Eclipsa took a Relaxed breath as she slithered off of the ship. “That was fun, thank you.” She says to her in laws. It was nice, not having to worry about stress, or the next big threat, all while feeding her darkness that she has been neglecting. She turns from the couple waving her off as they went to look for Zeke to see Cript, power walking towards her with an odd look on his face. “Hey Cript, what's with that look?”
"Talk. Now." They said bluntly, yanking hard on the Naga's pony ear, the pain from both a sensitive area being harshly treated and the weight of her body being pulled by it made her tear up as she was dragged to an empty office room.
"Ow ow ow! What the hell Cript?!" Eclipsa yelled when the door shut and their husband/father let go.
Cript proceeded to check the palms of her hands, searching for something. "Nothing? That can't be right."
"Cript, I love you, but for once in the time I have known you give me a straight answer. What the hell was that for and why are you checking my palms." Eclipsa said, her once happy mood now sour.
"When you were generating power I blocked it from the others, and for the first time in much too long I was feeling more power than I could have handled. I haven't hurt like that since I took a big bang head on. In short you generated and was using more power than what I use. I'm making sure you're not a secret Nexus project."
"Cript, we've been over this. To Nexus I'm a glitch, something that they could not control or plan out. But what are you saying, that I was able to handle more power than even you?" Eclipsa asked, now looking at Cript with a bewildered look.
"Yes. In the past Glitches like you can be powerful but that much power should be impossible even for a glitch."
Eclipsa took a seat in a chair. "That's…. Okay what the hell am I? I get that Lance and Bio agreed to finally put me on even footing with everyone but now surpassing them? Cript, what am I?" Eclipsa asked, looking at her own hands, expecting a blue dot to appear at any moment.
"To quote Lord. Fuck if I know."
"....would Nexus even know? Would anyone?"
"No clue." Cript said, scratching his head. "Past experience tells me that this will reveal itself in time. Typically works."
"Heh, gods right when I feel I know what I am, something else happens. I guess I know how Ben feels now." Eclipsa chuckled darkly. "So, any tests you want to run?"
"Nothing for the time being. The downside to this family is the constant pregnancy state. I have an idea for a work around to that but I'll explain later. Oh, Zeke and some speedy guy came back a bit ago… they had Tanya in cuffs. She's in Cell 21. Wanna try and get her to talk?"
"I don't know the first thing about her…" Eclipsa admitted "Not sure how much use I would be without a profile of the person in question."
"Fair enough. Wanna see Zeke and his friend? Think they're still at the bar?"
"I get what you are doing but no thanks. Let Zeke have this moment with his friend. He needs small moments like this." Eclipsa said with a small, warm smile.
"So what are you gonna do then?"
"Well…. I remember the Nexus attack. For a moment I was able to breach the hive mind of the psychopaths. Maybe more insanities like me would be able to be a counter for them."
"It's a possibility. But only you and one other has ever dived into those hive minds and got out alright."
"Who is the other?" Eclipsa asked.
"... Someone we're not discussing." Cript huffed.
"Come on Cript, think about it. I was able to make a hole, I can do it again, and this time, the hive will be swarmed with a bunch of crazies all singing circus for a psycho." Eclipsa said with a grin
"I'm not speaking to that rat bastard or a self proclaimed 'scientist' ever. And I suggest you don't go looking for them. Men like him are best forgotten from history."
"Alright alright… so, wanna help me gather Insanities or wanna test my limits as safely as we can while I am carrying?"
"The later. Should also help with some experiments I've been neglecting."
"Alright. Any suggestions of where to start for the Insanities?"
"Psychopaths and Insanities hive minds resonate on a near identical mental frequency. Either Lord or Cane would be able to help you there."
"Got it… and Cript… What do I tell Ben, Zeke, hell even Joy. I read their chapters…. I don't want to become that." Eclipsa said with fear on her face.
"You're talking about the D.R.E.A.M project? Look, all we know is that you generated more power than what I make, so let's not panic unless something happens that leads to that kind of outcome, alright?" Cript said calmly.
"....alright." Eclipsa sighed. "I'm going to go find Lord. Hopefully I'm just insanely strong and that's that."
Lord's office/room was just a door that teleported the user to his personal weird white void town place. Eclipsa saw him sitting on a bench tinkering with a small item.
"Hey Lord, whatchu working on?" Eclipsa said, leaning over his shoulder, either not noticing or not carrying that her breasts were resting on his shoulder.
"EMP proof molecular Splicer. Now get your tits off me." He huffed.
"Oh, sorry bout that." Eclipsa chuckled. "Think you can take a break for a moment? I have an idea so crazy it might just work."
"Over my dead body." Lord hissed.
"What, I didn't even say anything yet?" Eclipsa smirked. "I'm planning on gathering the Insanities to combat the psychopaths, you in?"
“Good luck finding enough. Psychopaths find them and gather them up and use them like attack dogs.”
"Even better." Eclipsa said with a wide grin, her own Insanity showing a bit. "They think they can control the uncontrollable, that they are untouchable. Thing is about Insanity, while it may be weaker than psychopath, it spreads, it gathers, and builds. We all have that itch. The tinny little voice in the back of our heads just wanting to stop logic, to create anarchy, to rebel. And you know what they say about genius and madness~" Eclipsa starts to giggle, the red energy of Insanity mixing with her grey, amplifying it and practically becoming a beacon. "Care to help me out? Wanna help cause some chaos in their ranks, to help the Insanities break free, and break into the psychopath's hive mind like I did once before?"
“Not while you’re pregnant.”
Suddenly the black, grey and red energy fades. "Oh boo, you and Cript, killjoys the lot of you." Eclipsa said, folding her arms with a playful pout.
“Not our fault you’re ignorant to the side effects of power while pregnant.” Lord said, his tinkering done as they put the item away. “Follow me.”
With a raised eyebrow, Eclipsa followed lord through his room of white. "Where are we heading?"
Lord lead me into one of the buildings, inside was a lot of laboratory equipment… and various cages with all kinds of beasts in them. “When you live as long as I have you take up hobbies to keep things interesting. Around Era five when I made the realm Cript now owns, I began researching the monsters that appeared without my doing. Including a little on Psychopaths and Insanities.”
"Oh? And what did you learn?" Eclipsa asked, looking around, the playful manner gone.
“The younger they turn, the stronger the bond.” He took a cover off an orb, inside… Eclipsa threw up. Infants. Insanities Infants. Bloody and roaring scratching at the glass confines of their cage. “Once turned a Psychopath and Insanity’s host body becomes infertile. So any host that’s pregnant, or compatible while pregnant they infect the weaker host, solely to either kill the resistant mother, or to see how their power grows as the host body ages from infancy to adulthood. Use that power too much, and all your children… the ones you are carrying will be born as this. No such thing as an identity for them being turned so young, no mind of their own, just the Psychopath or Insanity hide mind.”
"How…" Eclipsa said, looking down at her stomach. "How have they not been effected, how was I not affected. I've had this forever, I gave birth to children who have the Insanity, I've felt it in them. Those… those aren't children, yet I feel them. I feel their souls, their heart's, what they are crying out and it-" Eclipsa throws up again, this time because of more than initial disgust. "How can I even have children?"
“It takes a complete conversion for the infertility to kick in. The first time your Keyblades stepped in and stopped it, the others have been shere dumb luck. Power no matter the source comes at a price to you… or others.” Lord said, throwing the cover back over the cage. “Why do you think Cript wanted to retire so badly?”
"Then Lord, I wanna bring something up with you that Cript told me not long ago. You see… I was able to combine Generation, Grey, and Amplify along with everything else, including Insanity, all at the same time without dying, while he was actually hurt, as in has felt more pain then the time he first took a big bang to the face." Eclipsa said, sitting down to settle down her stomach.
“I know. I felt that too. There have only ever been two beings in existence to ever or could have even pulled off what you did. An Nonexistent, and the sole D.R.E.A.M project survivor. As far as I can tell, you’re neither.”
"Then what the hell am I? I mean, I guess I know how Ben feels now but the difference is he knows what, not who." Eclipsa said, her hands clenching into fists on her lap. "What am I? Some sick scientists secret project? Reality trying to balance out? Or whatever a Nonexistent is? What am I?"
“Fuck if I know. But whatever you are, at least you’re on our side. That we can at least take comfort in.”
Eclipsa was silent for a moment. "What the hell, aren't you and Cript supposed to dump exposition on us whenever something confusing happens?!" She yelled before sighing, her anger flare dying as quickly as it had arrived. "I'm just scared you know? I read Joy's chapter, I know the basics of what project D.R.E.A.M. did and what they became… and I don't want to become that. But even now I feel it. I feel grey, generation and amply all working together with my other powers. I can feel my powers growing with no sign of stopping, just waiting for something, and I don't know what that something is. For all I know I could be a ticking time bomb, just waiting until all the admins in existence to be together before erasing it all, like the Void Mother. Hell I could even be a proto void mother for all we know."
“Doubt it. You’re more like Cript mark two at this point, minus the Nexus handywork.”
"Yeah, only Cript knows what he is." Eclipsa sighed before 'standing' back up. "So I'm once again an unknown. And I can't do anything while pregnant but due to me having an active sex life I doubt there will be a moment where I am not. What's next, I accidentally made myself a soul weapon I've been using without my knowledge?"
"Eh. Whatever comes next just remember, it's not just your life on the line in a fight." Lord said, taking his leave.
"I know that… I know it all too well…" Eclipsa sighed once he was out of ear shot before opening a DTG. However, it hurt. Her arm burned as she cried out, grey flames covering her arm before she was dragged in, the portal closing behind her.
Eclipsa was in… someplace. Wherever it was, it was cold and dark. She couldn't feel anyone like normal… her own power was barely there. The strangest part though… she was human. Marcy. Feeling around the floor was old wood, half rotten. Dust and icey cold was all she could feel along the ground. "Well. That's interesting." Someone spoke, female. Young and stern.
"Who's there, what did you do to me?!" Eclipsa yelled, standing up and getting into a defensive stance.
"It's not everyday someone from your reality comes here. Or can even survive the trip." Suddenly, the loud sound of a train in the distance echoed into the building. The rumbling shook the building a bit, causing a window to shatter, enough light to show it was night, clear moonlight shone into the room. Eclipsa saw the other, or at least, part of their face. Short cut black hair, thin frame and wearing winter clothes. "They call you Eclipsa, right?"
"One of many names, but yes, that is the usual one." Eclipsa said, still on the defensive. "Where the hell am I, and what happened to my powers? I can't feel any of it."
"That's normal. For the first few weeks, but you won't be here that long." She said, taking out a phone and browsing it. "Grey Hearts, right?"
"Wait…. How do you know the name of the story?" Eclipsa said, her stance falling as she took a step back. "Even other fourth wall breakers don't know that."
"The fourth wall? Still can't believe that's what they call it." She tossed the phone over to Eclipsa. On screen was… the story… her story. "Got an idea as to where you are now protagonist?"
"The hell am I doing on Lance and Bio's earth?!" Eclipsa cried out.
"This reality is called Primary. A place where the concept of magic, powers and even admins are fantasy. Of course, that fantasy is the reality of which you and I come from."
"But…. How did I get here? I tried opening a portal before it started hurting, then I was dragged in."
"Rifts between this and that reality are only able to be opened by the one this reality would call god. The only acception being you and I it seems. To keep you from causing chaos, or more likely, dying, I pulled you here."
"I was dying?" Eclipsa said, leaning on a wall before sitting down. "Great, can't even do an ability I've done a billion times without being a danger to everyone, including myself." Eclipsa chuckled mirthlessly.
"Either way, you can't stay here. Even on this side there are people hunting us down."
"Who would hunt down characters from shitty fanfics? No offense, never read your story. Don't even know your name." Eclipsa said.
"People looking to utilize and abuse the powers of our home reality. People like you and I carry that heavy burden. No matter the reality people can be selfish and idiotic, but cann't you blame them. The power of true gods is in our hands, we can reshape this world easily, but doing so would destroy our home. At least hiding from Nexus is easier here than over there."
"Oh yeah… back home we are getting ready to go to war with them. A war of the realm's, if you didn't already read that." Eclipsa said. "Besides being insanely powerful, why are you hiding from Nexus? Who even are you?"
"You should know. You can read the chapters."
Eclipsa closed her eyes before opening them with recognition. "So… you are the one. The Survivor." Eclipsa said, now feeling guilty about assuming about what the Survivor would be like.
"I have to hide from people. Rarely get to talk. The Russian winters and isolation make this the perfect place to hide out on this world."
"You could come back with me once I'm good to go. We are at war with Nexus already, and once they have been taken care of, you won't have anything to fear of them again." Eclipsa suggested. "And no, I don't want you in a combat roll… I guess I'm just empathic. I don't want anyone to have to suffer over something not their fault."
"That's a nice offer, but I have a role here."
"I can respect that… heh, we both know I learned that lesson the hard way, not to run from responsibility." Eclipsa chuckled. "So… Why did you save me?"
"I have a role here. You have one there. It's as simple as that."
"Heh, I find it hilarious that you know about a role that I don't even know I have, when I don't even know what I am anymore." Eclipsa said, laughing pure and simple at turn of events, letting out all the stresses that have been built up in pure laugher.
"It's simple what you are Eclipsa. You and I are the same, I for helping this reality, and you for helping the one we come from. We exist to improve the lives and worlds we are on."
"So… we are basically the positivity of our reality's… but when there is a positive…." Eclipsa's words died on her lips.
"Both realities are negative by nature. A sad truth. One we have to conflict with."
"Well ain't that a big ol' bag of responsibility." Eclipsa said before getting a faint smile. "Could be worse I guess. I could have been the one destined to destroy our reality." Eclipsa said, her blue eyes looking across to survivor. "So, what do I need to know for the time I am in your domain?" She asked with respect.
"After this you won't ever be able to return here." She said, helping Eclipsa up. "Here." She tapped Eclipse's hand, a glowing white dot appeared. "This will store the excess power you are generating and allow you to still use a normal amount. Use the stored energy at the right time. You'll know when."
"Alright, thank you. Hey… even if I won't be able to visit, know you will always be welcome. You are always welcome home." Eclipsa said with a smile, giving the thinner framed woman a caring hug.
"I'll keep up with what you are going through." She said, shaking the phone. "You'd best go home now." She said, raising a hand and opening a much weaker portal, or rather, rift, back home. "it won't stay open long. This reality reacts especially negatively to laws and power than does not belong here."
"Hey… stay safe. I would hate for someone to be hurt because I gave away their hiding spot." Eclipsa said with a smile as she stood in front of the rift.
"Relax. It's just the world governments. I can handle those idiots." She chuckled.
Eclipsa chuckled along with her before taking a breath and going through, going home.