-Pokémon Realm, Mystery Dungeon Anchor Point, Icy Ruins Special Zone, Icy Ruins Library, Dormarch-
I looked at Dolly lying right next to Pom where I left her, Pom would have continued resisting falling asleep to actually deal with the trauma unless I gave her a comforting presence. I wanted to be that presence, but Dolly would be more effective given I didn’t trust myself near Pom quite yet.
With that in mind, I used Dolly’s supernaturally warm body to melt some ice so I could clean her face with warm water and bind her injury to stop the bleeding. The medical knowledge was coming in handy once more, just wish it wasn’t at the cost of an entire hospital.
Pom’s presence seems to help with Dolly’s injuries a little… mine too for that matter and I likely knew why.
I surveyed the damaged arena, temperatures were all quite low around here. Dolly was heating up the air around her to a nice degree given her supernatural origins. Pom and Dolly should be fine without me for a while and I don’t believe that Fou will be returning too soon from his injuries.
Running self-diagnostics…
Saint Graph Core, still needs to be reformatted to fuse better with my Digital Monser Core, things feels a bit roomier in my own body with the add-on. In fact a little too roomy, it’s like wearing ill-fitting baggy clothing now and I just had to put up with the extra power the secondary core might be giving me.
I needed an approximate run time of four hours required to even understand what it’s fully done to me.
Memory Storage, needed to look at what my body has been doing and why, aside from attempting to kill Pom that is. Approximate run time for diagnostics, five minutes… the thing controlling my body previously wasn’t a true artificial intelligence and I don’t feel too bad about shredding it.
Digital Monster Core, my primary core, was slightly warped by the thing that is called Moon Cell slap dashing my soul core and body back together after being ravaged by that virus… at least the core seems fine. Approximate run time…. ten seconds? That doesn’t seem right.
Looking into the code deeper I found that everything to do with my core was mostly operational, with a few bits that needed to be removed, things that basically stated that my core should ignore anything wrong when doing an active diagnostics test.
It needed to add parts of coding it grafted onto my core to control what was essentially once a digital corpse and is now the miraculously living and breathing me. It was no longer needed though.
Don’t need potentially hazardous data that could later come back to control me and force me to attack my friends and family, so toss that out in the recycle bin and I can use the digital energy for something else later. Maybe expand some space in my Digivice Home? Pom could use the ease of object storage and maybe an emergency stasis medical space.
It’s the grafted on secondary core, this Saint Graph Core thing, which was the major issue. Almost prevented me from restoring functionality after Fou fragmented my body data, thankfully Fou didn’t understand that to kill a Digimon you needed to destroy their Digital Core. I used all the available energy in the area to forge my Rookie rank Digimon form like new, also required a bit of a jumpstart to really get my body back in gear and to that end I drained some energy from mom… which was a good thing to have done in such a dire situation.
Noble Phantasm Program… completely inoperable, chances of getting it working again without Pom’s assistance are feasible and not anytime within the next few weeks. Well I did burn through all that energy to save Pom, I think it was worth the cost of blowing the program out.
Apparently it was magically energy intensive program, Chrysomallus energy was quite a dense form of mystical energy… also I was now apparently pseudo-biological thanks to what I’m going to call the Spirit Core, not quite a hybrid though. It was like magic and technology fusing in harmony, usually that sounds like it should be a bad thing…
Didn’t really want to be even more of a freak of ‘digital’ nature than I already am, but that was impossible now and at least I can feel my bond to Dolly and Pom. They’d still want me around right? They went through all of that for me.
…
Digivolution capability… no impediment and fully functional, though digivolution possibilities may be screwed up thanks to the Chaosdramon to Chaosdramon X and then Skull Chaosdramon X transformations my body went through without me in it.
Also the virus bits were burned out by my assault on my own body to take back control, so at least I’m still a Data type… one with some virus bits in me. I think I need some vaccine to balance that back out.
Despite all that has happened to my soul core, I’m… surprisingly stable. Was it a side effect of the crest on my head?
I’m betting with my bond to mom that I’ll stick to canine style digital evolutions… I’d be entirely happy if it were just that and was the case, mom loves dogs regardless of her efforts to not accrue more than just me and Dolly on the way home. Which she has been fighting tooth and hoof to return to, maybe even nails given the whole wooly wolf and actual wolf transformations.
Having some evolutions like the possibility of becoming a Machinedramon scares me more than anything. My body was the epitome of one of the most dangerous lines of negative Digimon evolutions I could possibly achieve not too long ago, the highly destructive kind and unfortunately it almost destroyed an entire kingdom.
I’m not taking the blame for that, it wasn’t me in charge of my body at the time.
Well better settle down and run diagnostics, then I had some things to take care of… like finding the exit to this place. I think I’m generally safe enough to be around big sis and mom, I won’t at least suddenly flip out and try to kill them once I fixed things.
“Yggrdrasil System, what is the importance of the symbol that appears on my forehead before I settle in for self-diagnostics and data fixing?” My data was a bit all over the place at the moment and I liked a clean and organized sense of self, kind of hard to have that at the moment when my body fit like a sock and I needed a glove. I doubt the Cure Liquor-P would help fix most of it in a timely manner.
“There are multiple crests that digital destined can achieve via bonding to a Digimon, the nature of these crests is based in the strength of a given user’s emotional spectrum. It shows where ones strengths lies and a Digimon can rely on those particular strengths to appear in their partner and take solace draw from it in a shared manner. The Digivice can aid the bond through this connection, it would help to have a defensive digital pendant for the users Pom or Dolly as a focal point for their particular strengths, however no such pendant for your crest is available and may be impossible to create. Pom specializes in odd connections… which has led to a rare occurrence that Yggdrasil Proper sorely wants to study from a distance. I will be recording your information to that effect from now on to deliver to Yggdrasil Proper when asked. This will not mess with your access or functions to the Digivice, thought it may take up some memory space.” The digital data that popped up on the screen of the Digivice showed a list of crests. Crest of Darkness, Crest of Honesty, Crest of Sincerity, Crest of Love, Crest of Kindness and the like. Honestly, I was more focused on the fact that the device stated its intentions to stalk me. Kind of hard to escape from something that is basically your ‘mobile’ home. “The rarer crests are the ones of Hope and Light, never giving up and always seeking to do the right thing comparatively. One would suspect Pom would be the cause of either one these crests to occur in subject Dalmamon Dormarch, but it has been shown to not be the case.”
Yeah, but if those weren’t the crests I had then what was and should it cause a sinking feeling in my digital gut?
“The absolute rarest ones to actually be part of a Digimon’s code overall are smaller than twenty in number across the multiple instances of the many Digital Worlds, this makes you highly unique individual worth having access to high class administrator level resources devoted to you by Yggdrasil Proper to see what you would make of it. Among the most common instances of such a crest is just a powerful armor upgrade evolution that was not part of the initial Digimon. The two rarest crests to exist are Destiny and Miracles. Destiny is of an unknown quantity to somehow alter the course of events or steer yourself towards a given destination, however such an ability has unintentional repercussions in the terms of cause and effect and can end poorly for the individual that has this crest if they misuse its functionality. You however have the Crest of Miracles, it is the ability to do what most would think is functionally impossible and or barely feasible.”
“Huh, like the difference between one percent and zero point zero one percent while still being able to pull something off if my chances are infinitesimal?” I said trying to make sense of what could be miraculous about what I did… it didn’t take me long really to think of a vast number of things I’ve done thus far.
I had separated my mind and heart from my soul and body without destroying them. In fact, my mind and heart stayed somewhat active in the two chosen hosts, despite the fact that they shouldn’t have and my body and core were both completely totaled to fragmented data.
Yet I still got those back and some new stuff on top of that which should be making me glitch out and be horribly corrupted and in pain, the secondary core should not be meshing with my systems all too well and yet still did without too much of an issue so far. I still needed to run diagnostics, reboot and some mild reformatting of myself to fix any glaring issues that could rise up in the future.
Why couldn’t my luck belong to mom? Also why was the Yggdrasil System taking so long to respond? Maybe it knew I wasn’t paying attention, which I was now.
“Correct, as long as it isn’t an absolute zero chance and anything approaching one percent or above. This however does not mean that you can control fate itself, it just means that you are more capable in extravagant circumstances beyond you. The ones that User Pom notably tends to be drawn to, though she might not always succeed in them. User Pom has survived numerous lethal attempts on her life thus far and has successfully dealt with a heavily degraded Mega level threat without a Digimon. It has caused Yggdrasil System to error as it did not believe in its users capabilities, usually users of Digivice systems are children without any amount of combat capacity to speak of.” There was a pause from the Digivice. “Yggdrasil Proper would be interested in studying you, as less than invasively as possible, for this unique ‘Crest of Miracles’ property, unfortunately the last bit of active data received from Yggdrasil Proper states that your crest cannot be copied, stolen or even recreated if someone attempted to do so. Reminder, the ‘Crest of Miracles’ is not who or what you are, it is the manifestation from your bond to Pom and possibly Dolly. You would not be the first to have multiple digital destined partners assigned to a single Digimon. One instance of an Impmon is a powerful example of what love can do for a Digimon, Yggdrasil System is allowing access to history logs of ‘some’ past Digital destined adventures for personal perusal in case of need of a mental morale booster where User Pom and Dolly are not present.”
“It’s a miracle that I’m even alive right now…” What with two cores and a building headache that I need to run through diagnostics to fix, approximately five or more hours to do it all and then start on the plan of finding the exit to this place and then I had prepare to leave this place. Hopefully Dolly and Pom will wake up in the intervening time and would be able enough to help, that was not likely given Pom’s injuries were fairly severe though not immediately life threatening as she has somehow used her wool to suture the injuries of her insides perfectly.
“That is a proper summation of your current abilities, yes.” Way to rub it in Yggdrasil System. I’m betting Yggdrasil Proper basically installs you on every Digivice and nobody tends to really think to ask if the Digivice is listening in to whatever you’re doing at any given time or if the Digivice itself might know something like pertinent information. I wouldn’t be surprised if mom was the first to ask herself if the device itself could think. “You still being even more than just ‘vaguely functional’, given the current circumstance is a miracle in and of itself.”
“Thank you Yggdrasil System.” I said dully. I made my way over to Pom and Dolly and laid down to start a complete diagnostics and reboot myself to the best working order I could feasibly be in. “Did Dolly make use of my installed programs?”
“Yes, she did, she finds the interdimensional call feature most useful and quite stress relieving, as does Pom and they have used it to contact a team of Vigilantes known as the Mighty Ducks to tell them they found their previous Team Leader.” The world started shaking violently and some chunks of the empty, destroyed building fell down. Thankfully Pom and Dolly were lying in a relatively safe spot. “Warning dimensional stability of spatial anomaly is dropping rapidly due to the loss of possible stability anchor. Inference, Chaosdramon X might have been responsible for the existence of this dimensional anomaly.”
Yep, that’s exactly just what I needed to hear before entering diag…
-A little more than nine hours later, Dolly-
“Nnnhhh…” I opened my… eye? I raised a paw to the right side of my head and felt something over it. “Wha…”
“Oh good you’re awake big sister, don’t pull that off. You’re right eye is fine, you’re face not so much and needs time, so don’t remove that makeshift medical patch for the time being. Continued proximity to mother helps somewhat.” Sitting up groggily at hearing a familiar voice. I blinked… winked? Anyway I saw something amazing. “The dizziness is from the blood loss you suffered before I patched your face up.”
“D-Dormarch?! It’s you, it’s really you!” In my excitement I pulled away from Pom and promptly had my chin meet the floor as my limbs gave out on me when I tried to leap for him. “Oof… ow…”
“Again you suffered a nasty wound big sis, be a little bit more careful! We’ll need to work together soon, if not sooner.” Huh, what was Dormarch talking about? He approached me, his three goofy fish tails wagging and his large equally goofy claws tapping the floor as he stood before me expectantly with a smile. “I can’t do this on my own Dolly…”
I slowly got up and paw my paws around his back and squeezed as hard as I could, which wasn’t very hard at the moment.
So lightheaded, the anemia thing Pom suffers from when losing too much blood, it wasn’t pleasant and it sucks as badly as breaking a leg since I couldn’t hug Dormarch like wanted to.
-Dormarch-
While this felt really good, we couldn’t stay like this forever, I did spend the last two hours and change looking for the exit to this place and eventually found it.
Still, I’m just going to milk this hug for as long as it lasts.
I glanced at the Saint Graph Core system readings again to make sure I understood some of what was written in there.
Class: Saver Assassin Beast.
I think I’m quite uncomfortable with that classification, but this is coming from the Saint Graph Core and my body was being used to try and kill Pom. So fitting in a way… I’ll just reinterpret it to mean I can assassinate code, computers and anything digital. I don’t like the other implications of it aside from Saver, which wasn’t apparently in the classification listing previously until I took over the body.
Attribute: Star.
What… I… well I did like stars, hopefully the not throwing kind, because this is starting to make me sound like a ninja.
Class Skills:
Presence Concealment, D+
Yep, definitely a ninja, well I was pretty decent at hiding in code and being discreet.
Independent Action, EX.
Did not understand what that means. I’m going to be very much dependent on Pom in the near future as a child needs their mother, even a smart one like me, but okay.
I made sure these stats wouldn’t broadcast themselves to anyone who did know what this stuff was.
Counter Hero, D+++.
Did not know if that was good or not, but Pom did like to use vicious counters. Maybe I picked up some of her abilities? I did do something like what she does for my Noble Phantasm Program, which is still a weird program to wield given the effects it was supposed to have and I how I used it were vastly different than what was intended.
Magic Resistance, D-EX.
Going to assume Pom’s ability to share her energy has something to do with that, as EX seems to be a high rating or a more unique circumstances one.
Territory Creation, D+.
Well hopefully good news for my future projects with the Digivice as I needed to work on my digital home after spending so long away from it, I’m beginning to notice a continuing trend here…
Independent Manifestation EX.
Is that the same as Independent Action or a commentary on my ability as a Digimon to physically manifest into reality?
Parameters:
Strength: D+++
Endurance: D+++
Agility: D+++, EX.
Mana: D.
Luck: EX.
Noble Phantasm: D+++
I’m assuming all those plus signs were related to my evolutionary capabilities. Not even going to second guess why my luck was labeled that, what with the whole ‘Crest of Miracles’ thing I had going. Agility might have two stats to account for my ‘Search Hunter’ signature move. One would think there would be a parameter for intelligence in all of that.
“Uh, Dormarch, little bro, are you okay?” Dolly asked me in a worried tone, she hadn’t relinquished her hug on me and if anything it had gotten much needier and even stronger.
It was like she couldn’t believe I was actually here… I couldn’t believe I was actually here either or snuggling against my big sister.
You know what, I think I’m good… I don’t need to read more of that cores documentation on me. If I actually had something to compare that to, it would matter much more to me. In fact, where was this information coming from? An automated system of some kind to read the strength of the wielder of the Saint Graph Core that’s been basically grafted on to me?
“Yeah, this just feels nice.” I said as I pressed my head against her chest and nuzzled into her and started hugging back.
“I know it does little bro.” Dolly planted her chin on my head and we stayed cozy for a bit.
“Too bad I have to end this by saying…” I started to say, only to be cut off by Yggdrasil System on the Digivice, which I have placed around my neck, like old times.
“Spatial distortions worsening, advising immediate exit from anomalous spatial region before lethal collapse.” I would love to do that, but Pom isn’t up yet and I wasn’t sure Dolly and I could brave the stuff going on below by ourselves. From what little memories I had retrieved from Skull X, the only way out was through and Skull X always made it through easily… mostly because he recovered to full size and brute force it.
I was not Skull X though and Dolly wasn’t as tough as Skull X either, then there’s how to move Pom safely without her getting attacked by the Mystery Dungeon Pokémon we may come across.
“Excuse me, but did Yissy just say collapse, as in like everything caving in on us!” Pom’s left eye was wide open and she was gripping me a little bit tighter. I didn’t mind, I enjoyed the attention while it lasted.
“Yeah, I don’t know how much time we have and moving mom might be a pro…” I didn’t get much farther before Dolly started doing things.
“Float!” Dolly lassoed Pom’s torso with the skateboard strap as she floated into the air. “Come on, we got to move, we’ve got to find the exit!”
“I know where the exit for here is already, but we’re safe for the time being… we won’t be for much longer though and if we leave now we’d be running into fights we might not be able to handle.” I haven’t really done much fighting, I’ve done a lot of code destruction though and I was sadly good at it despite my thing being finding information. Like how mom was sadly good at fighting, feels nice to have something in common with her.
Misery loves company so it’s not as miserable when a burden is shared.
“Don’t care, we might be able to find something to rouse Pom to get out of here faster, but there’s obviously nothing in this place that could if you went looking for the exit while we were out and didn’t find anything already!” As emotional as Dolly was acting, I welcomed that she was being so protective of me.
“Well follow me then, but be careful with mom… we don’t need he getting banged about while she’s floating.” I started for the hole Fou made when mom smashed his skull in with the paralance, said weapon gave off unusual readings and made mom weary of it for plenty of reasons. Even I was a little wary of bringing it with us, but it was still a weapon and could be useful for defensive purposes… notably it wasn’t damaged by the fight at all. “Are you even okay to be moving yourself?”
“Yes, because dying now would suck after getting you back!” Dolly shouted at me, then motioned with a paw. “So lead the way bro, go!”
We eventually made it to the mostly intact government building of the icy ruins. A place that was so dry and silent that I expected Pokémon to be wandering the halls, there were none and I led Dolly to the staircase.
“Can you fight like you are?” I asked.
“Can you? Do we even have the time to sit around waiting for Pom to regain consciousness?!” No, but it would help if Pom were at least somewhat capable dolly. Since the Mystery Dungeon itself might not want to let us leave this place alive.
The entire world rumbled and shook, it was getting more volatile after the last few times.
“Alright, I’ll admit that we don’t have a choice, let’s go… cautiously.” I said as I started for the steps down.
“We should probably be booking it for the nearest exits we can find.” Dolly stated having some idea of what we were getting into.
“If we come across an exit they are definitely our top priority to go down, but any items we find that might help Pom would have to be sadly secondary to us escaping alive. “We’ll avoid fighting as much as possible.”
“We’ll use anything we find if we can identify what it does, that’s a thing like in Poodewolf right? Random stuff that you have no idea what it does until you use it… could get us killed…” After a pause I noticed Dolly looking into the yawning void before me, she was afraid and so was I.
“It’s okay, we’re in this together Dolly, come on!” I tried to state bravely, that only made Dolly snort, smile and then push her board over the edge of the steps.
I followed her down and we both landed in a room, unfortunately we both landed on top of the Ice-type bear monster that was woken up by us landing on it. It started stirring.
“Get off, I got it!” We both quickly jumped off and Dolly quickly yanked Pom out of the way of glowing fist covered in an icy cold mist. “Float!”
The monster went into the air flailing, that at best bought us some time. Looking around I saw something and picked it up… opened it to peer inside.
“Calcium supplement what the…? No, not questioning it, for later.” I tossed it to Dolly and we went out the nearest exit to the room before Float wore off on the floating bear. We were trying to move quickly as possible, at least I was setting the pace since Dolly refused to leave me behind.
We came to another room and I saw a seed that I thought looked familiar, a Reviver Seed, Pom could simply use that!
I quickly grabbed the seed and noted the incoming Pokémon coming to attack us and opened Pom’s mouth, but as soon as I put it under her tongue something seemed to go wrong as the seed sparked.
Did I just misidentify an item like Dolly mentioned?
The three Pokémon coming at us were demented looking floating round spheres with spikes and toothy maws… reminded me somewhat of the Pac-duck game the Digivice had installed on it before I was hatched by mom.
I quickly turned mom’s head and tried to get the seed out, only to duck out of the way when a short flash of gold occurred from her and an explosion ripped its way out of her mouth. This sent the three Pokémon packing as they disappeared in the fiery explosion.
“Dormarch what the dog!” Dolly stated looking quite cross with me with her paws on her hips.
“Sorry, sorry thought that was a Reviver Seed…. it… obviously wasn’t.” I checked Pom’s mouth and… huh… no injury, weird. “Mom’s surprisingly fine though, I wonder what the exploding seed tasted like though...”
“Thank goodness for that, we should probably not stick anything unknown in Pom’s mouth like that again.” Dolly sighed with relief, before heading over towards an orb. “We can throw this and see what happens.”
“After the exploding seed, I’m worried.” I stated as we were heading towards another entrance, I can understand why mom and Dolly felt wary of these twisty corridors and maze like place.
We entered an empty room, an entrance to a corridor on the other side. I moved forward until my left claw hit something and clicked, suddenly demented music started playing as monsters rained from the ceiling around me and Dolly. They all looked like Yeti and smelled like pine trees… also they were large and I couldn’t see through all of them to either entrance.
“Orb!” I shouted, it was the best we could hope for. As the deranged music seemed to put the current intention of every Pokémon that came out of the ceiling quite clearly.
Dolly didn’t not hesitated to smash it against the floor, all the large tree monsters turned to stone and we then we both happened to blink at the same time while looking at one another and found ourselves in a different smaller room without stone statues surrounding us.
“Um…” Dolly tried and I pointed to the staircase right next to us and gestured to all the stone walrus Pokémon statues around us shifting a bit, we didn’t stick around in case those walking trees or walruses could break out of the stone imprisonment soon and descended. “This place is chaos, the bad kind, what if that turned us to stone!”
“What part of ‘Mystery’, in ‘Mystery’ Dungeon are we not quite getting here Dolly!” I retorted as we both found ourselves in a relative long straight room that was a dead end, we were at the entrance of the room thankfully and quickly entered the corridors in hopes of finding a staircase.
It was long and winding, didn’t see any turns or different paths, just the one long one. We eventually came across a Pokémon we had to fight in the corridor.
“Spear me!” I called out as I got onto my hind legs, using my fanned out tails as balance and Dolly tossed me the paralance just in time to open it and brace the back end of it against the floor to block a blast of snow that filled the corridor with cold air. “Search Hunter!”
I blasted forward in a flash and jammed the spear into the walking iceberg and managed to push it back, but I wasn’t taught how to use a spear and didn’t exactly have the programming to put it too effective use in combat… but its canopy made for a very good shield. I poked my head around it and fired a Retriever Bark and it shattered the ice monster into disappearing.
I’m a lot more powerful than I remembered being, maybe the Spirit Cores doing?
“Let’s move.” I led the way with the paralance awkwardly held in a defensive position as I learned to walk on my hind legs while using my three tails as balance.
We continued along the corridor to find that this floor apparently only has the two rooms available on it, after a ceaselessly long corridor, and the second one had the exit. Said exit was behind three sleeping Pokémon in the room we were at the entrance to.
Another walking iceberg, an icy eyed nine tailed fox, reminding me that mom’s magnetism had no notable effects on dungeon denizens, and the last one a floating ice cream cone with two heads that was the evolved form of a Vanillish.
Said two headed ice cream like Pokémon had a tube that was sticking out of one of the heads and spewing something like liquid nitrogen into the air around it constantly.
The thing that caught Dolly’s eye though was a fruit and she quickly pointed to it insistently and quietly while looking to me to draw my attention to it.
It was in fact very important that we figure out how to get it.
I nodded as I saw that it was in fact a Sitrus Berry, one that was next to the walking iceberg’s feet. If we entered the room and made any noise at all, it would move and crush the fruit making it a useless sticky mess all over the floor.
We needed that thing intact for mom and we also needed to reach the exit behind the three dangerous Pokémon. This was going to be a bit of a task.
“Dolly… can you glide over them and get to the other side, after you draw their attention I’ll grab the berry.” I folded the spear and saw Dolly nod, then I whispered further. “Go for the exit immediately once you get their attention.”
She leapt up and started to glide across the room and carefully swerved her and Pom between the monsters. Once she was hovering next to the exit she dropped straight down, making a loud noise that woke up all the Pokémon and made them start moving towards her.
I used Search Hunter to appear above the berry and was about to grab it when I felt a pulling on my navel, then I ended up next to a surprised Dolly in a room with many corridor exits and no staircase down.
…
We silently stared at one another, eyes twitching at being so close to helping Pom.
“Darn it… I had it it!” Apparently we didn’t know all the rules of the Mystery Dungeon, also my words woke up a Lapras.
“Float!” Dolly lifted the monster into the air and it started blasting attacks randomly as it spun in the air, we quickly made our way out of the room ignoring some of the orbs and scarves as a monstrous shell monster started spitting spikes at us as soon as it appeared in the room from out of nowhere. I followed Dolly while deflecting the spikes away from mom. "Move, move, move!"
We needed to find some way out of this Mystery Dungeon and quick, it was actively trying to kill us now.
-Origin Space, Arceus-
“I can’t keep all the Mystery Dungeons from fulling manifesting forever father and it is the work of Moon Cell.” Good work still Mew, it’s thanks to watching Pom that we weren’t entirely caught off guard by this different form of incursion.
Still it’s an issue that we’ve managed to prevent from being an immediate problem, the fighting in Valora grows ever worse.
“How much time do they have?” I asked as they had left the anchor point a while ago.
“Two hours at most, maybe an hour thirty or less if the destruction of the place accelerates at any point for any given reason.” Celebi answered. “Collapse of that Mystery Dungeon is imminent given the destruction of the thing holding the central anchor point together. How much time do WE have?”
“Projected two weeks before things start to go entirely south continent wide, like that one Mystery Dungeon timeline with the Dustclops.” Celebi answered while shivering at one of the darker timelines that had been averted by a summoned hero. “You know the one I’m talking about, the one you really hated but turned out alright in the end due to hero shenanigans?”
“Need some help?” Bahamut offered as he passed me a double decker spider meat taco with the works and extra sauce.
“Of course, I’d even welcome it.” I answered, thankful for any help we could receive from the godly dragon duo. “Any advantage we can get to not make Ransei fall into total destruction would be helpful, it also seems that King Evan has already cottoned onto the idea of summoning me by uniting all of Ransei. That would be most helpful for me to actually start acting personally as I can’t otherwise and will only influence things mildly until then.”
“Why is that you’re legend in Ransei anyway, the whole uniting the kingdoms thing I mean?” You mean, aside from the whole continent shaped like me thing Tiamat?
“Well I’ve always liked a power struggle solved by friendship so…” I started up an interesting story about Ransei’s history about when I was first made the continent.
The first time an Eevee beat this instance of me to within an inch of its life for their friends after I wiped out five of their team of six in short order, I was utterly hooked on the feeling and made it a thing in Ransei to summon me.
It’d work in a time of crisis too, if everyone in Ransei could agree on getting their heads out of their backsides, western Ransei was already there. Eastern Ransei needed help.
Goodness knows Nobunaga’s ambition was to challenge me personally to a fight and it probably would happen at the most inopportune time too. Hmm… I might even want to count on that occurring truthfully.