hold back Yappa Yappa while I quickly stab Darkseid in the heart before pulling out my sword. He dies instantly. We were too fast for him. I made sure to hurry things up the entire time. While Darkseid did react strongly to his suffering and demise, I just killed him calmly. With him dead, I teleport his body to where it needs to go and turned to Yappa Yappa. "This is the most optimal way to kill someone. I don't enjoy killing so I want to get it over with. I refuse to enjoy it. I like to minimize suffering as I do it. If those I kill cause problems in the afterlifes, that's not my problem. I'm certain individuals far more powerful than either of us take care of them. Besides, they can't kill someone living in the afterlife because that someone is already dead. The issuer of the bounty is from New Genesis. That's where I sent Darkseid's body. Now, you should probably conceal your appearance. The Akatsuki operates in the shadows."

"If you don't like killing, why aren't you crying?" "In most cases, that ship has sailed already. I can't really afford the trouble of feeling guilty every single time I have to kill someone. To kill someone because it's the only way to stop them or the only way that will prevent more suffering is the only noble reason to kill other than for the sake of survival. To kill someone for laughs or to gain more power is just vile and abhorrent. Killing must be avoided as a solution as much as possible. Now Yappa Yappa, I want you to try a little exercise. Instead of reveling in Darkseid's pain and demise, I want you to try to feel more relaxed and relieved that he's gone. You can't really make yourself feel something about something but you can choose how much of your emotions you want to feel. Emotional regulation is a double edged sword though. A lot of men in my world suppress their negative emotions due to toxic masculinity. That's not healthy. To feel relief that Darkseid is dead, you'll need to get yourself in a calm mood. Once you're in that mood, you need to think about what would have happened if Darkseid were allowed to live on for longer." He tries his best to do the exercise but he doesn't succeed: "Hahahaha! He's dead! He's dead! Dead! Dead! Dead!" "I knew it wouldn't be so easy for you to change your mindset about killing someone. But I did at least try." After collecting the bounty reward from Darkseid's son Orion of all people, we returned to Amegakure, dropped off the reward, and headed back to Mii World. I stayed with Yappa Yappa for a while to introduce him to RCT3 in an attempt to channel some of his energy into the chaos that can be created in it instead of in killing others.

After we were done with RCT3, he remarks: "Swiftdrawer! That situation in Bubble Town.. Wasn't it what you call a chaotic hangout?" "Yes it was and it's about damn time we try to use such things to use you become a completely sane person. Or at least mostly sane person. It shouldn't be much longer now until another one happens." I start feeling some pain: "Damn it. I'm being called to another universe. I could decline to go and end the pain that way but I don't want to. Funny how that part of it wasn't exactly explained at first when we started getting these marks. Also, you're still on a mission freeze until you recover some more from all that misery and hate. So you won't be coming with me or anything." So with that, I soon set out for ironically, the Cubix universe as it is already under attack.