A Collection Of Other Adventures

The Comraderie In Sparring

Date: January 1st, 2025

Myself and some of the others are currently gathered in a rather interesting location to celebrate the new year before we get back to business in regards to many things. We were in the Wicked Parks Resort or more specifically, the adventurers' tavern I built in Twisted Land. "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1! HAPPPYYYY NEWWWWW YEAAAAAAARRRRRRR!" We have silly string battles and all kinds of other extremely chaotic things go on right after that along with some displays of affection and that sort of thing. And after around 7 minutes, we rushed outside to take in all of the light displays being projected up into the sky. We dont really use fireworks in the resort at this point and thats actually not largely due to my dislike for irl ones. 2 hours after midnight, we get back on track with what we need to do upon drinking sleep replacement potions. I end up walking into Greenhorne Castle in Miitopia which was once the home of royalty for centuries but has now been naturally transformed into a commune that acompasses the surrounding area as well. I head into a part of the castle thats not really visible in the game of Miitopia itself, its the room that was once the war room for the now dissolved Kingdom Of Greenhorne/Greenhorne Empire. Its a large room where we have installed a round table for the time being though it is usually used as a training room by inhabitants of the castle commune. But they agreed to let us use it to have a meeting of sorts that is of great importance to us.

I find myself surrounded by many different individuals: Disney princesses and princes, Fun Land Commune residents, notable residents of the now many communes that span across the world MLP: FiM is set in, and some others such as Mel, Barla, Nagato, Konan, and my lover Herbsalvin. Once everyone is seated, Discord speaks up: "My friends and comrades, I cant seem to remember what this meeting is all about. Does anyone care to remind me?" I somehow beat everyone else to replying. Just kidding. Isabelle beat me. She smiles: "Thats okay! We all forget things all the time! This is a meeting where we talk about anarchism to all these princes and princesses!" Pinkie Pie pulls out a platter of cupcakes and adds: "And eat cupcakes!" Isabelle nods and grins widely: "And eat cupcakes too, just like you said!" My heart is melting at this exchange. Tiana from Princess and The Frog is the first to take a cupcake and talks next: "Wow, these cupcakes are delicious! I'll have to start selling cupcakes at my restaurant now that I think about it! *get serious* Ive heard about anarchism a significant amount from some of us in this room as well as others. A rejection of authority doesnt sound like a good idea.." Herbsalvin replies: "Your concern shall be duly noted. I give my word. *writes her concern down just in case it somehow gets forgotten about, which is highly unlikely because its such a common concern*" The other Disney royals present also give concerns or in some cases, just pure curiosity like in Moana's case.

I speak once they finish sharing: "We're going to go over the tenants of anarchism in general, we dont have to go over specific flavors of anarchism necessarily. Its more vital to explain fully how our anarchist societies function. Thats why we have a vast array of comrades here from places that only just started anarchism not too too long ago. They will get to share their success stories as well as stories of oppression. I have a long list of stories of oppression from my world including graphic in detail examples. Since Im already talking, I'll begin the explanations and share how I came to be an anarchist. Its just easier this way. Much much easier. Anarchism isnt just the rejection of authority and hierarchy as well, it holds that they arent really necessary at most to say the least. It believes in maximized individual freedom as well as a collectivized stateless and classless society. Anarchism's end goal lines up exactly with communism's end goal. That's why anarcho-communism is prominent but lets not go too far into that specifically today. They both push for a classless and stateless society and were born in reaction to capitalism which is an economic system that succeeded feudalism which each of you probably knows quite well besides for you more modern royals. Anarchism sees hierarchy as inherently oppressive and I truly believe it is. No one needs to be above one another, we are all equal in the eyes of nature and our own bodily functions, wants, and needs.

Doesnt matter if you're rich or poor, some other life forms will still want to try to eat you alive if you show fear and all that. I wont explain everything, we're gonna the split the work among ourselves in part because basically none of us can fully explain it well by ourselves unless.. we're talking the likes of you. *points at Twilight Sparkle* But not all of us have the level of studiousness you have, Twilight, sadly. But even if we did, splitting the work would still be the best option. Anarchism is organized into a horizontal structure in which the workers along with everyone else hold and share the power. In the communes here on Mii World as well as Minecraftia, Tomapie, Equestria, and others like the town of Fun Land, we have a multi tier system for each commune. It begins at the level of neighborhoods, subdivisions, and their equivalents across the multiverse. Citizens militias exist as volunteer based forces for community and planetary defense. Citizens are encouraged to do whatever they wish as long as it doesnt hurt someone else or the ecosystem. We organize a lot of community events in the communes such as defense classes, game nights, friendly tournaments focused on cooperation even when competing. Contests are better when opposing teams work together to put on a show and push each other to the limit, a core feature of something known as dueltaining from Maimai City of the Pendulum Dimension. Its better if opponents have mutual respect and work to make each other stronger and more skilled while giving their audience a good show than how contests usually go.

In workplaces, workers elect a workplace and/or department representative to help organize teamwork and such but those leaders can be recalled at any time. Anyone who is a leader and representative in these communes is subject to majority will of those they represent. They dont hold true authority. They meerly function as a conduit for the majority will while giving their own thoughts and insights and hopefully working to serve their fellow commune members well. Leaders cannot just announce theyre running to become one, those they would represent would have to pick them as a choice to consider to begin with. They still work to get nominated, of course. The structure takes influence from direct democracy. Community members vote on issues for their representatives to bring to the table in meetings and so forth. I'll let someone else explain the rest of this stuff. And of course, watching the YouTube channel Anark for a full on explanation of the ideal most effective and stable kind of anarchist society is always a good idea and we will watch Anark's video on it in due time here if we need to do so. So I will now go into my experiences. I have a long saga of radicalization that Ive been through. It would take forever to fully explain. But it does go back to having a lot of good influences on me as a kid: Yugioh, Justice League Unlimited, Disney stuff, PEANUTS, and a whole lot more. Ive always been kind for really just about as long as I can remember though I used to be so incredibly shy that I had like no friends in kindergarten.

My family was also a pretty good influence though Ive started to see the many flaws in them in the past few years. Some are mild, some are awful, and yet, I still love them, a testament to what I was just saying. I still love them because most of them can be convinced to change for the better, even more so than many of them are already trying to do at this very moment. Anyway, I underwent some formative experiences that helped shape my path towards anarchism. When I hit puberty, I started my rebellious phase which all of you know is like due to going through it or seeing someone else go through it. During that phase which has technically never ended, I started to question things and become really annoyed by people wasting my time. I became obsessed with time. That was around a decade ago. I also began to despise shopping trips with my mom and being in her pictures. She would take 5 pictures in 3 seconds, not like any of them, then take about 10 more. And just keep going until she got one she liked. Looking back, I have to respect that but I can get good pictures in a single shot. Its all about that focus and using my artist eye to analyze what my camera sees before taking the picture. And it wasnt long until my arguments with my mom began. They decreased in frequency over the years due to my mom trying to change to be better and she turned out happier for it, I think. But that wasnt all that started me on the path along with good media influences.

There was also a situation in which I was forced to be part of a school play. Music teacher just basically straight up told the class we were going to be part of a play themed to the Wizard Of Oz and that was the end of it, I dont recall any objections or concerns. That said, my dad taught me to pretend to sing as I was way too nervous to sing back then and never truly sung in music class anyway. I also didnt like having to play the role of a singing munchkin in part because of the fact I was taller than almost everyone else in my grade, even back in 5th grade. I carried a grudge for that that was like an obsession even up to early 2017. Over 2 years later. As I grew older, I began to be exposed to political stuff in the midst of the 2016 election and found out I most agreed with Green Party values at the time and still agree with them. School taught me to care about the environment several years prior and Im thankful for that. And then, my love of science exploded as I began to question my belief in god in 2018 which was also the year I developed a true passion for drawing and writing thanks to the game Miitopia. It was also the year I figured out Im not straight. It was a big year for me with a lot of changes happening. By 2018, I had been influenced by a million things online and irl and ended up becoming critical of capitalism by the end of 2017. I very quickly saw things like homelessness as just awful and unjust.

My empathy and love for science along with the emergence of my love for rock, punk, and metal music especially caused me to really begin to establish my beliefs. My political story is just so incredibly long, Im going to be frank. But lets cut to the chase. I kept picking up all of this information over time which would largely reinforce my anarchist, socialist, environmentalist, and humanist beliefs in more recent years. Things like what the Nazis, Soviets, US, and British have done. I have learned so much of how hierarchical authoritarian governments have oppressed people as have less authoritarian neoliberal ones among others. I have watched as my own world gave up on giving a damn about a still raging pandemic. By 2020, I had really begun to favor anarchism after I had begun to learn about it sometime between August of that year and 2018 in part thanks to taking a political compass test. Its like so many things I had learned and experienced were pouring into my beliefs and causing them to evolve as I learned and experienced more. As I watched one of the major parties in my country abandon its entire voting base months ago, I only better understood how much society had been stabbing people like me in the back all this time. I believe in anarchism because I dont believe hierarchy is the right way to organize society.

Again and again, it lets the worst people have power over society and a whole load of other bullcrap. I dont like telling people what to do after experiencing being told what to do many times in the past. Ive had some people say they know better than I do or tell them to do this and that in a kinda mean and commanding voice. Screw that crap." I talk some more about my experiences but I wont write that out here because it was difficult enough to remember all of that I said that I just wrote down. Hierarchy leads to the worshipping of leaders, allowing for cultist mentality to develop for a lot of people if they end up in a cult of personality(theres a metal song about that by Living Colour, its so damn powerful). I have learned that things are generally better when theres no oppressive hierarchy over the years. Hierarchies were created to keep people in line. You dont need to be commanded around in order to do good things. Good things happen because people want them to happen, not because the state mandates they do some good. I will now sum up some of the key points about anarchism as explained by others and then, I'll show you how the Disney royals responded to all of the information. We gave them a full crash course built on some of us having helped explain anarchism multiple times before in the past. Back to organizing a anarchist society. The communes no longer have need of unions due to all workplaces being worker managed but the unions do still exist in name for situations in which multiple workplaces have to come together and that sort of thing.

This eliminates positions such as CEO which in turn reduces how much money is put into wages in societies in which money still exists. The economies of the communes do not operate on a for profit model, its usually more so things like trading goods & seevices(art trades for example), most trying their best to make a valuable contribution to the collective society(everyone has a role to play, they just have to find it), all essential needs are taken care of(in large part due to resource sharing), and large corporations have been abolished. Laws still exist in a new form. They are voted directly by members of the commune and representatives of the likes of towns and later, cities, represent the majority vote in whatever area they represent. Eventually, a policy/law, whatever you wanna call it reaches the commune level if it is approved. During the voting, referral, and approval process, theres multiple opportunities set aside to modify it if it is rejected at any level even after being previously modified due to rejection anyway. Anark's video on this is a must watch. He explains it better than I can. In the communes, we try our best to work together to make society successful, peaceful, harmonious, happy, and so on. Education, science, the arts, martial arts, and more are given actual resources and priority. Because anarchism isnt just based on despising capitalism and rejecting authority/hierachy(FYI: anarcho-capitalists as they call themselves are quacks. They arent anarchists. Anarchism is anti-capitalist in nature. A capitalist society without a government just lets large corporations become the ruling body.), there is a empathetic backbone behind it.

A genuine anarchist believes in the power of the people. They have kindness and care in their heart. I would also like to note that bigotry is a function of a hierarchical society so a rejection of bigotry must be a priority in all anarchist societies. Bigotry makes it easier for an opppressor to control and hurt large numbers of people. Its a way to make people fight each other over made up or pointless stuff instead of fighting the real troublemakers: the rich and powerful. If you have a hatred towards another group of people, chances are your hatred is full of utter crap and must be removed from your heart at once. But if that group of people is literally intolerant as in fascist, bigoted, etc, then thats where thats not the case. That kind of group aids the oppressor if they are not in fact part of said oppressing force. We spent a good 2 hours talking to the royals in that crash course style while answering questions they give here and there. For example, Aurora asks me: "Youre a knight and yet dont believe in authority and hold no loyalty to a king? How do you justify that?" "Thats a really good question to ask. In short, I was an anarchist before I began to seek out achieving knighthood. I learned much about the values of knights rather quickly and saw how most of them fit within anarchism no problem. A knight's vow to protect the people lines up with the devotion to the people seen in anarchism. Loyalty is a strong knightly value as well and is seen in anarchism as loyalty to again, the people."

We would be asked a massive variety of questions and do our best to ease any and all concerns. But then, Elsa asks the biggest question of them all: "If you have no authority, how do you protect your society?" I reply to it too as others believe I am most suited ro answr this question at least in this meeting. "Well, the revolution that brings about anarchism can never end permanently. The revolution mist always continue to improve society, even as it thusly transitions to a less militant form of revolution unless an outside society attacks. The civil militias dont have authority to arrest anyone but there are other individuals who do have power to arrest people based on strict guidelines voted on by the general population and argued for by the right experts. That being said, militia members can kill someone if that someone is an active enough threat to the community. That doesnt happen often because the things the communes provide has effectively crushed most justifications of crime such as poverty, hunger, homelessness, and so on. That and greed and selfishness are being toned down and eliminated if possible where that can be done. When the peoples' needs are actually taken care of, crime goes down because no one is left behind to starve to death or something. And should someone try to turn society into a hierarchy again, there are dedicated groups and individuals ready to fight off their efforts and make them fail as soon as possible.

An anarchist must never be satisfied with the state of even a anarchist society. There is always room to grow." In the end, all of our talking actually eases nearly all reservations the royals have. Elsa speaks again: "I see. But why is it that youve been talking to us about all of us?" Twilight replies: "We are asking you to reform your kingdoms to embrace anarchism." I add: "Your kingdoms dont have massive populations on the same level seen in even smaller cities in my world. That makes it much easier to implement anarchism along with your efforts to give a damn about your people anyway. All of you value love, friendship, and working together in varying degrees. Each of those along with a strong sense of community are massive drivers for anarchist societies. Yes, we cannot survive without families but because families are micro communities, the real message is actually we cant survive without a sense of community, we need to belong to some kind of community, end of story. All social creatures are like that, not just humans, Equestrian ponies, miis, sims, and furries. Lacking a sense of community dooms people to untold suffering and toxic individualism. Even loners need others around to get them through life even if theyre far more independent than the average individual. Will you transform your kingdoms into anarchist communes? If so, we're willing to help with time, effort, information, resouces, and more.

And if you help train your people to defend themselves, the need for authority only decreases that much faster in your kingdoms. If people can defend themselves, they dont need guards or some hero to always protect them at every single turn every single time theyre physically in danger or someone wants to take their stuff. If your answer is no, we can compromise through transforming your kingdoms into democratic ones. In Tiana's case, thats a little different because of not having an actual kingdom but a restaurant instead. Even on the scale of a single restaurant, anarchism can make a huge impact." Within the next hour, all the royals accept the idea of transforming their kingdoms though some voice their concerns that their ruling parents wouldnt accept the plan. Actually, just kidding. Theyve been with us this entire time, I just completely forgot to mention them. And thus, in a wacky turn of events, all Disney royals gave up their positions of power, if applicable. But the princes and princesses were still princes and princesses as far as we were concerned should they wish to hold onto being known as such while also making efforts to help others better through the ideals of anarchism that they have warmed up to. This is the start of a new era for them. And lets be honest, in many medieval settings such as Skyrim, you see a lot of people armed with a sword or dagger in a scabbard attached at the waist/hip. With all of that said and done, we pause the meeting for all of us to do some introspection and thinking should we need the opportunity to. When that pause is over, we end the meeting officially soon after.

Thats because its time for a day filled with training. After we have a early morning breakfast. We go to the current dining hall in the Greenhorne Castle Commune and eat with many others a most delicious breakfast made by the efforts of various cooks including Pinkie Pie with Twilight overseeing the food creation process to make sure nothing went wrong. She still has some thoughts about that pudding that went wrong but at least she hasnt gone "Twlinannas" in ages. I had quite the selection for breakfast. Pancakes, hash browns, oranges, a couple muffins, and a big bowl of chili and spaghetti with cheese on top. The meat in the chili was sourced from a giant boss monster some of our comrades killed in a dungeon in another world. Once we were done with breakfast, it was time to train in the base below Miitopia. Actually, no. We're going to the largest space to train we know of that isnt another dimension in itself. On the new space station thats now a couple months old or so, the training rooms on it are much bigger than the ones on the old space station and can even be modified into smaller training rooms at will in seconds with the right spell or push of a button. I say to my lover once we just to the largest of the training rooms: "Im so excited for this. We are going to completely wear ourselves out here and hold literally nothing back! Its time to really push ourselves beyond our limits if we can!" "Indeed. We must make haste if we wish to make the most of this opportunity.

A limit breaking challenge is ahead and I give my word that I will do my best." "Well said, Herbsalvin, my knight charming." Shortly thereafter, many of our comrades join us in the room and Barla yells audibly: "Hell yeah! Lets do this! Why dont we just a free for all where anyone can fight anyone?! Thats the best way to train in my damn opinion! The better we train, the more lives we will save as we have been doing up to now!" Shes right. I agree with her completely and many feel the same way about her proposal as well. It took only seconds fof most of us to agree to that idea. And thus, the free for all is set to begin. My priorities in training are to improve Shadow Hurricane, further maximize my arm strength due to the fact my zombie curse prevents my arms from getting anymore muscle, work on the spells I need to improve and learn new ones, learn to better utilize my wind elemental powers, and work on my leg muscles through kicking, running, and so on. Before any of us actually fight one another in a free for all of extreme proportions, we get to work on doing stretches, exercises, and/or whatever else we need to do to get primed for sparring with no holds bars. This is going to be seriously intense. After about an hour of this including ample rest time, Present Mic yells using his quirk: "ARE YOU READY?! GET SET! GOOOOOOOO!"

At first, I just move around, trying to work on my running speed until I run into Elsa and compulsively say: "Elsa! You and me! Lets see how we can help each other grow! Your ice powers against my kicks! Do you accept?" Elsa nods: "You are the first fo challenge me today. *smiles* Lets do it." We get away from most of the chaos thats going on before getting started. "Elsa, I chose not to propose my sword against your ice because working on my legs is just that important. Many fighters neglect to work on their legs and I was one of them for some time but never again will I be. But enough explanation. Give me your all!" Elsa's powers have seriously improved since she joined up with us. They were already quite something before but now that the events of Frozen 2 have canonically happened, she is that much stronger between that and the training and experience she has gotten due to joining BRAINS. It helps that she has sparred a lot with the likes of other ice users such as Zane and Todoroki. She instantly creates a massive pillar of ice made out of permafrost. I dont think I'll really be able to get much of a dent in but I'll certainly try. But I know better than to just go for that pillar. Its just a distraction that also acts as a giant obstacle. I think to myself: "Elsa, I know what youre doing but I wont be fooled so easily." I ignore the pillar and do my best to evade ice blasts being sent out towards me. I run at her at top speed but her reaction speed allows her to start freezing my body.

I am forced to evade some more and anything else I can do to avoid getting frozen. "Shadows, consume the ice!" Elsa yells: "Bad move!" I am left open for the briefest moment, allowing her to freeze much of my chest using a single ice blast. "So.. cold!" I dont say anything else and refuse to stop moving even though Im being turned into a knightly popsicle. I scream as I manifest my Ki, causing the ice forming on me to break apart. I jump into the air and send Ki blasts at Elsa which she then freezes and sends right back at me, causing me to be sent crashing into the ground. I immediately get back up and push towards Elsa with my wind powers, catching her off guard and making her lose her balance. I use the chance to get up close and personal to her and begin kicking her. She gets more serious and blasts me with more ice magic, causing me to begin freezing rapidly. I use Artist's Eye to create a intense flame close to me and when she puts it out, I just repeat the process until she gives up on it and puts more effort into immobilizing me while keeping her distance. Elsa knows I fight best in close quarters, good move. But Im not deterred, not when my heart is pounding with excitement and Im determined to level up my kicking. Seeing the still standing pillar, I get an idea and start running back towards it, risking being frozen solid by more of Elsa's blasts in the process of doing so. I hide behind the pillar when I reach it, even crouching down and becoming very quiet.

I silently conjure another flame using Artist's Eye to combat the freezing of my body but it isnt enough. So I pull out my sword amd raise it slightly to cast a fireball spell on myself. I have now relearned that spell but it wasnt easy due to my true elemental affinity being the wind over all these years. I put a lot of mana into my spell to supercharge it, allowing it to effectively counter the ice magic working its magic on me. But Elsa is coming much closer, she knows Im hiding here. I have to hurry with what Im about to do. I charge Ki into my hands after putting my sword back into its scabbard. My gear has heavy resistance to fire so Im not worried about literally being on fire right now. When she makes her ice pillar vanish to get me without having to get around or though the pillar, I aim at her and fire instantly: "KAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Elsa didn't see that coming and is victim to its full wrath but survived due to wearing permafrost ice armor she created using her powers. All my attack did was stun her momentarily. I use Artist's Eye to recreate her ice pillar to her shock. I so happened to have given it a little hit and touch earlier for a couple seconds to get a feel for what it really was like. She cant so easily dismiss ice brought to reality by someone else.

I teleport up to the top of the pillar, fly using my Ki to the ceiling of the training room, ignore the explosions and other things going on around us, and let myself free fall while preparing my legs and feet. Elsa cant aim at me from her position. But to my surprise, she uses Instant Transmission to get to my position and freeze me more while we freefall together, thus putting out the fireball I cast on myself. As I rapidly begin to freeze solid, I scream and dismiss the ice pillar I created before conjuring a great pillar of flames in its place, thawing me out completely in seconds. I Ki blast Elsa away from me and yell: "This is a great fight! You are truly an excellent opponent to spar with but this isnt over yet! Win or lose, we're here to help each other get better and stronger!" Once I hit the ground but take no damage due to the strength of my armor, I decide to go at Elsa head to head up close and personal. I won't let her keep me far from her position anymore even though Im risking being frozen solid in mere moments by doing so. I use Instant Transmission to reach her and kick her chest while she was still reacting. The force knocks her to the ground but she isnt done yet either. Elsa gets back up and transforms her silk gloves into permafrost ice gauntlets, mimicking the design of my black metal gauntlets to do so as quickly as possible. We give each other nods of respect and clash head on. While she punches and blasts me with ice, I kick in response to her moves and use my shadows as a source of warmth to combat the ice magic thats rapidly turning me into a ice statue.

We just go each other like this for some time. My goal is to break her armor and make her tire out completely. But if she manages to freeze me solid, its over. She wins our spar and will unfreeze me before we change opponents. What will be faster? The force of my kicks in breaking her ice armor or the freeze she is doing to my body? Its time to find out. I intensify my use of my shadows to keep myself warm, I allow them as well as my own darkness to seep into my gear once again just like some time ago. Playing with darkness is risky but I have gotten better at doing so. To try to further counter the ice magic, I create small illusions with Artist's Eye and start kicking faster and faster. By making my muscles in my legs feel the burn, I can generate some serious heat. Thats the power of lactic acid that builds up when you push your muscles to their current limits and keeps doing so until you stop exerting them so much. By making illusions, I can slow down Elsa's thinking process but at the cost of slowing my own down somewhat as well and splitting my attention. But still, I keep on kicking with as much speed as I can but my kicks arent doing very much to wear down her permafrost armor. I must have kicked hundreds of times by the time my legs gave out from the exhaustion and the ice magic thats freezing me solid. Not even a minute later, I was a knightly popsicle, completely frozen solid and looking like a ice sculpture. Elsa unfreezes me after 15 seconds. While thawing out, I speak: "Good fight. I lost and thats okay. At least I got to wear out my legs completely from kicking so many times. I hope you grew and learned from this too."

"I did. ..You fought well, Swiftdrawer. *smiles* It was fun, lets try to do this again some other time." "Definitely. Well then, Im going to find a good place to rest in this room and to warm up from being frozen solid. In time, I will get back in the ring so to speak." "Very well. I must get going, Im still far from done." "I see. Good luck out there. I honestly am surprised you are still far from done despite how hard I tried to wear your mana out." I sit down on the floor near a wall and create another flame with my Artist's Eye to help me get warmer while resting my legs. No one tries to spar with me while I rest so when I fully recover, I just start running around again in search of an opponent. Over the next few hours, I fought so many of my comrades while focusing on the things I need to improve on. We have been putting so much time into sparring lately as we anticipate the next move from our enemies. Fun Land is going to be one of their next targets because they have Gracie, Tom Nook, and Redd on their side now. Whats strange is that the Tom Nook on Harmony island which I play on through ACNH as a character I named Swift used to actually be the sam person as the Tom Nook we're going to have to fight again. I would write on more of the spars I had with others but my time is sort of limited because I have a lot to do this month other than writing my stories.

If only the state of the world were mostly moving in a positive direction. When the time became 12 PM, we stopped our free for all to have lunch. I use Repair to fix my armor for the zillionth time today and wipe some blood off my face. Yeah, we have gone in real hard with the sparring. When one of us is close to death or immobilized, whoever is fighting them has to stop doing so immediately. We know our enemies won't give us that mercy but in order to train the best we can without having to make anyone lose training time because they're now dead and need to be revived, we just have to keep having this go on. There's really no bettee option when it comes to all of this stuff. We eat at the nearest restaurant to the training room on the space station. It has a very much creepy theme. Naturally, my Pegasus Knight and I sit together along with a few others. And we dont have to worry about disease spread much anywhere on this station because we have gone as far as to further upgrade the anti-illnesses procedures and infrastructure on this station and the BRAINS bases after that whole bioweapon caused illness incident over a month ago. We have clean air and clean surfaces for days along with many other things such as CO2 detectors. Keeping everyone safe from disease is paramount. Disease gets in the way of training as well as fighting the forces of tyranny and oppression.

Barla quips after we all sit together: "Well damn! Look at all of us! We're all banged up! *genuine smile* I hope the training has gone as well for everyone as it has for me." Herbsalvin replies: "It has very much so for me. Huzzah." Bray nods: "It has been very much engaging and intriguing. We have sparred as if we're trying to kill our comrades. Thats the most efficient way to train, as sad as it is for me to say so." I add: "Thats true. And we cant just put off our feelings about it and expect our pysches to stay okay. This is pretty serious stuff. We shouldnt have to do any of this but there isnt any other choice. In the coming days, Katherine Glassgate and the others are going to return. Theyre going to try to make us pay for ruining almost everything for them and daring to resist their efforts of multiverse destruction and domination. What theyve been doing largely comes straight out of the fascist playbook. Many people in my world have been misled all their lives in order to believe that theres no possible way oppressors could possibly be more twisted and petty than the likes of Lex Luthor. And yet, we have seen just how horrible oppressors really can be. Theyre willing to do anything to oppress others. If it takes the collapse of an entire planet's ecosystem, they will work very hard to collapse it in order to oppress others or just let it happen as an effect of what theyre doing already. And by telling the stories of our struggles against villains THAT twisted to the people of my world..

Im trying to tell them that that is essentially what we're up against too. That said, I take no joy in issuing such warnings." We discuss the situation some more as well as the sparring we have done so far, how good our food ends up being, and so on. The chefs who run this restaurant when they aren't occupied with other tasks did a great job with our food. It looks terrifying yet tasted incredibly delicious. I dont know how they made cheese pizza look terrifying but somehow, they managed to accomplish that very thing. When all of us were done with lunch, we returned to the training room after taking care of other needs. By 1:15 PM, the sparring action and chaos was fully back on and we were fighting even harder and better than before. It helped that someone put on some music for the entire room. It wasnt very loud to anyone's ears because of where the source of the music was but it still helped a little bit. At one point, as I spar with Pitohui, I grin: "Now this is the kind of fight I always desire to have! A fight that isnt based on winning. A fight where all participants respect one another and are using the tools of violence in order to grow stronger, faster, and more skilled through sparring with one another. I wish the tools of violence were only used for sparring. But with villain and state sponsored violence throughout the multiverse, we arent even remotely close to having that ideal being even somewhat realized on a massive scale. Now then.. IM COMING, PITO! HAAAAAAAA!"

She laughs: "Youre right, this is so much fun! But dont think this is over just yet!" "Dont worry! I know we both have plenty of fight left!" "Youre right again! Wow, you really are almost as fun as LLENN to fight!" The sparring continued through the afternoon, into the night, and the next morning. We all took breaks and sleep replacement potions when we needed to, of course. Each of us must have fought over 30 opponents in nearly 24 hours. This is what it means to be a part of a community that feels like a family. We are a massive family that is also a one of a kind community. Every single day, we go against the individualist crap that many of the places we come from is infested with. If someone tries to be a true lone wolf, chances are they will live a much shorter life and die alone. Thats why I once recently said online that the lone wolf dies. Many societies teach people to live alone and independently from other which seems reasonable until most of them end up living alone and suffering immensely under capitalism due to needing a job to live alone when many jobs dont pay them well enough to do so. Independence from others sounds nice but we're social creatures. We need other people lest we suffer more and die sooner. Pito and I wore each other out with smiles on our faces. I laugh as we both sit down to rest: "You know, it feels like knights are supposed to always fight seriously and derive no joy from battle and while I try to be that way when we fight our enemies.. It isnt fair to expect that from any knight when they spar with comrades. And I do try to enjoy real battles a bit too for the sake of my psyche."

I also sparred with Herbsalvin, Kirito, Asuna, Sinon, Moana, Nagato, Konan, Tsunade, Deku, All Might, Seyren, Bray, Barla, a clone of GADGET, Ghost Gal, Mel, and various others. I was so incredibly beat by the time the free for all came to an end the early morning after New Years Day. I used so many potions to restore my mana, energy, and other things. We pushed one another to the extreme. But my body was now too sore to feel that satisfaction you feel in your muscles when you do truly great training. Myself and the social circle Im involved in most often in this life convened in one of the station's relaxation rooms after we left the training room. We reflected on our training and relaxed together to rest our bodies and minds. I may not feel pain anymore but my muscles still felt very sore to me in a muscle weakness and tenseness sort of way. Carlos exhaustedly laughs and starts coughing so he ends up having to drink some to combat such before actually speaking. Seeing what happened just now, we all take a swig from the water bottles in our respective inventories. After I drink enough water, I pet Herbsalvin's head, causing them to immediately blush brightly. Carlos finally speaks: "Whew! All of that sparring was so much fun! I want to keep going after I rest! Oww! My muscles! Oww! Oww!" We all couldnt help but laugh.

Carlos is someone who is more often than not louder than life after all. Thats Carlos for ya. No surprise there. I wish we could just do this sort of thing more often but we cant because our enemies are planning something massive. We have to be ready for it. Its been weeks since we saw any of them now, they haven't appeared on any radar even just once despite the vast intel network that spans universes that our collective has. At the very least, we all got a lot out of the sparring and just need time to relax and process everything before really doing much else now. We spent several hours in the relaxation room together to relax, spend time together, and reflect. After we left fo have breakfast, we would have a lot of community activities to look forward to in order to deepen communal bonds and all that good stuff. The time until the enemy strikes again is drawing near but we have no idea when or where they will first reappear. It could be at any moment and we knew we would never be as ready for it as we desire to be. What the enemy can do ranges from so many different possibilities that it would take the imagination of a massive collective consciousness for us to be as ready as we desire for it. Get ready, readers. For our own in real life Planet Earth and things in these stories are about to get even more dangerous and dire in a snap. January 20th in our world.. Watch out for that day and dont watch the broadcast from Washington, spend your time creating and/or doing something else important instead.