Manny and Sunset woke up in their respective beds, last night's events fresh in their minds.
Last night
"How can a 13 year old be this stupid!?" Sunset groaned with her head on the table, having spent the past 30 minutes trying to get Manny to understand the basics of magic. Manny looked at her with a frown.
"How can a supposed 'genius' struggle this hard at teaching someone?" Manny shot back. Sunset glared daggers at him, though the size difference just made it look cute.
"Hey! It's not my fault you can't understand something kids younger then me have already got down pat!" She countered.
"Last time I checked, you're teaching me. And while I can't do it on command, I have shown I actually can do it, so it's not my fault! You're just not a good teacher. Student? According to that screen, you're a great student. Teacher? Well if you were a good teacher, we wouldn't be having this argument." He countered right back.
"I don't have to help you, you know. I could just let you figure it out yourself!" She yelled, a little red in the face. He deadpans.
"Ok? What's your point? You're the one asking for my help. Admittedly that's only because I can actually use magic, but my point still stands." He said, folding his arms and giving her an expectant look. Sunset isn't able to answer that right away. 'You may be a hell of a lot smarter than me, but you're still a little kid. I have a lot more experience in arguing then you do.' He thinks with a smug look, which disappeared when Sunset gave her own smug look.
"Last time I checked, a Monster's body is extremely weak against humans. You could go out there without learning magic, but I highly doubt you'll get far in a one on one fight, and that's only if you're lucky. If the people here are anything like the folks back home, one look at those horns, and you'll have to deal with a mob." She retorted. 'It pays to have intelligence on your side.' He rolled his eyes.
"Good point, if only there were some sort of object that could possibly help hide these tiny horns. Like some sort of cloth based item that could cover the top part of my head…though I doubt in invention that complex could possibly exist." He sighed in mock defeat. Sunset rolled her eyes.
"Cute. We can argue about this later, right now we should get some rest. Let's see if there's anywhere close by that'll take in a little girl and a bum." She said, Manny huffed at being called a bum.
"More like little brat if you ask me, drop the attitude and it shouldn't be a problem. I don't suppose you have this world's currency, do you?" He asked. While they were trying to figure out how Manny used magic, Sunset had accidentally let it slip that she's from another world. Seeing no reason to keep it a secret, Manny had told her that he was in the same situation.
"No, this world (or rather this country) uses a certain type of paper called dollars, I only have a few bits on me." She sighed.
"I'm familiar with that type of money, though I doubt mine have the right type of look to it, if I actually had some on me." He says with a shrug before giving her a questioning look. "Also, what's a bit?
"This is a bit, I only have like three or four on me though. I didn't bother bringing much since I needed to travel light and this world might not even use them." She answered while showing him a bit, which was in fact a gold coin. "Turns out I was correct, there completely useless." She sigh. Manny is slack jawed.
"That's a gold coin." He says, his left eye twitching.
After Manny calmed down (at least on the outside), the two went out and asked around for directions to a pawnshop. They had managed to convince everyone they talked to, that Manny liked wearing fake horns and that Sunset was just a small adult rather easily. After all, how many Elementary schoolers can accurately explain things like the relationship between gravity and time while acknowledging how movement can alter both of them, let alone better then the University students they talked to?
They found the place they were looking for soon enough. After showing the owner the bit, they left with $250, unaware that since Equestria gold was more valuable than they realized at the time. They managed to find a motel to stay in for the moment, well Manny did, Sunset was too sleepy because of how late it was, so Manny had carried her to said Motel. Though Manny had to wake Sunset up for a bit, so they could use their 'Sunset is a little adult' story to get past the front desk, and get a room to sleep in.
Present
"Well…got any ideas for today?" Sunset asked simply.
"Find a way to make money." Manny answered with a shrug. Sunset raised a brow.
"Really? I would think that you'd want to try learning magic again." She says.
"We need money to pay for things like rent, food, water, and a bunch of other things. You only have 3 'bits' left, that's not going to last long, especially for two people. We also have another problem, we don't exist as far as this world is concerned, we're essentially illegal immigrants in this country. So getting a good job isn't gonna be easy, not to mention out of the two of us, I'm the oldest, and I'm only 13. I might be forgetting about a lot of things, but those are the biggest problems I can see at the moment." Manny points out.
"Well…maybe not." Sunset says optimistically. Seeing Manny's confused look, Sunset explained. "If I remember right, some old dude who's name you can't seem to say, sent you here from across the void." She began.
She is quite a rude child, but that is accurate enough I suppose.
Manny jumped at that, before turning to the source of the familiar voice, much to Sunset's confusion and the scientist's surprise.
"☝︎♋︎⬧︎⧫︎♏︎❒︎!?" Manny asked in shock.
You can see and hear me!?
"Uh Manny? I didn't catch what you said, it sounded too jumbled and warped. What's wrong?" Sunset asked.
"Nothing, I'm just seeing, and apparently talking to, the guy who sent me here. Though he looks different then I remember." Manny replied, before bringing his attention back onto the Monster in question. Gaster now looked like his regular self, from his skeleton body to his black shirt, gray pants, black shoes and white lab coat. Though oddly enough his right eye remained halfway closed, still showing the white dot acting as one of his pupils, while his left eye seemed perfectly fine.
It seems that whenever you say my name, it becomes a warped and jumbled version of my dialect, fascinating. Just refer to me as 'Doctor' or Just 'Doc' for now, for Ms. Shimmer's sake.
"Alright, Sunset? He said to call him Doctor or Doc." Manny repeated.
"Ok?" She questioned, giving Manny a confused look. She shook her head and continued her train of thought. "So this 'Doc' guy sent you across the void, so wherever you came from, must've been pretty far from this world. Am I right?" Manny looked at Gaster for confirmation, seeing him nod, Manny nods as well. "Well my world is connected to this one via mirror, so the two are close enough for that to be possible. So it's possible that this world has some things in common. In Equestria, it's not that hard to get a job as low tier as say, house cleaning or helping out on a farm."
I've seen how farm work is done in Equestria, trust me, she shouldn't go anywhere near a farm in this world at such a young age. She'll be scarred for life, I'll just say that cows and such are sentient and talking beings in her world, and leave it at that.
Manny just nods, acting as if he was agreeing with Sunset, when in reality he was agreeing with Gaster.
"Alright, but first things first, we should learn about this world some more. Any suggestions anyone? At the moment, I don't think any suggestion would be a bad one." Manny says with a frown. Sunset shakes her head while Gaster chuckles.
I have a few suggestions, but I'll have to have your full cooperation for them to work. Don't worry, I'm quite familiar with working through someone else to get something done, but you'll have to do and say exactly what I tell you to.
Manny raised a brow, but decided that a former Royal head scientist could handle this better then he or a little girl could. Filling Sunset in on what Gaster had said, she fully agreed, surprising both Manny and Gaster. Though both suspected that it probably had more to do with the Royal part of his title, then actual trust in Gaster, along with her not being able to think of anything else.
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What is? Or do you mean the chapter in general?
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In order:
1: Like Gaster said, one Monster might excel at doing something another Monster would struggle doing. Manny simple just has a nack for healing, but can’t use it on command yet. But yea, that’s basically what happened.
2: Gaster is more connected to this world than he’s willing to say, so that universe is blocking his name. But with Manny’s new connection to Gaster, there’s enough of a connection to allow Manny to at least say Gaster’s name in Wingdings, though uncontrollably. Only those closely connected to Gaster in some shape or form can say or understand his name.
3: This is before the first Equestria Girls move, so she’s going to act like she did before Twilight arrived. Though she will eventually warm up to Manny, but at the moment she still has the whole “I’m better than you” attitude. Manny (and by extension, Gaster) will have an effect on her to be sure, for better or for worse will have to be seen. But the lesson she’ll learn will hit closer to home than in the original timeline.
4: As for the magic lessons, imagine a brainiac noble girl trying to teach a normal country guy something the country guy has zero experience and knowledge in, there’s a VERY big lingo barrier between them.
5: This version of the Equestria Girls world is very different, magic has been around for a while, but the average human doesn’t know that. The reason will be explained later.
6: That’s going to be explained much later, though I’m curious if anyone can guess who to what the creature is before I reveal it (assuming of course, if the correct answer hasn’t already been said)
7: Oh that dude’s dead, when I released that chapter, I immediately added the death tag. The creature definitely got benefits from eating the SOUL (which will be explained), but the full potential of the SOUL will be hard to unlock. As for the number of guards, there are other guards around, but Traffic was basically a sacrificial pawn. The boss would have definitely promoted him if he had beaten the creature (at the time said creature barely had the strength to walk at the time and had a tracking device, so it was well in Traffic’s favor), but the boss knew Traffic well enough to not be worried.
8: That’ll be explained later, let’s just say after a certain incident, Gaster is keeping some things to himself until he feels he can trust Manny enough.
And finally 9: This is basically a game of chess, with Manny being Gaster’s King piece playing against an unknown player and King. That’s just a simplistic way of putting it, it’s much more complicated, but that’s the general idea.
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Let me clarify this as I was trying to write it like I think he would say it. This is basic stuff to Monsters, so he didn't take into account that Manny wouldn't understand it.
Basically:
Translation: His magic will take different forms depending on the situation. If he feels strongly that he wants something to heal, that's the shape his magic will take. If he wants to hurt someone, his magic will take the form of something that can hurt someone that's most connected to him. (at the moment, I'm still trying to narrow down what specific form that is) like how 'friendliness pellets' are connected to flowey or how bones are spears are connected to Undyne. Right now, he's at the complete mercy of his emotions. Meaning, he could try to heal someone, but if he's upset at someone or something at the time, he'll only end up hurting the person he's trying to heal, even if they aren't the focus of his bad mood. Think of Raven from the original Teen Titans, except at the moment, he can't use magic without emotions. Though things like teleportation will require him to think a lot (assuming he can even teleport, that is, only Sans is shown to be able to teleport in the game, so its not exactly a common ability).
Did you edit your comment, or did I just forget some of your questions? If you edited it, then it would be better to just post another comment next time you have more questions. If I wasn’t checking the comments for anything I missed, I wouldn’t have been able to catch the change unless it was pointed out.
10: Only specific people can hear Gaster and understand his name.
11: Sounds like an interesting video.
12: I’ll admit you’re close, but I can’t explain it yet.
13: His magic will grow and change over time, though whatever shape it take, we’ll have to see.
14: The abilities for SOUL traits are still being decided, but I’ve decided on a few (though just the lower levels of the actual traits). Perseverance will be touched on in the next chapter.
15: He’s not exactly a glass canon, just not as durable as most other boss Monsters.
16: He’ll definitely have to keep his fragility in mind if he wants to survive. There’s other factors working against him, but that will be touched upon later.
17: Well I just wanna be clear in case that wasn’t the case.
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Good question, it would heal the target as much as Manny could, but it would cause Manny to involuntarily use way more magic then necessary. The sudden drain could (at worst but most likely) cause him to either fall down and be unable to move or cause him to black out for an unknown amount of time. Basically, desperate magic usage will cause him to uncontrollably use more magic then necessary in order to achieve whatever he needs (assuming he has enough magic to even achieve it in the first place).