A Collection Of Other Adventures

Gear Upgrade Time

Date: December 9th, 2023

This is a day in my interdimensional life. I didn't sleep again. I drank a sleep replacement potion so I don't need to sleep again just yet. Before starting my morning routine, I returned to the base in bad shape. Let me rewind to that. Why? Because it was the final straw that pushed me to insist on getting my armor upgraded with futuristic technology. You see, I had narrowly escaped the obliteration of an entire solar system. It was an intense and painful battle. I was completely drained of mana not to mention physically exhausted with my armor banged up and my body covered in wounds. War hurts like hell, the pain of it is something I don't have the skill to come even close to truly describe. Some of my comrades happened to be near the spot I ended up in the base. They hear the faint teleport sound that is usually not even audible. They turn and give concerned looks. I beat them to speaking first: "I am as dead as a zombie like me can get without my body parts scattered all over the place. Everything hurts. I need help for dealing with all of this. I am not okay." Barla replies: "Swiftdrawer! You look horrible!" "If I weren't still undead, I'd have died from the injuries I have by now.." Without another word, Barla starts trying her best to help me out by healing me. With the help of a few others, I was pretty much restored to normal. Even my armor was repaired. I end up hugging all of them because what I went through was excruciating beyond words and I just needed to do that.

Bray looks at me in concern: "Swiftdrawer, you're much better now but are you really okay on the inside?" "I don't know. At this point, I just want to experience my normal routine. But at the same time, I think it's time for my gear as well as even my cape to get upgraded with advanced technology and magic. Our enemies keep getting tougher and tougher. And the rate at which my stats increase currently isn't fast enough to keep up." "Then, you must become the next BRAINS member to have their gear upgraded. I shall inform the others who are also involved in the process of making that happen. Let's head to the space station in a little while." "Okay. Thank you. I'm still processing what happened to me. There's no way I can go back there to fight considering how beat up I was after narrowing escaping with my form in some semblance of a good shape. I'm going to need a little time alone before we go there." "I see. Everyone, please return to whatever you were planning on doing. I shall take things from here." They nod and split up. Meanwhile, Bray stays in place and pulls out her phone. Meanwhile, I head to the library for some peace and quiet. Instead of picking up a book, I just pull out my sword, hug it tightly, and think to myself. "It's a good thing we have all kinds of things that allow me to do things like sleep in my armor without any problems. No beds getting broken by the weight of my armor. No uncomfortably hot nights of sleep. No rust on my gear. I'm one of the only individuals who wears armor almost all the time at this point."

"It's not something I do in my world given how long it takes to put on my armor there as well as other things such as the fact that I don't know exactly how to keep all of my metal armor as well as steel swords in superb shape when I'm in my original body yet." After some time, Bray finds me in the library and asks: "Swiftdrawer, are you ready to go?" I nod and stand up while continuing to hug Graceful Protector: "Aye. I've sorted things out enough now. Let's waste no time." She nods. And so, we teleport to the space station which is currently orbiting Tomapie of all places. Once there, we both knew where to go: the laboratory. There, various high level mages as well as many of the brightest minds in BRAINS are already gathered. They're currently in the process of upgrading someone else's gear. Dominic spots us and waves us in. We enter. Dr. K speaks first: "Nice of you to drop in at a very good time. We're almost finished with this set of gear. I was surprised when I was asked to help upgrade gear I had only ever seen before in fantasy media before not even that long ago! Who knew that my mind was considered crucial to the process of upgrading this gear. Now who does it belong to again? Let me think.. Oh right, that Integrity Knight. Alice. I find her to be quite charming, I must admit." Gelina speaks: "Bray, you've brought Swiftdrawer I see. Good. Once we're finished with Alice's gear, we'll start on theirs. I hope you'd be willing to join us in helping upgrade their gear as well as the gear of others. After all, we're now beginning to really advance everyone's gears now."

"An intriguing offer I would have accepted already if there wasn't business to take care of. As long as I have nothing else to take care of, I shall help out here for now on." 30 minutes later, someone contacts Alice so she can retrieve her gear. She arrives soon after with Kirito. Kirito says: "Hey. I figured I should come with Alice since I.. kind of forgot to pick up my upgraded gear." Alice laughs: "Silly Kirito." Bulma laughs: "It's about time you showed up, Kirito! Don't worry! Someone's already getting all of it for you. We had to move your gear aside to work on Alice's." After they get their gear and leave, the intellectuals turn towards Bray and I. Twilight Sparkle smiles: "Swiftdrawer, what would you like to be done to your gear?" "I would like for my gear to be given nanobots and/or spells that allow them to self regenerate. With the exception of my armor of course because it can already do that. Actually, please add that to my armor too. The self healing it has already doesn't really kick in often. I'm not really sure what else I'd like.. Let me think.. Well, I'd like all of my gear to to be increased in durability. Honestly, something I never paid much attention to is the weak spots that my gears have even now. Fixing those would do wonders. My armor already covers my entire body front to back, side to side, and head to toe so there's no issue there. But it would help if the leather straps were made sturdier but easier to work with in case the enemy tries to break them. No foe has tried that yet due to the difficulty in targeting the straps but still."

Ghost Gal replies: "Is there anything else you can think of?" "Well, I'd like some surprises of course. But it would really help if even my cape got upgraded. I don't want it to be used against me ever again. If it could be made to not flow as much during battle, I'd be more willing to start wearing it over my armor in battle again. *pulls out a non binary cape* I'm going to start wearing this as a cape that hangs from the waist for now on. I'd like it upgraded too. Anyway, some kind of high tech barrier as well as a magical one being created around my armor would be fantastic, especially if they could self regenerate as well. I don't want my boots to have an upgrade that allows them to function as rocket boots though. Actually, scratch that. Please add some speed upgrades to my boots that could allow me to better handle falling from a high place or run faster. For my gloves, I want the leather in them to be further reinforced but at the same time, made more comfortable. If all my gear could get shock absorbing things, that would help a lot. I don't care how much heavier my armor becomes after the upgrades. Speaking of it, more padding on the inside as well as a better built in cooling system is something I really need. For my sword and daggers, if it's possible to make them stay sharp for longer, please make that happen. Adding leather around their hilts is something I've also wanted for a while. They'll be easier to use with the friction between them and my gloves reduced. Oh yeah and I need to have all of the leather in my gear changed to better hold in moisture so it doesn't really ever dry out. Hmm.. What else? I know! An enemy detection system! I don't always see the enemy before they see me and strike."

I take a deep breath before continuing: "The ender pouch is fine as it is. My guns could use some work on their efficiency and explosive power. Or laser power. I think that's it. I really do think so. Am I going to remember all of the upgrades? No. It will take time to really see them come into effect. Oh, one last thing. I don't want a voice for the enemy detection system. Just some kind of outline appearing my vision of enemies I can't see will do fine. We have to pull all of the stops to improve everyone's gears. Please take good care of my gear." They all nod. Biara speaks: "We have made note of everything. Please begin handing your gears over to us by placing them on any of the tables in this laboratory. As you spoke, this lab was sterilized and sanitized throughly." I nod and start by placing Graceful Protector down as I had still been hugging it to begin with. Next, I put down my daggers, guns, shield, bow, and arrows down. I undid the belt around my waist and placed it down too. I temporarily removed my Quantum Leap band and duel disk after that. When I did, I said: "Oh, could my duel disk be modified to not only blend well with my armor but look ancient/knightly while maintaining its high level of technology?" Reiji adjusts his glasses: "I will lead the efforts on that specific project." Next, I detached my knight visor from my helmet and placed it down. The helmet and shoulder armor came off after that. Then, I took my cape off of myself and placed the non binary cape I brought down along with it. Of course, the tabard style cloth I had on came off with the belt. My bracers and chestplate were after that. Right after I removed the plate around my lower back and belly, I easily took my tassets off. The greaves and boots were the last pieces to be removed. I'm not nude even with all of that removed as I'm still wearing my knight robes.

Bray speaks to me: "Swiftdrawer, you are free to go. Don't forget to hold onto your band and ender pouch though. We'll contact you as soon as the upgrades are all finished. This will be an intriguing process." I retrieve those things and nod: "Okay, I'll wait for your good news." I teleport back to Mii World, go to my shared room with Herbsalvin, and decide to finally begin my morning routine. Once the portion that's done there is finished, instead of getting breakfast right away, I choose to do something else first. "It's interesting how moving around as my virtual avatar in the physical multiverse is more stable if I dive into a VR game first. So I'm going to do that. Link start." With the Quantum Leap bands now containing the Full Dive technology at the same level as the STLs, that makes things a lot more interesting. I log into ALO and find myself where I last was: a Sylph town. "Now then, it's time to do something a little different this time. While dived in, I was fall asleep and go into DHI state. Honestly, that's an easier way to move around as my avatar in the physical multiverse than teleporting back to it first in terms of energy consumption and all that. Having the DHI tech in our hands will soon make a big difference in the war." I go to the house in ALO that I jointly bought with some others and go to sleep in one of its rooms by taking advantage of a sleeping potion that was added to the game after the Infinityverse Incident." With its help, I fall asleep in the game and wake up in Mii World in the base in my virtual avatar made physical and everything.

"Oh yeah. It worked. Now I can carry out my day with the virtual copies of all of my gear on my person so I don't have to worry about a sudden enemy attack that only targets me for some reason. Or not being able to sword train at all today." And so, I walk to the cafeteria, get a large meal again(yes, it will transfer to my physical body thanks to some complicated modifications to the link between the physical and virtual body as well as the link between the virtual body and the DHI. I sat down at a table with my food where there were a good number of my comrades hanging out and stuff. Barla greets me: "Hey Swiftdrawer! I see you're using the DHI stuff while your physical gear gets upgraded! Hell yeah!" "Aye. And I'm glad I'm doing so because it would suck if I had to go a day without being able to use my sword to train or fight. That and I prefer wearing my armor over anything else. In my opinion, armor is the best clothing. It's usually function over form and that's why I like it so much. That and you can make armor look amazing without sacrificing any of the function. Case in point: all the armor of armored fighters in BRAINS." "Hell yeah! Armor rules!" Myself and the others have pleasant conversations and soon, breakfast is over. I spot Yappa Yappa and go over to him: "Yappa Yappa, how are you today?" "I want to kill!" "Still working on that. Okay, why don't you do something else other than kill?" "Like what?!" "A horror game." "Do I get to kill in it?!" "Yes but you can get killed too. Or rather, the kills are just knock outs that feel like kills. Although, if you fail enough times, you will actually die and have to start all over. Follow me. You still don't know where everything is at in here. I'll lead you to the gaming room which has recently undergone an expansion."

I lead him to a PC in that room, boot it up, and say: "The devices in this room all have the games that we know of that were released for their platforms. I'm going to set you up on playing through the Evil Nun games." "Evil Nun? Sounds fun!" "She'll be after you." "Then I will kill her! Kill her!" After setting him up to play those games, I say goodbye to him and head to the training ground closest to the gaming room. Once inside, I get ready to practice with not a wooden dummy but a solid bone dummy as bone is pound for pound stronger than steel. The bones that make it up have less than wholesome origins. They're the bones of some of the scummiest enemies encountered by various BRAINS members. But before I get a single hit on it, Alice teleports in: "Swiftdrawer! I've found you! You weren't in ALO or GGO. I challenge you to a duel! Raise your sword!" "You're on. I like sparring a lot after all. Let's go." And so, we duel with our swords. We put our hearts into it and push each other as much as we can. I may have more combat experience and strength but she has the advantage of being able to easily use Divine Arts as well as the things that allow her to unleash the full power of her sword. That and she's gained a lot of experience since the first time she had any contact with any BRAINS member in Equestria. Our duel lasted 2 hours. I won but honestly, I'm not a giant ahole. Alice pants: "Well done. You have defeated me. I shall work harder for now on in order to win next time we face each other in combat!" "You were great too. That was a good fight. I had to hold back so I wouldn't destroy this room but it was worth it in the end. I think I'm going to spar with Goku now. A spar with him is equal to a day's training or more for me due to the vast difference in our respective power levels."

"Very well. I shall face him myself soon as well." And so, I teleport to Beerus's Planet and find Goku sparring with Vegeta as usual. Whis is watching. He senses me and greets me: "Hello there, Swiftdrawer. What brings you here today?" "I'm here to spar with Goku." "Very well. You're just in time. Goku and Vegeta are about to finish their current fight." Once that's finished, Vegeta scoffs as Goku's smile: "Kakarot. You never learn to take training seriously." "Relax, Vegeta! I'll get serious when it's the only way but otherwise, I'm going to have so much fun!" "Damn you! That's not the point! The point is that our enemies keep getting stronger and more threatening!" I interrupt: "Sorry to butt in but I'm here to spar with Goku. Don't beat me too quickly, Goku. You had better wear me out all the way before you beat me. I need some good training and sparring with you is one of the best ways I can train to grow stronger." "Oh, sure! It'll be more fun that way! I'm ready, Swiftdrawer! Are you?!" "I am so ready. But are you sure you don't need a rest or anything? I'm looking for a challenge. You being exhausted while fighting me isn't exactly much of a challenge, is it?" "Oh, don't worry! *pulls out a cup of hot chocolate and downs it all* A hot chocolate machine Bulma made a few days ago has allowed me to be able to drink this restorative hot chocolate! It's absolutely delicious!" "I see. Alright then. En garde!" Goku readies his fists. I pull out Graceful Protector from its scabbard and get into the right stance. And so, our spar begins. It lasts only an hour because Goku is seriously so much stronger than I am. But it was a really good workout for me. Panting heavily, I exclaim: "I can barely feel my muscles move at all! All the feeling in them has been temporarily lost. All I can feel is the aches and the muscles burns right now! Thank you so much, Goku! I'm going to have lunch soon back in Mii World to help me recover from that!" "Anytime, Swiftdrawer!"

Shortly thereafter, I start reading a spell book in the library before getting some lunch. That helped restore me fully other than some aches and stuff. To think that even the DHI's All Clear would only end up increasing my battle time with Goku by 2-5 minutes.. That's pretty nuts. I had a massive lunch which is pretty normal for me. A whole lot of plant based meat was included as well as a whole bunch of oranges. Their peels were so easy to remove for me. Can't go wrong with fresh oranges. The glasses of water I had to mostly help recuperate from the intense sparring were cold, fresh, refreshing, and free of any chemicals. With lunch done, I return to reading that spell book in the library. Without me knowing, Andromeda walks in, jumps into my lap, and curls into a ball of floof. I smile when I feel them: "Oh Andromeda. You are always so cute and precious." The wolf puppy yawns and shuts their eyes: "Looks like someone is very sleepy. Alright, you can sleep in my lap." I get back to reading as they quietly sleep in my lap. "So this is a wind spell. With my affinity for wind being established, I shouldn't have much problem learning this spell. It's a pressurized ball of air, much like the Rasengan which I hope to learn eventually. Due to the limits on my chakra caused by the fact I'm literally dead, my Sharingan can only be active for so long. If it weren't for that, I would have asked to observe all kinds of jutsu in order to copy it all by now. However, there's also the problem that even if I copy a jutsu, I won't be able to perform it perfectly without practice." For a couple more hours, I study some of the spells in the spell book. I only stop when I feel Andromeda move again. They wake up, leap out of my lap, and start running around excitedly. "I guess you want to play, huh? Okay but I won't be able to play with you for too long. I have some things I need to take care of and you so happened to wake up in time."

I put the spell book in my ender pouch for now. I then play with the wolf puppy for about 15 minutes. Stroking their fur, scratching their ears, playing fetch, the works. "Aww Andromeda, you are so much like a dog when you're playful. It's so adorable." They blush. I pet them again as I add: "I have to go now. Find someone else to play with. I'm sure there's someone you will. Try Yappa Yappa. It would be a good experience for him." Andromeda nods and runs off. "Alright, time to get ready for an interesting adventure. Chocolate and I were invited to a far off universe to participate in an exhibition jousting match for something. Still not exactly much of a jouster but I've gotten better over time at using my spear. Oh crap, I think I will forget to mention I placed down my spear back in the lab. I know I forgot to request upgrades to be made to it since I never use it for battle. It's usually only for jousting and to serve as yet another symbol of my knightly honor." I find Chocolate and teleport with her to that universe with my virtual spear in hand. The physical version is actually based on it: not the other way around. I originally got it in a side quest in Aincrad. Then, I had Lisbeth help me modify it and everything. The tip is white while the rest of it is an abstract mixture of red and black. We teleport straight to the site chosen for the joust. Everything is set up. Someone's squire comes up to us and says: "Are you Lord Swiftdrawer and Chocolate?" We nod but I say: "Please drop the 'Lord' thing. It's just Swiftdrawer." "Very well. The audience will be here soon. Please follow me to the chamber we have prepared for you. Thank you for accepting. We have heard of the deeds you and your many friends have done even here. This match will be a symbol of the peace we have established in this world of ours. We would also like to join Infinity which we ended up learning of if that isn't too much to ask."

"Alright. Yeah, you can join Infinity. Or that's what I'd say if it weren't a dummy entity. Let's talk about that after the match. For now, please lead us to that chamber." "Of course. Right this way. I should mention we chose to invite you because we heard you survived what happened in another universe not too long ago and you seemed the easiest to reach." "I see. So you wanted to test me out, huh?" We are led to the chambers. There's plenty of food for both of us as well as other things. I start eating some of that food: "Don't mind if I do." The world is a medieval fantasy world but with magic that can connect it to distant dimensions. Once it's time for the joust, our opponents are introduced as the squire comes back to us. "Attention, your presence is requested outside immediately. The match is about to begin." We nod. Chocolate and I walk together, side by side. Once we step outside, the jester announcer announces us: "And our champion's opponent, one of many powerful heroes we have heard of from throughout the multiverse, Swiftdrawer! And it seems they have chosen to walk alongside their noble steed, Chocolate into the arena! Now how is that for a twist?! Give them a round of applause!" I mount Chocolate and shout: "Thanks for having us! Let's begin! Let us see what your best has to offer! I've recovered more than enough from an intense sparring session for this!" "In this match, there will be 5 rounds. The best of 5 win. Is everyone ready?! *confirmation is expressed* Let the joust begin!"

It was a good joust to say the least. Honestly, jousts are a perfect example of what fighters would ideally be doing if it weren't for conflict and war. People should only need to fight with weapons for fun. But no, that's not how it works in most known universes. Anyway, I focused on my reflexes as well as my spear thrusting. I trusted Chocolate to be in perfect sync with me. Our opponents put up a good fight. For those of you who don't know, a joust is usually performed between 2 knights, their spears, and their horses. The knights aim to knock each other down with their spears as their horses move forward. They start at opposite ends of the arena and head for one another. Blocking with your spear is a strategy to win. You need to put in substantial force to knock your opponent down in a joust of course. We won the joust after a tie breaking 5th match. "And we have a winner! Swiftdrawer and Chocolate have defeated our champion!" I give a speech, shake hands with the other knight, and get them, their horse, and other key figures to secretly join BRAINS as representatives of their world. With that done, I'm called by Bray to travel to the Sector Infinity of the future. I do so after awaking in ALO and then returning to my undead body and teleport straight there with Chocolate who followed me back to Mii World. I remark: "So this is the Sector Infinity my imagination took influence from to help me create Twisted Land's area of the same name which tells the story of this very city. Well, not the entire thing. Not yet at least." The streets are full of lush grass. Jetpacks, flying cars, spaceships, Ki based flying, a Peoplemover like tracked transportation system, sidewalks, bikes, motorcycles, buses, a subway system, portals, wormholes, teleport pads, hot pocket spaceships, boomtubes, and more all exist as methods of transportation.

I find Bray nearby, standing outside a restaurant called Neutrino's. Chocolate and I walk to the sage. She smiles: "Swiftdrawer, I see you brought Chocolate. I called you here because we realized that we needed the resources and tech of this city to help us upgrade gear faster and more effectively." "Okay then. Take us to where you're all hard at work. I'm guessing my gear is finished being upgraded?" "It's almost done. It's just next door. No need to worry yourself about running into any future versions of ourselves. We chose this location to avoid that." "That's good." There's some other things I'd like to note about Sector Infinity. By this point in time, robots and alien silverfish had separately invaded and taken over the entire city. But they eventually fell. Twisted Land's Civilian Robot Slaughter Starring You, Our Invaders, Escape From Evil: Underground Bunker Adventure, Sector Infinity Mission Control(I think that's the haunted house's name), and Robot Takeover express those events. There's also the regularly held Technology Showcase in the heart of the city as well as frequent missions to explore the entire universe, the lab where Project Time Warp Infinity succeeded, other Neutrino's locations, and more. The city is currently moving past Jupiter or whatever equivalent exists in this Minecraftian universe as it itself has become a moving city run communally as an anarchist society. Bray gets us into the building with ease. "Just wait here for 20 minutes. Your gear will be ready to go then."

"Alright. We can wait. Right, Chocolate?" She neighs in agreement. I then get a message from Herbsalvin asking me to come to an unstable wild western world to help calm things down as soon as I got all of my gear back. "Well, Chocolate. Would you care to come with me to a really wild western world after this?" "Yes, I would like to go there." "Good because it sounds really dangerous and some help is seriously needed to help with dealing with its problems." As promised, my gear is finished 20 minutes later. Ghost Gal says as a rolling table with all of my gear on it is sent to me by a droid: "It is complete. We have upgraded every single piece of your gear as requested with more than a few surprises for you to discover. I will tell you one of them for free. You don't have to do something for me to learn it from me. Your gear is outfitted with anti-hacking and anti-viral systems as well as coding. Just in case. That will help you out a lot, hun. Oh btw, we're about to begin upgrading Asuna's gear. Just wanted to tell you that so you know how quickly we're working through the process." I nod and thank her before putting everything where it belongs. The last thing I put on is the non binary cape. I use my waist belt to hold it in place. After that, I said goodbye to everyone before teleporting to the western world with Chocolate. Herbsalvin and some others are waiting for us. The pegasus knight hugs and kisses me before saying: "Excellent. Everyone is here now." They gesture to the western town behind us where chaos is widespread. There's buffalo stampeding, demolishing buildings in the process. Sheriffs and outlaws are constantly firing their guns at each other. A saloon loses its front side in a massive bar fight. Cacti is growing and spreading out of control. Some pyromaniacs are burning things as well as setting off boxes of dynamite.

The sounds of a piano being played are somehow still heard in part because of the dramatic and chaotic music being expressed by the pianist. Some cattle are on the loose, running into people and buildings as the people taking care of them chase after them. The horses of the town are terrified and screaming and moving wildly. A horse drawn carriage crashes into the entrance of a mine just after a bunch of feuding miners exit it while hitting each other with their iron pickaxes. Meanwhile, the indigenous people are on the outskirts of the town, waiting to begin their revolt to drive the settlers away. I speak: "Okay, is this happening all over this world?" "Yes. I'm afraid so. We are only a few of those who were sent here to resolve this." "Hmm. I personally think we should help the indigenous people take back their land and from there, work with them cut a deal with the settlers if they still want to live here so badly." No one objects to that. I then calmly remark: "Supporting and helping them here is the least I can do. After all, if it weren't for the westward expansion of the United States in the 1800s, I would not exist as a person. That may sound impossible but it isn't. How? Why don't I explain as we prepare to work with the indigenous people? *the others nod* Okay, it's complicated. If it weren't for that westward expansion which 'required' the killing and destruction of native territories and tribes, the city I live in wouldn't have been founded in the first decade of the 1800s. No Cincinnati means the ancestors of mine who moved to the United States and whose procreation eventually led to my birth wouldn't have met and fallen in love. That would mean at least 2 or 3 generations of my family before me would have never been born. In my world, I live on stolen land and have so many things indigenous people don't have simply because I'm white and part of a white family who has been in Ohio for some generations."

With that all said and what not, we talk to the indigenous people right outside of the western town and come to an agreement. We'll help unconditionally as long as they accept our help. They accepted it. It didn't take long to defeat all of the settlers. None of them stood a chance. Their mayor and the commanding sheriff surrender to us. The settlers are forced to move much closer to their homeland. Us BRAINS members helped them do that as well as spread anarcho-socialist ideas to them to encourage the development of a commune. We also helped them resolve all of their foolish feuds, stopped the wild cacti growth, and more. We repeated this a few times around the world until we found out that the world had now become a lot more stable. With that done, Herbsalvin speaks: "We have done it and there are no active missions that require our help at the moment." Thus, we all end up splitting up to go our own ways. Chocolate speaks to me: "I wish to go to a tropical world to relax." Herbsalvin adds: "I wish that as well. Let's go to one, Swiftdrawer." "Aye. I think we all know that one tropical world where no nation has tried to take over indigenous lands as impossible as that sounds. That will be a perfect place to go. The industrialized nations there have long incorporated eco and nature conscious things into their technology. Most buildings are covered in grass with trees planted on top. The people there must have assassinated a lot of power hungry and greedy scumbags to make that happen. If they never had greedy scum push for industrialization or never needed to assassinate such scum because they never caused trouble, that would probably mean their social nature would be far too different from ours for the fact that there's industrialized nations to make sense. Nations are usually built on blood, war, and conquest."

With that said, we teleport to a nice uninhabited island on that world. A number of other comrades end up joining us there. Carlos complains: "There's nothing to do here!" I almost fall over due to the increase in my armor's weight. It has gone from 900 to 1100 pounds. Does it look much bulkier now? No, not at all. The additional padding and other things were cleverly designed to not increase that bulkiness at all. Herbsalvin asks: "Are you okay?" "I am. But Carlos is right. It'd be nice to go to an ethically constructed tropical resort or something on land that wasn't taken from indigenous people." GADGET appears: "I have pinpointed the locations of 20 places within 200 kilometers that fit that criteria." We teleport to the nearest one and immediately fall in love. "Look at this! It has everything but without the exploitation! According to our intel, this place is a worker run society! It's communal and they have no need for money here. I wonder what they'll think of us when we enter the main building: the hotel/apartment complex." I'm actually excited as you can see. We spend the rest of the day and much of the night there. It was so much fun. The dinner they served was amazing. Tropical fruits were plentiful all around. Even some oranges were there. I really enjoyed those as oranges truly are my favorite fruit. We also did all sorts of other fun things. Testing out my upgraded gear in sparring sessions, going on slides, swimming in wave pools with huge waves, building chaotic sand castles, chilling by the sea, karaoke, listening to bards perform with cyborgs and Death Metal musicians, splashed with water guns and other things, went on a lazy river, climbed palm trees, explored caves, and more.

We didn't stay any longer because all of our marks started hurting at the same time. Barla exclaims: "What the hell is going on?!" Yappa Yappa laughs: "You're all in pain! This is so much fun to watch!" "Settle down, Yappa Yappa. It seems like we have a huge problem on our hands." A telepathic message gets transmitted to all of us: "Attention all BRAINS members. This is an emergency mission. The rating is 30. The highest rating on the recently adopted scale. All current missions are to be suspended if at all possible. If not, replacements will be sent to continue them in your place. We need all BRAINS members on hand immediately except for those who are on mission freezes, please keep that in mind. While this mission is not mandatory, we are asking all BRAINS members to accept it. If we do not get enough members to accept it, we will have to try harder to convince more of them. If that does not work, the entire multiverse will fall to One Supreme World in little time at all. I want to repeat: this is an emergency mission. The mission details are as follows: One Supreme World continues to subjugate more universes. However, their efforts have abruptly shifted towards focusing on the Dreamverse where all dream worlds and dimensions exist as well as invading the minds of sleeping life forms across the multiverse. We have confirmation that they plan to brainwash all life forms into serving Don Thousand and giving them Barian power to quickly corrupt every single universe through their dreams. This is not a drill. All members who accept this mission will need to fall asleep immediately by any means necessary. Experts in dreams and any part of the Dreamverse are already standing by to aid you all in entering the Dreamverse with your consciousnesses." The message is repeated one more time. Herbsalvin speaks: "We all must return to our beds immediately in our respective universes."

I nod: "Yes, you are right. This is no time for fun. We all drank sleep replacement potions a couple of hours ago. The only way we'll fall asleep now is with magic. Spells, potions, whatever. The situation represents amongst the greatest singular threats we've ever faced. I don't know about most of you but there's no way I'm declining this mission. To tell y'all the truth, I thought this situation would have happened sooner and be less of a crisis than it has turned out to be." We all teleport back to our respective universes immediately. Herbsalvin and I rush to our room after grabbing 2 sleeping potions. One for each of us. Once inside, we just crash into the bed, get settled, drink the potions, kiss each other, and get ready to fall asleep. At first, I had no control over anything I saw after we fell asleep. I saw a weird dream where I was late to work due to going to some school for some reason. But that wasn't the only dream. Far from it. It's like I was seeing some of the "greatest hits" of my past dreams. Several dreams of furry conventions that don't exist in my universe where my mom or brother showed up in each dream one time or another. One even contained a whole lot of hallways within the hotel room space featuring walkways to go to one area to the next. After that, the Six Flags Magic Mountain dream I had twice where there was a weird and dark FNAF area within it, far from the rest of the park. And here's some of the rest of the dreams I saw. The dream where a grassy field turned into a convention center or something with me in it as it just turned into that and furries just showed up. My brother and I think my mom as well were also there.

Here's a few more with the descriptions I originally typed for them after I originally dreamt them. Scare actors watching something with the crowd before disappearing and being replaced by more of the crowd. Accidentally mistaking a place for another place. Extremely immersive haunted attraction with Sci fi level tech that opens the exit. Someone wearing a big and bulk mechanical hand and arm in their right arm and hand before it malfunctions and hurts someone else. Loved ones randomly showing up at house, even on a bed before 8:30 when it shouldn't be so bright out. Dudes working at a supermarket and hitting shelves to try to get customers to come to the store. Bunch of kids at a school discovering stairs to get down in place of elevators due to crowds only to fall and bunch up together. Cheerleaders: "we are superior" to a bunch of people wearing weird masks with yellow something's that cause most of them to have their energy sucked away by the cheerleaders all asking each one a interest of theirs. I'm immune due to trying not to think and having so many interests. Somehow a fire burnt nearly every part of The Beast at Kings Island, took down 7 other coasters with it, and destroyed nearly everything in Soak City. Dad and I drive around so I can look and get pictures of the destruction and rebuilding. Later, we arrive to some strange amusement park with Carowinds and Canada's Wonderland signs around, like it's a combination of Cedar Fair parks.

Dream of another vacation with my brother and mom. We end up getting this heavily padded on the inside and virtually invisible car that is unaffected by bumping into another car. We end up going to the hotel room and there's a giant dinosaur or something rampaging outside.. Weird trip to a beach or something where my siblings and I explore around, finding an off limits forest area and eventually ending up high in the air, looking down at mountains. Dream where spirits are awakened with one being the queen and set to cause problems. However, the queen rebels against someone else who wants her to cause problems and goes with a woman into a car only for a man to just flick her out. However, a pointed vehicle later almost kills me, injuring my leg and neck. I see this in 3rd person as a man in some house rushes out to save my life. By some miracle, I am saved and left with just a nasty cut on my left leg. I'm taken to this area where there's 2 hot tub style pools. In one of them, my mom is there and talks to me about things like being saved. After sometime, the man comes back in to use the bathroom, my mom tells him that he ain't ready to see me naked in the hot tub pool. I suspect healing magic helped save me along with that man and that was a reference to homosexuality post-dream. Soon after that, I'm all good to go. The man tells me this and lets me eat 2 or 3 pancakes that he made that are floating in the hot tub pool for some reason. Guess he likes his pancakes soggy with hot water. I liked them and soon got out, thanking him for apparently giving me a place to stay for sometime. The dream ends and I suspect my mom left the bathroom pool area with me.

Another weird vacation dream where I'm told to sit on the other side than usual in the car to smell for wolves. We head north towards Columbus when we stop and almost end up trekking through a forest to another highway but I point out how pointless that would be so we just go back to the car. Mom asks: "Are you ready to ride some roller coasters?" In reference to Cedar Point. I express my excitement and we think fondly of some roller coasters that no longer exist that we went on such as a snowman coaster. Eventually, the terrain changes to a savannah and we start heading west. I have weird dreams. To be continued in The Ultimate Interdimensional War Chapter 10..