Twas the night before Christmas, and the Castle was silent. Not a creature was stirring, not even a-

"Blugh!"

Save me who got hit by a hard case of pregnancy nausea. Agh… why… I was sleeping so nice too… I'm not even that far along damn it, barely been a few weeks…

"Pa~in…" I groaned. "Why~..."

I flushed the toilet, letting the biles and grossness that I threw up go down the pipes as I got up and sat on the toilet and took a breath. Fuck. Okay, relax… stomach is feeling better. Okay, best to try and get back to sleep… still, got a lot planned… no. I shouldn't start working so early.

I pulled myself up to the sink, fixing my hair up before washing out my mouth with the tap water before heading back to the bedroom, which was all cuddles and snores amongst my partners. I felt the ring on my finger and rubbed it gently… married. And to so many… heh. Feels like a lifetime ago I came to this reality… even longer since we celebrated a genuine Christmas.

I decided to go look at the tree. Thankfully Township let me merge the Castle and the House together so moving was easy.

The large room the family Christmas tree stood in was meant for large parties and gatherings, but right now, it housed the huge tree and many presents for the kids. I then felt my stomach. Another one from Tony… and the other two, my first with Mike my wind fairy, and William. Mike was ecstatic, and William was happy… but he also seemed worried. I can't blame him… I sighed as I took a seat on one of many chairs here and looked at all the presents, the tree decorated with the lights glowing off it, shining off the ornaments so beautifully…

"First christmas in…ten years…" I muttered. "Never thought I'd see the day…"

"Eh, just be happy." I did not scream as I turned and saw Sans standing next to me… dressed as Santa. "Hey."

"Don't…do that please." I said carefully. "And…kind of expected Asgore to be here…"

"He's with Toriel, Chara and Asriel." Sans stated. "They have their Christmas traditions, same as everyone."

"That's fair." I nodded.

"So, why are you up? Don't ya know you're not supposed to be up when Santa is working?"

"Pregnancy Sickness says otherwise." I answered.

"Ah. Let's see if I got something in my Santa Bag." He said, taking off a backpack that had the word 'Presents Bag' written on it in marker. He then pulled out what looked to be a potion bottle. "One pregnancy safe potion for morning sickness and nausea." He said as he handed it to me.

"Really?" I inquired, gently taking the potion and looking it over.

"Yup." He nodded. "Magic Santa bag." He said, shaking the backpack a bit.

"Cool." I said with a smile. "Merry Christmas Sans."

"Merry Christmas Alchem." He said, quickly vanishing. Heh, Shortcut. Cool.

I sighed, uncorking the bottle and taking a swig. Hm… should I go to sleep…

I sighed. I'm not exactly tired… and I did invest in some Abilities that make sleep less… necessary. Great. I ended up checking the Township roster… lot of people… Hmm… I looked through it and found Romero. According to this on the map he's actually with Shift and Holy, no surprise, they have an address not to far from the castle it seems. Must be a place Romero had built a while ago.

Hm… wonder what they're doing… Probably asleep.

"Do you really wish to know?" I… did genuinely scream as the albino, black feathered, skeletal winged version of Romero, Captain Death, appeared behind me.

"Don't…fucking do that!" I wheezed as I clutched my chest.

"Force of habit. You know what they say, Death is always watching over your shoulder." He said with a chuckle. "You're a rather nosy one. Rather bored I take it?"

"Yes, I am bored cause I don't need all that much sleep, pregnancy nausea kept me up…so eh…"

"And you wish to pry and spy on your friends and subjects?"

"No." I shook my head. "Just wondering what people are doing, I'm not going to peak on them."

"Hm, if you insist." He said, taking a few steps towards the tree. "You know, it's funny." He said, looking up at the tree. "Across my lifetime, across many planets I've seen rise and fall back home, a holiday like this is almost always a universal constant. Different names, different customs sure, but the theme is still there. Wonder if that means I should expect some Christmas God to be real? Heh, a silly notion, but yet, how else do you explain such a recurring phenomenon?"

"Well, in many forms of literature, mostly from Comics, Santa Claus has…been more or less depicted as his normal jolly self but more as a fundamental part of reality where even the strongest of being's can't really do shit to him." I admitted, remembering the one christmas DC comic where Darkseid tries so goddamn hard to murder Santa, only for Saint Nick to still hand the New God a lump of coal every Christmas.

"Hm, interesting… Tell me Alchem, have you lost those you knew in your life?"

"So far I've only lost one and…maybe a second? I don't know." I said honestly. "But technically I got Toshinori back." I shrugged.

"I see, and the other?"

"No idea…I remember someone being there and I haven't seen them in a long time…but I have no idea what they look like, what they did…or what their name is."

"Hm, interesting. To be that long forgotten… that is a death that transcends mortal flesh. Time Itself seems to have erased them. To have been forgotten by reality itself. What a fate. Worse than death."

"...Hold up what?" I asked worriedly.

"You can't remember their face, their name, who they were or what they did. That is what it means when you are erased from time. Forgotten by all, yet still, the footprints, like the imprints on a wall after a nuclear blast, a silhouette of them remains. Like cutting someone out of a picture."

I…I didn't like that one bit. "Uh…huh…that is horrifying and I'm scared that this was a special kind of murder…"

"Perhaps. Or, perhaps that is just how they died. Who can say." Death said as he turned and left towards the exit. "Oh, and fair warning, a dark shadow follows one of your unborn. Might not be death, but it's something just as bad." He said, walking out the door.

I put a hand on my stomach and…already was scared for my babies. "Cause of course I needed to know that…"

…

"And you're saying that something bad is gonna happen to your unborn child?" Romero asked. The Christmas season came and went. New Years was fun, but I couldn't enjoy it… I was too worried about what Death said… about my forgotten friend… and for my baby…

"Yes, cause Death itself gave me 'fair warning'." I sighed.

"Well, that is concerning. So, remind me why your human baby daddy might be a cause for concern?"

"He's my husband, so no baby daddy." I huffed. "And two, because…well, have you heard of Five Nights at Freddy's?"

"No."

I actually blinked at him.

"Huh…kinda thought your world would have had that…" I said carefully. "Okay…so to make this stupidly simple, FNAF is an indie horror game about being a night guard at a Chuck E. Cheese style family pizza place, and just like any of those places it'll have animatronics that will try to murder you because in this case, they're being possessed by children's soul's after some deranged mad man murdered them and shoved their freshly stabbed corpses into said animatronics." I explained.

"Oh, Necromantic Soul Bonding." Romero said. I blinked again at him. "It's a concept in dark magic that when a body is left to rot in a place or object, the soul becomes bound to it. Especially if it's the place they died in. It's part of why grave robbers often times end up haunted."

… Wait…

"Okay so…you are somehow partly correct as to how the soul's were bound to said Animatronics." I said, seeing Romero raise an eyebrow. "So…the villain of the story figured out there's this magic metal called 'Remnant', which is a weird soul metal that is created from pure Pain…and what better form of pain than murder.'

"Huh. Sounds like an Agony Ingot. Principle is the same, painful death, melt the metal or metals together and you get an Agony Ingot that has negative soul energy. Shit was hella illegal back home since its properties for Dark Magic were insane."

… Wait…

"Uh…" I blinked. "Okay, what the fuck."

"I come from a world that made, well, me." He said, motioning to himself. "Magic and modern tech mixed into one world. Are you really surprised that we have concepts in magic that align with your earth's fictional horror elements?"

… I mean, fair.

"Well…that's fair, but still." I frowned. "So…the main problem is that the Villain is William Afton…but my husband is a Good version of said man, who didn't fall into a manic depression and didn't have two of his kids murdered by his own creation's on pure accident." I said.

"Right… so the issue is… now you're pregnant with his first child meaning… you think Death's warning is about some kind of predestined fate?"

"Either that or something else." I sighed. "Cause…even though William is a happy family man that loves to tinker with stuff…but of course, anything that was created by him or associated with him in anyway in this reality reacts as if he was the evil version…I think it's some 'Divine Echo' or something? I don't remember as it's been well over ten years since I last heard that."

"Huh… alright… and you want me to do… what about that?"

"I just need someone to talk to and…I don't know, do some curse curing or something?" I asked nervously. "I don't know…"

"I… doubt this is a curse issue. We can ask Meg to look at it but if this is some kind of fate or destiny thing you might wanna walk to Strange. He'd know more about this."

"Yeah…" I sighed. "I just…hope things will be okay…"

I went back to the Eternity. The ship was now floating anchored to the Turtles and with a teleporter up to the thing. It took a bit but I found Dr. Strange's new Sanctum Sanctorum. His new Nokori Body looked good. He was a fox, his cape on him and the Eye of Agamotto/Time Stone was bound to his chest as part of the fusion. His head did have a partial skull exposed around his eyes and nose. His colors were a mix of orange, white and silver with a head of black and gray hair.

He actually looked really good.

"Ah, King Alchem. To what do I owe the pleasure?" He asked, not even looking up from the book he was reading.

"I need your help…Death told me that one of my unborn children has…a dark shadow looming over them." I said worriedly. "Can you help me figure it out?"

"Oh? Well, that is interesting." He said, closing the book and floating up to his feet and walking up over to me. "So, what exactly is the issue?"

"Death himself told me that one of my unborn children has a dark shadow looming over there, and it's something just as worse as death…" I said. "Can you do anything to…look into it?"

"Hm… well there's three in there so… Hmm…" Strange hummed as another book floated from the tall shelf behind him and opened in front of him. "Do you have any idea how this could have happened?"

"So…I'm not entirely sure and I doubt you want to hear how…stretchy I am…" I admitted nervously, remembering how I managed to get all three in there…tight fit but it was worth the feeling.

He gave me a look with a raised brow. He then rolled his eyes. "Either take this seriously or leave."

I sighed. "My best guess is that one of my spouses, William Afton, might have also given something to our child due to his weird 'inheritance' from his other version."

"Other versions… hmm. Can you describe these other versions of him?"

"The vast majority of his 'other versions' are either rotting burnt corpses inside a spring lock suit that became a cesspool of anger and Remnant, or a sentient Virus that want's a new body to continue their work." I said.

"Hm, interesting. Definitely must have a powerful necromancy affinity." Strange hummed as several other books floated off the shelf and opened around him and he began reading and scanning the pages. "Hmm… let's see here… tell me, in these other versions, does he also have children and if so what happens to them?"

"Three, two son's and a daughter." I answered. "His youngest son was shoved head first into a springlock suits mouth and it…bit off the front of his head…then his daughter was murdered by one of his creation's that had a 'scoop' in the robots stomach and grabbed her and…did terrible things." I said nervously. "The oldest…he's a purple skinned zombie due to having his internal organs and maybe his bones scooped out and replaced with a sentient wire robot that used him as a host for a bit…and then he possibly died setting himself on fire in the same pizza place trying to kill his evil father."

"Huh, so following that logic that's what that one is risking then." Strange said, motioning to my stomach. "Hmm, interesting." He added, finding a book in particular and taking it in his hands and looking the page over. "I believe this is what is known as a Universal Template Fate. Common across the multiverse, and here I'd assume something similar, that people have destinies that are the same or similar in some realities compared to others. For example, in the majority of realities, Tony Stark is Iron Man, I'm Doctor Strange, ect, ect. There are differences but the general fate is the same."

"And…what? My child is destined to suffer a painful death or some shit?" I asked carefully.

"Well, yes, as well your second child with him being a girl, third a boy and your husband to… that whole thing. Or some variation." Strange said, closing the book. "However, there might be alternative means to counter or even prevent this. Hopefully."

"Not 'hopefully', it's going to be a definitely." I frowned. "How do I stop this bad future?"

"Well, one option is you get an abortion and he gets a vasectomy." Strange stated bluntly. "The other would involve heavy modifications to your baby's and the father's souls themselves. So much so the universe can not register them as being, well the ones destined for the fate template and therefore can't apply it to them."

"Well, what 'destiny' are these kids going to suffer?" I asked.

"Based on what you told me, sounds like nothing good. At least for the human one."

I put a hand on my stomach. "It's not fair…" I growled.

"Lot of things aren't fair, but those are your options."

"Well fate can lick the saltiest part of my ass if I'm just going to let it fuck around with my children's lives." I frowned.

"Alright, given that statement abortion is out the window so soul alteration it is." Strange stated. "Now for the baby we should wait until after it's born cause… yeah, obvious reasons, but we can get to work on the father immediately."

"How will it all…work, exactly?" I asked.

"Well, one option is that I borrow the Soul Stone from Bigs and use it to take this William's soul out of his body and externally alter it. But that could lead to unwanted side effects. Alternatively, there's already a rather common means of soul alteration within your kingdom."

"Turning him into a Nokori I suppose?" I brought up.

"Exactly. I asked to be awake to study the fusion as it was happening and it was incredible. The alteration to the soul is… it's like the wrote the Soul Stone itself into an arcane matrix. If we use a powerful enough counter to what is most likely his high dark and necromancy affinity, it could potentially change his magic nature, changing his fate."

"Hopefully this will work and reality can suck it."

"Alright. Well, go find your husband and let him know the news."

I nodded, heading back out and finding William. He didn't work at the school anymore. Nowadays he helps with paperwork in terms of running the kingdom. General things that need either review or a royals signature.

I found William in his office, looking over some papers as some music was playing on a low volume.

"Hey William." I said softly. "How you doing?"

"So so. Mostly just keeping busy, distracted." He sighed. "I know I should be happy we're having a kid, still… I'm worried…"

"Yeah…and what's worse is that…Death told me we have a right to worry." I sighed. "But, there is a way to fix that."

"How?"

"Possibly turning you into a Nokori, as Dr Strange told me that if your soul is different enough, Reality fucks off on trying to harm you."

"... So my options are become a furry or face possible fate worse than death… Well, as long as I'm not a bear, chicken, fox or rabbit."

"Yeah, let's not play into irony too hard here." I admitted. "And there's nothing wrong with being a furry."

"Heh. Guess I'll be making an appointment with Romero. Well, this will be interesting… and, what about our child?"

"I…guess try and do the same but…give it a few years…I don't want our child to suffer so early in life…"

"That would be best." William nodded.

"Yeah…at least we have something that can help solve this." I sighed.

"Sorry you have to go through this because of me…"

"Don't say that Hun." I said, moving over and gently resting a hand on his cheek. "I married you cause I love you, no matter what nonsense this world throws at us that won't change how I feel."

"Heh, it means a lot to hear that… I just hope things work out."

I gave William a quick kiss. Hopefully it all ends up alright.

After that I decided to check in on some other things. Firstly was Holy training the new guard. Thanks to the Township Roles she was able to use the Security Role to rapidly build training centers for all kinds of things.

She was overseeing the recruits, new and old were doing various exercises.

I had to admit that the Guard Captain's vest and hat looked good on her. Military agrees with her.

"Sup." I nodded to the moth.

"Hey." She said as she looked over at me. "Well, so far training is going well. Thankfully the Eternity had soldiers to help fill out the ranks so we aren't completely hopeless. According to that Map and such there's a Dungeon we'll be arriving at soon so hopefully we can stop there for a while to get some real combat training against those things for a while. Be nice if we could somehow take or make our own."

"Well…depending on how long I have Generation up, I could probably have enough power to just take the whole dungeon.""

"Maybe, but I don't know if that would even still work the right way. Worst case scenario we use the Eternity Zoo for some animal enemies and build our own. Oh yeah that reminds me, Gaster was hoping to speak with you. He should be in his lab." Holy said.

"Well, having a more controlled environment would be preferred than just throwing people into a random dungeon and hoping for the best." I shrugged. "And alright, I'll be heading there next."

I appeared outside the lab and headed inside. I walked into Gaster's lab and… He and Squeaks were standing in front of a rather large spot of what I assume is Void just on the wall. Some things on stands were scanning it, I think, as Gaster read off a screen and took notes and Squeaks was just looking at it.

"What did you two do?" I asked, kind of expecting this to be a 'we didn't do it' situation.

"We're testing Squeaks' inborn ability to open portals to The Void." Gaster said. "Back when your Dark Half fought Romero, I was curious as Squeaks was able to drag them into the Void for a time, and wondered if this was the genuine Void or some form of personal Pocket Dimension. Turns out, the skeletal hands and arms Squeaks summons, as well as… Glub Glub, are both natural Void Entities that have bonded to her and seem to reside in whatever part of the Void parallels her location in other dimensions."

"In short, there's a lot more to it than just a lot of pitch black and monsters." Squeaks stated.

"How much is there?" I inquired.

"Well so far there is an ocean there too, but it's rather… different." Gaster said.

"Yeah. You've seen Moana right?" Squeaks asked me.

"Yes, yes I have." I nodded.

"Yeah, think of it like that under the ocean demon realm place she went to where the ocean and sea was above them and all kinds of weird sea life was under that on the ground area there… but like, way more Dark Souls meets Pirates of The Caribbean."

"Oh boy, that sounds like a fun time." I chuckled.

"I mean, it's full of Void Monsters capable of leveling the Kingdom so… if that's your definition of fun." Gaster shrugged.

"Sarcasm is a thing." I pointed out. "So…right, that is definitely a thing that we shouldn't mess with."

"Too late, Meg is already in there." Squeaks said.

God damn it Meg!

"Fucking hell, I'm seriously going to need a leash for that girl…" I shook my head.

"So far the tracker she's wearing shows she's a few miles north of the portal on the other end. Her heart rate is elevated and based on bio-scans she's engaged in combat and is rather enjoying it."

"If it takes more than one hit to kill, Meg gets very happy. She rarely gets to really go all out." Squeaks said.

"Oi vey…" I sighed. "Right…so that's good to know."

"Bright side, we might get some valuable information out of this." Gaster said. "The new, uh, Reality update, we can determine how much EXP these creatures are worth, as well as drops. Given the Void is quite vast and full of dangers, I'm willing to bet there is a lot of artifacts there."

"Most likely, and having a constant stream of EXP and strong resources is a good thing." I admitted.

"That's why I asked to speak. I was hoping for authorization to send a proper expedition into this Void area and see what in terms of resources we can gain from it." Gaster stated.

"Sure, just…as long as the people in this expedition are strong enough to handle it." I said honestly. "Cause the Void is just…very dangerous."

"We're looking into means to get them this Nothingness energy as a form of protection and counter. Squeaks' keyblade, Rise From Nothing, seems capable of converting Void into Nothingness. We're hoping she can make elemental gems from this conversion ability."

"That would help out a lot cause Nothingness is the antithesis to Void so having Nothingness powers would help explore the Void better." I said honestly.

"That's the idea." Squeaks nodded.

The screen of a nearby began to blink.

"Hm, it seems Meg is returning to the portal." Gaster said.

"Can't wait to see what magical crap she just came back with."

"We should probably stand back." Squeaks said.

With a nod we all stepped to the side, giving the portal lots of room as after a bit, Meg burst through the portal… dragging the decapitated head of what looked like if Cthulhu and a dragon had an unholy baby. "That was awesome!" Meg cheered. She was soaked in blood, some black ichor, and some kind of slime. "Also I need a shower!"

"Yes, you are covered in a lot of different forms of blood." I said.

"What manner of creature is that?" Gaster asked.

"No idea but it had the audacity to use those tentacles on me so I took it's head." Meg said.

"... You mean it grossed you out, or it actually grabbed you with them?" Squeaks asked.

"Grabbed me in areas not meant to be touched!" Meg said.

"Fair enough."

"Yeah that's fair." I nodded. "So besides bringing their severed heads, what else did you get from your adventures?"

"Lot of stuff." Meg said as she began taking stuff out of her Assistant…

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Uh…

…

How much stuff did she get?!

"Jesus fuck how much shit did you get!?" I asked incredulously.

"Those monsters over there drop a lot of stuff." Meg said as she was still pulling out items from her Assistant. Weapons, armor, various materials.

"Well…that's…that's good to know." I said in surprise.

"Do they drop other things asides this?" Gaster asked.

"Oh yeah, lots of Rem and even Skill Points." Meg said.

… They can drop Skill Points?!

"Excuse me, they can drop skill points as well?" I asked incredulously.

"Yeah. From drops I got like, two thousand and from the EXP bar I earned five hundred." Meg smiled. "And like, four billion in rem."

"Well… that's useful." Squeaks said in surprise that seemed to match my own.

"Your EXP bar before entering the Void was at needing 506,000 EXP to earn a Skill Point, what's it at now?" Gaster asked.

"1,230,450." Meg said, still pulling items out of her Assistant.

"...Weird number to end it on, but you nearly tripled your EXP…"

"So they are worth a lot too… Interesting." Gaster said. "Thank you Meg. When you're done getting everything out of your Assistant, there's a shower station in the next room."

"Thanks." Meg said with a nod and kept pulling items out.

"Okay seriously, how much shit did you get?" I asked incredulously, seeing the pile just getting bigger and bigger…

"They drop a lot and I wasn't keeping count." Meg shrugged.

"Right…" I said slowly. "So…that's good to know the Void is now going to be a massive loot pinata…"

I decided to leave, pausing and stopping as I looked down at one of the items Meg dropped… An old polaroid camera?

"Hold the phone…" I muttered, back peddling real quick and picking up the old camera, using Scan on it to see if this was what I thought it was.

[Scan Complete!

Desire Camera!

Photos Taken With This Item Display Targets Desires!

Value: 2,900,500 Rem]

Woah!

"Holy shit it is the Desire Camera!" I said with a smile.

"And what's that?" Meg inquired.

"If this takes a picture of anyone, it show's their desires." I answered.

"Cool… does it work?" Meg asked.

"Let's test it out." I said, raising it and taking a picture of Meg. "Also…this is an SCP just so people know."

"Interesting that it's a drop from one of the Void Monsters." Gaster said.

The camera flash went off and the photo popped out. I gently took it and shook it a bit. The photo showed Med, standing on stage in a theater. The spotlight on her and a human woman. She seemed older, much older. Maybe in her eighties? The two seemed to be acting out a scene.

"Hmm, who's this older woman?" I inquired, showing it to Meg.

She saw the photo and gave a soft smile as she took it. "That's the Madame. She was my teacher after we escaped the lab. She let Squeaks and I stay in her old theater building and when she died, she left it to me. Everything I know about acting and dance, choreography and such she taught me. I almost forgot what she looked like…"

"And your greatest desire…is to have one more performance with her huh?" I inquired.

"I never got to perform with her… she died before getting to see the theater house she owned and loved and worked in for years restored and rise back to glory…" Meg sighed. "Can I keep this?"

"Of course." I nodded.

"Thanks." She said, looking at the photo for a while longer before putting it into her Assistant.

I decided to take a quick photo of Squeaks. The photo displayed her cuddling next to Gaster, sharing a book on a couch in what looked like… a large building that I think was a museum. It was decorated into a home, a nearby room that was once the gift shop showed Bigs with various plushies and such in there. There was even a large old steam engine sitting in front that was covered in various stickers and magnets.

"Adorable." I chuckled.

"What's up?" Squeaks asked. I showed her the photo and she smiled. "Heh… That's the old Hideout…"

"From back on your world right?" I inquired.

She nodded. "Bigs found this place, it used to be the old Leto City Historical Museum, but an earthquake fifty years prior to Bigs finding it again sank it below the city. They never did find it amongst the rubble. Bigs was living there and after Romero found him, it started becoming our first home. My first home. Took a lot of work to clean it up and repair what we could, but it was ours."

"That's good to know." I nodded, gently handing the photo to Squeaks.

She took it, looking at it with a smile. "I haven't seen this place in ages… sadly, it was destroyed when the War broke out… Thank you, Alchem." Squeaks said.

"No problem." I said with a smile. "Always happy to help."

I took the Desire Camera and decided to both be a little nosy, but also see if I can bring a few smiles to others.

I left the lab and quickly made my way to guard training area. Once there I spotted Holy and took a photo of her from a distance.

When it developed, nothing much changed, aside Holy was now standing next to an older man in a military suit that seemed to be helping her oversee the training. I also spotted several Nokori that were not originally in the photo. One I recognized from my trip into Romero's dream. Arthie, who was doing push ups. Another was a sheep looking Nokori, who based on what I could remember, must have been her son Luke…

I also saw what looked like… Romero and another red looking Nokori flying higher up in the air above the training area.

"Hmm…" I hummed, wondering who some of these people were but ready to learn that when I show this to Holy.

I walked up to her and showed her the photo. She looked at it, then around herself then back to the photo. "What in the hell?" She asked me.

"So, Meg was spending time in the Void with the supervision of Squeaks and Gaster, and one of the many…many things she found was the Desire Camera, takes pictures of people's desires and…well, did it with Meg and Squeaks and both of them were happy with it, was curious about sharing some smiles with people."

"Huh." She said, taking the photo and looking it over. "Heh… There's Arthie, Luke, even Colonel Joaquim. Wow I can even make out a few of my old squadmates back when I was active duty… This is nice."

"Glad you like it." I said. "But who's the red nokori flying around with Romero?"

Holy looked at the spot on the photo. She squinted. "Not sure. Kind of hard to make anything on that bit out."

"I understand." I nodded. "There are a lot of people and details in the picture."

"Well, I'll keep it. Kind of makes me nostalgic." Holy said with a small smirk.

"Yeah, unless it's something new…I'm honestly expecting a lot of nostalgia pictures from this." I admitted.

I then made my way to where Bigs was. He was working at the Guard Training Cafeteria. He was cooking in the kitchen, smiling. I did spot Famine sitting at a table with a large plate packed full of food she was eating across 999, er, Kid.

I turned the Camera to Bigs and took the photo. Like with Holy, nothing much changed but the staff around him was different. There was a yellow Nokori male, slightly reptilian, head of brown hair, was cooking next to them, some kind of fried dish.

All over the kitchen all kinds of people were cooking and assisting. Some were human, some Nokori, an Elf, Orc.

"Hmm…" I hummed, thinking the one next to him was an old friend and he was either working at his restaurant or something else.

I walked up to Bigs when he seemed to be free and showed him the Photo. "Oh… Dorji? Heh… how'd you get this?" Bigs asked.

"With my fancy new Desire Camera." I said the camera. "And Dorji? Friend or something?"

"He was the oldest of Silver's kids. Used to work at the Agency, but an accident forced him to retire from that, and well, by then things were going well for the guys and I. I got a little place I was turning into a restaurant… and I hired him. He was a talented cook, and we often cooked and worked on meals together. He loved learning new recipes and I loved making them. Wait- mom?" Bigs said.

I looked back at the photo. Bigs pointed at an African woman with curly black hair, rather curvy and with large brown eyes that were looking at the frying meat at the pan before her.

That's Bigs' Mom?!

"Well…I suppose I now know where you get your cooking skills from." I said, not wanting to compliment his mom's looks first cause that might seem weird

"Heh, yeah. I was always large for my age, and because I was easily scared and not a fighter… lot of kids would bully me. Cooking with mom was always fun, helped me forget the unhappy memories. After Romero's sister found him and the two reconnected, I got in touch with her… I got scolded like a toddler and honestly felt like one, but she ended up immigrating and moving in with us… Was a grandma to Squeaks, and brought a little bit of home with her to Leto."

"That's good to hear." I nodded. "Well…less about the scolding but at least you were all family."

"Yeah… everyone in this photo was an employee and co-cook I had at the restaurant at some point or another… Can… can I have this?"

"Of course." I said readily, handing Bigs the picture. "A little piece of home."

"Thanks. Here." He said, filling up a paper tray with some food and covering the lid before giving it to me. "Enjoy."

"Thanks Bigs." I said with a smile, heading over to a table and getting ready to eat cause I was a bit hungry.

As usual, Bigs' food was amazing to the taste. As I ate, I did watch Famine and Kid. Famine was stuffing her face, and Kid was eating a fruit salad. Surprising. Maybe his new body gives him more food options?

… Hmm…

I decided to take a picture of Famine and Kid cause I was curious about them.

First, I took a photo of Kid. When it developed, nothing changed, aside the fact I could see there was also a bowl of ice cream next to his fruit salad. That made me chuckle.

I next took the photo of Famine. When that photo developed, the only difference was that the whole table was covered in plates of food. Some of which I've never seen before.

"Eh, didn' expect much I suppose." I thought to myself.

I finished my food before heading off. I quickly found where Shift was. They were in New Hope out shopping. I caught a photo of them outside a store looking at the items in the window.

The photo was… fully different.

Shift was nowhere in the photo, rather, it showed Romero and Holy. Romero was in a tux, and Holy was in a wedding dress, the two standing hand in hand at an altar.

"Well…this is a tad surprising…" I muttered.

I decided to walk over to Shift to question this. I know they want them to be together but still…

"Hey Shift…mind if I uh…ask you a personal question?" I asked carefully.

"Yes Romero and I are trying when I'm female, our magic still makes it a low but still possible chance." They said.

"While I am glad you are trying, and I can't wait to see what your children will look like…I mean…this." I handed her the photo.

"Oh wow Holy is rocking that dress." Shift said. "Really brings out her figure."

"While yes, that is true…I mean…why is this your desire?" I asked. "As in…why is it just Holy and Romero, and not the three of you?"

"I'm already married to Romero and I want to make sure they enjoy what I've had with him. We've been married for seven thousand years, she gave him up and… well, I want them to have everything. Is that so wrong?"

"Nope." I shook my head. "I was just curious cause…well, just seeing Holy and Romero in the picture I was surprised…kinda thought it would have either been something from your past like so many others…or you and Romero's first kid or something."

"We've adopted lots of kids over the years, we got Magnolia again. Yes we're trying for our first biological kids, but we've raised lots over the years. Considering adopting any we come across when we start raiding Chaos Guild bases."

"Yeah, that's fair." I nodded. "I understand fully."

"Cool. Hay can I keep that, I have to make that dress for Holy."

"Here you go." I nodded, handing her the photo. "And yeah, I did some of the others and…they all desired some stuff from back in your world…"

"I'm not surprised. You live as long as we do… see everything change, you miss back before it all ended." Shift said as they took the photo.

I said goodbye to Shift and quickly made my way to Romero now. He was actually in his lab back in Hotland. He was writing some things down on paper and I took the photo from the doorway.

The photo printed showed Romero hugging a pink and white fox Nokori woman who had the ethereal wings and halo same as Holy, but Romero also had his wings replaced by these ethereal ones, and a halo was floating over his head too.

I recognized her from the first time I used Memory Share on him… Silver.

"...Your death and…being with Silver after so long…" I muttered.

I… wasn't sure… should I give him this photo…?

I sighed, not sure if I should cause this was…rather personal…but I might as well talk to him and see what he was doing as I pocketed the photo real quick.

I walked up over to him. "Hm? Hey, need something?" He asked.

"Just…wanted to talk is all, see what you're doing." I said honestly.

"Nothing much, your husband, the one you were worried about, scheduled an appointment for a Nokori Transformation and specifically requested he not be a fox, bear, chicken or bird of any kind or rabbit and to see if I could give him an altered magic affinity. Then Strange came in and gave me a lot of tomes on changing ones magical nature so… I got homework."

"Well that explains the papers." I admitted. "So…I have a deep question to ask…what's your deepest desire?" I inquired, as I thought to test the waters here.

"Huh… That's a bit of a loaded question but… I guess it's mostly just to… see everyone again. Silver, Evy, Eve, Dorji, Leon, Yuri, Flare… Dante, Arthie, Helene… just everyone from before… I really do envy you, you know… you're gonna live as long as we have, longer in this reality… and your family is still going to be there with you… we've lost so many that…, heh, whole reason we didn't leave planet with everyone else was to see if the sun dying would kill us…"

I…sighed, pulling out the Photo. "Well…at least you'll have a picture of such an event."

He paused, looking at the photo. Slowly, he took it. "Where did…?"

"From the Desire Camera." I said, raising said camera. "A special SCP that shows the true desires of whoever it takes a photo of."

He looked at the photo, smiling and tearing up. "Thanks."

"No problem my friend." I said with a smile.

"Heh… wanna hear how we met?"

"Sure." I said, taking a seat. "I have time."

"Heh, it was what… little over a year… no, a few months after we escaped Alex's lab. A Nokori Family I rescued day one, one of the members, Helene, owned a coffee shop. Some jackasses were breaking windows, stealing stuff. So, I spent a few days watching. Turned a lot of New Prey Hunters to ashes, found a shady pawn shop that bought the guns I picked off the ash piles, one guy who bought any cars left over to scrap for parts, and after a while, It slowed down. One night I saw the typical truck of the jack asses driving up, but they passed the coffee shop and went down a few blocks to a bookstore. Helene told me the owner was a Nokori and she had adopted a lot of kids shortly after she got all her paperwork and such back. They walked out that truck with guns, crowbars and a few gallons of gasoline. I put a good dent in the roof of that truck, and turned them all to ashes. As I was leaving, Silver jumped out the front door, gun raised at me. Pfft. I just said 'yo'."

"Talk about making a first impression." I chuckled.

"Heh, yeah. She was rather pissed I killed them, that I was so quick to murder, but she did appreciate that I kept her store and family safe. She and them were sleeping in the store itself since she was renovating an old WWII bunker that came with the property when she got it, that became her home and I made sure to keep her place safe on my watch. We kept meeting up, talking. I'd annoy her for fun and she's throw books, coffee cups… the day she found out I was a Nokori she threw a brick at my head twice. Woman had aim with thrown stuff."

"Or your head is just a magnet for stuff like that." I joked.

"Oh no, trust me, her aim was just that good. Her kids and employee/basically adopted son Dante could have vouched for that." Romero chuckled. "Lot of people confused us for a couple… that grossed us both out. To me, she was a big sister, and to her, I was the little brother she wished she got to have… Heh… Did you know Chaos Magic can alter how I regenerate?"

"Well, I did see a bit of how it at least delayed your regen when my 'dark half' was getting his ass kicked." I explained.

"Heh, but this is like, full on major heal, like most of my body needs to regenerate. Each time something rather random happens. Once, I regenerated into an infant, and stayed that way a whole week."

"That sounds like it was a grand time for everyone involved." I chuckled.

"Heh, mostly Silver. Everyone else was freaking out, but Silver took care of baby me for that whole week. She had already had experience raising a baby when her little sister Glacie was born, and she always wanted to have a baby to take care of, so, that's what she did. When I returned to my adult body I had no memories of the last week but Silver took so many photos… Pfft. She was one of a kind…"

"Yeah…she does sound one of a kind." I nodded.

"Yeah…" Romero said, looking back at the photo. "Maybe someday…"

"It will be fine." William said. The day of his transformation appointment came. Took a while cause Romero and Strange had to work on a special Fusion Matrix just for him to ensure his affinity changed.

"I really hope it will be fine given this is some new territory…"

"Maybe, but it's gonna be alright. Once it's all done, my affinity will be Nature, and I'll be a fluffy cat."

"Yis, you will be my fluffy cat." I said with a warm smile.

"Heh, well, I'll be off. Wish me luck." William said.

I gave him a quick kiss before he was led into the back area by one of the doctors. I sat and waited here in the waiting room.

"I…really hope this will work…" I thought to myself worriedly.

I sat here hoping things will work out…

I've seen it in person… so the fusion itself won't take too long…

I suddenly froze. Danger Sense went into OVERDRIVE…

Wha- where?!

"Oh no…" I muttered, assuming the worst as I rushed into the transformation station.

As I ran, I passed a woman in a nurse's outfit holding a clipboard. She had red and silver hair, pale skin and her golden yellow eyes looked straight ahead, not at me at all. As I did… I froze up. Danger Sense went into Overdrive again then… it was like a sense of pure dread welled up, as if Danger Sense was telling me… I'm already dead.

As I froze up, she kept walking…

I grit my teeth, created a SAVE right here, and turned around. "Hello nurse." I said carefully.

She stopped, turning and as she looked at me, Danger Sense was screaming. Begging me to run… "Do you need something, King Alchem?"

"I…don't believe we've met before." I said. "What's your name?"

She kept looking at me, her bland expression that turned into a small smirk.

You're dead… Danger Sense said.

"You're a very bad actor. I suppose that Quirk of yours, Danger Sense, is what set you off." She said, clicking her pen and began writing onto her clipboard, which had morphed into a leather bound chrome colored book.

"Who are you, and what are you doing here?" I asked, trying to push past my fear, past Danger Sense to at least get to know what or who the hell this person is.

Suddenly, I felt a strong pain in my stomach, enough that I grabbed my sides.

"Suddenly, Alchem keeled over, a sharp agonizing pain shooting from their core as blood began to stain their pants." She narrated. I landed on my knees, seeing the blood spreading out from my pants… "The pain was so much, they could barely think. Couldn't even scream as fear, and agony washed over them. 'Something's wrong, my babies!' they thought." She said, narrating even my thoughts. She clicked her pen, stopping her writing as she turned back around and took her leave. "I guess if you must know though… I am Lady Fate. Founding Member of The Majority Guild. I just came to ensure things stayed as they should… Can't have any… weak fruit grown from the vines."

With that, she left.

A little while later, actual nurses found me and rushed me to an ER.

Thankfully, despite the pain and blood… my babies were fine. I sat in recovery…

The doors burst open as Romero came in. "I just heard. Whole of the Guard and Eternity are looking for her, even those captains. Are you alright?" He asked.

"Don't…" I said. "Call off the hunt…you…you can't…" I shook as I struggled not to burst into tears with how…how powerless I was…"Wh-where's William? Is he safe?"

"... There was… an incident… He's fine, alive but… somehow the animal DNA was mixed up and… the affinity conversion failed…" Romero said through grit teeth, slamming his fist against the wall. "I checked everything… hell I picked up the DNA sample I know it was cat!"

"..." I stared at him as…I knew what that bitch did... "That…that fucking WHORE!" I roared in anger.

"Who was it, when the doctors took you in you just said 'Not a nurse' when they checked you in." Romero asked.

"The…Founder of The Majority, Lady Fate." I said. "I don't know if it's to be taken seriously…but if Fate them-fucking-selves is telling us to eat shit…than what the fuck is the point in anything?"

"... We have three of the four horsemen as allies. Fate can choke on her own timeline for all I give a shit." Romero huffed. "No one hurts people I care about."

"I knew I liked you." Romero and I looked up, seeing Captain Death standing there at the foot of my bed. I didn't even flinch I was just… so tired. "Real or not, she can clearly warp and alter reality. Did you see how?" Death asked me.

"She wrote in that book of hers, she literally read off what injuries I was going to have, how it would feel, how much pain and fear I was experiencing…even read off my own fucking thoughts as she just…told me she didn't want 'Weak Fruit' to spawn from the vine…"

"Then she likely is the same as my siblings and I… but, that's good. Means we already know her weakness." Death said, making me raise a brow. "She had to write in that to affect you, and likely William. Beings like my siblings and I are powerful, but we have special artifacts, a tool or weapon or something that allows us to easily affect a far greater range of our power and such. Sounds to me her artifacts are her book and pen. Two artifacts make this easier. One is useless without the other."

"So she's not invincible." Romero said.

"No, and something tells me in this reality, she is even killable." Death said with a smirk.

"I…highly doubt that." I said, causing the two to look at me. "She…said she was the Founder of the Majority, I don't know what gui-" I was about to continue before hearing something fall, as I looked over and saw Marianne…looked like she was about to lose all her feathers in panic as she dropped a clipboard and pen.

"T-T-The M-M-Majority?" My bird doctor wife stuttered in horror.

"Y-yeah…how bad is this?" I asked worriedly.

"Bad…" She said, taking a quick seat in the guest chair next to my bed. "Long ago, back in Era One, The Majority was a Chaos Guild who's power and influence surpassed Nexus and they even predate the founding of Lust, Violence, and Greed. Their leader created a weapon out of a Void Admin to bypass the respawn and murder people permanently. It was so bad The Mother herself got involved. The leader was imprisoned and a monster the guild had created was defeated. Time Walkers spent three million years hunting as many of the guild members as they could… I didn't even know the Founder wasn't their leader… let alone that there were even any members still around…"

…

…

"Fucking OH!" I managed to say. "So we're fucked and there's not a single thing we can do about it…"

"No, I refuse to allow that." We all turned to the doorway to see… an elderly, asian man standing at the doorway… next to him was… a Time Walker… but, her cloak was off… different… wrong. "Pardon the intrusion, but I didn't have many options." He said, motioning to the Time Walker.

"...Who are you two, and why is the Time Walker's cloak feel more like…skin, than whatever Time Walker's cloaks are actually made of?"

"That's none of your business." The Time walker spoke. They were female… and they were quadruped, it seems.

"I am O5-1 of the New Foundation, and this is a wanted Rogue Time Walker. Sadly her abilities make her difficult to arrest and she can do things like kidnap me because she says I'm needed here." O5-1 said simply.

"You are. Lady Fate's arrival is early…" The Rogue Time Walker said before looking over at us. "You just had to tease her with one of her favorite tragedy victims didn't you?"

"Okay so…first…O5-1…sure, I'm glad you're here cause thing's will be talked about and two…it's not my fault I didn't want my husband and child to get-"

"Yes it is!" The Time Walker snapped, cutting me off. "The Afton Bloodline is one of her favorite little plays. She enjoys their suffering. The death and the twisted monsters they become. You changing the script on her favorite show made her step in personally. Now your husband is a Nokori version of what he was going to end up as anyway, early and who knows what you'll be doing for that unborn son of yours."

"That's enough, Tiara." O5-1 said. "You do not have to be so hard on someone willing to protect their family. You of all people know the lengths one goes to protect family…"

"... Whatever." She said, turning around. "Enjoy getting a ride back to the New Foundation then. I have a mess to clean up and new counter plans to create." She then vanished.

"... What a bitch!" Romero spat.

"Yeah, considering what you said she is a massive hypocrite but…" I groaned and rubbed my temples. "Fucking hell…wasn't prepared for a lot of things today, especially with Lady Fate needing to get off some fucking FNAF forums christ…" I shook my head at how Afton's family was her 'favorite' to the point of literally getting involved to fuck with us.

"She was certainly powerful. I didn't sense Lady Fate, but I sensed that… Time Walker. I'm intrigued." Death said with a smirk. He then looked to O5-1. "Well, you too. Spent a long time avoiding me have you?"

"A version of you." O5-1 laughed. "So, this is the Kingdom within Aqua Terra my reports were informing me of." He said, walking over to the window nearby and looking outside. "A pocket dimension within a dungeon that broke… Ha! Oh I love it. This is new, even for me."

"Right, so for those of us who's home reality didn't have SCP shit, who the hell is this guy Alchem?" Romero asked.

"Okay so this man is O5-1, one of thirteen individuals in a council that run's, funds, and plans the entirety of the Foundation, from what should be tested, what can be tested, where to send their MTF soldiers and all that…while all thirteen are important, O5-1 is the most important, and most powerful, of all thirteen." I explained. "Some would argue Adam Bright was possibly the strongest before he retired but…well, the Bright family is just weird." I added.

"Actually, these days it's Jack Bright who holds the title of O5-4. He more than earned it." O5-1 chuckled. "In any case, you know much. I'm impressed. I know many Isekai are knowledge on out monsters, even our organization, but that is more in depth than I'm used to."

"I have binged the Foundation stuff at least three different times cause a combination of I really liked all the story and lore…and I was bored and didn't know what to do." I shrugged. "And Jack…now it's most likely a completely different Jack but oh boy that must have been a riot."

"There was lots of drinking involved. A nuke was mistaken for fireworks. Actually rather tame. In any case, as official as I can make it, the New Foundation is extending an olive branch to your kingdom of…?"

"New Earth." Romero spoke up.

"New Earth. According to Midas, you have a Perfect Custodian, and a holder of Township?" O5-1 asked.

"I am the owner of Township, and the upgraded Empire because of my new Ascended Royalty Title, and Holy has the Perfect Custodian Title." I answered. "And yes, we would love to have your help, cause with Midas's aid as well things will get a lot better…plus, actually getting out to see the wider world and meet new people would also be awesome."

"Yes, and on top of that, we can work towards countering not only the Chaos Guilds, but The Majority as well. With your alliance this makes four Custodians, and four Township holders. Granted, two of them have both Township and Perfect Custodian."

"Better than nothing." I shrugged. "So, how about me and my right hand Romero here give you a tour of New Earth?"

"You are staying in bed." Marianne said, almost snapping with how fast she said that. "The damage may not have been lethal to you or the babies but you are not getting up and walking just yet."

"Alright, Romero, grab me a wheelchair." I said, getting a cheeky grin as I saw my birb pout and huff with my dastardly loophole skills.

Marianne whacked me on the side of the head. "No." She said firmly. "And no Zero Gravity or Float quirks either!"

Damn it!

"Doctor wife please." I whined playfully.

"Just Doctor right now to you mister. Just because that bitch didn't seriously hurt you or your babies doesn't mean you're magically out of the red. Bleeding from there can still affect a lot in terms of your health and how the babies develop. So while you might not care about yourself, I know damn well you won't do anything to put your babies at risk, so stay in bed until the other doctors and I say otherwise. Understood?"

"Alright alright." I said while waving my hand. "I'll stay in bed…"

"Well, I suppose given the events I've heard, you likely have questions about Lady Fate herself then?" O5-1 asked.

"Yes…what is she?" I asked. "Cause Death here said she's like him but…I honestly don't know what Death or his siblings even are."

"They are… Embodiments. Physical living, or akin," O5-1 said motioning to Death. "Of facts of life and reality. In the old Reality, these Embodiments were key elements in the structure and stability of the realms, but in this reality, it's more akin to being one with a Title. That being said, she is a relic of the old reality, once a servant of the enemy the Family fought before the All Makers entered the war. Despite this, she is nothing that can't be dealt with."

"Are you sure she isn't one of the strongest people on the planet even without her special Death Note?" I asked nervously. "Cause she's been around for a long time…"

"Stats wise I am unsure, but I do know this. Without her pen and book she has no way to use the full extent of her powers. Even one of them being missing would be bad for her. That being said, she does have rules that she can't break. See, Fates in this reality are far more limited than they were in the old reality."

"How so?" I asked, already believing that she found ways to circumvent or ignore said rules cause that's how nonsense the Skill Trees and Titles are.

"Firstly, she can not write out that the person she is affecting will die. She is unable to use her power to kill. Inflict harm, pain, fear, yes, but she can not kill with it. Second, she can not use her power to directly manipulate someone, meaning she can't write in that, say, 682 were to suddenly appear and rampage your kingdom or that your people suddenly refuse you as King. Third, she can not just write in that you were to gain or lose abilities and titles. Lastly, while she can manipulate the world and some events, she has to be in at least a visual range of the event to change things. Hence why she was in your kingdom to alter the fusion William underwent. Her book can show her things but the closer she is to a target the stronger her ability to affect the situation is."

"So in other words, she took a risk coming here." Romero said.

"Yes." O5-1 said with a nod.

"And all I did was fall over bleeding…" I frowned.

"But now we know she's not invincible. Next time her head's coming off…" Romero growled.

"Well, getting rid of her book or pen is step one…what about steps two through ten where she is still older than this Reality and has had a stupidly long time to get all sorts of stronger?"

"That is where him and his kin come in." O5-1 said, motioning to Death. "As Embodiments themselves, they are more than able to inflict harm onto her, the best part, her power has no effect on them either."

"Sounds perfect." Death smirked.

"Right…" I sighed. "And what about the rest of her powers?" I asked. "As in all the shit she's gained from this Reality's rules over three god damn Era's?" I inquired, cause that's the thing I'm more concerned about cause she had all the time to gain ungodly amounts of power. "Like…I know I have Pure Erasure so I can stall her for but a split second cause that's how the Ability works but still…" I blinked.

"I am sadly lacking that information." O5-1 sighed. "I do know this, she has never personally fought before. She relies heavily on her powers as an Embodiment of Fate, and I have a feeling I know why…"

"What do you believe that to be?" I inquired.

"First… Death, can you access your Skill Trees?" O5-1 asked him.

"No. Tried but it says Access Restricted." Death said.

"As I suspected… can someone please fetch your Custodian?" O5-1 asked.

"I'll get Holy." Romero said. He quickly left.

"...Wait, are you implying that…Embodiments can't get stronger?" I asked.

"It's a theory I had for a long time now. You see, in this reality, Nokori can fuse with a core Stone, but also still access their Skill Trees and other means. This is a fact of their biology and soul nature. But any other species if they become one with a Core Stone lose access to Skill Trees and are restricted to how the Core Stone increases power. If an Embodiment is a being that is one with their title and are also locked out of Skill Trees… then all one needs to bypass this, is a Perfect bCustodian. Something that currently, there are only four on Armageddon. And the New Foundation has one as a resident, and the other three are allies with our group."

"Well…this is getting interesting." I said, scratching my chin in thought. "And with my constant stream of Skill Points…thing's are going to be getting more and more interesting here."

It took a few minutes but Holy and Romero walked into the room. She gave O5-1 a salute before rapidly telling Death to 'get bent', adding him to her Custody list.

"Alright well, I can see his skills and abilities." Holy said.

"Well, what skills and abilities does he have?" I inquired.

"A fair amount actually. Odd though, comparing the prices Skill Points wise they're five times more expensive than yours or the others." Holy hummed.

"Must be the trade off for bypassing the restriction." O5-1 said.

"Hmm…strange." I hummed. "But we can work with that."

"So now we know Lady Fate is weaker than she likes to let others believe, and she's more limited than initially feared." Romero smirked.