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If Baku had known the parcel he'd received in the Zeztz room would have brought him all this trouble, he'd still have opened it anyway.
Okay… he could be a little more specific here;
You see, this all started roughly an hour ago, when Baku had returned to the Zeztz base, formerly called the Zeztz room.
However, something was… different.
Because, sitting on his desk was a small parcel. Now, that by itself wouldn't have been strange. Except the parcel had been given to him in the DREAM world… which can only be accessed through LUCID dreaming.
Not exactly something an average person can do without outside help.
Naturally, Baku did what any normal person would have done and edged towards the parcel with caution, his driver primed and ready with the Impact Capsem held tightly in his hand.
Strangely, beside the parcel was a small white envelope with a velvet butterfly stamped on it.
Upon opening the envelope, Baku found himself reading a rather…strange letter specifically addressed towards him.
Dear Zeztz,
I humbly extend this invitation to you, along with seventeen others, to join an extradimensional group chat.
Should you choose to accept this invitation, simply open the parcel provided and activate the device within. The rest shall make itself known in due course.
I eagerly await your decision.
Yours sincerely,
Philemon of the Collective Unconsciousness
After finishing the letter, the thing that stood out most to Baku was the part that said he was being invited to an extradimensional groupchat.
The multiverse wasn't exactly a new concept to Baku. Some of his predecessors could travel between worlds, after all. So the idea of someone being capable of bridging the multiverse wasn't entirely far-fetched.
No, what was strange, however, was thag whoever it was had thought it would be a good idea to make a group chat.
Of all things…
Why a group chat?
Nevertheless, he was intrigued. Whoever this Philemon is, they have his attention now.
Seeing as how he wasn't in any immediate danger, Baku placed the letter back onto his desk and detached his Driver before placing it beside the parcel.
Now… he had two options here;
Accept the offer by opening the parcel and using whatever was inside it. (Probably a phone)
Or,
Reject the offer, and throw the parcel away without ever opening it.
For a moment, he stared at the parcel. His face scrunched up as he deliberated on his options.
Eventually, he smirked. “Yeah right, who am I kidding?”
He was definitely opening it.
…
System online.
18 users have been accepted to the Multidimensional group chat.
Users 1-18 have joined the chat.
System: Welcome. Your names have already been assigned.
Available functions are as follows:
Chat - talk with people from other universes without limit.
Shop - buy anything from the vast multiverse at a cheap price. Please don't shoot the deliveryman.
News - keep up to date on any and all news from each of your respective universes, regardless of where you are.
Zeztz: Huh… interesting.
Ryūko: Seriously? That's all you have to say?
Zeztz: I've seen weirder.
My-th: Why am I even here? I have better things to do than entertain whatever this is.
Mami: Oh my~ so the letter wasn't lying?
Hibiki: What are Black Cases? Are they caused by Sound?
Ruby: Sound? Black Cases? What are you talking about?
Hibiki: You haven't checked out the news section yet?
Ruby: Nooooo…?
Ezra: So this isn't a dream?
Prime: So this is what humans use to communicate with their friends?
Asuka: Is this supposed to be a joke? Why are you guys taking this seriously?
Kit: If you came back to your room and saw something you've never seen before alongside a letter would you not take it seriously.
Robert: Also have you tried the shop yet? Cause if that doesn't answer your question than I don't know what will.
Belle: Ooh what did you buy?
Robert: Just some replacement parts.
Ruby: For what?
Robert: I don't trust you guys enough to tell you.
2B: …
Yu: So… did everyone else have a Velvet butterfly land on their phone before suddenly transforming into a letter? Cause if it weren't for that I probably wouldn't have believed half of what's actually going on here.
Nagisa: Yeah… no. It's way to late in the evening for me. So I am just gonna go to bed and pretend whatever this is never happened. Good night.
Nagisa left the chat.
Wise: Is now a bad time to say I tried the shop?
Kat: I think so…? To be fair its pretty late out for me and Kit too, we've gotta be up early to prepare the trials.
Hiro: Trials?
Kit: We'll answer that later. Good night!
Kit and Kat left the chat.
2B: Are you all really humans?
Zeztz: Not the weirdest question I've been asked, but yes, I am human. Can't say the same for everyone else though.
My-th: I'm Human.
Ruby: Me to.
Wise: Same here.
Belle: Yes I am human.
Ezra: Yes.
Hiro: Yep.
Yuu: I mean last I checked I was.
Asuka: Obviously.
Hibiki: Human here.
Prime: No. I am a Cybernetic Organism from the planet Cybertron.
Asuka: …
Asuka: I want to call bullshit on that but the strange tentacle monster that just delivered me an unblemished photo of my mother tells me otherwise.
Zeztz: You know, I'm starting to think we need to do a proper introduction.
Zeztz: How about I go first?
Zeztz: My name is Baku Yorozu, I'm 23 years old and I'm currently the head of a secret defense organisation called ZEZTZ.
Hiro: ZEZTZ? Isn't that your name?
Zeztz: That's because I created the organisation after the old one I worked for was destroyed.
Robert: Is it an acronym for something?
Zeztz: No.
My-th: Well, I guess I'm next then…
My-th: I'm Sora Otosumi. I'm a butler and the meister of the Mizuki family. I don't have anything else that I want to add at the moment.
Ryūko: Well that was short.
Ryūko: I'm Ryūko Matoi, I'm 17 years old and I'm currently on my way to Honnō City to find my dad's murderer.
Ryūko: And that's all you guys are gonna get from me!
Hibiki: Okay… I'm gonna go next!
Hibiki: I'm Hibiki Tachibana, I'm 15 years old and I've just gotten out of hospital after surviving a Noise attack.
Robert: I'm sorry… a what?
Hibiki: A Noise attack. They're a…
Hibiki: Actually I don't really know what they are aside from the fact that they seem to be a sound based life form that can disintegrate you if they touch you.
Asuka: Well… now that we've finished with your introduction. It's only natural that I go next.
Asuka: My name is Asuka Langley Soryu, I'm 13 years old and the pilot of Evangelion unit 02.
Zeztz: You're the pilot of something called "good news"?
Asuka: Yes and?
Robert: Aren't you a bit on the young side to be piloting this "Evangelion"?
Asuka: Nope. It is my destiny.
Ezra: Uhh…
Asuka: Just introduce yourself.
Ezra: Okay, okay.
Ezra: My name is Ezra Bridger, I'm years old and I live on the planet Lothal.
Ruby: So you are an alien!
Ezra: No. I am a human. Humans are just one of the more common races people see in the galaxy.
Tomoe: I'd like to introduce myself next if that's alright?
Zeztz: That's fine.
Tomoe: Thank you Baku.
Tomoe: My name is Mami Tomoe, I'm 15 years old and I'm currently attending Mitakihara Middle School.
Mami: I'm also a Magical Girl.
Ruby: Magic is real in your universe?!?
Mami: Yes, it is and now how about you introduce yourself?
Ruby: Okay!
Ruby: My name is Ruby Rose! I'm 15 years old and I'm currently training to become a Huntress.
Ezra: What's a Huntress?
Ruby: A Huntress or Hunter (if your a male) is someone who fights the Grimm. Basically evil monsters that are drawn to negative emotions.
Yu: I'm not even going to pretend that I know what is going on any more, so I am just going to introduce myself then I'm going to bed.
Zeztz: That's fine.
Yu: Thanks.
Yu: Anyway, my name is Yu Narukami, I'm 16 years old and my family is getting me ready to move to Inaba to live with my uncle and his niece.
Ruby: Why are your parents making you live with your uncle?
Yu: Cause they work abroad and they can't take me with them…
Ruby: Oh…
Yu: Anyway, it's getting late so I'm gonna go to bed now.
Yu has left the chat.
Robert: Well… no point in stalling I guess.
Robert: I'm Robert Robertson III. I'm 32 years old and I'm a superhero.
Ruby: What's your superhero name?
Robert: I'm not saying anything just yet.
Ruby: Booo!
Wise: …Alright. Guess me and my sister are up next then.
Belle: I can introduce myself you know!
Wise: I know that but it just makes things faster this way.
Wise: So anyway, me and my sister Belle are the owners of a little rental store called Random Play.
Belle: We're also Proxies.
Asuka: And Proxies are…?
Wise: Essentially illegal guides for hire that help people travel through Hollows.
Asuka: …
Asuka: I think Yu had the right idea.
Asuka has left the chat.
Belle: Aww! And I thought we were beginning to get along!
Zeztz: Obviously, it looks like we all have better things to do so let's speed through the rest of the introductions fast.
Zeztz: Prime, you can go next.
Prime: Very well.
Prime: My name is Optimus Prime. Leader of the Autobots and a Cybertronian from the planet Cybertron. I have lived for over 9 million years, much of it having been spent under conflict with the evil Decepticons.
Belle: What?
2B: …
Zeztz: go on 2B. You're next.
2B: Fine.
2B: I am YorHa Unit 2 Type B. I am an android created over 2 years ago to fight against the machine life forms that have invaded Earth on behalf of the surviving humans that are currently living on the Moon.
Mami: …
Prime: …
Robert: …
Wise: …
Belle: …
Ezra: …
Ruby: …
Ryūko: …
My-th:…
Zeztz: Yeah… and on that note why don't we all come back tomorrow to continue talking?
Robert: Agreed.
Ruby: Sure.
Ezra: Fine by me.
Prime: Understandable.
My-th: Alright.
Belle: Yeah… I think that'll work
Wise: Same here
Mami: This was fun.
Ryūko: Sounds like a plan.
2B: That would be optimal.
Ryūko, Prime, Robert, Minami, Wise, Belle, 2B, My-th, Ezra, Ruby left the chat.
Zeztz: Wait a minute…
Zeztz: Hiro! You forgot to introduce yourself!
Hiro: I didn't have a chance! Everything went by too fast that I barely had time to process everything!
Zeztz: … You know what that's fair.
Zeztz: You can just introduce yourself here and then everyone else can back read it tomorrow.
Zeztz: Sound good?
Hiro: Yeah…
Hiro: My name is Hiro or FP40-T3NL-016 as the adults like to call me and I'm a Parasite, someone who is trained and tasked with piloting a Franxx.
Zeztz: …
Zeztz: I have some very strong feelings about this but I'm just going to look at your world through the news.
Hiro: Okay.
Hiro has left the chat.
…
After seeing Hiro log out, Baku finally placed down his phone before leaning back in his chair and began massaging his face.
This was going to be rough.
At least he had a solid idea on everyone's personalities now but… each of their introductions told him one thing.
Each of their worlds had something going on, and while it sounded like Narukami was the only normal one here, Baku highly doubted it would remain that way for long.
He leaned forward and picked up his phone. The chat had said something about a News function hadn't it?
Maybe he could learn more about each of their worlds through that?
He had the time, and he was technically already asleep so it's not like was going to lose any rest.
Ah, the benefits of being a lucid dreamer.
Of course, it helped that his overuse of the ExDream Capsem had allowed him to directly retain all the skills he'd gained in the dream world when he woke up.
His stamina was the only exception.
Thankfully, he hasn't found himself needing to go ExDream for a while. Which was a good thing because he didn't want to get trapped in the dream world again.
It was already enough of a pain escaping the first time…
With a soft sigh, he pressed the phone's power button and watched as the screen lit up again.
It didn't take long for him to find the News button, which was conveniently located right at the bottom of the screen right beside the chat and shop button.
How convenient.
Of course, whoever this Philemon was… they sure knew how to make the chat functions easily accessible.
Upon tapping the button, the screen switched from the chat to a news screen, at the top was a filter that when clicked upon let him choose one of his new acquaintances.
Not knowing where to start, Baku figured he'd just filter from newest and work his way backwards.
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And done! I feel pretty good about this, granted a bit of my nihilisticely feels like I could have done better writing this but I digress.
And I managed to do it without using any autocorrect to fill in the blanks!
Before I leave, I'm gonna give you guys everyones timelines;
Baku - Two months after his series ended
Ryūko - A couple hours from her arriving at
Wilykit and Wilykat - A few hours before their trial for Lion-O.
Wise and Belle - Just before Belobog hired them.
Robert - A day before his attempted raid on Shrouds base.
Nagisa - A day before episode 35, where she gets asked
Asuka - A four days before her birthday on December 4th
Hibiki - Just left the hospital from the Zwei Wing incident.
Ruby - A week before he first encounter with Torchwick.
Sora - A few days before My-th begins
Hiro - A day before his meetin with Zero Two.
2B - Two day prior to the start of the game.
Ezra - A month before he meets the Ghost Crew
Mami - Before Madoka encountered Kyubi.
Optimus - is complicated.
Now to clarify, while Optimus is his G1 self, his reality is more a fusion between every iteration. Its core is the G1 reality with some aspects of the Energon Universe and a bit of everything else.
Mami is also a bit complicated because this isn't the timeline we see in the show but it does fall a bit closer to the Magia Record timeline with some very obvious changes.
That's all I'm saying for now.