Chaotic Hangouts

Chapter 23: Falling Into A Christmas Feast

Date: December 24th, 2023

Despite the fact that by the time I experienced this, I will have long written about it due to the whole true power of imagination thing, I have completely forgotten what happened. The fact that I'm writing about this with even that in mind really makes things complicated. Oh well. Let's just get on with it. For some reason, all fighting across the multiverse that BRAINS was involved in just kind of came to a stop soon after the day turned from December 23rd to 24th. As a result, we've been spending Workersmas Eve resting, training, experimenting, and just spending time together. It's currently 10 AM and I'm participating in Gun Gale Online's 7th Squad Jam. I'm working with Pito, Llenn, M, Fukaziroh, and Yappa Yappa. We're all on the same team: Team LMFPSY. Try saying that fast 5 times. I'm in the front. As a consequence of the Infinityverse incident, some individuals like myself have been able to use our weapons and armor even in Squad Jam. So I'm not equipped with a photon sword. I'm equipped with a digital copy of Graceful Protector. "I see the enemy team close to my position! They plan on taking us out one by one!" M replies: "Thanks for the information, Swiftdrawer. These guys don't really know who they're dealing with." "I told you I would be a good diversion. After all, I'm both offensive and defensive. We saw them take down other teams earlier only to flee from SHINC in the end. They have nice and powerful guns. It's no exaggeration to say they've grinded a lot in this game but in terms of strategy, they're down in the dumps. All is going to plan. If we win this, I'm not taking any of the rewards for winning. Unless you insist in which case I'll just gift what I get to other people." Just as the enemy begins to fire at me, something strange happens.

Llenn yells: "Something weird is happening! I'm falling into a hole and it's getting bigger!" Pito laughs: "This is no time for jokes, Llenn! We're going to kill all of these players! They won't see us coming! Get in the game!" The hole expands greatly. Llenn was a good distance away from me so when I started falling too, that's when I knew the hole had grown rapidly. We fall and we fall into what looks like a high tech city with a castle at its center. Other holes appear in the sky. And for some reason, every single time one appears, a sound that accompanies anyone who dies and then respawns in Jumanji plays. "Damn it! What's happening?! We go a couple weeks without some kind of random nonsensical thing happening and now, we're here! If I had to guess, we're falling into Knighton, the main city featured in Lego Nexo Knights! If we don't die from this long fall, the aftermath of the landing is going to suck!" "Isn't this fun?! We're falling to our deaths! YES, YES! IM GOING TO DIE! IM GOING TO DIE!" "Pito, STOP IT!" "This is the weirdest thing that has ever happened during Squad Jam." A familiar voice taps into communications: "Hey there. It's Eva. We're falling with you all right now." Eva is SHINC's leader. In the game, she has dark skin, brown? eyes, dark long hair, an intense appearance, and modern military combat gear. After some more falling which only continued to get faster and faster by the second, I saw more holes open in the sky before we crashed into a feast set up inside the arena floor of Knighton's arena. And I mean that we crashed into the set up tables. Food, table wood, drinks, and more went everywhere. Yappa Yappa laughs: "That was so much fun! Now can I kill someone?!"

"No." I get up, unfazed by the whole crash landing into a table thing. I used magic to clean off everything that got on me and my armor, cape, and so on. M states: "Squad Jam is as good as cancelled or postponed now. What is this place? It's not GGO. Nevermind, I heard what you said, Swiftdrawer." The residents of Knighton who had gathered for the feast are in shock at what just happened. A blue knight with yellow skin, short brown hair, and black eyes named Clay speaks up: "Who are all of you and why did you crash into this feast hosted by his majesty?" Shikamaru who landed nearby sighs: "This is going to be such a pain. Oh well." Macy, a red knight who is also the princess in the kingdom(which is also called Knighton now that I recall thanks to research, how original.) we've fallen into has freckles, yellow skin, black eyes, and red hair that's tied into a ponytail. She says: "Hey, will someone explain this or not?!" The king who has ginger hair, a golden crown, black eyes, yellow skin, and mostly blue and white royal robes adds: "Please explain yourselves! You have fallen right into the middle of our kingdom! Are you with Jestro?! Sending monsters falling into this kingdom isn't above him after all!" I reply: "Do we look like monsters to you? Okay, I'm a zombie. I get it but I can assure you that we are not with Jestro or Monstrox either." Another knight, Lance who has silver/white armor, yellow skin, black eyes, and wavy blonde hair that's always nicely done. He replies: "If you aren't with Jestro or Monstrox, prove it!" Eva and M shout at the same time: "Enemies sighted in all directions!"

Clay exclaims: "Are you sure? How can we trust what you're saying?!" Tetsuya appears in sight, running away from something: "Crabby! Electric crabs! They're coming! Crabby! Crabby!" Sinon pulls out Hecate and uses it to zoom in into the distance after angling her arms to change the angle of the gun: "I see them. This is not the time for games. An army of electrified monsters are coming from all directions." Axl, who is rather large and has yellow skin, black eyes, concealed hair, and orange and silver armor replies: "Aww man! First you destroyed our Christmas feast, causing all of the food to be smashed into pieces and now, Jestro is attacking the town!" Ralphtalia draws her sword. The other main Nexo Knight, Aaron who has brown hair, black eyes, and yellow skin, a small beard, freckles, and green and silver armor says: "Wait, are all of you knights?" I sigh: "Do most of us look like knights to you? I'm one but even so, most of the others aren't. This is not the time for this. Jestro and the monsters don't stand a chance against us." Clay stares at me with an astonished expression: "Is this really true?" "I guess we're just ignoring the feast that we from other worlds crashed into. Oh well. It's true. It's like you all can just sit back and relax as we take care of them. Actually, only a few of us could return the monsters to sender in under a minute." Fuka smiles: "Oh yeah! I can't wait to blow up some monsters!" Pito laughs: "I'm ready to kill those monsters! This is going to be fun!"

Seconds later, myself and the others who were just in Squad Jam have teleported to where the monsters are at. Jestro currently has electrified blue skin, black eyes, and a yellow and blue jester outfit. He laughs at us: "Aww! Were the knights too scared to face me so they had to send some new friends in instead?" Llenn smiles: "No, they were just too slow." "Slow?! Wait, I saw you all just appear here out of nowhere! The knights can't do that! What is going on?!" Eva replies: "Your butt is about to get kicked into next week, pal." "Haha! Even if you can appear out of nowhere with some unknown magic, that doesn't mean you can overcome my monsters! Isn't that right, Monstrox?!" Monstrox is currently in the form of an evil small talking cloud: "Hehehe! Jestro's right! I highly doubt you have Nexo powers on your side not to mention most of you look very strange like you're not from around here. This will be a piece of cake! Even if you manage to defeat a monster or two, I can just bring them back to life!" M replies: "Underestimating the enemy is the first mistake the likes of you make." We all leap into action. I crush monster after monster with ease just by thrusting with my sword. They literally turn to dust because they were originally made of stone. Monstrox is overwhelmed as he tries to keep up but most of the monsters that are defeated are also turned to dust. "No! This can't be happening! Monsters, retreat! RETREAT!" As Jestro and Monstrox try to retreat alongside the monsters, Pito laughs: "Where do you think you're going?!" She begins attacking with nothing held back. She was terrifying enough in the 2nd Squad Jam. After the other ones, the Infinityverse, and everything else, she's become far more terrifying.

Just as the Nexo Knights catch up with us, Pito destroys the remaining monsters and Fuka sends Monstrox and Jestro packing with her rocket grenades. They are stunned at what they're seeing. Cell Junior teleports over, turns to the Nexo Knights, and says: "You choosing to come here was completely meaningless just like life itself." They are all stunned speechless by what he said and what we just did. Lance eventually complains: "Aww man! They stole all the glory for themselves!" M observes: "No we didn't. You were just too slow. The monsters are your match but they aren't our match. They never stood a chance against us. We can teleport. You cannot." I add: "That and we were holding back a lot pretty much the whole time. I alone could have wiped them out in a couple of minutes at most." Macy replies: "A couple of minutes?! Just how strong of a knight are you?! I'll never be a true knight!" "I'm only so strong because in case you haven't guessed, there's a crap ton of scumbags who keep wanting to kill us all and conquer everything! And for the record, I'm feeling a little chaotic today. So with that said, you most absolutely know that my strength has no standing on whether or not you're a knight. The idea of that actually being a thing is completely and absolutely absurd. You think incompetent monsters are absurd?! Just you wait! In all seriousness, you are a knight. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise. If they do, they don't understand you or they're a liar liar pants on fire." We end up going back to the arena soon after that to see quite the sight. "Romin! What did I tell you about the curry! It's too dangerous!" "Relax, Gakuto! After all, it did get us to the Moon!" "But that doesn't mean it's safe to eat when you mix the two together!" Seatbastian sighs: "Romin's is cooking is.. different. Who let her cook here of all places?"

The king of Knighton replies: "I did. We need all the help we can get to have a new feast prepared." Gakuto face palms: "Just WHAT KIND OF KING WOULD LET ROMIN MAKE HER CURRY IN FRONT OF THOUSANDS OF HIS SUBJECTS?!" Axl has a different opinion: "I don't know what curry that is but it smells good." Luke smiles: "It's the best! I love Romin's curry!" Pito laughs: "Aww, isn't that just adorable?! You know, that curry would make for a lethal trap in GGO!" Asuna is also cooking: "We must cook for we trashed this feast and city! Kirito, you do have the ingredients I need, right?!" "No.." "Kirito!" She slaps him. "Oww! I'm sorry! It won't happen again!" Alice shakes her head: "Silly Kirito. You never change." Yui just smiles: "I'm so glad to see mommy cooking!" Axl's stomach rumbles: "All of this food is making me so hungry! But I want to cook too!" Some squirebots are helping with the cooking. Dr. K replies to Axl: "That won't be necessary. As weak and sad as these robots of your world are, they seem to be pretty good at helping cooking. Now where's that Deliciousix Nemo had me help him upgrade? Kolossal, go look for that Deliciousix." "Kolossal." Dr. K's main robot flies off to find Deliciousix from the sky because we have crowded the floor of the arena. That's when Pinkie Pie yells: "Hey everycreature! I noticed something before I myself crashed into the feast! It was terrible! What kind of feast is watched by thousands of others?! Seriously, who does that?! That's no fun! A feast should be a party where everyone is invited!" I speak up too: "I'm with Pinkie Pie. That whole set up was ridiculous. Thousands of people watching royalty and the Nexo Knights eat? I'm sorry but that's just bizarre not to mention bananas. Your culture may be different but that whole thing just feels like a load of crap. You could just feast another time elsewhere and do the announcements you wanna do hear or broadcast the feast remotely instead. I know you do broadcast it remotely already but is a live audience even necessary?"

The king gets mad: "How dare you question our long standing tradition!" Macy replies: "Dad! Calm down!" "No! I won't, Macy! I'm going to speak my mind! Your mother isn't here right now because she had something else to do but you better not question me. I am still your king after all!" An evil laugh is heard all over. POH appears in the sky: "Hey Assault Team bastards! You miss me?! Hahahahahaha! I've been brought back to life and given more power than ever before! I'm the reason all of you are in this universe together! While you're stuck here, other universes will be destroyed! I would kill you all now but I want to savor-" "KAAAAAAMEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Goku and some others obliterate him with Kamehameha blasts. The king is left speechless but soon recovers: "Like I said, how dare you!" Pinkie Pie replies: "Can't you at least make the feast big enough to share it with a lot of the audience?!" "We only have so many resources!" I start helping remake the tables and stuff as I reply: "You're the king. You're rich and powerful. You can make it happen." "But we need all the food we can get! We can't share it with the people!" "I suggest you stop that before your people start revolting against you. You have a good heart but some of your actions have been foolish." He refuses to listen so myself and the others just start expanding the feast with more tables and stuff anyway. "What is the meaning of this?! Stop this at once!" Pinkie Pie laughs: "Looks like someone's afraid! Don't worry, I'll make sure there's enough food for everyone!" He gives up and sighs in resignation. As the feast continues to be redone, more things happen. One of them occurred as I was creating more tables with Artist's Eye. A Kings Island employee fell from the sky. They land and manage to survive. They get up and exclaim: "What is happening to me?! I was a hero, about to slay the Demon Lord! And then, I died and ended up in some strange time in a strange land of technological thrills with their coat of arms being worn by me!"

I go up to them, being the first to notice them and all: "Hi there. Tell me more." "What the?! Who are you?! Wait, you're a knight? Yes! I must be back in my world! Finally! After days of having to do things that I never have done before! I still don't know what the hell a roller coaster is! And how did they get music to play magically? What kind of magic do they have?!" "You're not back in your world. *invites to sit down at one of the tables* I'm sure some food will be brought out soon. We can talk about your problems at that table." "Not in my world?! Impossible! Impossible! You lie! Liar! Liar!" "Am I really a liar? Do you really want to test me on whether or not I'm a liar?! Is that what you desire for your confusing life?! You do realize you're still wearing a Kings Island uniform, right?" "*looks down* You have got to be kidding me! What the hell is going on?! What world is this?!" "The world of Lego Nexo Knights." "Are you a Nexo Knight?!" "Do I look like I have yellow skin to you?" "These 'Nexo Knights' have yellow skin?! But that's ridiculous!" "Whatever. Now are you going to calm down or are you going to keep acting like that?" "*sits down* Oww! Why does my left buttcheek hurt so much?!" "You got a butt zit." "A butt zit?! Eww! Eww! Please no! Anything but that!" "I'm not going to ask why you're so afraid." "BUTT ZIIIIIIT! Get it off me! Get it off me!" "Are you asking me to pop it for you?" "Pop it for me?! Oh that turns-" "PG-13!" "The hell is a PG-13?!" "You sound super modern. How do you not know what PG-13 is? Furthermore, did you ever get isekaied into your former world only to get isekaied to Kings Island of all places?" "Isekai?! What?! Stop telling me nonsense!" "I'm not telling you nonsense. But go ahead, think that I'm regurgitating complete bullcrap to you. I don't care anymore! All I want to do is help you but you clearly don't want it." "Wait! Please pop my butt zit! Tell me what's going on! I'll do anything!"

"Anything huh? How about you calm down?" "Never! Please. Help me!" "I'll help you. I'll help you. But if we're going to do this, you're going to tell me more of your story after we get to a more private spot so no one can watch me pop your zit." "Private?! Who needs that?! Do it in the open!" "No! After what you said earlier, there's no way I'm letting it be done here. Apparently the thought of me popping your zit makes you.. I'm not saying it. Not here, not now. Oh and I must warn you. If you make it harder than it needs to be, you might die." "What?! How could I die from having my zit popped?!" "You were a legendary level hero. I think you can figure it out." "Why won't you tell me?!" "Is there really a point to spell it out for you? Fine. I prefer not having to explain things when there's no need to. But still. You have no idea how many things you'd think I wouldn't need to explain to anyone need to be explained to someone. Such as the fact that they isn't just a plural pronoun. It's a singular pronoun too. Anyway. I could destroy much of the city we're in on my own. There. Are you happy now?" "How are you so powerful? I was too weak! The Demon Lord killed me because I was too weak! But you! You could kill the Demon Lord!" "Maybe. Please tell me your name now." "I don't know what it is anymore! I forgot! And I don't know how!" Im not describing what they did or said as I popped their zit in a private location.

That's what I did after our conversation. I popped it, they acted ridiculous the entire time, and when it was over, they were hilarious. "Owww! Why does this feel so good at the same time? I must touch there! I want to feel how good it really feels now! *does so* Oww!" "Have you ever had acne before? By now, you should have long found out that touching a freshly popped zit hurts pretty bad." "What?! It does?!" "Good grief." We're interrupted on the way back to the table we were sitting in earlier by someone throwing food our way. It's Carlos and he's in a food fight with a bunch of others. "Carlos! I would appreciate it if you didn't throw chocolate our way!" "Hehehehe!" "This is getting so out of hand. *turns to the reverse isekaied hero character* As we talked and everything, things spiraled out of control here." "Whyyyyy?! *touches the now covered again by clothing spot where the zit was in comfort* Oww! But so good!" "Are you going to do that all day? Please tell me the answer is no.." But then, a Demon Lord appears in the sky and gets hit in the face by some food from the food fight. My new friend shivers in fear: "It's the Demon Lord. He's out to kill me again! Please heeeeelp meeeeeee!" The enemy glares at those food fighting: "Stop it, you mortals! You're in the way of my mission to once again kill the hero who tried to kill me! They must pay for the damage they caused to me still! I won't forgive being stabbed in the back at the last second! There they were, bleeding to death. And then, as they took their last breathes, they plunged their weapon into my back! Now the bleeding won't stop!"

Both kinds of Romin's curry so happen to spill and hit the Demon Lord at the same spot, exploding in an instant. The Demon Lord screams as they die a painful and hilarious death. "I've been saved! Yes! Yes! Yes! The Demon Lord! Ha, take that! I don't care if I did nothing to kill that bastard this day! I'm so happy!" "Well, you have fun with that. I'm preparing to stop my friend Carlos from overloading on sweets again. Enough is enough. Since he's throwing candy, I ended up thinking of doing that." I head off and prepare to use the power of fruit. But it wasn't exactly that easy. By the time I got in a good position, 30 minutes of chaotic nonsense had been sent my way. My face looked bruised and swollen by the end of it. I was driven nuts by everything. "HAHAHAHA CARLOS! CARLOS, PREPARE FOR YOUR LOVE OF SWEETS TO DIE TO THE SWEETNESS OF FRESH FRUIT!" I managed to create a bunch of fruit with Artist's Eye, especially oranges. He sees me and screams: "NOOOOOOO! NOT FRUIT! I DONT WANT FRUIT! GIVE ME CANDY, KEEP THAT AWAY FROM ME!" "NO, YOU ARE GOING TO TRY AT LEAST ONE OF THESE FRUITS!" "SAYS THE FORMERLY VERY PICKY EATER!" "I DO NOT CARE, YOU HAVE TO TRY THIS SWEET DELICIOUS FRUIT, ESPECIALLY MY ORANGES! THIS FRUIT, THIS PRECIOUS FRUIT!" I ignore all of the food being thrown at me. Instead, I start chasing Carlos: "CARLOS, IF YOU WONT TRY, I'LL THROW! PREPARE FOR YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE: FRESH, JUICY, AND SWEET FRUIT!" After several minutes, I get some orange slices into his mouth as he screams and shouts. His attitude then does a 180. He gets excited. So excited that his face lights up with joy and his feet become rocket powered somehow. He goes to space, probably says: "Yuuuuuuuuuummmmmm!" up there and then returns to the ground with the happiest expression I have ever seen on him. So Tomodachi Life.

Once he stops smiling, he grins sadistically at me: "GIVE ME MORE! MORE FRUIT!" I give the fruit I have left to him: "Go ahead! Eat it all! I don't need it! I had plenty earlier. Have fun!" As I run off to get out of the food fight, I watch as Carlos while obsessed with fruit, starts throwing some of that fruit at others. I solved one of his issues only to create something that may or may not be an issue. An obsession with fruit instead of sweets. At the very least, it's a much healthier obsession since natural sugars are much better for you than added sugars. After escaping the food fight, I notice that the redone feast is almost complete. Even Bakugo is doing some cooking while also shoving away squirebots: "You useless robots! This is how you cook when you actually know what you're doing!" Next to him, Neiru is cooking some ramen noodles: "I'm curious to see how the water of this world affects the taste of my noodles." Seatbastian is keeping squirebots from trying to help him. "Master Neiru has no need for your assistance. Please consider helping someone else. But not that Bakugo guy. He's far too angry and self reliant." "I HEARD THAT, YOU TALKING PIECE OF SCRAP!" I sigh and choose to just sit down at a table that's out of range of the food fight. There are others already sitting there. Olivia asks me: "Who would you rather fight? 10 zombie sized chickens or 100 chicken sized zombies?" "Why are you even asking that question?" "I'll tell you if you answer." "It's a good thing I'm good at ignoring what's going on around me if I concentrate on my thoughts or something else specifically. Okay. I'd rather fight the chicken sized zombies. I'm not scared of them, I like a good fight, and yeah: other stuff too." "That's interesting! Anyway, we're so bored here that I'm passing the time by asking that question."

"How in the multiverse are you all even bored in the first place?" "You can't really hear what's happening around us from here and it's easy to pay attention to what you can see from even over here." "Well, that's quite mild." Just as I say that, food is sent hurtling our way. "Is this a feast or a brawl? If you want to fight with food, go right ahead! I dare you in order to see what happens when you manage to get me going! And because that doesn't really happen in my world, you better use extreme caution!" A lot more food is sent flying our way. "For the record, I don't care that I just encouraged them to hit us harder. You don't have to join the food fight yourself. As for me, Im joining it to end it so we can have a welcoming feast begin soon. Tis the season for chaos I guess." I see that some squirebots are trying to sing Christmas carols but no one is able to hear them. Meanwhile, the observing audience is in an uproar over the food fight. Some of them are actively throwing food into the arena floor. I create some food and prepare to throw it at anyone who is already throwing food. And then, I start doing it. "I'll help end this food fight by creaming all of you since there's no way you'll listen to reason at this point!" That only got more food thrown at me but I cared very little about that. "Ooof! Aaa! You got me! This is so much fun!" Some others ended up teaming up with me. We demolished the competition, putting an end to the fight once and for all. When everyone settled down, the feast was completed and the audience who had been watching everything play out were invited to join as we somehow managed to make enough tables to fit just about everyone. It did help we used the indoor parts of the arena too for the feast.

For the first time ever, it felt like the chaotic hangout would turn into a calm and wholesome one but that was not to be. So here's what happened. With everything taken care of, the king stands up to make a speech with a mic piece attached to his mouth: "Citizens of Knighton and far off places, thank you for joining us in this redo of the original feast. I apologize for being so stubborn earlier. And now-" He gets cut off as an anvil falls from the sky and crushed him. The clang sound was really loud. But before anyone could react, he stood back up, looking like he was never crushed. However, he was now wearing a kilt and holding a folk instrument. Why? Nobody knows. He starts singing: "In the forest, in the forest." I comment: "Seriously? What else is going to happen?" The table Im sitting at bursts into flames as the band Incubus appears out of nowhere in their getup from the Pardon Me music video. The lead singer starts singing Pardon Me.. The fire wasn't doing much until he sings: "Pardon me as I burst into flames." The table almost explodes. Alice intervenes: "System Call: generate aqua element. Discharge!" She stops the flames and the song gets abruptly cut off as Incubus are knocked over by a RCT3 dune buggy. The PI runs to the dune buggy yelling: "Stop that, Kara Oki! Is performing live music silently not good enough for you anymore?" I sweatdrop: "It's like the entire plot just chose to disregard the Nexo Knights completely after a short amount of time." I'm just going to mention this real quick before I forget again. Someone was messing with us during that trip to Winterfest. It's obvious because The Monster and Viking Fury are rides that aren't open during the event. Whoever did that is really something else. A real piece of work.

Anyway, things just get more chaotic as the rest of the DAU cast appear at the same time as the Magic School Bus as well as Party Pete from Regular Show. Party Pete has light skin, sunglasses, brown? hair, and a white outfit. "Hey, did someone order a party? I'm going to be here for a while as long as the money keeps coming!" The Magic School Bus opens their doors. Ms. Frizzle is in the front: "Come along students, today, I'm going to show you interactions between many cultures in order to help you learn about sociology!" I wave to her and the class. "Oh! Swiftdrawer! It's wonderful to see you again!" Arnold complains: "I knew I really should have stayed home today!" I mean, now that there's a comet in the sky glaring at us all, I'm kind of with him on that. Cell looks over at us: "Dear god! How many more characters am I going to end up in chaotic situations with?! KERMIT!" "Don't look at me, Cell! This isn't my fault!" "I call bs! This kind of thing is almost always your fault! Don't you dare lie to me!" "Okay, okay, I won't! This isn't my doing. If it were, wouldn't I be laughing very hard at your reaction?" "I call bs again! Kermit, you keep yourself composed sometimes when annoying me! What makes this time any different?!" "We're trapped here." "What?!" Cell Jr. walks up to them: "I suggest you get used to this universe. It's meaningless to think of escaping. We would have escaped already if escape were an option." Cell is shellshocked. Ms. Frizzle laughs: "If we're stuck here, then all the more reason to as I always say: take chances, make mistakes, and get messy!" Suddenly, a party of 4 falls from the sky. One of them is a black haired man with light skin, gray eyes, a little bit of metal armor, a sword, black long pants, and more named Seiya(not Pegasus Seiya). Then there's the goddess Rista who has long blonde hair, light skin, blue eyes, and a beautiful dress. Mash the spiky yellow brown haired dragonkin with light skin, similarly colored eyes, a human shape, a longsword, and a green, yellow, and orange outfit is after her. Finally is Elulu. She has light skin, sea blue eyes, coral? hair in some ponytails to the side or something, and a little staff that matches her pink, purple, lilac, and yellow outfit of a cloak, boots, long socks, mini skirt, and a shirt that only covers her chest area.

Once they land near me funnily enough, Seiya sighs: "Where the hell are we? Who are all of these people? We should get out of here. They could all be secretly lethal assassins. Those robots look cute but they could be even more dangerous. And what of all that food? They could be immune to the poison they put into all of that stuff." Rista sighs: "Seiya! Is there any need to be so cautious? We were pulled here for reasons unknown. We should enjoy ourselves here." "Nah, I'd rather go train. Open a portal to the Divine Realm already!" They're all from the Cautious Hero universe. "No! I won't! These people minus just a few of them look at least somewhat friendly!" "I can't believe this. Why do I get roped into these kinds of things all the time? It's kind of annoying." I reply: "Welcome to the club." He turns towards me with suspicion in his eyes: "Who are you?" "I'm Swiftdrawer. And for the record, I'm not like any knight you've seen before. Don't worry. I have no intent on killing you. If I did, you'd already be dead or I wouldn't bother to talk to you for now. I'd just make an excuse to leave this area only to come back and kill you when you least expect it." Eventually, the banter and interactions going on reach a point of extremity. This causes a bunch of Knighton's citizens to run for their lives. But then, something appears in the sky. I sweatdrop: "Is that seriously a giant vacuum cleaner?" Upon closer inspection, I see that not only is it one but Truck-kun is above it, operating it like a normal vacuum cleaner. They say: "Behold! Vacuum-kun will now return everyone to their respective universes!" Wait, what?! They add: "Sorry for the delay but someone wanted to mess with you all by bringing all of you here one way or another! Isn't that just swell?" And just like that, I end up getting sucked back in seconds later, reappearing in GGO almost instantly. The GGO announcer was just about to finish saying: "And the winner is.."

My teammates along with SHINC and any other teams that went missing reappear at the same time as me. "What's this?! All of the teams that were previously disqualified for being MIA are back in the game?! Squad Jam isn't over! You heard it here, folks! They're all back! This should be good!" M speaks to me and the others: "It looks like we're back in the game. The only threat to us is SHINC. Let's continue and try to win." I reply: "I'm ready to go. Despite all that chaos. I'm ready." And so, we got our games on. 4 teams total disappeared including us. The team that was to win came after all of us and were immediately slaughtered. They were way too cocky and paid the price for being so cocky. With them out of the way, SHINC as well as us demolished the other 2 teams. Now it was just us and SHINC. The battle was intense. Even I struggled despite the fact I was using Graceful Protector and everything. We barely managed to win. SHINC have seriously been training these past months. Damn. The GGO announcer calls it: "And the winner for real this team is Team LMFPSY! Congratulations! The total shots fired set a new record for Squad Jam at a jaw dropping 325,429! Thanks for playing, everyone!" We soon logged out of GGO after getting our rewards. I gave mine out to novice players because I again, didn't want any of it. Now back in Mii World both in mind and body, I smile: "That was so much fun. Now it's time for more Workersmas fun! I should get to making fun but useful gifts while there's still some time before the party that's going to start with lunch.

I used Artist's Eye to create the perfect fun but practical gifts for my dearest friends, took the time to struggle wrapping them up, and got ready to have lunch. When I entered the cafeteria, I smiled at seeing all of the decorations around the place. Yeah, they're pretty much Christmas decorations but with a anarcho-socialist twist because we do Workersmas now and everything. Still going to participate in Toy Day and Hearth's Warming celebrations though. With instant travel through space and time, we can do it all. I sit down at a table after getting myself a large lunch. Why wouldn't I? My body demands it after all. The holidays continued from there and were full of fun. When it was all over, I was able to get a day of training in. I still have to do a few things to get completely used to the upgrades to my armor and weapons. Would have written more about our celebrations if I actually wanted to do so. But I don't want to, my apologies. The training was intense. I put my all into it no matter if I was doing it alone or sparring with someone else. A lot of comrades kept getting sent out on missions throughout the multiverse so my number of training partners available just kept decreasing. But I was still satisfied, sore, and drenched with sweat at around 9 PM when I finally stopped for now. I took breaks to rest, eat, and drink but that was all. I only rested when I really needed to. Drinking some water, I declare calmly: "I am a knight. That's who I am. A person who knows who they are is much stronger than they would be otherwise. That training was really satisfying. I feel like I made a few improvements throughout it."

I didn't just sword train. I also did some training with my other weapons and methods of combat. That includes magic as I'm slowly relearning magic as well as learning magic I never did before. It's a shame I dont have time to fully commit to learning magic all over again. But I'm trying my best. And that's what matters. At any rate, I'm just glad that I'm improving at all. *Meanwhile, One Supreme World, Don Thousand's castle* Don Thousand is furious: "Loyal servants, you continue to bring me just enough victories to prevent me from destroying all of you. But I once again am tired of your excuses and failures. If you do not make our primary enemies suffer a crushing defeat soon, I will absorb all of you and take matters into my own hands by merging with this merged world itself. You are forcing me to take more and more drastic measures. I will now set an example once again." Mr. Wertz, Gero, and Venamous suddenly appear from below the floor through Don Thousand's power. Me. Wertz exclaims: "Don't do this! Don't do this! Next time, we won't mess up!" Dr. Gero sighs: "So yet another doesn't realize my genius and throws me away! First it was Androids 17 and 18.." Venamous screams: "No no! I don't want to die again! NOOOOO! I'LL DO ANYTHING!" "Your excuses and begging have bought you time in the past but now, your time is up. Anyone foolish enough to betray me or mess up badly again will face this same fate." Without warning, Don Thousand effortlessly kills the 3 of them. Goku Black grins: "Good. Those mortals didn't know what they were doing." By now, Don Thousand has amassed a large number of villains for his cause and made them all his primary subordinates in a bid to reclaim the parts of the multiverse that were liberated from him. Gorilla Grodd smirks: "It's a good thing we apes have superior intelligence. I won't fail next time. Not with what I have planned."

The other villains have varying expressions. Maleficent is frightened. Blight is intrigued. And so on. Don Thousands speaks: "The mistake others who have failed to conquer or destroy the multiverse have made is not working directly with a large number of individuals with common goals and desires. All of us are motivated by revenge, even I can see that. The Dreamverse plan failed. I expect at least one of you to come up with a more effective plan than that one was poised to." *Back to Swiftdrawer* Yappa Yappa walks into the training ground I'm in and smiles at me: "Swiftdrawer!" "Is that a smile I see on your face that isn't full of mischief, malice, nuttiness, or amusement?" "Today just feels so different! I don't want to kill anyone right now!" "I'm glad that you're coming along well on your recovery from everything you've been through. This is supposed to be the time of year where the greatest acts of kindness and expressions of joy take place. When it comes down to it, that's what's important. You can't live a meaningful life just working or constantly suffering. It's like the real meaning of life is to survive. And to survive, you need others at least every so often. Love is vital. Say, did you come in here just to see me? Or is there more you want to do in here?" "I just wanted to talk!" "I figured as much. I'm going to wind down by reading a spell book in the library again. Care to join me?" "Yes! I've read so many gruesomely horrifying books! They satisfy my bloodlust for a time! The details of all the misery, death, and destruction!" "You know, you could read some other type of story, right?" "Yes but those are my favorite! They're helping me out so much!"

"Well, let's go to the library then." Once we get to the library, I sit down after pulling out a spell book I've been reading on the side in hopes to learn some helpful magical spells. Yappa Yappa grabs a slasher horror themed book and sits down in the closest chair to the one I'm occupying. And so, we read and we read. At one point, I remark: "You know, books should be in everyone's lives. They take us to places across the entire multiverse. They teach us many things. They record history and dream of the future. There's so much they do and that is why book bans of subjects such as diversity, marginalized people, and the Holocaust are unforgivable. People behind book bans of those kinds are scumbags. And they need to have their power taken away from them. If you aren't allowed to read about turbulent times, people who are different from you, or the latest science, you will lag behind in many ways. And that's not good. The act of 2 men or 2 women or whatever kissing is not sexual. If kissing is sexual, let's just rate every romance novel and so forth 18 then." Yappa Yappa laughs: "So many of those in power deserve to suffer for what they've done! I'd enjoy killing them!" "Yappa Yappa, what did I tell you? Don't enjoy killing ever again." "Right.. It's so hard for me to break out of that but I'm improving day by day." "Yes you are, my friend."