A Collection Of Other Adventures

A Really Sick Day

Date: November 25th, 2024

After having to call off work in my other body during a day of agonizing illness and emotional breakdowns, I went to sleep and crossed over into my zombie body. When I woke up in it, something way too familiar was felt in my throat. "..How is this happening.. How did I get sick in this body.. *notices stuffy nose* No no no no no.. Not here too.." Hearing my distress, Herbslavin wakes up, takes one look at me as I blow my nose with a tissue from a tissue box near our shared bed, and speaks as I deposit a now snot covered tissue into a matter converting trash can we have in our room once I press the button to activate it: "Swift, you don't look so good, my dark knight. *removes helmet in order to wear a N95 mask before putting helmet back on* I'll bring you breakfast. Stay here, it is not safe to have you go out of our room in your condition. I shall get you your favorites for breakfast or more importantly, your favorite foods that can help get through that vile illness that has somehow taken up residence in your body despite all of our efforts to ward off malicious diseases. You have my word that we're going to conquer this together and I will ensure I didnt catch what you have or had it before spreading it to you. Swift, you need to lay back down. But you have to remove your armor first." I sigh and let out a weak hushed reply: "Okay... Thank you.." As someone who has suffered a lot from illness in my original body, I was genuinely terrified of what this illness was doing and going to do to me. Herbsalvin uses their eyes and eyebrows to indicate that theyre smiling at me below the N95 mask before walking out of our bedroom and closing the door behind them.

Upon reluctantly removing my beloved armor, cape, loincloth, and so on and putting everything into my inventory, I realized there was more to my suffering than just 2 symptoms. Despite removing all of my armor and thus feeling immensely lighter, looser, and faster, my muscles ached and hurt. My legs were shaking. My breathing was uneven. I had a pounding headache, lower back pain, and more. I lay down onto the bed and only feel my pain even more. I cant even lightly sword train in my condition, I feel completely horrible. My chest is even hurting. I attempted to calm my breathing by pressing down in between the 2 parts of my collarbone but its only somewhat effective. This is almost exactly like what Ive been dealing with my other body except worse. My muscles are starting to yearn for training but I cant train in my condition. This shouldnt even be possible. The Miitopia BRAINS base has just about every anti-illness precaution you could think of: clean air through the likes of HEPA filters, UV lights, personal air purifiers, spaced out seating in the cafeteria(not entirely spaced out though), regular sanitation efforts to curb illness spread through touch, required wearing of N95s and/or anti-illness forcefields outside of when eating, drinking, and being in our respective rooms(was collectively voted on and passed almost unanimously). These measures have gone into place a lot more in recent months to curtail any future illness spread problems.

Something isnt right. Something isn't right at all and I dont just mean my body in its condition. My lower back seriously hurts which just isnt normal. It hurts even more in this body than the other body I have. Its like the symptoms I have there are just turned up a notch or two in this body. I cant believe how sore my throat is. And I just want to close my eyes which hurt due to my massive headache. I have never experienced an illness this bad in this body but have in my other body. But never have I really ever struggled so much with eye pressure like this during illness. This is horrifying. I cant even think straight about anything that requires some effort for me to think about. My creative thinking is all but shut off due to my headache. Everything going on beyond the room is leaving my current awareness. The suffering is so bad that I cant even think about much of anything else unless I have some kind of distraction to look at. I was barely able to do anything with this kind of illness when I was back in my other body. My least productive day in so many regards in years if not longer. I have been able to write tens of thousands of words while sick but I could barely manage 2000. I am getting really worried, all of the agony is so hard to deal with. I don't even have the energy or motivation to go into my inventory and grab my sword to have it with me by my side. My energy to do just about anything is already gone. The headache is draining my energy with how annoying and pounding it constantly is despite the very soft pillow my head is now resting on as I lay in bed in agony. My breathing is only more stable because Im laying down.

I start coughing and it only makes me feel worse. This didnt happen with my illness in my other body. What the hell is going on? What's happening to me? My emotions only worsen as my suffering increases. I cant even get up to pick up a book from our new small bookshelf to read and finish before returning it to the library in this base. I dont have the motivation to. I only have the energy to watch something, eat, and do basic things like brushing my teeth and use the bathroom. Thats it. All my thoughts become about my worsening emotions as I panic. "How.. will I be able to help anyone in the state Im in? This silence is hurting my mental stability! I need to listen to something!" Fortunately, a few minutes later, Herbsalvin returns with a few close friends. Dominic speaks: "Good morning, friend. We're here to help you as well. *yawns* Before you eat breakfast, we're going to need a sample of the infection from you." Herbsalvin places what they got for me down on their side of the bed for now except for the cup of orange juice which they use magic on to keep floating in the air for now. The food itself is secured inside a reusable container to keep it warm, fresh, and free of less possible contaminants. I reply: "I feel so horrible.. I cant take this on alone.." Bray replies: "Thats why we're here. We shall defeat the illness together. As we can see, we're also wearing N95 masks, not only is it a good thing to wear but its key to the principle of doing no harm in medical practice as you already know. We'll also need you to tell us everything you know about your symptoms and when they started. But one thing at a time. Dominic will handle sample gathering. We shall actually get several samples, seems you forgot about that, Dominic."

Dominic yawns: "Go figure? What a nap causation but its not actually that big of a deal. This will be a little bit of a process which again is no big deal. We'll start with the nasal sample. That will be really easy. So easy that.. *yawns* yeah, I'm yawning about it. Lets get this over with so I stop yawning so much. Investigations of all of the systems and precautions we have in place in this base are already ongoing. Several of our closest friends are involved in that process currently here or else they would be here. It was a nap causation to convince them to focus on that instead of running straight here to see how you were doing for themselves. Poor Blaze. They were so sad when they were told. Remember that we are all connected through telepathic links through blood ceremonies now. You could have telepathically reached out to us and motivated us to get to you here sooner. Cases of illness in our collective have been kept extremely low for this whole year so far. We have been doing a great job, allowing us to better fight those who dare impose their nap causation twisted annoying headache causing plans into action. Obviously, having a outbreak of illness in our collective would be devastating considering the war we're fighting. I would say I dont understand your world's approach to Covid as in the YOLO let everyone get it, its fine approach. But Im a scientist and you have been telling us a lot about your world so I do understand even though I dislike it so much. But enough on this rambling, its not a big deal that Im doing it to be honest, we do have time to talk and all that. But lets get this done so we can get those results faster already."

He pulls out a q-tip and swabs both of my nostrils with it before immediately putting it inside a sterile isolated container. "We'll analyze the samples through several means including rapid bacterial growth on petri dishes, DNA analysis, and microscope slides. This may be a new virus we have never dealt with before or it could be an evolved strain of the Flu or Covid that hss somehow become strong enough to evade even the long lasting immunity brought upon through our universal vaccine which you got the newest version of not that long ago along with all of us. Now to collect other samples. *yawns* I might need a nap after this is all done, no big deal. Anyway. Please open your mouth, Swift. I need to swab it too. We could collect samples from your butt or the other thing but that wouldnt be good enough unless we can find virus inside your stool if you are able to use the bathroom okay. We have to collect all these samples because you shouldnt have been able to get sick in the first place and if its a new virus, the more samples we have, the better. Wastewater samples are being collected as well as we speak. That will be a simple way for us to see if anyone else in this base has what you have. Id also like to get a blood sample in case its THAT well traveled." I nod and open my mouth, allowing the scientist to swab it too. He smiles tiredly at me and says: "Okay. We're going to need a sample of your breath too. *pulls out a petri dish* Please cough into this dish when youre ready. Im so glad this isnt taking very long at all." I nod and he holds the dish close to my face, not even bothering to ask me to sit up at least for this.

I cough into it a few times, helped by the fact that Ive been coughing a lot this whole time. He speaks: "That should be enough. You can stop now. We'll take care of your symptoms as best as we can once this process is done and you eat your breakfast. Okay. *puts the 2 containers including the dish away for now* Lets get that blood sample. *yawns* I still really want to get this over with. Even I feel pain seeing you suffer the way you are right now. And Im the most chillax of all of us in our friend group. How do we do this? Herbsalvin, you are much used to cutting and stabbing things than even I am as a scientist. You should make the little cut. We just need enough blood to fill a small vial so we'll need a direct cut into a blood vein. Bray, could you help too? I dont want this to go wrong and cause a lot of blood to end up being spilled. Thatd be a nap causation." "You shall have my help." "I'll make the cut as requested. Lets take care of this. Also, dont we need I myself to be test for the illness again if we identify it as a new illness we haven't seen before?" "*yawns* No. We scanned and searched through your whole body. You are clear of any illnesses of concern, whether theyre known to us or not. I triple checked the data. You dont have to worry, it hasnt gotten into you, our pegasus friend. And I have secretly brought in a pocket sized gadget I helped invent a while back to keep the illness in you, Swift to infect any of us which could still happen despite all of our protections.

We dont know if its airborne or not but it likely is given its similar symptoms to Covid and the Flu based on what we've observed." Herbsalvin pulls out one of their daggers and I weakly offer my right arm. Bray and Dominic have their eyes fixed on it all as Herbsalvin makes the cut slowly and gently. Bray gets a bandaid out while Dominic swiftly gets a vial to collect the blood. Once it fills up all the way, he caps it up at the top and Bray comes in with the bandaid to help stop the bleeding and preventing the blood from staining the bed or anything else. The 3 breathe sighs of relief. Dominic starts running off: "I gotta go get these samples to the lab at once! I have no time for running! This illness could be far more problematic than even we- Wait! Not just yet! Swift, tell us all of your symptoms! That's information we really need here!" I nod and explain what Ive dealt with so far, comparing it to the illness in my other body. Herbsalvin puts a hand on one of my shoulders. Bray and Dominic give me empathetic looks. Dominic yells: "I just wrote as much of that down as I could! Gotta go! I will be back with the lab results!" He runs off for real and Bray speaks: "Im going to leave the two of you alone while I check on the progress on the other investigations. I shall be back later. Hang in there, Swift." She teleports away. Herbsalvin helps me get into a seating position so I can actually eat and drink. They open the container with the food in it and place the cup of orange juice into an empty space in the container which will now act as a tray. I actually smile at seeing what my knight charming got for me. They got me several oranges, pancakes, a double chocolate chip muffin, and several hash browns.

The serving portion is actually massive because well, the likes of me and Herbsalvin just have to eat a lot of food due to the sheer amount of energy we use in battle and training. Big knights eat big meals. Okay, Im slim but still. Got a lot more muscle than fat in this body. "Its hard to talk as its been this whole time but thank you so much for getting my favorite things to eat for breakfast. Besides pizza. I wish you got me some cheese pizza. Im joking, this is more than filling. *coughs* I should be able to talk less painfully after I eat all of this so I need to stop talking and just eat." "Of course. Take your time. Im going to be here with you for the entire day or longer if thats what you need. You have my word that I shall stay by your side, my dark knight. *blows me a kiss from close by*" They put on some music for us to listen to while I eat. Partway through my meal, I ask them: "Wait, have you even eaten yet today?" "No, youre more important than my empty stomach right now. But be at ease. Once youre finished, I shall have some breakfast myself but Im not going to leave you alone. I asked someone to bring my breakfast here. That someone shall be Bray. She should be done with helping with the investigations by the time youre finished." "I see.." I keep eating from there, chewing and munching and just demolishing my breakfast like its no big deal. Im a practiced faster than average eater. I made sure to blow my nose several times before digging in and when I was done, I had the orange juice. I drank that juice like it was a vital lifeline to my survival despite my being a zombie at the moment. A few minutes later, Bray comes back with Herbsalvin's breakfast.

The sage smiles at both of us: "Looks like someone already ate their entire breakfast. You two always eat a lot. So Im happy to help make that faster by bringing your breakfast to you just as you asked of me, Herbsalvin. I got everything you would want based on your needs and tastes. Now that Im here, I shall stay here myself until my assistance is required anywhere else. Im free to help keep you company, Swift. *she hands the breakfast to my lover and then sits down by where Im laying down after removing her boots for now. "How are you feeling?" "My throat is the only thing that's really improved along with my cough. Talking is less painful for now but it- Wait, what am I talking about. It hasnt hurt for even a moment! I keep forgetting I cant feel pain in this body! But it still feels weird and sore! Even without the pain that I should be feeling due to it, I have been seriously hampered in my comfort level when it comes to talking! At least being a zombie means this virus cant possibly kill me. Im already dead! Wow, it feels weird to express myself so passionately through my vocal chords. All of that pressure is literally still there which makes this whole thing just a tad bit strange. As for that blasted headache, I cant believe its worse than the headache in my original body despite me feeling none of the pain. I keep confusing all the pressure as pain today. Wow, my mind really is in terrible shape. Headache caused pressure enough to shut down my creativity process-" I am cut off as my breathing gets worse even though I lay down. "You must slow down with your voice, my dear friend. We can communicate telepathically, remember."

I nod. Herbsalvin couldnt help but raise an eyebrow at our exchange which is very uncharacteristic of them. After they finish breakfast and the 3 of us talk with the conversation aimed towards comforting me as well as keep me distracted from my suffering, Dominic suddenly runs into the room looking like hes about to scream bloody murder. He holds up printed versions of all the data gathered: "Swift, you have been infected with a nasty virus. It was engineered through a synthesis of various viruses including one of the latest variants of Covid, several strains of flu including the concerning H5N1, and others by our enemies. The Nacirema Empire is such a nap causation. We have sequenced the virus. It kills very effectively and usually disables most targets. This is an emergency. Herbsalvin, Bray, you both need to be tested for the virus right away since youve been in contact with Swift for this long. I was already tested and definitively tested false despite running the test several times. The virus is also airborne. Our precautions have kept it from spreading throughout our base. The wastewater data proves that by showing no stool samples. And it looks like we forget to get stool samples from you, Swift. Lets get that now so we can get more data to fight this blasted virus. Multiple things are being tested against it right now including antibiotics. But we may have to go for the extreme option. Shrinking some of us to go inside your body and destroy every last cell of the virus in your body. That monstrosity in you forced us to upgrade the lab to biosafety level 4 just in case.

We are the only ones in the base right now. Everyone else is being isolated as we test for the virus. Fortunately, the test doesnt take long and was developed based on other pre existing tests and a super test developed based on those in case something like this happened. Nacirema is now playing with biological warfare in full. The entire collective has been informed and is on higher alert as a result. Our allies in other entities have also been informed. Put those biohazard suits on. These are extreme measures but the virus is able to adapt and evolve like Covid can and thats so bad that I have discarded my normal chillax attitude over it for now. Swift, stay in bed and try to avoid coughing or anything else that could potentially spread the virus despite our best efforts to grab it right out of the air whenever it is released into the air. We could have missed virus particles getting out of this room despite our efforts to contain it in here. Also.. *already has biohazard suit on* I was going to say something else but neutrinos! I must have forgotten! This is not what we need right now. What was I going to say? Genuinely, what was it?! Well.. We did manage to keep the virus from getting outside and.. thats right. We figured out when you caught the virus, Swift. Someone injected it into you yesterday while you were bleeding at the end of the battle all of us were in. Tricky fascists, they know exactly what theyre doing. Its like many of their tactics have been developed over decades." I sigh: "This is a lot but I'll see if I can even go to the bathroom. I cant feel my bladder as much now that pain doesnt register in this body. All I feel is the growing pressure and all that."

Herbsalvin replies: "You may need a laxative if you can't go number 2." "You're right.. A fast acting one at that.. This entire situation is a mess. ..Okay. Im going to try." Dominic swiftly procures the setup for a laxative just in case and tells Bray and Herbsalvin to head to the lab where Dr. Bonesbane, brought in from Kohannix is waiting while he stays to keep me company. "Swift, we wont let you be alone today." "..Thank you.." Fast forward and Ive used the bathroom, Dominic collected a sample, and he ran to the lab as soon as Bray and Herbsalvin came back and told us they were free of the virus as well. We wait for him to come back and while we do, Herbsalvin helps me get back to laying down and Bray leaves again, explaining that shes needed elsewhere to help make the ongoing mass testing that much easier. Herbsalvin speaks to me softly: "Youre going to be okay. We're going to get through this together. We wont let you go through several emotions breakdowns like you did in your other body." Dominic returns, having gathered a lot more data with other scientists and such. "Swift, you arent the only case. Several of our other comrades have been injected with it through stealth too. That means this problem is bigger than we thought because the other victims are dying AND are from different branches of our collective. All of them are being cared for on the isolated ICU ward in the largest medical facility on our new space station. And according to test results and all the new data gathered, there is nothing medically or scientifically we can do to kill the virus. We have to go subatomic. Herbsalvin, stay in the hazmat.

And keep Swift company. Myself and a lot of others are going to go inside a shrinking submarine based on the one Phineas & Ferb invented to kill the virus cells in your body, Swift. Its going to be extremely difficult and dangerous. Anyone in our collective who is free will be part of the operation to rid the virus from you and the others who have been injected with it. We're going to extensively clean this base and the surrounding area and pipes just in case once this is all over. The waste you released is still in the toilet in the bathroom attached to this room, right? Please tell me you didnt flush it, Swift. *checks* You didnt. Good. Im so worried about you but Im also relieved because you didnt flush it. That would have caused the waste to enter the sewer system of this base where eventually, all mass that goes through it gets atomically disassembled to be stored away to be turned into other substances at some point. Despite how that works, the virus being sent there could have caused it to breach containment and escape into the outside world. It doesnt spread very well in the air outdoors but indoors is another matter entirely. Alright, I must help get everything set up for the elimination of the virus. Herbsalvin, please help Swift drink some poisons in case we accidentally do some damage in our battle against the virus. Im afraid that magic wont help us deal with swiftly or else Bray and other mages would have casted spells in order to attempt to kill it by now. It may be even tougher than we know it to be so far so we will be giving this operation every single thing we have without question."

He runs off and I get very scared: "What if they fail? What if they all die inside of me?" Herbsalvin does their best so show a gentle face despite being in hazmat gear over their plate armor. "We don't know whats going to happen but we'll all be alright in the end. We will all continue to grow once this is over. You will become a knight sage even if you are left unable to write about it in your world for reasons beyond your control. *comes closer to me* You have my word that I will stand by you as your knight in shining armor just as I know you will stand by me as my knight in shining armor." They support me and we begin to talk about other things after a while. Meanwhile, Dominic and the others, now shrunken inside a shrinking submarine enter my body after I drink some poisons with my lover's help that will last a while if all goes according to plan, especially if my body isnt hurt in the process of the epic battle to come. But I still worry despite Herbsalvin's efforts to keep me mentally okay and relaxed for the time being. "Swift, I cannot help you to the extent you need me to. It aches to realize this but I know a way I can help you better. I can help you get to Link VRAINS while I safeguard your body here in case something goes wrong. That is the best that can be done now even when my mind races to try to come up with another resolution to your worries." "..I accept. Lets get me into Link VRAINS to keep my mind off of things." And soon, Im off linking my mind into Link VRAINS where I can wear my armor in virtual avatar form.

I move around the virtual world and find Playmaker and Ghost Gal tag teaming a enemy who has invaded Link VRAINS. And theyre struggling to win. I activate my duel disk. Voice: "Intrusion penalty: 2000 life points." "Like I care! I draw! And now I'll begin my composition by setting the Pendulum scale! And in order to do so, I must use these 2 monsters!" By the time Im finished with my main phase 1, my main ace Number 916, Regnes is already out on the field. "But Im not done yet! Its time! I will use my emotions of dealing with illness to help me evolve Regnes much more quickly! Allow my emotions to bring you to a higher level of creativity and nightmares! Go! Chaos Xyz Evolution! But Im not done still! I activate Rank Up Magic Numbers Force and it will activate as soon as the summoning animation is complete! Come forth for now, Chaos Number 916!" Regnes has evolved a total of 4 times when Im ready to battle. The 3 of us eventually take down the enemy and win the duel through the power of teamwork. Ghost Gal smirks at me: "Nice work out there, you really helped get us out of some serious trouble!" I nod: "Im just paying it forward. I've been getting a lot of help and support today so Im giving help and support to others, its only fair. Kindness is best rewarded by spawning more acts of kindness in what should be a endless cycle of kindness. As you know, Im sick in my physical body right now. On Herbsalvin's recommendation, Im here to take my mind off of all of that." Playmaker replies: "They gave you good advice which comes no surprise to me. I have spent some time fighting alongside your partner. It has been an interesting experience." Ghost Gal yells: "Lookout! Theres more coming!"

I speak: "They dont stop coming after various worlds all the time. They invade as relentlessly if not more so than many of our other enemies did in the past up till now. It goes to show what a people must do when their oppressors never quit trying to hurt everyone. They have to never quit and fight back against that crap. Lets show them all including people from my own world what you must do when fighting is the only viable choice left." It felt like hours have passed as we defeat enemy after enemy and struggle with a few here and there. But then, I get a message from Herbsalvin to return to my body. I tell everyone Im now fighting alongside in Link VRAINS, no longer just Playmaker and Ghost Gal but also the entire crew from Zaizen to Revolver to Ai and Roboppi whose core programming has long been advanced so that he doesnt end up eventually malfunctioning from developing great knowledge and advancing his personality. Think of the upgrade Hiro gave Baymax in Big Hero 6 to allow the personal healthcare companion to actually be able to fight back against the enemy. Thats essentially the same thing as what was given to Roboppi. Playmaker actually smiled when Robippi got that upgrade. After telling them, I ask: "Will you all be able to handle the rest of our foes with one duelist down? These enemies are tough even for seasoned duelists as most of us are." Pandor replies: "You dont have to worry. Ive been gathering data on our enemies to better fight against them."

"I see. Okay. Im off. Good luck, everyone. I'll send word of your situation to the others in case someone can replace me just in case something goes wrong here." And with that, I log out of the virtual world to find most of my main friend group waiting for me to wake up with smiles on their faces. Barla couldn't hold it in when they saw me open my eyes now that Im back in my undead body: "Swift! We did it! We killed off that damn virus in your body and that of the others who were injected with it! Hell yeah!" Bray adds: "We made sure it was gone for good extensively. I shall admit, tracking down any surviving copy of the virus was difficult and time consuming but we ensured there was no trace left of it by collaborating with as many comrades as possible. But you will still have to deal with the symptoms which will clear away by the end of today now that every last copy of the virus has been destroyed. We have studied it to the greatest extent possible so we dont have to save a single one. But we all shall have to be more careful from now on now that we know that Nacirema is unafraid of using viruses as bioweapons against us. The virus that we stopped may have been just phase one of their using bioweapons against us the way they plan on doing so. They needed to do so via injection. That tells us theres worse to come unless we can find a way to stop it. Efforts are underway to find the location or locations that the virus injections originated from." We all then celebrate together with some of the others involved in stopping the virus before it could spread or finish off any of us. What a relief thats over at least for now.

But then, several hours later, we are informed that the location of the manufacturing lab where the virus was created from other viruses was found. We were told the details of how it was located well inside a Nacirema city filled with some of the scummiest empire sponsored groups and individuals out there including what are effectively rich nobles who serve the empire and their own pockets. Pirate Blaster turns to me as we have all gathered with our currently Mii World based comrades in the briefing room in our base to hear of this: "Swift, what do say to helping plunder that city? Its about time you officially become a pirate to add onto everything else you are! You did tell me you wanted to be a pirate after all! Arr! I hope you take the initiative because that city looks very much plunderable, bringing back some of my old desires as a pirate who used to terrorize the seas of what was once the Pirate Republic and is now a series of communes in the search for adventure and treasure!" I agree: "I accept your offer. Time to make myself a little more visibly complicated. I have had the yearning for pirate stuff for a very long time. It goes back to Disney World's Pirates Of The Caribbean boat ride which Ive been on multiple times from when I was little up to 2017." And over a week later, on a date I wont disclose for now, thats what we did. But first, we needed to really make it more clear that Im a pirate now in addition to a dark knight, assassin, and so on. Pirate Blaster and his pirate buddies who used to serve him as his crew until he stepped down from his position of captain and I are inside the main quarters of their pirate ship.

Pirate Blaster speaks: "Do you, my long time friend, the dark knight known as Swiftdrawer agree to the revised pirate's code as you currently do to your personal knight's code?" I nod: "Yes I do." "Arr! Lets test that, shall we?! 1. Do you agree to sharing any loot you get with your fellow pirates? *nod* 2. Do you agree to never attack another's ship for treasure they rightfully earned? *nod* 3. Do you agree to be a good pirate and friend other pirates can count on when they need to? *nod* 4. Do you agree to avoid harming another pirate as much as possible? *nod* 5. Will you be a good shipmate on this here vessel of the high seas and space-time, helping out when youre on board where you can? *nod* 6. Will you always follow the ways of the pirate as best as you can and in your own unique style? *nod* 7. Will you, if you witness another pirate doing something that cannot be ignored step in and do something about it? *nod* 8. Will you steal from the rich who plunder from everyone else and call it 'hard work' or 'new taxes' or 'withholding' in order to give to the poor should you see a good opportunity to? *nod* 9. Would you help bring down a location to its knees if thats what it took to destroy the tyrannical power within in? *nod* 10. Do you still agree to everything youve been asked and strive to do your best to uphold your oath to the pirate's code? *nod* 11. Would you join in on a raid to prove to us what you can do as a pirate and accept any feedback and training you we have for you to improve in the future? *nod*

12. Last but not least. Do you agree to read over the pirate's code whenever it may end up being changed to some degree in order to see if its still right for you? *nod*" Pirate Blaster and the other pirates smile at me. He says: "Congratulations my friend! Swiftdrawer, youre now officially one of us! A pirate! We wont drink to that! Instead, we'll plunder an enemy city to that!" The other pirates cheer. My friend grins even more when he adds: "Oh, we're going to have a real nice surprise for comrades and enemies alike now. Who would have seen a fully armored mostly red knight becoming a pirate and doing piracy on the high seas coming?! Almost no one! Thats who! Arrr! We should set sail for our target immediately! That city is as good as emptied already! We will destroy all the bioweapons we can while we're there! Theyre our main target after all! Theyre why the city is on our radar to plunder in the first place!" It doesnt take us very long to quietly reach the enemy city, cloaked in darkness, hard to spot in the night sky above on the Nacirema held planet we now find ourselves on. This is a planet core to the empire. And this city is just one of the various cities on it. The people of this city are so horrible and disgusting that we cant allow a single one to escape alive. Theres no other choice. Theyre all bloodthirsty according to extensive investigations of the city. It has been looked over, spied on, and analyzed so many times that Dominic complained to myself and our main friends about almost becoming dizzy from helping analyze all of the data.

We've faced some more brutal battles now thats like a week after Thanksgiving since the chaos that happened on Thanksgiving. I ask Pirate Blaster as the ship comes to a stop: "Whats the plan here? I was too busy until a couple hours ago to be told anything about the plan." He grins: "A lot of pirates love to be flashy and attack their targets while some of their crew swoop in to take valuables from said targets. Not us. We sneak in, get all the loot, make sure innocent lifeforms are out of where we want to attack, get any out that are, and get out before destroying stuff. Its not as flashy but its safer and thats more important to us than just being flashy or cool." "Oh. Good. I can do that pretty well as you know. *puts on Akatsuki cloak and face concealing mask* Who said I couldnt be a pirate, knight, and intimidating member of the Akatsuki at once? Its time to make some good trouble. As someone who is chaotic/neutral good, good trouble sounds very good to me. This will be interesting." All of us except a couple fellow pirates to hold the fort down on board the ship teleport to the inside of the target research facility. I have the schematic/map of it pulled up. We have memorized the entire map just in case so we should know where everything is. But first, we need to stage a power outage accident without it looking like sabotage. And that's exactly what we do. I use my shadows and Pirate Blaster uses water magic. Combined, they manage to short circuit the power after we get inside the power room undetected due to our Quantum Leap bands making us invisible for the time being except to one another. We slip out of the power room and make our way towards where we need to go. Shutting off the power also stops the high techn security cameras.

As well as the facility defenses including military drones, attack helicopters, and battle droids. Aka where militarist fascists want military technology to go in the future. Aka what toys rich cowards want to use to protect their precious money. It didnt take long for us to grab what we wanted. I teleport in one of the matter disassembling trash cans from the base in Miitopia and we start putting every last sample of the virus placed in storage in tubes and such inside the trash can to have them being broken apart into atoms. This makes our operation a lot more quiet but not entirely. Patrolling armed guards spot whats going on and yell: "Whos there?! Show yourselves or we'll-" They were now sprawled on the ground, knocked out with their weapons taken from them. My fellow pirates smile and put them away for later in their inventories just in case. Theres no alarm sounding on because the power is still out. We look around the facility for anything we missed and taking or plundering accordingly. We also knocked out the remaining guards and placed them along with the other guards from earlier well outside of the city and punched some security cams out. After that, we rigged the place with redstone and Minecraft TNT. When the time is right, the whole place will be blown up in seconds if even that. Now this is what I call a operation. With our work finished in the building for now, we split up to plunder the city. I found a mansion belonging to some rich person who is probably just considered a useless extra in the eyes of the Nacirema Empire. I slip inside through teleportation after destroying the power with my sword as quietly as possible.

And then, I took as much stuff as I could within the span of 10 minutes including the golden toilet in the master bathroom. Not to keep to myself but to redistribute to those who have been robbed of their futures by those in power in Nacirema. The toilet will be smelted down. Its a huge waste of gold just like golden armor in Minecraft aka butter armor as SkydoesMinecraft called it such a long time ago is. When the 10 minutes are up, I find any occupants in the mansion and put them to sleep forever. They dont even have maids or butlers in these kinds of places anymore. Instead, they have robots with no free will in their places. I ended up taking the robots during those 10 minutes because I can do that sort of thing. With that done, I help my fellow pirates clear out as much of the rest of the city as possible without getting caught or spotted which wasnt easy. But somehow, we pulled it off for a while until someone messed up, exposing our presence to the city. But that wouldnt actually be as bad as you would think because one of us cut the entire city's power in one sweeping attack and sabotage plot. We were able to plunder the whole city in under an hour without very many enemies trying to stop us. Not even the Nacirema Military knew what was going on. Some friends of ours busted their communications network completely for the time being and those friends include one Dr. Eggman, one of his robots, Revolver, Eva from Team SHINC in GGO, Ghost Gal, Yui, and more. No one's coming to save these scumbags. Theyre dangerous, we have verified that they would fight to kill if we gave them room to fight back.

Every scumbag in this city has a high kill count. They cant be reasoned with. We have no other choice but to act accordingly. And so, with the city raided, having rigged explosives all over it after making sure to get anything useful or valuable we could get out of it out along with innocent life forms to the point we teleported trees away, one of us ignites the first explosive aftee we get back on the ship to attack whats left of the city. Its time for the "fireworks". To be continued in Tyranny 2025 chapter 10.