Nexus HWR 13.7 The Wizard King:

"I really don't know," Goku said while talking to Luffy and Natsu in the cockpit of their huge truck. "One second I was a kid, and then I was suddenly back to my adult self. It was right in the middle of the War too."

"Yeah, the War," Natsu said, "I had been meaning to get to that. What happened?"

Goku's smile while he was talking about how he turned back into a man dropped down. Father, Goku thought for a second, before thinking of something else that made his flat lips dip farther down. Tien, he imagined his old friend, being used like a puppet by Meruem's Royal Guard. Luffy and Natsu stared at Goku in shock. Earlier, when Sora and Dash had similar reactions while talking about the war they had been in, Goku had not thought back too much on it so they never saw this expression on his face since he returned. Goku then imagined the baby who he knew was Dash's little brother, his skull opened up. JackJack. How could I let so many people down? The man looked down and lifted his hands in front of his body which he then clenched into fists. "I was too weak," Goku said aloud. "I need to train."

"Huh? Oh," Natsu said, and he leaned back when Goku looked him in the eyes after his initial 'huh?' "Well um, there's actually a training room on the second floor. On the other side of the kitchen-"

"Okay, that's great," Goku said, then he turned and started walking away.

Luffy scratched the back of his head confusedly at that interaction. The two watched as Goku reached the door, the same time as a man who moved to the side to let the Saiyan past. Gray looked sideways as Goku walked by him, wondering why the Saiyan had such a thoughtful look on his face. Then he turned and walked towards Natsu and Luffy, and said, "I've got an idea."

Downstairs two floors, Usopp walked over to an open door and gently knocked it a couple of times. The three women inside turned towards him, and Usopp got a panicked look on his face at the angry scowl Nami shot him while she put down the clothes she had been holding up in front of her body. Her friends had each offered her some outfits, and Nami wanted not to take a lot, but also needed to make sure she would still look stunning in what she picked out. "What?" Nami asked the man who lowered his knocking hand while keeping his other hand behind his back.

"So, was going to wait a little for this, but I figured you could use some good news right about now," Usopp said, before pulling his other arm out from behind his back. Nami stared at him in confusion, and more specifically at the strange orange rod Usopp was holding in his hand. The long-nosed man came in to cheer Nami up, and Robin smiled as Nami ran over and grabbed the strange weapon before eying it closely in amazement. "I know I called the last one 'Perfect,' but this Clima Baton is far superior! I added the Pop Green's growth capabilities, and Franky helped out with the surface treatment. It's the greatest invention I've ever made!"

Nami turned the weapon over in her hands while staring at it in awe and wondering how to use it. She clenched down on the middle of the rod, and both of the round balls at the end extended out. One end slammed into Usopp and the door and smashed him against the other side of the hallway, and the other flew backwards and made Robin duck just before it would have hit her in the chest. "That was a close one," Robin said in relief.

"Agh- too close," Usopp muttered while sliding down the wall, seeing stars.

"It's too long!" Nami called out the door at the man, while quickly retracting the weapon.

A little dizzy, Usopp staggered up to his feet and stumbled to the door that he cautiously poked his head through while hiding most of his body around the frame in the hallway. "No, you just don't have the practice! You extended it too far, but you can choose how big it gets with slight variations in pressure!"

Nami's eyes could not have gotten wider as she stared at the weapon. She clenched again but softer this time, creating a staff closer to the size she would prefer while fighting. "Hehe, hahaha," Nami started spinning it around, and then she got ready to try out some of the weather functions.

Usopp saw what she was doing though and swung his arms out in front of him. "Wait! Try it later, when we're outside and can get away from you!" Nami hesitated with a pout on her face, but she smiled again a second later and kept swirling around the weapon excitedly.

Something suddenly hit Nami, and she spun to Usopp with big eyes before asking, "This was the wish you two made?"

Usopp scratched the back of his head and laughed, then said, "We'd worked so hard on it, and well, Franky felt bad that your old one got broken when you were fighting the Spriggans' minion who took him down." Nami smiled brightly at the sniper/inventor, and then Usopp chuckled and said, "I was actually going to charge you," his gaze lingered on her side of the room, "but you know what, you can have it for free." He popped his head back out of the door at the sight of a glint in Nami's eyes and ran off.

Nami frowned at what Usopp just said, thinking about all her money and jewels that the Wizard King had never wished back for her. She wondered if he had brought them back originally, and then wished for them to disappear after she insinuated that he was a fake wizard. Nami looked back at the weapon in her hands though and smiled in a bright way at it once again. She felt helpless back when the aliens and Predators attacked them on the way south, and in the fight against Fluffy all she could do was hide behind her friends. Sometimes she was hiding behind children, and the feeling was not one she enjoyed.

She was still upset at losing all of her things, but the feeling of getting just one material possession back made her smile. "Whoa," Nami stumbled back as the floor beneath her shook. They were on the first floor closest to the tires, and all three woman in their room felt as the tires started rolling over the ground. "Hey!" Nami called out. "The others aren't out yet!"

As if to respond to her, Gray's voice came over the intercom right after she finished and said, "Hey guys, I'm going to take us over to a town near here. It's real close-by, so we'll be able to come back here quick if the Wizard King doesn't just teleport the others to us." The truck started speeding up, and Gray's voice came back on to add in a lower voice, "This is the only town in all of the south. We can buy some supplies while we're here, or, clothes," he added, and Nami's forehead scrunched up. How did everyone find out so fast? She thought in annoyance. Gray's voice finished speaking with one more sentence that had everyone in the truck staring up at the intercoms hesitantly, "Um, just be careful when we get there."

Natsu and Luffy looked at Gray's back confusedly as he drove their truck across the grassy plains of the far south. Be careful? Luffy thought, cocking his head to the side as that seemed like a strange thing to add without giving a reason for it.

Gray's dark look vanished as he stared out of the cockpit. He turned on the autopilot with the nearby town's exact location plugged in, then he got up from the pilot's chair and walked over to the right side of the farthest forward room on the third floor of their truck. He got closer to the slanted-down part of the room where everything was made of glass, and he looked outside to the west with wide and amazed eyes. "This is, paradise," Gray whispered.

"What is?" Natsu asked as he neared his friend's back. He looked outside and did not see what was so impressive about the place, though it did have its appeal. "Everyone thinks the south is an uninhabitable wasteland," Gray said while staring out at the long grassy fields covered in creatures. The creatures that were most prominent and covered the entire landscape, were Pokemon. There was a pack of Tauros charging the same direction of them, and a herd of deer-like Pokemon running out to the west to get out of the charging bulls' way. The Stantler, as well as flaming horse-Pokemon called Ponyta and Rapidash, and yellow Girafarig with long necks and pink spikes down their backs, all ran together on the perfectly grassy plains. Gray looked behind the charging Tauros and could not see any damage to the floor behind them, or more precisely, he watched as the grass directly behind regrew and repaired itself to match the length of the grass on the rest of the field.

Gray's eyes rose to the sky, where a flock of Altaria and Swablu just flew high above the cockpit's glass top. "Hey look!" The two Fairy Tail mages spun to see Luffy pressing his face up against the glass on the other side of the cockpit. They ran over and looked out where Luffy had his finger pointed, pressing into the glass next to his face. "Volcanoes," Luffy said with a wide smile.

On the lower part of the brown mountains leading up to smoky peaks, they could see Rhyhorns and Rhydons marching around, as well as several Geodude, Gravelers, and Golem. Closer to the peak were some creatures that looked to be made of fire themselves, Magmar and Magmortar. There were turtle-like fire Pokemon around them, Numel and Torkoal, as well as a few slugs and snails that looked to be made of magma, Slugma and Magcargo.

At the base of the closest volcano to them was a strange sight, because unlike the rest of the landscape it looked far from natural. Instead, there was a steel playground kind of place covered in electric Pokemon. Magnemite, Magneton, and even a few Magnezone floated around over there, along with pokeball-looking creatures called Voltorb and Electrode. There were even a few Pikachus and Raichus running around and using the steel slides while sparking electricity from their cheeks and tails. A big scary-looking yellow Pokemon on two legs ran on a treadmill on the edge of the steel area, and the creature whose fur was covered in black lightning bolt markings was powering the treadmill on its own. Electabuzz turned its head towards the ship driving past in the distance, but it just sped up while the three standing in the cockpit looked his way.

"Well you were right," Natsu said, and Gray turned left to his friend only to then feel the truck beneath him start slowing down. He turned the same way that Natsu was looking, and he grimaced at the sight of the town they were approaching that looked pretty normal from first glance. "We did get here fast," Natsu added, then turned back to Gray only to see that look on his friend's face again.

"Let's go," Gray said, though his voice was full of hesitation. Luffy headed for the exit as they were coming to a stop and Gray turned to follow.

"I don't get it Gray," Natsu said as he walked next to the ice mage. They started heading down the stairs following Luffy to the first floor so they could disembark the vehicle. "You're the one who said we should come here in the first place!" Gray nodded, and Natsu snapped, "So stop making a face like you're standing in dog crap!"

Gray spun and snapped, "I don't look like-" He cut himself off and grunted, deciding not to get in a fight while they were on the stairs. "This town we're at, it's not rumored to be a very great place."

"You've never been there," Natsu said, hinting that maybe it would be better than Gray suspected.

"Sure, but other people have. Word spread about this town, the Wizard's Town," Gray said the name with an un-eager look on his face. "It's called that, because only people the Wizard King likes can stay there."

Natsu's lips curled down, and Luffy stopped walking for a second as he turned his head to look up at Gray. "And considering the type of person the Wizard King is," Gray continued while slowing his voice.

"A town full of people like that?" Natsu said, his eyebrows lifted like he could not imagine it. He thought about a hundred short fat kids laughing at him obnoxiously. A tick mark popped up on the left side of Natsu's forehead, and he growled, "If they're not as strong as that kid, they won't get away with the same crap."

"I agree too," Gray began hesitantly as he saw not only Natsu but Luffy also looked annoyed. "But try not to get into a fight you two," he warned. They looked back at him, and Gray said, "With a snap of his fingers that kid could have you back in his castle stuck in another trap. You might not be able to really die in there, but you can still feel death if he says there's a respawn point."

The pirate and Dragon Slayer growled or grumbled in anger that they were still at the Wizard King's mercy even this far from his castle. "So just, be cautious," Gray warned, and all three of them started walking again.

Already outside the ship and flying towards the center of the town they parked outside of, Kirito had a deep frown on his face. I should have wished for him to fix my blue sword. He wouldn't have been able to trick me with that one. I should have worded the wish differently! Damn it, it doesn't really matter as long as I keep practicing flying. They were a liability anyway, and relying on them too much takes away time training ki control. It's time to give up on getting them back, and just focus all my efforts on my own strength.

Kirito descended into the center of the town and looked around at the people near him. Two women looked at each other and started whispering, then smirked and laughed in Kirito's direction. He turned the other way and saw three people glancing at him with looks of disdain, before turning back to each other and continuing their conversation. One of them said something and he and the man next to him started laughing at the third, then the third man punched him in the nuts and he collapsed to his knees. The other guy just laughed harder and started pointing with the third guy at the one writhing around in pain.

The fuck is wrong with these people? Kirito wondered and started walking one direction down a road. He looked into a store and saw the guy behind the counter smiling out at him with a mouth full of golden teeth that made Kirito pull back and turn away. There were a couple of teens sitting on a building's roof across the road pointing at him and laughing, both of them heavyset boys around his age who were probably at least three times his height. A teenage girl walked up behind them and they both said something to her. She looked down at Kirito, then she hummed which did not seem to be the reaction the guys wanted. She cupped her hands to her mouth and called down to him, "Eight out of ten!"

Kirito's bottom lip dropped, then he spun away fast as the girl who rated him started laughing. This town sucks more than the lawless ones, Kirito thought assuredly as he rushed away. He turned a corner and then slowed as he walked down a more empty side road. Sage mode is not impossible. I don't have the teachers that Naruto had, but he told me that he taught me everything I need to know. I just need to put those teachings into action. Other than that, there's not much I can do to increase my chakra reserves. Maybe Sasuke could help... I heard that name when we got to the base, but I could barely look at him in that short time before we left. Naruto talked about him, but I never thought I'd meet him. Not here.

Kirito shook those thoughts from his head and refocused, Training up my Haki would be a good start. Strengthening my Borg too, though Sphintus said that really depends more on latent magical ability than practice. He frowned more as he thought about his white-haired magic teacher. Didn't last a few weeks in Magnoshutatt before the NEG came in and took over there too. Those months after Konoha, when Tetsuo was quickly expanding across the continent, I thought there was going to be nowhere left where I could still train. That is, until I found the Underworld...

Kirito's expression darkened more. With Goku back, I should work on my martial arts with him as much as possible. He defeated Akuma and he's the best fighter I've ever seen. Plus, there's no telling when he'll run off again, so I need to get anything I want to learn from him out of the way now. Kirito almost chuckled at that thought, but he shook his head instead and thought about what Goku told them in the Wizard King's castle. That was just an excuse. As good a reason as it may be, he just abandoned us to go do something else. Even though he came to me and told me to come to Aebrith with him, he left me. Left me with people like Gray, and Nami, in Kirito's head he saw Nami on her knees hugging Timmy with all her might. He paused, then he scowled and thought of the same woman shouting at him for letting Juvia die. When I was the only one who actually did anything for her, Kirito thought angrily, clenching his fists as he recalled how Nami yelled at him in Pyraxas.

The teen glanced to his left as he spotted some people coming towards him, and while one snickered and whispered something to the other, the other just stared at Kirito with a confused look as to why someone so serious-looking was in their town. The two kept walking, and Kirito lifted his gaze to the sky and released his fists. He let out a sigh, and bags formed under his eyes as a tired expression spread across his face. What am I doing here?

His question was not solely in reference to the town he was in. With these people, most of whom I don't even like, I'm traveling back and forth across the world and nothing's changing. What are, we going to do next? Will it really matter? Kirito looked down and lifted his hands in front of him once more. Even Goku can't stand up to the likes of the Ant King or Wizard King. How could I, ever get strong enough to be on his level, let alone theirs?

"Hey Kirito," a voice called out behind him. He turned and spotted Sanji and Franky walking his way. "We're going to check out the beach, you coming?"

Kirito recalled seeing a beach while he was flying into the town. The ocean was still too far south of them to see, but a giant unnatural lake sat just south of the town. He nodded their way and started walking towards them, though lost deep in thought on what he was just pondering.

"Lookin' tired there little bro," Franky said to the teen who reached them and kept walking. He hummed in some sort of agreeing noise and then kept going without pause.

"It has been a long day," Sanji said as he started walking with Franky after the kid. Sanji did have an annoyed look on his face though that that was all the reaction they got out of Kirito after coming over here to ask him. The pirate chef rolled his neck then kicked a leg out a few times to stretch it. He thought about the Xenomorphs he fought earlier, how hard their skin felt even when he slammed one with a powerful flaming kick. He recalled watching the one he thought he killed get back up too, only to be devoured and changed by the Flood.

Franky thought about the robots that attacked them with Professor Chaos. He considered himself a pretty powerful robot, but he thought about how he heard his own strong steel creaking when he had tried punching one of them. Then he thought about how Riku tore one to shreds with his Keyblades, and if their armor was harder than his... he shivered at the idea of going up against those weapons. Oof, guess it has been a long one, he thought as that shiver was not common for him, and he decided to blame it on his exhaustion.

"Hey you guys," Kirito said while he continued walking in front of them. The two tired men behind him looked up at the kid's back, and Kirito asked without breaking stride, "If Zoro doesn't want to join up with you, what are you still doing here?" Franky and Sanji came to sudden stops. Kirito just kept going though.

The two wanted to call at him. They wanted to snap some retort or come up with a quick answer, but neither had what they were looking for. If he doesn't want to come back, Sanji thought, then shook his head as that seemed absurd to him from the time he spent with Zoro.

If he doesn't want to join us, Franky thought. Then we should head back to the Sunny, I guess. We're pirates, we're still, pirates.

The group of three walked in thoughtful silence towards the beach. Only a couple of their other comrades were there, but they were not playing around in the water or talking rambunctiously. Instead, the few on the beach already looked as deep in thought as the three heading their ways. Okumura Rin sat on his butt in the sand, and his small black cat lay flat on its stomach at his side, bathing in the sun. Kuro looked more relaxed than the half-demon staring out over the lake though.

Rin was staring straight out over the water, but his eyes were not focused on the five teenagers playing bumper-jet-skis out on the lake. Yukio, Rin thought, imagining his brother's face in his mind.

The Wizard King offered them all wishes, but on top of not fulfilling most of their desires, he reminded each of them what it was they really wanted in their journey. Rin could only think about Yukio once he was reminded that his brother was his sole purpose for coming here. Up ahead of him, standing with just his feet in the water, Dash stared out with a sadder look which he kept trying to make look determined. The fact that even Fairy Godparents could not bring people back to life disheartened him though.

JackJack, I'll, I'll find a way, Dash thought, but then he clenched his eyes shut and thought about what Goku told him not long ago. Even without your body, I'll, I'll find a different way as Juvia and Killua. I just have to, his eyes filled with even more sadness and he had to lift an arm and rub them fast as he knew how many of his friends sat or stood on the beach behind him.

Sora stood side by side with Riku on the edge of the beach a dozen meters off from the road's entrance where three of their comrades just entered from. The two of them stood there staring out over the water in silence. The moment reminded them of something: their final moments before coming to Nexus. They looked at the bright blue water, just the two of them, and they thought about everything that had happened since then which led them to this point, what felt like a full circle. Once again, the two were alone in a world full of darkness. No Kairi, no King Mickey, no Donald or Goofy.

Riku opened his mouth to say something encouraging about how strong Kairi was, that she would be fine, or something. He closed it after a second though as it felt like he would be making excuses for himself as if saying that it was not such a terrible thing that he let her get kidnapped.

"Riku, remember how I told you about the Guardians?" Sora asked.

"Those powerful people you mentioned at the War-"

"Not them," Sora said and shook his head. "The ones King Neptune told me about. The ones the King mentioned in his letter," he specified, and Riku nodded as he recalled Sora telling him and Kairi all about that after they left Atlantis. "We are the Guardians of Light," Sora said, and Riku looked at the side of his slightly shorter friend's head, wondering what Sora was talking about. "We went to Heaven, Riku," Sora said, turning to look his best friend back in his eyes.

"Why?"

"It's complicated, but what I heard when I got there," Sora shook his head at the memory of what he was told only hours earlier. "I learned the origins of the multiverse. I know why we're here. And Riku, we have an enemy that's too powerful, absurdly, ridiculously powerful. The capital 'D' Darkness. Everyone's born afraid of the dark, but it's not for no reason. That entity is out there, searching for this world. At least now I know that some of the worlds are still out there: Timmy's, and Stan and Car- the Wizard King's." Sora reminded himself that he was still in Cartman's territory and not to risk annoying the boy who could be watching him at all times. Sora turned and looked Riku back in his eyes, but Riku was looking over the lake with such a serious and dark look.

The taller teen lifted a hand and stared at his palm, and he made black wisps seep off of it. "The Darkness, huh?" Riku wondered.

"Yeah," Sora said, turning again to look back over the water himself. "It's going to be a hard one. The hardest one yet," he whispered.

The black wisps stopped coming off of Riku's palm, and he clenched that hand into a fist. Sora's fists clenched at his sides at the same time, and he said, "But we're going to do it. We have to. For the sakes of everyone on Nexus and across all the other worlds. They're relying on us, even if they don't know it."

"We'll save them," Riku said. He lowered his fist down to his side and his other hand tightened into one as well. "We'll save everyone." And put the worlds back the way they should be.

Stan, Timmy, and Ben sat on either side and the head of a long table covered in dozens of platters of some of the most delicious food any of them could imagine. Despite this, only the fat boy at the other head of the table as Timmy was chowing down. Cartman had sent Butters away right after they arrived in the fancy dining hall, and Juandissimo had turned into a purple pitbull that sat on the right side of Cartman's chair. "So Stan," Cartman started. "How've you been since you got here?" Stan glared at the boy who turned his head left a little while chewing on some fried chicken skin. Cartman nodded at Stan's left arm that was over the table, and he said, "I noticed your arm's not real. Your legs neither."

Timmy and Ben turned from Cartman to look at Stan in surprise. He had fake skin over his left arm so neither of them noticed before, but Stan lowering his arm back to his side and hiding it in his cloak told the others that Cartman was right. "My legs are still mine," Stan said in an annoyed voice.

"You've got steel plates and rods all over inside them though," Cartman said.

"You using X-ray vision on me, you a homo now?" Stan asked.

"Shut the fuck up!" Cartman snapped.

"It is pretty gay though," Stan said, not deterred by Cartman's voice raising.

The Wizard King rose a hand, and all three of the people at the table with him tensed up. He froze with it lifted though, and he put it back down with a sigh a second later. "Kyle's dead," Cartman said. Stan looked at Cartman with widening eyes, the scar over his left eye aching like his metal arm and enhanced legs that started hurting at the same time. "You already knew," Cartman said, his eyebrows lifting up in realization.

"I saw him," Stan said. He was really annoyed all of a sudden, but as he stared at Cartman's face, he calmed himself down. He wondered why it took Cartman so long to bring it up to him, and he could not think of many reasons except that the fat kid did not know how to break it to him. Stan frowned at the slight show of humanity from his old friend, then he continued since Cartman was looking forward so intently "He, got turned into a zombie. It was the second day after we got here, to this world…" Ben Tennyson's eyes started to widen, his jaw lowering, his heart rate speeding up as he stared at the kid across the table from him. "My group got attacked on all sides, but the zombies were the worst. They, they devoured people in front of me, then Kyle came out of the fog. He tried to eat me," Stan hissed. "Then, this fiery creature thing flew out of nowhere and-"

"Oh my God," Ben whispered. His lip started quivering, and the others turned towards him as he leaned forward over the table. "How are- you survived? I mean- I didn't think anyone-"

"Ben, what are you talking about?" Timmy asked in confusion.

"I was there!" Ben shouted while spinning to Timmy. "That flaming alien he was speaking- you were talking about," he spun back to Stan and continued while the kid gawked at Ben. "That was me," Ben pointed at himself with a shocked look on his face. As Ben said it, he realized something that made his eyes open huge. He spun to Cartman and exclaimed, "I never got a wish, but I know what mine is now! Could you give me my Omnitrix back?" He spun to a still-shocked Stan and in an excited voice said, "It's a watch I used to turn into aliens, like Heatblast!"

"You already got your wish!" Cartman shouted at the brown-haired kid spinning around to all of them in an excited way, who turned away from him right after requesting a wish. Cartman glared at the boy whose smile faded at the sight of Cartman's gaze. "When I saved your life from the King who came looking for you!" The Wizard King shouted in Ben's head, and the boy leaned back in his chair nervously while nodding fast at him.

As much as this confused Timmy, Stan finally got over his shock and leaned forward, "That was really you?" Ben turned and nodded at him, still sweating from Cartman's glare and telepathic message though. "You survived?" Stan asked, a confused tone in his voice now.

"That's what I want to ask you," Ben said, looking just as confused as Stan did. He thought about what Cartman said about Stan's body, and his eyes shifted down from Stan's face. "Those injuries, did you-"

"That day," Stan replied with a dark nod. "But you, you came out of it fine?" Stan asked.

Ben started to feel bad, and he looked back into Stan's eyes and nodded. "What, happened to you?" Ben asked. "We thought- Dash, Riku, and I," he specified, and Stan shook his head some more as he heard those two were there as well. As he thought about it, he pieced something together that had been bugging him since the first trap in the Wizard King's castle. He recalled Riku wrapping a piece of his shirt around his eyes as a blindfold, and he recalled a silver-haired man who once had a blindfold just like that. He had never spoken to the man, but he remembered him in a hazy memory following behind the pack of people Stan had traveled with for the first two days. Ben continued while Stan thought on that, "We thought we were the only ones who survived. There were bodies everywhere, and limbs, and, and we didn't know," Ben whispered the last part. "If we had known, if we had just checked each body," he whispered quieter, thinking about how they had avoided all the corpses instead of doing anything about them.

"I was lying among those bodies, barely clinging to life," Stan said. Ben clenched his eyes shut, filling with self-hatred over what Stan was saying. Stan could see that look on Ben's face and for a moment thought it was well-deserved. Then, a face appeared in Stan's mind with a scar on his face similar to the one on Stan's, even over the same eye. "I'm glad you didn't find me," Stan said, and Ben's eyes snapped open in surprise. "If you had, I never would have met my Master. He never would have been able to make me my new arm, and fix my legs so I could walk again. I would never have learned how to use the Force either," Stan said. He sighed and then leaned back in his seat and said, "If you had saved me, I never would have gained the strength to protect myself, and I probably would have wound up dying anyway."

Ben's eyes could not get any wider. He's, not mad? Ben thought. In shock, he whispered, "But, we left you there-"

"I mean it, I prefer things this way," Stan said. If they had checked. If they had done things just a little differently… There's no point in imagining how my life could have went. Anakin, I'm glad I met you. "Even with Riku's healing magic, he wouldn't have been able to fix the injuries I had. He wouldn't have been able to regrow my arm, right?" Stan asked, and Ben shook his head which made Stan nod, checking off another reason why it was better this way.

"How have you guys never mentioned this to each other before?" Cartman wondered.

Stan turned back to him, "I only just started traveling with them. When I heard the message you said through Timmy Turner's mouth, I knew it was you." Stan paused for a moment, then he said, "Cartman, how did you know about Kyle?"

The fat kid's face darkened, and the purple pit bull on his side moved closer to his chair. He thought back, and a sad look formed on his face as he leaned back in his seat.

FD + 3

Remy, Juandissimo thought sadly, floating forward a hundred feet above a field of gray ash. The field stretched seemingly endlessly in all directions. The line of sight on the field did not extend too far though, as there was a light fog in the air just above Juandissimo that made the ground look even grayer than it was. It takes more than two days to get over something like this. Stupid orders. Juandissimo Magnifico needs time to mourn! He leaned his head back and let tears slip through his clenched-shut eyes.

I don't even have the magic to help another child right now. Don't they understand?! Juandissimo opened his eyes and lifted a hand, creating a small mirror in his grasp that he used to look at himself. "I am too sexy to have gray hair already," he said while looking at his beard that had more than a touch of gray to it. It was not even silver, a color that Juandissimo believed he could pull off well. I'm exhausted, and it's because of that intense magic on the First Day. It wiped me right after Remy… Juandissimo bit down harder and lowered his gaze to the gray earth below him. How could I have let my Godchild down?

The Fairy Godparent without a kid flew aimlessly over the landscape. He looked around, then muttered to himself, "Nope, no kids here." He was not looking very hard. It was too soon after losing a child to go off looking for a new one. Fairy World got brought here. How is that even possible? Why send me out to look for miserable children, when I should be protecting Fairy World with my abs! He flexed and his white shirt ripped apart, My pecs! His shirt shredded again, then Juandissimo gasped and stopped before thinking of another muscle and flexing again. I shouldn't waste magic, he thought, though the thought tasted bad in his mind. Magic was second nature to a Fairy, as simple as breathing, and though he did not need to use magic, he still felt strange telling himself to save what was supposed to be a limitless source.

"Mom."

Juandissimo turned himself invisible. He heard a voice much too close for his liking, and he realized he had been too unfocused to realize that there were people on the gray earth below him. He looked down and stared at a kid, standing on the ground thirty yards below him and a little to his right. Juandissimo floated farther up to get into the fog and escape, but he stopped as he looked around the child. Despite what Juandissimo thought he heard, the child was on his own.

He wore a jacket that had lost its buttons and was opened up down the middle now. It was so covered in gray ash that Juandissimo could barely tell it was supposed to be red. He had a dirty yellow glove on his right hand, and his exposed left hand was all bloody and curled into a fist as he walked forward, saying in a quiet voice again, "Mom." Juandissimo looked at the boy's eyes, half-open and with large black bags beneath them. He had messy brown hair that was speckled in gray too, and his face was covered in dirt. The short, fat boy had on brown pants that were ripped up below the knees, and above the knees they were in tatters too. The worst thing Juandissimo saw was the boy's feet though. At first he did not notice because the tops of them were covered in the same gray ash that covered the landscape, but when he looked in the path of footprints the boy left behind, Juandissimo saw the blood left in those marks.

Juandissimo hesitated. He looked up and stared at the fog above him, wondering if he could get away, then questioning whether he should. He shook his head and floated up a few feet, There's too much going on. This place is absurd, and I am too sexy for this! I am too sexy, too, too sexy, to be… Choosing a Godchild, I have to be ready to protect him this time! This world has a high Danger Level, higher than anything I have seen in my sexy life.

"HOLA!"

Eric Cartman stumbled backwards and stared in front of him with jaw dropped as an explosion of smoke filled the air. Out from the ground on either side of the smoke pillar emerged giant roses twenty feet tall each. They curled up and then off of their leaves sprouted other, smaller roses. A hand reached out of the smoke and plucked one of those roses, and then as the smoke started to clear, a muscular tan-skinned Fairy flew forward with the rose in his mouth. "My name, is Juandissimo Magnifico! And I," he did a small dance while salsa music went off around him, making the stunned kid looked around in confusion as to where it was coming from. "Will be your Fairy Godparent for now on!"

"The fuck is that?" Cartman asked. Juandissimo's eyebrows rose at the kid's curse, then the boy pointed a finger at him and yelled, "And who the fuck are you?"

Juandissimo opened his mouth, but he just said who he was and gave his introduction so he decided against doing it again. He flew down using the tiny wings on his back, the little golden crown floating above him keeping up the whole time which confused Cartman even more. "Any wish you desire," Juandissimo said while coming up on Cartman's right side, putting an arm around his side and waving his other one in front of him while smiling wide. A rainbow came off of his hand as he waved it across the air in front of him, but Cartman rolled his eyes as he heard that.

Sounds like a scam, he thought, though he did wonder how this small creature was doing the things it was doing. "Any wish?" Cartman asked. Juandissimo hesitated, but before he could open his mouth to explain to specifics, the kid next to him said, "In that case, I wish for one million dollars."

"One million dollars, coming right up!" Juandissimo let go of the kid and waved his wand in front of him. Cartman stared at the wand with a dim golden star on it as it brightened for a moment. Then, it rained money. Cartman's jaw dropped and he held his hands out, catching a few bills as they landed in his hands. He looked up and around at the hundred dollar bills falling on all sides of him. "See, it is as I told you! As your sexy Fairy Godparent," he flexed and made his shirt rip then reappear over his muscular form, "I will help you in-"

"Bring my mom back to life!" Cartman shouted up. He called it out then froze with his eyes snapping open even wider than when the money fell. I don't need that bitch telling me what to do anymore! Why would I say that?!

Juandissimo froze with his mouth open. "Oh," he said, and his mouth closed while a hesitant look appeared on his face. Haven't had a kid ask me that in centuries. Usually, they're miserable because of other things…

"What's with that look?" Cartman snapped. "You're my Fairy now right? That means you have to do it!" He did not know why he was trying so hard, but he bit down on his bottom lip as the Fairy started shaking his head down at him. His sad look quickly switched with anger, and he snapped, "What happened to whatever I desire? I knew it, you're a fucking hack!"

"It is against Da Rules," Juandissimo said, and he waved his wand to make a giant purple book appear out of thin air. Cartman stared at the book labeled in yellow letters as 'Da Rules' in a funky font. "The guidelines that every Fairy and their Godchildren have to adhere to."

"You have a rulebook?" Cartman asked. "And in that book, there's a clause saying that I can't bring my mom back to life?" He questioned in an even more skeptical, annoyed, hateful voice.

Juandissimo hesitated, then replied, "Si. I cannot return anyone to life whose time has come."

"But it wasn't her time!" Cartman shouted, and Juandissimo leaned back at the teary-eyed look on the angry kids face. "It wasn't fair! Bring her back!"

"I'm sorry," Juandissimo said, the only thing he could think of in response.

"Then kill yourself," Cartman said, a dark look replacing the sad one on his face.

Juandissimo's face filled with panic, and he shook his head fast at the kid down below him. "Please do not ask that of me," he said in a desperate voice. Is it against Da Rules?! I've never seen a clause like that! No one even considered that might happen!

"I mean it, do it," Cartman said, a smirk spreading on his face at the terrified one on the Fairy's.

"It's not my fault I can't bring her back," Juandissimo said. "Just- I'm here, to make your life better," he said, a pleading look in his purple eyes as he stared down at the kid. He saw Cartman calm down a little, as if thinking about what the Fairy said more closely.

The boy looked towards Da Rules book which was still floating next to Juandissimo, and he said, "Give me that."

Juandissimo hesitated, then he whispered, "You must start your wishes, with 'I wish.' It is one of Da Rules, and I cannot assist you without you saying it." Juandissimo thought about just sending the book down to the kid, but he was terrified of what the kid just asked him to do. If the boy read that part of Da Rules on his own before Juandissimo said anything about it, the Fairy was afraid that the boy would try it out with the same wish he tried making a minute ago.

"Ohh?" Cartman asked, lifting his eyebrows. Juandissimo's face filled with fear as it seemed like the kid had the same thought as he did. Cartman froze though after making that threat with his smirk, and he stopped before calling out something he might regret. "I wish… I could read through Da Rules."

Juandissimo let out a deep sigh of relief, then he sent the book down to float in front of the boy. The book opened on its own, and the child covered in dirt stared closely at the first page. Is he, going to read all of it? Juandissimo wondered, and he floated down on the other side of the book to stare at the hard cover while Cartman read through the book. Never had a kid do that before. I don't even know all of the rules in there. "By the way, what is your name?" Juandissimo asked. Usually he would know beforehand, but the higher-ups were too busy to give him a specific child to go help, instead leaving it up to his discretion which miserable kid to pick. He was already starting to wonder if he had chosen wrong, but he reminded himself that it was not about the child's personality, but their level of misery.

"Eric, Cartman," the kid said, though his voice sounded annoyed as he said it. He grunted after introducing himself, then pulled the rule book down a little to look over the top of it. "Can't use wishes to win competitions. Can't wish to steal, or falsify documents, or hurt anyone!" He shook his head at the Fairy who had a nervous look on his face at the grievances the kid was having with Da Rules, making him wonder about the boy's personality again. Actually, Cartman thought as he reread the most recent rule about how Fairies could not "kill, main, or injure living beings," he focused on the start of the sentence instead. "Fairies cannot directly kill," Cartman thought with a growing smirk. There are loopholes. This isn't such a bad, this isn't bad at all. Oh man, is this for real?! Anything I want with a few exceptions?!

A giant grin plastered itself to Cartman's face, then he wiped it from his face and made sure not to get too excited too quickly. He pushed the book to the side, deciding to read the rest of it later. "It's pretty lame that you have all those rules," Cartman said to the Fairy who nodded along with his Godchild, if just to appease him. "Well then, why don't I test the limits of this power?" Cartman wondered, and his smirk re-spread across his face while Juandissimo gained a grim one on his own.

The kid either missed the look on his Fairy's face, or he just ignored it completely. "I wish for a roller coaster!" Cartman called out. Juandissimo smiled again and waved his arm. His wand flashed gold and then the Fairy started panting, but Cartman did not notice as he was too busy staring behind him at the massive roller coaster that looked like the main attraction of an amusement park. And no lines, Cartman thought in amazement. "I wish for the rest of an amusement park too! Call it, Cartmanland!"

Juandissimo took a deep breath, then he flexed his muscles and waved his wand again. The magical creature gasped out after creating the rest of an amusement park around the roller coaster. The park appeared around them, and Cartman took it all in with teary eyes. He stood on top of a pile of hundred dollar bills, food stands and theme park rides all around him. There was a giant ferris wheel, bumper cars, even a sign not far from him with a map on it showing where everything in the place was. On the sign above that map, Cartman let out an audible gasp and whimper combined at the sight of 'CARTMANLAND' written in all capital letters.

It's perfect, Cartman thought, then had a thought and spun around shouting, "None of these rides will break down, right? And no one else can come in?!"

Juandissimo thought those were some weird things to ask, but he just nodded his head at the boy slowly. Cartman's smile reappeared and he spun, then ran off into the park to try out his roller coaster first. Juandissimo frowned for a moment. His mother just died. Then again, he now has a Fairy Godparent. He's not as miserable now, but if I were to leave like this, he would become miserable again. He does not have lasting happiness in a park like this.

FD + 6

Maybe he could find happiness staying here forever, Juandissimo wondered as he looked down on the amusement park from above. The fog had been wished clear two days earlier, and there was now a lake surrounding the amusement park. The edges of the park almost touched the water, and Cartman had named the island the park was now on, 'Cartman-Island.' Cartmanland on Cartman-Island seemed like a place the kid could live forever happily, and Juandissimo wondered if his job was done.

I could wish him up food that lasts forever when he needs to refill the refreshment stands. If I make enough of it with that wish, food that will never spoil, I could leave it here and be finished. I know there are other children who need Juandissimo Magnifico's helping hands! The fairy chuckled a few times, then he looked to his right shoulder where his ponytail was draped over. He stared at the grayish-black color and frowned. Every time he thought it was starting to get closer to its original hue, it seemed to go gray again. He had called into Fairy World to report that he had found a Godchild and to ask when the Big Wand would be fully recharged, but he was not given an answer and was told not to waste their time.

As much as not having infinite magic bothered him though, Juandissimo had yet to run into a problem with the boy who had finished reading through Da Rules in their entirety. Cartman had asked him about how he was able to create so much money for him, since there was a rule in there against it. However, Juandissimo explained that the rule was because wishing for money would be the same as counterfeiting, except that on this world where that money held no value, it did not apply. When he responded like that to the boy though, the kid had grinned instead of getting upset like Juandissimo thought he would. The Fairy staring down into Cartmanland watched as the boy drove around in the bumper car arena for his hundredth time, and he wondered what the boy was thinking as he was no longer yelling with glee as he rode the rides anymore.

"Hey Juandissimo!" Cartman called out.

The Fairy vanished and reappeared in front of the boy who called his name. Cartman had wished that whenever he called his Fairy's name, his Fairy would hear it and come to him. "At your service," Juandissimo said with a small dramatic bow.

Cartman hopped off the bumper car he had slowed to a stop, and he walked out of the arena with his buff Fairy Godfather floating behind him. "Why did I get brought here?" Cartman asked. He turned to the Fairy, and Juandissimo realized that this was not a wish the kid was asking for. "Or wait, I wish you'd tell me-"

"There's no need," Juandissimo assured the boy who thought he might need to wish it for the Fairy to explain. "I can safely assure you, that I have no idea," Juandissimo said, starting his sentence strong and then slouching at the end.

"I wish you'd tell me why I'm here," Cartman said, narrowing his eyes at the Fairy who looked at him confusedly.

"I just told you, I don't know," Juandissimo replied.

Cartman nodded at him and hummed, before turning away and going, "Okay then."

"Did you not believe me when I first told you?" Juandissimo asked, sounding a bit hurt.

"It's not like you've been telling me everything," Cartman countered. He turned to the Fairy and looked at his goatee, then his hair, then his crown and wand. "Something like you, I couldn't put my finger on why you looked so worn out. There are parts of Da Rules book that talk about it though," Cartman said, and Juandissimo tensed up as he realized he really should have read that book fully once or twice in the past few thousand years. "These wishes you've been denying me, they're not actually impossible, are they?" Cartman asked.

Juandissimo's eyes widened, and the kid smirked at the reaction. "Thought so. A few of the rules referenced the toll on your magic stores, using that as a reason for why they are not possible," Cartman's smirk lowered down a little after he finished saying it. Juandissimo got ready for an argument, expecting the boy to start wishing for things against Da Rules. Cartman frowned and after a few seconds said, "In the state you're in now though, you're probably having trouble even do these easy wishes. How long does it usually take you to recover?"

What is he… "I wish for you to tell me," Cartman said with a roll of his eyes as his Fairy was taking too long to answer.

"I have never been through something like this for this long," Juandissimo replied, then he frowned deeply and narrowed his eyes at the boy in front of him. Cartman eased back at that look, and Juandissimo said in a firm voice, "We are not slaves." Cartman's heart started speeding up, and he regretted making that last hasty wish. The way he had been treating Juandissimo was much like a tool, something to make his life better, but ordering the Fairy to speak to him faster when Juandissimo was gong to reply anyway, that was apparently the line to cross. "And this you did not see in Da Rules, but I came to you of my own volition. No one is forcing me to stay, and you cannot wish me to."

Cartman opened his mouth, then he closed it just as fast. He regretted that eye roll and snapping at the Fairy, and he gulped as he realized that despite his luck, he had not yet fully grasped what it was he had received. A pass to whatever I desire, but I have to go through this medium. He's not a person, but they're actually better than people. All those rules. They're designed for someone good. Rules against crimes, against cheating, there's even a rule that I could loan my Fairy out but only to someone twice as miserable! Cartman calmed himself down a little, and he said, "Sorry," trying to really sound authentic as he did. There are other rules in there too though, strange ones. I can't wish away fatal diseases, Fairy magic doesn't work on cockroaches or armadillos. They seem mostly arbitrary, so there are probably only a few that really drain Fairy magic at a much harsher level than the rest. Just what are, Fairies?

"I forgive you," Juandissimo said after a few seconds of studying the thoughtful boy's face. "But remember that I can quit at any time, and I will not accept evil behavior."

"What do you consider as evil?" Cartman asked. Juandissimo gave him a harsher look, and the boy waved his arms in front of him and called out, "Kidding kidding…"

FD + 11

"What happened?" Juandissimo asked as he floated in front of the boy at the start of the line for the roller coaster.

"I don't know," Cartman said with a shake of his head. "I don't think it's the rides. They're just as fun as ever." He looked up at the giant roller coaster and frowned, "I always hated amusement parks but only because of the really long lines. Having a park to myself is great," Cartman's frown lifted up as he knew what the problem was. "It's not that I want to share the park with people, it's that I need people to see how much fun I'm having!" The realization made his Fairy sweatdrop and stare at him oddly, wondering why the boy would get enjoyment out of that. "Alright, I wish that asshole Butters was here!"

Juandissimo figured if the boy was an "asshole," maybe it would not be so bad to have the kid just watch as his Godchild enjoyed the amusement park. The Fairy waved his wand, and at the same time that a puff of white smoke appeared in front of Cartman, a small purple cat also appeared where Juandissimo was just floating. Cartman looked at the cat in confusion for a second, before remembering the rules in Da Rules which referred to what happened if anyone figured out he had a Fairy Godparent. He let out a breath of relief that he had not broken that rule, but he grimaced as he realized he could not brag about as much to Butters now.

"Holy guacamole! Where am I?" Butters appeared facing the opposite direction as Cartman. He looked around the ashy area and stared at all the stands and rides, and he asked in a confused voice, "Did I go to another world again?"

"Hey Butters," a voice said behind him that the little boy with blond hair recognized well. He spun around and his eyes bulged at the sight of a fat kid standing behind him wearing a red t-shirt he got from one of the booths that had 'CARTMANLAND' written across the front of it. Cartman threw his arms out to the sides and Butters slowly lifted his gaze up the theme park's biggest roller coaster. "I have my own amusement park and you don't! Nananana-naaa!" Cartman taunted and started laughing.

"Eric!" Butters exclaimed, bringing his gaze back to the laughing boy in front of him. He opened his mouth to shout asking how he got there, but something came before that, and Butters ran forward and threw his arms around the fat kid in front of him who froze with his mouth wide open. "I'm so glad you're alright!"

"Hey, get off me, asshole," Cartman pushed the kid off and Butters stumbled back, but the thinner boy was smiling wide and had tears in his eyes. "If you start crying, I'm kicking you out," Cartman warned.

Butters wiped his eyes quickly, then the kid said, "Wow Eric, is this the world you got brought to?"

"World?" Cartman questioned the kid, while a small purple cat walked up to Butters' side and looked up at him.

"Aww, Eric you have a cat?" Butters asked while reaching down and petting under the furry creature's chin.

I would say I should have found this child, but he does not seem miserable at all! Juandissimo thought, while smiling and purring as his chin was scratched.

"What's up with the little crown on its head?" Butters asked and moved his hand for the crown. Juandissimo pulled back, and Butters stared in confusion at the creature, as he noticed that the crown was not exactly touching the cat's head but floating over it. "Whoa, cool!" Butters exclaimed.

"What's cooler, is Cartmanland!" Cartman shouted, and Butters started looking around again in amazement at everything around him.

"This is amazing!" Butters shouted. "How'd you make this place? Where are we?"

"We're on Cartman-Island," Eric replied. "In the middle of Lake Cartman."

"Do you have this whole world to yourself?" Butters asked in surprise.

"Why do you keep saying that?" Cartman asked.

Butters looked confused, and the skinnier pale-faced boy scratched the back of his head. Only now that Cartman looked closely did he notice that Butters' clothes were dirty and he looked tired. "Yeah, I got brought to this really scary place after everyone disappeared from class. I thought I was going to be left behind, because everyone else disappeared before me!"

"Others in our class, are here?" Cartman wondered, looking down at the cat which shrugged its small shoulders at him.

"Oh yeah, you vanished first!" Butters exclaimed like he just remembered it. "Yeah, everyone disappeared one by one after you."

What did I think this world was? I thought maybe, it was Hell. Then I got a Fairy Godparent to grant my every wish, so I thought, what did I think? Where am I? Cartman started looking around as the reality of the situation was getting to him. Is this all real then? Magic, and those monsters that killed… That really happened then. That really, definitely happened. Cartman looked away as Butters was staring straight into his eyes and he felt something coming over him.

"So where are we now?" Butters asked.

"How should I know?" Cartman snapped, spinning back to Butters and giving the other boy an annoyed look. "I don't think you were on another world though, probably just on a different part of this one!"

"Really?" Butters asked.

"Yeah, and you know what else?" Cartman asked. "I have this amusement park all to myself. There are no lines, the rides never malfunction, it's paradise."

"Wow, really?!" Butters asked in awe. "How'd you manage all of this in under a couple of weeks?"

"Don't worry about that," Cartman said, and Butters shrugged as he supposed there was no reason asking again.

"Let's go on some rides then," Butters suggested with a wide smile.

Good, he needed some company, Juandissimo thought. Then the Fairy was reminded of why Cartman asked to wish his friend here in the first place.

"You can't," Cartman said. "You get to watch me use them though," Cartman said, before turning and running off for his roller coaster.

"Huh? Hey!" Butters called out and chased after the fat boy. Cartman got on the ride though and he pressed a button on a control console right before he did, so the ride started going as soon as he took his seat. He started laughing and looked over his shoulder to see Butters calling after him.

"Oh geez," Butters said, and he shook his head while lowering the arm he had reached after Cartman. "Well, I'm hungry anyway," Butters said to himself. He turned and started walking away while whistling a happy-go-lucky tune. "This place sure is amazing though. I wonder how Eric did all this. I bet we really are on a different world than that last one though. There were way too many monsters there for a place like this to exist."

At the top of the roller coaster, Cartman looked down towards a concession stand where he saw Butters go behind the counter and start making himself some food. "That asshole," Cartman snapped. "I didn't tell him he could eat anything! Juandissimo!" He called out. The cat still at the bottom of the ride vanished and reappeared in the seat next to Cartman on the ride. "I wish all the food in that concession stand was gone."

Juandissimo waved his wand, then he said once the food vanished, "Why did you invite that boy here? It cannot be to just watch you enjoy the things I wished for you."

It can't? Cartman thought. Aloud, he said, "Of course not. But he has to ask me before going around my park and doing whatever he wants."

"Oh, that's reasonable," Juandissimo agreed and smiled at the excuse.

It is now, is it? Cartman thought while trying not to let the smirk show on his face. To find the limits of what he'll accept. Treat the bad ones as jokes depending on his expressions. I'm going to milk him for everything he has!

FD + 16

"Ugh," Cartman groaned. He walked down the main path of his park from the front entrance that immediately dropped off the island's edge, leading straight up to the roller coaster in the center. As he headed towards the ride, he muttered, "Stupid Butters. He's enjoying this too much. Someone else needs to see how much fun I'm having," he said it, then smirked as he thought about the perfect person. I didn't want to jinx a good thing by bringing him here, but now I'm sure it's going to hold, so it's time!

"Juandissimo," Cartman called out. The Fairy appeared next to him, and Cartman noticed that his hair looked darker than usual. His complexion was darker too, closer to the usual dark tan color it should be instead of the more white shade it had taken with the draining of his magic. "I wish Kyle was here."

"Another child, coming right up," the Fairy announced. Juandissimo swung his wand, bringing forth the Kyle that his Godchild was requesting. The two of them stared at the puff of white smoke, Juandissimo turning himself back into a cat as he did. Turning into a cat turned out to be unnecessary though, as there was no one inside that white smoke. Cartman's eyes lowered down at the same time as Juandissimo's, and they each stared at the pile of ash on the ground. Cartman had long wished the ground to be regular dirt instead of the ash that got all over his legs while he walked around, but at first glance of the ash Cartman wondered if Juandissimo had missed a spot.

Then, a gust of wind flew by and blew some of the ash away, half-revealing a skull inside that pile of ash. Juandissimo turned back into a Fairy right away and said, "Wish it away."

"Is that," Cartman began, his voice shaky as he took a step towards the pile. "No way," he whispered, a thousand memories flying through his head. "This can't be," he whispered. He's dead. That fucking jew bastard died! The corners of Cartman's lips curled up, and Juandissimo thought the boy had snapped. Cartman started laughing. He put a hand to his stomach and started cracking up as hard as he could. Cartman started walking away, and he saw himself giving the red-haired kid CPR to resuscitate him. He thought about entering a city on the brink of destruction with Butters helping him, and how he had dragged Kyle out of there with his family. Between those two memories were hundreds of others though, of the two of them fighting, arguing, shouting at each other. Cartman ignored certain memories and focused on the times Kyle kicked his ass.

The fat kid walked away from his guilty-looking Fairy Godparent. Juandissimo still had only recently met his Godchild, and he did not know what to say to the boy laughing so hard to hide the tears in his eyes. After that day, Juandissimo never heard the boy mention his old friend Kyle again, but Cartman never wished another person from his past to be brought to him.

Present

"I wanted to show…" Cartman began, but he stopped himself a few words in. He shook his head and muttered back to Stan who asked how he knew about Kyle, "It doesn't matter."

Ben looked back and forth between the two kids. It was the first time he really felt like he understood the Wizard King, seeing him share the same expression as Stan like they were feeling the same things. "I know, it won't make much of a difference," Ben started, and the two of them looked back over his way. "But I destroyed all the zombies that day. So, maybe Kyle's at rest now," he offered. It was what he always told himself when he thought about that day. When he thought about the burning flesh of people, how he had burned them all to ash, he told himself that the leader of the white walkers was the one controlling them. He told himself that he was freeing all of them from that monster when he took it down, and while he was burning the zombie horde.

"Maybe," Stan began.

"Well good riddance, that dirty Jew-" Cartman started, regaining his cocky and annoying persona right when Ben thought he might look a little human.

Stan waved an arm at Cartman and flipped the fat kid's plates at him with the Force. At the same time, Juandissimo appeared in the air next to Cartman's chair and scolded, "This is not a joking matter."

"Everything's a joking matter," Cartman snapped back, and he surrounded in a white veil for a second that pulsed off of him and sent all the food that hit him flying away. The pulse also skid the table away from him and knocked dozens of other plates off it with them shattering on the floor afterwards and food getting everywhere. "If you can't laugh at something, you're taking it too seriously."

"You've always been an asshole Cartman, but he was your friend," Stan snapped. He's just being an ass for appearance sake. Just think about that look on his face and calm down. Stan was getting too annoyed, and he took a deep breath. That is not the way of the Jedi, and Sith aren't supposed to get flustered either. Use rage, and hatred, to fuel my power, not mild annoyances. He let out his deep breath and muttered, "Whatever, is that all you wanted from me?"

Cartman froze as he was about to make a retort to his old friend. He really did just keep Stan behind to tell him about Kyle, but now he did not know what he wanted to say to the kid in front of him. "Yeah, whatever," Cartman muttered. He glared into Stan's eyes, and he said, "You're gonna die going after a shinigami, retard." He waved his hand at Stan and the kid vanished from his sight.

He's so powerful, Timmy thought as he stared over at Cartman. He had been tirelessly working to put up mental blocks and barriers up since Cartman released him, and he was still constructing them while he thought, That's what people always think about me when they first meet me. But he, he was more creative than me. I never really wanted, to become a superhero on this world. It's not like I set out to do that. I fought Madara because he just happened to be near me, and, and in Fairy World I was just so angry. Then I killed Naruto, because he was my friend! I had to kill him, I had to fight that day, because he was trying to kill me and everyone else too! New Tokyo was when I realized that as someone with a Fairy Godparent, if I have the power to do something, it's my responsibility to do it. But even with Wanda's help, even with all my effort, I still failed! Then I started wishing for all those extra powers, but it was still just to become stronger. I never thought that I needed to be the strongest. Not like him, he's proud of that title. He thinks he's the strongest thing in this world. If I had taken things more seriously, could I have earned that title? Could I have already stopped Meruem, and Satan, if I had just tried to be a hero?!

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"Butters!" Cartman shouted from the top of his roller coaster where he was standing on the tracks. There were a dozen giant wolves running around the park down below, and two of them were cornering a boy who was on his butt, scooting back right into the wall of a refreshment stand. Cartman spun to the Fairy floating behind him, "I wish, I wish," he spun back, thinking about rules against Fairies causing harm to living creatures. He saw the wolves pounce, and he yelled out, "I wish Butters' skin was as hard as steel!"

A wolf bit down on Butters' head as the boy screamed in terror, while the other bit him right in his left leg. Butters stopped screaming at the feeling of tiny pinches on different parts of his body. He opened his eyes and saw teeth shattering in the darkness of a wolf's mouth, until it brightened when the wolf pulled its head back, whimpering in pain as it just lost all its teeth. Butters looked down at his left leg and saw his pants were bitten right through, but his skin on the inside was undamaged. "Neat," he said, jumping back up to his feet and staring at the wolves in front of him with an angry look. "Your teeth must be really weak!"

One of the wolves pounced on the kid, tackling him to the ground where Butters' head bounced off the floor and he gasped out in pain. The wolf started clawing up Butters' chest, but all it managed to do was shred the kid's shirt and make Butters stare down in confusion as his skin did not tear either from the claws that looked really sharp to him. The wolf grabbed Butters' head by closing its mouth on top of him, an idea coming to its mind.

"That idiot," Cartman growled, then the ride he was on shook. He snapped his head down and spotted wolves smacking their claws into the wooden pillars which supported the roller coaster.

"Eric look at Butters," Juandissimo said in a rushed voice. Cartman had bigger, more important things on his mind as he saw two of the wolves stop trying to take down the ride and instead start running up the tracks so they could get to him. He did glance towards the other boy though, only to drop his jaw as the wolf tilted its head back and swallowed the kid in one bite.

"Damn it," Cartman yelled. "I wish Butters was over here," Cartman exclaimed.

"-AHHH!" Butters came out of thin air mid-scream. Juandissimo quickly turned into a cat and dropped down onto Cartman's left shoulder, on the other side as Butters so that the other kid would not see if he needed to raise his wand. Butters stopped screaming as he felt himself fall onto solid ground. He snapped his eyes open and saw Cartman glancing down at him out the corners of his eyes. "What's happening?" Butters asked, but Cartman spun his head Butters' way fully now and looked over the boy's head with a look of fear on his face.

Butters saw the mysterious purple cat with the crown on its head on Cartman's shoulder, but he ignored it and spun around to look at what Cartman just panicked at the sight of. In the seconds he spent looking towards Butters and wishing him over, the wolves running up the tracks had sped up and were just down the steep drop past where they were standing. Their claws were strong though, and each one of their steps brought them closer with no sign that the steepness of the tracks were slowing them down.

"Butters! Distract them!" Cartman shouted, and he grabbed Butters by the back of the shirt.

"Huh? Hey!" Butters shouted in panic as Cartman pushed Butters towards the drop-off. Butters started screaming as the wolves leapt up in front of him, different wolves from the others who did not know about Butters' abnormally strong body.

As the wolves tried and failed to bite into Butters, the kid screaming loudly and the wolves snarling and growling at him, Cartman made a wish while hoping that Butters could not hear him. "I wish I had super strength." His own mouth curled up madly as the words came out of his mouth. Why did I never wish for this before? Juandissimo waved his wand and Cartman felt his arms, his legs, his chest and abs, they all started to tighten up. He looked the same size, but when he glanced at his right arm he did not see flab anymore. He flexed and his muscle ripped through his t-shirt's sleeve.

He really pushed Butters into the wolves' mouths, Juandissimo thought in disbelief. The other boy may not be getting hurt, but he's terrified right now.

"Hey bastards," Cartman called out, and he started charging forward down the tracks. "This is for messing with Cartmanland!" The wolves lifted their heads off of the boy lying on his back on the breaking tracks and trying to push the wolves away with his small hands. Butters opened his clenched-shut eyes, and he stared in awe as Cartman leapt right over him, slamming his right fist into the face of a wolf. The wolf's head snapped to the side with blood splattering from its face, and Cartman then opened his fist up and grabbed around the wolf's broken muzzle as it opened its mouth up to howl or whimper. He spun in midair, his eyes filling with more glee, as he slammed the head of the wolf into the other one's claw that it tried swiping at him. Cartman dropped down and bent his knees as the two wolves went flying off the front of the roller coaster. Adrenaline coursed through his body at the thrill, and he unbent his legs and shot off towards the wolves while extending a leg, kicking straight through the side of one and ripping through both of them in midair.

Cartman started to fall, but he looked down with a mad grin at the wolves down at the bottom of the ride. A few of them were still trying to destroy the roller coaster, but at this point he did not care if they tore it down. "Hey hey hey, who's next!" He slammed down into the ground with a fist extended, and then Cartman winced and he felt his bones start creaking all over his body. The ground crumpled in, and a crater blasted off of his fist. He destroyed the foundation for most of the roller coaster's wooden beams holding the ride up, while blasting away the wolves around him with chunks of earth that he ripped out of the ground with his punch. What's going on? I had all the power to blow everything away, so why does it hurt so much? Cartman's whole arm vibrated so badly that his shoulder and then his head trembled. His teeth chattered and he felt it through his body.

A cat dropped down to the ground in front of him. There was still dust and debris rising everywhere from Cartman's punch, so Juandissimo appeared in front of him in his usual form. "Super strength does not equal durability. Your body can't take those kind of blows!"

Cartman had not realized it because of the adrenaline, but as soon as Juandissimo said that, he felt a sharp pain in his right hand. The boy lifted his arm and stared at his fist, only to see his knuckles busted up and bleeding, his fingers all broken, and a bone sticking out of his wrist. The absolute rush of having a super power. The power that he had always truly wanted but never dared to imagine. It was real authority. Not just the power to deny someone access into his theme park, or the minor power of telling a Fairy to grant him wishes. This was real power. His power. The idea made it impossible for him to think rationally for a few seconds, and the only reason he snapped out of it was because he could not continue moving his body to go on with the attack while every bone in his body trembled from the vibration of the punch.

"SHIT! AHHH!" Cartman screamed as he saw the blood sticking out of his messed up arm. He dropped down and fell on his butt while lifting up his hand and screaming at the sight of his fingers that just waved and flopped around without him having any control over them.

"Calm down and think!" Juandissimo exclaimed at the boy in front of him. He looked around and saw dark shadows in the rising dust surrounding them. Cartman was yelling too loudly though, and in Juandissimo's mind appeared a crying boy in front of his eyes. "Remy! Remy think of a wish to save yourself! Remy it's right there! Quickly! Remy! REMY!" Not again. I won't let it happen again! "Wish for more powers," Juandissimo shouted at the kid whose eyes opened wide at how loud he just was. The dust and ash around them was settling too, but Juandissimo did not care. "Just do it! Right now, even if it hurts, wish for the same thing you gave Butters at least!"

"I-" Cartman started, seeing the wolves around him. His body filled with pain after getting out a single word, and he screamed, "AHHHGCCKK!" He tried scooting back, only to find that every muscle and bone in his body wanted to disagree with him. Nothing was listening to him, and even speaking hurt his jaw.

A wolf pounced through the last of the falling ash. Juandissimo turned his head to the left, staring in shock as this wolf flew out and right past his body. His shaking right hand started lifting up his wand, but his Godchild had not made a wish and the wand was not glowing. I can't! Juandissimo thought, scrunching his face up in regret and horror as the ten foot tall wolf came down with its sharp claws outstretched. DONG! Something dropped out of the air and slammed down on top of the wolf. Cartman's eyes darted up as did Juandissimo's, and the two of them stared at the falling roller coaster collapsing down on top of them. "Eric!" A voice shouted from close-by, and the two who had snapped their gazes up to see if anything else was falling, shot their eyes back down to the wolf that was slammed into the floor. A boy on top of the wolf's back ran over and jumped on top of Cartman while pushing him down to the ground. "Get out of here," Butters called out while looking over at the flying creature near them.

"Uhh," Juandissimo did not know how to react. He floated backwards though to avoid the falling roller coaster, while Butters snapped his head back down to look at Cartman again.

"Butters, you asshole, what are you AHH," Cartman tried to hold it back, but as things started falling around him, the pain filling his body became too much and he let out a scream again.

"I don't really know what's going on," Butters started. He felt something slam down on top of his back, and he winced but put his arms down on either side of Cartman's body. "Oof," Butters groaned as something else fell on top of him. He opened his clenched eyes and looked at the boy he was desperately trying to stay pushing above instead of falling down on. "But, this doesn't really hurt, at all," he said, while groaning as the weight of the debris on top of him increased even more. "I figured, if you could, jump off, then why can't, I?" Butters collapsed down on top of Eric, but Cartman's left hand snapped up on Butters' right side and pushed up on the debris crushing them.

Cartman bit down hard as the weight of Butters and all that debris started crushing him. He bit down hard enough not to let out a scream as he put all his effort into raising his arm and pushing the debris above them away. He pushed so hard that the wooden board he pushed on ripped apart, while everything above it just blasted upwards. That wasn't power, Cartman thought, while letting his arm drop back to his side. He took deep breaths, and Butters rolled off of him while saying something in amazement at how Cartman did that. I got strong, but that didn't give me any authoritah. I was still beaten even with what I thought was real power. The kid aching all over turned his left palm over and pushed down on the ground, easing himself up slowly. I need more than brute strength. I need, I need! Cartman rose to his knees and grabbed his arm that was screaming in pain with his other hand. I need everything!

He saw the wolves around the fallen roller coaster. They still had not given up on this meal, no matter how difficult the food was being. "I wish I had super durability," Cartman muttered, while stepping forward and letting go of his right arm with his left hand. He stomped up on top of a wooden pillar that had snapped and had bite marks all over the part his foot came down on. "I wish, I could fly." Cartman's feet lifted off of the ground and he focused on how he wanted to keep moving forward, and his new ability gave him this possibility. "I wish my injuries were healed," he said. He waited a few seconds, then he snarled and muttered, "Of course not."

Screw it! Juandissimo swung his wand and it glowed bright gold. His black hair lightened in color, and he dropped out of the air as his crown's gold faded as well.

Cartman froze as he felt his body healing. He looked down at his right hand and watched as a white light surrounded his fingers. The light sizzled away as smoke a second later and surrounded his arm, but in that brief moment he was sure that he saw the magic working to heal him. That was not how his Fairy's magic worked. It happened instantaneously, every time. Cartman spun and looked over towards where Juandissimo backed up when Butters told him too, and Cartman ignored the two wolves that just leapt up at him. He saw a different wolf, one moving away from both him and Butters with its front paws pushed down far and its teeth bared and snarling at a creature in front of it.

I didn't think, it would require that much. For such an injury, do I really need this much of a punishment? Juandissimo rose his arms in front of his face. "I'm too sexy to die like this!" He called out in panic, right before he imagined his sexy body would be shredded by wolf claws. Liquid splashed all over him, and Juandissimo opened his eyes and saw that the wolf's head was gone. The front of his body from head to toe was soaked in blood, as was the front of the fat kid standing in front of him.

"You can't die on me," Cartman said. Juandissimo's eyes opened wide, and then they went back to normal just as fast as Cartman turned around and continued, "I'm not nearly powerful enough yet."

"Well," Juandissimo said, and his voice sounded more hoarse than it did when he called out what he considered might be his final words. "I cannot make you more powerful right now at all."

"That's alright," Cartman said. "Your hair's gray, I realized that already." Cartman clenched both fists in front of him, both dripping with wolf blood. "But you've already done enough today," the boy said, and this time Juandissimo's eyes widened and stayed that way as he stared at the kid's back. "You can have the rest of the day off," Cartman finished, then he shot forwards leaving a wake of deep footprints because of how hard he stomped down with every step.

Butters and Juandissimo watched as Cartman massacred the giant-wolf pack. He leapt up in the air and came down hard, blasting apart his rides and concession stands with unnecessary attacks that flaunted his new power. He threw wolves back and forth across Cartman-Island, before smashing them into the ground or killing them in new ways. He lifted up two bumper cars and flew up to where he tossed one wolf before sandwiching it between them with a mighty clap that caused blood to rain down. He then threw each of the crushed bumper cars at wolves that were trying to run away, and their whimpers and howls echoed through the park. Juandissimo wondered as he watched this transpire, What have I created? Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? I could be stripped of my status as a Fairy Godparent for giving a child like this the power to rule the world! In that case… I must stay here. To ensure that he does not overstep with these new powers. Even if he does become happy, I cannot leave him alone without guidance in this fragile world. He is my Godchild, and a boy without real parents. That means, I am the one left to watch over his growth for now on.

Present

"It's not about, being a hero, Timmy Turner," Cartman said. Timmy's eyes opened wide, and he started repairing all his mental blocks immediately as he wondered how Cartman read his mind. Just because the Wizard King let Timmy go from his mental control though, did not mean that certain wishes he had made were not still in effect. Like the wish that allowed Cartman to take full control in the first place, when he wished to always be able to read Timmy's mind despite whatever blocks he had. Such a specific wish made it easier for his Fairy. That power made it so simple to find where Timmy was putting up his blocks, when he was the least on-guard, when he was vulnerable to mind control. Of course, there was no need to tell Timmy that he had done that.

Cartman smirked at the boy who was trying to repair what wasn't broken in such a panicked way. "My power doesn't come from the same reason as yours. I didn't become strong because I had a purpose. I didn't keep adding more and more powers to myself just to help others, or take over the world, or any specific reason. I just want power. That's all there is too it. Because with power, no one can ever tell me what to do again."

Juandissimo stared down at his Godchild with a hesitant look on his face. Ben and Timmy saw that expression on the buff Fairy's face, and the two of them realized that not even the Wizard King's Fairy Godparent had a leash on him, not really.

"Juandissimo, right?" Ben began. The other three in the room with Ben looked his way, and he stared into the Fairy's purple eyes and started, "Do you know why, do you understand, why we're all here on this world?"

Juandissimo frowned at the kid's question. Timmy started shaking his head, and Ben turned his way as the kid spoke behind him. Timmy had slid his chair away from the head of the table when Cartman pulsed his energy and knocked it away to prevent it from crashing into him. He sat on the same side of the table as Ben now, just farther towards the opposite head as the Wizard King. "The Fairies don't know. I asked Cosmo and Wanda right when we got here, but they were as confused as I was."

"Certain Fairies did know," Juandissimo said, and Timmy spun towards him with a shocked expression. "I believe the Fairy Council knew. And Jorgen too, probably," Juandissimo said.

Timmy thought back on the fight with Madara. He remembered how he had revealed his Fairy Godparents' existences during the crazy battle and how Jorgen had appeared. Even on this crazy world, Jorgen showed up to strip him of his Fairy Godparents for breaking the most sacred rule. After two and a half years though, that rule no longer seemed to matter. Juandissimo had shown himself to everyone in their party, and Timmy had revealed Wanda to all of his old friends he made during the War Against the Underworld too. No one was stopping them anymore. No one was enforcing that rule.

"Juandissimo," Timmy began. "How can Fairies not know?" The muscular floating creature turned towards him, and Timmy looked so confused as he looked up at him. "Sora said, that it's difficult to travel between worlds."

"Impossible for the most part," Juandissimo corrected. "The Gods cannot do so themselves. But someone as sexxxyyy as me," he vanished in a puff of smoke, then reappeared holding a box of chocolates and a bouquet of roses. He sniffed the bouquet then tossed it up in the air so the roses rained down around him, then said as the flowers fell on his sides and in front of his face, "I got those from your universe, Timmy Turner."

"Waste of some magic," Cartman muttered, but he refrained from telling his Fairy not to do it again. He wanted to, but he knew how Juandissimo felt about making wishes directed at him.

Fairy magic is so powerful. Gods can't do it he says. These are the same Gods I'm guessing brought everyone to this world. Goku can't break through the barrier, let alone hop to another universe. Wait wait wait wait… Sora, what was he talking about? Timmy's eyes started to widen while sweat formed all over his face. I knew it. Back when I still read the minds of people I met for the first time, I heard some things in Sora and Riku's heads, things that didn't make any sense. Then I wished for a Keyblade when Wanda was all better after Castle Oblivion. I wanted to have one for when we invaded Metropolis, but she waved her wand and it never came. We scoured Da Rules, but there was nothing in there about Keyblades. "Do you, know what a Keyblade is?" Timmy asked.

Cartman grinned as Timmy asked the question, even as Juandissimo shook his head. "I do," Cartman said. Well, not really. All I know is what Sora was thinking about, but what I heard was enough. "Those Keyblades are going to decide the fate of this world!"

What? Ben thought in panic, looking down at his right hand and questioning whether or not he should form his Keyblade.

He has a Keyblade too?! Cartman thought with wide eyes as he stared at the kid on the side of the table. In that case… maybe I shouldn't, take that cube. As soon as Cartman thought it, Ben's eyes snapped up to him and instantly narrowed down. Cartman felt a strange sensation in him like he was looking at an animal being backed into a corner. What the Hell was that?! Cartman thought. It's all he's thinking about now! It had crossed his mind once when I let him know that I knew about him turning back time, but it had never touched his thoughts again. It's like he was intentionally not thinking about it in order to prevent me from discovering its existence. Wait no, not intentional. Cartman continued reading Ben's mind, and he realized with widening eyes, He had no idea what he was doing. Then, then why wasn't he thinking about it? Why wasn't he worried that I would take it before, and only now…Cartman's eyes lowered to the boy's pants where one hand immediately dropped down over his pocket and covered up the lump inside his pants. I don't even want that thing anymore, Cartman thought anxiously, taking his eyes off of it and looking back towards Timmy so that the kid closer to him would stop staring like such a beast in his direction.

Ben let out a deep, low breath. He heard it in front of him after it came out of his mouth, and he narrowed his eyes harder at Cartman as the fat boy looked back at Timmy and mentioned something about the Gods again. Ben's left hand clenched harder over his pocket. The cube inside glowed and Ben knew it was glowing, because his body was filling with warmth like it did whenever the cube glowed. The warmth only came after Cartman looked away, replacing the terrified feeling that Ben had that the fat boy was going to try and take it. The Eliacube is mine. No one else would use it responsibly. I'm the only one! I especially can't let someone like the Wizard King have it.

"How do you know the Gods really exist?" Timmy asked. "I mean, I believe Sora, but you seem like you already know so much." He narrowed his eyes at the Wizard King, being careful not to be too disrespectful as there were dangerously few people remaining here with them. He did not want to be left alone with Cartman and Juandissimo, and his chair had gotten closer to Ben some time in the past minute.

"They sent someone after us," Cartman said. He chuckled and added, "Little over a year ago, this weirdo angel…"

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Cartman sat on a giant throne in the location of what would one day be his castle. The huge white chair had the boy sitting in it at a proportional size, hundreds of meters tall with his arms resting on the arm rests. His left elbow was bent in though and his chin was propped up in one hand, an annoyed look on his face as he idly tapped two fingers against his cheek over and over again. "What is taking them so long?" Cartman muttered. His voice came out as a thunderous low tone that made the ground shake below his feet, and Butters looked back from the small pond he was sitting cross-legged on the edge of to ask the giant what was wrong. Juandissimo sat on a lily-pad in the middle of a small pond, a strange purple frog with a crown floating over his head.

"What's up Eric?" Butters called out, and even though the boy was far down, Cartman's enhanced hearing let him catch what the boy's high-pitched-sounding voice called to him.

"I stopped the Flood," Cartman shouted, and the ground really shook this time as he rose his voice. Butters' feet bounced off the floor a few times and he wobbled his arms around at his sides to try and keep his balance, only to fall back on his butt anyway. "Where are they?"

"Who?" Butters asked.

"Everyone!" Cartman yelled. His thunderous voice caused the clouds above to change which direction they were floating. It cast ripples in the pond that made frog-Juandissimo have to spread his legs to try and keep the lily-pad from flipping over. "You would think they would be more grateful! You would think, I would receive more praise for creating the Great Wall! Don't they know how taxing that was on me making something so big?"

Juandissimo frog hopped off the lily-pad and landed on the side of the pond right next to Butters. The little blond boy looked at the frog after Cartman shouted that, and he could see the frown on the frog's face that was a grayer-than-usual color. Butters did not remember a time in the past several months when Juandissimo's color had started to fade again.

It was taxing, but not because of the wall's length, or width, or height. The magic I enhanced the wall with to meet your wish's specifics is what drained my strength. Magic that repels monsters. Anti-monster properties are not impossible to produce, but I have to make them for all different types of monsters since the same kind will not work on Grimm and Flood, Aragami and Heartless.

"But noooo, they're as ungrateful as ever. I don't know why I even try getting on their good sides," Cartman took his hand off his chin and narrowed his eyes. He zoomed in his vision into the distance, staring at the small dot he saw flying towards him from hundreds of miles off. Did I speak too soon? He wondered. Aloud, he shouted, "Finally!"

Juandissimo and Butters spun to follow Cartman's giant gaze to the north. They stared for a few seconds, and then they each saw the man flying their way at eye level with the massive boy sitting on his throne. "Good! You have come!" Cartman bellowed. He lifted his right hand, and in his head he thought, "Hey, I wish I had that staff, only proportional to my size." Juandissimo swung his wand still as a frog, and Butters glanced down before snapping his head up to see what it was Cartman wished for.

A huge golden staff appeared in Cartman's right hand, and he slammed the butt of the staff down on the opposite side of the throne as where Butters and Juandissimo were. The slam of the staff into the floor still lifted Butters off his butt again so he fell down hard. He did not wince though, as Cartman never removed that wish to make his body as hard as steel. He thought Cartman might at some point, but Cartman's super strength made it so that when he hit Butters because he was being annoying, the blond boy still felt it, so there was no need.

The flying figure got closer and Cartman started giving it a closer examination. Those little white wings, they're angelic. The white wings were not the only off-putting thing about the figure flying his way though. The lean, short man had on a white toga and wore a crown of leaves around his forehead over the long straight blue hair he had that fell just below his shoulders. A few strands of that blue hair fell in front of his face, but his sharp facial expressions were all still visible, as well as the red circular burn mark surrounding his right eye. The angelic appearance the figure had sharply contrasted the giant scythe he held in his right hand. The weapon was longer than the man was tall, and the ominous blade that curved off of the shaft was almost as long.

"Who are you?" Cartman asked when the figure stopped flying. The being stood in midair before him a hundred yards away from his face, a small but confident smile on it while he stared at the giant child.

Without saying a word to Cartman, his gaze shifted down and he turned to the right a little. "I have come for you," the creature started, "little Fairy." The man's grin grew more as the purple frog staring at it poofed to life as a Fairy with a nervous expression strewn across his face.

Cartman snapped up to his feet in front of his throne. No one's ever known what Juandissimo is before. This is bad! "I asked for your name!" Cartman bellowed, his deep voice and quick rise causing everything to shake around him. He lifted up the golden rod in his right hand and the blue-haired figure turned back to him as it saw the kid was not one to accept being ignored.

"You are quite the impatient human," he said, then he flapped his wings and shot high up above Cartman's head so that he was looking down on them all. "I am the Angel, Sariel! And you, human boy, must relinquish your Fairy Godparent."

"What's going on?" Butters asked the Fairy floating near him.

I have no idea, Juandissimo thought, and he shot up in the sky. Cartman's eyes darted over as he saw Juandissimo rising up his body, and the boy swung his arm out and put it between Juandissimo's path and the angel. "Don't go," Cartman said, his voice not as deep and with a more panicked tone to it.

"I'm not," Juandissimo said, poofing to the other side of Cartman's arm and then rising to the boy's eye level. Juandissimo stopped once he was level with Cartman though, and Cartman relaxed a little as it looked like Juandissimo really was going to stay. "But I also want to ask this angel some questions," Juandissimo said, flexing and making his shirt rip off as he gained a serious look on his face.

"Oh look at you," Sariel said and shook his head while covering his mouth with an open palm. "Is this how your Godchild treats you? Your skin is pale, your hair graying." Sariel smirked and continued, "For such a sexy Fairy, you look quite old."

"It is not my place to deny wishes within Da Rules, as long as I have the magic to do so," Juandissimo replied without hesitating to think on the angel's words. This made Sariel's lips curl down a little, and then the angel gained a more serious and stern expression on its face.

"I am here to take you away," Sariel stated.

"Not happening," Cartman interrupted.

Sariel lifted his right hand, his scythe was in his left. He curled in his index finger, and then he flicked it forward. Juandissimo's head snapped to the right at the condensed wind pressure that shot by him and slammed into the center of Cartman's forehead. The fat giant stumbled backwards and fell back into his throne, cracking the mighty stone chair with his weight as he fell on it. The back of the chair crumbled and Cartman fell backwards over it and to the ground with a thud that caused an earthquake. Butters was running away from the falling debris of the throne, but he had to leap to the right as a fissure ripped in the ground right between his legs causing him to pick a side.

Sariel never took his eyes off of Juandissimo as he flicked at the giant Godchild with him. He continued as if uninterrupted, "The few Fairies who remain should be lending their powers to the Gods." He held his left arm out and smiled in a friendly, inviting way. "Before you all go extinct, and your magnificent power goes to waste before the real war even begins," Sariel added, and Juandissimo froze with his mouth open for a retort.

The real war? Juandissimo thought nervously. The angel floated forward, but Juandissimo lifted up his wand and held it defensively in front of himself. "Please," Sariel said, rolling his eyes and then shaking his head at the Fairy who did not put the wand down. "Do you think I am afraid of such a weapon? After all the Fairies I have witnessed being slaughtered while holding up those same defenses." Sariel's body turned into white light and vanished, and his body pulled back together looking like hundreds of white feathers forming into one being on Juandissimo's right side. "Come with me peacefully, or I will have to get rough with you, little Fairy. We both know that your true strength is not in a fight-"

"Juandissimo," Cartman called out, while he pulled himself up by the broken throne in front of him. Sariel sighed and turned his head towards where the boy was rising back up. "I wish for Enhanced Mode." The booming voice of the giant disappeared at the same time as his massive body. He transformed into a fat kid even shorter than the angel who was a foot or two shorter than the average man. Cartman floated in place of where the giant's head just was, and then he shot up in the air like a rocket to come up behind the angel whose gaze was still pointed forward. I'm too fast for- Cartman's thoughts cut off as he swung his arm around, because the side of the angel's face that he could still see smirked in that instant before his arm would have collided.

Six green balls of energy appeared behind Sariel's body on all sides of the boy in mid-strike. Cartman's arm changed directions, pulling away from the angel and smacking the first of the attacks he saw coming at him. Unfortunately, they all shot at him at pretty much the same time. He managed to redirect one attack into another and cause them both to explode, only for the other four to collide with his body and create an enormous explosion. Cartman yelled out in pain and fell backwards, and Juandissimo called out to the boy. He flew forward, and then he froze and stared forward in terror at the sharp blade of a scythe resting in front of his eyes, curved inches around his face. The angel he thought he still saw above where Cartman was falling disappeared a second later, and then the scythe in front of Juandissimo's face lowered down to stop in front of his neck. "Oh, I'm so sorry, but this is not a request I am making. It is time for you Fairies to pull your weight where it counts, not wasting your time down here trying to help individual children."

Wasting, my time? Juandissimo thought. That's not true. For Fairy Godparents, granting miserable children's wishes is our greatest honor. Helping these "Gods" win a war? If angels like these are on the Gods' side, then I don't wish to be on their side. One who would force another to do his bidding against their will, is not an angel. Juandissimo tossed his wand up in the air and reached up in front of his neck, grabbing the scythe by the blade and pushing up hard while snapping his head back to avoid the blade as it rose in front of him. The Fairy's muscles bulged as he tossed the scythe up, and the surprised angel leaned back as Juandissimo flew forward and grabbed his wand before spinning and swiping it in front of him.

"Foolish Fairy," Sariel said, slicing his scythe down into the beam of yellow light that shot off of Juandissimo's wand. As soon as the magic touched the scythe, the weapon turned into a bouquet of flowers that Sariel was holding by the stems. The angel looked down at his weapon, then he dropped the flowers and watched as they fell. He shook his head while lifting up his gaze to the muscular Fairy, "As I said," he lifted his left hand and a white light shone there, his scythe reappearing in his grasp while Juandissimo panted and backed up. "Foolish." Sariel flew around Juandissimo with speed the Fairy could barely follow. Juandissimo's head was in mid-turn when the base of Sariel's shaft slammed into his back and shot him forward through the air, then a fist slammed into his gut as he flew off and smashed him down towards the planet below.

"Hold on hold on," Sariel opened up that right fist and Juandissimo slowed down right before hitting the floor. "Can't have you dying on me. My mission is to retrieve you, alive." He licked his lips and tilted his head back while laughing, "But they never said you had to be undamaged!"

"Hey, hey Juandissimo," Cartman shook around his Fairy he sprinted over to, burn marks over a lot of his body. "I had an idea, come on get up," Cartman shook him some more, and Juandissimo opened his eyes to see the fat kid leaning over him. "You ever play RPGs?" Eric Cartman asked his Fairy Godfather.

Surprisingly, Juandissimo nodded his head at him. "Oh, wow," Cartman said. "Thought I was going to have to explain something."

"Are you still moving?" Sariel questioned. His wings flapped as he descended towards the ground where the boy was kneeling next to his Fairy. "That is just a further testament to the reason why we need your Fairy magic in Heaven. To make a human capable of surviving multiple attacks from an angel such as myself. Truly impressive." Despite what he said, Sariel had a look in his eyes that told both of them that he did not like how Cartman was still able to move. "We are not supposed to meddle in the affairs of this world, but without your Fairy, you will no longer have a role to play in this world's destiny anyway." Sariel rose his right hand and a bright green light shone on his palm.

Cartman had whispered something to Juandissimo while Sariel spoke to them, explaining why he was about to disintegrate Cartman just in case any of his superiors were watching him. "You are in my way," Sariel said, and he fired the beam from his hand towards the boy.

"I wish for Divine Protection," Cartman said, turning and looking towards the angel who stared in confusion at Cartman's face. The kid looked way too smug for a kid about to get blasted by angelic magic. Cartman lifted up his right hand while his body surrounded in a thin white veil, and he smacked his palm into the beam of light coming at him. All at once, the beam completely dispersed into shards of green light that floated up and vanished between Sariel and his targets.

"What?!" Sariel shouted, flying backwards in surprise. He calmed himself a little and narrowed his eyes at the two below him, "Stop wasting magic on such a child. You are now a soldier of the Heavens, stop this foolishness and accept that fate has-"

"Man you are long-winded," Cartman snapped, and he shot up in the air and twenty feet in front of the angel before stopping.

"Human brat, you are not a part of this any longer," Sariel started, and Cartman's face twisted in anger. The angel threw his arms out to the sides and smirked. "Your Fairy Godparent has been called upon by the great Gods in Heaven. They sent me through the gateway, to retrieve that which was once yours. None can deny their demand. They hold the greatest authority in all the-"

"I am the WIZARD KING!" Cartman screamed. Sariel froze with his mouth open, and Cartman continued, "Not some 'human brat,' but the Wizard, fucking, King." Cartman tilted his head back now and looked down his nose towards the figure in front of him. "Juandissimo is not mine," Cartman said in a smug, all-mighty kind of way. "He's here because he wants to be here. He grants my wishes, because he offered to, not because anyone ordered him to."

Juandissimo looked over, his hair grayer than before after that wish which took up just as much magic as he thought it would. Power to protect against divine powers. It's pretty specific, but the power of angels and Gods must be enormous for it to take this much of a toll on me. Hopefully, this wish is enough. His gaze focused in on the boy and his mind shifted off of thinking about the wish, and his mouth curled up at the corners while he lay on his stomach at what the kid was saying.

"That is no longer an option-" Sariel began.

"What happened to free will, God?!" Cartman yelled out. Sariel's eyes bugged out at what Cartman just shouted while snapping his head to the sky. "You think you have the power to take that away from me, away from us?!" Cartman shouted. "You think you have the AUTHORITY?!" Cartman's mouth twisted into a crazed smirk that made Juandissimo a little less cocky with his own. "NO ONE HAS AUTHORITY OVER ME!" The ground shook beneath Cartman, his Enhanced Mode still on and granting him the powers he never got to show off before when he was caught off guard by the angel.

"You dare to challenge the Gods?" Sariel yelled, and he shot forward while swiping his scythe in front of him.

Cartman held out his left hand, and the scythe slammed into his open palm without budging Cartman's arm an inch. A shockwave of wind rippled off of the collision, and Sariel's face covered in sweat as the kid's palm curled in to grab his scythe's blade. "Divine Protection," Cartman started. "When Juandissimo's got some more strength, I'll add some perks to it too. I'm sure there's more to the Gods who rule over this world, more that I'll have to prepare myself for. But for a fucking scrub like you," Cartman yanked the scythe forward and then reached forward his other hand and grabbed Sariel around the bottom of his face. His fat hand was so big that it covered up Sariel's mouth and nose, and he started flying straight forward while clenching harder on the angel's face.

Muffled screams pushed into Cartman's hand, but the fat kid with burns on his body just yelled, "I can't hear you!" Right before he slammed Sariel into the base of his throne the the angel had the audacity to break. "This is MY land!" Cartman screamed, and he tossed the angel up before grabbing him by his right leg and whipping him back down into a huge chunk of the chair that just broke off. He bashed Sariel into his throne over and over, then he did a seven-twenty spin and threw the angel down into the ground to his south with one final spin. The angel hit the ground and dragged a trench for miles.

What's going on?! How is he doing this?! I am an angel! Chosen for- Sariel's face filled with panic as he saw something flying towards him as he dragged across the earth. He flipped backwards and his white wings glowed, his face filling with rage, his hair waving around in a sudden gust of wind. "I spent all of last night bathing in the light of the moons. I am strongest when bathed in their light!"

"Too bad it's the middle of the fucking day!" Cartman yelled from behind the angel whose wings suddenly grew three times their normal size. Sariel spun around and slammed a fist for the Wizard King's face, but Cartman leaned his head to the left just in time for the fist to barely graze him. As the fist touched Cartman's skin though, white shards of light shredded off of the boy instead of skin, Juandissimo's magic preventing even a fist from a divine creature to hit him. "Your attacks won't work!" Cartman yelled with his head inches away from Sariel's. Then, Cartman slammed his face forward while reaching around and grabbing both of the angel's arms. He pulled his head back, then headbutted forward again, and again. He smashed Sariel's nose, blackened his eyes, and bashed his head back so many times that the angel was starting to look like a bobble-head.

Cartman winced after bashing his head into the enemy's a few dozen times in a row. Guess Divine Protection doesn't protect against self-inflicted damage. His body's still just as hard as it would be, and my head's not strong enough to handle that. Or maybe head-banging back and forth this many times in a few seconds would give me a headache anyway. Cartman let go of Sariel's arms, then he reached in and grabbed the angel by the neck. Blood was coming down from under Sariel's hairline, out from cuts around his eyes, from his bashed nose, and his mouth full of broken teeth. "That wall I put up," Cartman said. He pulled the angel closer to his face and snarled, "Don't come past it again. Tell the other angels, tell the Gods, that if I fucking see or feel any of them come down here, I won't stop with beating them half-to-death." Cartman slammed his right knee up into Sariel's gut, and such a look of satisfaction came to his face as the angel who was so smug earlier coughed up blood and looked at him in a pathetic way.

No one can stop me! Cartman thought, and he brought the knee back up into Sariel's gut again. Then he pushed the angel hard by the right shoulder so it spun around, before he slammed a foot up into the angel's ass so hard that he sent him flying off into the northern distance. "Now get the fuck out of my property!" He yelled, before starting laughing like a madman at the sight of Sariel speeding away with his bloody wings flapping their hardest behind him. "And if anyone ever comes trying to take Juandissimo again," Cartman shouted with a hand cupped to his mouth, looking over towards his Fairy and flashing him a grin. "Tell them we'll kill their families!"

The Fairy who had grinned back at Cartman was wondering if the boy was being serious or just trying to make sure he stayed on Juandissimo's good side. Definitely serious, Juandissimo thought, as he figured Cartman knew by now that he did not like such kinds of threats. Even though he did not normally appreciate them though, his grin just lowered a little as he had suspected something else at the end of the threat. He sighed and dropped his head to the side while closing his eyes, a tired look on his face.

Pretty sure he thinks that was genuine, Cartman thought while looking over at the Fairy who finally started to relax. The eleven year old winced as he floated that way, and he looked down at his arms that he used to protect his face and torso during the earlier explosion. Damn, how strong was that to damage me in Enhanced Mode? And that was just a grunt, a lackey sent by the big shots. I talked a big game about this all being mine, now I've gotta prove it. He looked towards Juandissimo and saw the Fairy panting heavily while he lay there with his eyes closed. Guess I'll have to do with just Divine Protection for a while though. He needs a break- I need him to recharge his magic power. Cartman corrected his own thoughts, then frowned and turned away from the small Fairy after he realized he had been watching with a concerned look for too long. He decided to focus on something else, and he spun with an annoyed look on his face and yelled, "Butters! You asshole, where did you go?!"

"I'm over here," Butters called out, popping up behind a boulder.

"You were hiding?!" Cartman yelled, lifting a hand and throwing the boulder away from Butters who stumbled forward as he was partially leaning on the big rock.

"Well you never wished me my powers!" Butters called out. "What was I supposed to do?"

"If you weren't hiding, I would have remembered to give them to you!" Cartman shouted. "You asshole, for now on, you fight first and then I come in." I'll know everything the enemies can do after giving Butters a go at them. "This way, I'll never forget to include you," Cartman said, and Butters gulped as Cartman sounded like he had ulterior motives for this.

The other kid thought about the thing that just attacked them, and Butters called out, "Could I not fight angels? I- I don't want to go to Hell or anything like that."

"Dumbass, fighting angels won't make you go to Hell," Cartman said, speaking out of his ass. "I could easily make a wish sending you to Hell, or I could make one sending you to Heaven…"

"Why not just make it so we're immortal…"

Present

"…He came trying to take Juandissimo, but I kicked-" Cartman paused, then he continued, "We kicked his ass. I wished for some Divine Protection, which is now Divine-Plus Protection," he added while lifting a finger, thinking of how he supplanted his old protection with a better version that he worked out specifics with with Juandissimo once his Fairy had returned to full strength. Once Juandissimo was better and they were not in a crunch for time, he had more time to consider what he needed his protection to actually protect from.

"An angel tried taking your Fairy?" Timmy asked in surprise.

"They never tried taking yours?" Cartman asked, mild annoyance in his tone. He frowned, but in his head his annoyance simmered after a moment. He was glad he had the experience to be able to wish for these things in advance. It made him more prepared for when random powerful beings attacked him out of nowhere. Timmy shook his head, and Cartman muttered, "They might have been able to find me easier. Fairy magic is probably the only thing that could have built the Great Wall, so if they aren't constantly watching everyone on Nexus…" He was muttering mainly to himself, but he lifted his gaze after a second and looked over at Timmy. "Alright, do you have something you want to tell Juandissimo before you go, Timmy Turner?" Cartman asked.

Timmy felt immediate relief followed directly by concern. He had been worried that he would be the last one in the dining hall with Cartman, but then he became concerned as apparently Ben was going to be left alone here. He almost spoke out against it, but Ben gave him a quick nod that told Timmy that Ben knew why Cartman wanted him to stay behind. Part of Timmy wanted to read Ben's mind and figure out why, but after the older boy had just traveled all the way here to save him, he felt bad about thinking about invading Ben's privacy like that.

The kid in a pink hat looked over at Juandissimo, thinking on why Cartman asked him that. "Juandissimo," Timmy began. He hesitated, then he sighed and said, "I already told you, I'm sorry about Wanda. I loved her as much as you did though, probably more. And I know she would be furious at you for what you did to me." He glared into the sweating Fairy's eyes, and he continued, "You were always an annoyance, but you're toeing the line of good and evil here." Timmy's expression got softer, and he just finished with, "Be careful. I don't know what would happen to Fairy World if a Fairy turned bad. Maybe you wouldn't receive the Big Wand's magic, or maybe you would taint the Big Wand itself. If that happens," Timmy's brown hair shadowed over the top half of his face, thinking of the past month as a prisoner, imagining the torture he endured trapped inside his own mind for the past week. In a dark voice, Timmy growled, "Then as the protector of Fairy World, I'll be back for-"

Cartman made Timmy vanish. He wanted to make a joke, or taunt, or just poke fun at how serious Timmy had gotten there for a minute. He had wished to be able to read Timmy's mind though. In those seconds while Timmy was giving his threat, Cartman saw everything he had put the kid through, and he could see the tangible hate in Timmy's mind directed at the two of them. The boy meant everything he said too. Despite how afraid he was of the Wizard King, of getting caught again, Timmy meant what he said. He'll be back, depending on our actions, Cartman thought hesitantly. It doesn't matter. I have bigger threats to concern myself with than Turner. He doesn't even know…

"So," Ben started, and Cartman and Juandissimo looked towards the fourteen year old who stood up out of his seat. Ben took a step towards Cartman, and he bowed his head and closed his eyes. "Thank you very much!" Ben called out.

"You think you can get away with just that?" Cartman snapped.

"I'm very grateful," Ben added, lifting his head and looking at Cartman again. "And I'm sorry," Ben added.

"Just be glad I was never in any real danger," Cartman said, scoffing at any reason why Ben should be apologetic. "All I require is your gratitude."

That's all? Ben thought to himself in relief. He sighed aloud, and Cartman narrowed his eyes at the kid in front of him. "That cube," he began, and Ben's sigh caught in his throat. Ben looked at Cartman hesitantly, and the Wizard King continued, "I only don't want it, because it'd mess with my head." Ben's eyes opened wide, thinking about Nox, how insane he was as he slaughtered his friends.

Cartman watched as all the people he had seen come in with Ben got massacred in the boy's mind. He saw the man who Ben was thinking about too, and the sight of Nox only made his decision not to take the Eliacube for himself more final. Ben looked down at his pocket, but he felt the same as he did since he got the Eliacube. Cartman saw where the older boy was looking and said, "You should get rid of it. It's controlling you."

"'Controlling me?'" Ben asked, anger welling up inside him and his eyes lifting up to glare into Cartman's. "Like you're one to talk," Ben growled. "No, what you did to Timmy, that's controlling someone." Ben had no fear on his face, and he took a step towards Cartman while still looking angry, "You know what? Why am I thanking you?" Ben frowned and said, "You won't even give me a wish."

"I told you," Cartman growled back at him. "Your wish was not to die when Meruem came after you-"

"He only came after me because I had to save Luffy!" Ben shouted.

"The pirate was never in danger!" Cartman yelled back.

"AND HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT?!" Ben roared. "You purposely did not tell us, so how are you going to punish me for something that was one hundred percent your fault?" Ben asked, an annoyed look on his face as he started looking down his nose at the shorter kid who had gotten up from his seat and was standing in front of him.

Cartman's hands were shaking. He trembled there, fury spread across his face. Juandissimo looked down at the two of them nervously, a worried look on his face as Cartman looked dangerously close to snapping. "What do you want?" Cartman asked.

"Are you going to give me it?" Ben asked, not wanting to play his stupid games.

"Yeah," Cartman said. "Just name it," he added.

Ben started to look confused. He wondered if the boy in front of him was messing with him, or if he what he said got through to the kid and made him see reason. "I wish," Ben started. The Omnitrix came to mind, but then something else filled his vision. The monster that hunted him whenever he used the Eliacube. The King who everyone on the continent was afraid of appeared in Ben's mind. "To know, how to defeat the Ant King," Ben finished. His face filled with shock after the words left his mouth, and he cursed himself as he wished he had asked for the Omnitrix instead. As much as he wanted to take back the wish though, he furrowed his brow and closed his mouth. This is the more mature wish. The Omnitrix is my problem alone, but Meruem threatens everyone in the world. Gwen, all of my friends, no one is safe as long as this monster rules the world.

"Really?" Cartman asked, wondering where that wish came from. He already had plans on how to mess with Ben's possible wishes, but he did not have a plan for this one. He wanted to do something devious and clever and Wizard-King-worthy before sending the boy off. Cartman frowned but closed his eyes, Precognition powers. Let's see what the future holds… Cartman tried imagining the Ant King's defeat. As expected, there's no way for this kid to make a difference. I should just tell him something creepy… wait…

Cartman's closed eyes started twitching, and Ben looked over to Juandissimo and then back to him only to see Cartman's bottom lip had dropped a few inches. The Wizard King's eyes opened back up and he stared at the boy in front of him in surprise for a few seconds, before closing his mouth and smirking in a menacing way at him. "As I thought, there's no way that you could defeat the Ant King," Cartman began.

Ben narrowed his eyes and snapped, "What about you?" Cartman had his mouth open, ready to keep on saying something, but he frowned at the boy's angry shout. Ben continued despite the look growing on Cartman's face, "You say you could defeat the Ant King, then why don't you? Save the world already."

"I don't give a fuck about the world-" Cartman started.

"Then what about the King coming down here and attacking you?" Ben asked quickly, and Cartman's smirk dropped back down again. "That must break one of your rules, right? Go punish him-"

Cartman looked furious at what Ben just said, poking holes in his logic. He interrupted Ben with a yell, "I'm not worried about the damn Ants! If you idiots want to go try to kill that thing, you can go right ahead. I'm going to stay in this little paradise I made for myself." Juandissimo stared at Cartman's back and as much as what Cartman was saying sounded self-centered, he knew more than Ben did, that the fat boy was hiding fear behind his angry expression.

"You're being selfish," Ben said.

Cartman's face twitched in anger, and his smile lifted up at the corners and unnerved Ben. "The future is uncertain, but you know, maybe there is a way you could beat the Ant King," Cartman said. Ben's eyes opened wide, and Cartman walked towards him, getting close before leaning forwards so their faces were only a few feet away. "All you have to do, is kill everyone you care about." Cartman's big grin spread open to show his teeth, and he started laughing at the dumbstruck look on Ben's face.

Ben leaned back away from the crazy kid in front of him. "Should have guessed you wouldn't take this seriously. Whatever," Ben turned and grumbled under his breath, "Just send me out of here. I'll figure out a way to beat Meruem on my own."

Cartman stopped laughing and rose up his right hand. Out the corner of his eyes though, the fat boy in a blue wizard's hat spotted Juandissimo frowning down at him. The Fairy had an expectant look on his face, and Cartman looked at him skeptically for a moment, before turning back to Ben and seeing the determined look on his face. He read Ben's mind and saw Sora, Dash, and Goku's faces since they had reunited, when they looked their darkest at the mentions of the war they had had with Meruem. These were people who Ben believed in, who he thought were strong, and they all thought Meruem was a monster too powerful for them.

There's no way I'm risking my life going up against the King on his home turf, Cartman thought. "I don't necessarily care what happens to you or your friends, but there is one other person you might consider asking for help." Ben turned back to Cartman with a confused look, wondering if the fat kid was actually being serious like his voice sounded. "I doubt it will do you much good asking him for help, might even get you killed, but if you're looking for a way to beat the Ant King, go right ahead and try it."

"Who?" Ben asked, apparently undeterred by the warnings the Wizard King gave him.

The Wizard King's eyes narrowed in at the boy. He rose his arm to point an open palm straight at Ben, and he said, "Zod."

Ben appeared on a grassy field just outside of a town. He looked towards the town and saw the vehicle that got destroyed on their way south, parked and ready to go at a moment's notice right at the edge of it. Then he looked the other way, and he saw a bunch of his friends pointing over his way and making the others turn his direction. Ben started walking towards them, his expression dark, but he grabbed onto the one bit of hope he got through his whole conversation with the Wizard King. Zod, Ben thought, his fists tightening at his sides.

The look on Ben's face might have concerned his friends, but unfortunately, most of them had that same look on their faces at some point in the past hour. A few wanted to ask what the Wizard King wanted to talk to him about, but when they thought of their own reasons for how upset they were with the results of their talks with the Wizard King, most of them figured it was better not to. Ben looked around the group heading his way, and his look lightened up at what had many of his friends actually loosening up a bit for the past ten minutes.

Sora had released all of his Pokemon onto the field north of town. He had seventeen of them in total, and they were playing around on the grass, flying around in the sky, and hanging out with the native Pokemon who had started gathering around the spiky-haired Keybearer. All of the nearby Pokemon were amazed to see the ancient Mew, as well as Celebi and Lugia, all in the same place. Sora was running around and letting go a little as he talked and played with all the Pokemon who were surprised he could communicate with them. He told himself before he released all of the Pokemon not to try and catch any while he was here, but he was making such good friends already that he was starting to get the urge to ask if any wanted to come with him.

Sora looked over to a part of the field where Azumarill, Scyther, Bronzor, Registeel, and Togepi were more clustered together than the rest. Sora's Aipom was running around with Pikachu, but the other Pokemon Sora received on the same island as the small purple creature were sticking together. All of Professor Oak's Pokemon, Sora thought, and he flew over towards them, bringing with him the crowd of Pokemon who had solely been following after him. He reached into his bag as he neared them, his bag which had an almost infinite amount of space inside it thanks to the magic it was made with. Sora pulled out food for his Pokemon and some bowls, and he said as he started pouring some out, "We're probably going to be heading out soon."

The boy paused after he said it. He looked at the Pokemon and then around him at the landscape they were on. It was Pokemon paradise. He looked back at the creatures who Professor Oak had left him, and he bowed his head for a second, before lifting it up with a small smile on his face. "If any of you would like," Sora began. The creatures that just started eating shifted their gazes back to him, and Sora continued, "I know, Professor Oak wanted me to take you guys with me. But, that means you never really had the choice if you wanted to follow me. You must have felt obligated, so, if you want to stay here, in this amazing place, I'll understand-"

"I would like to continue following you," Registeel said, with a single deep state of its name. Sora looked up at the tall Pokemon in the center of Oak's old ones, and the gray creature continued, "There is no time to stay here and relax." The other Pokemon behind Sora and gathered around him looked in at Registeel in confusion. Sora had always been able to talk to his Pokemon though. They were the ones he could talk to when he was supposed to be keeping secrets from everyone else, because who would they tell? Registeel continued, "Your mission is now my mission. I will follow and help you as long as I can."

"Reg-Reg-Registeel. Registeel."

Rin and Kuro looked over at the big Pokemon near Sora with confused looks, and Rin glanced down at his familiar. "You get what it's saying?"

"Yeah," Kuro replied. Not understanding was not the reason Kuro looked so confused. It was what Registeel was saying that had Kuro looking hesitant and nervous.

"Me too," Scyther said with a state of its name. Sora nodded his way, then Azumarill nodded and Bronzor said something in agreement.

Togepi smiled up at Sora, "Toge-pii!" Sora laughed and bent down in front of the little creature.

"You just want to stay because you like me? Well I like you too Togepi," Sora put a hand down on top of Togepi's head and rubbed it around, making the creature close its eyes and say its name happily a few times. Sora looked over towards where he saw his Charmeleon with the scar on its back talking to some others of its kind. He decided to head over and give his newest Pokemon the same choice he gave the others, and the one he had given to Giovanni's Pokemon right after Castle Oblivion.

Ben looked around once the whole group on the field had gotten over to him except for Sora, Rin, and Kuro. "Are we leaving?" Ben asked, a serious tone in his voice again as he looked away from Sora.

"Yeah," Riku said. "Guess we should go get Gray and Kirito."

"Where are they?" Timmy asked, as he had only arrived a little before Ben and did not know where they were yet.

"Gray challenged Kirito to a Pokemon battle," Natsu replied. He frowned and looked back towards the town, "They went back to the lake since Kirito only has that Gyarados."

"Gray has one too?" Stan wondered. Maybe I should get one. There are so many different types around here.

"Yeah," Natsu said, thinking about the giant light-blue Pokemon bird that Gray took out on occasion. He kept staring towards the town though, thinking about how Gray had asked Kirito for the battle but then told Natsu not to watch when he mentioned spectating. Gray had given an excuse, but Natsu had seen the way the two had been acting around each other since they brought Juvia back to life. It was the main reason he accepted instead of ignoring Gray and going to watch anyway. What's up with those two?

"Hey guys!" a high-pitched voice called out.

Riku just lifted off the ground to fly over to the lake, but he looked towards Sora's direction as he heard a voice that made him grimace. Stan moved between some of the annoyed members of the group with him, and he spotted a boy wearing an aluminum cape and helmet running over towards them. "Butters?" Stan asked.

Butters was panting as he finally stopped just a little in front of them. Luffy was still annoyed at the guy and wanted to punch him, but the sight of the child who looked exhausted just from running their way did not remind him at all of the man who attacked them in the north. Butters opened his mouth, then he had to ease his head away and went, "Hey, hey stop," he complained between laughter as a Lickitung's tongue flew over and started licking his face. "Okay, wait a second," Butters reached down to his waist and lifted up his shirt a little to show he had a belt of six pokeballs on it.

Sora looked over with interest after being told again that his Pokemon wanted to stay with him, and he smiled with interest at the sight of Butters' pokeballs. "You have six?" Stan asked in surprise at his old friend.

"Yeah, check 'em out," Butters said. He unclipped all the balls and tossed them up in the air, releasing six red lights out in front of him. The entire group watching the small boy sweatdropped, and Sora's interested look turned into one of amusement though he tried stifling his laughter. In front of Butters appeared a Munchlax, a Wobbuffet, and four Slowpokes. The four pink Pokemon with tails that were white on the end of them just lay flat on the floor in front of Butters without moving.

"Oh," Stan said as he looked at Butters' Pokemon. The Munchlax started slowly walking away aimlessly towards some food that Sora had left out. The other five did not move though, and Stan just said while looking at them, "That's, cool."

"I know, right?" Butters said.

"So kid," Sanji said. Butters looked up at the older blond man who kept frowning down at him. "What was up with attacking us earlier?" Sanji's swirly eyebrow narrowed down over his visible eye, as the other half of his face was covered in his flip of blond hair.

"Well Eric asked me to," Butters said.

"Do you just do everything Cartman says?" Stan asked in annoyance.

"Not everything," Butters said defensively. "But I do like having super powers, and since I can only get them when Cartman gives me Fight Mode, I don't really want to annoy him."

"You? Not annoy Cartman?" Stan asked in disbelief.

"Oh Stan, you should see it!" Butters said excitedly. "As the Wizard King's General, I get to choose three powers. I normally go with shapeshifting, super strength, and lightning powers!" Butters swung his arm out to the side and made his cape flap around behind him, though nothing happened when he swung his arm.

"Shapeshifting?" Robin wondered, looking at the boy with interest as that sounded like the most impressive of the three powers to her.

Butters nodded up at her with a smile that made it hard for Robin to still be mad at him. "I get to make my body big and muscular, and I can even change the shape of other things too." He looked back at Stan and said, "Remember those guinea pigs that almost took over the world?" Everyone behind Stan gawked at the kid who just said that, but Stan just nodded at him to show he definitely remembered that. "Well I have a guinea pig army now! And when I'm in Fight Mode, I can make them all into giants like those ones! I couldn't find any Guinea-bees or Guinea-saurus-rexes though…"

"What did he just say?" Ben muttered to himself.

"So Butters, what are you going to do now?" Stan asked the boy in front of him.

"What do you mean?" the other kid from South Park asked his old classmate.

"The world's in chaos. There's slavery all over the place. What are-" Stan got cut off as Butters grabbed the side of his aluminum foil cloak and pulled it in front of his body.

"If the world is already in chaos, then there is no need for Professor Chaos to make his appearance," Butters called out in as menacing a voice he could manage despite looking like a silly child with his cheap costume. "I am Professor Chaos, bringer of evil and destroyer of worlds!" He pulled his cape back out to the side and threw his other arm out the other way as he did in a dramatic fashion.

"Butters, I'm serious," Stan said in a monotone voice.

Butters froze about to continue on with his speech, then the blond boy shrugged and said, "Me too Stan." Everyone around him stared in surprise at the kid who smiled so innocently. "I like it here. I'm going to stay with Eric, we've been having a lot of fun."

Stan stared into Butters' eyes and could see the boy meant what he was saying. "Hmph, why'd you even come out here then?" Stan muttered.

"Well 'cause you're my friend too, so I wanted to say goodbye before you left to go do the stuff you want to do," Butters said. Stan's eyes widened in surprise, and Butters continued, "But if you ever find looking for power and revenge to get boring, you can always come back here and play!"

Play? Stan thought while looking closer at the kid in front of him. That's what he's doing. He's, constantly playing. No parents, Cartman letting him do what he wants with no consequences other than those Cartman gives him. He really considers himself Professor Chaos, because there's no reason for him to ever stop playing the role, as long as it's fun. Why does Cartman let him have this? Cartman hates Butters… Doesn't he?

"Hey assholes," a voice called out and the group turned to see a group of people coming out of the town south of them. Flying over that group's head was a teen with black hair and two swords on his back, an annoyed and hateful expression on his face that his comrades just looked away from as it was starting to get common around there. The one who shouted at them was a guy at the front of the group of people, and he lifted up a capsule that he threw forward once he passed by their vehicle. "If you want in, get in your fucking truck."

As soon as the man's capsule hit the ground, a giant monster truck twice the size of the vehicle the group had used to get south appeared around them. The bottom of it was directly above their heads, the wheels on their sides, some appearing so close that the people the man threw the capsule towards had to dive out of the way. "Hey!" Timmy shouted over, then he leaned back and spun in surprise as a bunch of the others threw capsules around the area north of the town.

"Monster Truck Derby Day!" Butters called out happily as the monster trucks appeared everywhere. The Pokemon on the field started scattering quickly to get away from the giant destructive vehicles popping up on their field.

Sora frowned back towards the people of this town who just did whatever they wanted without worrying about consequences. Luffy stomped towards the guy who threw the capsule at them, and he had had enough. Luffy punched his right fist forward and it extended out towards the guy who leaned back in surprise, only for a barrier to bounce Luffy's fist away from him. "What are you doing, dumbass?" The guy asked, before clicking his feet together and turning on jets on the bottoms of them. He flew up to get into his giant monster truck, while Luffy's fist snapped back to him and a more annoyed look than ever spread on his face.

"Outsiders can't hurt the people who live here," Butters mentioned to the pirate who turned and snarled at him. "Um, well, see you Stan," he said while recalling his Pokemon. Butters spun to the kid closest to him and waved a hand at him. "Be careful out there. It's not safe north of the Wall."

Most of the people in front of Butters sweatdropped, as that was the opposite of what they thought. Butters lifted off the floor and turned around with one more wave at Stan, then he shot off in a blur to go tell Eric that there was a monster truck battle about to start.

"Get the fuck out of here you damn immigrants!" someone shouted behind the group. "You're getting in the way!"

"Get back on your side of the wall," another man taunted, and he threw a tomato he seemed to have brought for solely this purpose at them. They dodged the tomato, but the message was clear.

"Let's get back on the truck," Nami said, grinding her teeth in annoyance that there was nothing they could do to these people.

"Agreed," half of her friends said at the same time. They started heading to their truck where they saw Kirito had reached and already flown back inside the open hatch on the bottom that the ladder was sticking out of. Gray came jogging out of the town south of them and Juvia called him over, while Riku flew over just in front of him and reached the ladder just as some others started climbing up.

Stan stared off in the direction Butters flew off for a few seconds. You're watching me, aren't you? Stan thought. No one responded, but Stan continued anyway, In that case, listen closely Cartman. You can keep messing around and enjoying your paradise all you want, but sooner or later this world will catch up to you. You can't expect to be the strongest forever, and there are probably already other things stronger than you out there. Stan turned and started walking towards the truck after hearing Ben call back to him.

I don't expect you to turn around and start being a great person, Stan continued to think, ninety percent sure that Cartman was listening to him at the moment. But I've witnessed the slavery on this continent. I endured it. I've seen the power of Chimera Ants, Sith, all types of monsters. You could do something about it but you won't. So I'll give you a warning, Cartman. I know you're watching me. Stan's expression got darker and he snarled in his head, Be careful about choosing to be a bad guy on this world, because evil rarely wins over good, in the end.

The group piled into their vehicle, and Kirito was already upstairs after getting in to go start the ship back up. They were almost all together again, but none of them were smiling and happy about it. Most of them were still standing in the hallway right near the door that Stan started locking by turning the wheel after he finally got inside. "This place sucks," Natsu muttered.

Everyone around him nodded in agreement. "Meliodas-san did give us a warning," Robin said, and the others looked in towards her, wondering what she was talking about. "The night we met him, he and Gray both referenced their distaste for the far south."

"Oh yeah," Riku muttered, somewhat recalling hearing about that before.

"There was no avoiding it," Gray muttered. He had tried not to let it show that much on his face on the way south to prevent the mood from being dampened, only warning of the monster dangers at first. From what he had heard when people said they had gone south though, not one of them enjoyed the trip even if they got past the thousands of miles of monsters. "We saved Timmy though, and that's what matters."

Everyone around him nodded or said something in agreement to that, and Timmy's smile could not have gotten wider. He looked around at them all, seeing their annoyed expressions lifting up at the thought of rescuing him, and he had to keep himself from letting tears spill out again after crying in front of them all earlier. It was hard though with what he was thinking. They all care that- they're all, my family. It's not just Nami. I have a real family. Everyone here. I don't want to leave them again. Not now. Not ever.

A/N Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoyed the chapter. Wizard King arc ends on some falling action and build up for the future, as well as some flashbacks for our Wizard King and his Fairy, and I guess Butters too. Was going to put a list below, but I think I'll just re-mention that Cartman, Butters, Stan, and Kyle are all from South Park, and Sariel (the angel guy) was from The Devil is a Part Timer, the main villain at the end of the season. Anyway, I don't own any of those characters, nor any of the characters in Nexus or the shows that they come from. Just a reminder. Support the official releases and whatnot. The group heads north again, but with the Wizard King arc done, it's time for the real introduction to the Second Third. Gonna hop around a little starting with the next part and end of the chapter: HWR 13.9 The Spire! That chapter is actually completely finished already unlike this one which had nothing in it when I started writing on Monday. So I'll probably have it up for you tomorrow! Alright, review responses time:

joebob323 chapter 94 . Apr 16

"And risk the end of the multiverse? I live in the multiverse!"
That line really got me laughing! I guess Cartman isn't such a jerk either, huh. I do wonder how all these problems will play out, now that the party is back together...

XD Glad you liked the line! The flashbacks this chapter show Cartman's got at least a little humanity in him, though he's pretty fucking insane most of the time...

Limit-Breaking chapter 94 . Apr 16

Hmm im quite surprise i thought this would have gone on alot more longer, but either way at least mostly everybody is back together. Also they all realize how weak they are Goku can't go god unless ben joined in to help make a super saiyan god but he needs his omni trix to do so. Also they would need to know how the ritual would begin as well. I think goku passed up on two good wishes but cartman may have joked around with one of his wishes if he asked where the nemakians were. That way if he got everybody to agree on trying to look for the nemakians dragon balls they could have looked for porunga to bring back their dead love ones.

Never really planned on making Cartman a big time baddy, but he wound up getting a full chapter devoted him when I realized how much had to happen in the short span of time they were going to spend in the Wizard King's domain. Anyway, yeah they're all realizing how much they need to train, starting with Goku right at the beginning of the chapter going to start up his training to catch up to Meruem already. Hit, Toppo Jiren, you wrote a lot about all these guys in the reviews, but as of now we only really know that Hit is here for sure. We'll find out about those others later, possibly... but Hit will have a chapter later on, I'll admit that I do have stuff planned out for him. As for Bardock v. Hit, Turles didn't hire Hit to take out Bardock or the fight probably would have been longer and we'd have seen more of it. Turles needed Hit to be there for after the war, but then with Meruem ending the war in a peaceful way with both his side and the Saiyans still having so much power, it was less of a sure thing to just send Hit in and expect victory at that point, especially when having an assassin kill the new Saiyan King in front of him never would have gotten his race to follow him. Kirito and Gray have a talk at the end of this chapter with the pretense of a Pokemon battle, and although I didn't show it, by the look on Kirito's face when he returned to the ship, it doesn't look good... As for everyone off of Nexus being dead, that's not true, yet. Timmy said that a large portion of the population vanished, and that sent his world into chaos, but not everyone was killed. Telling from Cartman's reaction, he had a similar experience. I promise I'll try not to die anytime soon! So Nexus will keep going, for a long long time. And Namekians! Still haven't seen anyone except for Piccolo, but maybe if another DBZ character was there it might have been the first thing on their mind. Goku even mentioned Shenron, only to completely ignore the possibility of the Dragon being on Nexus and just asking Juandissimo for wishes. Anyway, there was a whole lot you mentioned and I hope I touched base on most of it. I'm glad you enjoyed the last chapter, and thanks for reviewing!

kg833998 chapter 94 . Apr 16

great chapter about brook in the big mom when brook was fighting some of her soldiers who were just should in chess warrior's he used his soul king powers and pulled the souls out of the chess soldiers also thanks I was just putting my brain back together from the last few chapter but thanks to this it's everywhere now

but just wow so fairies can jump past the wall around nexas wait if Timmy said everyone was gone that means a certain evil babysitter and crazy teacher are somewhere on nexas

Thanks for the reviews! I do kind of remember that with Brook and Big Mom, but I haven't seen him use it on living people yet so Idk... actually, you know I probably would have counted that- if Brook had still been alive during chapter 16 of Nexus, ;(. Fairy magic is strange. The poofing powers alone let them bypass universal borders, alter time and space and reality. Even the Gods seem interested as they sent an angel to come get Juandissimo from Cartman, though he was able to use Juandissimo's magic in order to repel one of Heaven's warriors. As for that crazy babysitter and teacher, I didn't have Timmy mention any of the specifics of who's gone and who's not, but he did say I think that only 1/3 of the population vanished at once (though that's still a crazy amount of people, and who knows if that's the average or more/less than most worlds). Who knows though? Vicky and Crocker could appear at any time... Hope you enjoyed!

flo463 chapter 94 . Apr 16

in fact by power-up, I thought more about:
_ a boost in strength
_ other ninjas techniques
_ the sharingan?
_ dragon slayer magic via lacrima
_ learning ki but apparently he already knows the Ki (without mastering it?)
_ or probably Kirito in super saiyan (but I must have too much imagination ')
I wonder how Kirito will do to attach his wings to the rest of his body

Kirito has some thoughts on how to train up this chapter. He has some mastery of ki, enough to fly at least, though with the minimal training that Goku has given him, he hasn't yet utilized it in crazy Z fighter type fashions. He thought about some ninja stuff, some magic stuff, though he has given up on his wings when Cartman just handed them to him instead of attaching. Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter! Thanks for reviewing, and thanks everyone for reading this story! 'Till next time!