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Hello everyone! My name is Darklord331 and today we are bringing you a new story made by me and my friend Light He’arth/Xarazechi!

Light/Xara: Hello, glad to be here. So you want to explain the idea behind this story? Or should I?

Well it's very simple really, this is an inspiration from a manhwa that's called ‘Everyone Else is a Returnee’. If you read it then you know it but if you haven’t, to put it simply, it's basically everyone isekai’d but the main protagonist was left behind. 

Light/Xara: I think I saw an audio review video about it on YouTube, it did get my interest. So which universe are we crossing over with this story? 

Simple, the world that would is already fucked up and also by the time everyone gets back, it gets even more worse. Worm by Wildbrow. 

Light/Xara: I thought you were talking Warhammer 40K for a second there? That universe is also messed up. 

Yeah true but WH40k isekaing is already a death sentence ‘cause if you want to deal with constant wars, hellish creatures who could kill you in an instant, godly beings both humans and other races, the list goes on. 

Light/Xara: True. So who’s being left behind? Taylor or Greg I would think, they seem to be the two popular people of the franchise.

You fuck, you already gave out who its gonan be. 

Light/Xara: … Wait, seriously? … I pulled a Doctor Who, didn’t I?

Yeah, just shut up and start the disclaimer while I prep the system.

Light/Xara: Right. Well, Dark and I do not own Everyone Else is a Returnee, the Worm/Parahuman Series, or any other franchise used in this story. We only own our ideas and OCs. Is that good?

Yes it is, now onto the show! I HAVE THE POWE-

BOOM!

(Suddenly a lightning struck Dark as he coughs before falling down as a note fell which read, no copyright jackass) 

Light/Xara: … Okay, Is your Luck Stat E- or something….?

Chapter 1: We got left behind!? … We have to wait HOW LONG!?

“.....That's strange.” Greg said while he stood at the empty school before him. “What the hell is going on?” He said in confusion.

Just this morning when he woke up in his apartment (As his parents are literally company managers of big business. So he currently lives alone but they do send him money every so often) and made breakfast. When he left for school, the streets were empty, no one was outside, no police, heroes, or even any gangs (Thank god). Not even anyone was at any stores. 

Entering the school, there were no students, no teachers, not even those bully trio. 

Greg was starting to get weirded out by all of this. Did something happen and no one informed him about it? He was about to head to head to check on his parents when the front door of the school bursted open and a frantic Taylor Heburt ran in looking panicked.

“Huh? Taylor?”

“Greg?” She said in surprise. “Is it really you?”

“Unless it's some sort of villain's power that makes everyone invisible then yes it's me.” Greg said to her. 

“So I’m not the only one.” Taylor muttered under her breath.

“Only one?” Greg said in confusion. 

“When I woke up, usually my dad wakes me up for school but he wasn’t there. I thought he was at work so I rushed to school, but I didn’t see anyone on my way here!”

“Even you?” Greg asked while shocked. Turning to the clock and noticing something. “Hey hold the fuck on, what was it that you left?”

“9:15. Why?”

“.....Taylor, it's 8:45.” He said pointing at the clock.

“What?!” She shouted before turning to the clock and checking the time. True to his words, it's 8:45. “But it takes ten minutes to get here!”

“Hell, I didn’t even notice the time was changed, it takes me five minutes to get to school and yet it felt like hours.” Greg said, stunned. 

“You think it might be a villain?”

“Not even villains have this type of power to cause everyone to disappear. The only thing that's capable……….. is…………………” Greg slowly widens his eyes in horror. “...... Endbringers.” 

“You mean… This could be some sort of new Endbringer?” Taylor asked, scared. The other Endbringers couldn’t could this, so the thought of a new one showing up scared her. 

“Please for the love of all God tell me another Endbringer is born! Three is already enough and one of them flooded Japan! (Dark: For little history of Worm, Japan is not technically flooded but it was attacked by Leviathan which devastated the entire country. It caused some of its islands to be submerged and many people died, causing Japan to be isolated and those who survived fled the country causing Japan to be isolated. Light/Xara: Still sucks to know that something like that happens, and the Harpie/Angle Wannabe is terrifying, literally changing and forcing one’s personality to be altered to kill without remorse. (Shivers)). ”

“Hoy, hoy, no need to panic.”

Suddenly they heard a woman's voice echoing. A pillar of light suddenly emerged in front of them. Two women descended down from the light pillar. 

“Do not be afraid, Monsieur and Madame. Rest assured, it is none of those filthy beings that are responsible for this.” The woman spoke in a French tone. 

“Earth time has been stopped.” Another female voice spoke to them, also descending with the other woman and revealing themselves. 

“As for what my colleague said, Earth time has been stopped except for you two.” She said with wings behind her back and the other with dark wings. 

Both Greg and Taylor looked at the descending woman with wide eyes.
“Ohoohohohoho~! Shocked are we? Are you taken back by our most glamorous appearances? No need to feel shy.” The brunette woman said while speaking like a noble woman. “Feel free to praise me and bask in the glorious light of the Goddess-”

“AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! IT'S THE WINGED ONE! AND THERE’S TWO OF THEM!”

“RRUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNN!”

WHOOSH!

Both Greg and Taylor immediately dashed away so fast only dust figures were in their place before disappearing. 

“...”

“...”

“... Did… Did they compare ME to that abomination…?” the woman asked, her smile straightened and her eyebrow twitching.

“Hahahahahahahah! Oh now this is rich! You forgot that angels portrayed here are not seen in a positive light.” The dark skinned woman laughed with a cartoonish, funny expression. 

“And you didn’t tell me this sooner?!” 

“I was but you just left too quickly before the others could remind you.” 

The woman growled under her breath. 

“Alright alright, I’ve had enough.” The dark skinned woman said while wiping a tear from their face. “Lets find them and explain it properly instead of scaring them for life, though it could be funny if I sent my little sister here for her first Goddess duty.” She said with a mischievous smile. 

“Enough Urd! We need to complete our duties the Almighty has sent us to do.” The woman said to her impatiently.

“Ok, no need to be a spoilsport.” Urd said to her companion Peorth. 

Timeskip

“So……..you're not actually the Simurgh, or a creation of theirs?” Greg asked hesitantly towards the women that unexpectedly appeared before them. Just when they were hiding away and looking for the Endbringers bunker, the two winged women were already there. They were about to bolt away but were stopped by the dark winged woman. 

“Don’t compare me to that wicked thing! Because of that abomination the Angels are seen in a bad light because of it and heaven's reputation is ruined because of Simurgh!” Peorth angrily shouted, wishing to smite the damn thing. “If I see that thing I will obliterate it to pieces until there is none left and show everyone what an actual angel is.”

“Calm down already Peorth, you're already scaring them a bit too much.” Urd said to Peorth.

“Then……….. Who are you?” Taylor asked them, seeing their not the Simurgh seeing how they wouldn’t mind fuck their brains or turn them to vegetable state, or murder happy phycopaths. 

“To properly explain, we are Goddess of the heavens above! My name is Peorth, the first class Goddess!” 

“My name is Urd, second class Goddess and to clarify she’s not my supervisor as we’re working together.” Urd introduces herself to them. 

“So, Goddess. Neat.” Greg simply said to them. 

“That's all you can say? Aren’t you excited to see a deity like me and you're not surprised?” Peorth asked Greg.

“Well it's not surprising. If you live in a world where heroes and villains' powers are godlike. Their powers can literally rewrite reality so it shouldn’t be surprising if their powers are on a godlike level.”

“..... He makes a fair point.” Urd said to her companion, causing Peorth to twitch her eyes. 

“So what's going on?” Taylor asked them. “If you know what's happening why everyone has disappeared.”

“Oh that's simple!” Peorth said to Taylor. “The reason why time has stopped and everyone is gone is ‘cause you were left behind.”

“......”

“...... Excuse me what? Left behind?” Greg quetioned Peoth, not understanding what the fuck she meant by left behind.
“Yup, all the humans were sent to another dimension except the two of you.” Peorth said to them. 

“Thats why everyone’s gone?” Taylor raised a single brow in confusion. “They’ve been sent to another world while both of us got left behind?”

“Exactly-”

“GODFUCKING DAMMIT!” Greg shouted, falling to his knees. “Everyone got fucking Isekai’d while I’m the only one that didn’t get transported to another world? NOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS WAS ONE OF MY BIGGEST DREAMS! I COULD’VE WENT TO AN AWESOME FANTASY WORLD AND GET AWESOME POWERS WHILE GETTING A HAREM! NOW THOSE ASSHOLES WILL BRAG ABOUT IT! IT SHOULD’VE BEEN ME! IT'S NOT FAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRR!” Greg lamented with streams of anime tears falling from his eyes. 

Taylor’s eyebrow twitched hearing that, but ignored it for now. “Okay, ignoring that for now… why and how were we not sent as well? Did there need to be at least someone to stay behind so the time stop could stay active for however long it needed to be up?”

The two angels looked away, smiling sheepishly.

“Well, to put it simplely, Earth is going through a great cataclysm.” Peorth said to them.

“Oh great, just what we need, another world ending threat.” Taylor groaned under her breath while Greg was still lamenting.

“You misunderstood, let us explain.” Urd said to Taylor. “Earth is not going to be in mortal danger but instead is going through an evolution. The Great Cataclysm is when Earth is leveling up to the next stage because it has reached the maximum amount of experience points. To put it in simple words, what it means is Mana will be released to the world.” 

“Evolution, experience points?” Greg asked in confusion while no longer crying (But still grieved inside of his heart). “Our Earth is leveling up?” 

“Yes monsious!” Peorth said. “Once mana is released on Earth, monsters will appear and spawn all across the world. Though the issue is that monsters won’t die from simple guns and swords, or even most of your powers.”

“.... You’re kidding? Not ever Parahuman Powers will be strong enough?” Taylor asked in shock.

“Non, non! It's preciously a problem! If humans are left where they are, then you can say they’ll be at risk of being annihilated by monsters on the near level of Endbringers.”

“...... Ah shit this is like DnD boss monsters.” Greg said. “Fuck, first we got to deal with Endbringers and now monsters that is close to being Endbringer levels? Has the world really gone to shit or something?”

“Not to worry, it is why the almighty used the system to stop time on Earth and send the humans to another world so they can train and adapt mana.” Urd said to them. “Then they have barren enough minimum to go against the monsters.”

“The best part is that their mana is an evolutionary power! The stronger they get, the more the mana will evolve and soon reach the level that not even Endbringers can stand a chance, which is why The Almighty has sent all of mankind to learn mana!” Peorth said while puffing her chest and had stars all over her.

“....Then what about us?” Greg asked her. Pointing at himself and Taylor.

Peorth immediately sweated while slowly looking away along with Urd. “......Ummmm, well….”
“Why were we left behind?” Taylor said while both of them were getting close with a dangerous look on both hers and Greg. 

“It's……… kinda complicated.” Urd nervously said.

“How complicated is it to send all of humanity to another world except the two of us?” Greg asked the two goddesses.

“There……………was a mistake.” Urd slowly said.

“A mistake?”

“Well, you see…” Peorth began to recap. “The heaven system may not be that flawless. There was a………..glitch in the system we failed to account for.”

“......You mean to tell me, that the reason why I couldn’t go to another world, gain awesome powers and abilities I could’ve gotten and a harem all because of a goddamn glitch?” Greg said while slowly his anger was rising. 

“Well… there was an… unforeseen issue when we did it, and it caused the glitch,” Urd stated, thinking of a certain wannabe god. “We really did try to take into account all variables for this.”

“Great, everyone is in another world training their mana while we’re stuck here and we have no mana at all. Worst not even triggers are enough to deal with the monsters.” Greg said in frustration.

“No worries! The Almighty is working on fixing the system along with his associates, the Endless Darkness, Sound of Nothing and Eternal Light, humanity will be back in ten years and he didn’t want you two to suffer so he decided to be beneficial."

“By sending us to help you, monsieur and madam!” Peorth declared with her hand over her chest. 

“How?”

“By training the two of you to prepare for the upcoming great cataclysm!” Peorth answered to Greg.

“How are you two gonna help us if we have no mana?” Greg asked while deadpanning. 

“That’s where the Almighty comes in! While you two may lack mana he along with the Earth Conscious, Gaia, has created special items that will help you two.” Peorth declared while putting out her arms and projected something above her palms before two orbs of light glinted and floated towards Greg and Taylor. 

Brightening the area briefly before lights died down, Greg lowered his arm though felt he was holding something and looked down. A brutal spiked mace forged from obsidian-black alloy and turned silver. The head resembles a meteorite embedded with glowing fault lines—veins of molten light pulse beneath its surface. A chain of stone links trails from the hilt.

Taylor looked and saw that she had what looked like a basic, if not greatly crafted and beautifully etched, long sword. But she then noticed what looked like a button in the handle and pressed it, making the sword split apart into sections and a metal wire chain in between the blade parts while it was falling to the ground.

“What are these?”

“These are Cardinal weapons crafted, designed and made to grow in strength along with the user, the stronger the host is, so will the cardinal weapons.”

“Woah, that's cool!” Greg said in amazement. “I’m more of a fan of a sword but what the hell, at least I can break some skulls.” 

“I’m more concerned that I might cut a limb off my body trying to swing my weapon,” Taylor stated, releasing the button and the sword returning to its original shape. “I’m a klutz and I’m not the most graceful person.”

“That’s what the training is going to be for dear,” Urd stated, smirking at her. “For the next ten years we’ll help you train and learn Ki.”

“Ki? You mean something like Dragon Ball?”

“Yes exactly.” 

“Ah cool that sounds aweso-wait a minute.” Greg suddenly remembered something on his mind that popped up. “Ki requires lots of………… extensive training right?”

“You already know the answer.”

“.....Oh hell no! I’m not a gym person! My bones will break under pressure!” Greg shouted.

“I don’t want to look too muscular. How will I explain to my dad how much muscles I gain.” Taylor said.

“Too late for arguments, your training starts now!”

“AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

Timeskip: Five Years Later

Five years went by, after going through a lot of grueling training and suffering Greg and Taylor had endured. The good news is while time stopped, they haven’t aged a bit nor do they look any older. Perks of the world being frozen in time. 

Though, during the five years, they’ve traveled all across the USA, sightseeing a lot of places and doing cross country (Another part of training they’ve done which made their legs ache a lot). 

Their muscles developed, though mostly Greg's muscle developed while Taylor had a slender build, like that of a swimmer or dancer, as she more practiced her movements and her trigger powers (Which she told them the day she was triggered which Peorth swore they will face a lot of curses and hexes when they return though Urd had a creepy smile on her face which scared all of them).

Both Greg and Taylor sat on the ground in meditation pose, closing their eyes. 

“Your bodies have trained enough to awaken your fighting powers, all that's left is to draw it out. Reach out inside of your soul and if you feel something that's a part of you, draw it out.” Urd explained to them as Taylor and Greg listened. 

Doing what Urd has instructed, they reached deep inside of their soul, though Greg and Taylor strained, Greg gritting his teeth and Taylor furrowing her brow as it was becoming increasingly difficult for brief moments.

Before feeling something that's part of them, it felt natural as if there’s something hidden deep inside, just like what Urd said.

Drawing it out, soon white aura surrounded Taylor and Greg, glinting around them. Opening their eyes, they looked at themselves, seeing their aura glowing around them and feeling immense strength running through them.

“We………… We did it.” Greg said, lifting his hand and smiled. “This is our Ki.”

“It feels…………..weird.” Taylor said while clenching her fist. “I feel like I could run and not get tired in an olympic race.

“Congragulations, you’ve unlocked your Kis.” Peorth said, praising them. “With this, your potential is unlocked. All that is left is overcoming your body's barrier.” She said to them.

“Ki represents your life force. It is the force that contains every living being, the sky, trees, even the grass itself. The only limit is the strength of the body, to increase your ki one must overcome their barrier and become stronger.”

“............ I won’t even have to worry about them either.” Taylor said while thinking about her bullies. 

“........ Finally, with this I can finally be a hero.” Greg smiled, achieving his lifelong dream. Despite not being triggered this should be enough for him to be qualified as a hero.

“Now your real training starts now!” Peorth said with her hands over her hips.

Timeskip - five years

Not only have they trained their bodies to a degree but also their martial arts. Greg’s learned how to wield his mace more efficiently like it was a sword, crushing many boulders (and accidentally crushing the Lady Liberty statue which he had to repair it, making him spend a year fixing the statue). Feeling like not only he can wield his mace like a sword but also his strength grew.

As for Taylor, she matured in more than one way. Gone was the tall lanky girl that was bullied, and now was a strong willed Amazonist. She wasn’t as buff as Greg, but she was still ripped, like an Olympic Gymnest/Swimmer, and actually gained curves (which she thanked Urd and Peorth for helping her gain them thanks to their teachings on how to gain said ‘Blessings’). She stood tall and proud and walked like the Queen she was trained to be. In Urd’s own worlds; she was a hive Queen and should be proud and strong as one. As for her Training in the Whip/Chain Sword, she was able to switch between sword and whip in an instance like it was nothing, and move with the grace of a river flowing when using it, powerful, but elegant. And her control over insects had grown phenomenally, she could actually control and command insects half way across the globe, as well as use them to spy and scout like she was there, and even learned to fight like the insects she commands.

“With your strength, it’ll be enough to deal with low level monsters and B class parahumans when they return.” Peorth complimented them while giving them a thumbs up. 

“I can’t believe ten years have passed.” Greg muttered. “Hardly a day goes by.”

“It honestly felt like years.” Taylor said to Greg. “I’m actually a little excited to see if I can’t control and tame Insect Monsters.”

“You're ready,” Urd said to them. “Things will change when the great cataclysm comes, a lot of things will be different.”

“And I’m ready for it.” Greg said, hardening his expression, clenching his fist. “I can finally be the hero I always wanted to be, it's all thanks to you two.” He smiled at the two goddesses. 

“No need to thank us, it is our goddess duty to help you become ready when the time comes.” Peorth arrogantly said to them. 

Greg and Taylor stayed silent for a brief moment, standing at the streets with their cardinal weapons. Greg turned his head to the goddesses. “Will we see you two again?”

“In due time, now don’t let your folks get waiting for you. I enjoyed my time with you.” Urd said to them, smiling.

“Hmph, don’t be disappointed. If I need to see you, all you have to do is get stronger until you destroy that abomination that stained the angel's reputation.” Peorth arrogantly said. 

Greg and Taylor smiled while looking up as ten years had passed. Now waiting for their parents and everyone to come back home.

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“.... Uhhhhh.” Greg muttered while having a confused expression. “Does it……take this long?”

“....... I’m not sure.” Taylor said while also confused. “Did they miscalculate or something?”

“... Did… Did they or did they not take into account the Temporal Differences of Universes and how time can move differently in other worlds…?” Greg asked, actually sounding smart, but also pailing in fear and realization.

Taylor’s face paled, getting what Greg was saying. She had to just to understand a lot of what was going on and how it acted like the games Greg talked about. “You mean… Ten years in the world they’re in… isn’t the same as ten years here…?” She asked, hoping she was wrong.

“Oops.” Peorth nervously said while sweating. “We…….. might have failed to………… check on that……….”

“Oh crap, now that you mention it…………. we made a mistake.”

“..........God fucking dammit, you mean to tell me that there’s another mistake?!” Greg shouted in frustration. “Fuck!”

“Hehehe!”

“GET OVER HERE YOU DAMN USELESS GODDESS!” Greg shouted at her while jumping with his mace raised.

BAM!
But Peorth simply punched him, causing him to fly away and impact on the ground, hard. Forgetting that the goddesses are much more powerful than they are in terms of magic. 

Taylor sweatdropped seeing this. She turned to the two goddesses and asked the dreaded question, “... So… How long will it take for us to wait for everyone…?”

“... Well… We… are not sure about that,” Urd admitted, smiling sheepishly while looking away from them. “It could be an extra month, it could be… another 10 years, or more.”

“10 MORE YEARS!?” both teens shouted, both bug eyes, while Greg stood up from the ground. Now both were on the ground, a cloud of depression over them. 

“...In the meantime, more training!”

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Timeskip - unknown

Five years have passed.

Ten years.

Twenty…

…. Fifty years have gone by and they still haven’t returned yet.

BAM!

CCRRRAACCCKKKK!

BOOM!

WHOOSH!
SHINK!

CRACK! BOOM!

SHING!

SLASH!

RUMBLE!

An entire mountain was crushed, crumbled to pieces, while a forest was cut into pieces. Greg stood before a mountain and Taylor before a forest. 

Greg looked at his mace, with stoic expression and Taylor looking ahead at the cut off trees that stretched miles away.

“..... How long has it been?”
“...... I don’t know, I stopped counting days gone by, after twenty years.” Taylor said with no emotions. She learned that she could push her emotions into the insects she controlled, which was now the whole Earth now.

These past fifty years and yet no one had returned, both Urd and Peorth looked worried over Greg and Taylor as thinking their mentality was crumbling.

“..... Well done you two, you’ve gotten stronger.” Peorth offered words of encouragement. “Maybe just a little more and you’ll be able to defeat high level monste-”

“No.” Greg and Taylor suddenly said to them, interrupting Peorth.
“It’s been…….. so long, how long do we have to keep going? The worst part is I forgot my fathers face.” Taylor said as their backs were still turned against them. 

“Yeah… I can’t even remember my parents’ faces either…” Greg stated, letting out a sigh of frustration. “Taylor and I have talked about this for years. We’re bored of our training.” He said while putting his mace on his back and Taylor sheathed her sword on her hips.

“What?! But you can’t!” Peorth said in shock and worry. “The Great Cataclysm will start anytime and if you stop, it’ll hinder your martial arts!” She said in worry. 

“We know, we’re not gonna stop.” Greg said to her. “We’re gonna train……… but in other aspects as well. Taylor and I will go our separate ways, we need to find what we’re good at.” 

“I want to see if Urd can teach me potions,” Taylor stated, smiling at Urd. “Just because we can’t use Mana, doesn’t mean I couldn’t learn to brew items that do have mana in them. And it sounds like fun, I always did well in chemistry class. Maybe even Alchemy as well.”

“I’m gonna learn blacksmithing, butchering and engineering. I did say I wanted to become an electric engineer.” Greg said to Peorth. “Maybe if you could stick around, you can teach me what you have in mind Peorth.”

Peorth and Urd were stunned a bit before smiling, seeing how it hadn't broken Greg and Taylor. Their resolve didn’t crumble and their mentality is still strong. 

“It would be nice to teach someone, other than my sisters, I can teach you a trick or two on potion making. And some Alchemy thrown in as well." Urd said to Taylor.

“It would be nice to have a student. We just have to see what you're good at.” Peorth said to Greg.

Later

Both Taylor and Greg stood at the mountain with Urd and Peorth, looking at the sun before them.

“Well, this is goodbye for now Taylor.” Greg said to her. “I hope you learn a lot from Urd.”

“You as well Greg, and to be honest, I’m gonna miss you……….. a lot.” Taylor said to Greg.

Over the past years their relationship developed as it slowly turned from companions to friends, best friends, and soon boyfriend and girlfriends. Greg admitted he had a crush on her and was too scared to confess. Though a lot of beating of Peorth helped him get through his insecurity and confess to Taylor, she accepted his feelings.

“Where’re you gonna go first?” Taylor asked Greg.

“I’m gonna go to Canada first. How about you?” Greg asked his girlfriend. 

“Honestly… I think China. I don’t have to worry about the Chinese Conformants and I’ve always wanted to see the architecture and history of China. Plus, I could find remedies there that could go well with potions in the future.” She answered, smiling. “Besides, I’ve always wanted to walk the Great Wall, well what’s there that is.”

Greg grinned. “So, your own ’Journey to the West’ huh~?”

Taylor playfully smacked him as they both laughed.

“Well, I hate saying goodbyes, I guess I’ll see you later. Hope you find what you're looking for.” Greg said to Taylor.

“You as well Greg.” She smiled and pecked his lips. “Just bring something special for me~.”

“I will Taylor.” Greg said with a smile.

They turned around and began walking their separate ways.

Timeskip - 30 years

Several More Decades had passed by the four. In that time, they traveled the world to see the sights and read up on the teachings of the skills they wanted to learn. They had both become proficient in their skills; Potions, Alchemy, Hunting and Scavenging (to look for the items needed for her Potions and Alchemy) for Taylor and Blacksmithing, Butchering and Engineering for Greg. Urd and Peorth were impressed by their quick understanding of the skills.

“You know, you didn’t tell me much about yourself.” Greg said to Urd while hammering on a hot rod. 

“Oh what makes you say that~?” Peorth mischievously asked while floating near him.

“I’ve spent the last decades just training and engineering. I barely know much about yourself.” Greg said to her. “In fact, why do you call yourselves Goddess?” 

“Because that’s what I am dear,” Peorth stated, sounding like she was teaching a preschooler the difference between an adult and a kid. “Why? What do you think I am?”

“Well, with the wings, I would say an angel most likely.”

“Well I do have an angel connected to my soul,” Peorth stated, summoning her angel, Gorgeous Rose, from her back. Gorgeous Rose was a blond Angle who was practically naked, with rose vines covering her body. This made Greg blush Neon Red. “They are a sign of our powers, as well as aid in the casting of powerful and complex spells, and being a companion to us goddesses.”

“... Why does she only have Rose Vine covering her…?” Greg asked, looking away, not wanting to have Taylor kill him for looking at another woman.

“Angles match our personalities and show who we really are.”

“... So are you an exabisin-?”

BAM!

Greg was cut off, due to being on the ground with a lump on his head, courtesy of the smoking fist of Peorth. “I am not like that!”

With Taylor, she was now in Egypt in her own makeshift lab, when she got a strange feeling through her. “... For some reason I want to hurt both Peorth and Greg, and I don’t know why.”

“Maybe they did something naugh-~”

BONK!

Urd was holding her head, due to the beaker Taylor threw at her head. Urd groaned in pain. “What was that for!?”

Taylor stayed silent for a moment before turning back to her studies, though she had a question on her mind, remembering something that Urd used to say before. 

“You said you had sisters right?”

“Hm? Oh that's correct, yes I have, two sisters in fact.” Urd answered to Taylor. “I’m the eldest, Belldandy is the middle child and a younger sister who’s still learning to become a goddess Skuld.”

“Wow, two sisters? That must be really nice.” Taylor said to Urd. “I was an only child. Sometimes it gets too lonely when it's just me and my dad.”

“Oh don’t be like that! That lover of yours will surely keep you company! Oh I can see how affectionate he is towards you, just like my sister who’s married to a lucky man.”

“Your sister’s married?” Taylor asked in surprise. 

“Yep, your Boyfriend Reminds me a lot of him actually, Dorky and Geeky in the things he likes. Only differences, one’s a Gearhead, the other a Super Powers Conspiracy Nut. … Well sense he’s been training in machines, they both would be Gearheads now.”

“Oh that's nice, wonder if I get the chance to meet them.”

“Well it won’t be anytime soon, they're in another dimension in which you already know the multiverse exists.”

“Well it's not common, we call them Earth different parts like this one is Earth Bet and the other is a world where steampunk and victorian era exist.” (Dark: Fun fact, it's actually confirmed that there are many other Earths out there, so far they discovered there are 47 Earths and yet is still more yet to discover, though not overly complicated like Marvel and DC comics multiverses. Light/Xara: True… Though how do you think they’d handle the Gurren Logan Universe, and the crazy things they can do as well as the Aint-Spiral? Dark: Dude, this is Worm, it can be literally anything with all across the multiverse, anything is possible even with what you said, like Example, one of the Worm Earth is like Gurren Logan. Light/Xara: (Shruggs) Fair enough. )

“Huh, that’s actually impressive for your world, I’ll give you that.” Urd stated, actually impressed. “Still it's nice that my sister has found happiness. They’ve been through a lot, no jokes. Her husband even risked his entire existence if his heart wasn’t true to her. (Dark: If you know the old movie Ah My Goddess, it was simply pure brilliant and I loved it. He went willingly across the gate that is a test if the heart has no doubts within to be with Bellandy and he succeeded. It was simply pure brilliance (Wipes a tear). Light/Xara: Saw it. That is one of the reasons I love the series. I still need to get the Manga, but I’ve seen the Whole Series, and even the OVA series as well. )”

“He did?” Taylor said with amazement. “That's……. actually amazing.”

“Yeah, it is………..” Urd sighs while floating with her hands behind her head. 

“Whats wrong?”

“......... My sister is happy, I should be happy for her but, the truth is I want to know what it's like to be like her, with a man she’ll spend an eternity with.” Urd sighs. “It gets lonely. Bellandy has her happiness while for me, I’m still trying to look for it.” 

Taylor seemed surprised. “Really? You seem like you would have a boyfriend. Or girlfriend if you like them.”

“Oh~ Are you coming on to me~?” Urd asked teasingly.

“Don’t make me hit you with another beaker…” Taylor warned. “And I have a boyfriend.” 

“Hehe, no worries young lady-”

BAM!

“I’m not young, I’m still a girl.” Taylor said to Urd as Urd was pummeled to the ground with only her legs visible. 

“If this is how Keiichi felt when he went through this type of thing, I think I can understand his pain.” Urd said while groaning in pain.

Back with Greg…

“Bellandy is cozying up with her damn human lover while I’m stuck being single for the rest of my life! She was supposed to be an immortal goddess yet she beat me with love!” Peorth angrily said while biting on her napkin. “I’m the most attractive Goddess there is and yet they all think Belldandy is better than me!”

“Sounds like she has something you don’t have.”

“Whats that?”

“Not being a bitch.”

BAM!

Greg was knocked to a bed of water with Peorth fist smoking. “How you charmed Taylor with how you are… I’ll never know….” Peorth stated, with her eyebrow twitching in anger from his comment.

“... More likely ‘cause she isn’t always a prideful woman or constantly boosting herself all the time.” Greg said to her before getting off the water, his head wet. 

“How about I stick this hot rod and shove it up onto your butt.” Peorth threatened while holding up the hot rod.

“.... I’ll keep my mouth shut for now.” Greg said to Peorth. “Maybe I can meet the guy, Keiichi was it? He seems like a good guy.”

“How about focusing more on your engineering and less about meeting someone.” 

Timeskip - 30 years

They’ve gone all across the world, Greg and Taylor visited everywhere in the world, China, Sweden, Africa, Russia, Australia, United Kingdom everywhere. They learned every language there is and trained while also studying. 

Greg has created countless weapons, swords, spears, lances, knives, staffs, every type of weapons, mastered blacksmithing where to the point everything he created is simply flawless. Mastering butchering where skinning and flaying skins is simply like a second nature where he can skin and butcher. Engineering, he’s created countless machinery that he even created an underground lair beneath Brockton Bay where his cave is similar to the batcave in DC comics. 

Taylor on the other hand had learned to brew and make potions that could mimic actual spells Mana uses could do, from fire, water, earth, air, lightning, gravity, and so on and so forth. She could even hunt like a master and find the weak points of any creature with ease, and know how to pick plants that were edible and which would be good for potions. As for her alchemy, she could use her Ki to shape matter like that one anime Greg showed her, Fullmetal Alchemist, to create construct with a circle, she could even use her bugs to make the circles to make it easier and use the Ki of the earth to do something like Alchhistory form the show. She would treasurer the pout on Greg's face when she showed him that. And like Greg, she created an area for herself to work in, using one of the old dock warehouses, but Greg called it a Sanctum Sanctorum from Marvel. He even teased her, calling her the Sorceress Supreme.

“Come on! What are you waiting for?” Peorth said to Greg.
“I’m not ready.” Greg said, while in an expression he never wore for the last 70 years. 

Worried and nervous.

“Oh come on! We’ve spent the last 15 years and you're backing down now? Where’s that attitude of yours that is filled with confidence?” Peorth asked with a smile. 

“.... Did you forget how you nearly tricked me into believing it was Taylor when it was you?” Greg asked Peorth with a deadpanned expression.

“Hehehe~. Using the real deal does help out a lot, hubby~.” She said while hugging him. 

“How am I supposed to tell Taylor?” Greg lifted a ring that he crafted which had a diamond on it. “That you and Urd want to be my girlfriend as well.” He said to her.

Yes, Greg was planning on asking Taylor if she wanted to marry him. Peorth devised a plan with Urd to help Greg propose to Taylor. Urd used a magical illusion to disguise Peorth as Taylor. Greg fell for it, not thinking that it was Peorth. He told her his deepest wishes and desire, saying a lot of heartfelt things, even confessing that he also liked Peorth and Urd, not ‘cause they helped him but also stayed by his and Taylor's side for this long. He would’ve gone crazy without them in fact being along this long. Peorth dissolved the illusion, with both Urd and Peorth glomping on Greg all of a sudden when he saw the illusion was lifted and nearly had a heart attack. Greg was horrified and scared though assured him. 

They spent the last 15 years rehearsing while trying to find ways to tell Taylor about this. Taylor did say she wanted more sisters. 

“There she is!” Peorth said that Taylor and Urd were approaching them at the Brockton Bay baseball field. 

“Crap! I can’t do thi-”

“Do you want me to tell her? It’ll ruin the surprise you’ve built for the last 15 years.” 

“..... Fuck it alright.” Greg said with a sigh. 

With Taylor, she was fidgeting. “Should I really tell him, Urd? I mean… What if he doesn’t like the idea of-?”

“Upapapapa,” Urd shushed her by putting a finger on her lips. “If he truly loves you, he’ll love every part of you. No matter what you tell him. He loves you for you.”

“But what if he turns on me like my best friend did…? What if he doesn’t like the idea… What if-?”

Urd hushed her again. “What if he’ll accept you for who you are, and love you no matter what? Don’t be in your head about this Taylor.” She then hid in one of the players mounds. “Also, he’s walking up to you right now. Remember, your a Queen Bee, be confident and sure of yourself~”

Taylor just groaned and turned around to see Greg, trying to be sure of himself, but Taylor could tell he was nervous under it all.

“Hey Taylor!”

“Greg! It's been a while.”
“Ten years to be exact.” Greg said, smiling to his girlfriend. “How’s your training? Did you manage to make a breakthrough?” 

“Yes, quite a few,” Taylor answered, smiling back. “What about you?”

“Same,” Greg answered. He then took a deep breath, steading himself for what he had to say. ‘No use beating around the bush.’ He thought. “Taylor, there’s something I want to ask you.”

Taylor looked curious at what it could be. “What is it?”

“Well first, I want to say, well……………… I…………..” Greg was too nervous and hesitant to say considering what he’ll say to Taylor, mad, crazy, heartbroken or rip him to pieces. 

“Come on Greg. Are you gonna keep her waiting this long?” Peorth said to Greg, irritated. 

“What’s she talking about Greg?” Taylor asked her boyfriend in confusion. 

“.................... Peorth and Urd want to be my girlfriends as well.” In the end Greg blurted it out. 

“....... What?” Taylor said to Greg, eyes widening. 

“Yeah, it was sort of an accident. I sorta develop some feelings for them as well. To be honest, I wouldn’t have gone this far if not for the two Goddesses.”

“Ahhhh you flatter us hubby~.” 

“Wait…” She turned her head to the two goddesses who gave her a cheeky smile. “... You knew about this… and didn’t tell me…!?” she asked, getting irritated, and the two Goddesses snicker.

Greg was totally lost. “Wait… am I missing something here?”

Taylor let out a frustrated sigh. “I was… worried about telling you… but… I might have also gotten a crush on those two as well… But I wasn’t sure on your stance on Same Sex Coulples…”

Greg’s jaw dropped. “When did this happen? I… heard you were straight.”

“Well, it started as an off-handed comment from Urd, saying I was coming on to her. And well… It’s only been us four for the last several decades. And… I was grateful for them to help me become who I was today… and are actually happy to be around me… I guess… I became slightly Bi over the course of time without realising. But I’m still more towards men, but wouldn’t be opposed to dating girls.”

“... You know what, fair enough. I have no problems.”

“Though it would be nice to have more sisters.” Taylor admitted to Greg. She then grumbled to herself, “I did lose one to that bitch Sophia Hess.”

Urd and Peorth happily grabbed Taylor’s arms with their own, smiling at her when they did so. “We wouldn’t mind being your honorary sister then~” Urd stated.

“Yep~ You’re stuck with us~” Peorth stated, hip checking Taylor playfully.

“And there’s another thing.” Greg hesitantly said to Taylor. “Taylor……………. These past years we’ve been together, it's been the happiest time of my life. I don’t know when everyone will even come back. We might be immortals and who knows if it would be another thousand years. So……………. I want to ask………..”

“What is it Greg?”

“............ Taylor Hebert." He said her name, slowly reaching his pocket and taking out a box, slowly was about to get onto his knees, and making Taylor's eyes widen in joy, as she covered her mouth. “Would you………..marr-”

[BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! SYSTEM PROCESSING!]

“Gahhh! What the?!” Greg jumped in surprise when they heard a sudden beeping noise. 

“What in the world?!” Taylor also jumped in surprise. “Whats going on?”

“Is that? It couldn’t be!” Urd shouted, eyes widening in shock.

“They chose now of all times!?” Peorth shouted in annoyance.

[SYSTEM ONLINE, PROCESSING UNIT. EARTH EVOLUTION COMPLETE. TIME DESIGNATED REACHED]

“No, not now!”

“Peorth! What's happening?” Greg asked in worry and confusion. 

“The system YGGDRASIL is reacting now! If its activated then that means-”

WHOOSH!

Two beams of light suddenly enveloped Peorth and Urd. 

[GODDESS LOCATED. LEVEL ONE GODDESS URD. LEVEL TWO GODDESS PEORTH. TRANSPORTING TO HEAVEN. OBJECTIVE COMPLETE]

“What the hell!” Greg shouted in surprise. “No! This can’t be happening!”

“I’m sorry Greg.” Peorth sadly said to her hubby. “If YGGDRASIL is reacting, that means that ten years in the other world has passed.”

“Which means that everyone is coming back.” Urd said to them, sadly smiling as they floated above the light pillar. “We have to go back now.” 

“But we just promised to be together!” Taylor shouted. “Why does the Universe have to do this now!? I just got my two new sisters!”

“I’m sorry Taylor.” Urd said while smiling as tears fell from her eyes. 

“No, not like this! It's too soon!” Greg shouted.

BAM!

Slamming his hand on the ground causing crack to spread across the field. 

“Don’t worry, if there is a chance, we’ll meet again hubby.” Peorth said to Greg, smiling sadly at him and Taylor.

“If it takes another thousand years, I'll wait! I’ll wait for the both of you!” Greg declared to Peorth and Urd. “If I have to wait a thousand years! No matter what!” 

“Same! We’ll both wait for you!” Taylor agreed, sorrow in her eyes, but had a determined look on her face. “No matter what, we’ll see each other, no matter what!”

Peorth and Urd smiled at them as they slowly disappeared into molecules of light. 

“I’ll wait for you as well Greg, Taylor.”

“Goodbye for now. I’ll be waiting.”

WHOOSH!

[GODDESS RETRIEVED. SYSTEM PROCESSING.]

[AKASHIC ACCESS GRANTED]

[RECORDS INITIATED]

[PIECES OF SYSTEMS GRANTED TOWARDS HUMANITY.]

[ETERNAL DARKNESS ADMIN ACCESS REQUEST SENT……………….. GRANTED. ETERNAL LIGHT ADMIN ACCESS…………. GRANTED]

[RESTORING EARTH TO HOW IT WAS COMENCING.]

Greg and Taylor saw that the Earth was glowing. Damages that had been done while they were training were being fixed right before their eyes.

Just then, Greg and Taylor were suddenly transported and teleported to Winslow Highschool. To much of their surprise, soon people began to appear. Slowly projecting before manifesting itself. 

“That was trippy…” Greg stated, holding himself up by the wall.

Taylor looked nauseous after the teleport, her face looking green. “Tell me about it…” Taylor then shook her head to clear it.

After a minute to get themselves reorganized and their senses, screens started to appear in front of everyone, including Greg and Taylor.

“Whoa,” one student said in awe. “So it really did happen, it wasn’t a fever dream from a parahuman power.”

“Dude, I think everyone on the planet can be considered a parahuman now,” another student stated.

“It's still crazy to think that new threats are coming,” a female student said. “I thought the Endbringers were trouble.”

Taylor and Greg just barely listened to their chatter and looked at their screens.

{Greg Veder

Human, Blacksmith, LV MAX

—------------------------------------

Title | Conspiracy Nut

(Passive Investigation)

Strength [75] | Dexterity [70]

HP [85] | Mana [1]

[Active Skill ~ Investigator

LV MAX (Can Be Evolved)

(Materials are needed for

skill evolution)

[Passive Skill ~ Can’t

Be Estimated]

[Passive Skill ~ Power

Of Deduction]

—------------------------------------

[Received bonuses for having fallen behind.

Bonuses have been allocated.]

[Every time you level up,

you'll grow by 5 status.]

—------------------------------------

[Guild Affiliation | N/A]}

{Taylor Anne Hebert

Human/Parahuman, Alchemist/Potion Maker, LV MAX

—------------------------------------

Title |/ Queen Bee

(Passive Leadership)

Strength [70] | Dexterity [85]

HP [75] | Mana [5]

[Active Skill ~ Insect Queen

LV MAX (Can Be Evolved)]

(Materials are needed for

skill evolution)

[Passive Skill ~ Can’t

Be Estimated]

[Passive Skill ~ Hive

Mind]

—------------------------------------

[Received bonuses for having fallen behind.

Bonuses have been allocated.]

[Every time you level up,

you'll grow by 5 status.]

—------------------------------------

[Guild Affiliation | N/A]}

“Status window?” Taylor asked in confusion. “Is this some sort of new skill or something?” 

[Ding! New message sent by the Moderators of YGGDRASIL]

[To Greg and Taylor.

The Almighty and his two associates wanted to give humanity a chance against the Great Catalysm which humans might need an edge over what's coming so he along with him and the worlds will consciously create the system for humanity. Giving them a chance to survive the Great Cataclysm]

“So basic Fantasy RPG system powers to help us level up and gain more power through EXP,” Greg simplified for Taylor.

“I’m so glad you’re here to help me with this sort of thing,” Taylor said kindly and thankfully to her boyfriend.

“We’re finally back! After ten years!”

“Feels like forever!”

“Wait a minute, all my stats have been reseted!”

“Ah man!”

“Well it did say it would revert back to our original considering we spent ten years in tutorial.” 

“Fuck I worked so hard for those stats!” 

Greg and Taylor listened to them.

“... Does that mean we’ve lost all our hard work as well…?” Taylor asked, looking annoyed as her eye twitched. “All those decades of training and we’re only at our start again…?”

[Ding! New message sent by the Moderators of YGGDRASIL]

[To Greg and Taylor.

The Almighty and his two associates have seen it fit to allow you to keep your Jobs you had while trapped on Earth for almost a century as reconciliation. As well as Taylor keeping her ‘traits’.]

Taylor's eyes widened and looked down to see that she still had the figure Urd and Peoth gave her, and weeped tears of joy. “Thank you…~!”

“Hey nerd!”

Both Greg and Taylor stopped when they heard a voice they forgot but somehow remembered.

Taylor’s good mood evaporated, and anger started to rise. Greg kept his stoic expression.

Turning around to see the trio of bullies, Madison, Emma, and Sophia. 

“So you're here as well. How was your trip to the other world? I couldn’t find you anywhere, oh wait. Maybe it's probably because you hid like a worthless insect you are.” Emma said mockingly to Taylor. 

“.....What do you want?” Taylor asked Emma, not giving her any expression. 

“What? Care not to greet each other after ten years? What have you been doing besides hiding in the dark.” Emma said to Taylor. 

“What she does is none of your concern Barnes.” Greg said to her. 

“Ohhh! Look who’s here! The wimpy weak ass shorty!” Sophia said to Greg. “Trying to act tough now are we?” 

“At least he isn’t a traitor that sells out their friends to become wannabe Queen Bees,” Taylor shot back, the lessons Urd and Peorth taught her and building her backbone showing, and glaring at Emma like a Queen to a peasant. “You can’t buy him over like you did my ex-sister.”

Sophia actually looked pissed hearing the ‘weakling’ talk back to her like she was beneath her. “Oh, and the Locker Girl doesn’t seem to know her place in the pecking order after ten years apart.”

“At least I’m not someone who wasn’t thrown out by their own parents.”

“?! What did you say to me, Vader?” Sophia asked in a low tone, turning to look at Greg like prey.

“You think I was stupid? I actually did a little research about you, Sophia; daughter of Harrison Hess the journalist and Ricken a well known businessman. What did you do that made your parents throw you out, a highest prestige family only to be discarded like cockroaches.” 

“Now Greg, don’t be too rude, you’d be insulting cockroaches everywhere comparing her to them,” Taylor said, trying to keep her lips from turning up and keeping her dignified front.

Sophia looked like she was about to lunge at the two like a pissed off beast.

“Then again, cockroaches are easy to dispose of.”

“THATS IT! YOUR FUCKING DEAD VADE-!”

BOOM!

THUD!

Just when Sophia was about to jump at Greg, sweeping a punch at her, causing her to crash at a school wall as other students were surprised and shocked. 

Turning to Emma and Madison as they stepped a couple of steps away from him and Taylor. 

“I’ll say this once, we’re not the same as we were back then. You try anything, well you already know the answer.” Greg said to them. 

Madison and Emma turned from looking from where Sophia and stared at Taylor and Greg in shock. These weren’t the Mousy Pushover and the Crazy Conspiracy Nut that they were before.

Turning around before walking away from them with Taylor following him. 

The two found a secluded section of the school so they could talk in private. “So… How pissed do you think Sophia is after that stunt we pulled on her?”

“On the count of her usual attitude, I’d say close to erupting to a volcano.” Greg said to Taylor. “Listen, I’m gonna head home now. I’ll see you tomorrow when we’re back in school.”

“Yeah, I hope my dad’s there.” Taylor said to her boyfriend. “I want to see if he’s okay after all of this.”

“Same, I want to make sure mom and dad are fine,” Greg admitted.

The two started to leave, but Taylor remembered something and turned around to ask. “Oh, Greg, you wanted to ask me something before we got teleported back. What was it?”

Greg halted, his eyes widening as he nearly forgot after everything that happened. “Oh, oh right.” Greg looked sheepish. “Uhhhhhh, I think I’ll tell you later Taylor. Bye!” He said before quickly walking ahead. 

Up in heaven, two goddesses felt an annoyance for some reason.

Back with Taylor, she just let out a sigh and started walking back home to see her dad after all these years.

Vader Residence - Half an Hour later

Greg had finally made it back to his home, sighing at himself for chickening out… again. ‘I have a feeling Urd and Peorth are annoyed at me for that…’ he thought to himself, just imagining the two’s annoyed faces in his head.

RING! 

RING!

RING!

“Hmmmm?” He got confused for a bit before looking at his phone. It was his mother who was calling him. He quickly answered the call. “Mom. Man, it's good to hear from you after so long.”

“Greg! It really is you! I’m so happy!”

“I’m alright mom, I’m just………recovering for now.”

“Greg dear, I’m so sorry that your father and I couldn’t be with you for the last ten years. We’ve tried to find you for ten years but we couldn’t find you.”

“Yeah uhhhhh, you know how that world is.” Greg said while quickly coming up with an excuse, not exactly telling her he was stuck on Earth for a VERY long time. 

“Greg, I know we haven’t been with you for a while but this, it's no excuse for us.”
Hearing his father speaking to him while sighing. 

“I don’t think we should be separated for this long.”

“Greg, your father and I have talked about this for a very long time.”

“What are you guys talking about?”

“We’re coming back Greg.” 

“R-Really?” Greg said while surprised. The last time he saw his parents was two years ago when they left for their business and couldn’t take him. It was how he learned how to take care of himself. His parents were big shots and he didn’t even need to worry about money ‘cause they were loaded. “But what about your business?”

“We are going to speak with our managers and shareholders we’re moving to Brockton Bay.”

“I………see.”

“This time, we’re not gonna be separated anymore Greg. We’ve spent too long without seeing each other. I always regret leaving you behind because of work but I’m not gonna make that mistake again.” 

“We’re coming home Greg, and we’re gonna be a family this time.”

“...........Thanks mom and dad.” Greg said, a smile forming on his face.

“By the way, did you get yourself a girlfriend while training in the other world?” His father asked, with a slapping sound coming over the line.

“DAD!” Greg shouted, face blushing.

“Sorry about your father dear, he just wants to embarrass you.”

“... Weeeeeeeeell…” Greg said, trailing off.

“Oh my goodness you did?! That's amazing! You gotta tell us who she is!”

“Now now honey. We gotta keep moving, remember? The moving company is gonna be here in a minute.”

“Drat, Greg honey, be sure to tell us who she is!”

“....I will mom.”

“Bye sweetheart!”

“We’ll be home soon.” 

CLICK!

Hanging up, Greg sighs while walking to his room. 

As he did, to his surprise and astonishment, the mechanical door was still there. The one he built. 

“What? Is it still here?” Greg muttered in confusion. Widening his eyes in surprise. “Didn’t Urd and Peolth say that the world would reset to the way it was before?” He asked in confusion

[Ding! New message sent by the Moderators of YGGDRASIL]

[To Greg;

The Almighty and his two associates saw fit to allow you to keep your workshop as well as Taylor’s as compensation for how long you two were trapped on Earth and being missed on training.]

“... Urd and Poerth must have put in a good word for us…” Greg muttered in surprise. “Wonder how Taylor’s taking all of this.” He said before entering his lair as it automatically opened and closed behind him.

Underground

Greg soon reaches the underground. His various lairs he’s created countless years. It looked like a combination of the Batcave and the fortress of solitude but combined with Tony Stark's lab. 

WHOOSH!

Turns around to see someone else has entered. There Taylor exited out of the door. 

“Wow, it's still here.” Taylor said with amazement. 

“Yeah, same here. I thought it was gonna disappear like the others, but apparently it seems like they haven’t removed it.” He said to Taylor. 

“I’m not complaining,” Taylor stated, smiling. “Gives us a place to do our work.”

“Yeah……..though I’m gonna miss them.” Greg said with a bit of a sad expression.

“Me too Greg.”

“Would you quit your simping already? It's making me hurl!”

“Can it, will you?”

“AH! WHAT THE?!” Greg shouted in surprise when he and Taylor heard someone speaking.

Suddenly a light pillar manifested above them. Greg squinted his eyes and had a hard time looking at all the brightness though what he could make out was that someone was descending down.

“Is that…………… panties?”

THUD!

BAM!

Greg felt like something slammed onto him. Covering his view.
“Oh my, bold aren’t we?” An unfamiliar voice spoke above him. 

“Hey! Get off him!” Taylor’s voice shouted at the other voice.

“Huh, what's going on?” Greg asked in confusion before opening his eyes and the first thing he sees is purple/blue panties in front of him. “GAAAAHHH!” He shouted in embarrassment and shock with his face turning red.

“If you keep moving like that I might actually feel better~. How about moving your tongue a bit more. Just right between-”

WHOOSH!

Immediately, Greg lifted the girl off of him and dashed away with a red face. 

“You're no fun~.” A girl said with a pout.

“Get your eyes off of him! If Urd and Peorth think he’s good enough for both of them I call dibs!” Another shouted to her. 

Greg and Taylor got a full look at who it was. 

A blonde girl with a slender body with pale, pinkish skin and wore a red dress with red high heels and earrings, along with red lipstick. 

The other is of moderate height and buxom figure compared to the other girl's slightly slimmer figure. She has pale skin and long dark-blue hair with a pink underside and reaching knee length styled in a hime-cut and some pink stripes on the bangs. She has a blue bow adorned at the back of her hair. She wore more gothic clothes than the other girl. ( Light/Xara: (Chocks and grabs his screen in shock) What the hell are THOSE TWO doing here!? (Groans and Facepalms) Oh… I just KNOW my work load is going to be tremendous now… (Pinches the bridge of his nose in irritation and frustration, and trying not to cry from the last mountains of paperwork those two caused) Dark: (Spits out Coke and looks closely to the screen) Oh no, no not those two! Who was it?! Who hired them! )

“Oh wow. I never knew you were such a hunk~.” The blond girl said with a seductive look, getting too close to Greg. “Say, how good are you with those muscle big guy?”

“Uhhhhhh.”

“How about we give it a test in the other room. We can put those hard muscle fibers to the test-”

BAM!

“.......Ow.” The blond girl had a bump above her forehead while she was hit to the ground by Taylor who’s fist was smoking. 

“I’m gonna say this once. Who the fuck are you two?” 

“Don’t get your panties in a twist girl.” The blond girl said, standing up while rubbing her head. “We’ve been dispatched from the Heavens from the orders of the higher ups.”

“From the heavens? Wait, are you………..goddess?”

“Close but no.” The other girl said. “My name is Stocking and the girl who tried to have sex with you is my sister Panty’s.”

“And we’re here to help you get used to Mana!” Panty said with a peace sign smiling. “So count yourself lucky!”

“.....Panty and Stockings?” Greg asked with a raised eyebrow. 

“... Why are you two named after women’s garments….?” Taylor asked in disbelief.

“Hey! Got a problem with that?” Panty questioned Taylor with an annoyed expression.

“Yes I do. Your sister said you tried to have sex with my boyfriend.” Taylor said with an angry expression, her eye twitching in annoyance with this so-called angle. 

“So what? He’s ripe for taking! I mean look at him! Tell me if you hadn’t slapped that meat of his? I bet he might be one of those studs who’s size is like a forearm.”

“How are you two angels? You’re supposed to be pure and virtuous.” Taylor asked in scandalous and mad. 

“So what if we are?” 

“And they sent you two to train us in our mana? … Can we get a refund? Or two different angles at least?” Taylor asked, making a tickmark appear on Panty’s head.

“What’d you say you flat chested girl?!”
“Excuse me?! I’ll have you know Urd and Peorth changed that!” 

At this point, sparks were flying between the two girls, both growling at each other.

Greg sweat drops at both of them. 

“You can ignore my sister for that. She is different from the other angels.” Stocking said to Greg while watching her sister and Taylor clash.

“She’s the opposite of what I imagined angels looked like, then again the Simurgh is less angel but more different.” Greg said to Stocking.

“Trust me, there is a lot you don’t know about angels.” Stocking said to Greg.

“I guess so………. and could you please stop rubbing your hands on me?” Greg said while trying to keep himself composed when he felt Stocking’s hands were about his six packs.

“Wow, those are really rock hard. You trained a lot.” Stocking said while smiling.

“You're not that much different from your sister……… and can you please stop. You're getting too close down there.”

[Ding! Detecting malicious cardinal sin!]

BZZTT!

“OW!”

“GAAAAAHHH!”

“YAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!’

Stocking and Panty both screamed as sudden electrical shock both of them and Greg as well when he was being unceremoniously groped by Stocking. 

“AAhhh dammit! Not even here?!” Panty shouted in frustration. 

“Tch, I was so close.” Stocking ticked her tongue in annoyance as Greg was charred black. 

“..... You’ve both been sent here for another reason haven’t you?” Taylor asked in suspicion. Narrowing her eyes.

“...........Fine you caught us. We’re kicked out of heaven.” Panty admitted to Taylor. 

“I knew it! You couldn’t be angels!”

“We are!” Panty shouted to Taylor. “Those damn idiots kicked us out for bad behaviors all because we can’t have fun with the others! Do you know how boring it gets staying up there and doing nothing but watch and observe?”

“What my sister means is that we have committed some bad behaviors and sins that heaven would’ve marked us as fallen angels if not we hadn’t chosen to help the two of you.” Stocking said to Taylor. 

“You two got kicked out of heaven for being sinful… how shocking is that…” Taylor said in the flattest, most deadpan voice ever known. “And why should we help you after you two tried to molest my boyfriend?”

“It's either that or perform a thousand years of purity where we have to literally keep ourselves pure and untainted, which is like being a nun for the rest of your life. Just serving God until thats it which is fucking boring and torture than Hell!” 

“... Again… How are you two angels and now devils/succubus…?” Taylor asked flatly.

“Will you stop it!” Panty roared at her, annoyed.

“I’m sorry, I already have to deal with one bully-bitch-friend-stealer already, I don’t need another trying to do that with my boyfriend,” Taylor stated, glaring at her, and jabbing her finger in Panty’s chest.

Panty growled under her breath before sighing. “Look, not much of a choice here. If we help you two, we go back to heaven.”

“... And why help us, not something else like demon extermination or something?” Taylor asked. “That would count as virtuous. Why choose us, and be honest.”

“....Urd and Peorth asked us to help you guys-”

““Bullshit.”” Both Taylor and Greg said to Panty.

“Hey! It's true! They were worried about you! Heaven wasn’t gonna send anyone to help the two of you ‘cause of the YGGDRASIL System!” Panty shouted at them.

“We were gonna be kicked out and stripped of our angel powers but they offered the higher ups a deal. If we help you two to learn mana, heaven would welcome us back.” She said while slowly getting close to Greg as she was about to grope him again, had not Taylor slapped her hand. 

“And don’t you wanna see them again~?” Panty said with a lustrous smile. 

“What?” Greg widens his eyes in surprise.

“Yup! We’re angels! If you help us then we'll be in touch with the higher ups to allow you two to meet with the two goddesses." Panty said while smiling, sliding to Greg. “How about it? You get to see Urd and Peorth again in heaven?” 

“... Can you actually do that?” Greg asked, both he and Taylor were surprised at that.

“Of course! Like I said, we’re angels. If you help us then we’ll convince the Almighty to let you see them.” 

“... Give me and Taylor a minute to talk this over,” Greg stated, as he grabbed his girlfriend and take them to a corner to huddle and whisper to each other in private.

“Do you think that they’re telling the truth or just trying to make us help them with a false promise?” Taylor asked in a whisper only he could hear, a bit sceptical on the deal.

“Maybe, but maybe they are telling the truth and we might be able to work our way to heaven,” Greg stated, whispering as well. “I know you have trust issues, Tay, but we should give them, at least, the benefit of the doubt.”

Taylor was quiet for a moment to think of the pros and cons of this deal. After almost a minute, she let out a sigh. “Fine, we’ll go along with this, but I get to kick their asses if they double cross us, you got it?”

Greg shrugged. “Fair enough.”

The two broke from their huddle and turned back to the two sinful angels.

“Alright, what's the plan?” Taylor asked them.

“YES!” 

WHOOSH!

BAM!

“OFFF!”

When Panty was just about to jump at Greg, Taylor punched the angel's face that she slammed to the wall. 

“... Really Panty…?” Stocking asked her sister with a sweatdrop. “Can you not try and make this more difficult for us…? We’re on thin ice as it is, with both heaven and these two…”

Panty’s response was this. “Yes… I’d be happy to please you…” She was completely out of it. And, was it Taylor and Greg’s imagination or did her eyes look like swirls?

To Be Continued…

AN:

Ok, what the fuck? Who, and I mean in every living heaven and hell, INVITED THOSE SLUT ANGELS?!

Light/Xara: I don’t know. I’m looking it up. I was pretty sure they’d send that Love Craze Angle… (Snaps fingers to try and remember) What was her name again…? Was sent to hell for saying angels and demons should learn to love each other. I think she wears what looks like a red bunny suit…

I have no clue either. But back to what I was saying, whose bright idea was it? If their down there then who knows who they’ll fuck or screw with, literally! 

Light/Xara: Hey, I’m trying. It’s not like Skuld would have been- (Stops and deadpans) … Oh you have got to be kidding me… (Shows who it was to Dark) It turns out it was Skuld because they messed up her Debugging Progress… You know how pissed she gets when some idiot does that…

Oh you got to be kidding me! Does she not know who they are?! I’m pretty sure as well we didn’t approve- ................. Hold on a second.

Light/Xara: What?

Roll the clip!

In Heaven during Earth’s Evolution

“Alright we got everyone from Earth. They have been transported to other worlds to be prepared for the Great Catalysm. Begin the process.” A dark mist being said to one of the angels with Red glowing eyes.

“Yes sir!” One of the angels said before heading towards the terminal. 

“Everything good on your side, Light?” Dark asked his companion.

“Good as can be.” Light stated. “Got a 99.99999999999999999999% chance of everyone on Earth being teleported.”

“Not 100%?” Xara asked, poking his head from the monitor he was working at. “What about that 0.00000000000000000001% we miss someone?”

“I mean, I’ve tried to get it to 100%, but it keeps adding another .9 at the end. I think this is the best we're getting.” Light answered, then turned to Dark. “This is fine, right Dark?”

“Hold on a second.” His red eyes narrowed before a screen projected before him. “I checked Earth Bet, there shouldn’t be anyone there and yet why do I sense two humans there?”

“... WHAT!?” both shouted, looking at their monitors, as well as everyone else. Like Dark said, there were still two people on Earth Bet.

Dark turns to the angel. 

“Care to explain?”

“Uhhhhhhh!” The angel sweat in fear. “Th-The YGGDRASIL s-system is e-experiencing some bugs! Th-The ad-admins were trying to fix it.”

“And why haven't you bothered to tell us?”

“Because we thought we could fix it and it was Skuld who told us not to tell you three!” 

“... That stubborn prideful childish goddess…” Xara groaned, facepalming.

“Who was in charge of helping her?” Light asked the angle.

“She just basically took over! It's not our fault! She’s more highly intelligent than us and has more access to the system!”

“Rgh! We’ll deal with her soon, now we need to find out how to help those two humans stuck on Earth as it's being leveled up.” Dark growled under his breath. 

“W-We could send someone to train them,” one angel suggested nervously.

“But they still wouldn’t be able to use Mana,” Light pointed out. “Well, not as experienced as the people we sent over.”

“Not masterfully. They can still gain it, but will need to play catch up for that.” Xara stated, slumping his head on his desk.

“Send a message to the Almighty, he’ll decide who to send.”

“Yes sir!”

Ten years later~

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT THEY ARE NOT BACK?!” Dark shouted at a group of angels who looked terrified and sweating. “Its been ten fucking years and YGGDRASIL has not brought humanity back?!”

“W-Well… You see sir… W-We found out that the Time and Space Displacements Area was off… Instead of it being ten years even for both worlds… I-It’s almost a century in Earth Bet years…” The angel stammered out, gulping.

“Oh of course it was…” Xara said, groaning, pinching the bridge of his nose. “And I’m guessing Skuld told no one until the due date to try and fix it on here own…?”

“Uh… Y-Yes….”

Light groaned and facepalmed.

“Get the Almighty on the phone, we need to speak with him, now!”

“Yes sir!”

Many years later~

[BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!]

[System error! System error!]

[System crashed code: m32]

“AAAAAAAHHHHHH! IT'S BEEN THREE HUNDRED YEARS AND IT'S STILL GOING ON!” By this point Dark looked really messed up and how his mist was constantly flaying and purple lightning cackles around him. “WHY DO WE KEEP GETTING BUGS?!”

“BECAUSE SKULD DOESN’T WANT ANYONE TO HELP HER AND WANTS TO DO ALL THE DEBUGGING HERSELF!” Xara roared, downing another cup of coffee that was scolding hot and filled with lethal dosage of caffeine that would kill humans.

“Stop shouting please…” Light groans out from a migraine he had from all the paper work he had to file. “If I see another form… it’ll be too soon…”

“But aren’t you-?”

“Yes I’m blind, but I can see in other ways…” Light growled out to the angel that was bugging him with a stupid question like that.

Millennium later~

BAM!

BAM!

BAM!

BAM! 

BAM!

Dark was constantly slamming his head on the desk with a big mess around him and lots of garbage, reports and computer pieces around him. 

“Maybe just, one more?”

BAM!

[System crashed!]

[Failed to process, please enter identification]

“.......”

BAM!

Again Dark slammed his head on the desk. 

“... Do we have any more coffee…?” Xara asked, annoyed to the point he felt like he was a Nobody again.

Light was just flying around, with stacks of paperwork.

“How are you doing, Light?” 

“Can’t talk, need to get this paper work done…” Light said in a robot tone of voice.

30 year laters~

[Ding!]

[Earth evolution is complete!]

[Each has reached its bootleg of experience points!]

[Processing!]

[Restoring Earth to the way it was]

[Humanity has reached its desired process]

[Initiate teleportation] 

“......Is it over?” Dark asked, slowly lifting his bloodshot red eyes, widening. 

Xara smiled, seeing the compilation bar. “Finally! … Now if you excuse me… I’m going to sleep for a year or two…” He promptly fell over in his chair and was out like a light.

“You hear that Light? It's finally over!”

“......”

“..... Light?”

“Subsetion A-45-D goes to Western Section… Article 98.5894 goes to Central… System Coding 45-” Light was just muttering out things, like he wasn’t even aware of the world anymore.

“Ahhh crap. Oh well, to the hospital.” Dark said while pulling the papers away from Light's hand as he still kept an iron grip on his pen and still wrote on the air as if he’s writing something on paper and placed him on a wheelchair. 

BAM!

“SIR! I NEED SOMETHING FROM YOU!” A girl barged into the office, who happens to be a small girl, with dark hair. 

“Not now Skuld! I need to head to the medical room.”

“But it's important! The system is-!”

“No more talk about the system! I don’t want to hear it for a long time!”

“Please sir-”

“Ugh! Fine, what is it?”

“Well, the two humans still haven't got any mana. Despite the skills they’ve gained it won’t be enough.” Skuld said to Dark. “My older sister is worried about them.”

“And what do you need?”

“I need your access and Lights, Plus Xara to give permission to send two angels who can help them.”

“If that's all, then here.” Dark said, pulling out his card, Lights card and Xara’s, giving them to Skuld. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got two beings to send to the hospital.” Dark said before taking Xara and Light to the medical bay. 

Back to AN: 

……… Oh shit.

Light/Xara: (In the corner, in the feudal potion, now remembering everything) Nomorepaperwork. Nomorecoffee. Nomorepaperwork. Nomorecoffee. Nomorepaperwork. Nomorecoffee. Nomorepaperwork. Nomorecoffee. Nomorepaperwork. Nomorecoffee. (And kept muttering to himself). 

SNAP OUT OF IT!
THUD! 

Light?Xara: GAH! No more please I can’t write anothe-! (Sees it was Dark) S-Sorry, I JUST recovered and my other half is still asleep…

Yeah I know, we were too stressed, sleepy and mentally traumatized. We gave her permission to send those angels without thinking anything at all. 

Light/Xara: Don’t drag me into this, I was fully unaware of the world around me.

Would you have done the same if you were in my boat as well? 

Light/Xara: I’d have yelled at her for making my life harder with all the forsaken paperwork so made me go through… I think… I’m not really sure what I’d do to be honest. … Can we just get past this… please…?

Sure thing, in the meantime thank you guys for reading our stories. Be sure to leave a review if you like.

Light/Xara: Also, if you have ideas for this story, leave a comment. Now if you don’t mind, I’m going to a Dragon Ball Universe and spending time in a Time Chamber to recover.

Same here.

PEACE OUT!

Chapter Text

Hello everyone! My name is Darklord331 and today we are bringing you another chapter of EREU(Short for the story title)! I’m here today with a good friend of mine.

Light/Xara: Hello again. Hey Dark, I saw a comment on our first chapter that brings up some good questions. Should I read it, so you can explain a few things? And I know, no spoilers, but it might clear up some confusion.

Well thank you good sir for commenting and also to answer your question, it involves spoilers, but I can say this! There are many ways to deal with Skill Take, one of those is Victor may steal a skill that would result in losing their traits but he fails to realize if someone has trained a brief long time, it's just only taking something of a skill, not the experience. 

Light/Xara: Huh… Reminds me of Kimahri Ronso of Final Fantasy X. His abilities take the super move of a creature for his own, but you need to fill up his Ultimate Limiter to use it. Is it like that a bit?

Yeah that's correct. 

Light/Xara: Good to know. Also… should we be worried about the safety and sanity with those two angels in their world? … Well, what little sanity that world has at least.

I wish my mind was clear from all the things we had to do. What I can say is…………… Greg needs to make sure that his chastity is safe. 

Light/Xara: And Taylor as well, sense I feel like they’d be fine with… multiple ways… (Shivers) Again, why wasn’t Flonne, remembering her name finally, sent? She’d be more reasonable. … If a bit ‘Love Crazed’… (Pinches the bridge of his nose) Then again, she would be a different headache on her own…

Yeah, any lets get started on the chapter, care to do the disclaimer? 

Light/Xara: Yeah. We do not own the Worm Series, Oh! My Goddess!, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt and Everyone Else is a Returnee or their charters. We just own the changes and OC. That good?

Yes it is, now onto the chapter!

Chapter 2: Gate and Magic Cataclysm

In Greg’s cave

“So, what can you do to help us?” Greg asked them. 

“Simple! Since you guys couldn’t get mana, by having us around your mana will slowly grow and a mana reserve will be created.” Panty said to Greg. 

“Huh, is that why I have a 5 in my own Mana? Because I was around items and potions with Mana and absorbed some of the mana?” Taylor asked them.

“Yes,” Stocking answered, while eating a lollypop. “Urd’s teaching in Alchemy helped you with that, if only minor.”

“And the killer bod Urd and Peorth gave you did help as well~” Panty added in with a smirk, looking Taylor up and down. Her punishment? Sent flying into the wall by a blushing Taylor.

“Can you not perv for five minutes!” she roared.

Stocking sighs. “I’ll get another bucket of water to wake her with…”

Taylor let out a sigh of frustration. “At least one of you is trying to make this deal/partnership work.”

“I might be horny, but I can be reasonable. … Most of the time,” Stocking admitted, walking back with a bucket of water and splashing her sister with it to wake her.
“GAAAHHH! Hey!”

“How can you help with our mana growth?” Greg asked, trying to get back on topic.

“We’re angels! By being near you, your mana will grow ten times before! The mana circulations, mana veins, and everything mana related will grow more than before.” Panty answered Greg. 

“... So are you invisible to others or are you just going to hide your angles?” Greg asked, not sure how it would look walking with three girls to school. Let alone some of the Gangs and Bullies there, seeing them.

“Please! I can handle them.”

“In combat right?”

“........”

“Right?” 

Taylor just facepalmed, seeing Panty’s smirk. “Still wondering if taking this deal was a good idea…” she grumbled. She let out a sigh. “But that leaves one minor thing. Documents. You can’t just say your transfer students without some sort of information on you both. … And you already have fake ideas and everything don’t you…?”

“Yep,” Stocking answered. “YGGDRASIL systems are beyond your world's tech, that we already have our information.”

“So we won’t have to worry about that then.”

“Yup, now onto the first thing. Getting to know each other, starting with the bedroo-"

BONK!

Once again, Panty was slammed to the floor by Taylor with her fist smoking. 

Timeskip - Winslow High

“You know, this kinda feels weird for some reason.” Greg said while walking to class with Taylor on his side along with Panty and Stocking. 

“How so?”

“We’ve spent so many years alone in the world. And going to school again with a group of people, it just feels…………….. something else.” Greg said to Taylor. 

“I think I get it. It does feel cramp having so many people around after it just being the four of us,” Taylor agreed.

“Yeah I guess so-wait hold.”

“Hey there, boys~.” 

Greg and Taylor groan in annoyance while turning around to see Panty with a group of football players.
“Oh you're a new student~?” One of them said while getting close to her. 

“Yup, just transferred here. I am a bit lost where I am.” Panty said in a sultry tone. 

“We can help with that.” 

“Oh yes! That would be so great! Maybe I can treat you all to a reward.” Panty smiled, licking her lips. 

“Are you sure you can take all of us?”

“Why don’t we give it a sho-”

WAAAATTTTAAAAAA!

BAM!

For some reason, there was a scream that sounded almost like Bruce Lee as Taylor literally dropkicked at Panty. Pulling her away as she had stars before gesturing to the boys.

“Call me~”

“Oh fuck yeah boys! We’re gonna tap some ass!”

“Wait a minute, did we get her phone number or something?” 

“........ Crap!” 

Taylor was lecturing Panty on the way back with the others, reminding her that she had a mission and shouldn’t be trying to flirt with everything that had a pulse. “Why can’t you act more like your sister!? She’s actually trying to help us while you-!” Taylor was cut off when she saw Stocking coming out of a bakery… with a dozen boxes of pastries.

“... What?” Stocking asked, seeing their looks. “I was hungry.”

“Are… Are you really going to eat all those?” Greg asked, surprised at all the food.

MUNCH!

“Hm? You said something?” Stocking said to Greg while already eating a quarter half of her food.

“..... Nevermind.”

Classroom

Greg and Taylor weren’t really paying attention to what everyone was saying but what they could make out was some basic lectures and informing them about the possibilities of their mana, plus their skills. 

“Hey have you heard?”

“The PRT and the government are supposed to make some sort of announcements.”

“Like what?”

“I don’t know. Ever since we came out, there have been weird happenings in the Gangs.”

Speaking of which.
“Hey Stocking, just a quick question.” He said to Stocking who was munching on her sweets. 

“Yeah?”

“How strong are we compared to monsters?”

“Hmmm, do you really want to know the answer?” Stocking said to Greg. 

“Yeah.”
“Mid leveled monsters.” Stockings said to Greg. 

“Mid leveled?” Greg asked in a scandalous tone

“Judging by the tone of your voice, that’s not good,” Taylor said, having paid attention when he asked that.

“Why else?” Panty said with her legs on the table with literally boys around her trimming her finger nails and one was in a suit acting like a butler. “Despite training for a long time it won’t be enough. Monsters are unlike what you can encounter.”

“To put it simply, you guys were training only in the human body while monsters are beings with high affinity magics. It's the reason why mana is both a blessing and a dangerous weapon.” Stocking said to the duo. “It powers them to the point where it resonates the body and soul. But also as a weapon. Monsters are beings who grow and feed on mana. The more mana they have, the stronger they are.” 

“Huh, could I actually control Insect monsters?” Taylor questioned quietly so they could only hear. “My regular powers are Master over insects. If I imbue Mana with it, could I control monster insects?”

“Yes and no.” Stocking answered Taylor. “You see you could control insects but there is one problem. The will. Weaker ones submit to you ‘cause of your Shard, basic insects but more powerful. Their lingering willpower will make it hard to control and dominate.” 

“So I have to have stronger will power then them to control them,” Taylor stated, pondering this. “Thanks to Urd and Peorth’s train, I have built my confidence up, but I’d have to get even stronger willpower. And make my mana go up as well.”

“There is a risk.” Stocking said to Taylor, glancing at her and getting her attention. “Your willpower is impressive but there are monsters who also have willpower and primal instincts. Even the strongest and high leveled monsters can easily break your control. And the result, well two words.” She pointed at her head. “Brain lobotomy.” 

Taylor’s face paled. “Got it, no testing that out any time soon. I do not want to be a vegetable.”

“Heh, it would be funny if you’re suddenly like a brain dead idiot, haha!”

BAM!

Panty was knocked out by Taylor with her leg smoking. 

“Which is why we need to get you two prepared in using your mana. As soon as possible.” Stocking said to them while ignoring her sister's groaning as she was being fanned by lots of boys.

Soon a teacher entered the classroom (And ignoring Panty). 

“Class, I have a big announcement.” The teacher said to everyone. “The principle has been informed by the PRT and the government that due to the rising mana waves, society will be different. The very foundation of our world will soon be changing. The PRT would like to advise that those who have skills please report to them as soon as possible in order to be enlisted so people can be prepared for what's coming.”

“Would this be different between triggers and mana users? Are we all classified as Parahumans?”

“Yes and no. PRT has discovered how it is to identify the triggers and mana users. There is a skill within the system box that shows a trait which next to it says shards.”

Greg and Taylor raised their eyebrows before checking their stats

{Greg Veder

Human, Blacksmith, LV MAX

—------------------------------------

Title | Conspiracy Nut

(Passive Investigation)

Strength [75] | Dexterity [70]

HP [85] | Mana [1]

[Active Skill ~ Investigator

LV MAX (Can Be Evolved)

(Materials are needed for

skill evolution)

[Passive Skill ~ Can’t

Be Estimated]

[Passive Skill ~ Power

Of Deduction]

—------------------------------------

[Received bonuses for having fallen behind.

Bonuses have been allocated.]

[Every time you level up,

you'll grow by 5 status.]

—------------------------------------

[Guild Affiliation | N/A]

—------------------------------------

[Skills:

(Can’t Be Estimated): Passive

(Power Of Deduction): Passive

(Cardinal Weapon Wielder - Mace - Soul Bonded): Active

(Mace Proficiency): Active

(Ki Manipulation Proficiency): Active

(Blacksmithing): Active

(Butcher): Active}

—------------------------------------

{Taylor Anne Hebert

Human/Parahuman, Alchemist/Potion Maker, LV MAX

—------------------------------------

Title | Queen Bee

(Passive Leadership)

Strength [70] | Dexterity [85]

HP [75] | Mana [5]

[Active Skill ~ Insect Queen

LV MAX (Can Be Evolved)]

(Materials are needed for

skill evolution)

[Passive Skill ~ Can’t

Be Estimated]

[Passive Skill ~ Hive

Mind]

—------------------------------------

[Received bonuses for having fallen behind.

Bonuses have been allocated.]

[Every time you level up,

you'll grow by 5 status.]

—------------------------------------

[Guild Affiliation | N/A]

—------------------------------------

[Skills:

(Can’t Be Estimated): Passive

(Hive Mind - Shard Power): Passive

(Cardinal Weapon Wielder - Chain/Whipsword - Soul Bonded): Active

(Chain/Whipsword Proficiency): Active

(Ki Manipulation Proficiency): Active

(Alchemy/Potion Maker): Active]

(Butcher): Active}

“After school, the PRT will be at the gym so please head there and again, please report to them as soon as possible. They don’t want to restrict your movements, they want to help out with your newfound abilities, possibly with the chance of working with them.” 

“And the unwritten rules for parahumans?” a student asked. “Where do those fit into all this?”

“Right now, we’re still figuring that out, for now, we’re just taking this all one step at a time.”

“Makes sense,” Greg whispered loud enough that only Taylor, Panty and Stocking heard. “With all the craziness the Earth going through, things will be chaotic, more than they were before Parahumans were the only ones with powers.”

“You’re not one that is affected the most by it,” Taylor whispered back. “This might affect me due to my powers.”

“Oh boy, you might want to hold up on that.” Panty said while getting up, narrowing her eyes. 

“Huh? What do you mean?” Greg said to her. 

Not a moment to hesitate she put her hands down on her (Dark: BZZZZTTTT! LIKE HELL I’LL PUT THAT IN! Light: (Facepalming) Those two are going to give me too much paperwork… Xara: Should have sent the intern angel… She would have loved to make thesis papers on the different powers of this world and how they’d interact with mana… )

“WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!” Taylor shouted at her with fire in her eyes as the other boys (minus Greg) all had nosebleed, and a few girls that were lesbians or bis.

“Calm your tiddies down, will ya bug girl?” 

“THAT'S TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE! ESPECIALLY IN PUBLIC PLA-!”

WHOOSH!

SHING! 

Greg and Taylor blinked at what happened, and so did a lot of the people in the classroom. Panty was now holding a pistol in her hands where here ( Light: Wait, why are we blocking saying what she took off? Her name is LITERALLY her item she transforms. Not saying we shouldn’t, just seems weird is all. Dark: Yeah I know, she pulled it from HERS, not others. If people know what her powers were, you get what I mean. Xara: Who’s the genius that allowed her to choose THAT as a weapon to transform anyways? That just seems… I don’t know what word to use to describe it, it’s giving me a headache trying to think of it…) were.

“... What?” Greg started.

“The?” Taylor added.

“Hell!?” Both shouted in unison, and a few others who saw that.

“What? You’ve never seen articles of clothing get turned into weapons~?” Panty asked with a cheeky smirk.

“That’s not it and you know it!” Taylor shouted, annoyed. She was sending her (forming) migraine to her insects. “But why the hell did you pull out a weapon!?”

“No time for explanations.” Stocking said, getting up as well and placing her hand over her stockings.

WHOOSH!
SHING!

And transformed into clear twin swords. 

“It's here.” Stocking said.

“Whats her-?”

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

“?!”

Suddenly there were loud booming sounds and mini earthquakes. The students all mashed together at the window. Even Greg and Taylor and what they saw

It was a humongous army of Ants, locusts and other insects.

“HOLY SHIT!”

“WHAT THE FUCK!?”

“THAT'S THE BIGGEST BUGS I’VE EVER SEEN!”

“OH MY GOD!”

Greg slowly turned his head to his girlfriend. “Uh… Taylor… did you-?”

“No, I did not summon these things, and I cannot seem to link to them. Plus, I don’t want to try after what those two told me about what might happen to my brain.” Taylor answered, giving her boyfriend a flat look.

Greg held his hands up in surrender. “Just making sure.”

“... Would admit though… I would like to find a way to control bugs that size…” Taylor admitted.

“If you wanna know, it's the start of the great cataclysm." Stocking said to them. “It has begun.”

“SHIT WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?”

“IS THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PRT GONNA DO ANYTHING?”

“WANNA JOIN MY PARTY AND HUNT?”

“WAIT! LOOK THERE’S A HERO! HE’S GOING AFTER THE-”

SPLAT!

The window was splattered with blood as everyone (minus Greg and Taylor plus the angels) all looked horrified.

“IT……. IT JUST KILLED HIM!”

“F-FUCK! THIS IS DIFFERENT!”

“SH-SHIT! I-ITS TOO POWERFUL!”

“I-I CAN’T! I CAN’T HANDLE THIS!”

“RUUUUNNNN!”

No less than a second, everyone ran away, leaving only Greg, Taylor and the angel girls there as they all watched them run away.
“......Pussies.” Panty scoffed at them. 

“I thought they would be braver when they came back, turns out I was wrong.” Greg casually said to them. 

“Well it's the real world buddy!” Panty said to him. 

Greg shook his head before looking at the monsters. 

“You said we’re strong right? Mid leveled?”

“Yup, wait, you're thinking of going after that?” Panty asked him. 

“Not just him.” Taylor said to them as Greg threw her sword, which she caught, spinning around it. 

Greg cracked his neck, while lifting his mace. Raising it up a bit.

BOOM!
CRACK!

Before slamming it to the ground, crack spread across the whole classroom. 

“Finally some actions. It was getting boring without having to smash things around for a while.” Greg said. 

“True,” Taylor agreed, stretching and bending her body that professional gymnasts would envy. “Can’t let our skills dwindle and rust.”

“They’re animals after all, what's the difference?” Greg asked them. While ignoring Panty’s heart face as she was nearly getting close to him. 

“They are different from animals and monsters, their outer skin is abnormally strong and their physical ability is different.” Stocking said to them. “Basically there is the same animal biology in your world but has adapted to the mana environment.” She said to them while Taylor was chokeholding Panty as the angel was slowly turning blue. “But it shouldn’t be too difficult for the two of you.” 

“Hope so.” Greg said to the angels. Turning to Taylor “Hey Taylor, how good are you with sewing?” He asked her. 

“I’m decent at it, why?” she asked him. Soon she realized what her boyfriend meant and smiled. “Depends, how fast can you make us some masks?”

Outside

BOOM!

BOOM!

ROOOAAARRR!

“GRRAAAAAHHHH! JUST DIE!” One of the heroes shouted, Glory Girl shouted while slamming her fist on the monster locust though it had a small dent on it. 

“THOSE SKINS ARE TOO DAMN HARD TO BREAK THROUGH!” Another hero shouted, Vista as he enlarged a car and threw it at a fly though it flew around it and sped towards Vista, making her widen her eyes in horror at the incoming monster fly. “AAAAAAAHHHH!”

BOOM!

“Don’t worry I got ya!” Luckily another hero saved Vista, Gallant said to her. 

“Th-thanks I-WATCH OUT!”

“?!” Thanks to Vista’s warning, Gallant ducked to the right just as a monster mantis cut through the pavement where he stood. “Geez, another second and we would have been gonners. Thanks Vista.”

“Less talking, more fighting!”

“I……… I CAN’T DO THIS!” A hero panicked, Assault said while dropping to the floor. 

“STAY STRONG!” A hero shouted to Assasult, lifting his tinker spear and dropping it to the fly, stabbing between its head as it shrieks before dropping dead. 

“WHERE THE FUCK IS BACKUP!”

“THEY GOT CAUGHT WITH THE ABNORMAL INSECTS ON THE SOUTHWEST OF BROCKTON BAY!” Armsmaster shouted to Glory Girl, dodging from an incoming locust attack.

“WE’RE FUCK!” Assault shouted in despair. “WE CAN’T DO ANYTHING! OUR MAGIC IS GONE AND THEIR TOO STRONG! THEY’VE KILLED GRAPNEL AND ADAMANT! AND ADAMANT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE HEAVIEST HERO AND HE WAS EASILY CUT TO PIECES BY THOSE THINGS!” 

“CALM DOWN, ASSULT!”

“FUCK YOU! THAT MOSQUITO DRAINED NEARLY ALL OF SHADOW STALKERS BLOOD IF NOT FOR CHICKEN LITTLE! AND HIS BIRD DIED SAVING HER!”

“LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE!” Glory Girl shouted, using one bug as a battering ram to the others. “WE DON’T HAVE TO HEAR HER COMPLAINING AND BITCHING FOR A WHILE! AND SHE HAD IT COMING, SHE GOT COCKY AND SAID THAT ADAMANT WAS WEAK IF HE EASILY GOT KILLED OFF! I THINK IT’S KARMA LITERALLY BITTING HER IN THE ASS!”

“NO TIME FOR ANY ARGUMENTS! WE NEED TO HOLD THEM BACK!”

“HOW?! JUST HOW THE FUCK ARE WE GONNA HOLD THEM BACK! ITS NOT JUST SOMETHING WILL DROP DOWN FROM THE SKY AND SQUASH THEM LIKE BUGS-!”

BOOM!

SHING!

Something just slammed onto the locust, basically what Assault just predicted. Everyone was stunned as smoke covered the entire area where the monster locust was. 

“........... You got your wish, Assault.” 

A second later, pieces of insects started to fall from the sky, covering some of the heroes in bug guts and blood.

“Gross….” Glory Girl gagged, as she tried to get the gunk off her.

“Could deal without the bug rain….” Assault states, now annoyed then scared.

The smoke cleared up, revealing to be someone wearing some sort of a cleric robe, mostly with red cloths in the form of battle robes and a medieval bucket helmet. Wielding some kind of mace that was dripping in green blood as the insect's head that was supposed to be hard even for Glory Girl smashed to pieces. 

Next to him was someone that also looked like a knight, but more the lines of Armsmaster, they looked like they had a bug motif going on, and looked like they were going for a Kamen Rider aesthetic, and they could tell that they were female due to the curves of the suit. They also noticed a chain sword that was in their hand, that they expertly swung back to them and formed into a regular sword. It was dripping green blood from the insects that were cut up into pieces.

Above the two of them, where what looked like angels, if they were revealing and sexualized in white cloths, and both with wings of pure light on their backs. One had a pistol and the other twin swords. Each had the theater masks for Comedy and Tragedy. The blond one with the gun had the Comedy mask covering her face, while the black, almost purple, haired one with the swords had the Tragedy mask.

“Those new heroes?” Assault asked in shock. “A new Hero Team maybe?”

“No idea, but they’ve actually done damage to these things,” Glory Girl stated, flying over to them. “Hey, thanks for the assist, even if you rained bug viscera over us.”

“You can thank us later, right after we deal with them.” One of them said, in some sort of a crusader's armor (Something similar to her sister Amy wore) as the four of them dashed towards separate directions. 

Greg swung his mace to the right, crushing the locust head, springing on its back and jumped towards the monster fly as the fly attempted to maneuver around, trying to get him off however Greg kept an iron grip on it, clicking on the mace as the mace head slid loose with a metallic snap, revealing a coiled chain anchored deep within the handle. Spinning it around and coiling it around the fly as it screeches before it was being roughly controlled by Greg, immediately taking out some iron takes from his inventory and throwing them at various monsters. 

Taylor was wiving in and out of a hoard of giant praying mantises. She was dancing around like a deadly gymnast with her chain sword and cutting the monsters into pieces like they were in a blender. Every time one tried to get close she would dodge with grace and cut them down afterwards. She also used her powers over common insects to blind the big ones and make them attack the smaller ones to get them off their faces, making them vulnerable to attacks.

Panty began shooting at them with precision, spinning around (While thankfully wearing her panties as Taylor forced her to wear panties) somehow bypassing the armors and rough skin the other heroes tried with bug monsters and Stockings sliced them up to pieces, joining Taylor's side. 

“Woah! They're amazing!” Vista shouted in awe.

Glory Girl smiled, popping her knuckles. “Why the hell are we standing around here!? We can’t let those four do all the work!” After shouting that, she flew right into the fray and joined the four supes. She grabbed two dismembered Mantius Blades and used them as makeshift weapons to attack the monsters.

Greg pulled the chains and snapped the neck of the fly as it limped down to the ground. Just when he was about to join the others, Vista widened her eyes when she saw a rhinoceros beetle charging at Greg.

“WATCH OUT!”

BOOM!

The rhinoceros beetle slammed onto Greg as smoke covered where he was, Vista was about to help him but saw the beetle struggling as if it was trying to pull away, the smoke cleared and Greg stood there unharmed while holding the beetle's horn. 

With a mighty shout/roar, Greg actually lifted the beetle off the ground by the horn and German Suplexed it into the ground, leaving its vulnerable belly open for attack. Vista’s jaw dropped seeing that.

Glory Girl whistled seeing that in the air. “Guy might give ME a run for my money.”

“Oi! Hands off slut! He’s mine!” Panty’s shouted to Glory Girl.

“Excuse me?! What did you call me?” 

“You heard me! Why else?”

“I am NOT a slut you damn bimbo!” 

“Oh yeah? What's with the name Glory Girl? How many bathroom stalls did you go to get a name like that?” 

“At least I don’t look like a Striper Playboy Angle in that getup! Quit your pole dancing job after getting superpowers!?”

Both were now glaring at each other as sparks were shooting between their eyes.

WHOOSH!
SCREECH!

Suddenly there was a large shadow that encased everyone around them, as if it suddenly got dark, looking back and what they saw was breathtaking. It was a monster yes, but.

It was beautiful. 

“I……….. can’t believe it.” Assault said, taken back.

“Is that what I think it is?” Armsmaster said, mesmerized at the sight before him. 

“It is.” Vista said with amazement. 

What was before them was a giant Dryocampa Rubicunda, or known as the Rosy Maple Moth, flapping its wings before them with brilliant bright colors of pink/yellow/green. 

Taylor looked up to the Giant Beautiful Moth Monster… and felt something shift inside herself and her shard. On instinct, she sent out her powers to the giant monster.

Panty and Stocking sensed this and turned to Taylor. “What are you doing!? Stop! I told you not to-!”

Panty was cut off when she and her sister sensed something. Her Mana and Shard were fusing together, making it so her powers were evolving.

[(Hive Mind - Shard Power) is Evolving

(Hive Mind - Shard Power) has now Evolved into (Insect Queen - Shard Power)

You are now able to command over certain types of Insectoid Monsters that you have a strong instinctual connection to command.]

Taylor felt the power and connection happen at the same time, and was now seeing through herself and the Rosy Maple Moth Monster. With a command, she ordered it to land softly.

“I-I can control the moth,” Taylor said in astonishment.

Everyone who heard this was in shock, no more than Panty and Stocking whose jaws were slack-jawed at the feat Taylor did.

“... Sis… Did Taylor just… take command of an Insect Monster…?” Panty asked Stocking in stunted shock.

“Yeah…” was all Stocking could get out.

[Ding! Quest complete!
The starting point!

Rewards: Enhanced Steel Weapon Forging Recipe Scrolls (This will give [Alchemy/Potion Makers] the Ability to make Steel Weapons + 2)

Enhanced Stat Boosting Potion Recipe Scrolls (This will give [Blacksmiths] the Ability to make Stat Boost Potions + 2)

Leveling up: Current Classes Max Level, please select another class to level up.

Five Levels will be stored for your next class to choose.

Skills leveled up: (Cardinal Weapon Wielder - Mace - Soul Bonded) Evolutionary function unlocked. You can now feed things to your weapon to get new forms for your mace.

(Mace Proficiency - Max Level) This Skill has Reached Max Level and can be Evolved. Materials are needed for skill evolution.

(Ki Manipulation Proficiency - Max Level) This Skill has Reached Max Level and can be Evolved. Materials are needed for skill evolution.

(Cardinal Weapon Wielder - Chain/Whipsword - Soul Bonded) Evolutionary function unlocked. You can now feed things to your weapon to get new forms for your chain/whipsword.

(Chain/Whipsword Proficiency - Max Level) This Skill has Reached Max Level and can be Evolved. Materials are needed for skill evolution.

(Ki Manipulation Proficiency - Max Level) This Skill has Reached Max Level and can be Evolved. Materials are needed for skill evolution.]

Taylor and Greg’s jaws dropped, seeing that they can now use the Evolutionary functions of their weapon, as well as new ability scrolls for their classes. They also got five additional levels for another class.

Panty and Stocking nearly choked seeing what the two got. ‘JUST HOW MUCH RIGGING DID THESE TWO GET FOR BEING LEFT BEFIND!?’ both shouted in their heads.

Glory Girl flew over to Taylor and patted her gently (Well gently for her which was hard enough for Taylor to be jostled a foot) on her back. “That was epic! You actually tamed that huge ass moth!? Badass! I am so jealous right now. You actually have an awesome mount top ride in on. You have got to let me-”

“Glory Girl, enough,” Armsmaster called out to her. “You’re overwhelming her and us.”

Glory Girl actually looked sheepish, having lost control over her powers a bit, putting pressure on everyone. “Sorry.” She rained herself in and the pressure left them.

Taylor shook her head clear. “It’s… It’s fine. I’m still surprised I was able to do it at all. It actually evolved my power…”

“You one of us?” 

“No.” Taylor answered her. “Me and my boyfriend have recently triggered, we’re planning on registering for the PRT.” 

“Heck of a debut then,” Gallant stated. “What about those two angles like girls with the theater masks? They are with you guys?”

“Yeah, they’re with us as well…” Taylor admitted.

“You don’t sound that happy about it,” Vista said.

“Well, the blond one keeps trying to flirt with my boyfriend…” Taylor stated in a deadpan. 

“Hey there stud~.”

Taylor deadpanned while not even looking as Panty was even getting close to Armsmaster. 

“See what I mean?” 

“Yeah I can totally get the point.” Glory Girl said to Taylor.

Meanwhile, Greg was currently busy with butchering the monsters for parts to feed their weapons and to collect something else that was a bit hard and challenging, until-
“Huh?” Greg said in confusion, feeling something hard before he roughly pulled it out and to his surprise it was a circular stone that was the size of his hand.

[Ding! (Active Skill ~ Butcher) Reached LV MAX (Can Be Evolved)

(Materials are needed for

skill evolution)

You have found a low level mana core]

Greg widened his eyes in surprise before remembering, mana was being introduced so most animals in the world would get mana and become monsters. Earth was evolving both positively and negatively. Guess he shouldn’t be surprised, what's next, other dimensional beings coming to visit Ear-wait no. The world is already fucked up, he doesn’t want to jinx it. (Dark: Smart move, we do not want what shit comes from space, especially Narusverse aliens. OP beings that can bend reality on a daily whim. Xara: You think they're bad, try Keybladers that can reshape time or space with a beam blast. Light: Don’t get me started on the threats of DC, Marvel OR Gurren Lagann, Aint-Monotor and the Aint Spiral are a nightmare… And that’s not counting the one giving shards to people… )

“Hey big guy!” Turning his head to Glory Girl waving at him from below. “You think you can spare us some of the monster parts?” She asked him. 

“We’ll pay you a generous amount.” Armsmaster added in. “You seemed to be an expert on butchery.” He said while ignoring in the background that both Taylor and Panty’s were in a dustball brawl.

“Sure.” He said to them before heading to the rest. “I got what I needed for me and my girlfriend.”

“Thank you,” Armsmaster thanked, his tinker mind buzzing with ideas for upgrading to his bike and halbert. “With these, I might be able to make upgrades and find ways past these monster’s defenses.”

“Careful, you know that your class isn’t [Blacksmithing] , it's [Machine Tinker]. Remember the last time you tried to do something?” Glory Girl reminded Armsmaster. 

“I know, I’m a tinker yet I can’t even tinker around stuff that's magical and otherworld alien components.” Armsmaster said in frustration, remembering he tried to use his tinker abilities on upgrading his core with magic but found out that the energy did not react to what he wanted and exploded his workshop. Good news, they found a new potential bomb, bad news he lost one of his cores. 

“I remember we got a guy who has [Blacksmithing] class, you can ask him.” Glory Girl said to Armsmaster. 

“I’ll make note of it.” he said to her. 

Later

Greg finished his butchering and handed some of the monster parts and cores to Glory Girl and Armsmaster, he, Taylor, Panties and Stockings decided to head back home, most specifically Greg's underground base. Taylor’s new Monster Moth was in one of Greg’s other bases that would fit it.

Taylor and Greg were looking at their weapons and the jewel in them that would ‘eat’ the materials they feed it. They both had a small piece of an insect they chose to test this out, Taylor got a piece from a Mantic and Greg from a Stag Beetle.

“Still can’t believe you made one huge entrance.” Taylor said to Greg while petting her moth who was purring. 

“I wanted to explore and expand more of my electric engineering skills so I did various challenges of myself, testing my limits.” Greg said to Taylor while looking at the monster pieces and mana cores. “I think I went way overboard. Surprised no one has ever found one of my bases.” 

“Most likely ‘cause you hid them across the world so well.” Taylor said to Greg. 

“Oh so you could build anything right?” Panty suddenly got to Greg’s face too close with sparkles around her. 

“.......Yeah?”
“Then you don’t mind building something for me right?”

“.....I don’t like where this is going-”

“Come on! You haven’t seen what I want!” 

“......What is it?” 

“Yes! I’ve been waiting for someone who could build this!” She showed Greg the blueprints which was- (Dark: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! OH FUCK TO THE N AND O! Xara: (Slamming his head on his desk) Stupid! Lustful! Annoying! Angel! Light: Is it too late to send a different angel in her place…? Stockings can stay…)

“WHY WOULD YOU WANT ME TO MAKE THIS!?” Greg shouted, face atomic red.

RRRRIIPPPPPP!

“Hey!” 

“LIKE HELL YOU WANT HIM TO BUILD THAT!” Taylor shouted at her with fire in her eyes. 

“What the big idea fo-”
THUD!

Fortunately she was knocked out by her sister, Stocking sighs. 

“Ignoring what my sister wanted, you did a great job Greg.” She said to him. “Not only have you repelled against the monster waves but also drove them back. Even managing to tame a monster.” She said to them, as something was flickering before a coin manifested, Stocking got the coin while the other landed on Panty’s head. 

“Whats that?”

“Heaven coins.” She answered to Taylor. “You see, if we do a marvelous deed, we would get rewarded with heaven coins, if we acquire more of these coins my sister's punishment and I will be forgiven.” 

“... Can you use those coins for trade, buying and selling?” Greg asked, hoping for a yes. He could get Heavenly Metal Ingots to forge while Taylor could get Heavenly Alchemical Items.

“I don’t know, we do need them in order to get our punishment lifted. It's a big risk, like what my sister said; I do NOT want to become a nun and go through virtues tasks for a thousand years.” 

“I don’t blame you. You really want to go back to heaven.” Greg said to Stocking.  

“I just wish your sister would take things more seriously like you do though,” Taylor stated.

“Hey! I am serious, bitch!” Panty jumped and clashed against Taylor's forehead. “When was the last time you ever sucked a dick oh wait about never in your entire life virgin!” 

Taylor’s eye twitched fearsly. She then had a centipede that was on the ceiling fall down and down Panty’s back.

“GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” Panty shouted in disgust trying to get the bug out of her clothes, but it kept moving out of her reach. “GETITOUT! GETITOUT! GETITOUT! GETITOUT! GETITOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUT!”

Stocking turned away, trying to hold her laughter in.

“STOP LAUGHING AND HELP ME YOU BITCH! GAH IT’S CRAWLING EVERYWHERE!”

Greg slapped his face and dragged his hand down with a tired expression. 

“Getting back on track. I doubt that the monster horde is gonna be enough.” Greg said.

“Worse.” Stocking said to Greg. “You remember that the Almighty and his associates all sent humanity to other worlds in order to prepare for Earth's evolution and mana correct? Well when they transported whole humanity they deliberately left the animals back. They thought they calculated everything correctly. That humanity would be prepared for the Great Catalysm.” 

“Let me guess, there was a bug in the system that miscalculated that as well?” Greg asked, already knowing where this was going.

“Yes, due to an error, they miscalculated the time, the flow of time on Earth has greatly distorted. 10 years of the world other humans were in became 5 thousand years on Earth.”

“Wait what?! 5 THOUSAND YEARS?! That's how long time has passed?” Greg said in shock that he could’ve sworn his heart stopped.

Taylor’s focus broke on the centipede she was controlling, causing it to fall out of Panty’s dress after hearing that. “What the hell caused that error to force it to make the time dilation that bad!?” Taylor stated, shocked.

“YGGDRASIL, the system has been experiencing bugs for some reason. We didn’t know what would happen.” Stocking said to them. 

“In short the system is fucking up, literally.” Panty’s said to them. “Despite time reset, the animals have lived and adapted for 5 thousand years. You’ve seen what happened, they’ve got a massive upgrade. In short, Earth is fucked.” 

“....In a terms of scale how fucked we are?”

“Do the math, how many animals are in this world?” Panty’s said to Greg. 

“... Oh no… Now I’m picturing the dangerous animals from Australia now… All Super Charged,” Taylor said, her face paling to an unhealthy degree.

Greg paled as well, something much worse coming to his mind. “... Please tell me the Mana didn’t affect the Endbringers as well…?”

“Hate to break it to you but yes-”

“Great, first the world has evolved, next animals all became deadly predators and now we have to worry abo-”

“Not the same as the animals.” Panty interrupted him with an annoyed expression. “If you let me finish what I was saying jackass, the YGGDRASIL system detected foreign entities and sealed them in a separate dimension.” 

“Oh thank god.” Greg said in relief, slumping in his chair.

“One, well three, world ending threats taken care of… just about a quadrillion other ones to deal with,” Taylor stated bluntly. “At least we now know that Shard powers can evolve like other skills. … Now I’m just imagining the villain Hellhound and her power to control and empower/mutate dogs and what would happen if she controlled and mutated a monster hound…”

Greg blanched at that comment. “She might literally create hell hounds…”

“Like I said, it's not gonna be pretty.” Panty’s said to them. “The question is big guy, are you up for the challenge?” 

Later

“Remind me again why we’re going to a government place?” Panty asked them while they were on their costumes. “Shouldn’t we be, I dunno? Killing monsters?”

“We will, but we’ll also need support,” Taylor stated. “We might be equipped to deal with the monsters, even though we still need training in mana, other heroes and civilians need help with keeping up. And we’ll have backing from them if we help forge weapons and brew potions to give them boosts.”

“Please! As if we need their help! We can do this on our own!” 

“How about going everywhere in the world where hordes are coming left and right and we’re barely there cause we’re stuck in place and we have to do this over and over.” Greg retorted at Panty, shutting her up. 

“..... Fair point.” 

“And my Moth is big, but it’s not the fastest ride, and they can get tired,” Taylor added if Panty tried to go that route as well.

“... Darn it…”

They soon reached the receptionist as she noticed them.

“Oh why hello there! What can I help you with?”

“We’re here to register for the PRT.”

“You are? That's actually great! We could use more people like you to help around. Head towards the elevator and go straight towards the second floor.”

“Thats it? No paperworks or anything?” Greg asked in confusion.

“But I thought in the PHO you need to fill out paperworks and stuff?” Taylor asked the receptionist. 

“Normally yes, but the government decided to skip those due to the world's changes around, animals becoming much more dangerous and world order is being changed as we speak so we need as many heroes as possible to help with maintaining order.” the receptionist answered Taylor.

“... I… Guess that makes sense…” Taylor said, sweatdropping. “The first wave was brutal…”

“Exactly, the top heroes triumvirate are too busy with handling incoming threats that could destroy a city. We don’t know if the wave would be in one place.” 

“So… Who do we talk to when we head?” Greg asked. “The head of PRT?”

“I’m afraid not, they're busy with meeting government officials.”

“Guess we just head up to the second floor and go from there,” Taylor stated as the four of them went into the elevator and rode up to the second floor.

BOOM!

“OH COME THE FUCK ON!” Panty shouted in anger as hearing a sudden explosion and the elevator shook. 

BAM!

Greg immediately grabbed both edges of the elevator and forced it to open. What greeted him was a pack of… GODDAMN POISON BREATHING, FLYING KOMODO DRAGONS!!!???

“AAAHHHHH! NO! NO! NOOOO!”

“QUICK! AIM FOR ITS EYE-!”

SPLAT!

“WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE THINGS?!”

“KOMODO DRAGONS! WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE KOMODO DRAGONS!”

“AREN’T THEY SUPPOSE TO BE IN INDONESIA?! WHAT THEY DOING HERE!?”

“LESS TALK! AVOID THEIR SALIVA’S!” 

“SALIVA!? YOU SHOULD BE MORE WORRIED ABOUT POISON BREATH THEY’RE FIRING AT US!”

“THAT’S THE THING! THEIR SALIVA IS MIXED WITH POISON! THAT'S HOW THEY KILL THEIR PREDATORS!” 

Taylor, Greg, Panty and Stocking saw the chaos.

“I’m so glad we wore our hero outfits,” Taylor stated, as they got their weapons out and went to help the PRT guards.

Outside, a guard was about to be eaten by one of the Komodo Dragons swopping in, when Taylor’s Chain Sword, with the form of a Praying Mantic blade, dug into its neck due to the barbs. She pulled on her weapon and brought it to the ground, decapitating the monster and saving the guard. “Are you okay?”

“Yes, thank you,” the guard thanked. Taylor then tossed him a potion. “Uh, what’s this?”

“A Potion of +2 Accuracy. Drink it and your aim will improve.”

“Oh thanks ma’am!” The guard thanked her. 

“Where did these Komodo Dragons come from?” Greg asked the guard.

“I……… I don’t know! One of the security said they heard something banging from the storage system, we went to take a look and suddenly they all stampede! It's like they managed to infiltrate the base!” 

“Wait, I think I read a rumor or something online about the Azn Bad Boys illegally transporting animals before the whole transfer,” Greg stated, as he remembered reading a conspiracy theory. This must have been his [Power Of Deduction] skill.“Could these be escaped animals?”

“Could be, right now, we need to worry about holding these monsters off,” the guard stated. They then noticed some of the other guards that Taylor helped were firing with much better aim than before, actually hitting the eyes and killing them. “How the heck!?”

“My girlfriend is an Alchemist, and she must have given them a new potion she brewed,” Greg answered to the guard. 

“Ah, that makes sense. Neat.”

“I know right?”

BAM!

“Oh right! Need to focus on that first, talk to you later!” Greg said to the guard before jumping towards the Komodo Dragons. Joining alongside Taylor as she was shredding the Komodo dragons with Stockings, as for Panty’s…………..well.

“Come on big boys~? Are you afraid you can’t get a handle on this?” 

BAM!

BAM!
BAM!

Panty said in a sultry tone while shooting at the Komodo dragons (Luckily she explained her powers literally comes from panties so Taylor got a bunch of those and made sure Panty’s does not go on a Panty raid. (Dark: For some reason, I think that's definitely true. Light: … Is it weird to picture her doing a mixture of Bayonetta, Zoro and Raiden (Metal Gear) fighting styles with multiple swords? Xara: And incorporating break dancing with it? Dark: You fucks, your giving her ideas! She’ll be like Bayonetta but worse!)

SPLAT!

“AAAHHH FUCK!” Panty shouted in anger due to the blood splashing her. “I GOT BLOOD ALL OVER ME! HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSE TO CLEAN THIS FUCKING MESS!”

WHOOSH!
“Don’t worry my fair lady, we’ll help clean up the mess!” A bunch of capes immediately swooped in with various clean materials and clothes products.
“Ah that so generous of you, don’t worry when this is all over the one who gets the most kills will get a special reward if you know what I mean~.” Panty’s said with (Dark immediately hit the censor button: BZZZZTT! God fucking dammit! How horny is this angel? In fact is she even an angel? Light: I’m questioning that myself… Again, is it too late to send the intern? Xara: I believe so, sorry. Light: (Groans) Damn it…)

“OHHHHHH!”

“GET OUT OF MY FUCKING WAY!”

“LIKE HELL! THOSE KOMODO DRAGONS ARE MINE!”

“HAHAHAHA! FOR THE BEAUTY ANGEL GODDESS!”

Not too soon the mix of young and older capes all had fire on their eyes and immediately dashed towards the Komodo Dragons with determination.

Taylor facepalmed- eer maskpalmed seeing this.

“...... Well that's one way to motivate them.” Greg said with sweatdrops on his forehead. 

Stocking just ignored this and expertly sniped the monsters she was fighting. “Wonder what pastries I should get after this? I’m getting hungry.” ( Light: You know, I know Stocking was sent down for lust, but she seems to be more gluttonous more than anything. Xara: I’m just wondering where she puts about seven baker dozen pastries in that Gothic lolita body of hers.)

Taylor decapitated another monster. “Is now really the time to think about food?”

“It's important to avoid hunger because sweets are the only sustainable food.” 

Taylor looked at her. “.... Are you sure you fell because of Lust and not actually Gluttony?” She asked her seriously.

“Oh, ha ha, very funny,” Stocking said in a monotone voice.

BOOM!
BAM!

“There are too many of them! If we keep this up the whole place will crumble!” Greg shouted while smashing another monster Komodo Dragon. 

“Wait! I remember something!” Taylor's eyes widened in realization. “Komodo Dragons are opportunistic scavengers and have an incredible sense of smell. Meaning-”

Realization hit them. “Meaning we have to hit their sensitive smell!”

A PRT troop heard this and pulled out a special grenade that deals with sense of smell, a Pepper Spray Grenade. He tossed it in the crowd of Komodo Dragon monsters and it went off! This caused the monsters to roar in pain from the smell and burning.

“... +2 Accuracy Potion for the win…” The trooper said in awe. “And thank you Armsmaster for those Tinker Tech Grenades.”

Taylor also summoned a swarm of stink bugs that flew around the monsters, letting out their smell with the pepper spray cloud, making it worse for the monsters. ( Light: Is it wrong to feel sorry for the monsters? Dark: Almost. Xara: Agreed.)

“Now is our chance!” Greg shouted. “Fite at them now while they’re distracted!"

The Troops and Heroes started to fire at the monsters, killing them off with ease now that they were prone.

Soon, the rest of the Komodo Dragons were dead. 

Greg did not hesitate on butchering the Komodo dragons with the help of Taylor skinning them off, monster parts, skins, the venom gland and whatever they could possibly butcher up. 

[Ding! Level up!

Current Classes Max Level, please select another class to level up.

Four Levels will be stored for your next class to choose.]

[You have gained 5 points to Mana] X 4

Taylor and Greg high fived, they had gained 20 points in mana. It was still their weakest stat, but it was something.

“Can’t wait to see what we can make with all of this,” Greg stated, smiling under his helmet. “And what new weapons and branches we’ll unlock.”

Panty wiped a sweat (Which was barely there and a new pair of clothes those goddamn simps gave to her which one of them had knitting powers for some reason) as a heaven coin appeared and dropped in hers and Stockings hand. Just as she smiled and was about to make a comment, Stocking heard beeping noises and lifted her hand over her ear while a magic circle appeared over her palm. 

“Yes?” Stocking said while answering the call, confused, raising one eye brow, both eye brows widen and her eyes as well. “Uhhh Panty.” 

“What?” She asked her sister in annoyance while her foot was being shined by one of the male capes as he smiled before a girl cape came and pulled his ear, dragging him away. “Oh great look what you did! Who’s gonna shine my boots now?”

“I AM!”

“LET ME SHINE YOUR BOOTS!”

“HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW TO MAKE THEM SHINE? I SPENT TEN YEARS SHINING BOOTS!”

“ASSHOLE! IT'S NOT ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE! LET ME SHOW YOU HOW I DO IT!”

“Panty’s it's important.” Stocking said with pale expression. 

“What can be so important that some random bitch ass asshole calling you? Is it an angel or those prestigious goddesses? Tell them I’m fucking busy and mind their own business! Go on and suck their own dicks while their at it if it keeps them company-”

“It's the Almighty.”

Just like that Panty’s lost all color and became pale while with a horrified scared expression on her face, realizing what she was saying. “... I’m so dead…” She said in a horrified voice. Walking to Stocking while nervously speaking and her entire body shaking. “H-H-Hello sir?”

Back with Greg and Taylor, they finished up with butchering the monster Komodo Dragons. 

“You two did marvelous.” An older woman said to them from behind. 

Turning around Greg and Taylor saw who was speaking to them, an obese woman with bleached blond bob-hairs cut with a business suit, accompanying her were two heavy guards. 

“You two must be the new capes that wanted to join us, correct? My name is Emily Piggot. I’m the director of PRT ENE.” the woman introduced herself. “It is a pleasure meeting you two young men and women.”

“It's not a big deal, Director Piggot.” Greg said to her. “We only did what's right.” 

“Indeed you have, I have heard from Glory Girl (Greg: Is it a weird name? Piggot: Yes, I tried to convince her when she joined to change her name. It was only until later she realized what it was and it was too late to change it) and Armsmaster you and your companions wanted to join the PRT.”

“That is correct ma’am. We did want to join but uhhhh.” Greg turned to the corpses of the monster Komodo Dragon. 

“Yes I saw and the guard has told me of your theory. You're not wrong, someone from the ABB has been smuggling the Komodo Dragons by using the PRT.” Director Piggot said to Greg with a scowl. 

“So it's actually true?” Greg said in astonishment.

“Unfortunately.” Piggot responded back to Greg. “It seems I need to find those cockroaches before they’ll spread rapidly, something like this happening under our noses.”

“Well, at least we got good materials out of this mess,” Greg said, looking at the silver lining.

“Yes, there is that at least.” Piggot agreed. “And it’s good to know there are some kids that know basic survival skills.” Shaking her head. “Would you like to come with me to my office, all four of you?” She asked them. 

“I’d be happy to ma’a-”

“Sorry! Not possible! We have to go!” Panty interrupted them, pulling Greg as Stocking did the same with Taylor. 

“Wha-Hey! What are you doing!?” 

“No time to explain! We need to go now!” Stocking said to Taylor.

Greg was about to say something but from the look of Panty and Stocking’s expression, both were pale, likely something must’ve happened. For some reason Greg and Taylor felt this was important. And Panty’s is not making any sultry comments or getting into any mens pants, plus Stockings not holding a single pastry.

“Uhhhh, we’ll be back ma’am! I’m sorry to cut this short!” Greg said to director Piggot. 

“Like what my boyfriend said!” Taylor followed Greg as they jumped out of the window. 

Back in Greg’s base

“Alright what’s this about Panty’s?” Greg asked Panty. “What’s so important you dragged us out of a directors meeting?” 

Panty swallowed her throat and was sweating, still having a scared expression. 

“He…..He wants to talk to you……both of you?”

“Who?” Taylor asked in confusion, not understanding what they were referring to. 

Stockings did not say anything and placed her hand over a hardline telephone which the magic circle glowed for a bit, handing the phone to them. 

Greg and Taylor raised an eyebrow before Greg took the phone, knowing it was in speaker. 

“Hello? Who’s this?”

“This is the Almighty.”

…….. The person that spoke in a deep voice that sounded like it was echoing. Greg and Taylor now understood why Panty and Stocking were so nervous and scared. This being was the master of the YGGDRASIL system and the head boss of Heavens itself. 

“...... Yes, your highness?” Greg asked while trying to make sure not to feel scared which was shared by Taylor. 

“It has come to my attention that you and your companion have repelled against the monster hordes, correct?” 

“T-That is correct sir,” Taylor answered, a bit of a stutter in her voice. Her and Greg were both wondering where this was going, but didn’t want to ask out loud and seem rude. Instead she asked, “Did we… do something wrong?”

“They haven’t told you have they?” 

“About what sir?”

“Look at the television.” 

Confused about what the Almighty was saying to them, Greg grabbed a remote which a TV descended down towards them before turning on the television, showing the news channel and something else entirely.

“Society is changing as we speak! We have gotten reports that the animals have turned into monsters due to the mana being introduced. The PRT capes have suffered numerous injuries not too soon after we all returned from the other world.”

“Thats right, but that isn’t the worst news.”

“What's that, Gerold.”

“It appears that across the world reports show there’s a crack in reality which, I kid you not, there's literally cracks across the world.”

Images shown of some reality cracks which showed different types of color, red, blue, yellow, purple, and dark. 

“Officials do not know what is going on and-whats this?” 

A monstrous hand emerges from the reality cracks. 

“Is that what I think it i-”

ROOOOAAAARRRRRR!

Immediately hordes of monsters emerged from the portals as the camera man was jumped by a Goblin, static glitches. 

“RICK YOU THERE? RICK!”

“CODE RED! CODE RED! CUT THE CHANNEL! CUT THE CHANNEL!”

BEEP!

The channel was cut. 

“....”

“...”

Both turned to Panty and Stocking who both showed very nervous expressions. “Uh… We thought that would happen way later than this…” Panty said, sweating, and chuckling nervously.

“... Almighty… Permission to… to… I don’t know what, I’m too angry to think of a proper punishment right now,” Taylor stated in an article cold angered tone of voice, sending shivers down the two angles’ spines.

“Permission granted.”

Just then, hundreds, if not thousand, of Hornets flew into the base, all their stingers pointed at the two hugging angels.

Stocking did the only thing that seemed reasonable to save herself from a fate of being stung, and that was throwing Panty under the bus. “She told me to wait and tell you until she thought you were ready and didn’t want to be bothered or hassled with telling you about more bad news.”

Panty looked betrayed by her sister. “You traitors bitch!”

“She also bribed me with thirteen boxes of a baker's dozen pastries as well,” Stocking added.

Taylor glared at the blond angel. “... So, I only have you to punish then, huh…?”

Panty started to scoot away, Stocking hiding behind Greg, as the Hornets slowly flew closer to her. “N-Now, now, l-let’s not be rash here. I-I swear I thought this would take at least a year to happen…” She tried to explain to them, not wanting to be a stung swollen mess. “W-We already had to worry about monsters, I didn’t want you freaking out about Kaijus and what not… Even though you actually tamed one.”

“But you COULD’VE told us something like this was about to happen didn’t you?” Taylor questioned, her anger making the Hornets buzz louder, ready to strike Panty.

Panty didn’t look directly at them. “Weeeeeeeeeell………” Panty couldn’t come up with a good reason on the spot.

“You wasted your last words.”

BZZZZZTTT!

“GAAAAAAAAHHHHH!” Panty shouted and ran as swarms of hornets were flying around her, scrambling to not get stung by them. 

Greg slowly turned to Tayllor and asked, “You were waiting for an excuse to do that to her for a while, weren’t you?”

“This was just the nail in the coffin,” Taylor stated. She then let out a sigh. “So not only do we have to deal with empowered animals of our world, villain capes, and whatever powerups the Edbringes have-”

“Didn’t we get told that they were sent-?” Greg interrupted, but was cut off by Taylor.

“With everything that’s happening!? I’m not taking that posability off the table! And now we have to deal with interdimensional monsters, from fantasy settings to full on Kaijus movies!” Taylor shouted, letting out all her frustrations. She then took a deep breath and calmed down. “Sorry, I need to get that off my chest.”

“It's fine.”

“Onto matters aside, what Judgement’s daughters have forgotten to inform you. You do not know what they are correct?” 

“I’m going to take a wild guess and a shot in the dark and say dimensional monsters that crossed into our world do to the mana of our Earth making portals that connect to ours?” Greg asked. “How close am I?”

“You are the correct, young man. The reason why this is happening is ‘cause the system YGGDRASIL has become faulty, glitches and bugs have been spreading rapidly. It has become unstable that it began attracting beings from other dimensions, not just the monsters but other pocket dimensions.”

“How is this possible?” Greg asked the Almighty. “What happened to the YGGDRASIL system?”

“I have not located the source nor does my companions, The eternal darkness, the everlasting light, and the music of nothing, the problem lies either something has been tampering within the system or someone breached it.”

“You mean someone was able to hack the system?” Greg asked in astonishment. 

“I am not a blind fool or idiot to admit the system is faulty. Which is why I need your help.”

“What can we do?” Taylor asked, unsure of how they could help. “We might have been helpful in our last two monster raids, but I don’t think we’re qualified to do computer maintenance work on the World Tree Computer if that’s what you’re asking.”

“I know you two aren’t capable of fixing the system, what I mean is this. Peorth and Urd have told me that you two have specialized in various skills, blacksmithing, architecture and runes. Tell me, how good are you with building materials and rune carving?”

“Well we did max out the classes for them,” Greg admitted, unsure where this was going. “Does that help?”

“More than enough, as of right now, I will be assigning you two a quest. You two will be making dungeons of Earth.”

“... We’ll be making what to the what now?” Taylor asked, not sure she heard right.

“Hold on a second! Making dungeons?” Greg asked, taken aback from the unexpected response from the Almighty. “Uhhh no offense sir but why us? We don’t even know a single thing about making dungeons, in fact how’re we supposed to do that?”

“Clearly you two don’t understand. Both of you for the past 5,000 years have honed your skills and areas of field you trained with my two goddesses. Greg Vader, your forging skills has reached to divine level, becoming what blacksmith has dreamed to become, and Taylor Herbert your alchemy, potion making and runic enchantment match even Urd’s skills, who is the greatest alchemist, potion maker and runic enchanter of heaven itself. The skills both you two possess is enough.”

“I……. I don’t know what to say sir. I’ll be honest, how can we even make dungeons? We don’t even know how to build them.” Greg said to the Almighty.

“I wouldn’t choose you two if it hadn't been for the situation of YGGDRASIL but desperate times call for desperate measures. You already have the workshop, Judgement's daughters will give you what you need as I already sent them materials to create the dungeon. Can you please disperse the hornets on Panty?”

Taylor nodded, halting the hornets for now, making Panty sigh in relief.

“Panty.” the Almighty called out to her.

“Y-YES SIR!” Panty saluted him before waving her hand. Showing a screen which were blueprints for the dungeon.

“Stockings.”

Stocking nodded her head and showed various materials. 

“Bloodiron Ingot, Howlsteel, Graveiron, Graveiron, all materials that higher beings such as us use which are not available on Earth. Everything you need to make the dungeons.” 

Taylor and Greg looked at the otherworldly allows and minerals in shock and awe.

“Whoa,” was Greg's response, picking up an ingot, inspecting it, and was amazed by its quality.

“You can say that again,” Taylor agreed, looking at an ingot as well, already thinking of what runes to use.

“That’s otherworldly materials for ya,” Stocking stated, already organizing the materials.

“... Wait, can we put the essence of these materials in our weapons? We might be able to get drops from monsters if we get new forms of these materials,” Greg thought about it outloud. “If not, stronger weapons and more skill trees.”

Taylor thought about it. “I guess that makes sense. We’d need more if we run out of what we were given, and I don’t feel right just taking resources when Heaven might need them. But we should only take a small shaving off them to feed our weapons.”

“You can have what's left of it, leftovers you can say. I trust you two will not fail. Good luck.”

BEEP!

With that, the Almighty has disconnected the phone line. 

Both Greg and Taylor looked at the blueprints as they kept their attention for a bit, examining each part of the blueprints.

“Well what do you think, big guy?” Panty’s asked him(despite being filled with stings). “Seems impossible? If its really that hard then its not a big deal-”

THUD!

“OW!” Panty’s shouted in pain as it hit one of the stung areas before glaring at her sister. “What the fuck was that for Stockings?!”

“The Almighty chose those two for a reason Panty’s. If the Almighty made his decision we cannot argue with him.” 

“Are you really that dumb? They’re humans for fuck sake! No offense but creating a dungeon something like that would take at least divine blacksmiths gods to even create one-”

“Yes it might be difficult but if I rewrite the structures around, add a bit more of the layers between each floor and hardwire them to store electricity, generating them through cogs, and a self sustaining generator, hmmmmm. It can be run by bioelectricity or even magic-”

“Or I can make a runic layline structure system to imitate the functions to act as powerlines, and have it so that the energy can be converted through mana, solar, wind, water, kinetic energy and so on and so forth,” Taylor cut in, seeing where Greg was going with this and adding in her own ideas. “This would cause the mechanisms to generate the power while feeding the dungeon power to its systems. And if we need back up in case a rune gets damaged, we can make the generators to be back ups in case we need to redo a rune.”

“That can work, and cut down on the material usage as well,” Greg agreed, liking his girlfriend’s ideas. “You think you can use your Alchemy to create the bioelectricity generators?”

“I can, yes, I just need to make sure that they run properly.”

Stockings and Panty’s were taken back with what they were saying, Panty couldn’t get half of what they were saying but Stockings was impressed, listened to their construction ideas and already knew the foundations. 

“Huh? What the fuck are you saying? Its all so fucking confusing! Say it in English!”

“You two already grasped blueprints, impressive but it won’t be easy building them.” Stockings said to them.

“Heh, easy?” Greg snorted, smirking. “We’ve spent the last 5,000 years on Earth, if there’s one thing I learned, nothing's easy and nothing's impossible.” Greg said, taking off his jacket with his shirt on (which Panty had hearts on her eyes from the chiseled rock hard muscles he has) and put on blacksmith goggles. 

Taylor got her outfit changed as well. It was similar to Greg’s blacksmithing outfit but for carving/chiseling/etching around magical chemicals, like a chemist in a fantasy setting. It did show off her hourglass figure as well.

“Let's get started shall we?” Greg said with a smile.

Taylor stretched, popping her fingers. “Let’s. I haven’t had this kind of spark of creation in a while~” Taylor stated, smiling.

To Be Continued…

AN: 

And that's a wrap folks! How are you feeling now Light/Xara now you're out of the hospital? 

Light/Xara: Better, but if I see another document, or another cup of coffee, it’ll be too soon. Anyways… (Looks at screen) … Oh bolics…

Now what?

Light/Xara: (Shows screen to him) Looks like Dungeons are showing faster then we anticipated…
Wait what are you talking abo-OH FUCK! 

Light/Xara: And it looks like the Almighty already set up a plan to bottleneck the rifts for the dungeons, so good news there.

Yes but we have to worry about those rifts! I know for a fact that YGGDRASIL system would not fuck up to dimensional level!(Considering Skadi is focused on fixing the system as a system manager(Self proclaimed))

Light/Xara: Well I don’t know what to tell you, okay? This whole thing is just a major headache. … Are we sure the entity that gives shards isn’t to blame for all the bugs?

Hold on a second, I sense a taint of demonic corrosion taint.

Light/Xara: Demonic what now? Is that from the 40K universes? Those four Demon Gods?

The system has a recording! Now let's see who it was.

Underworld

“The virus has been sent to the YGGDRASIL system my lord.” A red skinned woman in a business suit spoke on the phone. She has dark red skin, long baby blue hair fading to blue tied in a ponytail, and a single horn on her upper forehead. She has small fangs, including one that appears visible. 

“Hah! They all cared about how invincible their precious little omnipotent system is when its getting fucked up by a virus!” Another woman said in an arrogant tone, she has pale green spiky hair which barely fades to a light teal. Her hair is usually long and she also has red skin. 

“Watch your tone sister.” The woman spoke to her sister, Kneesack said to her older sister Scanty.

“You two wouldn’t have made it as far if it wasn’t for my guidance,” another demon, this one having normal skin color, but had red eyes and red tribal markings on her face, with long bond hair, which she waved back with her hand pompously.

“Who the fuck is asking you Mara!” 

“You two, after you heard how I made it past YGGDRASI’s systems before~ You two were very helpless, and almost got caught multiple times~”

Tickmarks formed on Kneesack and Scanty’s heads, wanting to kill this arrogant bitch.

“You wanna die bitch?!”

“O~hohoho! I’m a being above you lowly imps!”

“IMPS?! YOU FUCKING CALL US IMPS YOU UGLY BIMBO ASS LICKING PIECE OF SHIT!”

“HOW DARE YOU-!?”

“Silence.”

BOOM!

The three quickly stood in attention, after almost tripping to the ground from the shockwave, saluting their commanding officer for this operation.

TAP!

TAP!

TAP!

TAP!

From there walking through the dark halls, torches instantly lit with blue fire as from there arrived one of the rulers of Hell, the underworld, Hades (Saint Seiya version).

“My lord! You returned!” Mara greeted the lord of the underworld. “How was your trip with the blazing Hell?”

“The candle realm is barely but a mere threat whenever part of their flames is snuffed out and easily extinguished. They now bend their knees to me.”

“Excellent work my lord! Now the Blazing realm is under your command sir!”

“Enough with the theatrics. The YGGDRASIL system is malfunctioning, correct?’

“That is correct my lord.” Kneesock said to Hades as he walked to his throne and sat on it. “It's under the guise that there are bugs in the system and haven’t located the virus. It's going smoothly now that it has weakened the dimensional barriers. And the best part is that Earth Bet is still undergoing the Great Cataclysm.”  

“Lady Hild will be so pleased, she might promote me~ O~hohoho!” Mara said, doing the Ojou laugh again.

“I think you meant US,” Scanty corrected, both her and Kneesack glaring at her.

“Enough.” Hades barked, making the three get back in line. “I am… pleased… to see that you three pulled this plan off. It seems your father has made the right decision.” Hades said to Scanty and Kneesocks. 

“Thank you, My Lord.”

“And me, my lord?” Mara asked. “Was Lady Hild’s chose in me being sent in the right decision as well~?”

“.......”

“M-My Lord?” Mara asked, sweating a bit.

“Hah! He doesn’t say anything ‘cause there ain’t any worth saying to you!” Scanty mockingly said to Mara, pointing at her.

“SHUT IT YOU!”

“No arguments.” Hades said, once causing them to immediately stop and bow to the Underworld god not before glaring at each other. Hades continues. “How long will the virus consume YGGDRASIL?”

“It will be slow, My Lord,” Mara informed. “A few millennia in Earth time. If we did it too fast, it would have been spotted right away.”

“The good news is that the Almighty is working on the system alone with his comrades being bedridden from managing the system for 5 millennia so we have only limited time.”

“I see.”

“Sir, if you're planning on invading heaven I don’t think it would be right now.” Scanty said in a serious tone. 

“The victor is the one that waits for the right opportunity to strike when the opponent is at their weakest. Waiting is part of that.” Hades said in a scowl while touching his chest. “And I’m not an idiot when I know that I’m still weak, that fucking Zeus.” Hades scowls in fury.

The demons stayed silent, not wanting to accrue his wrath onto themselves. 

“Scanty, Kneesocks, you two are to head to the human world.”

“What?” Scanty was taken aback by what their lord was saying. 

“HAHAHAHA! Seems like Lord Hades has no use for the both of you useless sisters!” 

“Wanna say that to my face bitch-!?”

“Do I need to remind you all again?” 

“No my Lord,” All three said at once, getting back to attention.

“Good, as I was saying before I was rudely interrupted, your father, the king of Northern Hell has requested to let you two go to the human world and prove yourself to me.” 

“... Prove ourselves?” they asked, confused.

“... How would they do that sir?” Mara asked, also confused about all this.

“I want you both to make it so everything is harder on Earth, make it more chaotic, spread mayhem. This will help increase our and Hell’s power.”

“What!?” Mara shouted in shock. “But I’m Demon First Class! That should be my job! As well as making people sell their souls or something powerful to grant wishes!”

“If you must. We do need more leeway in our power. … And I do know a group of villains that would be willing enough to work with you.” Hades then projected an image of a certain villain group.”I heard that this group is the worst of the worst. Perfect for our foothold.”

“We won’t let you down my lord.” Scanty said as she and Kneesock bowed to Hades.

“Excuse me but what about me?!” 

“You're needed elsewhere, you have more access to the system. Make sure the virus is running smoothly and Mara, I suggest you watch what your saying or else you’ll end up like the rest of the maggots that are easily disposed of.” 

Mara stiffened, gulped and saluted. “F-Foregive me for my rudeness My Lord.”

Hades then turned around and started walking off. “You all have your missions. See to them, and do not fail us… or else…”
“We will not fail you, my lord.”

AN: Part 2

Light/Xara: … Ah crapbaskets…

……You’ve got to be kidding me, Hades?! That sunnvabitch! Zeus TOLD us that he has dealt with his brother! 

Light/Xara: You know there are multiple versions of Hades… correct? Might have done a switch with a different version of himself.

Zeus didn’t see it coming, neither did all of us. If Hades is alive then that would explain the cause of dimensional disruption ‘cause his power is enough to be literally universal level.

Light/Xara: And he has those two demons from Panty and Stocking’s corner of the multiverse. As well as Hild’s most loyal subordinate… Lovely. But… (tries to see who the villain group is that they want to work with) I can’t see who Hades was projecting. I can’t get a good angle. Can you see Dark?

…..Oh god, not him, for the love of god no!

Light/Xara: What, it can’t be tha- (Finally sees the projection of the villain group… and nearly had a heart attack) HE WANTS TO RECRUIT THOSE PHYCOS!?
Let's just end the chapter so we have enough time to panic. 

Light/Xara: Right, do that quickly so we can report this to the Almighty. Thank you for reading. We hope you enjoyed the chapter and would like to hear commentary on what to add in and what skills and powers should be added. Also, like the story and leave a Kudo. Okay, now can we get to telling the Almighty?

Be sure to leave a review and check out my co authors profile, he makes good shit and yes we can get to telling the Almighty. 

Light/Xara: Good, because this is an 11 out of 10 on the scale of how bad this all is.

(Both head to the Almighty)

Please R&R

Chapter Text

Hello everyone! My name is Darklord331 and today we are bringing you a new chapter of the story! I’m here with my good friend Light He’arth/Xarazechi!

Light/Xara: Hey. So… I have good news and bad news… Which do you want to hear first?

Give me the bad news.

Light/Xara: Bad news, I found out if we don’t take this virus out completely, it has a kill switch trojan horse program to summon every type of magic computer bug that will affect the damn tree.

Oh you gotta be fucking with me! That’s the reason why the dimensional barriers broke and caused dimensional rift to open and invade? 

Light/Xara: Yep, but I still have the good news.

What is it? 

Light/Xara: I have found the location of where the virus is placed in, and have already got Skuld helping me with building the aint-virus to kill the damn thing worse than an anticipated series that was canceled last minute.

Skuld? You're having the child goddess prideful arrogant goddess helping you? 

Light/Xara: (Shrugs) Hey, bratty she may be, she’s really good at her job of debugging the tree.

Fair point. 

Light/Xara: We have it… uh… 75% completed just need a few more magical items and interdimensional coding to get it there.

How many are we talking here?

Light/Xara: (Looks away, sheepishly) A couple… hundred… more…

How. Many?

Light/Xara: … 700 more pieces we need to get, and 500 more layers of coding to do… This virus is that nasty.

….

Light/Xara: (Gets concerned by how quiet Dark got) … Uh… Dark… You okay man?

(Literally spasm and convulses like Peter having a spasm attack from singing bird is the word)

THUD!

(Before falling unconscious.)

Light/Xara: (Winced) And I thought my mental state was bad from 5000 years of paperwork and coffee… Uh… Dark and I do not own any of the franchises shown in the tags above, they belong to their rightful creators and owners, we just use the ideas we have and OCs we create. Now if you excuse me… I need to get Dark to the medical wing… (Picks Dark up in a Fireman’s carry and rushes him to said wing)

Chapter 3: Gates and Dungeon, a DIY guide

Greg’s Base

Timeskip 3 days

BAM!

BAM! 

BAM!

BAM!

Greg was hammered constantly at a Mana Stone with full concentration. They followed the instructions of the anarchy sisters (Which is suited for them (Dark: Honestly, it actually makes sense for Panty and Stocking to be called literally Anarchy sisters. Light: I thought that was the two demon sisters? Xara: Both, have you seen how much damage those four cause in the same facility?) to make sure he didn’t accidentally break it with a misstep. They didn’t have many Mana Stones to waste.

CHINNING!

CHINNING!

CHINNING!

CHINNING!

After a mana stone was finished being forged, Taylor delicately etched in the small, if not microscopic, but very complex rune codec systems in each part, following the instructions to a T by the sister. One wrong rune would either make it useless… or blow them all to Kingdom Kong… And maybe most of Brockton Bay as well.

“Holy shit, they’ve been working for three whole days!” Panty’s said in shock. “They worked all day and all night and they don’t seem like their not dropping their eyes, its as if their fucking high!” 

“What do you expect Panty?” Stocking said to her sister while eating muffins… that was the size of her head. “Don’t you remember Urd and Peorth told us that these two were exceptional? They trained for 5,000 years.”

“Why aren’t you shocked?”

“Oh I am, but I’m not surprised. These two humans, Greg and Taylor, Urd told us to not underestimate them. And I agree with her.” 

“I honestly thought she was blowing smoke out her fat ass,” Panty stated.

THUD!

“ARGH!”

Panty was hit by a hammer courtesy by Taylor who still focused on rune carving and also managed to throw a hammer that hit Panty right on the head.

“You do remember that Urd and Peorth are her and Greg’s girlfriends as well, right?” Stocking asked her sister, having finished her muffin, and now eating a giant lollypop.(Dark: Where the fuck does she keep getting those sweets? Light: Pocket Dimension/Hammer Space? Xara: Or a personal Bag of Infinite Holding. Wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what her toy plash is.)

Greg wiped the sweat off his forehead. “Alright, that should be at least 3 dungeons.” he said before giving Taylor the blue cube. 

Taylor immediately scribbled them, carving runes into the dungeon carefully. 

She soon finishes. 

“It's done.” She said while three dungeons floated above her palms.

Panty was still in shock at these two’s potential, even without Mana so far. “You two… I can’t believe you two ACTUALLY pulled off making dungeons, not just one, but, father almighty above, three of them. Are you two sure you're actually human?”

“Of course we are.” Greg said to her, smiling. “You just underestimate us.”

[Ding!

(Blacksmith) Class is Evolving

(Blacksmith) Class has now Evolved into the (Battlesmith) Class

(Battlesmith) Class in now Level 9 do to saved up Levels

(Alchemist/Potion) Class is Evolving

(Alchemist/Potion) Class has now Evolved into the (Transmuter) Class

(Transmuter) Class in now Level 9 do to saved up Levels]

If Panty’s jaw could drop further, it would have. “D-Did you just evolve your Classes…?”

“Not surprising,” Stocking said, throwing the lollipop stick away, and now eating a box of donuts. “They did do something worthy of evolving them.”

“What? What just happened?” Greg said in confusion. 

“You fucking evolved thats what!” Panty shouted at them. 

“............Huh?”

“What my brain dead idiot of a sister means (Hey!) is that your classes evolved. The two of your classes were [Blacksmith] And [Alchemist/Potion]. It reached to the bootleg of that it requires a cataclysm to evolve you two need to reach an ascension, basically evolving your classes to unique class.” Stocking explained to them, making the two teen’s eyes widen in shock.

“Wait, so we actually made our classes even stronger?” Taylor asked in shock. “Does that mean we have new abilities and powers to go with them?”

“Essentially yes.” Stocking answered Taylor. “Unique classes are people who are reaching the pinnacle of their powers. Humanity used to have unique classes when they were in another world. All of them had skills, abilities and evolved classes that matches their skills.” 

“Huh, that’s… kinda cool to be honest,” Taylor admitted. “Can you Evolve other Classes into Unique Classes as well, or is it just one class? I just want to make sure if we choose other normal classes and grind them like Greg would say, only to not be able to evolve them.”

“It's only for one class that relates to their own proficiency.” 

Taylor nodded in understanding. “Just making sure. Thanks.” Taylor then went back on topic. “Now that that’s explained, we should get back on topic. Where do we place the Dungeons we crafted?”

“Best guess, one of the closest rifts,” Greg answered. He looked at the angel sister. “That is correct, isn’t it?”

“That’s up to the heavens' decision on where the dungeons will be placed, speaking off.” Panty took out her phone and dialed a number which it rang for a bit before a number was answered. “Yeah………..its me-oh fuck you too bitch! … I can say whatever the fuck I want to say! … I don’t care if it’s not angelic like! … Just get your fucking ass down here and tell us where you want the damn dungeons to be placed! ...... Don’t try to act all fucking smarty its your fault that I’m down here in the first place!........... When I get back to heaven I swear to the Almighty God I will beat the shit out of you that no one will reconize who the fuck this bitch is! ..............Ugh fine! The dungeons are built by those two humans who did it…………….. I’M NOT FUCKING LYING JUST GET SOMEONE DOWN HERE!”

CLICK!

“This is why I hate the other angles, high and mightier, holy then thou sticks in the fucking mud…” Panty growled out. 

“Uhhhh, who was that?”

“No one important, she said that they’ll send some angels down.”

“And how long would they be arriving?”

SHING!

“Right now.” Panty’s said as a light pillar shined above them, brightening the room as few angels descended down from above and from there were humanoid figures with angelic robes that heavily concealed their figures and hoods with shadows covering their entire face. 

“......I take it these are angels as well?”

“Yup, some of the lower rung ones. They’re basically inters to become full fledged angels.” Panty stated, waving off the angles that came, making a few of them ticked off by her flippancy.

“Be nice to them Panty.”

“Shut it you! You just like them cause they give you sweets!” Panty shouted to her sister, which the angels did have bundles of sweets that Stockings gladly took. 

“Thank you,” Stocking thanked them, making Panty slackjawed.

“Why is SHE getting treatment!?"

“Shut it you.”

“THATS IT I’M GONNA-!”

“That’s gonna have to wait Panty.” One of the angels raised his arm, stopping Panty mid speech. Turning to Greg and Taylor. “So I take it that both of you are the ones who created the dungeons? 3 of them?”

“Yup, we did.” Greg nodded his head to the angel while Taylor showed them the dungeon cubes that floated above her palm.

“Thats actually pretty impressive, for a human like you.” Another angel complimented them. “Normally it would take at least years to complete a dungeon, for humans. The only ones that can build the dungeons that fast are gods of forges.” 

“And this runemanship, it’s top tear,” a female angel stated, looking at Taylor’s rune script. “Only gods of writing could only get this detailed and complexe at this size. It is impressive to say the least.”

“Well it certainly beats paying them to build the dungeons.” Another angel said.

“Thanks-wait hold on, paying them?” Greg was about to say something but caught on what the angel said. 

“Didn’t Panty and Stocking tell you? It's expensive to ask the other gods to build the dungeons as they cost a fortune, almost a dime a dozen.” The angel said to them.

Taylor and Greg turned to Panty and Stocking. “No… No they did NOT, in fact, tell us we could get PAID to build dungeons," Taylor informed the angels.

“We were only told that WE could build them, nothing along the line of payment,” Greg added in.

Panty and Stocking sweat while looking nervous.

“Uhhhhh, hehehehe, y-yeah. I………….. kinda forgot……… to mention that………” Panty said with a nervous smile. 

“I told you to tell them sis,” Stocking stated. “I told you NOT to repeat what you did with the rifts. … I knew I shouldn’t have let you handle this matter.”

“She was probably too engrossed at watching my boyfriend work…” Taylor said in a dark tone.

“HEY DON’T BLAME ME! YOU ALSO COULD’VE TOLD THEM BUT YOU TOO BUSY STUFFING YOUR ASS WITH SWEETS!” Panty shouted at her sister. 

“....................... I refuse to comment on that.” Stocking simply said. 

Taylor pinched the bridge of her nose. “... So how much is it to get paid to build one?”

“This much, the above is heaven’s currency while the bottom is human currency.” The angel said while showing them a tablet.

Both Greg and Taylor took a look over it. 

“Three thousand heaven coins for a dungeon plus 500 for rune scribing. Heaven coins are equal to fifty thousand dollars which……………… means its………………………… 175 MILLION DOLLARS?!” At this point, Greg even wonders if he could feel having a heart attack. Taylor was so glad she could shift her mental strain to her bugs, otherwise she may have had a stroke from the sheer shock of how much money they could get, she could help pay the bill and help the Dock Workers as well!

“This… A lot… So much…” Greg sputtered out, not having the same luck as Taylor.

“Yeah, but no worries, at least you're doing it for free right?” The angel asked them.

“....... Excuse us for one moment.” Greg said to them as he and Taylor both walked to Panty.

“Uhhhh, what do you want?” Panty asked them while feeling terror for some reason, before she could do anything, the giant moth grabbed her shirt collar and lifted her up. “HEY WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU FUZZY BALD INSECT?!”

Greg grabbed Panty as they all entered a room. 

All is silent before-

BAM!

BOOM!

THUD! 

WHACK!

One angel leaned over to ask Stocking. “Shou-Should we be worried about her…?”

MREOW!

BEEP!

NEEEIIIGGGGHHHH!

AY-EE-AY-OOOH!

YAHOHOHOHOY!

“... Honestly… I’m just glad I wasn’t dragged in as well…” Stocking said, shivering.

Both Greg and Taylor got out of the room, looking all calmed down. 

“Alright I’m good.” Greg said while he and Taylor walked to the other angels while Panty dragged herself out of the room as her face was full of bruises and multiple visible bumps above her head.

“.......Ow.” Panty groaned in pain.

The angels and Stocking winced seeing the blond angel like that. ‘Yikes…’ was the collective thought of the hooded angels.

“Well glad it's out of my system.” Taylor said while feeling relaxed. 

“Getting back to the topic what's next for the dungeon.” Greg asked the angels. 

“It's pretty simple, it may be hard but it won’t be that hard. We’ll be connected to the system YGGDRASIL, we’ll connect its energy and will be directed towards the dungeon which you need to infuse with it.” The female angel said to Greg. “The only hard part you have to do is merge the YGGDRASILS power to the dungeon thus completing the dungeon. The system will place the dungeons on every corner of the world.” 

“And let me guess… One tiny screw up in anything when placing these in, from the wrong position to one wrong calculation, and we might make the rifts even worse?” Taylor asked.

“That is correct.” 

Greg looked at the dungeons for a moment before having a determined look on his expression. 

Taylor did the same, she wanted to be a hero when she got her powers. This was just being a hero.

They both looked at each other and nodded in silent understanding. “Where do we go first?” they both asked.

“Just hold the dungeon in your hands while we get access to the YGGDRASIL.” The angel said to them

They did so as instructed while the angels placed their hands over their shoulders. 

“Are you ready?” 

“More than ready.”

After they agreed, the angels then sent their powers through Greg and Taylor, and it was excruciating. Taylor was no stranger to pain, having been bullied by THOSE three for two years, but this was far different.

Greg and Taylor gritted their teeth as soon as they heard the system speaking.

[Dungeon connected]

[Seed]: A-Θ93F / [Ward Signature]: SERAPH-CLASS

[Attunement]: 0% → 12% → 34% → 57% → 81% → 96% → 100%

[Notice]: Bio-load exceeding safe threshold. Continue? Y/N → Y

[Recalibrating…] phase 1/5

    — Stabilizing Soul/Kernel clock… OK

    — Normalizing Essence throughput… OK

    — Error: Divergent trauma imprint (TAYLOR). Compensating… OK

    — Error: Conduit drift (GREG). Phase-locking… OK

[Topology Forge]: INIT

    — Graph nodes: ROOMS (17) | HALLS (41) | VAULTS (3)

    — Boss instancing… ARBITER-ID: M-IX

    — Hazard weights… 0.72

    — Loot tables… SYNCED

[DUNGEON CONNECTED]

THUD!

Both Greg and Taylor dropped to their knees and pant with heavy sweat. 

“Holy… Crap…” Taylor breathed out, trying to catch her breath. “That…”

“Are we… going to have to… do that… with every dungeon…?” Greg asked, gulping in lungfulls of air.

“Hopefully not.” The angel said to them.

[Ding! You have created [Glacial Maw] Dungeon]

[Ding! Level up!

(Battlesmith) is now Level 13

(Completed artifacts/items quality has increased)

(Transmuter) is now Level 13

(Alchemical creations/transmutations and potency has increased)]

“.....Wow. Our classes leveled up.” Greg said, finally catching his breath. 

“See? The Almighty was never wrong with his judgement! He was right to trust the both of you!” The angel said, praising them. “You two did it! You completed a dungeon, much less in your first try.”

“That's amazing! It normally takes 10 tries or more to even make a dungeon.” Another angel complimented them. 

“... You’re joking,” Taylor said in a deadpan. “10 tries to ACTUALLY make a dungeon?” She then muttered to herself. “Ether karma is giving me good fortune with interest… or we’re that damn lucky and good at this…”

“Probably both.” Stocking said while licking another giant lollipop. (Dark: For future context this is not based on karma, luck or authors being biased with their character (Maybe a little). It's ‘cause Greg and Taylor have trained for 5 thousand years and all that experience is not put into waste. This is the result of their constant hard work. Light: As the saying goes ‘I do not fear the man that practiced 1000 punches once, but the man that practiced 1 punch 1000 times’. Xara: … Did you really have to quote Bruce Lee on that?)

[Setting coordinates for Dungeon. Placement … Delivery acknowledged. Dungeon instantiated at target.]

WHOOSH!

The completed dungeon shot through the air and disappeared from their view. 

“From what you heard the system has said, it’ll place the dungeon somewhere either nearby, close, or far away.”

“......You can’t tell or make a decision where the dungeons should be placed in?”

“Hey we don’t manage the system, the system is already fucked up and the angel technicians are too busy fixing it.” The angel said to them.

“......You're an angel, are you not supposed to say cursed words?”

“Eh its cause the YGGDRASIL is glitching out and bugs in the system so we can say whatever the fuck we want.”

“AHA! THATS WHY THE PURITY SYSTEM DIDN’T FUCKING STRIKE AT US! I KNEW IT! I’M FREE FROM THAT DAMN SHITTY SYSTEM!” Panty shouted in victory. (Dark: Oh no, that's why the purity system hasn’t stricken her. The system is still too damn faulty! Light: I just got it fixed, and quarantined from the virus. Xara: So it should be shocking her… right… about…)

[Purity system activate]

Panty paled seeing this.

[Ding! Detecting malicious cardinal sin!]

BUZZZ!

“GAAAAAHHHHHHHH!” Panty shouted, getting so electrocuted, she was covered in black soot, and coughed up some. “... Why does it feel like I’m getting picked on…?”

“Maybe if you weren’t being so damn horny all the time or obsessed with sleeping with thousands of men in one night.”

“IT’S MY DREAM AND I AIM TO CONQUER IT-”

[Ding! Detecting malicious cardinal sin!]

BUZZZ!

“GAAAAAHHHHHHHH!” Panty shouted again, getting covered in more black soot, and coughed up more. “... Okay, why isn’t my sister getting punished for her Gluttony then!?”

“Its cause I know my limits when not to commit a cardinal si-”

[Ding! Detecting malicious cardinal sin!]

POOFF!

All the sweets Stockings had disappeared and puffed up like a balloon. 

“AAAAAHHHHHHH!” Stocking let out a high pitch shriek of horror and sadness, seeing this.

Taylor winced. “... Actually feel sorry for her…”

“What about me!?” Panty shouted.

“You deserve what you get,” Taylor stated bluntly.

“FUCK YOU BITC-”

BUUZZZZZ!

“.......... I hate this system so much.” Panty said while completely covered in black soot. 

Greg sighs and picks up another dungeon cube. 

“Getting back to what we’re doing, we have a dungeon to create.” 

“Indeed we do.” The angel said as Taylor joined Greg and together they all did the same ritual again for the second one. This time with relatively easy. 

“Huh, it didn’t hurt this time.” Greg said, not looking exhausted before. 

“It would be because you weren’t used to it before.” The angel answered to Greg. 

“I’m just glad we don’t have to be in pain doing it each time,” Taylor stated, letting out a sigh of relief.

“Now for the last one.” The angel said, giving Greg and Taylor the dungeon cube.

Again they repeated the process as they seemed to be at ease and relaxed. 

“You know, you were right, it's not that hard actually.” Greg said to the other angel.

“See? What did I tell ya?” 

“I can get used to this.” Greg said while directing the energy to the dungeon.

“Me too Greg I-”

CRACK!

Taylor stopped when they saw the dungeon cube, normally blue but it was slowly turning red with black lightning statically dancing around it. 

“Uhhhh, is it normally supposed to do that?” Greg asked in confusion. Taylor also looked lose.

“I……………. honestly don’t think so?” One of the angels answered, also confused.

“?!”

Both Panty and Stocking widen their eyes when they sensed the energy, being more experienced and able to sense energy’s, the energy they felt was demonic.

“Oh fuck! GREG! TAYLOR! RUN! GET AWAY FROM IT!”

“Panty’s whats going o-?”

CRACK!

BOOM!

“GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!”

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

Both Greg and Taylor shouted in pain when they felt something literally tearing them apart, the explosion caused the angels to slam the walls behind them. Greg looked at his arm to see red energy going through his arm and visible veins and Taylor's arm as well but with green energy.

“FUCK! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?!” Taylor shouted in pain.

[WARNING! WARNING! ERROR! ERROR! SYSTEM MALFUNCTIONING! ATTEMPING CONNECTING FIREWA@#$@!##$@]

[ERROR! ERRO@#$#@!]

[CONNE!@##$@@# FAI@#@#@]

“YGGDRASIL system is fucking glitching thats whats happening! Get your fucking hands off of the dungeon!”

“I-I CAN’T! IT'S TOO STRONG!” Greg grit his teeth as he felt as if his arm was wrapped around in a tight rope. 

“WHATEVER IT IS, IT’S FORCING US TO HOLD ONTO IT, NO MATTER HOW HARD WWE TRY TO BREAK FREE FROM IT!” Taylor shouted. She tried to get bugs to try and crawl under their hands, but they were getting blown back from the force of the energy.

“GODFUCKING DAMMIT!” Quickly Panty got behind on Greg and Stocking got behind on Taylor, wrapping their arms around their waist, trying to pull them away. 

[MALF$#@$#@IONING! M$#@!$#FUN$@$@NG! #@@!$r@NG]

BZZZZZZZZT

[Archthrone protection malware detects malware]

“What is that?” Greg asked despite the pain over his arm.

“Oh no.” Stocking said in horror. “The Archthrone has detected the malware.” 

“Shit! This is not good!”

“What's not good?! And what is the Archthrone protection?!”

“Its an antivirus security that detects and purges virus and malware, a safety protocol made by the Almighty and his associates for YGGDRASIL system and if it detects malware that mean-”

[Archthrone detects malware demonic energy within the dungeon]

[YGGDRASIL system heavily unstable]

[Initiating purging sequence]

[Initiating cleansing]

WHOOSH!

A portal opened which light chains burst from the dark spiral portal and dragged the dungeon, including both Greg and Taylor.

“WHAT THE HELL?!” Greg widened his eyes before his and Taylor's arms were submerging in the portal. 

“Shit! The Archthrone thinks you two are also the virus because of the malware infecting your arms!” Panty panicked. 

“... Please tell me it’s just going to delete the virus infecting our arm,” Taylor said, hoping it wasn’t the alternative.

“It's too late! It thinks both of you are also part of the virus!” Stocking shouted as she and her system were trying to pull Greg and Taylor away as Greg held onto a metal rail and Taylor was helped by her giant moth who was pulling both her and Stocking with its mouth.

“SHIT! SHIT! SHIT! FUCK! WHAT DO WE DO!”

“The only solution is to cut off your arm! It won’t stop until the virus is purged!” Stocking shouted to them. 

“... Please tell us you have a way to regrow them if we do that?” Taylor pleaded, trying to pull her arm out.

“DO WE LOOK LIKE WE’RE FUCKING MEDICS?!” Panty shouted at Taylor as the suction was getting stronger. 

“I’m sorry, I’m trying NOT TO PANIC ABOUT BEING ERASCED FROM EXISTENCE!"

“SH-SHIT!” Greg shouted both in pain and fear before making a decision. Pulling out his blacksmith knife. 

Taylor glanced at her boyfriend and widened her eyes in horror.

“Greg, don’t tell me-”

“I have no choice! Look away Taylor!”

“No Greg! Don’t do it!”

“I’m sorry Taylor! It's the only way!” Greg raised his arm as the blade glinted before swinging it to his other arm.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”

Somewhere in Heaven

“Oh man.” The being in darkness groans in both relaxation and relief. Submerging into a jacuzzi. “5,000 years of hard work, we earned this.” Dark said to his companion. “How're you feeling Light, Xara?” 

“Better, honestly, I think this is what I needed,” Light said, sighing.

“Same, I can feel the caffeine purging out of my system,” Xara stated, sounding relaxed.

Just then a frantic angel barged into the medical/relaxation room. “WE HAVE TROUBLE!”

“It better not be another YGGDRASIL problem.” Dark said while lowering himself to the hot water. “If there’s a problem, let the Almighty deal with it.” 

“IT’S THE ANTIVIRUS PROTOCOL!”

“So what if it's the antivirus? It caught the virus and let it do its job.” Xara said, waving them off.

“YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND! IT’S ATTACKING THE TWO HUMANS!”

“Who’s the unlucky victim no-?” Dark said while making the screen project in front of him. “........Oh.” Dark simply said. “Uhhhh guys?” 

“What?” The Outer Angel and Nobody asked in unison as they looked at the screen. Both nearly choked on air when they saw who it was.

WHOOSH!

SPLASH!

“CALL IT OFF! CALL IT OFF!” Dark shouted to the angel. 

“SIR WE CAN’T! THE ARCHTHRONE HAS DETECTED THE VIRUS ENERGY LACED WITH DEMONIC ESSENCE ON THE HUMANS’ ARMS AND IT THINKS THEY’RE A PART OF THE VIRUS!”

“DID YOU NOT HEAR WHAT I FUCKING SAID?! TURN IT OFF!”

Light just ran past them in a blur of light, already clothed again, and was at his conceal. He frantically started to work on the programming, trying to abort the process of those two getting destroyed by the program.

“SIR! IF YOU DEACTIVATE IT! THE YGGDRASIL GLITCHES AND BUGS WILL BE WORSE!”

“SHUT UP!” Dark shouted to the angel, already at the command center, his dark mist already typing commands.

[Warning! Disabling Archthrone! Are you sure you want to disable the Archthrone? This action will be irreversible]

“LIGHT! XARA! READY?” Dark called out his companion which they nodded. “ON MY MARK! 3! 2! 1!”

CLICK!

[Archthrone has been disabled]

[Deactivating]

[Shutting down]

Back in Greg’s base

WHOOSH!

THUD!

Just when Greg was about to cut his arm off, the portal disappeared, making them all skid back and fall to the ground in a dog pile. 

Taylor was the first to speak up. “... What the heck just happened?”

“..... It shut down I guess?” Stocking said while offering an answer. 

“That was to fucking close!” Panty said. 

Taylor just rubbed her head as she felt a headache coming on. “Let’s just hope that this won’t come back to bite us in th-” Taylor cut herself when she saw them looking at her in shock. “... What?”

“Look at your fucking arm! It looked like it came out of Hell!” Panty bluntly shouted at Taylor.

“My what?” Taylor said in confusion before looking at her arm. “WHAT THE?!” Her arm had transformed. Instead of her normal human arm, it looked like it was made of carapace or insects. Not only that, it looked like it was moving in odd ways, like… it was being held together by… something. “WHAT ON EARTH HAPPENED TO MY ARM!?” Taylor shouted, standing up quickly.

“I have no fucking ideaaaaaaaAAAAAAHHHHHH!” Stocking was about to say something until she screamed. 

“What?! What happened this time? Did you see what happened to Taylor?” Greg said in worry.

“No, not her, YOU!” Panty shouted while pointing his arm. 

“...... Don’t tell me.” Greg said, looking down at his arm, his arm was completely gray/black, huge muscle pulses that are larger than any of his other muscles and pointed nails which are very much like claws. 

“......What the hell happened to our arms?” Greg said while looking astonished and shocked. Moving his mutated arm which acted like a normal hand but he could feel there’s something more to his arm. 

“It must be from the virus' demonic energy and the Archthrone essence.” Stocking explained, looking closely at Greg and Taylor's arms. “Your arms laced with the demonic malware which the antivirus tried to purge but when it stopped, for some reason the demonic energy and the holy antivirus essence combined with the mana residing within you two causing them to mutate, it is my only guess.” 

“... So… You’re saying we have demonic and holy energy?” Taylor asked, worried about the ramifications of this. “... Why aren’t we dead if those two are combined?"

“It's your mana.” Stocking said to them. “Somehow the mana has infused and combined both demonic and light.” 

“... Are we going to be in trouble with heaven because of this…?” Greg asked, not wanting Archangels coming down to smite them.

“You should be safe for now cause every archangel is gonna be busy managing the YGGDRASIL system and I doubt anything would happen due to the Almighty trust you two have.” Stocking informed them.

They heard the other angels groan and started to get up.

“What happened?” one angel asked, holding their head in pain.

Timeskip

After the little fiasco with the third dungeon, it was declared that the third one was a failure. The angels were explained the situation by Stocking, they agreed to look over this but for now it would be best for them to seal their arms. 

Despite the mutation, demonic power is dangerous and a deadly virus to the two humans. Both Taylor and Greg's mutated arms were wrapped in holy wrap seals which they can remove but they would need to see if it's safe to do so. Greg initially agreed considering his arm felt unnatural. Taylor agreed as well, as it felt like her arm was CRAWLING with bugs, literally. She may control bugs but having them INSIDE of her? Yeah she rather not have infested bugs living inside of her body, thank you very much. 

Since the YGGDRASIL glitched out, it couldn’t place the dungeon to a random place so they had to do it manually. 

The place of destination?

Phoenix. It was the location of the sixth PRT department. … Or used to be, the city was overrun with monsters now. The PRT had seen it as a losing battle and had the capes enter an Endbringer Truce to try and stop the monsters and evacuate the city. The city looked like an Apocolitic Waistland.

“Good Lord,” Taylor muttered in horror, seeing the destruction from above, having flown in on her Monster Moth.

“This is what would happen if Humanity were to fail the Great Cataclysm." Stockings said to them while licking on a lollipop. “Humanity needs to undergo a great change, if they are to survive what's coming, then they can risk losing extinction.”

“.......... Stockings, can I ask, how many worlds went through this?” Greg asked her.

“I don’t know to be honest, only the Almighty knows. There are a few that have survived while others……….. failed.”

“How many?”

“Too fucking many.” Panty said to them, crossing her arms. “Last I check, barely fucking any worlds survived the Great Catalysm, why the fuck we’re here? It make sure the humans would not fuck itself to death.” 

“And these glitches in the YGGDRASIL program are not helping at all,” Taylor bluntly stated.

“If anything, they’re making things worse,” Stocking added. 

“I wanna say this bluntly. Why the FUCK hasn’t the system been replaced or better yet updated?!” Greg shouted in anger. “You angels (no offense to you guys (None taken)) and Goddess (Minus Urd and Peorth) manage the damn system! How is it that YGGDRASIL keeps fucking up every single time?”

“YGGDRASIL can’t just be ‘replaced’ it's the super computer of the damn fucking multiverse," Panty stated. “It’s not like going to the computer store and buying a new fucking computer.”

“Fan-fucking-tastic. Now we just have to wait until those people above can fix the system?” Greg asked them.

“Unless you can do Quantum-Universal Mechanics and 12th Dimensional Spatial and Temporal Coding, be my guess to fix the damn tree,” Stocking said in a flat voice. “And that’s just the basics you need to learn…”

Greg and Taylor nearly choked on air hearing that.

“..... How complicated are we talking here?”

“Try combining Newtonian Physics, Fundamentals, Nuclear Physics, Einstein and quantum physics all together.” Stocking said to them.

“Oh god, physics.” Greg groaned. “Its one of the worst subjects I had to learn and it took me 500 years to learn all of them.” 

“200 for me,” Taylor said. “But I think Quizai-Multidimensional Space/Time Machines and Coding are out of my wheelhouse…”

“Good, now you know how difficult it is to maintain and fix YGGDRASIL,” Stocking stated. “Also, I think we made it to the location to place the dungeon.”

They arrived at the dead center of the city. Greg held the blue dungeon cube in his hand. He remembered that the dungeon cube was initially deployed but due to the system crashing it remained standby above Ohio. 

“So how’s this gonna work?” Greg asked them.

“Just let it do its magic, you two already made the dungeon so it's ready to be deployed.”

“....So basically-”

“Just fucking drop it to the ground.” Panty stated to them in annoyance. 

Greg and Taylor just nodded. They then dropped the Dungeon into the city, hoping that it works.

When they did, it flew towards the city and-

BOOM!

“WOAH?!”

“WHAT THE?!”

Greg and Taylor shouted in surprise before their very eyes, a huge tower burst from the ground and stretched up high above the clouds.

“What………is this?”

“The dungeon you both created.” Stockings answered them. 

“... I was thinking it was going to be some sort of underground/alternate reality sort of dungeon,” Greg admitted.

“We don’t choose what the dungeon would look like. Before the system crashes, YGGDRASIL randomly makes what the dungeons would look like, randomizing it.” 

“... Fair enough I guess,” Greg said.

Just then, they noticed that all the monsters were now running TO the dungeon.

“Wow,” Taylor said. “They’re actually being drawn in like moths to a flame.”

“Of course ya idiot? Why else did we give those stuff to you?”

THUD!

“What my sister means.” Stocking said while still licking on her lollipop despite her fist smoking and her sister having a bump above her head. “Those materials the almighty gave you are what lures the monsters.” She said while the hordes of monsters were heading towards inside the dungeons. “Those minerals serve a purpose, in your world the animals that have lived here for thousand years and turned into powerful monsters which means that they're also attracted to mana. Similar to how animals are drawn to basic instincts.” 

“And the dungeon is made up of items that are producing mana that potent enough to attract them for them to feed off so that they are trapped in there, and easier to deal with,” Taylor stated, understanding. “So the dungeons act like cages filled with food.”

“Its one of the reasons why we need the dungeons to be made as soon as possible.” The angels said to them. “To avoid severe death and massacre to the monsters before they become too powerful before the humans can stand a chance.”

“But we also need to be careful, you saw what those glitches did to our third dungeon, and to us,” Taylor pointed out.

“Yeah that one as well.” The angel said, placing them on the rooftop. “We need to get back to Heaven. The Almighty is called EVERY single angel there is to minimize YGGDRASIL collapse. You’ll have to find another place to place the second dungeon.” 

“I heard from the Hero Phormates that Las Vegas is being quarantined from monsters,” Greg stated. “That’s where PRT Department 29 is.”

“... You think it’ll make a casino-like dungeon?” Panty muttered to herself.

“Don’t you even think about it Panty.” Taylor warned her.

“WHAT?! What was I thinkin-!?”

“Its fucking Vegas dumbass. Strippers, hookers, and everything above and I don’t need to be a dumb idiot to know what you plan on doing.” Greg said to Panty. 

Panty just grumbled. “... I was more wanting to play a few games of chan-”

“““No.””” Everyone said to her in a deadpan manner. 

“Oh fuck you assholes!” Panty flipped off before grumbling. 

[Ding! Detecting malicious cardinal sin!]

“Wait, that’s still-!?”

BUZZZ!

“GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” Panty was cut off by being electrocuted. “... I feel like I’m being used as a comic relief character…” She grouched out, annoyed.

“We’ll be going now, good luck you guys.” The female angel said to them before flying above to the heavens.

Heaven

“Alright Almighty, I want to know this and I want a fucking clear answer.” Dark said with a big screen projection before him with the YGGDRASIL icon on it. “Why did YGGDRASIL sense demonic corruption within the dungeon cube those humans created?” 

“And how it was able to infect Greg and Taylor without anyone realizing it,” Xara added in.

“I should have seen this long ago. I did not want my assumptions to be true but it is. This is not a normal glitch or bug.” The Almighty spoke through the screen. 

“YOU THINK!?” came the shrill voice of a young Goddess, running by with a mochi mallet chasing a dimensional bug that was running around.

“I’ve almost got the countermeasures done,” Light stated, multiple copies of himself made of light working on different parts. “I’m just glad I made a copy of the Archthrone in case we need to put it back up.”

“When the Archthrone detected a virus I began an internal investigation, there’s a virus within the system and it's not a normal one. It's been tainted by demonic mana.” 

“We figured that much out,” Xara said, still checking on Greg and Taylor’s bio signatures, the new arms they gained, and the seals they had on them. “At least those two have a new power up if they need them. Honestly, they are like Urd now.”

“Good out of a bad situation, how poetic.”

“The fault lies within me, I should’ve done the internal inspection sooner.”

“How is it that the anti virus hasn’t detected the demonic virus?” Dark asked the Almighty.

“The angel technicians did a clear investigation, the virus was placed deep within the system a long time ago and went dormant. It went active the moment humanity came back from the other world.” 

“... Great, we’re fighting against COMPETENT demons…” Xara said blandly, pinching the bridge of his nose. “What’s next, a Demon Lord shows up?”

“Don’t jinx it.”/“Don’t jinx it.”

Xara holds his hands up in surrender.

“How long until the virus is purged.”

“It's not gonna be easy, even with Archthrone anti virus its clear they made it difficult to purge as it's rooted within the system not even the Archthrone can detect which is why it couldn’t detect any virus in YGGDRASIL.”

“And trying to remove it forcefully might cause a kill switch or something.” Light added.

“...... Raise your hand if you hate those fucking demons?” 

Light and Xara did so. “Only the smart and crafty ones.” Xara added.

“Then we’re in agreement. Almighty, stabilize the YGGDRASIL system, as much as we hate it after working for 5 thousand years. We gotta head back to work. This time, making sure that the system doesn’t collapse.”

“I am on it. And I want you to work with Skuld. She may be our youngest goddess, but she is the lead head of the debugging department.”

“We are already working on a dimensional isolation codex chamber to try and contain this virus.”

“Whoever is behind this, is definitely powerful. Any guesses?” Dark asked his companions.

“Hild is a good guess,” Xara stated. “But it could be a number of high grade demons that could have the power to do this.”

“We’ll get to it when we’re finished dealing with the virus. For now, let's get to work.” 

PRT headquarters

“Say that again.” Emily said while speaking through the phone.

“It's unbelievable ma’am! The monsters! They're all heading towards Phoenix and Las Vegas! They're heading to the tall tower and some sort of Egyptian Pyramid and Temple!” 

“Have you determined the cause of the monster's reaction?” Emily said while being baffled. She had received reports that the mutated evolved animals were all marching all together and ignoring everyone in favor of what's attracting them. She’s far as hell did was fucking shocked. Not even Dragon and her Skill could deduce what was going on.

“With all due respect ma’am. Most of those are poisonous and deadly predators and I’m afraid of getting close to them.”
“Fine, keep monitoring the monsters, is it every single monster?” Emily questioned the cape.

“I’m not sure ma’am, it looks mostly like them heading towards those unknown structures but the other capes told me there are some that aren’t even moving or heading to the place where the mutated animals are heading.” 

“I want a 24/7 checkup and surveillance on the mutated animals that are left behind. I want any cape that is available to keep an eye on them before they destroy another city. Don’t let them leave your sights unless another cape or skilled user is powerful enough to make sure they're not a threat.” Emily immediately ordered the capes. 

“Understood ma’am. What about the press?”

“Did I not ask you to do your job? You figure it out yourself.” Emily said to the cape on the other side of the line before hanging up. Emily sighs and slumps down to her chair. She was getting fucking old for this. Sometimes she wished she could just retire but with all the crap that's coming, it's making it much more difficult for her to find a reason to retire.

But on the bright side, her injury she got years ago is gone. Thanks to one of the healing capes' newly acquired skills, she was able to regrow her kidney so that her body wouldn’t reject the organ. 

Looking at her stats.

{Emily Piggot

Human, Soldier, LV 35

—------------------------------------

Title | PRT Brockton Bay Leader

(Passive Intimidation Check)

Strength [15] | Dexterity [30]

HP [20] | Mana [10]

[Active Skill ~ Commanding Officer

LV MAX (Can Be Evolved)

(Materials are needed for

skill evolution)

[Passive Skill ~ Big Sister

Is Watching]

[Passive Skill ~ Overbearing

Presence]

—------------------------------------

[Received special bonuses for being the head if the

leader of Brockton Bay PRT branch.]

[You have an aura of domination that forces

Weaker willed individuals to follow orders easier.]

—------------------------------------

[Guild Affiliation | PRT Brockton Bay Branch (Guild Leader)]}

She has no idea what those types of skills are, it would take time and time isn’t at her side. Until she finds a way to deal with the world changing. Not for the better. 

Clicking on her phone and dialing a number. 

“Hello Prism? I heard you're an expert on physical body, tell me how you would like to be hired as my personal trainer and which gym you can recommend.” 

Somewhere 

“My Furher?” A man said to some sort of Knight. “I don’t mean any disrespect but why are we still keeping a low active profile?” He said to their leader, Crusader questioned him.

“Yeah! We got back from the other world and we’re already strong enough to topple with those Asians and that drug cartel! Even the PRT!” Another man said with a wolf mask.
“You're an idiot, you know?” A young girl, Othala said to the wolf mask man, Hookwolf.

“What was that brat? Are you scared?” Hookwolf growled at her. 

“Not scared you fucking rusted wolf. Just ‘cause we got back and got new skills plus magic doesn’t mean we’re already kings of the world. In case you hadn’t noticed or realized, other people also have skills too. Pretty much the whole world is triggered and we’d be dead in less than a second.” Othala said to Hookwolf. “If that.”

“She’s right, you know?” Another teenage girl, though much younger than Othala. “I don’t want the whole E88 getting destroyed because of your goddamn mistake.” 

Hookwolf snarled, metal blades starting to form over his body. “Listen here you little brat!”

“Enough!” Came the commanding presence of their leader, making them all freeze in place. “Act adults here, we’re not fucking childrens.” 

“My apologies sir.” Othala said to their leader. 

“You are forgiven and to answer your question Hookwolf.” Turning to Hookwolf. “Like what Othala said, everyone has magic and skills. Possibly one, few or a couple have skills that counteract our own powers. We all were in another world and we have been seen and defeated by a few that counter our powers.” Kaiser said to them. “You're even lucky to be alive, Hookwolf.”

“... Having classes in [Blood Knight] and [Berserker] helped out,” he quietly growled out.

“And we don’t have those anymore.” A woman said to Hookwolf, Menja. “Our levels and skills were resetted the moment we got back home. Every skill and class we had, all gone and we’re back to square one.” 

Hookwolf grunted, not wanting to admit it. “I still think I should have had a FEW levels in them from all the fighting I did BEFORE the transfer…” He groused out.

“So what's the plan?” A woman similar to Menja, her sister Fenja asked their leader. “We can’t just hide forever, sooner or later not just the PRT but those Azn Asians and that drug ring organizations will come after us when they realize that we’re weak.”

“I have someone I think that could increase our ranks,” their leader said, turning on a television showing the same cape that fought the insect monsters and took control of the Kajui size moth. “I believe we can use her.”

“Is she white under the suit?” Othala asked.

“Uhhh no need to disrespect Boss but how can we make her work for us when she controls a literal Kaiju who could literally sweep the floors when it took many Capes to defeat only a single Kaiju and Hookwolf here can’t even scratch them.” Rune asked Kaiser. 

“I know and I’m not that stupid. We’re not gonna try to actively recruit her but only gain her as an ally.” Kaiser answered Rune.

“No disrespect sir, but how do we do that…?” Othala asked, wondering how they would make her their ally.

“Do you recall a certain event years ago? A group of feminist women?” Kaiser asked them.

“Oh I remember that.” Menja said. “Lustrum gang was seriously becoming a pain in the ass. Do you know how many times when I walk out not in an outfit and I’ve been questioned several times if I was associated with those groups.” 

“No one gives a shit about that woman and why are you asking about that damn woman.” Hookwolf said to their leader, remembering how he clashed against that arrogant woman. She was a hard opponent, he admits, she was able to siphon his energy and nearly drained him dry if he had not cut her face. Her damn powers were the only reason she was able to stand still against him. (Dark: Worm Encyclopedia, the leader of the feminist group Lustrum has the power to sap energy and form it into literally a knockoff version of a Jojo stand. Plus added that she can cripple anything, mind bodies and even powers. Light: Sounds more like a Persona to me. Xara: Really, sounds more like that Vanishing Dragon Sacred Gear powers from Highschool DxD.)

“Why are you asking that boss?” One of the members asked him.

“Look at her hairpin.” He ordered them. They zoomed in and saw the hairpin she wore, a fist that held the symbol of woman, the circle with a small cross underneath, and wielding it like it was a hammer. 

“What’s so special about a woman's attire? It's honestly all boring when they always talk about fashion when it's just clothes.” Hookwolf said uninterested.

“Oh so you won’t mind going naked then huh ya omega wolf?”

“WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO CALL ME THE OMEGA BITCH?!”

“Enough…” Their leader ordered them, his eyes narrowing. Seeing them quieting down now he continued. “As I was saying, let me ask you, what does this look like to you?” 

“Hmmmmm.” Rune took a closer look at the hairpin for a brief moment before recognizing it. “Hey, those are the hairpins that only those feminist group wore like a badge. There’s barely any in the market and I heard that their leader put a special order to make it exclusively for her group-wait.” Widening her eyes, figuring out what her leaders plan. 

“You’ve already figured it out. She’s either one of the daughters of those groups or was lucky to have it. She could or could not know who her mother is.”  

“... And how does that fit into all this?” Crusader asked. “If you don’t mind my asking."

“Information is more valuable than diamonds itself. I’ll be taking those chances if or if not it would work. Only one thing is certain, she can be an ally or make sure we don't see her as an enemy…………… yet.” Kaiser said to them. “Find information about Lustrum’s group and their members, find anyone that has those hairpins, if you find anything that can relate to who we’re looking for, report to me. Understood?” Kaiser said to them. “In the meantime, Hookwolf. You’ll get your wish, you're coming with me, Fenja, Menja, Night, and Othala to the new architecture that has appeared in the other states. It’ll be good enough to raise enough levels to how powerful we were back in the other dimensions.”

Hookwolf body language showed that he was eager to fight in those structures that appeared to regain his classes.

“About time.” Hookwolf growled in excitement. 

“Wonder if there’s loot and tools we can find in those structures," Fenja stated, getting up. “Could help us out as well.”

“Only one way to find out,” Othala said. “I still want to try and find something that’ll let my powers give me powers.”

“Then let's not keep ourselves idle before we’re too late.” Kaiser said to the group before they all leave.

Somewhere

“I quit.”

“...... I’m sorry I didn’t hear that correctly. What did you say?”

“I said I quit.” A blonde girl with a skintight black and lavender outfit speaking through the phone, Lisa or her cape name Tattletale. “In fact we all fucking quit.”

“Do you understand what you're saying, Tattletale…?”

“Oh I do, and I’m aware. This is our last conversation we’ll ever have. I suggest you find another group who wouldn’t be led deep into the sinkhole, Coil.” She said before hanging up the phone. 

“What the hell was that for?” One of the group spoke to Lisa, Grue said to her in irritation. “Why did you suddenly call Coil and say we quit?”

“Don’t get us wrong,” one of the other female members, Rachel Lindt, Cape name Bitch, and member of the Undersiders, said. “We hate the bastard's guts just as much as you do, but he has blackmail on us, and an army to drop on us to kill us.”

“He won’t come after us Rachel.” Lisa said to her. “In fact here’s the thing, if we continued to work with him, all of us would be all in simple words fucked up, both mentally and physical.” 

“Isn’t that the point?” One of them said to Lisa, Regent or Alec. 

“You all forgot about what skills I have. [Seer].” Lisa reminded them. “It allows me to look through the future. When we were in the other world and leveling up our levels, my skill reached high enough just before we were brought back and do you know what I saw? I saw if we continued working with Coil, it would end badly and he won’t even keep his word at all.”

“How badly are we talking?” Bitch asked, petting one of her dogs.

“Slaughter House Nine levels of bad but worse.” Lisa answered to Bitch. 

All of them turned to her in shock. “You’re joking.”

“My skill sees every possible future, there are a few where it would be set in stone and unable to change anything. Working with Coil is one of those. It's not set in stone or can be changed in any possible way, that's why I took a big risk.” Lisa said to them. 

“Add that with your Cape powers, and it was the highway it is,” Grue stated bluntly.

“Okay, that’s good and all, but did your powers tell you that we need to work with someone to avoid getting killed?” Bitch asked.

“I haven’t reached that part. That's as far as I can see through the future when all our levels were resetted.” Lisa said to Bitch. 

“Alright so we avoid one major big fuck up but we lost our income. What's your idea now Tattletale?” Regent asked Lisa. 

“For now, I suggest we join the expeditions to the place that all monsters were lured to.” 

“So basically adventuring again.” Grue said to Lisa.

“It would be cool to see if I can’t tame a Dog or Wolf monster for myself like that one chick did with that giant moth kaiju,” Bitch said, smirking. “Would be cool to actully have a fucking Helhound and/or Curberus made from my powers with a monster.”

“Oh yeah, getting to see you mauled by a giant three headed dog would be really great.” Regent said to her. 

Bitch gave him the stink eye. “Watch it, or I might toast ya with a hellhound.”

“I wanna see when that happens Bitch.” Regent said to her. 

“Alright you two enough.” Grue said to them. “There’s no point in arguing at taming monsters or getting mauled by one.” 

“He’s right,” Tattletale stated. “We need to focus on regaining our strength and our abilities.”

Regent and Bitch huffed and turned away, but said nothing, just getting up so they could head out.

Back to Greg and Taylor

Greg was looking through the Hero formats after they had returned to his base, wanting to see the status of their dungeons.

“Anything?” Taylor asked him.

“It seems that people are heading to our newly formed dungeons to start theory training without the threat of the monsters going on a rampage," Greg informed her. “And that the two PRT areas and cities have now reopened since they are safe to return and rebuild.”

“It would be nice to make one for the Bay, might help bring up jobs and tourists," Taylor stated, then looked at her sealed arm. “But I don’t want to try and get infected again, and the three gangs in the city don't help either."

“Lets hope that those guys won’t cause another gang wa-”

“DID SOMEBODY SAY GANGBANG? CAUSE I’M ALL UP FOR IT BITCHE-!”

BAM!

BAM!

Panty was knocked flat on her face, into the ground, by Taylor and Stocking, comical lumps on her forehead.

“Will you take your job SERIOUSLY!?" Taylor roared at her.

“Ugh, just how do you stand with her?” Greg asked Stocking.

“I ignore what my sister does rather than getting involved in every act she commits.” Stocking said to Greg. “I’m a pure angel and so is my sister unfortunately.”

“......... If you're a pure angel, why are you eating a giant blueberry muffin?” Greg asked in sweatdrop while Stocking literally was eating a one house size muffin.

“You humans make amazing sweets,” Stocking complemented.

Taylor sweatdropped. “... That doesn’t explain the size of the thing though…”

“Lets not question what size it is or not.” Greg said to them.

“So!” Panty shot up with a huge visible lump on her head. “We just received orders from the Almighty (Wait weren’t you unconscious before?). The Almighty wants US! To monitor the first human expeditions so they don’t fuck up or die whatever shit you guys made.” 

“Wait, he wants us to lead it?” Greg asked.

“I don’t mind, but… dad is starting to worry where I’m going,” Taylor stated.

“Sooner or later you’ll have to tell him.” Stocking said to Taylor. 

“I know, but my dad always worries about me. He does seem to support the idea of me wanting to be a hero but he worries if something happens to me.” 

“I’m sure he’ll support you.” Greg assured her.

“ANYWAY!” Panty got their attention. “Not leading the Almighty wants you two to monitor those groups, not leading them.” Panty said to them. 

Greg and Taylor turned to look at one another, and nodded. “We’ll go. But which one are we heading to?” Greg asked her.

“Las Vegas-”

““Hell no.””

“OH COME ON!” Panty shouted at them. 

“We know what you're gonna do in Las Vegas so we’re going to Phoenix instead.” Taylor said to Panty.

Panty grumbled in annoyance at this. “Have a dungeon there and we can’t even go to it and have fun afterwards…”

“Get over it.” Taylor stated. “Why don’t you take your job seriously for once, so you can get your coins and get back home.”

Panty just gave Taylor the stink eye. “... You are no fun…”

“Phoenix it is.” 

Phoenix - Arizona - Nimrod Tower

“Wow, I didn’t remember building this.” Greg said while they all entered a room filled with computers and runes all over the place.

“This is the admin room.” Stocking answered to Greg. “YGGDRASIL added these rooms for angels such as me or Panty (Get off the computer and stop trying to look for porn) to monitor the adventurers. It's a safety protocol so that the humans won’t get slaughtered at or in the dungeons, though they handle the systems and dungeon structure.”

“However because of the fucked up Heaven’s Systems are, I doubt any of those angels would be available.” Panty said to them while ignoring Stocking and typing on the search bar. 

[Ding! Detecting malicious cardinal sin!]

Panty’s eye twitched, having been shocked again. “... Though I think YGGDRASIL has a twisted sense of humor…”

Back to the dungeon

“Alright everyone we’re here-WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE?!” A girl, Glory Girl, said with a group of capes before shouting and pointing to the other gangs which happen to be the ABB and the E88. 

“These places have been deemed a neutral traitor, because of the threats the monsters in here hold,” Othala stated. “So we have just as much right to be here as you.”

“I’m here to test my new subordinate,” the leader of the ABB’s, Lung, stated.

A young girl wearing large, opaque goggles and a metal mask with a gas-mask filter and a braided cord of black, yellow, and green wires over her shoulders.

“Hey~” came the crazed, but robotic and monotone hissing voice (A voice filter if they had to guess) from the new ABB member. “The name’s Bakuda~”

“Oh great, just what we need. Another one of you guys.” Shadow Stalker said in annoyance.

“Watch it, Shadow Stalker, you're on thin ice!” Another cape said to Shadow Stalker, Battery. “If not for your parents you would’ve been kicked out of the PRT when we got a notice from the school about your actions! So I suggest you shut your mouth and let the adults talk.” she warned her.

Shadow Stalker glared under her mask, but said nothing. She wishes she could just maim them, show them how weak they were to her, and get rid of scum her way.

“I still don’t know why we keep her in the Wards still,” Kid Win stated. “She should be locked up. She did violate her parole with her stunts.”

“Her parents convinced Alexander to give her a lesser punishment.” One of the capes said in annoyance. 

“Oh? What's this I see? Your seemingly perfect organization is already more flawed than it is.” Night said, mocking them. “And here I thought that you're supposed to be heroes, all I see are bunches of Bullies.”

“YOU WANNA GO WHORE?!” Shadow Stalker roared, pulling her crossbows out.

“SHADOW STALKER ENOUGH!” Assault shouted at her. Turning to Night. “And you, all of you are not allowed here. This is PRT territory. The E88 and the ABB have no claim to Phoenix.”

“Odd. Cause last I checked, this wasn’t the PRT territory anymore since you guys lost it.” Fenja said to them. “So as far as I know we’re free to do what we want.” 

“It was on par with an Endbringer threat and you know it,” Battery stated, trying to keep the peace. “If it wasn’t for this place, the whole city would have had to be quarantined.”

“Cry me a fucking river.” Othala replied to Battery. “You snooze you loose.”

WHOOSH!

WHOOSH!

SHING!

SHING!

All sides were equally at each other's throats, with the rising tensions and their weapons/powers/tinker tech pointed at each other.

“Finally! Some blood!” Hookwolf growled in excitement while brandishing his steel claws. 

“About fucking time I get to kill some hero wannabe!” Bakuda said in excitement with her bombs out. 

“I’ll say this one last time, leave.” Armsmaster said with his halbert pointed at the gangs. 

“It's been a while since we last fought Armsmaster.” Fenja said with a smirk. “Hope your skills aren't as rusty as they seem to be.” 

“Last time you nearly crushed me, this time I’m prepared Fenja.” Armsmaster said, narrowing his eyes. 

Nimrod Tower Dungeon Control Room

There was a warning siren going off, making the four jump in shock.

“Crap! Friendly Fire already!?" Panty shouted, looking through the screen and seeing that it was at the entrance of the dungeon. “... Seriously!? They’re not even in the fucking dungoen yet and they are already wanting to kill eachother!?”

Taylor looked, and nearly choked on air. “Oh crap, PRT, ABB AND E88 in one area!? Oh, this is bad!” She looked at Panty and Stocking. “Please tell me if there's a ‘No Friendly Fire’ stats effect or something that can be forced on them?”

“I think so.” Stocking said while looking at the system, typing rapidly. 

“Normally I wouldn’t give a shit about the ABB and the E88 but if PRT gets into the crossfire, we have less heroes and more villains to worry about.” Greg said in annoyance. 

Taylor nodded in agreement. “As much as I don’t like it, we can’t let them kill each other. We still have other monsters that’ll awaken and we do not need infighting at the moment.”

“AHA! Found it!” Panty shouted, finding the ‘Friendly Fire’ activation, and deactivated it, turning off ‘Friendly Fire’.

Back at the dungeon entrance

Right before everyone was about to kill each other, screens popped up in front of them all.

[[Friendly Fire] has been deactivated in [Nimrod Tower] Dungeon.

You cannot attack or use negative Stats Effects on other people in the dungeon.

All attacks on another person will become 0

All Stats Effects that are harmful, caused by other people, will be ignored]

“The hell is this!?” Hookwolf shouted after seeing this notification.

“The fuck?!” Bakuda yelled out. “What the fuck do you mean we can’t kill each other?!”

Another screen popped up just for her.

[It means what it means! Deal with it!]

“FUCK YOU!” 

BOOM!

Bakuda threw an explosive bomb at the PRT as smoke covers, she smiled but it turned into rage when they looked barely affected, even the PRT were surprised. 

“YOU GODDAMN FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT!” 

“Uhhhh, what happened?” One of the capes asked in confusion, how they were able to survive an explosion. 

“It seems that, for some reason, the dungeon has disabled Friendly Fire. It's as if the dungeon is being declared as a neutral territory.” Armsmaster deduced. 

“Well, these monsters are on the Endbringer scale of threats, so I guess it makes a bit of sense that they would be,” Glory Girl stated, thinking it over.

“Sense when do YOU use your brain, blondy?” Shadow Stalker snarked at her.

BAM!

“HEY! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!” Shadow Stalker shouted at her after being punched to the wall and looked barely affected or hurt. 

“Last warning, Shadow Stalker.” Armsmaster said to her. “You are not permitted to say anything, you don’t speak another word and if you ever try to go out of line or do whatever you like to do, you’ll be sent to birdcage less than a second and I’ll personally see you escorted there if you do not fucking listen to me, is that clear?” Armsmaster warned her, anger in his tone of voice, and he tries his best NOT to show emotion.

Shadow Stalker just growled in a low tone. Fine, if that’s how he wants it, she won’t say a thing, even if a trap or enemy attacks him without warning.

Lung and Hookwolf were annoyed that they could fight anyone BUT the monsters, but would take their anger out on said monsters.

“Guess we must follow the rules of the dungeon right now,” Othala stated.

“Meaning… we all have to work together…” Night said, those words sounding like they hurt her to say them.

“Oh hell no!” Shadow Stalker shouted. “Like I would work with a bunch of racist Asians and nazi’s!”
“As much as I hate to admit it, but she has a point.”  Battery said to the others. 

“How abou this, stay out of our way and we’ll let you do whatever the fuck you want.” Othala suggested. 

“With how big this tower of a dungeon is,” Kid Win started, still remembering how big the structure was from the outside. They couldn’t see the damn top of it. “I think we’ll be able to do our own things.”
“RRRHHH!”

“Hookwolf.” Kaiser called out to his subordinate who was growling. 

“Fine!” 

Bakuda was just grinding her teeth under her mask. “Sir, you can’t be happy about this place forcing us NOT to kill whoever we want to, right?”

“As much as it pains me to go along with them, we are unable to use our powers due to the dungeon deactivating friendly fire. Unless we can restore our glory, we’ll go along with that capes’ suggestion.” Lung replied to Bakuda. 

Bakuda let out a huff, not wanting to argue with her boss, but not happy with the situation at all.

“Once this is over we will NEVER work with you guys ever again.” Glory Girl said to them.

“Fine with me,” Bakuda stated.

“Shall we start heading in now, Kaiser?” Fenja asked her leader.

“Yeah, I want to head in to try and upgrade my powers,” Othala stated, seeming eager to try and evolve her cape power.

“Yes,” Kaiser stated, as they turned to walk into the Dungeon with their members. “Let us see what this tower has for us.”

After the E88 went inside the tower, Lung called out, “Bakuda, we’re moving out now. I have some anger I need to burn off and those monsters inside will be my target for that anger.”

“Save some for me boss,” she called out as they also went inside. “I need to blow off steam as well.”

Back to the observers room

“So how’s this gonna work?” Greg asked the angel sisters.

“The system would handle mostly everything, it has been programmed to initiate dungeon programming.” Stocking answered them.

“All we have to do is sit back and watch those suckers get beaten up.” Panty said with her legs on the table and leaning on the chair looking relaxed.

“Don’t we need to make sure that we keep track of their vitals?” Taylor asked.

“We’ll interfere when the situation is necessary, for now we’ll only observe and only get involved if any of them are in trouble.” Stocking assured Taylor.

“Suggestion, why do we need to help these guys?” Greg empathized ‘these guys’, referring to the ABB and the E88. 

“Because… whether we want to admit it or not Greg… They are useful in keeping humanity alive with their powers…” Taylor looked ill admitting that. “Trust me, as much as I would love nothing more than to see them rot in their Birdcage or die in the Dungeons, we need all the manpower we can muster for new monsters to evolve outside the dungeons."

"Your girlfriend has a point,” Stocking admitted.

“Godfucking dammit.” Greg slumped to his chair in annoyance and frustration. 

Taylor let out her own sigh, as she sat in her own chair. “I think the saying goes… ‘Needs must when the Devil Drives’.”

“Well, how about we mess with them a bit, how's that sound?” Panty suggested them.

“....... Maybe a little.” Greg said, considering Panty’s option. 

“GREG!” Taylor scolded him.

“What? Don’t you want to see those people beaten up and mess with them? It's not like we’re gonna kill them or get rid of them.” Greg said to his girlfriend. 

Taylor looked torn. On one hand, they were messing with people’s progression in their chance of beating back the monsters. … On the other hand… they were heroes and owners of the Dungeons and so they could use it if they misbehaved.

“... Fine…” Panty and Greg were about to cheer, but Taylor held her hand up. “ONLY if they do something that would deem villinies, okay? That is my ONE caveat.”

“With those two how long until it takes for them to fuck things up?” Panty asked while pointing at the two gangs. 

And, as if on cue…

BOMB!

They turned to the monitors and saw that Bakuda had blown apart THREE walls in the dungeon, luckily that didn’t have runes on them.

“..... Nevermind.” Taylor said, groaning with a facepalm. 

AN:

And so begins an uneasy alliance with opposite sides. 

Light/Xara: Uneasy? More like Unstable…

That too, with only the Friendly Fire deactivated, how long would it take for them to already be trying to kill each other? I’d give it a second. 

Light/Xara: Hopeful? A minute. Realistically? … 10 to 30 seconds. At most.

Oh I’m gonna have so much fun with this, going through the dungeons, people just one second from each other and most of all. Getting the YGGDRASIL system to work for once.

Light/Xara: Me and Skuld are working on it. And don’t ask what else needs to be done, I don’t need you passing out again.

I won’t pry onto this, before we wrap this up, I’ve got a special plan and here’s a little spoilers. Urd sister is finally gonna make her appearance along with her beloved husband. 

Light/Xara: Did he transcend/cultivated into a God?

As a matter of fact he did, do you remember the movie where he was possessed by her previous lover? 

Light/Xara: I think so, yes. 

Here’s what happened, after they passed through the gate, showing their true love. Celestin saw how much they love each other, he decided to give Keichis all his power to be with Belldandy which in turn made Keiichi half god, half human, in simple terms a demigod.

Light/Xara: … Huh, cool. If he does come, please send him our way. He did help Skuld with her capture device for the bugs before. We need every hand on deck.

Oh I will, he is an engineer, those demons think they have the upper edge but we have something they don’t, a human hybrid who is an engineer and a god, combine those two, a deadly combination. 

Light/Xara: They always do seem to underestimate humans.

Indeed so, thank you guys for reading our story, check out my co authors work, he makes good shit.

Light/Xara: Thanks. And thanks for enjoying the story. If you have ideas for it, please leave a comment down below.

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