Link Start: Danger In Virtual Worlds
Chapter 24: Pre Climax Special: The Bizarre Dream
Date: Infinityverse Days 775-802
The 68th Floor is home to the Sea Cave, a dungeon in which we all ended up spawning right into. Nothing eventful happened on it or the 67th or 69th Floors except for one thing. It was while we were in that Sea Cave dungeon. And well.. It was a situation.. Hours before it happened, we were grinding on Day 783. And Argo just happened to say: "Ya know, it's real interesting. Today's apparently April Fools' Day in this game. Nyehahahaha! Watch out! Who knows what kind of tricks and pranks are going to be unleashed today!" That was actually a bit relieving because more sightings of Death Gun have been happening lately and some players have been vanishing left and right. That's when IT happened. We kept on grinding for hours, trying to level up more than enough to face the 68th Floor Boss as normal. But then, a monster tripped me and I was knocked out. When I came to, I look around to see the Town of Beginnings back right after we defeated the Wither Storm thanks to the Integrity Knights shortly after we were trapped inside the game and Mr. Heartland announced what was going to happen now. How do I know all of that? The Integrity Knights are all together and alive. That and looking down at myself, I find myself wearing only the game's beginner outfit. "What the hell is going on now?! This is like the 2nd or 3rd time this has happened! Was everything we have been through just a long damn dream?! What?!" Kirito approaches me and yells: "So you noticed too?!" I sigh: "Who else is aware of this strange whatever this is?!"
Argo runs over: "Nyehahaha! It seems we have been sent back in time or into another version of the Infinityverse! Just look around!" A bunch of monsters rush into town shredding on guitars and singing several songs at once. Someone rushes in to greet them: Alice. With her sword, she attacks them. But they don't die, instead they become literally louder and larger. And it only gets stranger. A flood of players head towards a single direction yelling: "Test my Heroine Power!" We come in closer to investigate. Kirito utters: "Heroine Power?!" Llenn yells: "What kind of joke is this?! I don't like this at all! Not one bit!" Soon, we have reached the crowd only to watch mayhem unfold. Amy from Sonic runs away: "Waaaaaaaaah! My Heroine Power is so low!" And then, Sanya yells: "Who's next?! *sees Argo* Oh! Argo! Let us do battle!" "I'll pass." "Sorry but I insist! Bring her to me everyone!" M appears from out of nowhere and drags Argo over. Kirito and I look at each other. He says: "Please tell me we aren't the only ones aware of how absurd all of this is.." Yugi appears: "I have a really bad feeling about all of this. This is the ultimate prank to play on us. I think we're dreaming." Lisbeth comes over: "This is no dream for I am the Goddess Lisbeth!" Llenn snaps: "Since when you were a goddess?!" "Hey! Maybe I can't perform miracles but I still am a goddess!" Naruto sweat drops: "I'm not going to question that.." I look around at the rest of us who look really confused: "Seriously?! Are those of us who aren't fully one with this nonsense all main characters of some degree besides Argo? Look, I'm only a main character by proxy of narrating and writing my own adventures but still.."
Sanya is defeated by Argo after their respective Heroine Powers are measured: "Whaaaaat?! 876,543 Heroine Power?! I can't stand up to that! So this is the power of an info broker!" Argo just backs away slowly, even she is weirded out by what's going on. Around us, there are many players who have been left in despair because their Heroine Power isn't high enough. But it only gets stranger. Eugeo appears in a blue and white dress and sees us: "Kirito! Everyone! You're here!" Kirito sweatdrops: "Eugeo, why are you wearing a dress?" "Can't a girl just wear a dress as she sees fit?!" I sweatdrop too: "This is just like in one of the SAO Integral Factor April Fools' events.." Yusei sighs: "I just want to know why Eugeo is well.." "You don't have to say it. I'm having mixed feelings about this as a non binary person with several trans friends. If it's just like in Integral Factor, Eugeo has taken Heroine Power from Lisbeth, Sachi, Silica, and Asuna, causing THIS to happen. And we have to go through all 4 of their most defining moments in this game except I have no idea what those are in order to restore things to somewhat 'normal'.." Eugeo speaks again: "I don't know what you're talking about but it sounds urgent." Asuna, Sachi, and Silica appear possessed by a dark power which also takes hold of Goddess Lisbeth. Steven yells: "Uh oh! This looks bad!" The 4 shout in unison: "Dark Heroine Power! Activate!" But before anything else happens, Kibaou shows up as the leader of the ALA, even dressed in a military commander uniform. He shouts: "Break it up! Lord Kibaou is here!" The 4 Dark Heroines glare daggers at him: "No!" "No?! ALA, seize them!" But against the 4, his fellow ALA members are no match. Their combined masculinity is no match for the Dark Heroine power.
Kibaou retreats: "We're do the meal ration taste test in Tolbana then! Retreat, men! I can't believe my plan to give Eugeo all of their Heroine Power backfired like this! They were getting too powerful! They could have overthrown me with their Heroine Power and we can't have that!" A bunch of kids that look strangely familiar run around him and his men as if to annoy them. The Dark Heroines shout in unison: "Where do you think you're going?!" They generate a massive sphere field that traps them along with everyone else in the general area inside, us included. The kids aren't concerned. Instead, they just chant: "More screen time! More screen time!" I facepalm: "What kind of strange version of the Infinityverse is this?! Just look at the kids!" Kirito's jaw drops: "Hey, aren't some of those kids Agil, Klein, Nautilus, Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst?!" Yusei adds: "Aki! Crow! Jack! They're kids too!" Seto Kaiba walks over with a smug look on his face: "It doesn't matter what's happening around us! Because I have a blimp and a Blue Eyes White Jet! Oh and screw the rules! I have money and green hair!" His hair turns green out of nowhere. Kibaou and his forces fight the Dark Heroines but it's to no avail until Eugeo jumps in: "Don't worry! I will handle them!" Kirito's dear friend effortlessly defeats all 4 of them. Sachi fumes: "I just want more screen time!" While Abridged Kaiba runs into his blimp from Battle City while singing Im On A Blimp with Abridged Marik and Abridged Rebecca's demonic teddy bear, Goddess Lisbeth yells: "I just want to show appreciation to someone I care about!" The teddy bear yells as well: "HAIL SATAN."
Suddenly, a guy named Jason falls from a sky and insurance scammers in fursuits surround him and all of us while chanting: "Extended warranty! Extended warranty! Extended warranty!" A empty extra large pizza box hits me in the face. "Okay, where did THAT come from?!" Abridged Pegasus yells: "Who wants to watch Spice Girls The Movie with me? Oh and I might be gay! Sorry!" The Dark Heroines just kind of give up on trying to destroy Eugeo. Goddess Lisbeth exclaims: "Forget it! None of this is canon! Let's just focus on getting more screen time!" And then, the popcorn monster from Redundant Apocalypses appears and starts eating everything. Goddess Lisbeth and Silica shout: "Not so fast! Allow us to show you our new skill! More Screen Time!" Abridged Yami Bakura exclaims: "Did someone say screen time?!" Abridged Marik jumps from the blimp, lands on the ground, and drags Abridged Yami Bakura away: "Sorry, Fluffy but it's time to steal the Pharaoh's leather pants! We'll get more screen time later in Swiftdrawer's story Link Start: Danger In Virtual Worlds!" "Let me go!" "No! This is our only chance to take the source of the Pharaoh's power which by the way is not the puzzle, you fool!" Kibaou yells: "Hey, stop ignoring me, all of you! *notices the running kids* And all of you! I thought I told you to stay at daycare!" Klein sticks his tongue out at him as the popcorn monster is popped by More Screen Time to pieces: "That's boring, Principal Kibaou! We're playing now and you can't stop us!"
"ALA! Stop them! I'm going to go to Tolbana to hold the ration taste test! Through the Teleport Gate of course! I'm not going to violate my own barrier around every safe zone!" He tries to run away only to run into Melvin, the stab loving Abridged Yami Marik: "Hi there! Would you like a hug?" "A hug?! I don't have time for a hug!" "That's too bad because I'm hugging you now!" Argo just eats popcorn as all of this plays out. Kirito staggers: "Please don't let us be further dragged into whatever all of this is.." Argo chuckles: "Oh. That's going to happen. Okay, maybe it won't but for now, just enjoy the show! Ya don't want to miss a single moment of it! Nyehahahahaha!" Kibaou screams offscreen while Melvin laughs in delight. "Aaaaaa! Stop this! What kind of hug is this?!" And then, Melvin reappears with an apparently stoned Kibaou mumbling about pink elephants. "Ah. That was a goooooooood hug." The sky is suddenly consumed by something fiery and evil. Kaiba yells: "Aaaaaa! Explodia! It's not possible! No one's been able to escape him!" Various characters try to stop Explodia aka Abridged Gozaboro Kaiba to no avail. Kaiba shouts: "Damn you, Explodia!" Gozaboro replies: "I will get my revenge and the screen time I was promised by the executives of 4Kids and there's nothing you can do to stop me!" Yuma gets annoyed: "It's like there's 5 different stories happening at once right now and I can't completely focus on a single one!" But our attention is pulled to something else. SHINC are fighting Johnny Black with Eva hurling insult after insult at him. "You coward! Do you now have the you know whats to face us?!" "It's showtime and your number is up! It's time to scream!"
Pinkie Pie screams: "WAAAAAAAAAAAAIT YOU *redacted, I CHALLENGE YOU, JOHNNY BLACK TO A ROCK OFF!" Johnny Black stops fighting SHINC. Eva yells: "You are much lower than a dune beetle! Face us like a true warrior, Johnny Black!" "A rock off? I accept. ITS SHOWTIME!" Pinkie Pie brings along the comedic Cheese Sandwich as they sing The Last Laugh together while Johnny Black sings one of the most ironic songs for him to sing: Bohemian Rhapsody. Once their rock off finishes, Johnny Black surrenders: "You win! I give up!" Pinkie smiles: "Hooray! When we can be friends!" "What?! Why would I be friends with the likes of you?!" Abridged and English Dub versions of Yugioh characters poof into the area to surround Johnny Black on all sides. Chumley from GX Dub exclaims: "You really need a nice grilled cheese, Johnny Black." Quattro from Zexal smirks: "If you don't want to be crushed even further, I suggest you listen!" Carly from 5Ds exclaims: "Can I get an exclusive interview, Johnny Black?! It will the scoop of the century in this game that was briefly a death game!" And before our eyes, Johnny Black changes into.. Johnny White and leaves through a center screen wipe, causing some characters to drink something with one of them yelling: "Center screen wipe! How much more can we raise for charity tonight here at MST3K?!" Something loud from a house in the Town of Beginnings is heard followed by a shout: "I'm gonna wreck it!" Before me, a backpack appears on the ground. I look inside cautiously after picking it up. I immediately zip it back up: "Nope! This is a PG-13 story!" I put away the backpack before anyone else could take it. With that done, I get dragged into the middle of things by Carlos pieing me in the face.
"Carlos.. You're alive." "Hehehehehe! Join the chaos, Swiftdrawer! After all, this game is now just an easy and chill life simulation game! Just don't go outside the Kibaou barrier!" He drags me along somewhere along with the rest of the equally puzzled members of the group I'm now sort of a part of. Once we get there, he lets me go and exclaims: "Yay! Look! The game will become even easier soon!" Mr. Heartland is crying as Abridged Marik, Goddess Lisbeth, Zenblock from Supernoobs, Pinkie Pie, and Rarity speak to him: "Alright alright.. You've convinced me.. How could I have made such a mistake?! This game! It shouldn't be a death game! I've been wrong for such a long time! Okay! Okay! I'll make sure the game becomes easy to play now. The Kibaou Barrier will remain but there won't be anything dangerous outside of it anymore. This is a promise I will keep. I promise." Abridged Joey cheers: "Nyeh! Brooklyn Joy! Oh yeah! Things are going to be so much easier now!" Abridged Tristan, stuck inside a robo monkey's body yells: "Hey! They're still making a monkey out of me! Let me out of this now! Please! Oh pretty please! My voice gives me super strength! I will make you let me go with the power of my voice if you won't willingly let me go!" A whole bunch more characters fall from the sky, adding to the cast of characters in this game by a massive amount. Yogurt from Spaceballs exclaims: "May the Swartz be with you all! Oh and it's about time for a musical singalong! Join in with your own words." Because it would be funnier and more chaotic, I'm just going to write everything that was sung together in one statement without mentioning who or what sung specific parts of it. That's just the energy to have at this moment I guess.
"We are bodies falling from the sky. My hair is green. My hair is on fire! I love my hair! I'll destroy my hair and all of you! Hahaha wonderful! This is not a musically structured song. We are singing nothing about nothing! Lololololololol hahahaha we are tormenting the audience! Tormenting the audience! I'm going to touch your- things. Your many wonderful things. And I'm going to steal them. We are the world and you are the loser. BIM's coming all the way except it's not because it's dead in the name of love. Get ready, ain't nobody got time for that. Hahahahahaahahaha. Johnny Johnny is underrated. Someone once told me the world was going to roll me. Yay. Copyright infringement. Screw you, this is fair use! I took the midnight train going to BEAKFAST and THESE BISCUITS, AAAAAAAAAAA! And then I said heyeahyayayayyeah. I said hey. What's going on? SOMEBODY TOUCHA MY SPAGET! And the ancient ritual of chaos begins because I am farting rainbows while your mother is playing card games in hell. We're going to take this sucker down. We're Yugioh. We're Yugioh. We're Yugioh. Except not all of us are Yugioh! What's that burning smell? It's a fire! Somebody was barbecuing! WE DIDNT START THE FIRE, IT WAS ALREADY BURNING AS THE WORLD WAS TURNING. Feuer frei! Bang bang! Bang bang! You're a firestarter. And now I eat your soul and hogtie your face. We're a bunch of losers singing nothing about anything important. This is not canon. This is not canon. This is not canon. Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii. The song could not be completed. My house is on fire! My toilet is exploding! My behind is burning! Help! JAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLLL! Don't know don't know what I'm singing."
The music number must have go on for hours becauss it felt like it went on for forever. Tired of the nonsense, Argo and myself and the other main characters just kind of run off part way through the musical. We attempt to pass the Kibaou Barrier. But it is insistent on keeping us in. "Hey! What are you doing?!" *steps closer* "Don't do that! Stop it!" "I told you to stop it!" "Head back! Leave! There is no reason to exit the safe zone!" "What did I just tell you?!" "Turn back! I'm warning you!" "Last warning coming up before I make you regret this!" "That's it! You are so close to being haunted by my presence in your mind!" "Last chance to turn back!" "So you still won't listen? Prepare to be haunted mentally by me! I am too scary for you to handle!" We manage to get past the Kibaou Barrier and thank goodness we did. But what awaited us was still a lot of bizarre stuff. Talking and walking feet creatures that made weird noises were seen right away but we chose to ignore them as we were now driven to go in further in order to find a way to return to our Infinityverse. A monster attacks us only for Argo to poke it, causing it to pop. Johnny Test laughs: "Look! The monsters are like balloons!" But a dead body is found on top of the popped remains of the attacking monster. Astral speaks: "Those are no balloons." I speak up: "The Killer Klowns From Outer Space! They must be here!" And so, an army of Killer Klowns appear. I urge: "Pop their noses! Pop their noses! Pop their noses! NOW!" And that's exactly what we did despite being low leveled again now. We popped all of their noses, causing them to die by exploding into glitter. With them gone, a bunch of monsters pop like balloons instantly.
Most monsters around are still alive though. We hunt them for levels. Or rather, that's what we try to do. However, the first monster that's attacked screams like a mandrake before exclaiming: "Please don't kill me! Please! I won't hurt you! I promise! No monsters will hurt you either! You're safe now! We don't want to hurt any of you!" Kirito replies: "We have no choice! We need xp and items!" "Then you don't have to kill any of us! Just head to the public showers in town!" We all stop fighting the monsters. Ai yells: "What?!" I perk up: "Did you just say we could get xp and items from showers? I have a really bad feeling about this.." Yugi sighs: "Well, the only way we can think of escaping to our Infinityverse is by clearing all of the floors in this one.." Yuma yells as the monsters suddenly turn upside down: "Why are all of the monsters suddenly upside down and named Dinnerbone?!" An army of rainbow sheep named Jeb stampede all over us out of nowhere. We recover and choose to focus on getting to the public showers that apparently exist. Once we get there, we find all kinds of players desperately drenching themselves in a yellow liquid.. Argo speaks: "I don't know what this even is but we have no other choice. Anyone have nose plugs?" We all shake our heads. I go into one of the showers: "This is so gross.. Let's go this over with.." And with that, I turn it on and rapidly rise in level as my inventory gets full of all kinds of items. When some time passes underneath there, a variant of the Kibaou Barrier appears to yell at me as the shower turns off on its own: "You! Get out! Your time in the shower is done! And until you reach the next floor of Aincrad, this is all that you're getting!"
I don't understand the logic behind that considering the fact that Kibaou has somehow become "Lord Kibaou" and doesn't want us to leave any of the safe zones, only allowing us to freely move between the safe zones in the process. But it's better to not really question these kind of things when they get this absurd. Once the others are done as well, we ignore everything that's going on around us, fight through the Kibaou Barrier and head to the 1F Labyrinth. Kirito shouts: "That's it! We're defeating Illfang The Kobold Lord with or without the rest of the Assault Team! No one will listen to us!" *flashback to with Goddess Lisbeth and the others* "Kirito! There's no point in clearing Aincrad now! Life is easy! Give it up! And when I mean Kirito, I also mean all of you!" "Asuna! What has become of you?!" "I'm no longer interested in becoming a blacksmith. I'm just going to throw away my mace and relax now. Today's a nice day. All of you should join us and take a nap or something." *flashback over* I forgot to mention that we tried to get other players to raid the 1F Labyrinth and fight Illfang with us but no dice. No one will willing to do that and Kibaou tried to order us to not go there but we didn't listen and had to fight through his armored guard with only our fighting skills to use since all of our gear from our Infinityverse isn't here on us. As if things weren't complicated and ridiculous enough. As we get close to the Labyrinth, we are jumped by Carlos and other known troublemakers. Carlos laughs: "Hehehehe! If you want to pass, you'll have to endure our pranks!" I shout: "Damn it, Carlos! It's always you, isn't it?! You were already trouble before you became a ninja but now.. I still love you as my friend but yeeeeeesh!"
"Help me out, Wacky Clowns!" The Wacky Clowns in their UFO release a lot of smelly fart gas with extra sulfur. That extra sulfur makes Carlos laugh again: "Time for the boom booms!" Yuma startles: "Boom booms?!" "That's right! Boom booms!" A lot of what appear to be love themed TNT blocks ignite and explode. They don't cause damage. Instead, they just kind of unleash love particles that spread throughout a large area, attracting monsters. Those monsters now have love hearts. They chant: "Love us! Love us! Love us!" My body is soon squeezed tightly as several monsters group hug me. "Can't breathe!" It took a lot of effort to get away from those love struck monsters but we did it. Yuya laughs: "That was fun! Can we do it again?!" "*most of us in unison* NO!" Yuya looks disappointed until we get pranked again. As we walk, we step on whoopee cushion after whoopee cushion. Carlos shouts: "Eww! Gross! I wonder who's responsible for all these farts!" He runs into view of us with a grin on his face followed by Pinkie Pie and others. Pinkie Pie laughs: "I just love pranks!" I facepalm: "So far, this part of the adventure has been the only part that has actually made sense because I could see all of this actually happen for real. The irony in that hurts a lot more than a sharp iron sword against bare skin.." Other than the fact that I hated I was right, I was actually somewhat okay with all of these pranks until Pinkie Pie covered us in icing and sprinkles with several of her party cannons. Before she did, we had pies thrown into our faces, were mercilessly silly stringed, farted on, misled by illusions, tempted by sweets and other things, dealt with "more screen time" related chaos, and I don't even remember what else. I was not happy when we were covered in icing and sprinkles. "Damn it! Now we can't move anywhere!"
Yuma smiles: "Yay! Icing!" Ultimate Shaggy laughs: "Yeah! Icing! Delicious!" We are forced to lick ourselves free of the icing. Astral speaks after we are free: "Now, we will all have sugar rushes. This isn't good." I deadpan: "Sugar rushes are a myth." And that's when we all get sugar rushes and move extremely fast whenever we even take a couple steps. We're all now scattered throughout the area we're in as a result. "I don't know how to feel about this! Sugar rushes don't exist in my world! That's a lie told to keep kids from having too much sugar or to ensure they don't get too loud or annoying for their parents! It's crap! Complete crap but I can't just deny the hilarity in undergoing one in this game!" But instead of laughing further, I just stay in place and wait for the rush to wear off before messaging the others: "Let's meet at the labyrinth. We don't have to waste time trying to find each other when we can just meet there since we all know where it is." And that's exactly what we do. Along the rest of the way to it, I run into all kinds of absurd things.. A tree sings to me: "Hello lost traveler, how are you today?" "Peachy." "That is not good, allow me to brighten your day!" "No thanks. I have something I need to do and I'm mentally and emotionally stable right now already. But thanks for the offer." Soon after that, I step on a path made out of Legos for absolutely no reason and try to get off of it only to find a barrier preventing me from doing so. I had to walk very slowly to not fall on my face due to the fact that's it's more accurate to say that the path was completely littered with Legos rather than being actually made out of them. It took some patience to get through it. Once I did, I found Legos had gotten all over me.
I pull them off my leather boots(from the beginner's outfit) and try to shake them out of my hair and clothes to no results at all besides failure. So I am forced to pluck them off one by one. This took a while. I don't even know how they got all over me. I didn't even fall on that path even just once. I am so confused and annoyed by all of this but that's not what's important. I want to return to our Infinityverse despite how awful it has been to go through. Because there ain't no way we're escaping to the multiverse through this Infinityverse. I simply refuse to believe something like that. There's no damn way it could possibly be true. No way no how. After that, I had to cross a troll bridge after dealing with an absurd riddle given by the bridge troll. I had to cross it because I don't know how to swim nor did I like the idea of swimming across a brown lake even if I did actually know how to swim. So yeah. When I reached the labyrinth at last, not only was it nighttime but only a few others had made it so far. Kirito yawns and stretches: "When the others get here, we need to take it easy and get some sleep. It's already so late. *stomach rumbles* I miss Asuna's cooking.." I watch an imaginary face of Asuna appear in a thought bubble coming out of Kirito's forehead: "THATS WHH YOU SHOULD HAVE GIVEN UP ON CLEARING THE GAME! IM MAKING YOUR FAVORITE FOOD AND YOU ARENT GETTING IT. You snooze, you lose!" We wait and we wait after that only to see the others show in what appears to be some kind of smiling cat bus?! (Note: I never watched My Neighbor Totoro until months after the Infinityverse was beaten.)
The Catbus lets everyone off before saying some kind of goodbye and flying back the way they came. With that done, Goku is heard yelling: "I'm hungry! Can someone make something to eat?!" Argo glances at all of us: "None of us were ever trained to cook, were we?" Lloyd, Yusei, and Twilight Sparkle speak one after another. "I can cook a few things. Sometimes." "I will be able to make something good. Growing up on the streets and in an underground subway tunnel and orphanage teaches you a few things." "I'm sure I will be able to make something!" Yuma points at me: "Swiftdrawer! What about your Artist's Eye?! Can't you create food with it?!" "..Yes but I can't use it because I tired out my left eye dealing with way too much nonsense on the way here! This is what I get for having so much screen time! ..Wait, why did my eye just suddenly recover?! .. BS ANIME NARRATOR POWERS?! This place is nuts! Fine! I'll create a feast! We don't have time to gather many cooking ingredients anyway! It's so dark out there!" And so, I create a feast but it doesn't exactly turn out as I imagined it to. "WHY IS THE FEAST JUST A HUMONGOUS FUNNEL CAKE WITH SEVERAL PITCHERS OF LEMONADE AND TUBS OF ICE CREAM?! IS THE STORYLINE MAKING FUN OF MY CAROWINDS TRIP WITH MY MOM AND BROTHER IN 2021?!" Out of nowhere, Pete the mail bird in Animal Crossing New Leaf comes flying above us and drops a big wooden box while shouting: "Delivery!"
He then flew off, never to be seen in this game ever again. The box shakes and makes other noises as well. Atemu speaks: "Why is that box moving?" Kirito sweatdrops: "This reminds me of when Alice mailed herself in my world.." We start hearing jumbled words coming from the box. Yusei raises an eyebrow: "There's someone in there. How did that happen?!" Yuma opens it before anyone could say anything in reply to reveal Asuna. She exclaims as she gets out: "Finally! Kirito! If you're going to recklessly try to clear the game by refusing to give up on clearing it, then I thought I might as well keep an eye on you! *points to our so called feast* What the hell is that?!" I reply: "That's a giant funnel cake.." "A funnel.. WHAT?! Nevermind! This won't do! This simply won't do! I'll make all of you something more nutritious and delicious!" I sweatdrop: "I hope you didn't just reference the Trix yogurt commercials from my childhood.." 30 minutes later, Asuna puts the feast she has made before us and shoves the funnel cake aside and onto the ground along with the water and ice cream. She smiles: "I made this special for all of you! Enjoy!" Kirito looks on in dread at the feast. My expression is even more dreadful than his due to my history of being a picky eater in the past. Argo pokes some of it with a provided fork: "Asu, are you sure this is even safe to eat?" She smiles: "Of course it is!"
Yuma points at a particular portion of the feast: "Ewww! Rotten tomatoes! Tomatoes are delicious but not when they're rotten! You call this safe to eat?!" Decim from Death Parade calmly states expressionlessly: "This food looks like it was made to be a health hazard for mortals." Llenn exclaims: "Asuna! This looks horrible! How could you cook something this terrible?! Your cooking is amazing after all!" "ARE YOU INSULTING MY FOOD! YOU WILL EAT IT OR YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING FOR DINNER!" Judai is taken aback by the food she has prepared: "Can I have the ground funnel cake instead?!" "*several of us in unison* THATS ALMOST JUST AS BAD!" Asuna snaps at us: "EAT IT, I AM TIRED OF HEARING MY COOKING GET MOCKED AND DISRESPECTED!" Kirito chuckles nervously: "Easy now, Asuna.." "YOU DOOFUS, YOU'RE NO BETTER THAN THEY ARE!" I start backing away slowly: "I'm just going to eat a lot of grass and leaves. I don't want anything to do with this. Sorry! Bye.." I run off to do just that. I pluck a blade of grass nearby and eat it: "Wow! I never knew grass tasted so good! Wait, no it isn't! Grass doesn't just taste this good in real life! But I can't resist! It's as addicting as chocolate is! Yummy! Yummy! Yummy!" I munch on a lot of grass and then get obsessed with leaves too after trying one. Asuna was not pleased when the others started eating grass and leaves too. She even ate some to see why we were so in love only to spit it all out. "Disgusting! My cooking is way better than this! Unbelievable! I give up! I'm leaving!" Using a teleport crystal, Asuna returns to the Town of Beginnings.
And then, Romeo appears with a wicked grin on his face: "Now now main characters! I won't let things go your way for much longer! All your precious grass and leaves will soon be gone! But first, let's play a game! Win and I'll let you go! Lose and I'll destroy you all! Especially you, Jesse! I will have my revenge for what you've done to me!" Jesse replies: "Romeo?!" "That's right! I'm here now to get my revenge and once you're gone, I will be free to rule this world as I see fit!" "We'll see about that, Romeo!" "Hahaha and what are a few wooden swords and sticks going to do to me?!" We all look down at the weapons we pulled out. Instead of being discouraged, I exclaim: "Ha! A beating stick! You stand no chance against a beating stick! Years ago, I enchanted a stick in Minecraft Xbox Edition to turn it into a beating stick! Minecraft beating sticks rise again!" Romeo just laughs as all of us attack him with our incredibly weak and breakable current weapons. His laughing stops once they start hurting him really bad. "What?! Wooden swords and sticks are beating me?! This can't be! How can I be losing my own game so easily?! NOOOOOOOOOOO!" He soon shatters into polygons. Llenn sighs: "Let's just get some sleep." We make camp with makeshift camping stuff hand crafted by our hands and go to sleep only for it to become morning a second later. Judai complains: "That's it?!" Yuma yells: "Oh come on! We didn't sleep at all!" I sigh: "But I do feel well rested now. We should eat more grass and leaves before we head into the labyrinth where I'm sure there's even more absurdity to be found."
We hear a familiar voice: "Not so fast! Kids, slow down! Listen to your Principal and Lord Kibaou!" We stand back up and put away our makeshift camping stuff in time for Kibaou to appear in view chasing kid versions of some of our friends. "Get back here! I told you not to leave the safe zone! *sees us* Hey! You! You aren't supposed to be out here! If you want to escape punishment, help me round up these kids!" Llenn replies: "And why should we help you?!" "I will let you clear the first floor boss without sending anyone after you for disobeying me, your Lord Kibaou! I was elected democratically to power and you all voted for me!" I reply: "Bullcrap. I would never vote for someone like you willingly. Also, the title of 'Lord' is undemocratic. You're just a comedic tyrant who rose to power by making up BS! Viva La Revolution! I denounce you, Kibaou! You are not our leader and never will be!" "Silence! Listen to your Lord!" *our stomachs growl.* "Fine.. Can we at least have a truce?! Help me find the kids and you can take care of them if you want! But first, I see you're hungry! I will provide you rations to eat in the interest of finding those rascals!" The kids overhear what he just said. Klein speaks: "Food?" Katori yells: "Give us food, Principal Kibaou!" "You want food, huh? Will you be good after you have your full of rations?!" Kids: "Yes!" "Alright then! Here you go!" Sinon looks at the rations she was given suspiciously: "I'm not eating whatever this is." Pitohui laughs with a manic grin on her face: "Ooooo! The rations must be dangerous or something! I love danger! *eagerly eats her rations and turns into a Ragout Rabbit* Squeal?" Kibaou widens his eyes: "No! I gave them the wrong rations, the ones I was going to give to Kirito and the others!"
The other kids immediately turn on him due to him saying that. Sinon is first: "We heard that!" "What?! No! It's not what you think!" Stitch from Lilo and Stitch replies: "Stitch doesn't believe you. Stitch thinks you're lying!" Meanwhile, Pitohui as a Ragout Rabbit monster goes literally nuts while squealing madly. M sighs: "That's still Pitohui for you.." Kibaou loses it: "No! Everything is falling apart! *Pitohui returns to normal* The hexed rations are useless?! NOOOOOOOO! It was all going so well! Fine! Guess I have no other choice! Behold, I am really the leader of another group besides the ALA! Laughing Coffin! Laughing Coffin! ALA! Show yourselves!" The members of both guilds appear out of nowhere. Kibaou's outfit changes to match the outfits of the LC members but they don't look how they are supposed to look at all. Instead, they're causal hoodies with graphics of coffins with laughing faces on them. "ALA! Laughing Coffin! Get rid of them all! Even the kids! I don't care how you do it! Just do it!" Things only get more and more absurd. That was until a familiar robotic voice speaks: "Jesse. I have finally found you once again. I will make you 'useless'. I will make everything and everyone 'useless'. That is my objective. You will become as 'useless' as I am." Turning around, we see PAMA but not as a supercomputer. Instead, he's a giant frog creature. Johnny White appears as a prisoner of PAMA. "Put me down! I'm already a useless side character now! Let me go!"
"No. You are still not 'useless' and until you are, I'm afraid that I cannot release you." Jesse yells: "PAMA! You don't have to do this!" "Yes I do, Jesse. All shall become 'useless' in the end. Allow me to demonstrate." A bunch of other giant frogs leap down from all over the place and chase after ALA and LC members alike. Kibaou screams: "What's happening now?!" One by one, the giant frogs trap his subordinates from both guilds in their mouths with their legs and feet sticking out while flailing around in an attempt to break free. And then, Kibaou finds himself trapped in one of the frogs as well in the end. We can barely understand him when he yells after being trapped: "This isn't over! You hear me?! This isn't over!" PAMA replies: "You are wrong. It won't be long until you become 'useless'." A few minutes later, he and all of his guildies are spat out by the giant frogs. And PAMA turns his attention to all of us as the frogs prepare to capture all of us too. "It is time for you to become 'useless' as well." Kibaou adds in a rather chillax anime hippie voice: "Yeah mans, you'll just be 'useless' like the rest of us in one time. Don't resist. It will be fun. I promise. It will be super duper chill like brah. You will like it. I know you will. And if you don't want it, all I have to say to you is bruh, don't fight it. You like want to totally relax too." Llenn utters: "I don't know which version of Kibaou I dislike the least. This, what he was before this, or what he was like in our Infinityverse.." The frogs along with Kibaou are poised to come after us at any moment. We have to prepare to do some serious running to get away from them successfully. I'm a generally chill person as it is and I don't want to become completely useless. Even without my sword, armor, cape, or anything else, I'm a knight.
And as a knight, I still have so many responsibilities I have put on myself willingly by choice. I don't plan on being made useless. Not now, not ever. But before anyone moves, the Dark Heroines appear between us. Asuna yells: "That's it! We're through waiting around! We will take all of the screen time for ourselves! And it begins by defeating PAMA and his forces!" Kibaou yawns: "Don't think so! We'll make you mellow out so much that you won't want to fight or use Dark Heroine Power any longer." Sachi shakes her head: "You don't understand! You won't be able to do any of that! You don't stand a chance against our Dark Heroine Power!" Eugeo who has been with us still this entire time speaks up: "I wish I knew how to return the Heroine Power to them.." Goddess Lisbeth replies: "It doesn't matter anymore! In fact, we happen to like this Dark Heroine Power! Soon, all of the screen time will belong to us! Silica! Kidnap Swiftdrawer to make it so we really do get ALL of the screen time!" I yell: "WHAT?!" Silica comes after me at supersonic speed only for 2 things to happen. PAMA's forces are all defeated effortlessly by Goddess Lisbeth, Sachi, and Asuna. Eugeo gets in between me and Silica and fights her with all that taken Heroine Power. That's when something stranger happens. Kirito yells: "What is this power I feel all of the sudden?!" Goddess Lisbeth panics: "No! Not the fabled Hero Power! This is really bad!" Sachi replies: "Then we have no choice but to release the seals on the full extent of our Dark Heroine Power!" A power unlocks inside of me as well. I yell: "Looks like I have Enby Hero Power! In that case, it's time to join in on this fight! Haaaaaaaaaa! Feel the hero power of someone who is non binary!" A really epic clash between our 2 sides occurs.
In the end, Eugeo unleashes the full power of the Heroine Power, thus losing all of it and returning to normal. This forces the end of the battle as Asuna, Sachi, Lisbeth, and Silica are then restored to normal as well. Asuna shakes her head: "What were we just doing? I remember some of it but it's hazy and a blur to me." Kirito sighs: "..We'll tell you later. Right now, we have a labyrinth to clear." Goddess Lisbeth replies: "I see. In that case, we're coming with you!" Eugeo blushes and hugs Kirito: "I'm so glad you're okay, Kirito! I was so scared I was going to lose you forever!" I speak up: "Kirito and Eugeo? Whether as close friends or something else that's just as strong if not stronger? Perfect together." Kirito yells at me: "What is that supposed to mean?!" "If you were bi and Eugeo were gay or bi or pan or whatever, you'd be an adorable couple but at the same time, you two share a really close and special friendship. It doesn't matter what your sexuality is, this is all just food for thought. I could totally see you and Eugeo together but still, you and Asuna are a great couple and that's amazing and sir is, enough as is, Kirito." Devil Artemis Universe Zarbon appears and yells: "HA, GAYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Asuna snaps: "Can we just move onto the labyrinth already?!" That's exactly what we do from there. We head inside without any worries until we get teleported back to the entrance outside to it. There, Herobrine appears as a blue slime and talks with a voice that is much more feminine than usual: "Found you, user-that-is-not-a-user!" Llenn yells: "Oh great! If no one wants to kill him, I will!" "DONT MOCK ME! I AM HEROBRINE!" Herobrine summons lightning only for that lightning to immediately turn into glue that rains down from the sky.
Some of it gets on me: "Huh? Is this Elmer's Glue. Now I'm reminded of the fact that because my dad loves to call me and my brother Elmo on rare occasions, my brother has called him Elmer's Glue in response!" Gameknight999 finally responds to Herobrine: "Herobrine, why are you a blue slime?!" "I have always been a blue slime! And now, I will finally get my revenge!" A different blue slime that's much smaller appears with a bunch of what appear to be demihumans(I didn't watch Reincarnated As A Slime until about 3 and a half months after we escaped the Infinityverse) and yells at Herobrine: "You! I'm the blue talking powerful slime who has a title that makes most want to fear me! Not you! I'm Rimuru Tempest and I am a slime!" Herobrine ignores Rimuru. "Don't ignore me! I'm right here! That's not nice at all to do! Hey! Respond to me already!" "No. I am only here to finally get my revenge on the User-who-is-not-a-user!" "Benimaru, kill this bastard who is a danger to all of us." "As you wish, Lord Rimuru!" A red haired and tall figure who seems to be a demihuman given his horns and all attacks Herobrine to no avail. Seeing this, Rimuru shouts: "So be it! I am Demon Lord Rimuru Tempest and you will be stopped right here, right now, Herobrine!" But Herobrine easily defeats him only for Illfang The Kobold Lord to run out of his room and the labyrinth leading to it screaming: "IM WAITING FOR YOU TO FIGHT ME!" Illfang kills Herobrine with a single attack before staring at all of us. "Fight me, players! Fight me! I've waited for you for far too long! My patience is long gone! Just fight with me already! Stop keeping me waiting! What's wrong?! Are you too afraid to fight me?! So be it! I will make you fight me!"
We all attack him at once as Rimuru and his party just teleport away. Rimuru sighs: "I want nothing to do with this. Bye." Illfang laughs at our weapons: "Are wooden sticks and swords all you have to deal with me?! Pathetic! You should know better than that by now!" Goddess Lisbeth exclaims: "Damn it! Why didn't I think of forging some weapons before all of this?! *recalls* Oh.. Dark Heroine Power.. Damn it!" Silica speaks nervously: "I think Illfang just wanted screen time!" Illfang laughs: "That's right! Screen time! That's what I've really wanted this entire time and now, I've obtained it by force! Hahahaha! I will make Swiftdrawer write all about my future adventures once I crush all of you and become the new main character! That way, all of the screen time will become mine!" Silica and Goddess Lisbeth nod at each other as they shout: "Go! More Screen Time!" They show off their OP technique together and deal some serious damage to Illfang who only laughs harder while healing instantly: "Is that all?! How sad! All it did was tickle my bones! You don't stand a chance against me! Prepare to die!" Silica yells: "No! More Screen Time wasn't enough! That means only one thing! Goddess Lisbeth, let's get ourselves even more screen time! With more screen time, More Screen Time will become more powerful than ever before!" Llenn exclaims: "Don't forget! We still have all that hero power stuff! Let's get Illfang together!" "Hahahaha! You think that will be enough to land a scratch on me?! Don't make me laugh! I'm Illfang the Kobold Lord for a very good reason!" I'm amongst the first of us to charge at Illfang again while wielding my "beating stick": "HAAAAAA! Enby Hero Power! GOOOOOOOOOOO! Taste my non binary energy, Illfang!"
Suddenly, something pops up. It reads: "Asuna, Lisbeth, Llenn, Silica, Twilight Sparkle, Sailor Moon, Sachi, and others used Heroine Power! It's super effective! Kirito, Yusei, Yuma, Judai, and others used Hero Power! It's super effective! Swiftdrawer used Enby Hero Power! It's super effective!" Illfang's health drops to red. Instead of becoming more fierce as a result, Illfang starts crying and goes into a self defensive fetal position: "Wahhhhhhhh! Please don't kill me! All I wanted was screen time! I'll do anything! Please don't hurt me again or kill me!" Mordecai widens his jaw: "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!" Rigby does so too: "IS THE FLOOR BOSS.. CRYING?!" We lower our weapons. Illfang is still crying but calms down somewhat: "I'm so close to dead! You hurt me so badly! Please, will you help me feel better?!" Goddess Lisbeth gasps for no apparent reason: "Oh! I think I can help! I just randomly gained a new skill! It's a healing skill but I can only use it one time to restore the full health of someone of my choosing. I choose you, Illfang the Kobold Lord!" Illfang stops crying as their HP is fully restored: "Thank you.. so much.. I am so grateful. I can live with the amount of screen time I have had. Thank you. I will return to my room at once." And with that, Illfang heads off to their boss room in the labyrinth. Kirito looks sad. Eugeo tries to comfort him: "Kirito, what's wrong?" "How are we supposed to move onto the 2nd Floor now?!" Asuna slaps him: "Kirito! You egghead! Don't you realize that more important things than moving onto the next floor are going on?! Just give it up and stay here with us to live in peace and harmony for the rest of our days in the Town of Beginnings!" Goddess Lisbeth sighs: "Unfortunately, that's our only choice now. I'm really disappointed. I really wanted to move onto the next floor to get more materials to use for blacksmithing.."
That's when tracks suddenly appear as a voice not unlike the narrator from Thomas The Tank Engine starts speaking: "The Blue Eyes White Train will be here in less than 2 minutes. Please gather your belongings and prepare to board the train. Do not forget to let the other passengers off before boarding the Blue Eyes White Train. Failing to do so will make Blue Eyes White Train very sad and angry. Do not hurt his feelings. On behalf of Blue Eyes White Train, I thank you for your patience and understanding. When Blue Eyes White Train prepares to leave 1F Labyrinth station, he will be heading to the Town Of Beginnings station next. The following stops after that will be at the Blackiron Palace, Tolbana, and the middle of nowhere. Please advise. And now, here comes Blue Eyes White Train. As the Blue Eyes White Train approaches the station, he is filled with excitement over where his current sole passenger Seto Kaiba will be heading next after he disembarks at this station. He is also excited to find out who will be getting on at this station and where they are headed. Please stand clear as the Blue Eyes White Train comes to a complete stop at this station. Thank you for choosing the Blue Eyes White Train." The train stops and out comes Abridged Kaiba who still has green hair at this moment in time. He speaks: "Finally. I can go to my Blue Eyes White Jet. As fun as it was to be on a blimp with Marik, that little girl, and her demonic teddy bear, I'm ready for my next adventure where the third rate duelist Wheeler will not be able to bother me either." "The Blue Eyes White Train is sad to see Seto Kaiba leave. *Asuna and the 3 others board the train* But now, 4 others have now boarded the train. He is very excited and delighted by this development.
It appears they are headed for the Town of Beginnings. The Blue Eyes White Train's doors are now closing. Please stay clear of the doors. Thank you." Before any of us could speak to him, Kaiba smirks at Yugi and Atemu: "Good riddance. Don't say goodbye to your Geek Squad for me. I have more important matters than my useless and ever consuming obsession to once again become the number one duelist in the world right now." Neither of them answer as he suddenly moves really fast timelapse style and is ready to take off in his Blue Eyes White Jet seconds later. As soon as he takes off, he laughs and loudly shouts to all of us: "Eat it, nerds! I will never have to see any of you again? It's time for me to move onto the 2nd Floor and not even the barrier between it and this floor will be able to stop me! SCREW THE RULES, SCREW 4KIDS! I STILL HAVE MONEY AND GREEN HAIR! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Seconds later, his jet crashes into said barrier but is unable to penetrate it. Instead, it starts falling out of the sky. Kaiba screams: "JESUS EFFING CHRIST! NOOOOOOOOOOO! I BLAME YOU, EXPLODIA! DAMN YOU, EXPLODIA!" His jet crashes violently into the 1F labyrinth and explodes instantly upon impact in flames. Abridged Joey shows up and cheers: "Koaba's dead!" Kaiba appears out of the wreckage of the jet unharmed: "WHEELER! IM NOT DEAD! SCREW DEATH, IM A TIMELESS MAIN CHARACTER WITH FAR MORE SCREEN TIME THAN A LOSER LIKE YOU WILL EVER HAVE!" Kirito speaks: "Who's up for running up the stairs to the next floor and breaking through the barrier to it from there?!"
All of us shout in unison: "NOT US!" Kirito frowns for a moment before returning to a calm expression. Argo remarks: "This really is a dream, isn't it? None of this is canon." I reply: "While it is not canon, all of us are canon and we're going to remember all of this when we wake back up. How did y'all end up dreaming this? I was knocked out when a monster tripped me." "Nyehahaha! I was on an exclusive quest for the 68th Floor!" It actually turns out most of us were knocked out by troublemaking monsters of all things. Isn't that odd? I sure think it is. Oh well. What's really important is that things seem to be calming down now. Thank goodness. However, suddenly, things get way out of hand in mere seconds. I don't even know how to describe it all completely but I will try my best even if my best is crap. So it all began with us just finally relaxing even as Joey and Kaiba argued with each other before engaging in a game of Duel Monsters in the background. That was when the sky fell on us only to stop just 50 feet above us. Llenn looks up: "How does the sky fail to fall when it falls?! What's going on now!" The ground starts shaking as something rises out of it. I look closely as it finishes rising: "Is that Krustyland from the Simpsons?! Why the hell is it here?!" Seconds later, we're on a ride I'm well familiar with. "Damn it! We're living the Simpsons Ride for real!" Sideshow Bob laughs: "I have taken over the entire park. Nowhere is safe. Welcome to this new roller coaster ride which will be demolished as you are riding it!" The whole cast of characters for this non canon Infinityverse storyline appear throughout the events of the ride. On the coaster car with the Simpsons family, Kibaou and Kaiba appear. You get the picture.
I didn't enjoy having the ride vehicle we were on being put inside a 200 foot tall baby's mouth for a few seconds. "That's not a pacifier!" "Maggie! Put them down! You don't know where they've been!" If you thought the ride was chaotic at Universal Studios, just you wait.. Because it was worse for us. RCT3 rides were littered throughout Krustyland and Springfield, causing all kinds of commotion. RCT3 zoo animals were let loose on the streets of Springfield along with SAO Floor Bosses, Minecraft monsters, and ALO minor characters who had been corrupted by Barian power into Barian humanoids. It was incredibly strange. It only kept escalating from there even when the Simpsons, their couch, and us were teleported to a roller coaster drop tower top in outer space with an UFO with aliens inside appearing next to it. One of them says: "Foolish Earthlings, don't you know that all rides end near the gift shop?" A couple minutes later, we were at the entrance of Krustyland with everything in flames or falling apart behind said entrance. Sideshow Bob speaks: "I only have a few seconds to kill someone. *sees us* Oh hello, folks.. *turn on cutting device*" The Simpsons(with Kaiba and Kibaou still with them) on their couch fall right on top of him. Homer Simpson utters: "What a terrible nightmare.." Maggie, still 200 feet tall shoves the giant Krusty head that had fallen from the entrance of Krustyland on top of the Simpsons as well as us. Homer made an oof sound and I woke up on the 68th Floor. I just lay there on the floor for a while, trying to readjust to reality. My head hurts and I feel really confused right now due to the transition between that and here.
When I'm back fully in our reality mentally, I get back up and hold my head only to find quite a few of my comrades also getting back up after falling as well. The monster who tripped me is long gone. Argo sighs as we all sort of come together: "That was so strange that I'm willing to give out detailed information about it for free." I reply: "Let me help you with that. I'm an experienced writer after all. I've written close to 2 million words for my stories along with other writings such as about most of my furry convention adventures." "Nyehahaha. Why not? Ya willing to do it tonight?" "Preferably as soon as possible while it's still fresh in our heads." Yusei chimes in: "I'm willing to help as well." Yuma nods: "Yeah! We should all work together to tell the story of our shared dream! It's so weird that it will be very entertaining for other players and even ourselves to read!" None of us oppose doing so, not even Playmaker who you'd think would at least have a few objections to doing this. But apparently, that was not actually the case this time. And so, we all just kind of go down to the previous floor after that to record everything in detail. It took us several days to pull that off but we did it and Argo published it as a free book for all players to read and enjoy. After that, we joined back up with our fellow clearers and retold the shared dream we had as we grinded and grinded harder than anyone else to catch back up in level and progression with the others. Once the whole Assault Team was ready, we went for the 68th Floor Boss and beat it in about 2 and a half hours. Compared to some other boss fights, it didn't take very long at all. But more players were reported missing by the time we unlocked the 69th Floor. Death Gun really is planning something big.
He keeps leaving more and more cryptic and not so cryptic messages. Like I said before, nothing much else happened until the 70th Floor: the final floor for ALO locations. And when I mean nothing much else, I mean nothing much else to the very of difficult and dangerous situations. That doesn't include interesting quests or anything like that at all. In fact, there were a lot of interesting quests and events that happened due to the ALO stuff. It's just that I don't want to put the time to go over very much of it. That being said, we now have solid proof that Alfs have officially been added to the ALO race list in part due to quests and the fact that those Oberon tried to make his own personal guard remain Alfs even now. We faced challenges lately but nothing too serious or deadly or dangerous. Just difficult without the harm or fear factor. It is now Day 800 and I'm so ready for the 70th Floor. We have been slowing down progression in favor of further preparation, tying up loose ends, and raising more players up to mid level or Assault Team level. It is vital we keep nurturing such growth. Our goal is to eventually have almost all players become strong enough to fight on the frontlines. That will make it tricky for our remaining enemies to hurt anyone else. Oh and we're also looking for the missing players. Their names haven't even been crossed off at the Swordsmen Monument. Death Gun, POH, Subtilizer, and Quinella have another thing coming if they think we will just let them walk all over us. On Day 802, we head for the 70th Floor at last, ready for whatever's waiting for us beyond the teleport gate that spits us out onto the floor. When we get there, we see Death Gun staring at us in the distance, not yet ready to make his move. To be continued..