"Hi everyone." Azul said coming back. "Missed you guys and gals."
"Is it really you?" Lluvia asked to afraid to move. She looked somewhat haggard.
"Yeah, no hug?" Azul walked over. The others with him just stared and waited. "These are well.. the people left from the World I went to. They need homes. Not all of them are wanting to continue to fight. Some are all tuckered out like little kittens."
"We can do that later." Lluvia got up and hugged him. "I missed you. Just let me hold onto you for now. The others can wait."
"Umm ok." Azul said hugging her back. 'I wanted to say something first but this works to.'
"Brother husband!" Lettie yelled. She appeared out of a blood portal. Definitely new.
"Easy there." Another Azul grabbed her. "We are not going anywhere anytime soon."
"Eh, there are two of you?" Lettie looked around eyes wide open. "I mean more than the usual two you can make. This one feels like the old you." They snuggled into the Azul in black clothing. Which contained mostly was his darker personality.
"Yeah, the power I received from the place I went to helped a lot. Nice to feel you again." Azul helder tightly.
"You married your sister?" Emma asked. She had a look of disdain and a little disgust. But also a weird sense of understanding. 'I mean not like she is a child at least.' Her own sister elbowing her in the side. "Oww, you brat."
"Not that kind of sister. Well actually is that kind of sister." Azul said. "It is a really weird story."
"Apparently." Psylocke said. "So.. do you have sex with all them at once or what?" She had a very sultry grin on her face.
Forge and Wolverine chuckling behind the two. Rogue was going to join him permanently after talking to Bishop. But after hearing he killed Gambit, she couldn't. A few others were on the fence but relented after understanding the way he did things more. Not something they could do really.
"Nope. They all are not into that. All of them are not into women either, so watch your self." Azul turned to look at her dangerously.
"Hehe, right. She then walked over to relax on a nearby chair. A few others did the same.
"So, how many others are there?" Emma asked.
"Dont know. Never counted. I do know that some have misgivings. Heck, how long has it been here?
"Five weeks Mass Effect, Final Fantasy X, and Fire Emblem. Five months in Tactics, and Suikoden. Varying for the others." Galtea said speaking. "Mortal Kombat just a year. How are you?"
"Alive. About your task.." Azul said looking at her neutrally. "I will do it. After that, I think it best we part."
"I.. dont.."
"Are you serious?" Galtana asked appearing. "I rather you dont leave my daughter."
"It is what she wants." Azul said giving her a glance. "I will confront Indigo. I will try to save him. I will beat him down as best I can and make him pay for everything he has done. Then I will return his soul to you. You can do what you wish with that."
"That is acceptable." Hotshot said she felt that was more than enough. "I guess we just need to get started on other things now." Azul sent her a telepathic message. 'You for real about this?'
'I will inflict some torture on him you can count on that. I said I will return him to her. It doesn't mean he won't pay for things.' An Azul appeared wrapping her up in a hug. "In time. For now.. I wish to spend time with each of you. Those that want to anyway." Azul said as he split into multiple versions of himself. "I have this power for just a little longer. I want to spend it wisely."
He then shifted those who wanted it, to different parts of the Nether World. Cathing up for some, a lot of anger from others. The ones who felt the breaking of the bonds they held mostly attacked him with a fervor he never knew they had.
If not for the temporary ability, Azul think a fight would have broken out. Several crewmen that he talked to daily want to speak with him. His presence was greatly missed. Galtana and the Trickster had both arrived to talk with him.
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-Rifts Earth Administration-
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In the Administration Chamber, a discussion had turned heated. Galtana was on the warpath after speaking with Azul. He shared everything from the World Shard which implicated a few of them in the room.
The denied it outright saying the World Shard was to twist to accept. Even wanting to take it from Azul to clean through it.
"Try it and watch me wipe you out." Galtana said coldly. "You think I will allow you to have your way on someone in my Sector, you must be out of your mind!"
"Thrum!" The room felt an intense weight. Galtana did not mind letting them remember their place. Which was under her. By several levels and leagues. She did not rest after receiving the information from her daughter. Gathering strength to make sure things went a different route than what the traitors wanted.
"You are hereby suspended." Five Adminsitrtors lost their authority just like that. Very maximum that was allowed during the time they were in. Before they protest, she cut them off. "Clawdas, take them for processing. Under the Traitor Act, I have evidence that suggests they have breached several rules."
"Galtana, you.." Her husband Clawdas falters seeing her gaze. He knew better to plead for traitors. Even more so sense he encouraged his daughter to follow her heart. Putting him directly against his wife. "You heard her, escort them."
"You can not be serious?! I demand to see the evidence!" Roschack said. He was an Administrator that rose from A User. "Show me!"
"Here." Galtana showed the image of Roschack in the World of X-Men Legends. He was good but not that good he missed a mutant that had the power to remember her surroundings while asleep. "That is you passing a Source Code over to a User. Then instructing him on how to completely dominate the World."
"Take him away!" The Old One yelled. He was very upset at the level of corruption the man rose to. "Where is the Source Code now?" He asked towards Galtana.
"I do not know. But hopefully, he has the information in his head somewhere." Galtana looked at the guards who escorted him away. Two causing her to pause. "Ronnel and Corasa, go with." The Two guards behind her left to help with the escort.
"Cautious much?" Another Administrator asked. His name was Wolflord. A actual werewolf that rose from the Users as well. But his loyalty was to Galtana fully. She saived him several times. And made a good friend.
"Yes. Can never be to careful." Galtana allowed a smile to surface. " As for these Users, I say we arrest them."
"Now hold on Galtana, we have know proof they were involved." The Administrator Dead Eyes said. A few of them were part of his Sector. it would look bad if they found certain things out. "We should gather.. more.." He stopped when she submitted some more data. 'That little bastard is going to be the end of me!'
"So much data." Another Administrator said. He gave Galtana a sly look. Do you have any User you would like to submit as well. 'He was hoping she sent Azul himself. It would let him confirm some things.'
"Of course." Galtana opened a Rift and out stepped Deal_With_It. The User that was saved by Azul a long time ago. "The User was harassed by several others that broke several rules. A full investigation has implicated several others. Like yourself Jellal."
"Sching!" A full lockdown wrapped around the man.
"As one of the few Followers to rise this far, I am dissapointed." Galtana words cut deep. "You will be wiped clean and your soul robbed of its power. Returning you back to the beginning of your World."
"Wait!" Jellal exclaimed. "Please, I have my reasons!" He pleaded but it fell on deaf ears. The others remaining quiet as they did not want to fall so close to it.
What they didn't know is that Galtana had several people working to get the place cleaned out. The SYstem provided her with the Quest which made things that much more crucial to her.
'Haa, Galtea my child, such problems you have weaved.' Mentally sighing she relaxed slightly. Missing a few others giving each others looks. "What is it now?"
"Well.. The User Swift has submitted a request." An Operator said. He sent the file over to the middle screen. "She wishes.. to contest."
"Contest who?" Clawdas asked.
"Contest a scenario the Operator Galtea sold her Operator."
"What is this madness?!" Clawdas was not pleased. Galtana said nothing. her daughter was on her own with this. "Magic the Gathering has how many Lunatic quests going on right now?"
"A total of.. 13 sir." Another Operator said. "It was 15 but two have been completed already."
"By who?" Wolford asked in interest.
"By... the Companion/Follower Alita it says and another User named Lettie and the Companion Jaina." The Operator didn't have the clearance to see deeper into the files. Supringsly the others who checked received nothing untoward. But Galtana new personally who they were.
'At least the System id protecting them. But why?'