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Kronii woke up the next morning with a satisfied feeling and the familiar feeling of warmth at her side. She smiles lightly and opens her eyes. She's met with the sight of IRyS asleep on her back with Bae sleeping sprawled on top of IRyS and she knows Mumei is on the other side even if she can't see her currently. Kronii takes in the tapestry of marks the three of them had left on the rat from fang punctures from herself and IRyS and hickeys from Mumei and scratch marks from IRyS it leaves their leaders nude form perfectly claimed by them and leaves a more possessive part of the snake very satisfied.
Usually Kronii might feel a smidgen of guilt for marking one of her beloveds so harshly but three things stop any guilt from forming. The first is the constant reassurance over the eons from all of the girls that they like when Kronii gets rough with them. The second was that Kronii wasn't the only one to let loose since IRyS and Mumei had been just as enthusiastic in marking the incarnation of Chaos (plus Bae had very vocally approved of the treatment). And the third was that it had been Bae specifically. While all of them where more resilient then mortals Bae was on another level entirely her Chaotic body essentially allowing her to heal minor wounds like these almost immediately so the fact that the marks where still there meant that Bae liked them and was more than willing to keep them for a bit.
Kronii lazes around just watching her girls sleep for a bit before she finally focuses on the time and realizes it's exactly 7:01:05 where they are and she stretches getting out of bed to throw on a robe. Once shes got the robe on she glances back at the girls and decides to let them sleep a bit more as she heads to the kitchen. She's somewhat surprised to find that Fauna isn't already in the kitchen but shes happy for the rare chance to prepare breakfast on her own.
She gets out eggs bacon and pancake mix along with Canadian ham for herself and tofu and some fruit for Fauna and gets cooking making sure to fry the tofu in a separate pan for Fauna and cooking up everything else. As she Focuses on the food she fails to notice the footsteps approaching her until she feels arms wrap around her from behind startling her slightly. Then she hears 'Morning Kronii do you need any help?' and she immediately recognizes Fauna's voice. Kronii turns her head and pecks Fauna's lips saying 'good morning Fauna I've got it you can just sit at the table and relax this morning' and Fauna smiles softly steals another kiss and heads to the dining room.
Kronii finishes the cooking and carries it all out to the table setting Fauna's breakfast in front of her and setting everyone elses at their usual seat. As she finishes Sana stumbles in and from the awkward waddle she does as she walks its evident to Kronii that Fauna and Sana had their own fun night. Sana thanks Kronii for breakfast with her own kiss and Kronii heads to her room to get dressed. After getting dressed she heads to Bae's room and sees all three girls still asleep though Bae has slid off of IRyS into Kroniis spot.
After a bit of nudging and calling for them to wake up all three eventually get up and put on their own robes as they follow Kronii to the dining room stumbling sleepily. They all sit and eat breakfast thanking Kronii and chatting and right as they finish Kronii gets a text from Mayor Warden that reads 'Kronii 7078 we have a code red to black for timeline 65473. Because of your situation regarding your Sana and Amelia 7078's honeymoon we are not calling you in to help currently but we do request that you be on standby in case the worst comes to pass and timeline 65473 needs to be evacuated.'
Kronii sighs and turns to Sana saying 'we'll have to postpone the moon training Sana im on standby for a situation in Wattropolis and I should stay in peak condition in case im needed.' 'What kind of situation Kronini' Sana asks with the other four listening. 'It's a code red to black' Kronii says sighing and Bae asks 'and what does that mean Kronii' and Kronii blinks before remembering she and Ame had never actually explained Wattropolis's timeline categorization to anyone.
'Do you want me to just explain the code or do you guys want me to go into a full explanation?' Kronii asks and Mumei says 'Full explanation please' already opening a journal labeled Kronii's job - Wattropolis edition.
Kronii takes a deep breath and begins 'Well first of all there are hundreds if not thousands of ways Wattropolis categorizes timelines and I dont have the time or knowledge to go over them all. However there are three main Categories that all timelines are given that give all wardens and time travelers the most pertinent information about the timelines. The first is the number all timelines have a unique number that all denizens if said timeline will be officially referred to as. The second Is there status in relation to Wattropolis and there are 4 designations in this category. And third is a color designation again there are 4 possibilities for a timelines assigned colors are you all following so far.'.
When they all nod and Mumei looks up from her note taking Kronii continues. 'I suppose the best way to explain each designation is with examples. So first I'll explain our own timeline. Our timeline is timeline 7078 and we are an integrated green timeline. What this means is that we are fully a part of Wattropolis's territory and that all denizens of our timeline are considered citizens of Wattropolis as well. The green indicates that our timeline is a fairly peaceful timeline and that most threats are easily handled by myself and Ame with no need for Wattropolis to get involved'.
'For the second example ah I know the next example is timeline 20200 also nicknamed the Worry timeline. This timeline is Categorized as an unaware yellow timeline. Unaware timelines are all timelines that for one reason or another are completely unaware of both Wattropolis and alternate timelines. These timelines unlike all the other timelines who are introduced to Wattropolis when there warden or time traveler first encounter Wattropolis are discovered by researchers in Wattropolis with the Worry timeline specifically being found and named by Reasearcher Doru. And the yellow designation is to indicate that the threat level of this timeline is a bit more dangerous and active though in the Worry timeline it's not anomalies that cause this rating but the existence of chaos creatures that only their Bae and people with weapons blessed by her can kill.'.
'Third example is timeline 37686. This timeline is an independent red timeline. Independent timelines are timelines that are aware if Wattropolis but for any number of reasons decide to not fully integrate into Wattropolis's territory. The difference is that Independent timelines denizens aren't automatically considered Wattropolis citizens and that to get help from Wattropolis these timelines have to request it unlike integrated timelines which get help the second an agent realizes something is wrong. This designation includes all friendly and neutral independent timelines. The red designation shows that a timeline with it is semi regularly hit with high threat anomalies or something of equivalent power.'.
'The Fourth example is timeline 3354678 which is designated as a hostile black timeline. Hostile timelines as you could probably guess are timelines that for whatever reason are against Wattropolis in everyway actively being hostile to all outside time travelers especially Wattropolis agents. The black designation means the timeline is lost to us that it's so dangerous that all Wardens and travelers are forbidden from entering them unless given explicit permission from Mayor Warden and her Council. Black timelines are the only ones that dont form naturally something has to happen in a timeline for it to become black. For example in 3354678 specifically the entirety of Council & Myth where corrupted by anomalies and started rampaging causing the timeline to be changed to black immediately with evacuation barely possible only able to get 1% of the population out before the evacuation team was noticed and forced to retreat cutting off the timelines connection to Wattropolis.'.
'Any questions' Kronii asks as she finishes looking at the girls. Bae says 'So a code red to black is when a red timeline is in danger of being lost.'. Kronii nods 'Correct and the reason im on standby is in case the active agents and the timelines on combatants cant stabilize the situation if the timeline is designated black evacuation immediately starts and timeline evacuation is all able hands on deck.'. Mumei asks next 'So has there ever been timelines that have gone down in danger?' and Kronii nods 'The worry timeline is one actually it used to be red because of those chaos creatures but that timelines Kronii about 18 years ago in the timelines time found out she was gonna be a parent and with her Bae and Calli she went on a culling trip drastically culling the population of chaos creatures and making officials comfortable in lowering its danger rating.'.
This Reveal causes complete Chaos as all 5 of the other girls immediately spend the rest of breakfast badgering Kronii about the worry timeline and Kronii has to answer all of their various questions though Kronii doesn't really mind glad their interested in her work. After the questioning is done with training postponed and nothing else to do Kronii and Sana accompany Fauna to her duties as Kronii waits to see if she'll be called in.