A Collection Of Other Adventures

Friendship Lessons

Date: August 1st, 2024

It's been 2 days since Koro-sensei trolled us into thinking we had to assassinate him. The effects of that haven't gone away just yet. Every time anyone even says his name, outbursts of emotions still happen. Anyway. That's not what this is about which should be obvious from the title of this writing. But let me tell you about something that happened a week or two ago first. It's not exactly relevant to you know what but it will be covered in depth in my currently inactive story known as Twisted Land Twists & Terrors later on at some point. For now, I will tell you the gist of what happened. With all the research that's been conducted within the BRAINS Collective, the minds of just about every member have been filled with curiosity in relation to science or at least it feels that way. Someone brought up an interesting idea. In the world Twisted Land resides in, there's a lot of space all around where ancient civilizations once existed. Most traces of those civilizations have been erased over time. But that's not what sparked the idea. It was the idea of what was really below y-64 that was interesting. That's what was brought up. You see, when a Minecraft world doesn't recognize you as a player, strange things can happen. You can spawn in the Strip Lands and fall into the void. Or as we have come to find out, you can see that there is more than just the void below y-64. Minecraft worlds have something that can only be reached or seen if you are physically inside of them, not sent to them as a player. But Minecraft as a game is not nearly advanced enough to show what dwells below y-64.

Minecraft Story Mode shows that there can be something below the bedrock at the bottom of the world because of what Romeo did in that game. So what did we do? We entertained the idea and because an institute without my direct input had been built within Twisted Land already to better explore what's below and beyond it and its sibling parks, we went to that institute. A giant drill was constructed. We did something that humanity on Earth is far from being able to do. Myself, top scientists of BRAINS, many Twisted Land inhabitants, and so on climbed into the giant drill as it drilled to the very center, the real center of the Minecraft world. And we found it had an iron core at the center just like Earth. I'll save the rest of the details for another time. I just wanted to mention that something this monumental and important literally just happened recently. What's more is that the institute just kind of somehow got destroyed shortly after that and I ended up building it all over again myself with no memory of it in my actual living body to turn it into a station for a roller coaster based on that entire adventure itself. So that's fun. Anyway, 2 days after the Assassination Waterpark fiasco, I was invited to give a guest lecture at The School Of Friendship in Ponyville. I decided to head there early before classes began as I was invited to literally give that lecture to several different classes during the various bell periods of the school. Starlight Glimmer still heads the school but has taken some inspiration from horizontal organization which is how anarchists usually prefer doing things, myself included. Equestria is becoming more socialist overall. It's like the ideas myself and many others have brought over to Equestria and neighboring nations like Yakyakistan are resonating well with most creatures because the most kind hearted form of leftism overall is one that values friendship and its qualities amongst other things.

You could say there's harmonic socialism, harmonic communism, and harmonic anarchism forming in Equestria as variants of each respective leftist ideology. Moving on, I got there early so I could talk to Starlight about why she invited me specifically as the invite she sent didn't tell me anything that answered my question of: "why me?" I headed to her office, having come here a few times since the attack on Equestria orchestrated by that damn Pmurt Nedib. I know my way around pretty well at this point. I knock on the door to her office. She answers: "Come in! I've been expecting you!" I open the door to see her smiling very kindly. "Welcome! Please take a seat! *I do* I know why you're here. I mean, it is really kind of obvious. I should have told you in the invite but I just didn't have time until just a few minutes ago. Thanks to Trixie's help along with some students who came here really early to volunteer to help out, everything is in order for classes today so I have a little time to kill right now." "I get it. We're all busy most of these days. The war's picked up again and we're back to being super busy no matter what we're up to. We were so lucky to get another day to chill yesterday but it's obvious that chill time won't last for much longer. The final battle with Don Thousand is drawing incredibly near." "That's right but let's get straight to the point. I invited you to give a guest lecture to all of our current students for several reasons. One, the guards, including Shining Armor are overworked so I couldn't ask any of them to come. Two, I wanted the students to get a chance to learn something about friendship from an armored warrior like yourself. Three, I actually had a lot of trouble trying to get anyone to come here to speak as a guest lecturer.

It's no exaggeration to spend several minutes talking about how busy everyone is right now. That's why I had so much trouble. The final reason is super obvious. You're a knight. And while we aren't nearly the closest of friends, we respect each other and have worked well during missions in the past, I trust that you have a lot to say about friendship despite being more introverted like Twilight and Fluttershy have been known to be. You have a unique perspective that the students can learn a lot from." I nod: "That makes a lot of sense. I'm literally an introverted nerd who ended up becoming a knight as well as an artist and writer. I certainly have one heck of a unique perspective though it's quite a bit odd compared to the perspectives of what they refer to as 'normal people'. Alright then, what classroom will I get to use for this?" "The lecture room where Twilight had one of her.. situations will be fine. I can't think of its name or location. Sorry, I didn't get enough sleep last night. Things suddenly got a lot more stressful last night here. I'm trying my best but it's hard and that's why I have Trixie." "I understand. You really should take a nap like right now before school starts. I'll get set up in that room and that will be that." And with that, I left the room to set up things. I chuckle mischievously: "I feel a little up to 'no good' today. That doesn't happen often. The last time it did, I was planning on how I wanted to bug my senators and representatives to oppose KOSA." I don't do anything to the room itself. All I do is put on my mask as well as my Akatsuki cloak. Oh and fun fact: every BRAINS member now uses a barrier that prevents bacteria/droplets from going in or going very far out of the nose or mouth or whatever else.

They're like face masks except they work even better than N95 masks/respirators and don't require anything to be worn. They can be created with magic or science or a mix of both. It doesn't matter. So no more having to wear invisible respirators. But now, I wait for the first group of students to arrive. As in the class who normally is first taught by their homeroom teacher but not this time. They all end up appearing together a few minutes before class began officially. I had turned off the lights to really give off the creepy vibe as I allowed my shadows to run around. They sit down nervously. One of them exclaims: "What's going on?!" I speak: "Do you know the nightmares that dwell where there's fear and/or darkness? Do you know what it's like to have chills and want to scream in pure terror? Have you ever comprehended the true power of the darkness? Has agony or despair ever been written on your face? Do you know what it's like to despise the way things are and watch as the world around you twists you into someone that's at least a little bit broken?" They're now trembling in fear. "Where's our teacher?!" "They're too busy. Far too busy. But I'm here. Does that scare you? Are you scared? Are you afraid?" They suppress their screams as much as possible and try to act calm. I speak again: "In many places, pretending through deception is a part of survival for those that society unjustly seems unfit to lead a truly good life. You see my darkness and my shadows in full force right now and yet, you still try to act calm. *creates singing hamster dolls* You see what I can conjure to make you fear for your lives. But not everything is as it seems, everycreature."

I release what I have unleashed and call my shadows back so that they return to the Shadow Realm. I turn on the lights. "I am with the Akatsuki. You may know of me, you may not but this is just one part of who I am. In fact, I normally don't try to scare others. I save that for the enemy in the instances I bother even trying to be scary." They're even more scared of me than before but then, I turn around and remove my mask: "I'm not someone you need to be scared of. It may seem like I am but that's not the truth. It's quite the opposite actually. You're about to see that in just a few moments." I turn around again and allow them to see my face or at least, the parts not covered by my cloak's hood. I then slowly and carefully remove my cloak. "Individuals of your age tend to like excitement more than those of my age. It's like many adults end up having the fun sucked right out of them. What I've been doing was a mere performance. And now, I'm about to properly introduce myself before the bell rings to start class." I have no finished removing my cloak, showing off my knightly identity in full as a result of doing so. One of the students gasps: "You're a.. knight.. You're a knight!" "Yes I am, everycreature. See, I don't want to hurt you. I just wanted to scare you to have a little fun. Some individuals love being scared and I know Nightmare Night is still very popular here in Ponyville. I love being scared myself during such a night except I rarely get startled or scared from such. Where I'm from, we call it Halloween and celebrate it for different reasons. But still, it can be fun to be scary sometimes. Anyway, I am Dark Knight Swiftdrawer, it's nice to meet all of you.

Very soon, I will begin my lecture. You see, I was invited here to be a guest lecturer. That's why your teacher isn't in right now or rather, they're too busy to be here." They had a lot of questions for me. "Settle down, children. I can't hear any of yoir questions if you're shouting all of them out loud at once. *laughs* Some individuals find children like you to be annoying. Yeah, that can be true but in my opinion, children don't deserve the shade that's usually thrown at them for being so young and loud and energetic. Adults can't expect children to always be calm because you kids are still growing physically and mentally. I studied the social behavior of my own species a bit as well as learned a thing or two about say, what wolves do socially. That only strengthened my opinions. I wish some parents were more patient with children. Children deserve love, respect, and patience. And that means all of you deserve such." I answer as many of their questions about being a knight as I could before the bell rang: "Okay, children. Listen carefully for I'm about to give you some lessons in friendship. I was invited here to do so so that's what I'll be-" I am cut off as the mark that was placed on me last year in response to the conflict with Don Thousand starts glowing brightly enough I could see it glowing even with my multiple layers of clothing/armor on. "What in the?! Is the Friendship Map calling me? It's never really called out of worlders like myself up until recently. It certainly hasn't called me but I just can't leave you here by yourselves. You all must come with me. Looks like we're going on an unplanned field trip in which I solve a friendship problem. Honestly, this will be a nice change of pace for me when it comes to conflict resolution.

Most conflicts I get involved with can't be ended with the power of friendship so this is actually a decent respite from all of that." We go together to the Friendship Map in Twilight's castle and there it was. I saw my mark hovering around Manehatten: "Looks like I'm needed in Manehatten. I'm sure Starlight already knows what's going on so we should be fine. Interesting that Twilight and the others aren't anywhere near here right now even though your government has become democratic but with Twilight's Council Of Friendship still in play. The princesses are still princesses but their titles don't grant them authority like they used to. The admiration, respect, hope, and trust put into them remains as strong as ever though so it seems to be going okay for them all. If we're going to go to Manehatten and there's only so much time until your 2nd bell classes, there's only one thing to do. Getting there as quickly as possible. Neither flight nor train will be fast enough. Students, hold onto me. This is going to feel more than a little weird but we'll be in Manehatten in just a few seconds." I kept my word and just like that, we were there. "Friendship lesson: *performs handsigns* Never hesitate to ask for help. Shadow Clone Jutsu! *5 shadow clones appear* Alright, I need your help, my clones. Can you split up all around the city to try to find a friendship problem? If you find one, run back to me or just intentionally make yourself poof should you agree." "We're on it!" "Follow me, children. Friendship lesson #2: you can never have too much help as long as that help doesn't cause problems. Can you help me look as well? Let's stay together." They all happily agree to doing so.

"Great. It shouldn't be long until a friendship problem is found. Some friends of mine are probably narrowing down the search as we speak. Here's another: despite the fact that I'm trying to speedrun finding the lesson, you should never rush things that involve social interaction. That can lead to all kinds of problems. *sees loud and obnoxious fireworks being launched by someone who is the firework launching version of a pyromaniac* I'm commenting on that after y'all have enough time to digest the lessons which I've been belting out to make up for lost lecture time." A couple minutes later, I'm informed of the location of the friendship problem: "Problem found. Let's get going there. Okay lesson #4: be respectful of others. If something you do may bother others and it's no trouble to just stop doing it or do it further away from them or at a time where's it less of an issue, please do so. That means don't launch fireworks loudly in the middle of the city or at 10 pm randomly one night once a week after a holiday where lots of fireworks are launched. Like seriously, you need to be able to do what you need and wanna do but that has to be balanced with what others want and need. If something you do hurts someone, you have to resolve what you're causing ASAP." I let that all marinate in their minds as we reached the friendship problem. It was two ponies fighting. "Let's go to that pizza place!" "No! Let's get some ramen!" I do my best to gently touch both of them and get their attention. But my efforts fail and I'm forced to spend 10 minutes trying to figure out how to solve their quarrel which only got bigger and bigger as the seconds passed by. So, to get their attention fully at last, having heard both sides and all, I do cool knight moves.

In the sunlight, my armor was reflecting a lot of light. So while I certainly had eyes on me before, now I really had eyes on me but I held it together okay. "Woah! You look so cool!" "I.. have to agree with you but that doesn't mean you and O are friends again!" I reply: "I don't really like showing off like I just did but I needed to get both of you to calm down for a second. I ascertained what your friendship problem is. There's no reason to fight over every little disagreement you've had recently. I'm trying to be a little quick on getting this situation handled but that doesn't mean I won't give you two the chance you need to see things differently. You two still care about each other. Ironically, when two people who know each other argue, it doesn't mean they don't care about each other. It means that they actually do care. You are friends. That's what's most important. You should try to compromise. There's so many ways to do so. Listen, I've done a lot of fighting and been forced to inflict a lot of harm in battle but let me tell y'all something. Fighting about something like where to eat ain't worth it. Having to fight at all is difficult enough. It's almost as bad as that when you fight despite not needing to. Anger and violence should be last resorts in conflict resolution. If you want to stay friends, you have to listen to each other and try to find a solution that makes both of you happy. Arguing doesn't solve anything and it never truly will. Real friendship is beautiful and I can tell you have a real friendship going on. Your words and expressions give that away. It's easy to get angry and fight each other. I used to fight one of my siblings all the time. And I would lose when it got physical because I was the family crybaby.

I know what it's like to immediately get really pissed off. You need to give each other some patience and compromising on where to go to eat is a great start. Do you get what I'm saying?" They nod. One of them replies: "*sigh* I wish I had realized what was happening to us." The other adds: "Thank you for your help. It looks like you didn't need to do much to get through to us, huh? It looks like we have a lot more learning to do as ponies." "I'm happy to help. I just want conflict to be something always resolved peacefully someday. When you're angry with someone you care about, you need to know why you're angry and attempt to come to an understanding with them to ease your anger until it's gone. It doesn't do anyone any good to be angry and argue all the time. Sure, arguments can be hilarious, I've heard a lot of funny arguments. But the irrationality of them combined with their potential to destroy social relationships means that I largely oppose them. When peaceful methods can solve a conflict, they must be attempted first to solve that conflict. That's a rule of thumb that everyone should try to follow." A few minutes later, I return the students and I to the classroom to continue on with my lecture. "I hope you've been taking notes this entire time because I only have so much time to finish my lecture now. I'm sure you've heard a lot of what I just did from your usual teachers but it doesn't hurt to hear them again from someone else's mouth. Now then, I should talk more about friendship when it comes to knights like me. So how do I put that? Oh. I got it. The friendships knights have aren't that much different from anyone else's friendships. For most knights, the values instilled into them in order to really earn the ability to call themselves knights are huge in their friendships.

That's because knightly values aren't just values for knights, most of them are excellent for anyone to have. It's just that due to the history and common duties of knights, they are expected to have those values by the time they become knights. So allow me to share what those knightly values are. Or at least, the ones I don't think are kind of bogus. Honor, respect, dedication, loyalty, comradely, fighting ability, and charity are like most of the values. Charity in this case just means doing kind things for other people, including the less fortunate. I'm a different knight than the kind brought up in medieval kingdoms because while they follow a deity and/or ruler, I do not so the knightly values I hold dear are interpreted differently by me. As for loyalty, it's to comrades in arms, friends, family, and to the general population as well. As long as there's no reason to dislike someone.. Reasons to dislike someone as in them hurting others or being manipulative or bigoted. If none of those things are happening, a knight has no reason not to protect them. But a knight should still try to keep them alive if they aren't too dangerous to keep alive. Honor means to have dignity, especially in battle. It's a kind of confidence and steadfast commitment to a knight's values. In friendship, it affects how they interact with their friends, usually in a positive way. But that doesn't mean that knights always have to act with honor because there are situations where honor can't be used and would only stand in the way of doing what needs to be done. Respect is showing basic decency in treatment to others and treating others like they mean something. Like they deserve kindness. I don't like words like 'decency' or 'civilized', it sounds like a bunch of high class jargon to me.

In many societies, there's an insistence on things like decency and it just rubs me the wrong way. Because in those societies, the less fortunate and those labeled as other usually don't get treated with basic courtesy. They get treated like they're trash or disposable machines or worse. That and that stuff sounds ridiculous to someone like me, it not only sounds high brow and silly but it feels constrictive and authoritative. A knight should stand against such crap and the same goes for just about anyone. Dedication is plain obvious. It's like dead on determination, a laser like focus on living by knightly values in this case. It's refusing to give up on those values no matter what as well. Being dedicated to your friends is excellent for keeping your friendships alive. Comradery is really obvious. It's standing with and being loyal to those you fight together with. That doesn't mean tolerating a comrade's hatred though, if applicable. Hatred should always be replaced with something more positive as soon as possible. That's how it goes in most cases. Fighting ability is another obvious one. It's just having solid skills for combat. It is only necessary in friendship during the following situations. You want to get stronger and train or spar with a friend. Friends make training a lot easier, it can be a lot of fun to spar with a friend. That being said, even if you can't fight very well, you still have some baseline skills. Even if they're wild or chaotic, you got something to start with at least. Saving someone in danger, friend, bystander, whoever is another situation in which fighting ability comes in handy in friendship. It's not that big of an issue here in Equestria.

You usually never fight physically here often but there are still dangerous situations that can force you to fight. Let's see. Any other situations? Probably but those are the major ones. I would say more on this friendship and knights topic but I can't be expected to think of everything you know. I've quite frankly run out of words on the topic for now. Let's move on. I'm a very creative individual which means I have other friendship lessons you may not hear that much here. It takes a lot of patience to not only be creative but spend hours and hours doing creative things. You have to have patience as I told those ponies earlier in Manehatten. Patience is at the core of doing what's right. Creating art or other things for friends requires said patience and it makes a huge impact on friendships where one friend gifts another something they made for them. Many different aspect of the creative process can aid in friendship as well." I go on until there's only 5 minutes left in the bell. "Okay, that covers just about everything I wanted to share. Do you have any questions? If not or you have more later, just talk to Starlight or Trixie or anyone else connected to Twilight and her closest friends. They'll get in touch with me for you. Im an out of worlder, I won't be here for more than a few more hours. Or at least, that's the plan." They don't have any questions at the moment. "Okay. I see. I'd give you a more direct way to contact me but such a thing is confidential information. My apologies on that end. Well, until the bell rings, we can just chat about whatever. I don't mind. Wearing my armor has helped me keep my nerves calm so I wasn't a total mess while speaking this whole time. Presentations and the like have made me nervous in the past."

The rest of the school day was basically the same lecture several times over except without the Manehatten trip part or the creepy introduction. I had lunch at Sweet Apple Acres. It was nice. When the school day was done, I began to prepare to leave The School Of Friendship when Starlight came over to me: "Hold on just a minute! I'd like to talk to you." I stop what I'm doing and turn to face her: "Not a problem. What's going on?" "Nothing much right now. I just wanted to say thank you for agreeing. The students loved the presentations you gave. They certainly learned a lot from what Trixie and I have been hearing. It'd be great if you could come over again sometime to do it again." "I'd love to. But also, I suggest you keep inviting others to present. Could have a guest speaker once a week. There are a lot of individuals in BRAINS who make great role models and can give great advice on friendship." "Actually, that's what we've been doing here for a while!" "That's great!" "I know! But there's another thing. The students were just told they will be on a break for an indefinite period of time." "Why is that?" "You know how you brought up the final confrontation with Don Thousand? Well, it's going to happen really soon based on how things are going and all of Equestria has to prepare to fight or stay here to defend or just continue living because they can't do either." "I understand. Then the meeting to hash out the plan of attack should be starting soon on the space station as in today." "That's right. I'm going to head there after I finish up in here for the day." "I'm heading there right away. We have to attack first this time. It's the only way we have a chance. The war is in its final act.

Let's hope the story ends well for us but we can't be too careful." 3 hours later, the meeting has started and ended and now, every BRAINS member is aware of what to do next. I go to Twisted Land right away once the meeting is over and use magic to project my voice like I did before the battle in Heartland City: "Attention all Wicked Parks guests. This is Swiftdrawer and we have reached the final stage of the war. Due to this, the Wicked Parks Resort will have to suspend most operations indefinitely. Once Don Thousand is defeated, it won't be long until full operations are restored. Until that happens, the hotels, restaurants, and transportation rides will remain in operation. We need as many hands on deck as possible now. Most workers who keep this resort running will be fighting in this final confrontation. Therefore, it was made obvious very quickly that most operations will have to be suspended for now. For the next hour, operations will continue as normal so be sure to get your last rides on your favorite attractions before most operations cease. This measure was planned and prepared for months in advance. If any of you have solid fighting skills, you are welcome to meet me or another significant figure in the resort to talk. We need all the help we can get but this time, we don't have time to train anyone besides in Ki suppression so if you aren't experienced in fighting, I implore you to stay here or go home. I'm very sorry to drop this on all of you but there's no other choice now. This is what we have to do to ensure our chances of victory are as high as they possibly can be. I hope you understand. I will be out and about in Twisted Land for the next hour.

This is so I can try to comfort those of you who are feeling distressed about all of this. We are living through a dangerous and terrifying time so it's to be expected for some of you to be scared." And so, I do just that for the next hour. Once most operations have been suspended, I bring along anyone who wished to come with to a secret underground area that's far below y-64 and underneath Twisted Land itself. In the area is a recently built new BRAINS base. It was built to better serve the purposes of BRAINS members living within the Minecraft world Twisted Land is located in. As well as to house a massive aircraft carrier like structure as something is under construction inside of it, far hidden from the eyes of our enemies. I teleport specifically to the under construction thing. It's a spaceship. A really big spaceship. The lead scientist of Project Time Warp Infinity spots me and yells: "Swift! Good to have you here! I see you brought along some new comrades. Good. The others should be joining us as well soon. This spaceship is nearing completion, it's certainly less technologically complicated than the time machines the team back in Sector Infinity and I had so much trouble working with in the past. It will be done in under 20 minutes." "I see. That's good to hear." I talk to the recruits I brought along about what's going on and everything they need to know in general. An hour later, boarding into the spaceship began after a successful brief but wild test flight. When I got on board, I sat down wherever I could. It didn't matter. There's screens showing the outside as well as information about the ship scattered throughout it. We can't just go into the final battle like we normally do. We have to use the best science and magic to pull off something better than just that.

This spaceship is part of the newly formed spaceship fleet for the BRAINS Collective. We have an actual fleet of spaceships now. Yeah, we had a lot of spacecraft in our possession in the past but nothing like this, even though the spacecraft we had before includes the entire fleet of spacecraft built by the Benevolent Alliance now that that entire alliance has joined BRAINS, seeing as to the fact that Count Venamous and the Creators are out of the picture again. After everyone is settled on board, take off procedures begin. A pre recorded voice speaks: "Preparing outside world for take off. Opening undersea launch hatch near Wild Waters. Opening tunnel cavern. All passengers, prepare for launch. For your safety, please remain seated with your lap bars and/or seatbelts secured and fastened to fit around you. We will reach space in just a couple of minutes. Activating invisibility cloak. Activating engines. Preparing for acceleration to Overdone Ovenzilla Speed. Wormhole to another universe: now opening beyond the Oort Cloud region of the Solar System. Target coordinates locked. Preparing course for transit to the planetary system containing Planet Tomapie. Beginning countdown until launch sequence. 20. 19. 18. 17. 16. 15. 14. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Launch sequence initialized." And with that, we were off. We zoomed through a tunnel that goes through a whole cavern underground before reaching a chamber and beginning to tilt upward as a bunch of ocean water started to flow in from above. Once the ship was straight up, it launched straight through the entire atmosphere. I barely got a glance at Twisted Land, Wild Waters, or Chaos World as we left them behind for now.

"Preparing for lunar transit. Lunar transit complete." We still can't safely stand up right now. We are speeding through the Solar System at faster and faster speeds. It didn't take long for us to go beyond Koro-sensei's current top speed of Mach 60. Before our eyes, we reached incredibly high speeds. Soon, we went past 10% light speed, which is something that is theorized to be possible with solar sails I believe. We zoomed past Mars in just a few seconds as the acceleration took us beyond light speed and then to Ridiculous Speed while passing Saturn and to Ludicrous Speed by the time we passed by Neptune. We didn't even see Pluto as we reached Overdone Ovenzilla Speed. Going through the wormhole went by in a blur too fast to make out. And then, we suddenly came to a stop as we reached the area around Planet Tomapie. Another ship soon appeared next to ours and docked with us as we began to pick up speed to about 5000 MPH. This is because the trip to the final battle isn't going to be rushed. It's going to be done cleverly. The ship is one that took off from Mii World along with several others. Soon, passengers on both of the ships were able to move freely. And so, I see Herbsalvin come to me. We kiss each other before I say: "This may be the last moments we spend with each other should the worst happen. In 2 hours, through acceleration increasing the speed of the ships again, we will enter Ovenzilla so that our ships can be covered by giant hot pocket spaceships. After that, we'll go straight to Heartland City through another wormhole."

"You're right. We've all done so much training recently to prepare for this. We shall spend the next 2 hours together. I will have to return to the other ship before we enter Ovenzilla. We are needed in different areas for the plan to work." "Yes. I hate that we won't be able to fight together unless that just kind of happens out of the blue so let's enjoy each other's company." "You have my word that I will do what I can to make these next 2 hours special for us." And so, we do in fact spend all that time together and eat food, drink, and even have sleep replacement potions to keep us awake for another 14-15 hours. There's still a shortage of the potions so we have rationing them as of late for the final battle. The battle might last days or even weeks. Or it might only last an hour. We don't know. What we do know is that our enemy Don Thousand is going to be incredibly hard to defeat. The gods are still holding back any attempts he makes to alter reality with the Numeron Code but his power only grows by the minute. That means that in time, they won't be able to stop it anymore. Herbsalvin and I share a beautiful 2 hours together. I'm not nearly the most romantic person but it was great. When the 2 hours were up, they returned to the other ship and I focused on what now lie ahead. An hour later and not only was our ship covered by a hot pocket space ship but it itself along with the rest of the BRAINS fleet were inside a massive spaceship husk designed to make it seem like we only have one ship: a ship that's slightly bigger than the Death Star. But it isn't just a mere husk. It has everything a good spaceship has.

Even crash test dummies to act as placeholders to pretend that the husk has an actual live crew when in reality, it was being controlled remotely inside the spaceship carrying the duelists of Link VRAINS. Oh and the husk itself was made impossible to be detected through any human senses as well as immune to detection through sonar, radar, magic, etc. Almost like it doesn't even exist. But still, it was up in space, above Heartland City and what surrounds it. What's more is that a false BRAINS fleet was just launched of smaller spacecraft. Thousands of them, in fact along with false big ships including a mothership. And each one was also filled with crash test dummies and remote controlled. The false fleet will unleash the first assault on the enemy. We have made it seem like the fleet contains every single BRAINS member. We want to trick our foes into thinking that once the fleet is destroyed, that means that BRAINS has been completely wiped out when that's not even close to the truth. Now that Kisuke, Ichigo, and Yuoichi have joined BRAINS, we were able to use Mod Soul technology to make mod souls of every single BRAINS member and placed the mod souls in the pockets of each crash test dummy: one mod soul per dummy. It shouldn't have been technically possible to make mod souls of anyone who isn't like those 3 but the combined knowledge of souls across BRAINS made it possible. And what's more is that the dummies even look and sound like us but they don't actually move.

Right now, a huge video call is being shared amongst all of our actual ships with us inside of them. Koro-sensei laughs: "With all of our energy signatures suppressed, not even Don Thousand will be able to realize what's really going on! I bet he thinks those crash test dummies really are all of us!" Ritsu, an AI created in Norway and originally sent to E Class to kill Koro-sensei with relentless attacks replies: "We can't let our guards down. There is a 50% chance this plan backfires on us." Anahos the Elf replies: "Im not worried! After all, the power of theme parks helped us pull off this trick even better!" I speak: "Of course you'd say that. But no matter. We have to wait for the right moment now." Before our eyes, the false fleet does a lot of damage before being destroyed. Don Thousand even projects himself to the entire multiverse with a grin on the face of his true form: "All of existence is mine. From here on out, you will all obey me." Trillions and zillions of fake number cards appear and start being sent throughout all of space-time in every universe, dimension, timeline, and so on. So what now? Well, we're going to use the giant spaceship husk to blow up Don Thousand's castle of course. It would take too much effort to try to stop all those fake numbers and we would surely fail at it. Seconds later, we're hovering above the villain's castle where he is currently laughing, thinking he has won the war. PIXAL speaks: "All weapons are locked on his castle. Preparing to fire." The husk was loaded with all kinds of weapons. Even locked away dangerous artifacts. Once the weapons begin firing, a live feed of Don Thousand's current actions show he has noticed us now. "You mortals think you have me fooled? I was prepared for something like this. You will all be-"

He is cut off as the weapons suddenly hit the castle at once extremely fast. The husk of a ship we're hidden inside is immediately teleported away to a safe enough distance. Due to the weapons all going off at the same time, all of the area that was once just known as Barian World gets flattened but starts regenerating on its own quickly. Don Thousand catches up to us and instantly destroys the husk, only to find the hot pocket spaceships our ships are inside of escaping and crashing into the landscape below. Our ships burst through those spaceships and unleash all of their payloads on a huge army of Barians that have just suddenly appeared from out of nowhere. Scores of enemies are killed in seconds but then, all of our ships get destroyed in retaliation. However, all of us got away just before that happened and organize ourselves into specialized groups as planned during the meeting earlier. I'm among those who join together as a specialized assassins group. Our first goal is to assassinate any and all commanders and others with authority amongst the enemy forces. BRAINS is structured horizontally, natural leaders do take charge in battle at times but there's no commanders or anything like that. That gives us an advantage over the enemy army whose structure relies on hierarchy. Get rid of those in power and a hierarchy generally tends to fall apart or others take over amongst the resulting chaos. Even if leaders amongst our collective fall, that doesn't mean we'll spiral into chaos. This is it. The final battle is here. And we made it begin on our terms which gives us another advantage. We're keeping our power levels hidden.

Every single individual we have here has the ability to hide their power levels now, even those I recruited in Twisted Land hours ago. They were given a crash course on the way to Ovenzilla. But before any of us could get into any assassinating, something bad happened. 2 forces of evil appeared at the same time. One was lead by The Plot who speaks coldly to everyone present: "Don Thousand stands in the way of my plans and in order to have him join me, the Annihilation Council will intervene in order to endure he fails in his plans. Once Don Thousand dies, I will bring him under my influence. There's only a few years left at most until I destroy everything in existence and replace it all with a reality that is under my control for all of eternity." The other group are the villains who had agreed to a temporary truce with the BRAINS Collective. Why are they here? To be contained in The Ultimate Interdimensional War Chapter 34..