Everything changed up a bit for destinations.
Skarlet put up a bit of a fuss from the separation. She grew attached to Tietra, Mileuda, and Tiffany. First people she could call a friend. The memories of Agria and Mileena helped make her normal. No more voices from the others blood memories trying to take over. Slowly she was becoming her own person.
Milueda, Tietra, Ashley, and Kat went with the set up from last time. As well as a small unit of Krogan females and a few others from Maldova's crew. They were going to create a stronger Sisterhood in Warhammer 30k-40k. Well during the Great Crusade same time as last time, but they would act on their own saving what planet's they could.
Since they knew the location of Angron and the neighboring Craftworld it would be easy to reach him. A team will go and take over the Craftworld. This group Consisted of Jaina becoming a Farseer the same as before, Aurora (Hotshot) taking the role of a Autarch. Her sisters taking various positions of influence as well. Onxy however would not be going. Both her and Kasumi were going somewhere else.
The device that created to help them find Angron last time, would be used instead to locate inhabitable planets nearby. The Tyrannids ripped through the planets last time. This time they hope to uncover whatever could be there beforehand. With Angron's help it should be easy and help monitor him faster. The World of Warhammer 30k-40k had more population and planets that disappear without anyone's notice so it would be fine.
Jaina took a strong liking to her current life. Even more so than last time. Something else AzuI found out, she was spending a lot of time with the him in Warhammer. The one that trained with the Eldar during her downtime. It was mental time anyway. She took her role as his teacher very seriously. Especially after the last few incidents from Mortal Kombat and what happened to him in Mass Effect.
Mileuda would be the Cannoness. Tietra would study to be head of Affairs. Ashley would be a Cannoness Trainee. Kat decided to create a "Special Squad" as she put it. Basically the equivalent of the new Primaris Lieutenant. With the training and eventual upgrades, it would be a while before she is ready. Basic setup for them to train up to higher levels from the lower level. They had the time. Tiffany asked why start so low.
Especially once Galtea reminded that the cost would be astronomical if they used the System points to buy the higher end stuff. The technology would be developed there and applied in that time period in a secured location. That cost several points to have them built. Alma decided she would join them. She would be the head of a smaller Psykers group. Or to put it correctly, one should say a Saint devoute. Galtea reminded us, going into deeper detail of everything there made several people's heads hurt. Their job was to set up a Mobile Sisterhood network early on as well. With the teachings of the Ecclesiarchy and Galtea's modification for a little more tolerance. Ashley, Kat, Mileuda changed a good bit more after they saw the full list she added. The four started a veryheat debate till Azyl shifted them away to another room to deal with it themselves. Alma and Tietra remained to inform them later about what would happen.
Dyshana, Rayna, Azul, Bishop, and now Torbin would be on Terra. A good bit of created forces from Azul's Nether World would go with. The minds are a lot stronger to resist any Chaos God whispers. Helped that they technically were already demons in a way. So there was that. Each of them was injected with a special gene-seed derived from Azul and Bishop partially for the male's. And from Mileuda's, Tietra's and surprisingly Ashley for their holy energy.
A quick purchase by Azul for a further upgrade for the strengthening of their minds. Each and every one of them received a bonus from Lluvia spending her own points to help them even furthur. They were not taking chances on whatever assignment Azul had to carry out on Terra.
Tiffany and Skarlet took the injection quite well. Tiffany took on more of resembled a saint than a psyker. But with a dark undertone around her. Shun was alarmed but Azul told him it would be fine. Skarlet was a wild psyker in every shape and form. Her mind was extremely powerful. The psychic power from Agria's and Mileena's soul made her even stronger.
During Azul's recreation time the others went to a few places extra. He didn't care since it added to their own strength and gave them points to spend for themselves. Galtea and Alita worked overtime once Azul told them additional work to get done for the future. He gave them the blueprint to make a Mass Effect Relay. Just a regular one and without the master controls. Only he had control of it. Candace was building it on the planet they both. With Eldar Craftworld technology added as well, movement would become easier in Mass Effect as well as future World's Azul takes over. A small Mass Effect Relay was under construction in Final Fantasy Tactics War of the Lions. Bi-Han (Sub-Zero) was in charge of that. With the help from Alita and Zelda every now and then, it was going pretty damn good.
Once that was agreed upon, Chari spoke up about going back to Super Robot Taisen during this time. It was agreed that they would go in a bigger force by Lluvia. She just needed to be patient a little.
"Tch fine!" Chari grumbled. Azul noticed her displeasure and felt the biotic strand from her. She felt her desire to help the place was not getting taken seriously as the others. Just because it was in the far reaches didnt mean they didnt deserve the help. She stared at Azul and gave him a sad smile.
"Hmmm." Azul used a pull a designated her as the target. "I wonder what happened last time will again."
System: High pull.... Parameters for a Companion/Follower... User bond in danger... binding locations... deducting points from System points .. Loyalty point used... Planeswalker Spark obtained in Chari... User Planeswalker Spark increased in strength sealed.
After that new little developement was done, Chari went to medical to rest. Cassandra would check to see what changes took place inside her. Galtea still did not have the information on the World. Since the World of Magic the Gathering was extremely younger than her still. Lluvia and Alita had a bit more info than last time. Alita had information during the Primordal time.
"What happened during that time?" Riku asked. Alita shrugged at her. "Is it that dangerous what is coming?" She nodded yes. "Then explain to us time then."
"Hmm it will not do any good. Azul it might be better to speak about last time." Jaina said.
"Make's no real sense to me. Considering the time frame it came out in my world." Azul looked at them. Alita just shrugged at it. "She refuses to discuss the matter of time. She argued it would kill me by driving me insane last time. If she would not do it now.. then currently I am not strong enough still. Everyone... take the time to questioned it for just a moment. What do you think that means for each of you?"
"Hmm time is not that difficult. But they would need a lesser understanding of how it flows within themselves." Shun said calmly. He looked to Tifa and Tiffany for a moment. "You two may want to take a slower approach to it."
"Pft as if." Tiffany said. "I will do what my Lord decrees." The grin she had on her face was quite dangerous. It was provoking the man.
"Easy Tiffany. It will be fine." Azul said. He sent out his Mental Cleansing to clear everyone's heads back up. "Now do continue."
"Fwoosh." The rest of the other group returned to join in discussion.
"So why.. is the ratio so unbalanced between genders?" Torbin asked. Azul just put his head down. Bishop doing the same. The man steeped on a land mine and did not know it. "Did I miss something?"
"He misspoke." Ashley said quickly. They then started talking about other things.
Alita saved him from it mentally with Azul's help. They told him the reason why everyone was against the idea of more males. It was because of Galtea/Lluvia. She told him everyones individual growth goes down if Azul brought another male that way as pulls specifically. The two promoted the growth of Women. That was the way she was trained during her time in the Council. If Azul Pull the male with the parameters he placed during the survey originally, his growth would be slow. With a slow growth more points needed to be spent to compensate. Unless Azul used a pull with no parameters and a shot in the dark would get him another male.
"Wait so Bishop was obtained that way?" Torbin asked outloud.
"Yes. The "Random" changes just a bit that way. Put the Pull's come in all kinds of forms. So sometime it wont matter." Azul said plainly. "Considering Lu Bu helped bring his own wife here, it does not matter."
"I see. Maybe we should get some old people form the Alliance back with us? The group had a lot of males in it." Torbin asked. Azul gave him a nod and put him in charge of it. "I will send a message during our down time to them. Just regular Alliance work until they can prove we can trust them with this." He gestured around the room.
"Hahaha that is a good idea. But then again the System will give them a good reason not to betray me. I also will deal with them in my own way." Azul gave a very weird smile. Torbin shivered at it. You remind of someone a bit. I remembered how Alistair was obtained, that made sense even more so. Especially sense we are talking about it. Since then most pull's have been equipment and powers. I haven't pulled too many people. In fact, I used a few to stabilize and help Mileena back then. Also used some Mysterious Pull but I didn't really check it out before I used it on her. I need to check on those kind of things in the future."
"For someone who hates suprises you take a lot of risks." Rayna said. The rest smiled before laughing.
-A few Hours later-
Once they finished talking, Azul was shifted to another part of his Nether World by Lluvia. Zelda was standing next to someone. In front was a woman with dark black hair. She gave Azul a funny feeling, but his mind was trying to keep him from remembering. The woman was associate with a dreadful sense of lost. The body and clothing reminded him of a Valkyrie created by the Nether World senate.
"She feels familiar." Azul looked at the woman puzzled. "Short black cut. Military style. Posture is that of a military woman. Your smell is driving me bananas. Only one I know that smell... like that is dead." Azul looked into her eyes and felt his hearts clench. "Ughh this is weird. Someone who cannot be is here. So you cannot be her. But then the others were not suppose to be here either."
"It is me stupid!" The Valkyrie said.
System: Willpower Check 34 Pass
"I swear you sounded like Captain Natarle Badgiruel just now." Azul felt the painful memories return. The failure hit him hard and sent him spiraling into hatred last time. "That can not be right?" He grabbed her face and felt his Pather Power shoot up a notch.
"Because it is." Lluvia said smirking. "I didn't know she was in your Nether World till the new one came. We have worked hard to make sure she was healthy and ready to go. It took awhile."
"This is her full soul. The same as what happened with Chari, Jaina, Quistis, Tifa and the twins." Zelda said calmly. "Well and I guess myself."
"So no hug or kiss." Natarle said. "Cant believe I .." She stopped once she saw Azul was crying. "Crap you really have changed. You even cry now." She hugged him as he stood there motionless.
"The first death of the woman you fell for. Despite not having her. The System took note of it, and took her soul away. She was to be given to you later but..." Lluvia trailed off.
"But she was deemed to valuable to your psyche by the System." Zelda added in. "When Mass Effect felt that Crack earlier, it damaged you as well. The fact you kept yourself together is shocking and worth a small reward by it. Just keep it together more."
Azul then snapped out of it and returned the hug. He heard the words and thought about it. "Wait what do you mean?"
"It will come back slowly but I will fill you in." Lluvia said. "In Super Robot Taisen you went back to save her. The rest of the crew abandon ship. Chari made the call not to go back. Leaving her behind."
"She was tricked.." Zelda added. "She was used to get you distracted. Once she realized it, she tried to save Nat but."
"But it didnt work out. Chari almost got herself killed. You lost an arm saving her. Nat was the casualty that caused your soul to become.. twisted."
"That cant only be it." Azul said. "No offense Nat but.."
"You went to the sight of the ship and cleared the wreckage. It took a day." Zelda said. "You didn't hear anyone's response or calls. The biotic strands fed into you the entire time as you did so. I couldn't reach you through the rage. Then it happened..."
"You came back to the ship with her body in your cockpit. You were unresponsive. It was not until after the Prime you returned to Mass effect, that you recovered." Zelda said. "Lettie fed greatly on that energy to help restore you to normal. Your Pather power is dangerous."
"You cared for her despite her not being a companion. Despite her not being a follower. Whether it was the memories of the you there are not, the System felt your loss you had for her." Lluvia smiled happily. "Your not as bad as you think."
"You didnt speak to Chari after that really. Just grunts and the occasional yes or no." Zelda said.
"I know how she felt Azul." Nat punched him in the chest. It didn't do anything but the gesture was there. "You better make it up to her. As well as me."
"Ok." Was all Azul said. His Pather power started going haywire again. It was responding to Azul's desire to see what happened in a few other World's.
"Bwoom!" A rift opened with Tifa, Alita and Galtea walking out. Seeing them all together they walked over.
"Why did you call me over here Azul?" Tifa looked a bit lost. She could swear the man reached out to her.
"Are you ok?" Nat asked.
"Azul what's wrong?" Zelda asked.
System: User Synchro rating is unstable. Emergency hibernation protocols activated.
"Bweem!" Energy wrapped around Azul and Natarle quickly.
"Oh crap." Lluvia said.
"That is not suppose to happen I take it?" Tifa asked. She ran and grabbed his arm. She sent a message to Shun but he did not respond. "Damn Cosmic bastard help could really help right now!"
"No. He is losing sense. He is denying reality." Zelda looked at a screen. "This happens to low level User's. This should not happen to him."
"Why?"
"Because he failed to protect her. It means he can fail to protect everyone." Tifa said holding his arm. "I didnt know he cared this much about us. Before it felt as if it was just because it was us versus them. Now its because..."
"Bwoom!" A gold Rift opened.
"Because of what he can lose." The Trickster said appearing. He was not alone as Galtana was with him. "We need to take him with us."
"Why!?" Lluvia said. Both she and Galtea stared at their individual parent ready to fight. "He will be fine."
"Are you willing to risk it? Risk him breaking apart?" Galtana stated.
"No. We should let them take him." Alita said. "I can not lose another User. I can take him with me if you want."
"Bwoom!" Another Rift opened in the area.
"That is not your call." Quistis said arriving. "Out of everyone here, I am the only one married to him. Considering how everyone else is waiting for something or another from him, I believe I have the most say. especially if we are going by what Azul believes in."
"Thats.." The Trickster started to say.
"Trickster she is right." Galtana said. "I cant ignore the laws. You can but.."
"Hah, I wont do it. I am not gonna make my daughter mad at me or piss him off. I like my future son in law." He looks to Lluvia "When he wakes up, you better hurry up and get married. Your mother wants grandkids." The Trickster then left in a Rift. With Galtana following behind smirking at him.
"Hah, at least your daughter is moving forward. My daughter is damn near a reborn saint." Galtana said.
"Your parents are eccentric." Tifa said. "Galtea what is your dad like?"
"Not the time Tifa." Galtea said embarrassed.
"Azul.. get up." Quistis said smacking him. "If you dont get up I swear I'll terminate this baby."
"Your pregnant!?" Lluvia asked.
"Yeah. Just a few weeks but nothing big to worry about there." Quistis said looking at Azul. "Your first born will be deconstructed into subatomic particles. You hear me you igit?!"
"Bwahh," Azul sat up almost hitting Nat and Quistis." Why does my.. well my everything hurt?" Tifa looked at him laughing. "I am fine though. Calm down everyone. Just a little overwhelmed for a second."
Galtea and Lluvia walked over with hands stretched out. Both faces turned ashen for a moment in fear.
"You were linked with all the different you's at once. Are you bonkers?" Galtea asked.
"Well..."
"That was stupid." Alita added in.
"You... see.."
"I am to young to be a widow." Quistis looked at him grinning. "Good insurance policy though."
"But I.."
"Give him a chance to speak first." Zelda said. Everyone stopped for a moment. "What were you saying?"
"I needed to know if anybody else was lost without me noticing." Azul said looking down. "I have lost some friends and the people who were my parents or raised me."
"But what about lovers?" Tifa asked.
"I have lost three." Azul hands tightened on his pants leg. "My Pather Power had linked out on its own. That is why I synched with everyone. Damn it."
"Whew, so not my fault." Nat said trying to break the tension.
"No. They were all accidents. One was sick and the World wouldn't allow magic or tech to heal them when I linked up. I dont know what that will do since I awakened them early."
"Don't worry, they are all getting put back to sleep now." Lluvia said.
"That is good." Quistis grabbed Azul by the face. " Do not do something so reckless again. I swear it wont be pretty what I do."
"Right... It was not dangerous by my call. Just a little pain is all. I feel fine already."
"So are you having a boy or a girl?" Alita asked.
"Did you know she was pregnant?" Galtea asked.
"Huh yes and no. I could feel something but nothing was determine so I put it out of my head." Azul shrugged. "No sense in jumping to conclusions."
"Why not check with us?"
"Becaue I said not to." Quistis said. "Whatever goes on with the other himself that's fine. However, in my world our life is our own. I keep my life private just like I bet most of you keep your life private.
"Well yeah but don't you think it is important something like that?"
"No. It is a baby. Our baby. Not everyone else's. If eventually someone else decides they want to settle in my World then that's fine. But till then, I dont care. I only like some of you anyway." Quistis turned to Azul and gave him. kiss. "Smooch, bye bye see you in a bit. Oh I will cook since all this happened." With that she was gone in a Rift.
"Wow, that just happened." Tifa smirked and looked at Azul. "So you are ok with that arrangement? If its our World and it can be helped, you wont take another wife and keep our lives private? Just want to re clarify again."
"Yeah. I am immortal more or less. Have to live different ways or get bored I think. I will out live almost all of you. Memories will remain for the most part. I will not force immortality on you all."
"Are you bored yet?" Alita asked.
"Pft not even remotely close. I haven't been to enough places or spent enough time exploring places." Azul scoffed.
"Good to know. I want to go to a World where it is just you me and one other woman." Tifa said smiling. "I can deal with sharing you with one other woman there."
"Wait have you two started dating?" Galtea asked.
"Not even close to that, I mean we are friends so there's that." Tifa gave a wink before leaving.
"Um sorry to burst your bubbles but a problem has come up." Galtea said. "It is time for you to send forces to the that fractured Super Robot Taisen. The World is at the point when things get hectic."
"Oh What happens when I meet the me there?" Natarle asked.
"You to can fight and the winner gets the strength." Azul said. "Like Highlander. Or you can keep the option turned off like I have it. It keeps others from killing you all and absorbing you for their uses if they have a version of you."
"I.. am different than her. So I will stay that way. I will remain me." Natarle said. Her eyes shining. "But I do want to go and help them."
"Right. You Chari and myself will go. Others will come after." Azul then turned to look at the others. "Alright time to go to Final Fantasy X. As for you Zelda, it will only be a little longer till the other you will be pulled from its place."
"I..see. I look forward to it. I will fight this time when it happens." Zelda smiled. "I put a lock on it. It was a reward from passing my last Operator test."