Aleister was starting to wonder if Okita was just taking revenge for all the times he'd left her at the hands of Medea, the Caster could get... Intense with her models.

"No no, your feet are to close! A littttle to the left". The Assassin pushed his leg a bit, settling him in an honestly uncomfortable stance. "No thats not it... This is a lot harder then I thought it'd be".

"What are you even trying to do? I asked for advice to improve Shunpo, and all you've been doing is moving my body about". Was there really this much thought put into movement techniques? While he was no master of them, Aleister was starting to think this was a bit much.

"I'm trying to help you stand the same way I do, but with our body differences its hard. There's no guide to learn this from, add in our differences as a man and a woman...". Okita bowed her head. "All I can really do is give you basic advice".

"Its still better then nothing, even if it makes me feel ridicules". Aleister sighed, he supposed perfecting Shunpo wasn't easy. Ichigo was a freak of nature, and most Shinigami in Bleach were only able to do the basics of Shunpo, the series just focused on the strongest of them who could pull it off with ease. Even some captain level Shinigami couldn't pull off Shunpo beyond the basics. but it was his best bet at making his Zanpakuto to respond to him.

"Alright, well first we'll need to improve your breathing, you waste far to much breath when you move...".

Skill improved.
- Shunpo 8%.


"Nothing? With all the processing power of an advanced AI like Meltryllis, a near digital goddess like FB, and an Ultimate level Digimon... We can find nothing on where Führer is hiding?". Aleister barely stopped himself from snapping at his allies, how the hell was their target evading them?

"It doesn't matter how advanced our hacking abilities are, depending how he's hiding. He could be underground, he could be using Tinker-Tech to hide his location, or he could be moving constantly. We've managed to find footage of him, but he's only been going out to hunt down Capes to master, he's building up an impressive team". FB created a hologram of various locations Führer had been seen at, along with the Capes they knew he'd Mastered.

The Magician looked at it all with a frown, it was clear Führer was using some kind of Mover with how fast he was getting around, which made predicting where he'd strike a problem.
"Make notes of Capes he may target, if he shows up do your best to track him and find out where the hell he's hiding. Do NOT take any risks, if by any chance you lose your Hestia Charms, I don't want to test how powerful his Master power really is". With that command, Aleister leaned back into his chair as Meltryllis and FB left to follow his orders.

He really was starting to hate Parahuman powers.

Oof, unlucky roll here. Better luck next time.


Can't think of anything for training the Third Magic, so please take an improvement instead.

Third Magic.
- User can now rip souls out from a living body, but it takes some time (Around 50 seconds per body).


"Hobbies? I suppose I hunted and prepared food for my sisters". Ana replied simply, not in the mood for such a stupid conversation. "I also cleaned their clothes, prepared everything they needed...".

As the Avenger went on, Aleister was starting to wonder if the Gorgon was a protector or a freaking maid with how much her life on the Shapeless Isle seemed devoted to serving her sisters.

"Nothing personal? I mean, anything you did without your sisters?". There had to be something, goddess or not, Ana couldn't have spent all her time with her sisters.

"I... Suppose I liked reading books those who came the Isle left behind, some were scholars... Not that it stopped them from trying to take my sisters". A growl entered the Avenger's voice at the thought of anyone touching her beloved sisters.

"Reading? Why haven't you said anything, it'd be easy to get a library worth of books, barely a dip in the money". And with all the money he made, both from his games (Which he was considering having FB make more of) and from ruling Brockton Bay, a library would be easy to get.

"And I could also just go to the one in the city, Medea's disguise spells are good for something...". Despite her words, Ana did apprecicate the idea her master would be willing to buy her an entire library.

Bond up.
Gorgon: 5.


Having already met Joseph, it was only the other two members of A-Team Faust needed to meet.

Sakura Yui appeared calm, but even his Observation Haki could pick up how nervous she was. She made no secret of her status as a former member of the ABB, although further research had proved it was a more... Forceful recruitment, and she had never done a criminal activity besides letting the ABB use her shrine.

While Maia Williams was more obvious with her nervousness, especially with how occasionally her left hand would begin to produce smoke only to quickly stop. As the only Parahuman here (Well, in the proper content), she would need to have her Shard hacked at some point.

Joseph was calm, but that was likely because he'd already experienced all this shit and wanted to figure out what was going on.

"As you are all aware, you've been recruited as part of A-Team, a group directly under me. While Joseph and I have already talked and he's agreed to join me, you two have yet to agree fully". Faust was calm as he spoke, wanting to get a measure of Sakura and Maia.

"I... I was forced to help the ABB, in return they kept my shrine supplied and money flowing from... Less then good sources. All I know is how to serve the gods, if I must serve under another tyrant to ensure the shrine stays standing, I'm fine with that". Sakura only stuttered a bit in her reply, she really did have a strong belief in the gods. Faust wondered how she'd react if she discovered that in other worlds, her gods were truly real?

"...Your secretary said we'd be able to make requests right?". Maia asked, receiving a nod from the magician, FB had added that detail as a little extra incentive for recruits. "My sister disappeared three months ago, and... While she's likely dead, I want to give her a proper burial".

"Do you have anything belonging to her? A close personal item or some of her clothes?". At her nod, Faust grinned. "Bring it to me later, I'll be able to use it to track her down as long as she's in this dimension, alive or dead".

Maia nodded, with that a silence filled the room, the three humans waiting for Faust to speak. After a few minutes, the door opened and one of the Werewolf Maids stepped inside with a tray she placed on the table, lifting up a cover to reveal a selection of Fruits.

"Another of the methods to receive Artificial Parahuman powers, and it will work even if you've already triggered. I'm offering these to you, underneath each is a file explaining what the powers can do". Faust explained as Sakura and Maia began to go through the files, while Joseph stayed back.

"You two kids take a look, I'm already figuring out all the nooks and cranny's of what he did to me before, I don't want to distract myself learning an entirely new power set". The old soldier kept an eye on the various fruits, occasionally reading a file the girls were done with.

Of course, not every SMILE Fruit had been offered, Palkia was to dangerous for anyone to have except someone he was certain was absolutely loyal to Faust.

Sakura took hold of a fruit that seemed to be set aflame, while Maia took one colored red and black with feather-like designs across it.

"A warning, they taste like the worst thing you've ever eaten if what my subordinates have said is right". Well, more knowledge of One Piece, but they didn't need to know that. The two girls nodded at Faust, and took a bite of their respective fruits.

Only to immediatly flinch in disgust and start gagging, even as parts of their bodies visibly changed, their hair and eyes being the biggest changes.

(These, but imagine right now their in ordinary every day clothes).

"Fitting in a way, one took the power of rebirth and other death...". Faust noted, even as the two girls unsteadily rose to their feet. "We'll be heading to an area to test your powers, lets just say you've taken a massive step up in the world".

Everyone nodded and followed the master, with this he now had three Legendary Pokemon under his control. Mewtwo, Ho-Oh, and Yveltal. One alone was a massive force multiplier, a few more and he could easily take control of the US.

It was only a matter of time.

Bonds formed.
Sakura Yui: 1.
Maia Williams: 1.

You have no idea how hard it was to find fitting appearances for these two, I thought there'd be more art of human versions of Legendary Pokemon.


Infermon traveled through the air of 'Cape Space', frowning at the lack of attacks, usually whenever he was transported to a space a Shard was near, he'd be attacked immediately. But so far? Nothing?

Then again, the Shard didn't seem to be here at all, he could see the stars still, but there was no sign of Kurumi's Shard. Was it hiding? That had to be it-

CRACK! SLICE!

"GAARRRH!". The Ultimate Digimon let out a roar of pain as one of his legs was completely torn off, glancing around frantically he tried finding his attacker, but there was nothing in sight. He began to charge his mouth-cannon, if it was camouflaging he'd just force it out! "SPIDER SHOOTER!".

Massive blasts of energy were released wildly into the space around him, but hit nothing. Was the Shard teleporting around? Or something else? No, they only had limited energy and teleporting a planet's worth of mass was simply to much. So how was it hiding from him? Infermon kept up his Spider Shooter, trying desperately to figure out where the attacks were coming from-

BOOM!

There! He'd hit something, the Virus turned to glare at where a section of space seemed to be, flickering with the image of a large, mostly barren planet with crystal and flesh laid across half of it. There was his target!

CRACK! SLICE!

"GAAAH!". Infermon screamed as a massive spider-web of cracks spread across the back of his shell, agony flaring through him. He glared at his opponent, cursing himself for not bringing any X-Antibody with him...

But even if he did, he doubted he could defeat this opponent, he'd suffered to much damage already. He could ether push forward and risk deletion, or retreat...

He chose the option he knew his partner would prefer, and retreated into a portal that appeared behind him.

Sadly, the leap to Mega just requires more combat experience, and Infermon couldn't match the power of Medium tier Shard even with the X-Antibody, which he didn't have (He would've stood a chance if he did have it, a small chance but still better then what happened).


After giving Keramon some medical attention, Aleister sat in his room brooding- I mean, thinking. He had made a mistake with that plan, should've had FB there to give Keramon a hand, her Psychic abilities would've easily been able to detect the hiding Shard, and he should've given Keramon some X-Antibody, even if it risked changing his Digivolution path it would've been safer.

"Can't make perfect plans all the time...". He thought aloud, before glancing to the item he'd left on his bed, he ran a finger across Lumino-Calibur. It seemed to innocent, but the power within it was incredible. "Alright then, you'll have to forgive my playing, I've never used an electric guitar".

Picking up the Noble Phantasm, he began to slowly play, he'd dabbled a bit in the guitar when he was younger, but nothing beyond the basics. As he played, he noticed as the room seemed to get darker, a black mist leaking from the guitar, but he kept playing.

"Gh!". He froze for a second as a wave of what he could only call intent washed over him, it wasn't words, at least in the way humans understood them.

{CONTRACT?}

"What... Are the details?". Aleister asked, he tried taking his fingers off Lumino-Calibur but found he couldn't, he just kept playing an increasingly creepy tune.

{ENERGY, IN RETURN, POWER}

"Energy huh? I can do that". The Magician smirked, he could easily supply all the energy this entity wanted. "Anything else I need to be aware of?".

What it said next near-floored him.

{NOT A FITTING IDOL}

"E-eh!? Of course I'm not a fitting idol, I'm a bloody supervillain trying to conquer the world!". Oh God, please don't tell him this thing wanted him dancing up on stage in some frilly outfit!

{FIND SOLUTION, CONTRACT NOT COMPLETE UNTIL DONE}

"Wait! Gah, dammit!". Aleister cursed as he suddenly found himself in control of his fingers again. Great, the Demon of Music wouldn't form a contract because he wasn't a freaking idol? What was he meant to do, turn into a girl whenever he wanted to use Lumino-Calibur?... God he hoped it didn't come to that, changing his body was uncomfortable in so many ways. Male idols existed right?... He didn't want to do that ether.

No, there had to be some other way to form a contract with the Demon of Music, maybe if he just offered it more energy? He had a infinite amount of it after all. He just needed to-

"Aleister! Our camera's have caught sight of Humbaba, its only a few hours away!". FB's voice suddenly came to life over his radio, drawing a curse from the Magician. He'd thought he'd had more time, but it seemed he'd run out.

"Gather everyone, if we've got a few hours we have time to prepare and made some plans". He ordered the Digital Human, quickly tossing Lumino-Calibur into the Gate of Babylon and leaving his room.

It was time for action.


And with that, Humbaba and Euryale have arrived. You already know the deal with these kind of fight chapters, you get to do multiple actions with multiple characters, you suggest stuff, and then we do a proper vote with the suggested ideas in like 12 hours.
(Remember, we're currently not aware of Euryale being in control of Humbaba).