SZ: Welp….we're still in a mega mood, so…may as well pop out another chapter.
GT: Eeyup. Back to their home country, folks! Gotta move on with what's been revealed in the last few chapters, after all!
SZ: Eeyup. Some cooldown time…again…ahem. We don't own anything aside from original content.
GT: Righty-o! So let's start the chapter!
"That moon guy is annoying," Lyra Note stated as they neared Vista Point.
"Tell me about it," Omega-Xis deadpanned, "...And why are we carrying you again?"
"One: for practice for carrying people and trying out the abilities while carrying someone," Lyra Note replied, being held by Megaman Angelous Heart, "And two?" she kissed Megaman's cheek, "Do I need a reason to want to be carried by my Shooting Star?"
"Mistakes were made," Omega-Xis grumbled.
"What was that?" Lyra asked.
"I said Vista Point dead ahead," Omega-Xis replied as Megaman landed by the train.
"I thought so…" Lyra huffed as the two dispersed the Wave Change.
"...Carry me home?" Sonia asked.
"I thought you wanted to get something to eat."
"We have Pappy's still."
"You ate that after punting that Moon Destroyer over the moon," Omega-Xis deadpanned.
"Phooey to you," Sonia pouted.
"Honestly, I think it'd be better to walk together. Easier to get away from the paparazzi that may be in the area," Geo advised, gently putting her on her feet.
"Rats. Foiled by the tabloids again," Sonia huffed, slipping her necklace back on.
"...You think Ellie might deal with the same problem?" Geo couldn't help but ponder.
"Oh th-"
"Psst!"
"?!" the two tensed as they looked over at a nearby bush, seeing Ellie lightly poking out…while having a wolf-themed helmet over her head as she wore a full bodied coat.
"Oh! Guess we left a little later than we thought to beat the plane," Sonia blinked a few times.
"You were the one who wanted a last meal at the barbecue joint," Omega-Xis huffed.
"M-Miyuki and White are already at the house she purchased here…" Ellie whispered, cautiously looking around, "...and no paparazzi…"
"Wait, I'm lost here."
"Hello, Lost Here. I'm Sonia," the wolf girl joked, earning a deadpan look from Geo before looking to Ellie.
"Why are you hiding from the paparazzi?" Geo asked.
"She's the Rising Star for wrestling," Sonia replied, "And her being Sensei's apprentice in the ring is a major increase to her status."
"Exactly," Ellie rapidly nodded as she quickly moved over to the two, "That and….I'm honestly nervous about my brother seeing me in the papers…"
"Oh right…The one you said is overprotective," Sonia recalled, "...He's not here, is he?"
"No. The dojo is in the states…" Ellie replied, "But I'm scared he'll 'open a new dojo' here if he learns I'm in the news here. He already has conniptions when I'm on tv or in the paper doing an interview…or doing the women's calendar for the wrestling federation…"
"I loved doing that calendar stuff until puberty hit," Sonia admitted.
"Geo's still got the one you signed for him in his…" Omega-Xis began before Geo slapped him upside the head, making it pop off and fall down the stairs, "Ah-ooh-gah-oof-ahh-ow-owie-ouch-eeyow!"
"...Was it the one with me in the…" Sonia began.
"Okay, moving on!" Geo declared, his face red with the blush.
"White-san did ask me to bring over this one costume I still have from that calendar to resize it…" Sonia went on.
"Focus!" Geo squeaked before turning to Ellie while trying to fight down his blush, "E-Ellie, just follow our lead and you won't have to worry about those camera folk."
"...R-Right," Ellie nodded as she moved out of the bushes.
"Oh, I have a new way!" Sonia beamed as she flipped and Ammy landed, wagging her tail happily.
"...We can't do that," Geo reminded.
"...Oh! You beat up all those wolves!" Ellie realized, making Ammy look away and pretend that she didn't hear that.
"...Right…" Geo sighed, "You've already gotten one of our strategies down: disguise." he walked over to the train and opened a panel on it before pulling out a cloak and dog-themed mask before putting them on, "We rotate what disguise is hidden in here every other day so the paparazzi don't recognize the costume. We also tend to use our Wave Changes, but they've started putting on lenses that can somewhat see the Wave Roads so we tend to use them to go to far away places here and then go to where we wanted to originally go." he spun to Ammy, "And no Brush Techniques on the paparazzi!"
"Mmm…" Ammy pouted, giving him puppy dog eyes.
"...Waterspout only," Geo acquiesced, earning a happy bark from her.
"...oh…so…I'll be doing that soon then," Ellie whispered, making the two look at her, "..d-didn't Miyuki tell you?"
"We were a bit distracted with some stuff," Lyra noted, "The two lovebirds especially." Ammy barked at her, "Sorry, sorry. Lovepuppies."
"Okay, the important thing to do while like this is to not try to be sneaky," Geo advised Ellie, quickly moving on from that for later, "You act strange in these and it won't end well."
"?! N-noted," Ellie rapidly nodded, 'Thank god I put my VG Hunter on mute…'
"Huh?"
"What's wrong?" Ellie asked as Geo reached back into the compartment…and pulled out a pink leash and collar with a note.
"'Found this at the pet store. Thought you'd like to mix things up with hiding as your wolf form. Love Hope,'" Geo read as Ammy let out a startled bark.
"...Oh my," Ellie couldn't help but giggle a bit at that.
"There's writing on the back," Lyra noted as she read it before snickering, "'PS: You can probably wear this when you have your cute ears and tail out to tease Geo.'"
"Okay, that's enough of that," a blushing Geo spoke, quickly tearing the paper apart to confetti and throwing it in the trash can…before turning to a snickering Ammy, "...In the collar."
"Awoo?!"
"Mmm…" Ammy pouted, sitting to scratch at her pink collar with a heart-shaped pendant sporting a musical note in the center of it with her hind leg.
"It's only until we get to Miyuki's house," Geo replied, wearing his disguise and walking with Ellie, "Just two more blocks."
"Awoo~" Ammy howled in annoyance.
"I know you want it off, but be patient," Geo sighed, scratching behind her right ear and causing her to start panting happily and thump her hind leg rapidly.
"Aww," Ellie couldn't help but coo.
"Learned it this morning," Geo noted as Ammy leaned into the scratching hand, "She gets too rowdy and I'll pull this off to calm her down." he stopped scratching as the leaning Ammy fell over, "Come on. Just two more blocks."
"Awoo…" Ammy muttered, but complied with continuing the walk.
"Well…so far I…" Ellie began.
"Geo? Geo, is that you?"
"?!" the trio tensed up, not even turning as Luna was looking at them from the corner they had passed.
"...Luna?" Geo blinked a few times, moving his mask up after looking around.
Luna smirked as she put her hands on her hips. The highschool girl had kept her drill-like ponytails, but had adopted a blue vest over a white blouse with a red tie, a blue knee-length skirt with black leggings and blue high-heeled shoes, all hugging her modest figure.
"Long time no see since the mall a few months ago," Luna greeted, "Hiding from paparazzi again?"
"Yeah," Geo replied, sliding the mask down, "Escorting a new friend to her teacher."
"Um…H-Hi," Ellie waved.
Luna raised a brow before she noticed Ammy, "...I didn't know you got a dog."
"Arf!" Ammy barked.
"Technically, she's a wolf," Geo admitted before Issun hopped onto the top of Ammy.
"Behold, the mighty Amaterasu!" Issun declared,"Bringer of Light and Eater of BBQ!"
"Ah! …A tiny Wizard?" Luna pondered.
"I am the mighty Issun, master of art! Teller of the stories of Nippon!" Issun declared before drawing a sumi-e and enlarged it, revealing it to be a sumi-e of Luna, "A present to the Oujo-sama!"
"O-Oh what now?"
"It's basically his way of calling you 'Prez,'" Geo explained as Luna caught it.
"...I rather like this artstyle. What is this?" Luna asked.
"Sumi-e," Issun replied, "One of the lost arts of Nippon which is what we call Electopia today!"
"...Oh! So you're the cause behind that new exhibit my family's assisting with at the IFL Tower," Luna realized, "The lost history of Electopia."
"You can thank Lady Amaterasu for finding me!" Issun beamed, earning an annoy huff from Ammy, "And, yes, from Geo-san as well."
"...-san?"
"Dead language that we're working on reviving," Geo explained.
"That's amazing!" Luna exclaimed in surprise as she brought up her VG Hunter and tapped on it before clearing her throat, "(Is this the right language you're speaking?)"
"Hai!" Issun replied, his radiation turning yellow in joy.
"Looks like that translation program I got for helping out with organizing the exhibit works," Luna smiled, "Well…I should probably let you get to your good deed of the day, right? If you're up for it tomorrow, I'm hoping to gather everyone in our BrotherBand for a small reunion party at Vista Point."
"It has been a while since we've all been together," Geo admitted, "Sure, I can be there. And I'll get Sonia over there, too." Ammy barked at that, her tail wagging, "There will be barbecue, right?"
"I remember Sonia's metabolism very well," Luna replied with a smirk, "She'll have more than enough to eat without getting too hungry." Ammy barked excitedly at that, "Whoa now! You're quite the excitable wolf, aren't you?" she scratched Ammy's left ear, causing her to lean into it and start thumping her leg in content, "And those markings are quite the trend, aren't they?" she stopped scratching and Ammy fell over from her leaning, "Alright, Geo. I'll see you tomorrow with Sonia."
"That confident?" Geo asked.
"How can I not be? It's you getting Sonia," Luna winked as she walked off with a wave.
"...She seemed n-nice," Ellie noted.
"Like I said, that Sempai guy was nothing like Prez," Omega-Xis huffed while Ammy whimpered and tugged on the leash to get them to hurry.
"Ok ok…" Geo chuckled a bit as the trio resumed walking.
"So that was the lady Sonia-Tenshisama kept growling at whenever you tried to say her name?" Issun asked, "Like Ellie-sama said, she seems nice."
"She is now. You should've seen her when we were twelve," Geo chuckled before cringing, "...Actually, better you didn't see her back then. She did not take 'no' for an answer."
"And yet, she didn't get you to go to school; I did," Omega-Xis smugly stated.
"Don't remind me…" Geo groaned.
"...Um…Why don't you…?" Ellie began to asked.
"Not even tying up the Transer in your shirt would deter me from wanting to know what school was!" Omega-Xis declared.
"He kept me awake all night…" Geo groaned as Ammy snickered, "H-Hey! Not funny, you! I have Luna on speed browse. I will call her and say no barbecue and say you're on a no barbecue diet!"
"ARF?!" Ammy panicked.
"Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease don't call off the barbecue~!" Sonia pleaded, on her knees and looking up at Geo with big watery pleading puppy dog eyes.
"Oh come now. I'm sure he's just teasing," Miyuki giggled as White poured her a cup of tea with two cubes of sugar and a teaspoon of sweet cream, "Thankyu, White."
"Still surprised to see Luna back in town. Didn't she have to transfer to that all girls private school during the end of middle school?" Sonia asked.
"She did. Must be break for her right now."
"...You went back to homeschooling, didn't you?" White asked.
"Not really. Tested out," Geo replied.
"He got motivated after a particularly bad day for Sonia at the studios so it wouldn't repeat," Omega-Xis huffed.
"It…It wasn't that bad…" Geo defended.
"Kid, she ran off during the fiftieth retake in the hour due to viruses refusing to stop bugging the place and you practically flew out of the school claiming an emergency with Satella to look for her," Omega-Xis pointed out, "And when you did, she was in such a blind rage that she didn't even recognize you until you two beat each other up!"
"Can we not bring that up?" Sonia pleaded, cringing at that memory and how bloodied Geo looked when he couldn't hold the Wave Change.
"...How long ago was this?"
"About two years," Omega-Xis replied.
"...Yeah, definitely no doubt you've been in love with each other that long," Ellie noted.
"..." both teens blushed.
"Still…this is a pretty good thing for you both, right? Seeing old friends," Miyuki noted, "You two have fun tomorrow and I can get started on helping Ellie-chan learn how to turn into her inner animal. No sharing any advice, Misora-chan."
"Hai, sensei," Sonia nodded.
"...I'm honestly curious on what mine would be," Ellie couldn't help but ponder.
"It better not be a chihuahua," Omega-Xis warned.
"Will you stop getting into growling matches with the neighbor's chihuahua?" Geo groaned.
"Not until it knows I am its superior!" Omega-Xis declared.
"We won't know until she transforms. Misora-chan's was easy because she was in the partway state at the time," Miyuki noted before glancing at Sonia's ears and tail, "And you seem quite more comfortable with them now than you used to."
"Oh! Well…y-yeah, I suppose," Sonia admitted, her tail laying in Geo's lap before yawning.
"Guess your trip back was tiring," White noted, looking out at the setting sun, "Makes sense as well since it's sunset now."
"...I guess we were gone longer than we thought," Geo muttered.
"Honto?"
"Makes sense. We're well on the other side of the world from where we started," Geo replied, "So morning in Missouri was evening here."
"Ohh…" Sonia nodded.
"The guest room has been made for you, Ellie," White informed.
"Really?" Ellie blinked, "That quick?"
"That's White for you," Geo chuckled, "He's fast when he wants to be."
"Right this waYIKES!" White yelped as he tripped and fell into the trash can.
"...But he has terrible balance," Geo cringed.
"HA!" Minor's voice laughed from Ellie's VG Hunter, "This guy's a laugh riot! OUCH!"
"Be silent," Major sighed, "I already miss sleeping in my human guise…"
"Well, once you get your probation over and the doctor who is examining your device is done with it, you'll get your body back," Miyuki reminded her what Ace and Goodall had said.
"With my sister here, I fear for getting my body back in time for our next match," Major groaned.
"Tadaima, Hope-san, Kelvin-san!" Sonia called as she and Geo entered the house…only to find it empty of people, "Eh?"
"Note on the fridge," Omega-Xis pointed.
"Because of course they'd do this," Geo sighed as he walked over and looked at it, "'Geo, Sonia, sorry you came home to an empty house. I won the first prize at the market today and won a three-month cruise! You both take care and we'll see you in three months or you can come visit the ship we're on if you feel lonely without us. Love, Mom and Dad.'"
"So…It's just us?" Sonia asked.
"I'm gonna go see if the mower needs tuning," Omega-Xis stated as he floated off.
"I'll go make sure he's not gonna wreck it…or another one of your telescopes," Lyra noted, flying off after him.
"I'll paint the scene for my collection of Baka-Ryu!" Issun cheered, hopping onto Lyra as she went by, leaving just the two teens.
"Do you want something to eat?" Geo offered, "Or just go to bed?"
"Ano…" Sonia began before her stomach growled, "Eh-heh…I-I guess that answers that…"
"Right," Geo nodded as he looked in the fridge, "Eggs and bacon good?"
"Sounds yummy!" Sonia beamed before, soon enough, the two were eating the breakfast dinner, "Itadakimasu~!" she quickly began to eat her larger portion of the food down, managing to get the full taste of the eggs first, "Umei~"
"Glad you like it," Geo noted as he chewed on his slice of bacon.
"You're a great cook, Geo-kun!" Sonia complimented as she began to eat the bacon and blinked, "Hm? Licorice?"
"Hm? Oh, we had some Choinese anise, so I used it to add some flavoring to the bacon," Geo explained, making Sonia freeze.
"Anise…?"
"Yeah. Choinese anise," Geo replied, "It's the only edible kind of anise." He tilted his head in confusion "...Is something wrong?"
"N-Not exactly…" Sonia replied, feeling a warmth starting to form in her body.
"Are you sure?" Geo asked.
"Uh-huh! Ju…Just wasn't expecting it is all…" Sonia replied, quickly eating it all and trying to ignore the warmth slowly building up, 'Oh…I'm in so much trouble later…'
"Oh…well I'll try and be careful next time then," Geo nodded as he finished up eating his own meal, "Okay, I'm going to take a shower then head off to bed. You?"
"U-um…I'll probably do a sh-shower, too," Sonia replied as Geo put their dishes into the washer, "Sure, it takes ti-time for me to work up a sweat now, but I feel b-better having one…Ya know?"
Geo nodded, setting a timer for the washer to run in an hour, "I can understand that just fine. Maybe we can do something here after our showers."
"Y-Yeah…" Sonia nodded, trying hard to not think of that something being intense but failing, 'Cold shower! Very cold shower! Ohh…I hope it works…'
'It didn't work!' A flushed Sonia thought in a flustered panic, wearing a pink nightgown with black circuit designs, while sitting next to Geo as he flicked through TV channels, trying to find something for them to watch.
"Hmm…not much on tonight…" the brunette noted, wearing a plain black muscle shirt and blue pajama pants with a constellation pattern to them.
Sonia quietly gulped as her eyes roamed. The years since becoming Megaman had been quite kind to Geo. All the fighting gave him a bit of a runner build that fit well with his preferred fighting style. Faint marks, very minute scars, could be seen on parts of his exposed body parts aside from the head and face, many she herself once had on her own body if one actually focused enough. She quickly looked towards the screen as Geo turned his head to her.
"Anything you see that you'd like?" Geo offered.
'You without clothes,' Sonia quickly thought before verbally replying, "Maybe we can check the on-demand?"
"Good idea," Geo nodded as he changed it, "Oh! They have the video of the first moon landing!"
"S-Sounds neat," Sonia offered, fidgeting now at how excited her mate was looking, 'Space gets him so excited…It's adorable! Oh, I just wanna hug him and rip his clothes off and have his…'
*SPLASH!*
"Are you sure you're okay?" Geo asked, blinking a few times upon seeing her use Waterspout to hit herself in the face with water from the cup of water she had poured herself prior to sitting.
"Y-Yeah…I'm good. I'm fine," she quickly assured, turning to him, "Was just…trying to see if I could make Waterspout go in my mouth."
Geo gulped as the water had soaked the top of her nightgown, causing it to cling to her ample chest. Some dripped her hair and landed just above, letting the drop slide down into her cleavage.
'Is she doing this on purpose?!' Geo thought, "L-Let's start watching, o-okay?"
"H-Hai!" Sonia replied as Geo fumbled with the remote while trying to press play, eventually managing it…
"Ahn~"
…only for both to freeze as the channel changed to a mature channel. Sonia mentally screamed as her already frayed hormones from the anise went off as Geo quickly turned it off with a bright red face. Neither was able to look at the other as the brief sight they had gotten was leading to several thoughts.
'I blame Issun!' Both thought.
"...M-Maybe we can talk about tomorrow?" Sonia suggested, looking down at her feet.
"G-Good suggestion. H-How do we address, um…"
"Me having a body supermodels would be jealous of because I can keep it while eating all I want?" Sonia joked.
"Um…That and, well…us?"
"We'll just be honest…r-right?" Sonia replied, "Just…go quick like ripping off a bandaid."
"Oh god…This is going to suck…" Geo groaned.
Sonia giggled, "Well…gonna suck for you if you did it alone, but…" she held his hand, "...We can do it together, ne?"
"...Yeah," Geo agreed, giving an assuring squeeze before reaching up a little to kiss her cheek, "Thanks."
'...Screw it,' Sonia caved before kissing him back, "Mmm~"
Geo muffled out a small noise as he fell back on the couch, Sonia quick in following to keep the kiss going. Her hands rested outside of his arms, letting him wrap his arms around to her back. As the kiss went on, she licked his lips to ask. Geo obliged and their tongues began to play once more. Her arms slowly lost strength as her breasts pressed against his chest, the fabric not doing anything to hide her excitement. She let out a muffled squeal into the kiss as his hands reached her shapely rear and squeezed. They released and she let out a moan of disappointment as they ended their kiss.
"S-So…"
"Don't stop," Sonia begged, her tail wagging.
"Wh-what?"
"I trust you," Sonia replied, "Now take those hands and keep at it, mister."
'...th…this is really happening,' Geo thought before he couldn't help but resume.
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Sonia yawned as she sat up in time with the sunrise. She stretched a little before another yawn made her look down at Geo.
"Ah…Gomen. Did I wake you up?" Sonia apologized.
"Hm…?" Geo blinked a few times as he sat up, "..." he looked at the digital clock on the wall nearby, "...That can't be right."
"What's wrong?" Sonia asked.
"We…um…well…did…"
"Sex," Sonia provided, giggling at his blush.
"...That. We finished at almost one in the morning…" Geo looked at her, "But it's not even a few hours later and I feel like I slept for eight full hours."
"...Eh?!" Sonia gawked before gasping, "That's what happened with me when I first started changing!"
"..."
"...Where did your bite mark go?" Sonia pondered, noticing her 'love bite' was gone and left unblemished skin.
"...We may need to get dressed and go to Satella HQ, see if Dr. Goodall is in," Lan noted as he grabbed his VG Hunter and turned on its chat feature on Audio Only, "Call Ace."
He VG Hunter rang a few times before it was picked up and Ace's voice yawned =Hello…?=
"Ace, it's Geo and Sonia," Geo spoke.
=Huh? Wh-What's up?= Ace yawned again =We just got back in around midnight here…=
"I need to do some tests. That warning Dr. Goodall gave about there being a delayed reaction because the ones who gave me the techniques were their kids…yeah…" Geo noted as Sonia traced a set of crimson markings on his chest resembling his shooting star emblem as Megaman, "Kinda need to run tests on me again."
=Say WHAT?! R-Right! You kids head on over and I'll be over real fast!= Ace replied on the line before hanging up.
"...Oh! Luna's get-together!" Sonia recalled as Geo dialed another number.
=Ugh…Wha-What's goin' on, Geo?= Bud's voice yawned.
"Bud, what time does Prez want this party?"
=Hm? Th…The party? Oh, right! Prez remembered that Sonia likes sleeping in, so she scheduled it for one in the afternoon= Bud replied.
"Great. Think you can come to Satella HQ with Sonia and I right now?" Geo asked.
=We're not fighting another giant talking toad that makes a monkey that plays music appear, are we?= Bud asked.
"No," Geo replied.
=Alright, alright…I'll meet ya there= Bud assured.
=Why the audio only anyway?= Taurus asked.
"Don't ask," Geo replied before hanging up as Sonia sniffed her armpit and cringed.
"Bath first, dress up, go to HQ, and then barbecue goodness catered by Luna-chan," Sonia listed, "...Wanna join me in it to save time?"
"Sonia, we'd be losing time and hot water," Geo argued, "And please get your hand off that. It's still sensitive from last night."
"Sorry," Sonia quickly apologized, holding her hands up.
"...We're going to have to set up boundaries for that," Geo stated.
"Aw~"
"Evil…evil still…" Geo groaned, wearing a muscle shirt and track shorts, while laying his head on Sonia's lap, the wolf girl running a hand through his hair.
"...So you two weren't dating all these years?" Bud asked.
"They were but didn't realize it," Lyra giggled.
"...Wow. I actually won the pot," Bud muttered.
"What pot?" Sonia asked.
"A Potluck," Bud explained.
"On…?"
"..."
"No, no. Go on. Tell me," Sonia smiled sweetly…as she juggled a paper bomb she made from her brush in her unoccupied hand, "I have…words…for everyone part of betting on us dating or not and how long we have or haven't."
"Get rid of the bomb…" Geo groaned.
"Phooey," Sonia pouted, tossing it to the side before using Waterspout to extinguish it and cause it to vanish in a puff of smoke.
"That's still freaky," Taurus admitted.
"And she's gotten more since you last saw her," Geo chuckled, "She can make bombs that explode in fireworks that break most walls, slice through things like giant boulders, make lily pads big enough for a fully grown adult to safely ride on, have people move in a path to get them to safety, and make vines to swing about on." He glowered up at her at the last bit.
"Mmmm…I said I was sorry," Sonia pouted.
"You know you are not allowed to have your brush in bed for a very good reason."
"Mmm…" Sonia continued to pout as Goodall and Ace walked into the break room.
"Well…You have the same, if not slightly better, results as Sonia did," Ace summed up, "Keep this up and you'd totally take the gold in the Olympics!"
"No thank you…" Geo replied instantly, plucking Sonia's brush in mid-draw, "No Cherry Bomb."
"Mmm~"
"Barbecue."
"...phooey," Sonia grumbled.
"He's got you on the ropes," Ace chuckled.
"You will find your Mega Snacks wrappers all devoid of Mega Snacks amd I will tell Tia-san," Sonia growled.
"Ulp! Okay, moving on! You kids go on and have fun at your party. Tomorrow, we've got a big mission!"
"Aw come on!" Sonia whined.
"Settle down, Sonia. You knew this was coming sooner or later," Geo sighed, shaking his head as he sat up, "Anything we need to know?"
"We're traveling to the historic district of ACDC Town up north," Ace replied while looking at Issun with an annoyed look, "Your creator is an evil man with the bunker we found there."
"...Pink roofed house by a blue roofed house?"
"Yes."
"That's not a bunker. That one is his big lab. I mean big. Very big. Like…yeah, he had a lot of free time, so he went 'bet I can do a Dexter's Lab' big."
"...he had a lot of free time, didn't he?"
"He worked on commission and his fees were the perfect balance. SciLab really goofed letting him resign after Project Heart got canceled. He owned their behinds but good with the rates they had to pay for his services and dealing with the patents and copyrights he put on his stuff."
"...Right…so…"
"We'll meet you there tomorrow?" Bud guessed.
"Bingo," Ace nodded.
"I'm quite eager to see this lab of your maker, you two," Goodall noted.
=Oh, it is quite lovely. Especially when Lady Aphrodite was able to get her hands on giving it that extra touch=FILS noted happily from Goodall's VG Hunter.
"Tomorrow can't come soon enough," Ace chuckled, "You guys head on out now. Enjoy that party of yours. When does it start again?"
"Oh! At 1!" Bud beamed before looking at a clock, "GH!"
"We've got five minutes to get there!" Sonia yelped, "I don't wanna be scolded!"
"Go, go, go!" Geo panicked, grabbing his normal outfit, before the trio Wave Changed and shot off down the Wave Roads.
"Why didn't you remind us?!" Lyra snapped at Omega-Xis.
"Because I was trying to find my head when Taurus knocked it off with his horn," Omega-Xis replied.
Luna stood at the base of the stairs leading up to Vista Point, her eyes closed with her arms crossed under her modest bust and tapping a foot. Bud tumbled out of Wave Change and quickly saluted.
"S-Sorry. Emergency at Satella HQ!" Bud apologized, "Geo and Sonia are right behind me."
"...Well…you're all fashionably late then," Luna noted, opening her eyes to give him a gentle look, "I'll let it slide since I know you three do have an important duty."
"Oh phew…" Bud sighed in relief, "Oh! Um…Speaking of Sonia…she finally grew."
"Really? Was honestly worried about her looking so preteen still," Luna sighed in relief, "With how her metabolism was, I thought she accidentally malnourished herself."
"She calls it 'divine intervention,'" Bud chuckled, 'Literal divine intervention at that. By a monkey god!'
"Prez!" Geo called as he ran over, wearing a black muscle shirt under a red short-sleeved jacket with his shooting star emblem on the left front side, and jeans, "S-Sorry for being late!"
"Hmph. You're only five minutes past one," Luna replied, shaking her head, "I'll let it slide. So…where's Sonia?"
"She's behind me," Geo replied, turning around to see no one, "...Sonia!" Sonia peeked out from behind the tree, "Oh for the…Sonia, get out here!"
"...Um…"
"You're not going to freak out when you see how she looks, are you?" Geo asked as he looked at Luna with an exasperated look, "She's been sensitive on how everyone's going to react to her looks."
"It was a really big shock," Bud admitted, "Took Taurus smacking me a few times to get it through my head."
"Mmmm…" Luna frowned as she walked up to the tree and pulled her out from behind it.
"Eep!" Sonia squeaked as Luna blinked a few times.
"...Wow," Luna noted, "Guess I really was too worried about your health. Looks good on you."
"Y-You think so? …Wait…You were…worried?" Sonia asked.
"Of course I was! When I saw your show's finale, aside from being a bit taller, you still looked like you were when you first started it!" Luna replied, "I was terrified of you having some sort of condition that developed from your overactive metabolism!"
"!? Y-You were…?" Sonia asked.
"Of course! We're friends, aren't we?"
"...Hai!" Sonia replied, quickly hugging the blonde and crying.
"Phew…" Geo sighed, "Was really worried."
"Same here," Bud agreed, "Guess it has been a while, with you guys traveling around the world and what not…"
"That is true…" Geo admitted, "Plus there was her training with her sensei…"
"She has a sensei?" Luna repeated once she overheard that, pausing from comforting Sonia to look at her, "You have a sensei, Sonia?"
"Oh, right. Geo-kun said you have that translator that's been going about," Sonia 'recalled,' "Ano…Hai. She's a great Sensei and, well…ano…She's been more of an Onee-chan than sensei…"
"Wow. You're really good with this translator, aren't you?" Luna asked.
"No. That's all her. She picked up the language almost overnight," Geo explained before Sonia's stomach went off, "...Maybe we can talk about it while eating?"
"Of course! Zach and Jack are waiting up at Vista Point for us," Luna replied, pulling Sonia along, "Come on, you! I made sure a ton of the foods for this were prepared for you coming!"
"Yatta!" Sonia cheered.
"Who're Zach and Jack?" Issun asked, peeking out of Geo's hair.
"Zach's a good friend and runs an information-gathering site called Zachpedia with his Wizard Pedia."
"Oh! That's what I've been using to learn about stuff in this day and age!" Issun beamed, "They're really detailed and easy to understand!"
"As for Jack….well…"
"He used to work for the bad guys before all this god nonsense started," Omega-Xis bluntly stated.
"Hah?!" Issun gawked.
"It's all good now," Geo quickly assured, "He's working for Satella now. Kinda surprised he managed to come. I thought he was in Wazzap at the moment."
"Could've finished his job there," Omega-Xis replied.
"Probably," Geo nodded, "Still, we got quite a bit of catching up to do….and no getting into a fight with Corvus."
"Who?" Issun asked.
"FM-Ian that wanted to take over Meteor G but got destroyed instead. Dr. Goodall rebuilt him for Jack to work with and erased his memories aside from his rivalry with Omega-Xis," Geo replied.
"He blames me for Vulpecula wanting me!" Omega-Xis complained, "I ran for the hills for crying out loud, that stupid buzzard! That should tell him how psycho she is!"
"Wait…THAT'S WHY!?" Geo gawked.
"Well, that and I got the position in Cephus's forces that he wanted before we attacked your dad's space station by beating him into the ground several times," Omega-Xis shrugged.
"Oh…"
"We often didn't bring up Vulpecula when those two were around," Taurus deadpanned, "Speaking of, hi Vulpecula."
"WHERE?!" Omega-Xis panicked, shooting into the VG Hunter, =Where's the RYNO?! Where's the RYNO?!=
"...Heh-heh. Omega-Xis would do that and Corvus would chase after him with whatever he grabbed. The last time before they fought for that position? Libra was Corvus's weapon of choice," Taurus chuckled, "Guy was split between A: being happy he got picked to help fight Omega-Xis because he was already mad with the blue guy or B: upset that he didn't avoid getting grabbed."
"Ohh…" Geo and Bud cringed at that.
"Wow. Can't believe that's really Sonia," a slim older teen with jagged black hair noted, sitting at a bench by a somewhat shorter brunette in a brown button shirt, red tie, lab coat, and green slacks with a pair of green glasses.
"Was a big shocker at Satella, too," the other teen noted as they watched Sonia doing a mix of eating then talking excitedly with Luna, "I've been Dr. Goodall's apprentice for a while, so she let me look at the file she's been composing on Sonia. It…It's quite a shock."
"Just don't blab it here, Zach," the ravenette huffed before glancing over at Omega-Xis, growling as he and an orange radiation-made being with black armor based on a raven were butting heads and glaring at one another.
"Mutt…"
"Buzzard…"
"No fighting, boys," Lyra warned, pushing the two away from each other.
"Grr….fine," the two huffed as they looked away.
"...Surprised by the new look you've gotten, Lyra," the raven noted.
"Why thank you, Corvus. It comes with the nonsense we've had to deal with."
"We've read the files. Those Imp things, right?"
"Imps, exploding fish, crabs that become sharks, an Onion ring thingy…"
"Onryo, Mega," Lyra corrected
"And that was easy because it couldn't handle singing," Omega-Xis smirked.
"I call BS on that last one."
"Hah?!" Omega-Xis gawked.
"It's true. Omega-Xis surprised all of us with the fact he can rap," Lyra admitted.
"Any idea what they're talking about?" Zach asked.
"No clue. So long as they don't start punching each other, I don't care," Jack snorted.
"Konnichiwa!" The two turned their heads to see Issun on the table and looking at Zach, "You're Zach, hai? Maker of the Zachpedia?"
"That'd be me, yes," Zach replied.
"Oh! Arigatou!" Issun thanked with a bow, "Your website helped me so much in learning about things in this day and age!" He jumped, "Oh! Sumimasen! Boku wa Issun!"
"Oh! Issun? As in the Wizard made over 150 years ago? Amazing!" Zach beamed, "I was really hoping to meet you to ask about the lost history of our nation!"
"Subarashi!" Issun beamed.
Geo chuckled as he looked over at the excitable flea-sized Wizard chatting with the shortest member of their small group of friends, "...It's kinda nice having days like this."
"I'll say," Bud agreed, chewing on a bite of meat off a rib, "Days like this make me forget about the weirdness of our lives, ya know? Back when we were still trying to get you to go to school, I always thought I'd just be Luna's bodyguard and confidant. But with everything that's happened to me since we tried that? It's just…more than I thought I'd be in life."
Geo nodded, "Yeah. I just wanted to be an astronaut to find my dad out in space. Now…it's all this…" he gestured to the good mood of the place, "I honestly wouldn't trade my life as it is right now for anything." a silence fell between the two, "60-40."
"Deal. I don't want an angry wolf on me. Still more than enough to have Satella as a part-time job for a good three decades."
"...How much money did you honestly win?" Geo gawked.
"Wait, wait, wait. Miyuki? As in Miyuki Nanaya, the Snow Fox? The woman voted number 1 in several magazines?" Luna gawked.
"Yup!" Sonia beamed, "She's been a very big help with everything that's been going on. She even knows Japanese so we've been using it to help me improve on it." She giggled, "Geo-kun is slowly getting what we say."
"Wait, what?" Geo blinked at that.
"You got really interested when we were learning about uchu to hoshi-tachi (space and stars)," Sonia giggled as Geo blushed.
"Of course he'd be interested if it was about space," Luna covered her amused smile with a hand, "Don't you agree, Vogue?" Silence followed and she turned to her Wizard, a green and yellow rabbit inside of an upside-down pink hat staring at Sonia, "Vogue?"
"Hm? O-Oh! My apologies, Prez!" The Wizard apologized, "I…I must have spaced out for a little…"
'Even animal-themed Wizards…' Sonia mentally whined.
"It's alright. I am curious about all the tattoos myself," Luna noted.
"Oh! Ano…" Sonia mumbled, trying to think of a reasonable explanation.
"Trying out a new trend or a way to help hide yourself?"
"Eto…more the latter than former," Sonia replied.
"Paparazzi are evil evil things," Geo groaned, "Barely even a year since and I'm still pestered by them wanting stories about me."
"I think they made one for last night on Mega again," Luna recalled in amusement, "Something about a lawnmower army intent on destroying our telescopes."
"...Omega-Xis…" Geo growled, slowly turning to the AM-Ian.
"Ah…uh…"
"If we went home right now…would my new telescope be destroyed…by a lawnmower?" Geo asked, narrowing his eyes in a slow burning anger.
"Er…It was the Gnat and Out-of-Tune Harp!" Omega-Xis quickly blamed before pulling his head off and throwing it into the distance, leaving his body to twidle its thumbs.
"When could he do that?!" Corvus gawked.
"Since Tachigami cut his head off," Lyra replied.
"That's the mouse one, right?" Jack asked.
"Hai," Lyra replied before Corvus fell over laughing.
"SHUT UP!" Omega-Xis snapped in the distance.
"Lyra, seriously. Did you three wreck my telescope?" Geo asked.
"...It was Issun!" Lyra blamed before zipping off after Omega-Xis's head.
"Eh? Nani?" Issun blinked at that.
"Issun…"
"I painted the scene," Issun replied, pulling out a scroll and enlarging it, showing a sumi-e of a blue dragon and a harp on a red and black beast toppeling a white tower, "I call it Dumb Dragon Angers a Harp and they Topple a Tower."
"...When is the next EM Wave Dog Show?" Geo asked, his eye twitching madly as he looked it up, "Two entries should be a far better chance at winning first and ordering a new one…"
"?!" Omega-Xis body tensed as it quickly flew off.
Sonia started giggling before Geo spoke, "Maybe a normal dog show, too."
"Would they allow wolves in it?" Luna asked as Sonia choked on her barbecue until Luna have her a cup of sofa.
"Y-You're not serious about Ammy being in one, are you?" Sonia coughed.
"Mmm…probably not," Geo replied, giving a small wink at her.
"D'oh…Geo-kun…" Sonia began as she got up…
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"?!" Sonia stumbled onto her knees, covering her mouth, "Hurk!?"
"Sonia?" Geo asked, quickly moving over to her as he and Luna put a hand on her shoulders.
"What's wrong?" Luna asked.
'Ugh…wh…what is this feeling…?' Sonia thought as she forced back down her barbecue.
"Hey! There is a private party going on here!" A voice down the stairs shouted.
"Step away from-AAAARGH!"
"!?" The group turned to the stairs as several shouts of agony erupted.
Slowly, a twitching Wizard hovered up the steps. There were small purple splotches on its body as its eyes kept flickering. Sonia grunted, barely managing to hold down her food once more while squeezing her eyes shut to avoid looking at the strange Wizard.
The Wizard cried out as it began to head towards the trio, only to end up being sent flying by a pair of fire balls as it was sent crashing into a wall.
"Something's not right…" Corvus scowled as he and Taurus glared at the twitching Wizards.
"It's Radiation is out of whack…like it's gotten a massive boost of power that's harming it at the same time," Taurus observed.
"Not just that. I feel something…dark in it," Corvus added as the Wizard got up, "...Jack."
"Ah," Jack nodded as he walked over, "Transcode! Jack Corvus!"
In a burst of Corvus's radiation engulfing Jack, he was now donned in a black bodysuit with jagged silver lines going up the sides of his body. Orange detailing filled out the black bodysuit with a pattern that resembled a raven with its wings spread out with a blue diamond embedded in his chest. He sported a layered armored cape that looked more like feathers stacked on one another with an orange inside. His head was engulfed in a helmet shaped like a raven's head with an orange visor covering his face.
"Better to be safe than sorry," Jack Corvus noted as he flexed a hand, showing them to be engulfed in onyx gauntlets with claws replacing the ends of his fingers.
The Wizard began to twitch a bit before roaring out, the area rumbling for a moment as it began to charge at Jack Corvus. One of its limbs begna to convulse as it reverted into a dark energy sword, an ominous black energy surrounding it as it slashed down, making Jack Corvus jump out of the way in time…resulting in the massive dark cutting wave to miss and leave a noticeable gash in the ground as it cut through the fence and destroyed a few nearby cars. It roared before Taurus Flame slammed into it, knocking the Wizard away.
"Now that's new!" Taurus Flame noted with wide eyes looking at the destruction from one swipe.
"That weapon feels like it's the source of the infection," Taurus noted as the Wizard got back up..
"Then we just gotta break it!" Taurus Flame roared, snapping out of it as he banged his fist together.
"Easier said than done," Jack Corvus muttered as the Wizard charged at them once more, swinging its sword like a wild beast in its attempt in hitting the two that threatened it.
"What is this…?" Luna whispered in shock as Zach quickly ran over to the behind the overturned table.
"Mmm…This feels almost like a Yokai…" issun mumbled, his radiation gray before turning normal, "Misora-tenshisa, the brush!"
"Brush?" Luna repeated as Sonia started to pull her brush out only to fumble and drop it as she tried to avoid throwing up.
"Sonia!" Geo gasped, reaching down and picking up the brush…only to blink as things froze and turned sepia, "Huh…?"
"D…dots…" Sonia got out, the only other moving as she shakily pointed at the Wizard, "A…Around it…"
"Dots?" Geo repeated. He then looked over at the currently frozen Wizard, blinking a few times as he swore he saw a few dots appearing on it, mostly around its sword limb and chest, "H…Here goes…"
Geo began to tap each dot as it appeared, trying to keep track of the order. As he dotted the last one, the brush's glow faded along with the sepia tone of the world. The Wizard screeched as its blade shattered with several cracks littering its body.
"Ra…st…stop it…it…it hurts….!" the Wizard cried out in pure pain, grabbing its head as it struggled, "D...destroy…make the pain stop!-!-!-!-!-!"
"..." Jack Corvus vanished in a burst of black feathers.
"GRK!"
"If you have backup data, I hope it was before this happened," he whispered as the Wizard collapsed, sliding off Jack Corvus's talons.
"Th…Thank…you…" the Wizard gasped as it dissolved into data particles, leaving behind a purple BattleCard depicting the sword and a strange purple crystal encased in a silver border.
"?! That looks like…" Issun began just as Jack Corvus knelt down, "DON'T TOUCH THAT!"
"?!" Jack Corvus tensed at that as Issun hopped over.
"What's wrong, Issun?" Taurus Flame asked.
"That…That looks like a DarkChip!" Issun replied, "No one touch it or you'll be tainted with a DarkSoul!"
"A what?" Omega-xis blinked as he and Lyra flew back over, the former's head back on his body before he noticed the destruction, "...WHAT THE HELL DID WE MISS?!"
"Ah…I need to quarantine this…" Issun mumbled before pulling out small strips of paper, painted on them, enlarged them and slapped one down on the BattleCard.
"!" Sonia breathed in deeply, feeling the nausea pass instantly, "Ugh…What was that?"
"I…don't know," Geo whispered, a bit of worry in his voice, "According to Issun, that Wizard was infected by something called a DarkChip."
"Dark…Chip?"
"Ahh…This is troubling! Very very troubling! The Legendary Berserker destroyed the source of these! They shouldn't exist anymore!" Issun trembled.
"...we better report this to Goodall then," Jack Corvus frowned, "If that…thing was able to make a Wizard do that….I'd hate to see what it would do to an AM-ian or FM-Ian."
"Agreed," Corvus added.
'Geo…Sonia…' Luna thought, looking on at the two as Geo was helping Sonia stand, 'Just what's going on…?'
"Mmm…this better be good, kyu," Miyuki frowned a bit as she and Ellie regrouped with Geo and the others within Goodall's lab, "I had to cancel a photo op at the most perfect spot White-kyun chose, kyu…"
"...You alright?" Bud asked, seeing the forehead bandage on Ellie.
"Doing a flip while not thinking is hard…" Ellie mumbled.
=It was funny= Minor's voice snickered from her VG Hunter..followed by a loud smack =OW!=
=Ignore my sister=
=Oh? Canis Major and Minor? Long time no see= Taurus noted.
=...Master Taurus?= Major blinked.
=We can catch up later. Seems the brass are here= Taurus replied as Ace entered with Goodall, the former pushing a cart with the ominous item on it.
"I studied the BattleCard you brought in…and it's horrific," Goodall informed grimly, "It grants an amazing boost in power to the point a basic Wizard can rival a Wave Change Human. But the drawbacks…it shortens the life of a Wizard significantly and erodes the mind into nothing more than a berserker. And once one uses one, it latches on and becomes a full on addiction with the withdrawal so severe that you'd die before breaking it if your willpower isn't strong enough."
"And that's not going into how we were very lucky that it was just in its early stages of being infected! Too much time with it can cause, instead of death, a DarkSoul to take over!" Issun added, "If it had, it would have had more access to all kinds of DarkChips that it'd unleash in a random frenzy of madness and destruction!"
"This DarkCard as I've labeled it is a highly dangerous Hyper Drug," Goodall compared, "None of you are to ever use one nor touch one while Wave Changed. They must be destroyed immediately!"
"No problem on my end," Sonia cringed, holding on to Geo, "Until Issun-san put that ofuda on it, I couldn't even do anything."
"That's because it is your pure opposite," Goodall explained, "Your antithesis."
"Yeah! DarkCards seem to be to you what Kryptonite is to Superman!" Ace compared, earning looks, "...What? The bunker in St. Louis had comic books!"
"Oh…"
"..mm…" Miyuki frowned a bit as she looked at container holding the item, "...I have a theory."
"Eh?" Ellie blinked as she and the others looked at her.
"Years ago within my people's homeland, there lied an ark that once housed a race of celestial beings…only for them to have been killed off by invading yokai," Miyuki explained as her eyes narrowed a bit, "And leading those yokai…was supposedly the lord of darkness itself…Yami."
"Yami?"
"Hai. I think this Yami…was Orochi," Miyuki noted.
"! Y-You think that…?" Issun tensed, his radiation grey once more.
"Hai….these DarkChips you spoke of and these DarkCards…are pieces of Orochi himself," Miyuki scowled..
"...We need to go to Skye-hakase's lab. Now," Issun ordered.
"?! Snkr! I'm up I'm up…!" a figure groaned as some alarms went off, rubbing their head as they began to approach a series of monitors, "Jeez…I rest for the day and now those stupid alarms go off…" a hand covered in a black fingerless glove tapped a few keys and a monitor changed from an alert to show the meeting room of Satella, "What did those boobs find this time…? It better not be the manga bunker. I'm still working through Assassination Classroom, dammit." their eyes then widened upon spotting the container…or rather, what it had within it, "?! That's…how…?" he tapped several keys and another screen changed, showing a younger Skye on it that started playing, "Guess you were a genius like always, old man uncle."
=We need to go to Skye-Hakase's lab. Now
"...Great now I gotta get the welcome mat out," they groaned.
SZ: Hoo boy…bet you people didn't expect this chapter huh?
GT: Not this soon at least.
SZ: Aye…also for those who just came from A03…didn't expect that from us as well, huh?
GT: Surprised you all, eh? We just went with what we felt to be right.
SZ: mmm hmm. As for those curious about what happened..provided your 18 years or older,...well you'll find the scene on A03 as this is something we were cautious about due to…well Fanfiction's rules and all that.
GT: So fickle those rules. Anywho, please read and review, folks!