To Reach the Lights Beyond the Heavens (High School DxD - Essence CYOA SI - FGO Reincarnation Chapter 6)

"Are you sure you are truly alright, young Michael?" The valkyrie Odul asked once more, acting more like a worried caretaker than a veteran warrior.

MHX viewed the situation with amusement, and relief that came with an Event finally ending. At least it seemed to have ended. She really hoped that the overgrown magic chicken wasn't the pawn of a larger conspiracy of farm animals.

Are the lambs and sheep secretly planning to take over this world, like that Disney movie with the bunny cop?

"Hey, hey, X, are you listening? I'm asking if you picked up any of those photonic crystals from when we crash landed on the moon once?" Nobunaga's voice interrupted MHX's train thought about Farm Animals Illuminati.

"No. Remember, you tried to do that and the whole moon started firing lasers at us." MHX replied, she had one of Michael's earbuds, that he lend her upon Nobunaga's identifying the space faring Servant, and MHX confirming that she knew the formally physical Servant, now turned A.I.

"Oh yeah, that did happen. Shame, uhh, we didn't get any of those crystals. Ha ha ha..." MHX was suddenly wary. She could imagine the eccentric Japanese Servant, looking to the side, as thought to avoid someone's eye contact.

[Searching. Searching. Contraband "Photonic Crystal" found. Item was located within jeweled box "Tamatebako", hidden within Demon Archer's quarters.] Dun Stallion spoke to MHX from the communicator hidden in her cap.

"Hey! That's invasion of privacy!"

[Smuggling of dangerous contraband that could be responsible for errors in flight path calculations and designation is a violation of safety protocols!]

As the two the Futuristic A.I. and the Servant A.I. argued MHX came to a sudden realization and wanted to facepalm.

So many random divergence in dimensional jump points makes sense now. Odds are it was the Moon Cell trying to reconnect to the lost crystal. Mysterious Heroine X thought to herself. Annoyingly persistent though. Nobu couldn't have managed to snatch that big of a piece, or is that part of the moon crystal's own property that interferes with dimensions? Gotta ask Dun Stallion to look that up later.

[Searching. Searching. Pilot, unknown cyber lifeform of possible viral origins detected. Suggestion: Immediate Termination Engaged!]

"You sneaky sunnvabitch, like hell I'll fall for you attacking and hiding it behind asking permission. Mini-Nobus, all formations attack!"

"NO-BUUU!" Hundreds of cutesy battle cries roared and many where quickly silenced, only for them to roar again, and repeat.

"Dun Stallion, you're not allowed to kill Nobunaga, she's my friend and that's an order. And Nobu, if you kill Dun Stallion we can't fly the ship." MHX shouted to the two A.I. "And I'm leaving now, as I refuse to be the adult between you two." And now that they have found their former Master, she never has to be the responsible one again. She left the two A.I. to their battle in the digitized realm, and focused on her old friend, Michael Chaser.

Even if Michael doesn't have his memories anymore. Although, Shamhat did warn that such a thing was possible, given that the sacred prostitute used her Noble Phantasm to change the Angra Mainyu's curses into blessings after Michael had already used up his memories.

As MHX approached her reincarnated former Master, and the valkyrie, she caught the current bit of their conversation.

Funny that the first magical beings we meet in this new dimension ended up being Norse. Or was it Michael's karma that attracted the Valkyrie? MHX wondered.

"...So wait, Ragnarok isn't a thing?" Michael asked, confused but relieved.

He hadn't considered the apocalypse implication with all mythologies being real. Which apocalypse scenario is suppose to happen? Michael hoped that they all already happened and thus not a concern anymore, but he didn't have anyone knowledgeable enough to ask. Well, there was the Lucifer, but he kinda forgot in the rush of everything else.

"No. Lord Odin had cancelled it centuries ago, saying he 'didn't feel like it' as the world wasn't in a state to need such an event anyways."

Ah, Whimsical Go-with-the-flow Rulers, truly the wisest of all. Thought Heroine X with a nod, then looked up to see Odul stare off into the distance for a second, with a thousand yard look of exasperation. Also the type of rulers who are the most stressful to work under, but that's not my problem.

"...Seriously?" Michael seemed to get Odul's exasperation. "Then about what the Fjalar over here?" He said, gesturing to rooster held up by it's legs in the valkyrie's hand. Fjalar was now much smaller than it was before having lost the majority of it's magical power, and was now a bit bigger than a normal sized turkey.

"'The' Fjalar? I think I like the way that sounds. From now on, I am The Fjalar, humans! Fear me!" The rooster crocked.

"Shut up, you've caused enough problems as it is." Odul swung the rooster and slammed it's head into a nearby tress making an indent in the shape of Fjalar's head.

"BAWK! Help! Help! Police brutality! Police brutality!"

Odul smacked the Norse Rooster around a few more times, to Michael's discomfort.

"Emm, maybe you shouldn't hit him too much. You might give him brain damage?"

"This damn beast has been brain damaged for a long time!" Odul growled out, but stopped all the same for the young boy's sake. "While Ragnarok is cancelled, there were many being in the Norse Pantheon that found themselves without purpose. So like this critter, they tend to cause problems every now and then."

"Ah, that makes sense." Michael nodded. "Wait, what about, I dunno, Loki or Surtr, what happens to those guys then?" He asked intrigue the outcome of those characters, given how things should have ended up for them according to the myths.

"Lord Loki has been freed for millennia now, as his sentence and fate was deem to be carried out and complete. He mostly keeps to himself, or travel the mortal realm when bored. As for Surtr, he administers his side of the Norse realm, Muspelheim, and that's about it." Odul frown, and let out a frustrated sigh of an overworked office lady. "The biggest problem is how he tends to take vacations to the north or south pole, to 'enjoy the cool weather' as he's not allowed in Jotunheim. Seriously, every time we have to try and find him quickly to mitigate the damage his visits cause, as the ice caps start melting, rising the war levels and adding to the whole global warming thing. Honestly, you'd think the leaders of the Nine Realms would be more responsible." Odul finished her rant with a huff, only to discover her audience looking at her with stunned silence.

"...What?" Michael's very sharp voice covered in disbelief made the Valkyrie flinch and look away.

"Hahahaha Busted! Busted! I'mma tell Brynhildr, I'mma tell your boss--"

SMACK!

The poor tree tree now had a full body rooster indent. It will likely seem like someone was really being fan of certain chicken serving restaurants.

"Um, please forget any of that. It will really cause problems is that information gets around." Odul looked at the young magician sheepishly.

"You want me to forget that your side of the supernatural directly caused global warming?" Michael asked with his mouth wide open.

"It's not like we're the only ones! And besides human oil companies are also to blame."

"'Not the only...'? Okay first, none of that makes it better. On anyone's side!" Michael exclaimed, putting the possible horrified realization that some, or a lot, of the environmental pollution might not be fully in humanity's hands, thus likely can't be fixed, even if they did everything right.

"Uhhh, look, you're just got started on learning magic, right? How would you like a tutor on Norse Magic?"

"You're bribing me now!?"

MHX looked at the arguing magician and valkyrie in relaxed amusement. She could also hear the argument between her ship and Nobu from her earbud.

[A.I. Servants as a concept is redundant and unoriginal. Suggestion: Self-Deletion]

"Silence, you failed waifu simulator!"

"...Yeah," MHX muttered to herself. Chaos caused by Nobunaga being herself, while Michael getting into shady deals with mythical beings, and she being along for the ride, while occasionally killing Sabers, saving people and maybe helping Britain. "I am home."

AN: I'm using this version of Shamhat in this story.