Three days of plowing my girlfriends later I gently made my way out of the room they were all sleeping in and made my way to the kitchen. “My pelvis hurts.” I grumble while walking in and making myself some breakfast.
“He lives.” Jenny said, she and Dinky walking in. “Welp, he’s not limping or broken, pay up Dinky.”
“Dang it.” Dinky said as she handed over… a raw chunk of gold, to Jenny.
“Easy money.”
“Why does everyone bet on me being injured or saying something?” I whine.
“I bet on you at least having a limp or broken hip.” Dinky mumbled. “Clearly your body isn’t normal.”
“You missed a lot by the way.” Jenny said, pouring herself some cereal.
“Well start explaining.” I say, starting to eat my cereal.
“Day one, taught Dinky here how to shoot, kill, stab, and dispose of bodies.”
“We practiced with fish and a manticore Jenny killed… don’t tell Fluttershy.” Dinky said.
“Does it involve a sassy white rabbit?” I ask curiously.
“No…” Jenny mumbled. “Sneaky little rat stayed in her hair the whole them after he caught us…”
“Then what did you kill?” I ask with a frown. “Also why did you teach Dinky how to kill? Self defense reasons that’s fine but to straight up murder?”
“Little bit of both.” SHe confessed. “But we killed in total, ten fish, a manticore, and our boredom.”
“Okay then.” I nod. “Anyways, next?”
“Day two.” Dinky said. “Found Kevin and Cheerilee setting up some stuff outside the school. Guess Kevin is gonna teach gym? Some hours later some guy with blond spiky hair crashed in town hall, then shot back into space for no reasons, and after that we met your mom Den… needless to say that happened…we told her you were busy then she said some stuff about wondering if… something or other could happen, then that was about it for the rest of day two.”
“I’ll have to call mom…” I sigh out. “Anyways, day three?” I ask.
“Day three… we spent it with Kevin and Cheerilee cause that sound proof magic box of yours broke…” Jenny said.
My forehead met the table rather quickly. “Uh...how loud were we?”
“Well, Celestia stopped by to see how we were doing before Dinky and I left… if she had brought Chrysalis with her, she would have ended up in the changeling equivalent of a food coma.” Jenny explained. “Noise wise… no one walked within a ten foot radius of the library.”
“Oh dear…” I sigh out. “Well we’re gonna have to fix that and double the strength…” I sigh out. “But anyways, congrats you two, you are going to have a total of eight mothers by the end of my stay at the dragon lands.” I say honestly.
There was a crash, Jenny and I ran outside… and saw Luxu, Time, and Sweetie Bell scattered outside of Luxu’s gummi ship. “We’re back horn dog.” Luxu said as he got up.
“Why didn’t you have Sweetie or Time drive?” I ask bluntly.
“I did, this crash was all Sweetie.” Luxu states.
“Can people stop sucking at driving for five seconds?” I ask bluntly.
“When you stop being emo.” Time says as Luxu helps her up. “Also.” She tapped the door of the ship… it opened and a small mountain of bits fell out. “We got kicked out of, and likely bankrupted, every casino in Las Pegasus.”
“Sweet christ.” I sigh out. “Also I’m not emo.” I frown.
“Also, don’t tell Rarity but Sweetie got a tattoo.” Time added as Sweetie blushed.
“Tattoo’s I don’t care about.” I say bluntly. “Now something more...private than that I will worry about. But what’s the tattoo?”
“I...I’d rather not…” Sweetie mumbled worriedly.
“I still have no idea how that happened.” Luxu said. “She didn’t drunk, mainly because she’s underage, yet after her fourth soda she got wasted on sugar… later followed by the craziest sugar rush ever.”
“That’s...something.” I say worriedly. “But where did she get the tattoo?”
Time looked between Sweetie and me, quickly walking over to me and whispering it. “Her…breasts…”
“Oh for fuck sakes Sweetie.” I groan. “Really? There?”
“The tattoo guy said I wasn’t the only one to get one there…” Sweetie mumbed, her face a cherry red.
I only sighed out and shook my head. “We’re going to have a serious talk later. But right now I have to wake up the girls. I have to start traveling to the Dragon Lands later today.”
“Oh, really?” Luxu asked. “Well while you and your herd are out, Time and I will find a doctor to remove Sweetie’s tattoo, and no one needs to know about the rest that went down in that now… half… two thirds, burned down city…”
“How the fuck?” I ask, completely shocked at hearing that part.
“That’s my fault…” Time admitted. “Some gang members tried to hit on Sweetie, knowing she was under age and I… lost it and hunted down them all… heh, turns out they pretty much owned that city so… well, at least the cops don't have to worry about them anymore?” Time said, nervous. “And, before you rant like hell, we did find a place where Heartless were holding people, ponies, whatever, and got rid of it, so there.”
“Well...at least you helped save people.” I sigh out. “God only knows what Celestia’s going to say about hearing Las Pegasus being burned down.” I grumble. “Anyways, meet Jenny, she’s going to technically be your niece after I marry Rarity.” I say to Sweetie, pointing to Jenny. “Jenny, this is Time, Luxu, and Sweetie…”
Luxu walked up to Jenny. “... you a murderer?”
“Was.” Jenny replied.
“Tried killing Ben?”
“Yes.”
“Failed?”
“... yes.”
“Got anger issues?”
“Yes.”
“You insane?”
“Little bit.”
“We’ll get along then.” Luxu said, shaking Jenny’s hand.
“Glad to hear that.” I nod. “Oh wait...I forgot when Celestia and Chrysalis are supposed to get here…” I frown, sadly forgetting that little tidbit.
Jenny looked up. “Three… two… one.” There was a loud thud behind me. I turned around, seeing Celestia carrying a… rather exposed Chrysalis bridal style.
“Good news, I just got word Los Pegasus was burned to the ground.” Celestia said.
“And I get to run what is rebuilt!” Chrysalis said, sounding semi-drunk.
“And I suppose you're half drunk because…?” I ask Chrysalis.
“I’m marrying this whore in that cities ashes!” Chrysalis yelled, kissing Celestia’s face.
“Heh, that’s what I love about you bug-a-boo, you call me what I want to hear~” Celestia teased.
“We have kids present.” I frown.
“Mentally seventeen.” Jenny said.
“Mentally thirty five.” Dinky said. “Had a test confirm it.”
“I’m sure at this point we give no shits.” Jenny added.
“Should have thought that.” I nod. “I’ll go wake up everyone else.” I say. “You can talk while I do that.”
“Wait A minute!” Chrysalis said, rolling out of Celestia’s arms, dropping to the ground and standing- Oh my god her shirt and pants fell off and- SHE'S NOT WEARING UNDERGARMENTS?! She then walked over to me, her… chest, mere inches from my face. “Y-you’re that white night guy, right?” She asked, still drunk but apparently able to remember.
“Yes...why aren’t you wearing any underwear?” I ask worriedly, taking a step away from her.
She looked down at her nude self, a drunken smile on her face. “Oh… I haven’t really left the bedroom since sexy sun butt and I started dating, plus, changelings are usually always naked, even when we shape shift our skin will look like the clothes.” She said. “But… but… what was I gonna ask? Oh, right. I need a… fav...favor.”
“What favor?” I ask worriedly.
“First off, stop looking down, only Celie sees between the legs, and secondly, secondly… Oh, I found a thing out in the badlands when my soon to be niece and nephew in law love bomb shield... Whatever me and my hive out of the city.”
“You never told me this Chrysi?” Celestia said, using her magic to teleport in a blanket and covering Chrysalis.
“Well I would have but I felt it was more this guy’s ally.”
“Um...I’ll look into it.” I nod.
“You better.” Chrysalis said, failing to flick my nose. “The things look like you did before you..you got harry…you hit puberty? Meh, anyway, they no like me so they shot at us with… guns, and big boom things.”
“I’ll take her inside.” Celestia said, the group of us walking inside, which, to my delight, the girls were up now. “Hi Luna.”
“Greetings sister… sister in law?” Luna said, the last part with a bit of confusion towards Chrysalis.
“Glad you’re all awake.” I nod. “So yes, Chrysalis is here, Los Pegasus happened to burn down in a terrible accident that involved the murdering of Heartless, and Chrysalis is drunk for some reason.”
“Drunk on love!” Chrysalis says.
“She’s not joking.” Celestia confirmed. “We… tried something new last night and she’s been like this for… thirteen hours… last night included…”
“Oh dear…” I mutter. “Anyways, we need to travel to the dragon lands correct?”
“Yes. RIght.” Twilight says, pouring everyone some coffee. “Just…give us like three hours…maybe four to shower and wake up, eat, all that.”
“Sorry.” I say sheepishly.
“I think I’ll take a shower first.” Derpy said, flying upstairs. “All the… sweat from those night might have made my feathers stiff.” Derpy finished, hurrying upstairs.
“Yeah it’s gonna take them a while.” I say. “So how’s life been Celestia?”
“Thanks to Chrysalis here, not boring. Before she showed up it was all paperwork, meetings, and sleep. Now…well, I’m not saying exactly everything but life’s been good. So… what do you think that stuff Chrysi was talking about was?”
“I don’t know but I know I’m going to have to solve it.” I say honestly. “I’ve mostly been ‘protecting’ Equestria, I need to help the other countries soon.”
“Well, Chrysalis’s hive is all in Equestria now, so we can see what this mess in the badlands is about after we finish our work in the dragonlands. So… Luna emailed me about your mom… she seems nice.”
“Yeah...but mom is wonderful.” I smile. “One of the best things in my life. Right next to all my girlfriends.”
“Well I hope to meet her someday.” Celestia said. “So, we got time to kill… tv?”
“Sure why not.” I nod. “Might as well do something with our free time.”
Five hours later everyone was ready, packed, and about to head out. Turns out we may spend the night there since it’s a long fly. Speaking of a MASSIVE dragon landed outside Ponyville, something akin to the passenger area’s of zeppelins attached to it’s back. We climbed in and it flew off. Fast. Celestia and Luna were setting the sun and moon by the time we arrived. We were greeted by the dragon lord, an even bigger dragon than the one that flew us, and a smaller one, blue scales… wait… every dragon here is naked… oh dear…
“Greetings, White Knight.” The dragon lord said. “Celestia, a pleasure, Chrysalis, we have been looking forward to meeting a proper changeling queen.” Chrysalis, who was STILL drunk, managed to bow. “My daughter Ember here will escort you to your rooms, White Knight and his mates will room with Honora, Celestia and Chrysalis, given your relationship, shall room in the master guest room for the night.”
“It’s a pleasure to meet you.” I say. “But may I ask a question?”
“You may.”
“I heard from one of my ‘mates’ that ‘dragon courting’ involves fighting the dragoness’s father...is that true?” I ask curiously, wondering if that’s true.
“Yes, but in light of our attempt at peace and coexistence with the ponies, we will allow you to court her as if you were in Equestria. From what your mate princess Luna has told me it involves meeting them, talking, then lots of breeding after that.”
“There’s a lot more talking and ‘getting to know each other’ then just breeding like rabbits.” I say quickly, glaring at Luna.
“Says the guy who screwed his two newest additions for three days straight.” Gilda said.
“A majority of the time I’m dragged in there so shut up.” I huff.
“You could just say no.” Luna said.
“Yes darling, we’re not savages.” Rarity added.
“Bullshit!” I cough out. “Oh sorry, I had a cough.”
The girls, save for Pinkie and Derpy, rolled their eyes. “Sir dragon lord, pray tell… is there a Heartless threat here?” Luna asked.
“Those beasts of darkness… sadly yes, but our fire is more than enough to deal with what has so far shown up. If that fails then our size plays into our advantage as it has in the past. Our current issue though comes from a new creature we’ve seen not before, akin to you ponies and your bodies but not as… colorful, or furry.”
“Fuck…” I mutter to myself. “Pray tell, what does this being look like? Any specific features?”
“...” The dragon lord thought for a moment. “They are usually dressed in armor of some sort, but they fly in loud machines, and there’s a mark on all their armors.” The dragon lord dragged a claw in the dirt, drawing the mark… he didn’t need to finish, it was the american flag… “They all typically have this symbol on them. Not sure if it’s of their homeland or if it’s a magic one.”
”HOW DID I FUCKING KNOW!?!” I mentally shout, not believing that Earth actually did exist. “Oh...well looks like I have a lot of work to do…” I sigh out. “But anyways let’s not talk about depressing things and possible things I have to murder with extreme prejudice. Where is Honora’s room again?”
The dragon lord’s daughter, Ember flew down to us. “This way.” She said, leading us. Turns out the ‘rooms’ were just caves that the inside was well decorated. She dropped off Celestia and Chrysalis at theirs first then took my group the Honora. It was dug rather deep, and not a few feet in we felt rather cold wind blowing out from inside the cave. The further we went the colder it got. After some meters underground the cave walls were all ice and the floor was covered in snow, only light was from some kinda brightly glowing crystals embedded into the ice.
We finally reached what seemed to be a large bedroom, a white scaled, bright blue eye’d dragoness was on an actual, yet frozen, chair reading something. “Sis, your… mate is here.” Ember said as she left.
Honora put her book down, looking at me before walking over. “So, you’re my mate to be?” She asked.
”Damn...didn’t think the anthro version of Blue Eyes White Dragon would be this hot… I think to myself in surprise. “Yes. Yes I am. And I believe you are the lovely Honora?” I ask.
She kept looking me over, as if judging me. She went as far as to take off my hood and find my tail. She seemed surprised, but shook it off that I was a Dire Werewolf. To my, and everyone’s shock, she stuck he hand in my pants, and grabbed my boys. I yelped, her scales are SO COLD! “Yes.” She said, thankfully letting go and retracting her hand. “We will make many eggs together.”
“Can y-you not grab my privates so suddenly?” I ask, feeling really cold just from her touch.
“This is part of how a Dragoness chooses a non-dragon mate, I have been reading as such.” She spoke…somehow with a swedish accent. She then grabbed the book she was reading…and I couldn’t believe the title. ‘How To Pleasure The Opposite Sex, Same Sex, and Other Races’. “Was expecting you to be pony, but you are close enough so it still fits.”
“I know you're a snow dragon and all but...is your touch always that cold?” I ask worriedly.
“Oh, sorry. To me the room feels what you would feel…as a warm summer day, but I guess you feel it as cold as it looks huh?”
“The only reason why I’m not freezing right now is because of my cloak, some magic, and this fancy thing.” I say while summoning my shield, Frozen Pride.
“Oh, that reminds me, we have a gift for you.” Luna said, handing me the ring the girls payed Braig to get.
“Gift for me?” Honora asked.
“Why yes.” I nod, before summoning my cards and places seven other black boxes on them as they soon floated over to the rest of the girls. “I know this isn’t the best time...and I know that all of us just met you…” I say nervously, getting down onto one knee and all eight boxes opened, all showing beautiful wedding rings magically made for all of them. “Will...all of you marry me?” I ask, hoping beyond hope they say yes.
“YES!” They all, even Gilda to my surprise, shouted, tackling me to the ground.
Meanwhile, with Jenny
“Dinky! I grew dog teeth, ears, and fur and I’m not in my fighting form! I think Ben proposed!”
“I figured.” Dinky said, Jenny turning to her, eyes widening. Her pony fur was stripped blue and grey, as was he mane, her equine ears were now more canine, she also had canine teeth, but most surprising was the fact Dinky now had a pair of WINGS. “I get the teeth and fur…but the…where did the wings come from?”
“...I have no idea…”
Back to Ben, three hours later
That ring made Honora’s once cold touch rather warm and pleasant now. Needless to say...all my new wives wanted to have a special…celebration as it were. “I’m pretty sure part of this room melted with our...activities.” I say sheepishly, cuddling up to my new wives.
“I know.” Pinkie said. “I felt the cold drips when I got to be on top of you.”
“If that is sex that makes eggs…I’m gonna love this…marriage, right? Yes, I’m going to love it!” Honora said.
“Marriage means you are my mate for life.” I state. “Till death do us part…” I say, but that wording only made me sad as I tried to hold them all closer. “Please...don’t ever leave…” I whimper sadly.
They all cuddled and managed to hug me. “We are going nowhere lifemate.” Honora said. “We may have just met, but I know we will forever be with you.”
“Ain’t that a fact.” We all jumped, dad was at the doorway. “Sup kiddo?”
“Hi dad.” I say sheepishly. “So...this is my harem.” I say while naming off all my girlfriends. “Girls, this is Cript...my dad.” I say, not entirely sure if I’ve introduced them to him yet.
“First off, relax, I saw nothing. Secondly, I came to congratulate you, the one finally balling up and proposing. Ben…heh, did better than I did, the day I finally did manage to nut up and propose to my first wife, she already had the same idea and was gonna propose to me. Man, that was a fun dinner.”
“Even though you probably had a long time to date her and I’m proposing to women I’ve known for...all of a few minutes to a few months.” I frown. “Oh wow I probably moved a tad fast here…” I say worriedly.
“Welcome to my world.” Dad said. “Want to know what helps?”
“Having magic to help keep your hips intact?” I joke.
“I have clones for that, but besides that, cause wife one is always… adding, to the marriage of ours, I invented this little scape goat to constant talking.” Dad shot out blue lightning from his hands, hitting each of us in the head. It was like I was living all of my new wives lives at once, their memories pouring into me. When it stopped, I had a slight headache. “Memory sharing, I just saved you all about two months to two years of surprises about each other. So… no secrets between you all now.”
“Okay then…” I say, before my eyes widened. “Oh dear…” I mutter, fearing what they might have seen and slightly fearing what crap I’ll be seeing in my memory.
For the next few hours before we went to bed talking about each other's memories. Needless to say, Pinkie’s and Luna’s were VERY perverted… as their private times were also shared, and from memory I know what it’s like to fuck… me. Dad left not long after we started talking. On the plus side this has given me even more insight into what makes my girlfriends tick, and what turns them on, a weapon greater than the ones I can summon has just been given to me on a silver platter.
The next morning Honora went out with us to meet with her father. It was the first time ever she’s left her room, her face when the sun was up, added with her not even feeling the heat around her, thanks to the ring, made her cry with joy. Having her memories now also I felt the pain, wonder, and general feeling of what that must have been like, even though she had those memories of us in the sun, to experience it is another thing.
I did notice something was off in my memories though, a scene from not long after Rarity moved in for her shop being rebuilt, I think a day after she agreed to the herd, from all the girls that were there at the time actually. They were talking, then suddenly, like bad editing, it cut to them doing other things. A lot of memories of mine from them were like that. I’m only assuming Luna had removed memories of a certain thing, for what I’m not sure, but I won’t ask. Her and her dream walking abilities she can work with memories.
We all sat at a large stone table, some vegetables were prepared specially for the girls while meats were made for me, Gilda, and Honora. “It is amazing to see you able to wander outside now Honora.” The dragon lord said.
“It is equally amazing father.” Honora replied.
“After today the dragons will have peace officially with Equestria, re-established peace with the changelings, and we will discuss the issue of the equine-ish beings.” The dragon lord announced, several other dragons, including Ember, were here. I’d say a lot happened about the Equestria and Changeling peace treaties was something to talk about, but it was just signing a large stone tablet, one for Equestria, one for the Changelings, and then sign paper ones that said the same thing. A few photos were taken and that was it. “Now, lastly, the issue with the new race.” Two dragons, larger than me, were carrying what looked like a still well armored soldier, in chains, over to us. “White Knight, would you please do the honors of interrogating them?”
All eyes were on me.
“I’m not really the ‘interrogating’ type but I’ll try.” I say while walking over to the well armored soldier. “Alright listen, we can either do this the easy way, or the hard way. The easy way, you just tell me all we need to know and you stop bothering literally every living being on this planet. Or the hard way, where I start actual torture methods.” I say to him bluntly. “And trust me, I may not know torture, but I’m pretty sure I can figure out something to make your life even worse than it already is.”
He chuckled. “You folks get done talking peace now you're thinking torture? Hypocrites.” He said.
“Isn’t that what America does?” I ask. “Tries to talk about peace but tortures its own citizens? Also what were you doing to these dragons? I only heard so much but I doubt it was for ‘peaceful’ reasons.”
“You get swallowed up by a black hole looking thing, wake up with your whole base on some beach, then while exploring see real life fucken dragons in the same week and see if you aren't gonna shoot first ask probably never.” He retorted.
“I had that same situation happen except with ponies.” I say honestly.
“Then you lucked out.”
“I understand the whole ‘suddenly getting shoved onto a different planet’ thing is quite a shock in several ways, but don’t you think you would have at least tried to ask a local for help? You know like what you're supposed to do? Instead of acting like a cliche in a random story or movie like an idiot?” I ask.
“The first thing we see when getting here are fucking dragons, we didn’t attack til some smaller red one shot fire at us.”
“Sadly this is true.” The dragon lord said. “The dragon known as Garble has been imprisoned for this, but we imprisoned this being for using a new type of bullet we’ve never seen before.”
“AP ammo has been on earth for a while.”
“Can you believe that the ‘earth’ I came from is apart of someone's imagination?” I ask the man.
“Heh, why not, first some creatures right out of a video game start invading earth, then we wake up here, now you tell me this? Why the hell not.”
“Good man.” I nod. “But just so you know, I’m still human, even though…” I say while pulling my hood back and showing wolf parts. “Sad to say...things happened. But where are the others? I better be the ‘ambassador’ here.”
“Like I said, our base, somehow intact, appeared on a beach fifty miles from here.”
“Sweet, well that’s going to be easy enough.” I say while summoning my keyblade glider. “Want a ride there? Cause I think handing you over as a sign of peace would be a good thing right now.”
“I’m coming too.” Luna said, pulling out her Keyblade and summoning her glider. “If the dragons were a bad first meeting with our world then maybe I can help sort it out.”
“By the by, what year was it on your earth soldier?” I ask, unshackling the guy.
“2037.”
“Damn, a whole 15 years before my Earth went to hell.” I chuckle, finally getting the shackles off of him. “Ya see, my imaginary earth kind of went to hell in the whole ‘2012 mayan calander’ bullshit. Didn’t actually happen but people just went berserk about it so...eh.” I shrug.
“I was like, four when that happened so I don’t remember much.” The soldier said, rubbing his wrists.
“Well glad to know your world didn’t go to hell until Heartless started showing up.” I say while getting on my bike. “Hop on. But what’s your name soldier?”
“Lenny Grinlock, call me Len.” He said, getting on the bike.
“Names Ben, or as this world knows me, White Knight.” I say honestly. “Ready Luna?” I ask, ready to speed off to find more humans.
“Yes.” She replied as we both sped off.
Len lead us to where his base was, over quite a distance we were met with the scene of a military base right out of a sci-fi movie. There was even an energy shield over it. Damn, technology must have tripled in progress after 2012. We landed just outside the gate.
Len got off, and walked over to the barrier. “This is base capitan Grinlock, open the force field.” There was a siren noise for a sec before the shield flickered and faded. “Welcome to Base Redemption.”
“It sure took the bastards long enough to actually make shit like this.” I frown, getting off my glider and it vanishing. “Seriously, first in 2000 was supposed to have flying cars, then later ‘holograms’, but all we got was a bunch of bullshit.” I huff.
“Captain!” A random soldier came up. “We thought those things ate you or something.”
“At ease general, they’re as intelligent as us, the one that shot at the heli was apparently some young punk of their kingdom, he got his. Oh, this is Ben, a…former earthling, and a blue pony woman.” Len said, pointing to us.
“That would be my fiance, Princess Luna, Diarch of Equestria and, while this might sound crazy and impossible as fuck, ruler of the moon. She raises it and lowers it for the night to start and all that.” I explain.
“Would explain the perfect day and night cycles.” Len said. “So general, what’s happened in my absence?”
“Still no contact with any other possible earth survivors, reactor is doing fine but the fuel’s gonna run out in a month, and the men’s morale has… dropped.”
“Well it’s a good thing me and Luna are here to help build some semblance of a peaceful relation between this world and all of you.” I say honestly. “If we can do this all right you can have the help of at least three kingdoms, the Dragons, Changelings, and Equestrians.” I say honestly.
“Sir?” The general asked.
“General, our first encounter went bad because of a dumb youth, to be honest I do trust the apparent princess lady more mainly because we’re at eye level as compared to those dragons.”
“I can see that…” I mutter. “But anyways, while here and trying not to panic about dragons, have you seen any Heartless around?” I ask curiously.
“Heartless?” The two asked.
“Those weird shadow things that pulled you all into that black hole thing.” I say. “Weird shadow creatures with either a weird heart symbol or pure black creatures? Anything at all?”
“Oh, yeah. We’ve seen them largely coming from a cave ten miles east of here.” The general said. “They leave the base alone for some reason.”
“Either because their waiting for you all to lose moral, your resources, or waiting for that one jackass to be like ‘let’s join them because I’m an idiot’.” I frown. “But seriously have none of you ever heard of Kingdom Hearts?”
“Kingdom hearts… I think a game like that was released late 2017…but it was the third one if I remember…god I was nine I should remember this.”
“Teen wielding a giant key and killing things?” I say, trying to help him remember.
“Yeah…that sounds about right.”
“Yes captain, I played it, it was the last game in the series.” The general said. “Was…really good.”
“Lucky bastards.” I frown. “I had to wait 5 damn years for that thing? Come on Square you're better than this.” I complain, not liking Square Enix for having to make a game take 5 damn years to make. “Anyways, who’s the leader here? We have a lot to talk about.” I say, not wanting to get too distracted with rants about a video game company.
“Uh…” The general pointed to Len. “He is the base captain.”
I face palmed. “Oh for fuck sakes.” I sigh out. “Well thanks for telling me that now.” I frown.
“I did refer to him as captain for a reason.” The general said.
“It’s a different title officially, but I like captain better.” Len said. “So Ben, what’s happened your end?”
“We’re...gonna have to sit down for this.” I say sheepishly. “There’s so much crap that it’s not even funny.”
Luna and I spent a good few hours telling Len what had been going on my end since I was picked up in 2012. I still found it a tad odd how fifteen years passes on earth when it’s not even been a full year for me yet. I chalked it up to God and left it at that. When I was done Len told me about some things from back on earth, how the heartless, and unversed from the looks of it had been seen around since 2012, but were just rumors until they started full on invading in 2020. He said china fell, then europe, followed by canada and japan a year later. If they didn’t take people they were either killing or throwing them into the black holes like what happened with this base.
“Then that’s when the whole base came too, and we were here.” Len said, finishing his story.
“Damn.” I say simply. “That’s a whole bunch of something. Did you happen to see any weird hybrids or humans helping out with the Heartless and Unversed?” I ask curiously, wondering if this was Core’s work.
“Lots. Most we managed to take photos of matched missing person’s descriptions of… bodies, that were never found in the 2012 riots. Many called this a dead coming back thing but I don’t buy that.”
“Mind if I see those pictures?” I ask curiously. “I might be able to tell some of those people but I’m not a hundred percent sure.” The general came up with a large file filled with photos of the heartless fusions and the people helping them. I searched through them all rather quickly. “Damn it Core…” I mutter to myself, still horrified that this asshole is going to such lengths to just slaughter everyone. One picture caught my attention and I didn’t like it. “Wait…” I mutter, staring at the picture and seeing...Josh Ventral? “Something doesn’t seem right with this one.” I say showing them Josh. “This man is named Josh Ventral...but something about it doesn’t seem right for some reason.” I say, looking at the picture more closely, knowing that Josh and the other Ventrals are forced to work for Core but not entirely sure if there’s anything else there that might tip me off.
“Well that’s a mystery to us too. First off, he and all but one Ventral went missing back in 2013, and when this picture was taken and ran through the system, reports of him being in four different countries, at the same time, came in. It’s as if someone cloned them all.”
“That bastard!” I bark, slamming my fist into the table. “How the fuck did Core figure that out? But...wait, Josh was in your Earth?” I ask curiously, finding that very weird.
“We have no idea, he’s been missing for a while, like I said, all but one vanished, and he’s reported to be brutal, but these...Clones, if that’s why there seems to be more than one of him, act way more ruthless than any reports. For starters, the Ventrals made it known they largely only kill cops, because that’s who’s chasing them all the time, rival gangs, and thugs. Meaning they only kill innocents when their legendary Killing Mood starts. These ones kill anyone who steps out of line, even so much as a sneeze and they’ll kill you.”
”Too many things don’t add up here…” I think to myself. “Okay...so apparently Core managed to clone Josh and then take away everything made him...well him. Just so he could have an army of loyal, blood thirsty soldiers that don’t give a damn about anyone.” I explain. “I’ve met Josh before, got shot eight times in non-lethal areas, but I’ve also met his family...even they would say this is just mindless killing.”
“Then it looks like whoever this Core is has some rather frightening resources, and a dark side too dark for the legendary Ventral family. Perhaps one of our men can go with you to see what’s up for himself, and report back at some time.”
“Let’s hope whoever you want to tag along with me doesn’t die.” I sigh out. “But from what I heard from two Ventrals...Core is a monster, going way beyond even their comfort zones with the shit he does...which involves cloning, torture, and sick hybridization projects as you see in these pictures.” I say.
“Well don’t worry, this guy can handle himself, he has a knack for surviving the impossible, even went toe to toe with a Ventral copy back on earth and walked away.” Len pulled out a walkie talkie. “First Sergeant Mike, report to the debrief room now.” He called. “He’ll be here soon, and trust me, you don’t make the rank of First Sergeant a week in the marines without impressing someone.”
“Sounds impressive, but has he ever gotten super powers from ‘God’?” I ask. “Cause I have and it’s amazing.”
“Well his combat abilities are nothing to dismiss, the Ventral he fought had some strange abilities too and he still took them down.”
“Sounds like a badass.” I chuckle. “Can’t wait to meet him.”
“Captain?” A voice came from the door. When I looked… I didn’t believe it. He was older, had a gash on his right cheek and blue eyes, but it was Zeke! “What’s the mission?”
“How in the fuck?!” I yelp, not understanding how that was possible. “Okay...this is the second person that just so happens to look like a friend of mine.” I think to myself. “Sorry, it’s nice to meet you. Names Ben.” I say to the soldier.
“Your mission Mike is to play follower to Ben here so we can gather useful field information. Gear up and meet him at the front gate with a report.” Mike saluted then headed out. “He’s a master marksman, hand to hand combat is second nature to him, and he’s a wizard with computers.”
“I expected nothing less to be perfectly honest.” I say. “He a team player or does stuff by himself?” I ask curiously. “Just wondering cause cooperation right now is a must.” I state, not wanting to have Mike just suddenly head off and do something on his own without me knowing about it.
“Either or really, put him in a team he follows whoever is named leader, in this case you, and alone he’s a one man army.”
“Good to know.” I nod. “But...would it shock you if I said that he looks exactly like 2 people I know?” I ask curiously.
“Not really I guess, lots of people can have the same face but never meet.”
“No as in literally everything about them besides eye color and maybe hair color.” I say.
“Eh, so anything you want to know about him other than his people skills?”
“Well…” I think for a moment. “Is he a straight up soldier? Just the whole ‘must protect the people’ kind of guy or does he know anything outside that field?” I ask curiously.
“A bit of both really. He’ll follow orders, but he tends to put his own spin on them. Once, a field report had said he managed to capture, alive, the Korean dictator during this Heartless invasion of the nation. I looked into it and Kim Jon is currently in a secret prison back on earth…Assuming it's still there.”
“Let’s hope for the best I suppose.” I shrug. “Anyways want us to go anywhere specific? Cause I already have a spot that I need to investigate.” I say, not entirely sure if he told me where to head off.
“Then head there, his mission is to view and report. Aid if asked. Other than that just do what you normally do.”
“Right then.” I nod. “And Luna? Staying here to make peace or coming with me?” I ask, wondering what she’ll be doing while I’m long gone.
“I guess I'll be here for a bit longer to talk about some things with the Capitan.” Luna said.
“Alright.” I nod. “But just so you can tell all your men this Captain, if any of them hits on my fiance…” I say coldly. “The shit you all saw back on Earth will be child’s play.” I growl.
“Relax, she's royalty so we’ll treat her as such. We’re military, besides, no longer being on earth and with no USA to serve…we do need a new…President…or perhaps a princess.”
“Oh?” Luna said.
“We are a branch of the U.S. Government, but seeing as our government is likely fallen or falling, perhaps to keep moral up here we can join the government of what princess Luna here governs?”
“You’ll be the military of the Equestrian Government, ruled over by Princess Luna, and Princess Celestia, her sister.” I say. “I’m sure Celestia would love to hear about this.” I chuckle. “Also...I think I can try you people some weapons.” I say honestly. “Guns are fine and all but having magical weapons helps solve problems a little better.”
“Heh. Find us a supplier and we’ll talk.” Len said. “I guess with that out of the way you find Mike and head on out.”
“Alright.” I nod, giving Luna a quick goodbye kiss and heading out. After a quick walk I soon found Mike fully prepared. “Yo Mike!” I call out, jogging up to the man.
“Sir.” He replied. “Where to?”
“Badlands.” I say while summoning my glider and getting on. “I’m pretty sure this is faster than any car you have so hop on.” I say, hoping to get their quickly and figure out what’s going on there.
Mike got on and we started heading off. It was still a ride so we had time to talk. “So I heard you are basically the best soldier ever.”
“I do alright.” He replied.
“You say ‘alright’, I say being able to fight a Ventral, win, and keep a captured target alive either has the elements of luck or your amazing at doing your job.”
“I do alright.” He just repeated.
“Okay.” I nod. “I also heard the captain say you got First Sergeant in a week. How did that happen?” I ask.
“Was a Private, sent to some basic field work in the U.K station, those creatures attacked, I walked out of the U.K with a few hundred surviving civilians and killed several thousand of those human Heartless fusions.”
“Damn.” I say, surprised at hearing that amount of people survives and heartless were killed. “What weapon did you use the entire time?” I ask curiously.
“Switched out with whatever was around. Used mostly guns, and combat knife when ammo ran out.”
“Nice.” I nod. “So how was your fight with that Ventral? Notice anything strange about him?”
“Her, and… that wasn’t a Ventral, that was a monster.”
“Mind explaining?” I ask curiously.
“She was known for slave trading, her name was Nancy, she fought like a monster, not like the Ventrals tend to do.”
I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself. “Did you kill her?” I ask sullenly.
“Yes.”
”Fuck…” I think to myself bitterly. “Core, the Ventrals new boss….gave them powers. Super strength, speed, stamina, and a few other things. They hate their boss besides two people...but they're forced to do his dirty work...but because of a cloning project Core took out the restrictions out of the clones.” I explain.
“That would explain it.” He said.
“Did you see a number on her? Anything at all that might make you think she was a clone?” I ask curiously.
“Yeah. On her right hand was a tattoo of the number 98.”
“Not only is that fucker desecrating all over a dead woman’s body…” I growl. “This is bad...I fought Nancy...the actual one...and I was forced to kill her...it’s still terrible to me…” I mutter, continuing to fly towards the badlands.
“They care about family, Ventrals don’t tend to die unless they have nothing left to lose, or they make a mistake.”
“Yeah…” I sigh out. “But Nancy still had a ten year old girl named Jenny...which I adopted actually...she hates me but is willing to give it a shot thankfully.”
“...good, that little freak show needs non criminal influences.”
“She already taught my other daughter how to defend herself…” I say sheepishly.
“Heh, sounds like her.”
“You talk like you knew her?” I question.
“...Research.”
“Sounds a lot more than ‘research’ here.” I say. “Don’t worry, there are no eyes or ears around. Just the two of us. If you have anything to talk about or say I’m all ears.”
“...I got nothing to say.”
“You sure?” I ask. “No ‘who are you?’ or ‘how did you summon this huge flying bike out of thin air’?”
“You’re my mission, and I could care less about a keyblade glider.”
“Now how did you know this was a keyblade glider?” I ask curiously.
“...I played some of the games.”
“So did I my friend.” I say honestly. “So how was Kingdom Hearts 3?” I ask. “Was it awesome? Was it worth the wait?”
“Didn’t play it, was…busy, at the time of release.”
“Fighting off Heartless and Unversed?” I ask curiously.
“More like…getting my life together.”
“How so?” I ask curiously.
“Rather not say.”
“That bad huh?”
“You could say I became a new man after it was over.”
“Fighting video game monsters tends to do that.” I shrug. “But anything else? Cause we’re both Kingdom Hearts fans so we can probably talk about that for a bit.”
“Well…so it’s all real here?”
“Yep. Keyblades, Kingdom Hearts, Heartless, Nobodies, Unversed and Dream Eaters. Everything you’ve played is a reality.” I nod. “I have the powers of Organization 13 and can summon Nobodies, but I’m not a bad guy and I’m not a Nobody just so’s ya know.”
“Huh. So what time frame story wise it this?”
“It’s all fucked up to be perfectly honest.” I sigh out. “What do you know about Multiverse Theory?”
“If it’s a ‘what if’ or an alternate version that might happen, it exists.”
“Now take that, and put it in between two mirrors.” I say.
“Damn.”
“Yeah.” I nod. “A shit ton of reflections for all of this.” I sigh out. “But for this reflection, the time line took place where Terranort was still a student under Ansem the Wise...but then I interfered with Aqua and got him back...also it just so happens that Castle Oblivion is magically gone, Ventus has his heart back and is awake and the main game series is about as fucked as can be.” I say, not figuring out a colorful metaphor for it but still.
“Huh, so I guess not long after that X-blade blew up then.”
“Pretty much. Except there’s the tiny little catch that a man, who looks exactly like you but with red eyes, happens to have the X-blade.” I point out.
He seemed to tense up at that. “Zeke Ventral?”
“You know him?” I ask curiously.
“He...he’s dead. His body was found shot to death by police back in 2018.”
“Now here’s the small thing…” I start. “Where me and Zeke come from...it’s basically someone’s imagination land.” I say. “And the ‘mayan calendar’ thing that happened in 2012 was our worlds end basically. So the ‘god’ of that imagination land told us ‘welcome to real life, want’s some kick ass powers?’ and me, Zeke, and several others, decided to go with a Kingdom Hearts theme.” I explain. “Lot to take in I know but that’s about the sum of it. And apparently when we all thought Earth was just a figment of someone’s imagination it just so happened to actually exist. Who would have seen that sudden cliche as fuck twist?”
“Well, if it exists in God’s mind then technically yes it does exist. That whole 2012 thing happened on Earth, the riots, all of it, so maybe Core and these heartless are tearing it up for some reason?”
“My Earths ‘God’ just so happened to be just a very powerful random dude. Not the actual Christian ‘God’...also Core happens to be God’s brother cause reasons.” I shrug.
“Huh, so sibling feuds or is he after something on Earth?”
“It’s not a sibling feud that’s for fucking sure. I don’t know what Core’s after but...Core is after his brother to figure out how to do the whole ‘make a multiverse through imagination’ cause the guy want’s to do cliche bad guy stuff and end everything as we know it.” I explain.
“I’m guessing a bullet won’t kill him then?”
“Core can cleave a planet in half without trying.” I deadpan.
“Then…huh, can I ask you something?”
“Shoot.”
“You said Zeke Ventral, the one you say you know, is from earth. When did you two get…picked up?”
“On the day when people started rioting.” I say. “I don’t know what Zeke was doing at the time but I was at school not giving the greatest of fucks. And none of the student or teacher body gave a fuck either believe it or not.”
“Huh, some high school. I was… at ‘home’. Parents were stocked up like hell, I was up in…my room, watching the neighbors pack up and leave. I took a nap, then woke up when some fucker shot the house down with a tank. Parent’s were dead and I left the rubble a day later to make sure they weren’t around.”
“How the fuck did some random asshole get a tank?” I ask, completely flabbergasted at hearing that.
“Didn’t bother asking when I found him, I just made him choke on the barrel of a shotgun as I fired slugs into his stomach.”
“Brutal.”
“It was payback… I noticed something off that day too.”
“What would that be?”
“...I had killed for the first time ever that day…and nothing happened.”
“What do you mean ‘nothing happened’?” I ask worriedly. “Were you expecting some thrill at killing? Feelings that ‘I got my parents murderer’? Or guilt that you just murdered someone?”
“...I was Zeke Ventral.”
“Well that explains why you look exactly like Zeke.” I shrug. “I suppose you were shocked you didn’t have a ‘Killing Mood’ and all that right?”
“Yeah. I didn’t even notice my eyes were blue till a week later when I found a not broken mirror. That surprised me more than no killing mood.”
“Well either someone ripped you out of your body and put you in a new body, or some weird shenanigans happened that I don’t know about.”
“The fact you know a Zeke Ventral and I was Zeke ventral before faking my death, something is up here.”
“Remember when I said God happened to create an imaginary Earth?”
“Yes. I believe we both come from there?”
“Yep. I don’t know which one is the ‘real’ one here, but I think either you are a clone of Zeke, or Zeke is a clone of you. I have no idea, this makes less and less sense the more I go along with this.” I sigh out.
“In a reality with magic, Keyblades, and other realities, not much will make sense.”
“Ain’t that the truth.” I chuckle. “But I suppose you faked your death because you didn’t want to be targeted by your family?”
“Not that. Everyone knew the Ventrals were disappearing back then before this recent comeback. I figured I’d disappear in a different way. I found a person, bad guy, with my general body type, shot the hell out of them, then payed a favor to the local coroner to rig the tests so it would come out as my DNA in the blood sample and not the actual person. Made sure that was their only option, broke and shot at any other way to identify. I laid low for a few years before I finally got out, had a part time job for a year then joined the marines not long after that. Forging a false identity was easy.”
“Considering what I was told about you and what the Zeke I know could do...sounds about right.” I nod.
“Even if one of us are a clone then I guess it doesn’t matter anyway. I’m a little over thirty, and have my own life, I’m sure he’s got his, so at this point are we even the same person?”
“Do you have sixteen wives?” I ask curiously. “Cause the Zeke I know does.”
“Damn… I haven’t even had a girlfriend before.” Mike says. “I got the short stick in this mayan clone crap.”
“For some reason most of us have harems.” I say. “But whatever, you’ll get a girlfriend sooner or later. Your a thirty year old Zeke, I’m sure you’ll find someone nice.”
“Just keep calling me Mike, less confusion and I have gotten used to it- Look out!”
Mike tried to move us to the side, but something hit the glider and we were now crash landing. We crashed, my glider disbanding on impact as Mike and I rolled through the dry dirt. “Well, well, well.” A REALLY familiar, yet older, voice spoke. “Looks like I got two birds with one RPG.” I looked up, seeing an older, scar covered me.
“My christ, who knew age didn’t agree with me.” I say, getting up as I stared at the older me. “So...what cliche bullshit is going on here?”
Mike got up fast, pointing a rather large pistol at the older me. “That’s Ben Tanor, well known crime lord and co-leader of the Garette crime family. The only family to match the Ventrals.”
“I suppose ‘cause of dead parents’ made you go murder crazy instead of super fucking depressed?” I ask, summoning my Keyblade and Shield.
“Oh I was once a depressed fuck, so bad. Then I wake up, school’s being shot up, and my wife to be was the one with the mini-gun in both hands. Rather than kill me she noticed I wanted some payback for those idiots, gave me a shotgun and we’ve been dating ever since.” The evil me said.
“You lucky bitch. You actually had a girlfriend!” I shout. “Oh well, shit happens. Anyways, why are you working for Core again? When you obviously know that he’s a psychopath even beyond your standards?”
“Truth be told, I just like killing, besides.” He snapped his fingers. Two Titans appeared, one grabbing Mike and I while the other lifted the evil me to eye level. “Who said I’m working with that piss ant?”
“Y-your the one…?” I stutter, looking at the titans.
“Yup, I managed to send that titan to that New York rip off to see how well they do, and they do damage well!”
My older self noticed thorns starting to trail over the titan’s hand. “How….” I growl. “HOW FUCKING DARE YOU!!!” I roar, a very bright light and sound of glass shattering resounding across the badlands. After a few seconds the titan was missing both a hand and arm as...everything started to get blurry for me. My older self saw me floating in mid air, missing my cloak but being covered in thorns, bandages, and a very dangerous aura even to him. ‘I’ looked at him with bandaged eyes as I took a deep breath.
The older me stared at me, then laughed. “Well then, not bad. Now, see what you could be if you had the taste for blood.” I saw his eyes turn like Core’s, and in a blur, my arm was sliced from finger to shoulder. “This is the power of a Psychopath-” He was cut off. I saw dad side kick him… out of sight.
“Now this isn’t good…” Dad said, using some magic to heal me. “You better?”
“D-daddy?” I ask, my voice sounding completely hollow and echoey as I remained in my form.
“Wow you must have hit your head if you called me that.”
“No...I’m his Joy…” The new, more childish voice said to him.
“Oh! Well…hi? One sec.” Dad summoned some kinda sword from his Assistant, the blade was black and it gave off the look of being on fire. The evil older me came flying back…from the other direction, and was impaled by dad’s sword. “Why hello Psycho.”
“Why hello Cript, been a while.” The older me spoke, his voice now like thousands of people talking in unison. “Is this your newest brat?”
“Yes, now how about I show him what I do to scum like you, shall I?”
“Heh, as always, we’ll see.”
The two vanished, energy was thick in the air all of a sudden as half of it felt like poison to breath, and the other half felt like breathing in mist. Up in the sky I saw the two clashing, dad dodging every attack the Psychopath aiming for with ease. His hand got covered in some kinda…one's and zero’s as he went in for an attack, only to be knocked to the side by a newcomer…who also had the Psychopath eyes.
“Sorry human god but we have to keep our numbers.” They both said, vanishing in a mist of red.
“Damn… great, out of retirement again…” Dad muttered as he flew back over to me. “Sorry I couldn’t show off son.”
“It’s alright...but Ben’s...kind of not here at the moment.” Joy says worriedly.
“Asleep or what?”
“Anti-form.” The child says through me, showing off the more ‘Nobody like’ anti-form. “His...rage kind of broke for a minute.”
“Oh…wuss.” Dad said, tapping ‘my’ head as Joy fell asleep and my body began to return to normal. My cloak and crown on me again. “Man you need training. Finish up with the weapons you got then see me fast kid.” Dad said, placing my barely conscious body next to Mike’s unconscious one. “Let’s see…oh, the place you want is about ten more miles ahead, good luck, and here’s some good news, they aren’t from your earth.” Dad vanished as I fell into unconsciousness.
“Well that sucked.” I grumble, walking up to a playground bench and sitting down on it.
“That’s what happens when your rage breaks.” Joy says, sitting down next to me.
“So you can somehow take over my body?” I ask, looking over the child and seeing he was an adorable half Dire werewolf. “Also your adorable by the by.”
“Thank you, but yes. When you were in your anti-form you kind of…’passed out’ and I got the chance to see Dad…” The pup says while rubbing ‘his’ arm. “That...that man wasn’t us...right?”
“Of course not.” I say with a little grin. “I mean seriously, did you see how ugly he was? When I grow up I’ll still be as handsome as I am now.” I joke while Joy smiles warmly.
“Ben!” Luna’s voice rang out behind me as I suddenly found my face in boobs as I was tackled. “Where have you-Oh, sorry.” She said, getting her chest of of my face.
“No no, I was happy with that.” I smile.
“Ben…” Joy huffs.
“Fine fine...but anyways do you want the long or short of it Luna?”
“Short now, long when we meet back up in the physical world.” She answered.
“So apparently there’s an evil, and very old version of me, and he happened to get my rage to break...then Dad came in...fought...it was blurry to be perfectly honest.” I sigh out.
She kissed me. “Ben, it’s already midnight, you’ve been missing all day. I can’t use magic to track you in the badlands because the dark magic interferes with such spells. My dream walking is all that works and I can’t track unless you know where you are.”
“It’s best if me and Mike just go home…” I sigh out.
“Hi Luna.” Joy says. “But please...we both need to be home and not in the badlands anymore...too many bad things happened…”
“You’ll have to wake up and head back then Ben, I can wake you, so… sorry.” Luna slapped me as everything went black.
I came too fast, feeling the phantom slap from my dream, but I noticed right away that Mike and I were in restraint jackets.
“Oh for fuck sakes.” I grumble. “Okay why am I in a restraint jacket?”
“Silence prisoner.” I looked up, seeing a guard with…an energy sword. “You will be questioned in the morning.”
“I just woke up, I need some context here please.” I say worriedly, wondering why I’m restrained and a prisoner.
“We got readings of massive power out in the desert appearing then vanishing suddenly, and when we searched we found you and that man out cold.”
“Oh...well I can calmly and completely say that was not mine or my friends fault.” I say simply.
“You have proof?”
“I witnessed what happened, and trust me what happened I couldn’t do.” I say simply. “This world is filled with magic and...outsiders just so happened to have a fight here if you can believe that.”
“...You’ll be questioned in the morning.” He said, closing some kinda second door over the barred door that was already there. It was at that point I realized the room Mike and I were in a padded room.
“Fuck…” I mutter, summoning Fair Game and starting to cut myself loose. “No idea where I am, I’m being held against my will, and I’m being blamed for something I didn’t do…” I grumble, managing to cut myself out of the jacket. “I hate this…” I sigh out. “Yo, Mike? You awake?”
“Huh?” He started, waking up. “...Crap.” He said as he saw the situation.
“Yeah...sorry about that…” I sigh out, stretching my arms a bit. “I...didn’t expect any of that to happen….how you holding up?”
“So so. Well, you wanna risk breaking out and not knowing what’s going on, or wait and see what happened?”
“I’d rather break out to figure out what the fuck is going on.” I frown. “We were kidnapped here when we were knocked out, and for some reason they put us in restraint jackets and left us in a padded room like we were lunatics.” I say while helping Mike out of his restraints. “They said we were ‘prisoners’ and that we’re going to be ‘questioned’ in the morning.”
Mike looked at the jacket, seeing a logo on the back. “Uh, Ben.” He showed me the logo, and it was a green leaf with a white plus in it. He then got up and looked at the room, and out a window the room had. “Same logo on the ship from what I can see here.”
“Does this mean we're in a hospital?” I frown, seeing the plus and leaf and thinking ‘medical center’.
“I think so. Huh, space hospital…that looks like it crashed. Wow… so… they clearly aren’t a threat to us anyway, they’re all doctors and other staff.”
“With energy swords.” I point out. “But they apparently think we did...what you were knocked out for probably.” I say worriedly.
“Well, either way we best stay and wait. Rather not ruin my new clean record.” Mike says as he lays down on the floor.
“Fine…” I sigh out, sitting down and waiting. “Christ, this day went from absolutely wonderful, where I finally proposed to my eight girlfriends, which they all thankfully agreed to, to weird because suddenly ‘earth exists in real life’...then complete bullshit where a version of me is super fucking evil and my dad has to solve my damned problems.” I sigh out, summoning Reunion and Fair Game, noticing the symbols on them.
“Welcome to my life.” Mike says. “Nothing ever goes according to plan or hopes, that’s why I have non. Night.”
“Oh yeah…” I sigh out. “Night.” I say. ”Thirteen keys… I think to myself, not sure how I knew what the marks said but it seemed important.
To be continued