Location: Geyze
It is a typical day at the Academy with students about doing their lessons, such as Sparkling now studying like Nicolette, and the Elder Spirits are hosting the Spirits at their school to train them in the lost powers and abilities that they have lost over the years; Erevis celebrates Jaime's birthday with a cake while Sasha comes to see Celes while the birthday celebrations are going on. After the presents and other birthday like exchanges are finished, Celes begins to go over the meeting for everyone, noting that with 70% of the monster population gone now, the remaining 30% have returned to their old ways and this leads to Talia declaring she could be a monster lord and hijinks, which almost makes Celes explode and declare Talia to go outside and try, as well as Talia declaring that she would be a good mommy to the monsters while Sasha has to try to calm Celes by touching her arm and Gwen spits up his drink. She then goes into the second problem - the fact that someone or some group is stirring up problems among the Kingdoms, noting to the others she herself has heard news that that other Kingdoms are plotting against the Hapian Dynasty, and poses her theory that someone is trying to bring down their newly formed Geyze/Kumen Alliance.
They discuss the implications of it and Erevis notes that the Geyze Alliance leaders and the Suisen Empress are the only group that can go to Yggdrasil so they might be trying to cripple Geyze and send it into civil war, leading Erevis to speculate it might have to do with the Serpent in 12 years or so time. They conclude it might be the Serpent Clan or the shapeshifters working for them, deciding to bring them down if that is the case, since they have run into them previously on Geyze, before turning to the time travel incident and Celes announces she plans to go back in time, concerning Sasha, as well as who she plans to put in charge of the castle - Eve Hapian. The group heads over to Chelsea's workshop while discussing it and brings up the topic of making something to detect the shapeshifters with Simon, which might just including using the Maka's power like Sparkling's. While they work on that, Jaime notes she will go to the PAX to see what they know about the Serpent and his agents - and Xanatos is forced to come along after joking about seducing the Empress.
Location: PAX
Lorelei and Durt have a secret meeting in the corner of the bar about what little she overheard from Lenny to Valen and she notes she's been going through all their adventure logs since 10-639, noting there is a chance of a spy due to there being a few oddities here and there since Cartel space. The two wonder which of the Gods it might be Amazo or Gartareh with Lorelei leaning toward Gartareh; at the same time, Valen is in his room, trying to solve the same mystery before he joins the rest of the group at Katrina's bar. Taiga busts into the bar all hyper and with dark circles under her eyes, leading to Lorelei to eye her suspiciously, as she calls for people to follow her. As they reach the hanger they find Airym with a robotic Erica and Taiga proudly announces that Erica can move her consciousness from the ship to the body and back while Yuki glares at any who think Erica has really died. After all the doubting and Taiga falling asleep, they hook up Robo Erica and manage to connect her to the ship, bringing her to life, in which she falls over, top heavy; while Yuki comforts her, a ship arrives in the hanger.
The Geyze team steps off the ship as Erevis, Xanatos, Asha, Kyouki, and Jaime step out while Erevis prepares Xanatos for the seducing, still going along with the joke. Lorelei greets Asha as Asha Syao, which surprises her, indicating she is another past life child. As they discuss last name, Erevis seems surprised at Xanatos wanting her to have his last name, so she agrees to become Durran-Zhenmei without a second thought and when Kyouki mutters about her having to take Durran in her name, Erevis notes she would not expect anyone to take Durran if they did not to do so. While Lorelei hands Asha what files she has on the Tareh Asha Syao and the group tells her a little about Tareh and everthing about the group. After that discussion moves to the shapeshiters and everything when Lorelei asks Erevis when she plans to take the ship back from the Empress, leading to Erevis to evade the question.
The conversation does move to Chad and what he has been up to lately, what with the attacks on the cloned children and if any of this ties to him. Taiga brings up the recent events in Fumoffu, but notes Chad told them to stay out of his business so she's been keeping it strangely related to clone stuff. But with everything happening at once - the Dark Ones, the Geyze Alliance, and the shapeshifters and stuff with clones, it seems too hard to believe it to be a just a coincidence. The Empress meanwhile watches the Erevis, noting to Syiean that she is beginning to show some spine.
Epilogue: Back on Geyze, Lana comes across a dark card with coordinates for a teleporter before it burns away after it is read. As she feels someone looming over her, watching her, she finds no one there before she runs off to deal with Mélodie messing with Sparkling on the table for experiments on the Maka detection stuff.
Fumoffu Session 14: Fumoffu Strikers
Location: PAX
Sabrina throws a birthday party for Sparkling Justice and everyone enjoys the moment with some cake and relaxation while Taiga watches them impatiently. After they finish their celebrations, Taiga introduces Lenneth - who has come to attend the meeting with a request. After Lenneth clears the board of Angela's nonsense, she goes into the group's desire to get more information on various groups and their enemies, including the Empress and they hope maybe going into other realities might help with that since they formed due to major variations in reality, with that reality taking a left turn instead of a right one. After lecturing the group on how the multiverse once existed long ago and Centerpoint destroyed it, including their allies in Wind's Classic Reality, the Tareh Reality, and the Alternate Reality, as well as thousands of realities, they were told the multiverse was rebuilding itself based on their actions now by Fate. After getting their things in order, they go to Asteroid C where they meet up with Hess and Kitty and Taiga puts together the reality device the team once used long ago as Strikers.
The first reality they visit, the group finds the Earth is completely flooded and they are dumped into the ocean, being forced to drift until Kitty and Hess pull out rafts for the team to get onto. While Lenneth talks to them through wrist watches that can keep in touch and pull them back in an emergency, Noire, Jaime. and Charlotte shift their clothing to bikinis to handle being wet while Ren shivers on Charlotte's head and Taiga looks miserible. Lenneth informs them what information she can find on this reality and it looks like when handling the Luna incident, Sparkling used too much power and utterly smashed it, causing severe weather damage to the Earth; as they discuss it, they notice a PAX shuttle in the area and after debating if they should reach out to it, Thena psionically reaches out and gets the attention of the pilot, who turns out to be an alternate Iceheart.
After Iceheart expresses surprise at seeing Nicolette among their group, she also plays coy at seeing many of them in the ocean before agreeing to take them to the PAX. The PAX is more military like, with all the defenses and weapons activated, and as they arrive they are greeted by the Empress with her armored followered and an alternate Jaime; admitting that she contacted the Empress ahead of them since one of them was dead and that many of them should be on the PAX or on Geyze, but the scanners did not ping them as shapeshifters, leaders Jaime to confess who they are and where they came from, much go the team's chargin. It seems like maybe this reality does not have a Kaori - maybe - as the Empress makes a note to look into her after Kaori introduces herself while Taiga and Kitty plot to gag Jaime. The Alternate Empress goes onto inform them that after destroying Luna, Sparkling turned into a makai due to her grief of killing so many people, a powerful one at that, and went on to kill Nicolette and Sabrina; it appears this reality has no Serpent problem, perhaps due to that if the Serpent won in this reality, all the realities would fall, but it is a reality where makai are the main threat as Sparkling leads her dark forces along with the Dark Ones.
As the team processes this information and make note to becareful to not let Sparkling fall into despair, they try to get some information out of the Empress. She admits that originally she wanted to try to whip Erevis into shape by taking the PAX and make her embrace her Progenitor side and throw off her weaknesses. While Lenneth sounds angry off the comm, Hess notes it is almost anime logic. After they finish talking, they move onto the next reality which seems normal enough, though there is a somewhat oppressive atmosphere in the air as if something happened, or barely avoided an apocalypse. While Kaori eyes Nicolette and wonders about Maka, Taiga checks out the holonet and looks shocked to learn that this reality does not have Yggdrasil, which means that Kaori failed to bring the Mirror Universe over to the Prime Universe in the events of Session 200/100 (300).
While the team debates what it could mean that Kaori wouldn't step up and do what she did in the Prime Universe, Taiga looks up and sees that theer is indeed a Kaori - a Kaori Giblin. They head along and find a mansion that is bigger than Cheryl or Kitty's and after knocking on the door, they meet an Alternate Kaori who seems super happy and chipper with a smile that practically blinds them, much to Ren's surprise. Not seeming that surprised to see another her or people she might know, the alternate Kaori leads them inside and after being asked about the Magic Robot Army, which apparently is a problem here, she seems to have no idea what they mean by reality powers, seemingly never having gotten them. After calling to her Kitty to join them, a male Kitty joins them, leading to Taiga having a mental moment as she tries to piece together how a diverging reality from their's could lead to a male Kitty when it should be a reality from major moments, leading to the Alt Kitty and Kaori to eye them; during all this Nicolette notes she could do a reality tour, since so far she hasn't appeared all that much. While Kitty stares at her handsome Hess version, Hess looks shocked at it all. After saying their goodbyes, the team quickly exits.
Arriving at yet a third reality, they appear on a PAX finally and Noire notes they need to find information first, while many seem relieved to be on their home turf. While Hess and Kaori recover from their encounter of the last reality, Kaori mumbling about how happy her counterpart seemed, Taiga uses the holonet to learn that this reality's problem is VI, being led by someone who has managed to unite the broken pieces of VI under them and making it a force to be feared again. The Empress of this reality has even resorted to hiring the Maka to aid her in combating it, leading to Nicolette and Sparkling being on the ship as guards. They come across Alternate Sparkling, Nicolette, Sabrina, and Adeline in the PAX uniforms, commanding respects, and when they see their counter parts, especially Charlotte, Alternate Adeline freaks out on the team - mainly Charlotte. When the Alternate Adeline tries to take down Charlotte for questioning, Noire and Ren stand in her way, preventing her from doing so, claiming she is a war criminal and sees that Noire is finally showing her true colors.
After they reveal who they are and where they came from, the Alternate Adeline finds it rich, leading their Jaime aside and treating her like she is some docile Jaime like she used to be before almost revealing Charlotte's true last name before Ren coughs over her. She agrees to reveal some infromation about this reality, in exchange for information about their's, but Charlotte panics at the idea for some reason and tries to shut it down, leading to even Noire being suspicious about Charlotte. Taiga studies Charlotte and agrees for the team to leave, so they all use their buttons to exit and go back home, much to Charlotte's relief and Ren's. After they are gone, the Alt Adeline finds it suspicious and vows to try to find this reality one day. Back on the PAX, the team meets in the club room to go over the information they gathered and Ren vows to protect Charlotte while Taiga promises to dismantle the device for the time being so no evil doer can use it. Taiga asks Kaori and Hess how they are holding up and the two note they have a lot to talk about as well, so Taiga dismisses the club and they all exit the room.
Location: Earth, Cheryl's Mansion
Lemon holds a meeting where they go over the state of things on Earth over the past few months, such as the Smiling Suns being virtually eliminated and expected to fall apart in the new few months, the sightings of Venerated Intelligenctes popping up all over, and the Cobalts being a problem and being a focus. At that moment Andrea appears in the room from a portal, looking a bit wounded, and takes Marcus with her after asking for his help, leading to Cherry to curse her name. After the strange interruption, Kane resumes talking about facial recognition and his technology, boring everyone else there.
Location: Geyze
As the Academy finishes exams, with the teachers like Simon and Ellie getting relief and the students like Nicolette and Sparkling free from studying, and Alita gets birthday wishes, the group goes over if they have any business today and Celes admits they do not. It is decided they will go on a vacation to Jarivan, since many in the Royals group has never been there before now.
Location: Jarivan
The group arrives at Jarivan and immediately sets out to enjoy the beaches and each other's company. While even Cherie is there, quietly delivering drinks to Nicolette, Mélodie tackles and plays with Sparkling, and Cloé is held by Bonnie, the others quickly settle out into their own activities when they find a hole erupted on the beach. After they dismiss it, the group returns to the beach for some fun while Nicolette checks out what all Jarivan has to offer with a pamplet and the day continues to progress nicely. Soon though a strange crab appears and begins to cause havoc with some of the team, causing them the group to have to do a crab battle with it, especially after Bonnie gets drained somehow, causing Chelsea to dive into the water to get her out of it. After Chelsea restores Bonnie with mana and makes her more solid, Talia gets attacked by the same crab, but Alita restores her as well. Just as they're about to get the crab, it uses the teleporters and gets away.
Location: PAX
After some confusion by Ao and Leyeah at how the teleporter seemingly activating without anyone on it, neither noticing the crab, they head to Katrina's bar for a drink. There the crab attacks once again, going for Rio. causing Thena to hold her up high to protect her. However, it escapes once again and it seems to be headed for Geyze, where they think it might be going for all the Familiars, so the group warns them and heads down with some of the Academy people.
Location: Geyze
Arriving at the Magi Tower, everyone spreads out as those from Jarivan has joined in on the search to try to find the crab. Nicolette uses her powers to locate the Hunter, being the crab, at the Tower itself near the top where the Magi Weapon is located. They soon find Harrison, one of the first Hunters the group encounterd, glass embedded in his face, working the controls. After a battle and using their abilities, they manage to defeat and destroy the shapeshifter, causing Delgi to thank them, especially since she was in the process of retiring soon to turn over the Magi School to the Magi.
Epilogue:
Marcus and Andrea find themselves on unknown planet with Legions of Dark Ones and Andrea notes her plan is to try to find the Well of Souls to deliver a crippling blow to the Dark One invasion, hence going from planet to planet looking and getting into fights along the way. And so the two set off to do battle.
Fumoffu Session 15: House of Zhenmei (1)
Location: Geyze
The club meets on Geyze to fill a request about finding a rare fruit for them while they prepare something, leading some to believe it is from Sylph despite it being from "The Mysterious Flying Wind". After the group gathers, with Noire deadpanning at Thena's entrance, Nicolette notes that they have to somehow find a fruit based on a sketch and Taiga says they do have a location to check out: the Daemon Realm. While Thena glitters Noire up, Jaime takes them to the Daemon Capital with her shadow port ability using her staff, leading Taiga, Thena, Nicolette, Kaori, Jaime, Erevis, Noire, Id, Si, Charlotte, and Ceilidh to arrive at a busy market. While they are checking it out, they encounter Rain who helps direct them to Shade's old grotto location to find it, guarded by wolfbeast/wolf fauna. As they talk to Rain, it is clear Ceilidh is interested in the ancient vampire, as she asks her various questions even as she marks the map for the group.
Jaime summons Nocturne from her shadows, who appears as a dark copy of Jaime at first which makes Charlotte jealous as she is unable to do that even as a Dark One, until Nocturne reveals herself. After Nocturne has Charlotte bow to her in respect, she draws everyone into her shadows and takes them to the location indicated. Nicolette wonders about Jaime keeping a siprit in her shadows, but Nicolette indicates she is only in Jaime's shadow 1 out of 5 times when she talks to it. After some back and forth teasing from Jaime, Nocturne stuffs her into her own shadow and ditches her from the group, so they all continue as Rain explains about the fruit. Supposedly the fruit makes the person live a longer life, make them more beautiful, smarter, and so on.
Kyouki appears in her Spirit/Sprite form, so Erevis puts her on her head, as they arrive at the fruit and see a wolf werebeast protecting the fruit as well as Jaime. Their voices though rose the wolf girl that looks a lot like Asha, most likely of the same tribe or a similiar tribe; Rain notes that her language seems to be an ancient form of the one Asha's tribe uses, but will try to translate while Jaime talks to her, even as Ren comes out of Charlotte's breasts and gets onto her head. Rain informs them she is protecting the fruit from all of them due to fruit thieves and was tasked by Shade long ago. Jaime summons Gnome, along with Terra, to try to use Terra's fruit duplication powers, but it fails, which makes Terra do a shrill cry. Nocturne manages to get them one fruit to take for the group, so while Terra offers an apple - the wolf girl goes for it, it misses somehow (and still getting the apple) and engulfs Ceilidh's hand instead. Noire uses the distraction to get the fruit while everyone is panicked over Ceilidh, chewing on the apple in her hand. As Terra tries her growing thing and dark vines and dark fruit grows, making the place more thick with dark plant life, the group teleports out and Ceilidh checks her hand, seeing it was not bitten.
The group meets up with Sylph and gives her the fruit on one condition - that she saves the seeds. Agreeing to the condition, Sylph invites them to her place where they smell food and see Gale as well Neekito helping with a celebration of sorts for Ellie. Ellie's family throws a surprise birthday for her and the fruit was used for a fruit pie for her, with Sylph and Neekito. It looks like Sylph wanted to make her the food herself, under Neekito's supervision. As well as Sylph making Ellie a Ellie a little statue of herself, as well as tiny figurines for the group. After everyone takes some cake and a figurine, they head on out back to the club.
Location: PAX
As they arrive back on the ship, they see that Lenneth has begun her counter attack on the Empress trying to inform the PAX public that she is the true PAX Empress and never stepped down, but what's more the false Empress Erevis from another turn has not made any moves to stop her. Jaime and Charlotte seem to both think Lenneth lack subtlety and Taiga points out that might be the point as they enter the club room. As they discuss the situation the Empress enters the room, turning all the eyes to her as she approaches Jaime, causing Erevis to tense up at the person who usurped her ship and stole her identity. There is a clear difference between the two as the Empress holds herself much like Erevis once did - arrogantly, but confidently, while Erevis has a more peaceful slouch these days and has a white streak of age in her hair while the Empress has no sign of age due to her Progenitor power. Addressing Jaime, she brings up a matter to Jaime about the Patheon that Jaime brought up to her in the meetings Jaime has been having with her secretly and how Jaime has learned how to damage herself using hyperspace, and notes she will consider it, but Jaime will need to join her full time since it is a full time commitment, even sparing a glance at Thena.
After the Empress leaves with Syiean, Jaime argues her case about her idea of the Patheon, claiming that their greatest weakness was a single seat that the Empress proved could be easily usurped. Erevis counters that the false Empress used the PAX's systems to the fullest while they were gone and stole the ship. Erevis seems vemently opposed to Jaime's plan and that Jaime is working with the Empress so closely and when Jaime states she believes that Erevis would have come up with this idea given time, she leaves the room. Charotte asks to keep Lenneth from causing trouble and Jaime notes it's to keep the entire family causing trouble, perhaps worried about a civil war for the throne once they get the PAX back.
Taiga points out that Lenneth is the true leader, not Erevis, unless Jaime wants Erevis to step up and take the throne again. Taiga eventually notes why doesn't she just talk to some of the ambassadors for their thoughts so Jaime does so and goes to see Ariel. As they split up, Taiga goes her own way, giving Si something to distract her, causing Ren and Charlotte to debate who to follow during all this. Kyouki follows Jaime and Thena to the Ambassador Tower, while Charlotte and Ren follow Taiga. Taiga returns to Geyze and seems to examine the teleporters for some reason, placing something on it and checking logs of people who used it during a certain period of time. Meanwhile Ariel listens to Jaime go over her plans and with Vyssa beside her. Ariel points out various flaws in Jaime's plan, such as the Patheon outvoting the main leader or overthrowing them, and more, while Vyssa interjects her own ideas. After Taiga leaves, Charlotte examines and sees Taiga was checking the time period around the Ancient Piece events on Geyze for some reason, leaving the two wondering why Taiga was interested in that. And Jaime and Thena leave wondering about the idea of the Patheon, still believing it, while Ariel and Vyssa give them idea to think about.
Session 468: House of Durran (2)
Location: The Academy
The group holds a meeting going over the Shapeshifters and Serpent Clan, discussing ideas on how to handle their plots against Geyze; the group decides it is possible that some of their leaders have been replaced and what that means for Geyze. They decide to investigate the leaders as well as their advisors, so Celes writes Leaf, her own name, Helen, Kalam, Mykel, Qui, Shinobu, Sasha, and Sasha as the leader names, then Lumi as the Alliance leader's name, tThen writes the advisors name's down with Eve's down for the Hapian and for Qui's the name is Acyone. While they discuss it Nicolette notes they must be extremely well organized to accomplish all this so far due to how efficent they seem to be. As this is all going on, Erevis gets a datapad message alerting her to Lenneth planning her second phase plan to challenge the Empress and she heads out to handle that fire on the PAX, joined by Kyouki and Xanatos, leaving the others to debate what to do with detecting shapeshifters. Nicolette notes they can ask Sabrina is necessary and they do note they could ask for more Maka if necessary, due to their ability to detect the shapeshifters.
Location: PAX
Erevis seems to be in a sour mood to about her children, much to Jaime's shame, over the situation with Lenneth as they arrive in the bar where Ren is having a birthday party held by Taiga as those from Geyze catch up. While the party is held, the Zhenmei have their conversation off to the side about the situation. Lenneth tells Xanatos and Erevis that her plan is to have them work as a family unit to thwart the Empress' plans and undo the coup she did; as one they can talk to the leaders of the other races and undermine her power. While Jaime cautions her to talk to Athena and to take it easy, Xanatos warns that if it fails they might have to fight her should she become hostile. While there is one other option to dethrone the Empress, none have brought it up yet - the voting option that Erevis put in the Suisen Empire clause. Id notes about the Empress' goals for her about surpassing her and even Jaime pushes her to see Ao, since she was once sick with hyperspace but that was cured by the Empress after joining her side. Would this prodding by Jaime change the future that Jaime saw when she was taken to the future by her briefly?
Fed up with them all, Erevis notes that she knows what the Empress is up to but perhaps she does not want to walk the path that woman wants her to walk and that is why she is on Geyze, to find her own way in the world to defeat her. After a quick outburst, much like her younger days, and comfort from Xanatos, they decide to back off from it for now. During all this, the party has still been going on as Charlotte provides a ring to Ren as a birthday present, proposing to her, and Ren immediately accepts. Sabrina and Nicolette talk after running into each other, both observing the party and musing on things when Nicolette brings up to her about the problems on Geyze and needing Makas to help with the shapeshifters; Sabrina immeditately agrees to help. They discuss getting other Maka to help them when Taiga's datapad alarm goes off.
Taiga drags Xanatos along, noting according to his holonet profile, he's the second or third best pilot in the universe as the others follow along. They decide to use the Tiger Cruiser, due to the fact Erica is currently in a Robo Erica body; as they prepare to use the Cruiser, Taiga informs them that a message from Andrea came in and that she needs a place destroyed at the coordinates sent to Taiga. As they all head off, Nicolette and the others head to meet with Ao leads them to a conference table where they can access information on the Holonet. The Empress meets with the team and they discuss the matter of the shapeshifters and Maka; after getting a way to get in touch with the Maka, they leave.
Location: Tiger Cruiser
They arrive at their location and encounter massive Dark One Seed ship trying to seed the planet, along with a God Ping on the planet below; the ship looks like it's their version of the PAX. Thena tries to do a mind shield to protect the team from the Dark Mind Attacks against those with low Mind/Psionics while Taiga tries to contact the Erusians about the attack on one of their outer worlds. Andrea contacts them through comms, letting them know that she, Marcus, X, and Dias are on the planet below, along with Lenny and Celeste. They all debate on how to bring it down, including calling Templars, until they settle on an attack plan when Noire gives them an idea; they focus on the seeds for now, keeping the idea in their backpocket, and try to do as much damage as they can in the meantime. After doing what they can and barely escaping it and it's defensive weapons and the ships inside it, with Kyouki helping with the spirit engine, until they do enough damage and run for it, despite Xanatos fighting the urge to fly inside the giant ship. They escape the area, leaving the rest to those on the ground to keep looking for the Well of Souls and clearing up the damage done by the seeds as the Seed Ship also retreats.
Epilogue: Ren and Charlotte spend their first night together and Ren decides to lean into her Dragoon heritage, but using her reality power adopts the Mirror Univese Dragoons' style of bonding.
Fumoffu Session 16: The Makai and Nicolette
Location: PAX
As the group gets into the room, Sabrina even trying to mimic Nicolette's magic tricks - poorly, as Nicolette watches from the shadows, Shion sells food to the group to make some money while Taiga informs them of a situation on Kumen's lower levels about magic going on. As the group notes that it is unusual for them to have magic related cases, Nicolette agrees that it was hard to even do stage magic there. After the team heads there, they are checked by the new Kumen security for their powers and weapons, giving stamps for what they have on them, but then allowed to continue without being bothered. It looks like Kumen now has been organized to have teleporters to the lower levels as well as elevators to go up and down, as well as enviromental changes like little ponds and gardens on the various levels as they ride the elevator down, noting how they have reflectors to allow sunlight to go down below as well as artifical sunlight. And it looks like that the lower level is trying to work and offer money to innovate and work on the slums and projects to those living there that are interested in doing so.
While the team admires the work being done on the lower levels, Taiga leads them to the spot and those with magical abilities can feel the air being wrong while the others see the ground has been liquidfied for a time, then made solid, and people seem to be half buried and killed, while some were liquified as well when it happened. The buildings having sunk into the street and had the same thing happen, too; who knows how many buildings were completely liquidified. Taiga informs the team that witnesses heard words being chanted when the incident occurred. Sparkling and Nicolette investigate with their powers while Sabrina checks the area out as well, the others search the area - Ceilidh and Taiga look for clues while Ren yips and alerts the team that they are being spied on. While Jaime finds a kid and interrogates them, getting fed up being called old and other names, threatening to dunk him in the water and using her powers to punish him, she gets some clues out of him that a woman did the deed and had purpelish black hair. Sparkling manages to find a Makai symbol with her abilities with Sabrina, who identifies it is an ancient Makai symbol, calling it old fashioned when you want to target someone, and the team finds a coin within the symbol.
Sabrina informs them that you start small and then grow in scope as you target with this type of symbol magic, narrowing in on the person. They debate who the coin could belong to as they move toward the next location - the cursed orphangage they encountered before when they were here last time. It is surrounded by fog and there is howls inside when dogs and Dog Fauna being affected inside it, causing them to attack people who come near it. Taiga and Ren begin to show symptons of being under the fog's curse so Noire uses her tentacles to throw them away from the area right before Taiga can bite Ceildih's throat when she checks on her. As the Dog Fauna attack the group, Nicolette uses her magic to make a shield to seperate them from the team while Charlotte vows vengence on the Makai who did this as Thena puts some to sleep and Noire whaps the others.
As they search the fog, Sparkling sees the Makai for a brief moment, but also sees the symbol so she focuses on that, getting rid of that and discovers a playing card. As the area returns to the normal, the examine the playing card they wonder if the Makai is targetting Nicolette. Nicolette seems baffled while they would hold a grudge against her, but Noire seems to think there may be a chance that they see her as trying to replace her and Sabrina points out that most Makai just hate for the sake of hating and are not like Zayne. As they arrive on the top level they run into Ymir and they inform her of what has happened, so she agrees to help by sending her whatever files she can get her hands on. After giving them her number, she returns to her Macross HQ. During all this, the team hasn't noticed that the Makai has stolen a hair from Sparkling.
Back at the club room, Taiga goes through the files they were given and points at a Nicolette file and the purple haired girl - both in opposite orphanages, but the latter went to the cursed one. While Nicolette notes she hoped she wasn't robbed oddly, Taiga reads her name as Harumi Mizaka and that she was trying to get into a certain performance arts contest to get out of the slums. Nicolette denied entering such a thing and that she was just a street performer and trying whatever was necessary to keep herself afloat. The team decides maybe the Makai felt betrayed that a mere person like Nicolette got out of the slums and became a famous Maka, while she couldn't get out, especially if the two did know each other somehow. Taiga announces she set up a series of code words related to the makai and got a hit on Luna, specifically at the spot Sparkling punched the moon.
Location: Luna
The team arrives at the moon and finds it crackling with dark magical energy and the moon's atmosphere, being done by EarthGov, is being reverted to no atmosphere and the moon looks like it's cracking. And worse of all, down in the center of the crater is what looks like a dead rabbit
tied up with hair. Si declares that to be raclsim and Sparkling is outraged at the sight of it, while Nicolette wonders how much malice they have inside them. As Sparkling moves to deal with the signal, it turns into a Daimon that looks like it is based on the rabbit, making Si even more angry, but they destroy it as it gives off a rabbit scream. They get rid of the signal and things return to normal, with Taiga promising to look into this for Nicolette and Sparkling. As they all leave, inside the ravine where Tsukiyomi's body has been laid to rest to gather energy to be restored, her eye lid twitches slightly.
Location: Geyze
While Sparkling, Sabrina, and Nicolette walk along the Academy and discuss things together like friends, they do not notice a purple haired "student" among the crowd, eyeing Nicolette hatefully as she holds a magician's hat. Then she turns and fades into the crowd with it.
Session 469: Winter is Coming (1)
Location: Earth
Asarar's team, along with Chelsea and Bonnie, work their way through a massive backyard in an area that seems overgrown and rarely used until they come across a cemetary that houses family plots that dates back hundreds of years, even back to when Earth used dates before the Galactic Dating System. They pass burials for Alexander Cran, the clone, and one for Cran in his original body before he came back to life recently; there they begin to dig up the two clone children to examine them, however there are no bodies inside, only a container with some ashes. After they finish, the group decides to open the casket of Alexander, the clone, and inside they find his body is missing as well, along with a headless toy. They decide to head back and check out what they've gathered so far.
Location: Cheryl's Mansion
Lemon is throwing a birthday party for Adeline and Wade, though one would find it hard to believe due to the twin's age difference, and everyone is relaxing as the twins' open their presents, especially the Mizukazes and their family like Yuki and Robo Erica, Ren who now sports a white stripe in her black hair and Charlotte, Angela, Jaime and Jennifer, Dias, Tabetha, Reikana, and finally Kane. Eventually they pick up alarms of the Cypher team who are out in the old family graveyard on the property that Cheryl admits she rarely goes out to check when Adeline gets a precog warning and tells everyone to get out of the room. A Venerator Intelligence crashes into the living room through the second floor and begins to attack the group and seems to be trying to grab Yuki as they all attack. After they beat it and they wonder why it was sent and if there was any connection to Asarar's team, Dias makes a crack that gets him TKed out the door, leading the team to wonder why he was even there when he was last seen in deep space with Andrea and Marcus.
Date: 10-641.6.10
Location: Geyze
Asarar's team, having pulled an all-night, look for someone that might can help them with the ashes to verify the information given to them by Chad Winters awhile back. Asarar uses Chelsea's connections with the team to get in touch with Lana to have her examine the ashes to see what all they can learn about them and are even joined by Nicolette. The group goes to Lana's lab to begin the experiments where they all work together to get to the bottom of the mystery, using magic and other techniques to learn the truth. Lana uses an advance magic spell on the ashes after finding a spell on it to try to trick whoever finds the truth; while she does the spell, Nicolette and the others run into Cheryl's group who have come seeking information about Asarar stealing the bodies.
They soon learn that Asarar was hired by Chad to learn more about who has been attacking his family and so Asarar decided to look into the bodies first to get a baseline for the case, but had nothing to do with the attack on the manor. While the teams argue over everything, a rumble from the basement occurs that draws them downstairs. They find Lana knocked on her ass from doing the spell and the ashes destroyed; Lana reveals someone put a crude hex on the ashes to protect any information and the hex went off. However she did learn that it is highly unlikely that the cloned children were Aya's adopted cloned children, due to the fact the magic spells deep dived revealed they were given life recently. Cheryl decides to hunt down Chad incase he is danger while Asarar decides to follow the next lead Chad gave them.
Epilogues: Chad is hit by a rebound spell from the hex in the bodies, causing him to be noticed by everyone on the streets despite his technology and his bank accounts are drained by someone. Also, Aya is hit by the same hex and becomes the most popular person on the PAX as everyone notices her.
Fumoffu Session 17: The Alighieri Files (Tie In)
Location: PAX
While the two groups get their things in order following the events of Session 469. Taiga holds an emergency club meeting where Ren, Charlotte, Jaime, Adeline, Thena, and Si gather together and Taiga notices that Si and Ren have new streaks in their hair lately and Taiga learns that Ren used her minute reality power to change her DNA to become more in lined with Geyze Dragoons - how Si managed it is unknown. Taiga leads the group to Aya's room on the PAX where a large crowd has gathered, stating that Ao and Leyeah has requested their help; the crowd seems to have become fanatics over Aya, writing songs and poems about her and Jaime's powers to entice mean and women doesn't work on them as she tries to get them to move away from the door. The group together has to use their combined glaring to clear space and get inside and speak with Aya, Fiona, and Evette.
After they question Aya, Jaime incorrectly thinking Aya has phermone powers - but it turns out it is her mother who has that power, Eve - they learn that yesterday, around the time Lana did her spell with the ashes, Aya was struck over by something and fell to her knees, feeling strange. Fiona pipes up that they have been having trouble with stalkers and Aya has noted she has been having people become infatuated with her, like she has been lit up with a beacon of attention. Fiona and Evette show that they have been trying to discredit Dawn to try to win over Aya, showing strange proof that about art thieves on Dawn's side of the family. The team wonders if the Hex spell from the ashes purposely targetted Aya or if it was a rebound from targetting Chad due to being related to him. Since they have no magic users on their team, since none came to join the club meeting, they decide to go down to Geyze to look for some help, and Jaime uses her staff to take them.
Location: The Academy
As Taiga lets Jaime lead the way to the manor for help, Adeline wonders if any of them will fall under the Aya Spell, but Jaime and Charlotte seem to think that is unlikely, one due to bonds and one not caring, Charlotte seeming to be annoyed by the whole situation with Aya. While the team travels to the manor to get help, Nocturne rises from the shadow and studies Aya, apparently becoming infactuated with her due to the hex and even Gwen glances her way, but one never learns if the hex works on him due to Talia nipping her. Talia calls Lana up out of the basement and Nicolette arrives at the same time, so both of them question Aya about her situation. Lana examines Aya down in the basement and Nicolette notes her money is on a badly made hex that hit Aya on accident while going for it's real target. They decide to let Ceilidh later to get some samples to compare and use to make sure the rest of the family is okay against the hex while Lana tries to get rid of the hex, but it tries to fight back; all the mages combine their power and soon banish it away.
Alita notes that until the spell on Chad is purged it might return, but for now she should be okay. Lana promises to make a ward to wear in the meantime. While Talia and Charlotte goes at it over Talia wanting the ward to help her rule the planet, reminding her of Thena, who jokes she is small time and that she wants the universe, Taiga has Thena take Aya back to the PAX in the meantime until the ward is done. After they are done, Taiga goes over the stuff she was looking during the magic stuff, having been looking into the information on the art thieves and that it is still going on, wanting to go after them since it looks fun. Since Chelsea is not around, Taiga decides to get Bonnie and that she knows someone who is into hero stuff that might join them; Nicolette decides to join since she is into quick finger stuff as well and the group plans to look into this Alighieri and art stuff.
Location: Mega City
The team arrives outside a museum at night time where they set up surveilience, joined by Noire, Bonnie, and Lunar Girl. While some think they are here to do a heist themselves, Taiga protests that they are there to stop one. After a bit they see someone entering the museum, so the team heads to the roof themselves. Nicolette suggests they just call security once they arrive on the roof and see the figure is inside already near the art exhibit doing something, but Charlotte and Lunar Girl protest that is boring and not heroic. But before they can do that they are attacked by a masked blonde girl that seems to have a moveset much like Evette, using trick shots like Chad and able to calculate things like him. As they battle the group, using their powers, Taiga alerts the guards inside as the Dawn look alike gets outside without stealing inside, leaving the group wondering what is going on.
Both of the art thieves run for it and try to escape, but the team uses their power to trip them up. Right as the guards bust out onto the roof and demand everyone freeze, the frozen art thieves, due to the magic by Nicolette and Noire's tendrils, stomps his foot to unleash a smoke cloud and pushes his blonde partner over the edge and somehow manages to go over himself, making the guards suspect the team. However, Lunar Girl and Noire follows after them while the rest of the team surrenders and explains the situation; Lunar Gir lands on Dawn as Noire's tendrils tandles the Dawn look alike Art Thief, KOing him and they unmask him to find that it was indeed Dawn. While inside the rest see that Dawn was just setting up to have the art be revealed as fake art that the museum was purposely showing off as the real thing, while on the side taking a few during the heist after ruining their reputations.
Leaving the group with mixed emotions, they return to the club after Bonnie fletches something from the gift shop for Chelsea. There they find the spell on Aya has been reduced to nearly nothing and learn that Aya's family is running low on money due to some things - while they are still okay due to things by Aya and help from others, they are not what they used to be. As they muse on it, Evette spies on them from the hallway with a mark on the hallway, indicating she was the other art thief and Aya moves to get Dawn out of jail on bail.
Location: The Academy
Asarar's team, Cheryl, along with Royals, Charlotte, Taiga, Si, and Ceilidh work on terminals to try information on cloning facilities while Cheryl puts out a bounty on Chad (alive). They discuss cloning and other things while they all discuss Chad and his mysterious ways, bringing everyone up on it as well as discussing Alexander Cran and his old ways of handling things, despite him trying to walk the good path. Eventually Asarar decides that they'll check out an abandoned clone facility, nothing there are only so many, and gathers a team while Cheryl waits on hits on her bounty on Chad.
Location: Kumen
Due to being lit up by the spell last time, Chad is sniped once more like he was long ago see The Alien Wars: Season 8 - Session 174 as the sniper approaches him.
Location: Earth
Cypher, Chelsea, Asarar, Jaime, Celidh, Id, Nicolette, Luci, Logan, Kira, Id, and Bonnie, arrive at an abandoned facility on the Mew Mew, along with their two spirits in the back play wrestling; opening the front door, Asarar leads them inside where they find the area looks like it hasn't been used in months, althought it looks like someone went through the place with broken equipment. As Nicolette lights the area with her magic, they see gunshots all over to take out the equipment and render it unuseable. Chelsea and Logan work on retrieving the drives from the equipment, finding one partially undamaged, while the others examine for clues and soon find some blood. While the drives are examined in the Mew Mew, Ceilidh checks out the blood Logan notes if they were good enough to take out the machines they would have been good enough to clean up the blood, but they didn't while Asarar and Kira whisper about the fact the clone kids are still alive and what else is going on here that they don't know about.
Chelsea manages to access the drive and learns that a clone of Chad was indeed doing experiments at a school testing Weapon/Dragoon DNA (see Fumoffu Session 12), as well as potting when to make his move and mastermind against Chad; sSetting up plots within plots when it looks like he had tons of various plots in action, including plans to target Aya, Eve, Chad, and more. He even took the good clone Alexander Cran's body to do experiments on it, but it seems there's no more log in information after that. After returning and informing them what she learned, they all begin to search the area for more blood and find areas of the lab collapsed, as well as blocked off office by someone. The office was clearled wired by someone to keep people from going inside it, but the team brute forces their way in and find a message from the clone to someone that activates. It announces that they are breathing in poison and they will not meet again as the terminal heats up, causing them to all clear out as the facility blows up, even causing Asarar, Cypher, Bonnie, and Chelsea to be knocked on their butts since they were outside following the blood trail.
As they all get out of there to deal with the poisoned group, they muse on the trap set behind and Cypher notes that wasn't a very good trap. Id notes it is likely someone found the trap before them and blocked it off to keep people from going inside. They land at the hospital for now and get healed up.
Location: Geyze
Cheryl boredly waits for clues on Chad while the others do things to keep themselves busy until Cheryl gets a hit about Chad being shot. They take the Aquarius to Kumen and land there, beginning their investigation in the lower levels of Kumen City in the slums. They learn that the shooter went for more of a stun head shot than a kill shot then grabbed him. They soon get information he was taken to a club with girls in it before it closed down and they head inside to look for him.
While this is going on, Asarar on Mew Mew orders Logan and Ceilidh to search for something mysterious for her while the rest of them head for Kumen to check something out in the slums. At the same time Chad wakes up in his room in the building that Cheryl and the others are entering and a voice that sounds like his are talking to him, having taken his gear away and leaving him only pain pills and the item he had Weapon VIII make for him to defeat the evil clone. Chad declares he decided to give it to Durran to use on himself instead which the voice says to go ahead if he wants before clicking off.
The group works their way up the place with an elegant air to it when Asarar and Cypher arrive, soon learning it's their old club in the slums. Suddenly the building shakes from an attack by someone and they rush up to find Zayne and her battling a person, believing them to be a child killer still. The attacker's eyes glow red and they fire a buster energy to repel her. As the attacker runs off Noire manages to nail Zephyr and catch her off guard. As Chad arrives and barely catches himself from falling into a pie face first, Logan calls in that they found the children in an orphanage. After the datapad talks from "Chad" and tells him to compliment someone, he gets his money back; meanwhile something goes on between Zephyr and Charlotte and she mutters about not telling her anything sensitive now, perhaps due to how she acted here, thought Zephyr looks like she doesn't care. While Angela and Charlotte have words, Chad deduces maybe Warren had something to do with it and Noire jokes that Chad is Warren's ... enemy.
After it is all over and back at the Academy with Asarar paying her team and Ceilidh being paid in information, Lumi goes over the shapeshifter issue and the fact that the Makas will be here soon hopefully. They discuss how they can utlitize them going forward.
Epilogue: Lemon cleans up from the Venerator Intelligence attack and discovers that the prisoner in their prison who wanted to frame Christina has been broken out in the confusion and wondering what that means going forward.
Fumoffu Session 18: The Children of John
Location: Mega City
Lunar Girl comes across what appears to be a crime in progress and drops down from the rooftops to intervene, spotting a man holding a purse of a woman who is screaming for help as he points a gun at her. After being distracted by Lunar Girl and the woman running off with her purse, the trench coat wearing man reveals himself to be a P.I and notes when she's older that she can work for him as he hands her his card, monologing in his head like someone out of a noir movie as he leaves.
Date: 10-641.6.16
PAX - The Club
Taiga holds another club meeting and all the hijnks that come with it, such as Si introducing Delta Cola, Ren eating a lot more food lately, Gator nonsense, and Kaori being sleepy as Taiga goes over the cases on the docket like a magical mugger stealing things from banks when Locket and Michiru enter the room; Locket shows them the Holonet where police are suspecting a local superhero of murdering a private investigator and insists they have to look into it due to the hero being Lunar Girl. After a lot of pushing and prodding of the team, as well as evil clone jokes due to Lunar Girl being an alternate version of Michiru, though no one knows what reality she is from yet. The team eventually makes their way down to the P.I's office by a makeshift beach, since Mega City is nowhere near a beach, and meet up with Lunar Girl who has been let out on bail, wearing a tracker to keep tabs on her since she is suspected of murder.
The group decides to leave Lunar outside the office, since the tracker might alert the police that she is too close to the crime scene, and a few of them go inside the office on the second floor to try to find clues to clear her name. It looks like the fact the P.I's card was on Locket as well as one of the gloves that Lunar wears and a piece of her cape. Locket, Michiru, stay with Lunar while Taiga, Tabetha, Noire, Hess, Kaori, and Charlotte investigate the office as Taiga reads off what all the police found tying the murder to Lunar, so Charlotte goes to examine Lunar's cape to see if it's been torn. Taiga also points out the murder weapon was a knife which doesn't fit the John Family M.O, since they're always using their fists. As the team continues to gather evidence, Charlotte finds that it looks like someone cut Lunar's cape, perhaps to frame her since it looks cut too smoothly. After they are done and Lunar Girl points them to a name on the address list of the P.I that does not match the offical police data and so on, the woman who's purse the P.I tried to take the previous night, the team takes the Tiger Bus over to her place.
They find a limo prepared to leave at the address for the woman, so after Durt EMPs it and forces them to get another ready, Tabetha and Charlotte read the woman's mind in the broken limo while she waits; it appears to be a decoy that is being paid by the real target to make it look like she has left. Taiga leads some of the team up to the room while the others hang out by the Tiger Bus; once in the room, either through Hess' ripples or Locket opening the door, they find inside what appears to be an amateur assassin's tools and make up all over the place. As they gather clues about her target and the location, the others make requests from Taiga A.I and Taiga about their own A.I's based on their personalities, making Taiga A.I huff since so far there is only a Kitty A.I. Learning that she plans to take out someone important at a fancy dinner, they head off to it.
Once they are at the dinner and show their IDs to get inside, the team splits off to try to find the assassin before she takes out her target. John joins them at the dinner, wearing his best noir outfit, Fate letting him come back to help out Lunar Girl clear her name it seems, as the man does his speech to the dinner crowd about technology and changing the world. They spot a suspicious server following the man as he goes to the bathroom, where the confrontation begins - Locket, Charlotte, and Noire stop the woman from killing the target and a quickly subdue her while John greets his children and Tabetha. Back at the club, Taiga asks again what the point of all this was to the club as the holovid shows that the Lunar Girl got a key to the city as well as those with her. John notes he has been allowed to spend a day with the family as the club is dismissed, heading out with them.
Countdown to 475 - Part 11
Location: Kumen
Asarar's team goes through their paperwork and case files after completing the Chad Winters case, discussing Chad stiffing them on the payment by only paying them the down payment and what they want to do with the files Chelsea downloaded from the facility. Kira decides to keep the information incase they want to use it against Winters in the future so Asarar stores it in their vault with high security and they move onto BIX and the case on him. They note that with his creator being super poor and having to reuse parts to make each BIX version, she finds it odd that there was a lab with such defenses out there and after Logan asks how Biotects are made today, Asarar notes it's likely through Ymir since she runs the city these days. They decide to look into the black market to see if they can learn more about the mystery in the meantime.
Location: The Academy
Celes calls a meeting to inform the team that the Maka Homeworld is indeed sending some Makas to aid the team in dealing with the Shapeshifter threat; after discussing the Makas and Chad Winters noting he has business with them himself, leading to the team wondering when Chad "joined" the Royals and other concerns. After some hijinks such as Sylph's fruit eating problems and picture drawing, discussing Jaime bringing the kids' gang to live here that the group encountered two different times, they move to get ready to meet the Makas and talk to such kids, led by Kidd. Xanatos talks to them and they seem to come to an understanding while Melodie hangs onto Sparkling when the Makas arrive finally.
Meanwhile, Kito serves Sasha some food and afterward she begins to feel unwell, realizing her food has been drugged. Before though she can call for help, Kito drags her back inside and tosses her into the closer where Kito is located and poisoned, her magic keeping her alive. Sasha works on using what powers she can muster to free herself when the Ancient Temple activates, drawing all eyes outside to it. As the Makas and the team head for the flying Temple, a battle breaks out where they try to stop the Shapeshifter Kito and her plans, tossing the two over the edge and making the Makas save them, working on healing the poison. The others still on the Temple hunt for the Shifter and find Ancient being spoken as it aims the Temple at the Academy. They find it and manage to defeat it, knocking it off the temple to crash on the ground near the others.
Simon, Lana, and Id work on shutting the temple down and bringing it back to the ground and soon it lands with the doors closing down. After questioning the Shapeshifter and learning it was a "test run" to see how things would go, Kyouki tries to do a mind read on the Shapeshifter and manages to succeed, but when she goes a level even deeper she manages to fry the shapeshifter. She reveals that she learned he was happy to be caught for some reason. They wonder if it was all a distraction while Kidd watches them from the shadows.
Location: Luci's Club
While they are talking, the window shatters and someone captures Max, dragging him off which makes Luci go crazy and try to kill him in the chase through the woods. After a game of cat and mouse, the man reveals he wanted to catch Max since he was a tigroar for some reason and reveals his identity to be a Hunter named Crimson Spear. After returning to the bar and getting some attitude, he heads off, leaving Max with Luci.
Fumoffu Session 19: Class of 5990
Countdown to 475 - Part 10
Location: Geyze, The Academy
The club attends the 10 year reunion of the first class of the Academy to keep an eye out for trouble as well as enjoy the proceedings of the Academy enjoying the celebration as well as Geyze - and ignoring the fact the Ancient Temple Sasha uses as her place of operations is parked next to the rec center. Lumi is back in her old instructor outfit from those days and goes to where the Unit 6 used to be housed and picks up Gwen, Alita, Ceilia, Qui, Vyvy, Commodus, and Sasha, as well as Kito and Neekito. Alita points out that most of the team is royality now and Talia becomes excited at the idea of becoming a Princess, even if Gwen himself is now in line for the Amazon throne, her child might one day if Qui has no children. Taiga discusses with Nicolette how Unit 6's actions essentially formed Geyze into what it became today as they all march onto the podium and the two discuss the history of Geyze as well as the place of the team; Liana's face is on the podium since she did not make it due to royality matters. Vyvy waves at the Elder Spirits, clearly interested in getting to know more about them as well talking to Mélodie and Aimée, causing Sparkling Justice to pull the two younger spirits closer to her in a huff.
Shion eventually steps onto the podium and greets the crowd, as she was the second headmistress the Academy ever had, and greets the students of the past and the current ones as well as future ones, then introduces the person who created the Academy, motioning at Isis and Miyuki. Miyuki, dressed in all snappy like usual, steps up and delivers a nice speech to everyone, then has Isis walk up, who heads out graduation papers to the current class while Miyuki heads awards to the old team, earning waves from Vyvy. Each of the Unit 6 members receive a medal around the neck for their service and a comment by Isis. Afterward, Miyuki and Isis head off to make love while the rest of the classes go to enjoy the buffet that has been set up for everyone. Vyvy summons Salamander and Shade to join her like Jaime summoned Gnome and the party begins in full, only for the attack to begin.
Various people are all over, including Kidd, Shinobu, and Rain, as they eat and enjoy each other's company - Ren is chowing down on a ton of food with Charlotte, Noire, Taiga, Jaime, and the others partake, when Nicolette, Sparkling, and Sabrina feel a Hunter among the crowd. While Sasha notes to Kito and Neekito her mood is dampened due to the temple's location, which Simon and the others are currently inside working to move it back to it's proper location, people who have been eating food begin to fall over - the various Thenas collapse, Asha, Shinobu, and even Ren who throws up due to how much she was scarfing food down. As students go down the team realizes the food has been poisoned, the team works on healing everyone as Charlotte vows revenge; Talia, Sabrina, and Sparkling work on healing everyone while Alita brings in Brooke to help out with the mass healing.
Rain takes Shinobu back to the Dark Lands while Nicolette tries to narrow down the wrong feeling from her cards, ordering Sparkling to kick over a table and revealing a bomb. The team works together as Noire uses her tendrils to throw it into the air as Jaime speeds up the timer and makes it explode in the air. However particles begin to fall down that seem to interfere with magik, probably aimed at crippling the Maka, so Jaime and Alita work on funneling them into an earth made jar to contain them. Kito and Neekito move off to help with the injured and are not seen again. After it is all over, the team realize it is another shapeshifter attack and check to see who all is still here since the shapeshifter feeling is gone now; Undine/Brooke continues to help people and gets Ren on her feet, telling Charlotte she needs to recover and seems to whisper something in her ear about her condition that seems to surprise her. Shion decides to lead the group to the first of the two people who left during the chaos to see if they are the shapeshifter.
Location: The Amazon Capital
Shion leads Taiga, Sabrina, Nicolette, Jaime, Sparkling, Asha, and Noire into Qui's tent to meet with Gwen and Qui where they learn they are here to learn if Qui is a shapeshifter or not, insulting Gwen. Qui is talking her to advisor, a massive Amazon and when she learns their purpose here, offers to cut her hand, revealing red blood but Nicolette still reads Qui and finds her clean, though her advisor seems to have darkness in her that might be a problem down the road. Qui also seems shocked at learning about the bomb, having been dragged off by Vyvy, another of her advisors. Noire taps into her power she used long ago that causes her a headache and nose bleed and checks everyone's auras, seeing they look clear: Gwen has a middling aura, Qui has a pretty nice aura, the advisor's aura is dark - clearly not a good person, Jaime's is eh - probably a Progenitor thing, Asha's is golden. They say their goodbyes, with Nicolette giving Qui a warning about butlering, and Shion takes them to the Dark Lands next.
Location: The Dark Lands
The group arrives and meets with Shion who is nursing a headache, which is unusal for a vampire, and they discuss the incident with the food and their suspecting a shapeshifter, leading Shinobu being annoyed at them thinking it must be her since Qui is cleared. Sparkling clears her while Nicolette says be wary of strangers, leading to some confusion while Shinobu notes she is waiting for Rain to come back with some herbs for her head; Rain steps in soon and heads over the herbs to Shinobu while Nicolette gives Sparkling her planchette to "help" detect them easier. While using it, Sparkling declares for everyone that Rain is indeed the shapeshifter, causing the Hunter to try to activate a trap, but the team stops it just in time. It becomes clear the Hunter has copied Rain's memories and abilities, much like they did in Act 1 - Phase 9. The team subdues her and tries to threaten the Hunter, but it appears the Hunter doesn't care about their threats of doing things to it, noting if they do anything it will break the connection to Rain to signal to it's allies to kill the real Rain. As Shinobu protests to them, Noire threatens her so it breaks the connection and tries to transform and escape but it caught; with the real Rain probably in danger somewhere, the team decides to hope in vain they can find clues to her whereabouts at her house.
Session 472: Passing Through Gethsemane
Countdown to 475 - Part 9
Location: The Academy
Celes holds an emergency meeting on the Rain situation and brings everyone up to speed about the shapeshifter they managed to capture the other day at the reunion, informing them they should enforce a buddy system. While Lana freaks out, something she has been doing often lately, they ponder if they should continue with the plan to have the Makas go to each of the leaders to check if they are clear or push the captured Shapeshifter for answers, leading to a spat between Kyouki and Chad Winters. After Gwen takes Lana to her room to rest, the group decides to hit all the Kingdoms they can to do a sweep with the Makas and bring an end to the in-fighting.
Location: PAX
Lorelei and Taiga are studying the Dark Ones' planet take overs and what they are doing to them, leaving them completely turned into wastelands that have no life on them except dark, strange monsters as well the capability to form reinforcements for the Dark Ones and ships; they also see that there is some who can stop the seeds from taking root on the planets - two teenage girls, and a werewolf, as well as another group - a knight and some other woman. Taiga notes the Galactic Alliance will be meeting next month, which the Empress is not pleased at the delay of getting the top leaders the council together, and talking about revoking rights from those who are dragging their feet; it looks like the Suisen Empire has been upping their game on creating ships to help with the upcoming war to come.
As they talk along they near the divide to the Empress' side of the ship where they witness Ao and Leyeah talking with Aya and Dawn, the latter seemingly out of jail. It seems that as long as Dawn remains on the PAX he is given sanctuary on the ship and so Aya's mail on Geyze will be re-routed to the PAX, which seems to include a package. After thanking them and seeming to have an attitude like Chad, Aya moves off while the others continue on to the Aquarius where they find a birthday party is going on. It turns out to be Yurica's birthday as they find the ship singing the happy birthday song and Yuki puts hats on everyone and Robo Erica standing around. As everyone settles in for the party and they have a good time, nearly everyone attends, even Kaylin. However while they are enjoying the party, the lights flicker and Robo Erica falls over with Erica no longer in the body it appears, something that seems to be happening more and more lately; Airym announces that Erica is dying it seems, bringing down the mood of the party.
After Yuki takes Yurica out of the room, the team begins to work on a plan to save Erica from before her mind breaks down for good. When Robo Erica sits back up, Airym notes she detected a signal somewhere else. While Durt does his best Chadness by wondering if it's the best thing to use the Aquarius to try to follow the signal when Erica is having issues and is tied to it, Kellin goes ahead and contacts Ao; after transferring him to Dr. Bolts, they learn the signal is from Yggdrasil. After getting permission to check it out from the Empress, the Aquarius heads to it immediately while Lorelei's kids muse about the tree and how they spend 7-9 years on it. As they near it, Robo Erica cuts off once again and the Aquarius' sensors and other controls begin to flicker once more, however Yurica - having snuck back onto the bridge - paws cutely at Erica's body and the systems seem to stablize. While Airym and Durt argue about if they should risk nearing the Aquarius by getting closer, they near a village on the branch; Yuki takes Yurica and heads for the village, having Mireille take her down to it while Valen proclaims his hatred for Yggdrasil and his time there, much to Lorelei's sadness.
As they search the village, they approach the villagers for information on Erica and soon learn her location; they are taken to Erica and find her looking brain dead and not doing well, leading the team to realize her brain is still in the ship but her body ended up on Yggdrasil. After taking Erica back onto the ship the team and they repeat the process that created the situation - with Mireille getting into the Spirit Chamber with her body. After it sinks into the floor, Mireille's voice is soon heard in the ship once more before it goes dead and causes the Aquarius to fall toward the village, however they simply fall through it; after falling through Yggdrasil and into space, Erica and Mireille are ejected when the ship comes to a stop, with Yurica completely freaked out and Yuki seeing if Erica is okay - it turns out she is indeed. Mireille needs to recover and Erica is taken to sick bay, so the Aquarius limps it's way back to the PAX.
Location: Geyze
The group clears the Legion with the Makas, with Celes muttering she thought for sure Mykel would have been a shapeshifter (with the Mop Maka noting that Mykel is still a shifty person in her eyes), noting Qui is clean, and that Shinobu is also clean, that leaves just a few leaders left to check. When Chad asks why Celes wants to check her Kingdom last and Celes is hesitant to tell him, Xanatos has the Makas check him out; after they inform him he is clean other than being a poopy head and Nicolette notes he has a personality of a house, so Chad tells them he there for XII. While Celes takes them to the Great Forest, she informs them that she plans to turn control of her Kingdom over to her sister, Eve Hapian, and make sure she has done all her checks in place on Eve beforehand as well done a Maka check. The team find Leaf and Cassava arguing once again with their advisors watching; it seems they are arguing about the shapeshifters and how each of them plan to handle the situation.
Nicolette does her scrying while motioning the others to watch the door, the team asking questions of the two. It seems Cassava wants to round up their people and use methods of pain that is unique to their people to route out any shapeshifters and Leaf is against it, but her and the others talk her out of it. It looks like after a bit of whispering from the Makas that one in the room is indeed s shapeshifter and they soon learn it is one of the advisors, especially when they react a little differently to Terra and her fruit stunt. Cassava spears him immediately, sensing the team's antics, and they take him down; the shifter threatens them with one last threat, noting that they will dispose of the Ent he copied like they did with Rain before he ends the connection, leading to Chad to note that is their signal to the others. The shapeshifter asks Xanatos if he wants to make a deal - that they'll leave Geyze for now in peace if they'll let them have access to Yggdrasil in 13 years, but he decides to tell the others about the deal and they all reject it. Kyouki leans over to read his mind as they all leave, promising to look into the Ent for Cassava and Leaf.
Epilogue: The team has the two shapeshifters in seperate cells now with the Makas standing guard over them. While they wonder about the deal situation, Erevis ponders if she should just man up and confront the Empress and deal with it already and Xanatos notes if she is questioning it, then now is not the time. And elsewhere, Aya picks up the package from Geyze.
Fumoffu Session 20: The Ticking Clock
Countdown to 475 - Part 8
Location: PAX
As Taiga hangs up pictures of the original Reality Striker members on one wall and the Fumoffu members on the other wall, leading to Nicolette wondering if the two sets of pictures are having a staring contest, and Kaori and Hess do a comedy routine with Hess losing almost losing her hand to Kaori's mouth and interdimensional stomach. After the club members settle in, Taiga goes over the shapeshifter incidents on Geyze lately and catches people up on it, especially since the team has been encountering them a lot lately, and goes over things from receiving samples of the Hunter Shapeshifter DNA that they captured as well as regular Shapeshifters to be studied, so they decide to let Ceilidh study the samples after she volunteers. After she is gone, Taiga brings them to the case and notes while it isn't in their wheelhouse, it was drawn to her eye after she reveals the bomber blew up a school owned by Kitty, ticking Taiga off it seems. The bomber giving off a warning before they destroy the building and using unique bombs to do it; after some prodding the team is dragged off to investigate the bombing.
Location: Mega City
The group studies the ruins of the destroyed school and at first some of the team doesn't realize that Giblin is Hess, Kitty, and X's last name, earning stares from Kaori and Hess, before they look into the other bombings and see if are connected to the Giblin name on Durt's suggestion. While Thena keeps going on about the gators, earning back talk from Noire and Charlotte,
Taiga has her Taiga A.I go through the bombings and note that other than a bombing a Mizukaze building owned by Cheryl for parts for her building stuff for the family, due to the Mizukaze's not being as rich as they used to be in the past after funding all the teams. As Hess investigates the building she finds the bomb's location to have been set off in a janitor closet, or what was left of it, while Taiga reads out the message sent condeming the Giblin school in some insane message. The Taiga A.I scans the residue for the team while naming off a Nue building being targetted as well, leading the team to wonder if it means the person is going after them specifically; the residue turns out to be rather rare and found in only 4 places on Earth or in black markets on the Cartel.
While Charlotte mutters about the Cartel always coming up in these cases, Adeline points out that they are a good place to buy stuff if you need to go around normal channels and notes she does it all the time, leading the team to joke about Red Fox's increasing her influence into a Red Market to compete. They decide to call up Lemon to use the satalites on Earth to scan for the materials and while she works, spend some time talking about various subjects until she gets back with them that outside the bases, there is no sign of it being on Earth, leading them to decide the bomber must not be on Earth anymore. Noire suggests maybe they could be bold enough to target the PAX and so they decide to give it a try, returning to the ship. Once back on the ship, Taiga sends Thena to alert the Empress to try to locate the substance while the others check on Ceilidh and see how her work has been going along.
Ceilidh announces she has made a serum to help Makas and those like Noire detect Shapeshifters easier if they take it before using their powers. Taiga gives her a gold star and as she and Jennifer note they can make multiple serums for use; during all this a Janitor with the name tag Ted moves about cleaning things. It's decided that Nicolette will take the serum with her so it can be tested later as the Janitor puts the trash up in the closet and leaves, leading to Charlotte to look up the Janitor's name in database. The bomber's warning comes up, giving them a 2 minute warning before it goes off, as she reaches the Te's and sees there is no Ted, and CHIP gets in touch with them about needing a scan. Taiga heads to the auditorium since the person seems to be using the public PA system to catch up while Noire rips open the cleaning closet and finds the bomb mixing to try to evade CHIP's sensor's, but he announces it's in the closet - perhaps to be ironic.
CHIP announces he might can disarm it with 20 seconds - maybe, but there is only 40 seconds left. He does give them the order to cut the wires, with only a 85% probability he's right and so Ceilidh of all people takes the chance and cuts them in the order he gives, facing her fears of the past and disarm the bomb; then he ruins it by announcing he only sees in one color. Taiga returns with the janitor gagged and Nicolette gives Ceilidh a gold star for her work. Ao arrives with Leyeah to take the bomb and prisoner, praising Ceilidh for her work and noting the Empress wants to talk to her later. Jaime has a dark moment for a second about offing the man but decides to take him to the cells for Ao and Leyeah and Ren wonders about why the man would target medical if he was making points, peering at Jennifer and Ceilidh.
Location: The Academy
Ceilidh has been assigned down to the Academy with the serum and Nicolette droops at being back at the place, probably due to all the problems going on here lately. Celes and Liana are packing their bags to make a trip to the ecastle and she notes she will try to make the trip quickly to Sasha and invites her along to the celebrations taking place there, noting that Spiritalist Kingdom and Naturalist Kingdom seemed clean of shapeshifters in positions of power. It seems today is Luna's birthday and she wishes to make sure the castle is clean before she assigns Eve to be in charge incase Selena leaves or to look over Selena if she stays behind. She invites Nicolette to come along to the party and Kito notes she will stay behind if Sasha is leaving while Ceilidh marvels at Talia being a talking cat.
Sylph takes them to the Hapian Castle, now fully restored now that the Spirit Realm is back, where Eve has thrown a tradtitional Hapian birthday party wih all the nobles about to meet Luna to help make connections. While Sasha and Celes are not thrilled, Eve notes Nicolette and tells her even word of her has reached her at the castle and she is interested in learning more about her. The party goes on without a hitch and there are no shapeshifters, showing the castle is clean and Ceilidh gets some plushies from Syph and Neekito of themselves and she even meets Qui who talks about showing her around Geyze somtime.
Fumoffu Session 21: Viral Arrival
Countdown to 475 - Part 7
Location: PAX
Taiga holds the Fumoffu club meeting in Katrina's bar where Taiga and Lorelei subtlely study each other as the group orders food and settles in. While Thena distracts Lorelei, being her usual self, a hooded Erevis walks into the room and enters Katrina's office and shuts the door after herself. Almost immediately afterward, something crashes onto Durt's lap, spilling the coffee he is bitching about and knocking it all over; Andrea lays there smoking and bloody from some battle. After reforming her looks and clothes, she explains the situation to them all; it seems Andrea, Marcus, and X have found the shapeshifter from one of Erica missions, the one that stole a bunch of Cartel weapons. While they were out there in deep space, they discovered evidence the shapeshifter was testing some of the stolen materials. After Andrea reaches into the air and pulls out some evidence that is covered in dark sludge, that appears to be data disks, broken vials, and oddly corpses - which freaks out Rachael. The group studies what Andrea brough and it seems that the vials look are broken, but perhaps there are still particle samples in them, the data disks still could have iformation on it, despite the corruptive sludge coating them, but worst of all are the corpses are Guardians.
The hooded figure exits Katrina's room and looks upset at the Dark One talk as she leaves, holding a data chip, and Andrea exits and promises to return if they all chant her name three times. The team moves into action to deal with this situation and they head to medical where Jennifer and Cuddles handle the disks where Thena wonders if X will be a risk since she is part Dragoon now. Chad and Adeline work on the disks while Jennifer and Cuddles work on the bodies and vials, the two teams soon getting results; Chad and Adeline learn the shapeshifter took the body of a prominent scientist to use their body/mind to "become" them and worked a new virus, using the original virus from Viral Exodus days as a baseline. After some more work, they learn the new virus just makes them very sick and takes their power away, thus leaving them powerless and taking out the dragoon power base - it will target anyone with the Dragoon DNA. They wonder if the cure from long ago will still work or if this new variation will be able to get around it, so they decide to work on a new cure.
Since no one is allowed to enter the PAX right now, all the dragoons are safe here, but they do a search for all their allies and see if they can locate where the shapeshifter might strike while Jennifer and Cuddles work. Jennifer makes Taiga and those with any Dragoon DNA suit up in hazmat suits before they go to Earth to try to find Cheryl or any who might be in danger incase the shapeshifter goes there. Rachael meanwhile barges in on Valen and finds him in a creepy conspiracy theory room set up on who might be Gartareh and Durt asks Lorelei about what is up with her and Taiga as well, but she is mum with Thena around. Eventually Taiga's group teleports down to a base run by Peter and Hale, post elections and no longer Senators, where they also find Emeralda, Vodka, Lemon, and Cheryl. The only one that they can't track down, even with Warren on the comms, is Zephyr at the moment.
After getting everyone up to speed, they learn everyone is gathered due to an unknown craft in the area so the team, so they use the virus pattern to scan and they get a hit of it in the area. Cheryl manages to get in touch with Zephyr, but she refuses to go into lockdown wherever she is located and notes she will handle it for them before ending contact, causing Drasek, Emeralda, and Lemon to want to go out of the base, which has gone into lockdown mode, and find her. Angela and Vodka decide to help with the creation of a cure while the others go to find Zephr and the shapeshifter. Jennifer, Vodka, Cuddles, and Angela begin to work on the cure on the PAX with Chad on the comms and patching through to Virulent as well. Together they begin to create the cure and Jennifer manages to make, bragging to Cuddles, but it can only be made on the PAX. They decide to prepare cure shots and take the cure down to the Earth via ships like the Aquarius while Rachael whispers to Kaelan about Valen. The Aquarius lands on the Earth with the cure and they begin to inject those who remained behind with it and Taiga is able to scramble out of her suit finally. Peter and Vodka talk about becoming President and Vice President during the next election while the team prepares to follow Drasek and the others.
Drasek, Lemon, and Emeralda soon catch up to Zephyr's location where they find her shooting down a shuttle and it spewing something into the air all over the place. Drasek hyperspace pulls her away from it, but Lemon notes it might be too late since it was covering the area for a while now. Drasek uses his hyperspace to destroy the shuttle and stopping it from spreading any further, though it looks like it covered a few blocks. Zephyr and Angela/Montana take out the shapeshifter as he exits the shuttle and it seems to be over as they are given the cure, though each of them have trace amounts of the virus in them. After Zephyr and Chad have strange moment, Lorelei notes she is late and grabs Taiga, running off and Pepper notes she is drafting up a bill for the taxi serive.
Back on the PAX, Lorelei drags Valen to the bar where his birthday party is being held and everyone is present to wish him a happy birthday. It seems like a perfectly normal moment and everyone has a nice moment. And back on Geyze, Erevis pushes her hood back and studies the datachip, revealing information on the Empress as well as sighting of Wind recently before using her spirit glove to melt the datachip.
Fumoffu Session 22: Spirit Mysteries in Space
Countdown to 475 - Part 6
Location: PAX
As the group gets into the club room, where the gators have popped up once again, the topic turns to Reikana not showing up the other day due to an artist moment which leads to Ren being confused if Reikana even has such moments and for those not present they discuss how Jennifer saved the day by making a second defense to the new Dragoon Virus 2.0, though they only suspect it might have affected 3 people that they know of right now. The topic of the shapeshifters come up with Noire wanting to know how many are left and Nicolette curious if people are keeping count, so Taiga brings out her tally and informs them she has been; it is beleived the 30 Hunters divided their forces, 10 to the Erusians, 10 to the Tsivrixshs, and 10 to do odd jobs. The team managed to kill 6 of the 10 on the Erusians, they have not touched any of the Tsivrixsh ones but believe one has copied the Tsivrixsh Emperor Kyuun, and they have killed 2 and captured 2 of the 10 odds and ends one due to their focus on Geyze - dropping the number from 30 to: 20 alive, 8 dead, and 2 captured.
Taiga then lists the various activies she has on the docket the group can choose from: a haunted Cartel resort, a space race to win a relic with spirit properties, and the third is reports of a Spirit in Cartel lands, but not be a spirit. The third is on a backwards planet that is still being developed so it's hard to get information out of it. The team debates and it's decided to focus on the race since it's a limited time thing and the race could be won by someone else. They decide to seek out the Aquarius since none of them have space
Location: The Aquarius, Cartel Space Race World
The group has Yuki go over the rules of the race and while most of them remain on the Aquarius to watch the race, a few of them decide to partake of the race to win the relic after Yuki and Taiga help them get some smaller ships ready to match the race's modifcations; while Mireille pouts at not being allowed to race due to the Aquarius being considered cheating, Ren/Charlotte aer in one ship, Thena is in another ship to be her nemesis, Kaelan is in another ship, Jaime using Xanatos' flying style, a Red Ship, a Black Ship, and a Maka all take off when the race begins and Yuki notes that the rules state the other races can do anything they want as long as it doesn't kill the other racers.
Thena uses her hyperspace powers to take on the lead, which spurns on Charlotte to try to catch up. While the group watching debates on if Thena's cheating ways would make for a good Empress or not in this climate, Nicolette noting she is cheering for the Maka, they soon reach the first trap where the asteroids go after the person in the lead and try to smash Thena. However she purposely slows down to let Charlotte take the lead and deal with them and follows behind Charlotte as they both navigate the asteroids; Charlotte manages to get through the asteroids with only a few whaps to her ship which Thena gets as well, but they make it out otherwise. The Maka tries to use the asteroids on the ships behind her and takes out the Black Ship, but the others continue by and Kaelan and the Maka begin to have a little competition between them as she uses her tendril to spank her.
They soon reach a debris field with traps inside it and all of them begin to catch up to each other and battle it out as the Maka takes the lead briefly, but the traps wear her out and Kaelan checks on her despite the two going at it for the better part of the race; the Maka laying on top of her ship to race while Thena, Charlotte, and Jaime continue on ahead. As they near the finish line, Kaelan and the Maka help each other out as Charlotte and Thena battle out for first and second place. Somehow despite the odds, Charlotte takes first place with Thena getting second place and the Maka gets third place due to Kaelan. Charlotte wins the the spirit rod that can extend and mimic spirit powers to a lesser degree and even those who use spirit powers. Thena wins a lifetime vacation at Jarivan and the Maka wins a modeling/idol gig which she tries to run awa from but is dragged off by the Cartel until Kaelan rescues her. The group votes to check out the possible spirit that might be out there next with the remaining time they have left while Jaime pouts at losing the rod.
Location: Cartel Planet? at the border of the Suisen/Erusian Territory
Using the Tiger Jump, the Aquarius arrives at the planet and they land at a makeship space port due to the low technology level of the planet; it seems to be a mining planet with cities slowly cropping up around the mines and it is clear in a few decades it will become a power house in the galaxy. It has a mix of old technology and modern as they head into a city with dirt roads and buildings that are a mix of modern and old looking and enter a tavern for information about where the spirit might be located. While Nicolette plays cards and wins a lot of money, the others question the bartender and learn their target is in the forest; heading there they discover two cloaked figures healing people and doing sermons. It appears the one person doing healings is someone who uses a lot of magik and seems to be a Maka, and the other is none other than Mercy.
It turns out Mercy was allowed to escape the Templars by Leon and discovered the girl with the talent to use powerful magiks and see auras like Angel Ruun and took her in to use her. Realizing that this means they could use Ruun to maybe discover shapeshifters easier, they talk with the girl and Kaelan and Mercy connect a little. The Maka introduces herself as Layla-Rose as the two leave and it seems the Spirit rumors have been debunked and some in the group worry about the Maka being in Mercy's hands.
Location: PAX
Taiga talks with Charlotte after it is all over and having been watching Charlotte and Ren lately decides to give her old ring of her's and Ouka to Charlotte to give to Ren, encouraging her to propose to Ren when she thinks she is ready. Due to Ouka being off in deep space for a long time now, it seems Taiga doesn't think she is coming back, or thinks something might be happening to her. Charlotte seems encouraged by her blessing and takes the ring.
Session 473: Falling Toward Apotheosis
Countdown to 475 - Part 5
Location: The Academy
The group holds a meeting with Lumi in charge and she introduces a blind female famfrit named Ruun, under the supervision of Thomas, who is an ex-templar who can see the auras of people, noting that the Auras of magik people and mystical beings easiest stand out the most. After hearing how she describes Simon's aura as blue, Thena and Ceilidh ask her what others' auras look like while they discuss the shapeshifters and if those who are missing and if they are still alive or not. They carry Ruun to the cells so she can study the shapeshifters and she describes their aura to the team while they talk to them; one whispers something to Ceilidh while they talk about 'deals'. After leaving they debate what to do or if they should use the serum on one of the Makas or Ruun herself when Xanatos notes he might have a lead, having talked to a shapeshifter recently that gave him a clue for him some reason; so Ruun has Xanatos lead him to this lead.
At Luci and Max's bar where several people have gathered, such as Sasha, Sylph, and more, such as the Kito with the kids like Yurica, Terra, Nell, and more when Xanatos arrives with Ruun. While Kito manages Sasha's schedule and keeps Sasha on schedule, Xanatos soon leaves the bar after getting some drinks and meets with the others, handing one to Erevis as she joins them. While Chad and Id make Ruun feel uncomfortable by noting her abililies make her dangerous to the shapeshifters, Xanatos gives them a hint to let them try to figure it out - that Kito when rescued her was an exception to all the other situations with shapeshifters; Kito had no person somewhere to copy her memories and whatnot to make a perfect replica like the others, leading the team to realize they did a double shapeshifter. Chad notes he has seen Kito around and wonders if the Shapeshifter might be trying to release the others. The team debates how to approach this without getting Kito killed like all the other incidents.
The team ponders if there is a way to find Kito and Selena asks who is the closest person to Kito like her mother. The group sneaks back to the bar where the kids are playing games and call Sasha out with Kito watching them from the window. Sasha seems unsurprised, noting Kito has been passing out candy to the kids like mad, so she calls Neekito over and asks her to find her sister. Noting that the Kito in the bar is not her, just her life and energy force, she begins to search more deeply, leading Simon to be surprised that she can do that and Neekito reveals that Kito brought her back to life so they share a deep connection - among others. Neekito warps them, using Sylph's power, to the a building near the Hapian Castle that seems ordinary, but is near to overlook the castle. Using their abilities, as well as summoning Nocturne, the team works their way into the building; while Jaime works to free Nocturne who was stuck in a trap after they get inside, the others continue inside.
They find the atmosphere changing as it turns into something out of Phase 1 where civilians are stuck in something out of the movie Aliens with pulsating ground with dark energy, all of them hooked up to devices. They find Kito hooked up to one of the devices and they also find Rain staked in the heart and looking crumbled up and dried up due to how long it has been, as well as another person disconnected on the ground. It appears the pods allow the shapeshifters to read the memories of the people inside it and send it back to the shapeshifters. As Sasha frees Rain an attacker attacks the team and it turns out to be a Hunter who tried to slime suffocate Xanatos until Erevis TK lifts it up enough for Nicolette to magic blast it away. They eventually manage to destroy the core as Jaime joins them; meanwhile Sasha bleeds into Rain's mouth to revive her. However, all the people in the pods jerk and spasm, waking up as they disconnect from the shapeshifters, meaning that the call was sent to them.
Back at the bar, Kito turns into a terrifying shapeshifter and scares Luna who draws a wooden sword. As they kidnap Bella and Nell, Max leaps to attack and knocks it onto Luna's sword. After the shapeshifter is defeated with the help of a shrouded XV and Max pushing it ont othe sword and crushing the core as Bella and Nell free themselves. As the others arrive, they relax in the bar and wind down. As Rain recovers with a glass of blood and Ruun notes she just wants to go home after all that, Xanatos and Lumi note they plan to hunt down the others.
Date: 10-641.7.17
Location: PAX
Lorelei gathers her team to announce she suspects Gartareh is on the PAX and goes over her evidence, but admits there is holes in her theory. She finally puts down Taiga's picture and notes her group and how she is using it to gather power lately is also concerning her, but they note with Si being bonded to her they wonder if he could fool Si through the bond. As they talk the Tsivrixsh arrive in a war cruiser for the galactic meeting that is being held soon. As they prepare to leave Valen apologizes for being grumpy lately and Charlotte approaches Lorelei and asks about rings, wondering if he can mess with rings since Taiga gave her a wedding ring to give to Ren. She notes she doesn't feel anything from the ring but she promises to take it to the lab to be positive for Charlotte, and Durt notes he worries Lorelei will run herself down at this rate.
Fumoffu Session 23: In My Sights
Countdown to 475 - Part 4
Location: PAX
The team meets for their meeting and Taiga brings a new case forward about a sharpshooter that shoots people, but doesn't kill them, and leaves evidence of their crimes on their bodies. Taiga wonders if it might be Zayne and wonders if someone like Nicolette could approach her with Charlotte noting she freaks her out. After Nicolette contacts Zayne, she arrives with little Sunny and she notes these do not fall under her parimeters, but she has heard of a dark haired female sniper. Zayne heads out to deal with the vigilante and leaves Sunny with the team, so they debate doing another case of the haunted resort or following Zayne and end up going after her.
Location: Mega City
They arrive in an area of complexes owned by powerful business men that produce stuff via automatic production, warehouses to store it, and a main building, all of it legit looking so far. They find Zayne stalking a target and not caring for the damage caused to find them; the target she is chasing seems to be going after a man that flips a switch to cause all the machines on assembly lines to begin combining and it forms into a giant robot, however Asha manages to stop a piece from attaching and cause a weak point. The target continues with some continuing while others deal with the Killer Robot and Zayne takes Sunny and leaves. Montana and Noire take it out using the weak point and continue after the sniper, finding the business man shot in the leg with evidence pinned to him as well as Angela healing him. Using cameras they find that Zephyr is the sniper and wonder if she is doing missions for someone or acting on her own for some reason; Nicolette wonders if she has gone rogue and dealing with criminals that can't be dealt with legally.
Location: PAX
Zephyr and Zayne arrive at the club, with Zayne showing off little Sunny to Nicolette and Charlotte, while Zephyr notes this is what she was made to do, her eyes oddly changing colors based on the coversation topics. She promises to stop and that she'll turn over any evidence she has gathered to Lemon if she feels the urge or work with others from now on. Zayne also notes she would like to stop by more often, noting Sunny seems to like Nicolette. Angela explains that Zephyr has changed a bit to her original self lately as well as some powers, leading to Charlotte to ask some questions while Zayne leaves while Adeline notes she wants to look into Zephyr's black ops files to learn more with Angela.
Location: Cartel Haunted Resort
The team arrives at a foggy beach like resort with a carnival next to it and began to look into the mystery that resides inside it. There also seems to be another van of anothr team with a cute fox is painted on the side a group of teenagers investigating the resort; a lanking guy in a green shirt, a short girl with short hair, a man with an ascot, a girl with long red hair who looks a bit like Erevis, and a fox who goes yip. The team works on solving the mystery, playing the various attractions and winning dolls of Zero and other things, encountering the ghost, only to learn it is the owner trying to do an insurance scam due to barely making any money on the place.
They return back to the PAX where Adeline and Angela give their report on Zephyr, noting she doesn't have a split personality but personas to help her do her job, noting her eyes change based on her persona. Charlotte and Noire talk a little about Noire and her family as Taiga calls the meeting and Angela and Aloutte get into a talk about Alouette's attitude toward Zero taking the name of the legendary Zero from her world.
Session 474: Hour of the Wolf (2350)
Countdown to 475 - Part 3
Location: PAX
The PAX is paused in space as a Galactic Meeting is being held to deal with the Dark One problem as well as the shapeshifter problem that is ongoing currently, but the team right not has none of that to worry about due to being in Katrina's bar with promotions of Reikana playing since it is her birthday. Lenneth ignnores the antics of the bar as she looks over the Articles of Royal Family and No Faith in the Empress/Emperor Clause, allowing her to try to have the family use vote the Empress out of power which would ruin Erevis' name. While Lorelei takes a few of her team to talk to Ao about seeing if they could sit in on the meeting, the others hear about the Aquarius having Tsivrixsh around the hanger the Aquarius is in studying it. While Valen, Moira, Kellin, and Lorelei work on getting passes, Thena and a Tsivrixsh that enters the bar get into a confrontation. As they return with the badges, they find the bar in shambles and the two getting at it comedically. After they get arrested, he jokes with Thena and turns himself in to Valen and walks out singing.
The team heads to the Brown Sector of the PAX to attend the meetings about the Dark Ones, so they leave the Green Sector which is the Public Sector. They find the various Suisen Empire races, as well as other races like EarthGov, the Cartel, the Erusians, and the Tsivrixsh gathered and the Empress overseeing it all. Kyuun, the leader of the Tsivrixsh, who is believed to be a Shapeshifter these days, is in place to head up the Tsivrixsh and even Red Fox is there for the Red Fleet as well as Yasha for the Erusians. Fate has appeared to witness the moments that unfold and the galactic council votes to go to war, despite the Tsivrixsh voting against it as well as some minor races. Kyuun announces that the Tsivrixsh have removed their Suisen technology and destroyed it and have left the Empire as allies, as well as publically outs the Empress as a fake before leaving. Loki notes to those rattled that they have the Spirits and Geyze and plan to use them to beat the Dark Ones going forward, making Lumi frown, and it looks like Kyuun has planted seeds in the other races not to trust the Cartel.
The Tsivrixsh leave and the Aquarius checks to see if they have messed with the ship, while Fate asks if any of the werewolves have become golden as Andrea and Marcus crash through a portal into the bar, chased by a monster that those in the bar destroy. Cherry, X, Lenny, and Celeste soon arrive as well from a corruptive planet, having failed to stop the seed from opening on it, and join the people in the bar. While Andrea moves off to say happy birthday to Reikana, the others rest and Aska greets Marcus, the two werewolves meeting finally. Fate notes the Dark Ones are actually rather weak right now and that is why they're taking such an aggressive stance with the seeds to build up their forces and hide their strongholds. After Lenneth and Lenny great each other, Lenneth talks with Xanatos and Erevis about her plan, but Erevis notes she doubts she will find enough family members to accomplish it.
Location: Geyze
Lumi gathers the group, also having a drawing of the golden werewolf on her wall though she doesn't know who put it up there, to announce they have no more shapeshifters on the planet after scanning with the space station except the two captured ones they have right now. They decide to transfer the prisoners for now and focus on BIX to see what they can learn from him before they do any time travel stuff.
Countdown to 475 - Part 2
Location: PAX
The Club meets and starts to go over their activities of late, having accumulated a lot of small requests and the ever outstanding case of the Meth Gators looms over them. With Angela and Thena absent, they decide to put that terrifying task aside and clean up the rest of the list. Taiga brings the group to Mega City to deal with lots of small jobs. Cats are saved from trees, old men find their way home and Noire even stops a purse snatching. Then they come to a Waterpark where people have been going missing for 15 years.
Donning fanservice, the group enters the water park to meet forboding Gator Mascots. They are aided in getting away from it and shown where to start their hunt by a helpful bear mascot in a hat and tie, the same mysterious character that helped them fight the killer robot. After inspecting the back of the park they find a grate and sewer access leading to a secret room under the rides. They find a trophy room of the victims, and evidence that the bear has walled off another access where a monster once lived and already solved the case. They bring the evidence to the authorities.
On the way back to the teleporters, the group finds a burning building and together they save several families, Taiga getting a bit singed in the process. After which they attend a Magical Girl convention dressed as magical girls, identifying that there may be Maka attending these things. They also see some of the latest games Andrea might be responsible for based on Noire.
Later on the PAX the group gets rid of all their marked tasks but the Meth Gators, and Ren jots a new one on the board: Gartareh. Taiga lets the group know they'll discuss it next time.
Fumoffu Session 25: Ending Point (Part 1)
Countdown to 475 - Part 1
Location: PAX
A wedding is held to unite Charlotte and Ren together as wives, most of the family there to observe. Aya and the kids are even there, with Aya acting a bit strange and quite happy lately. Miyuki even brings the ranks of flufflings to observe. After a calm ceremony, the group parties and celebrates with the two before getting to work.
Taiga decides to celebrate by getting the single most annoying task off their list, finally looking to mark off the Meth Gators that mysteriouslyt keeps appearing on the board. Who knows how it gets there it's totally mysterious. Taking the group down to the North America State, they go Gator Hunting.
Tracking down a chemical dump in the swamps, they discover evidence that the Omega Coke makers are at it again, dumping hyper potent drugs into the innocent wilds. Angela proclaims innocence about this, but nevertheless is used as bait to track down the Omega Meth Gator. The group takes down the Gator and reports the dumping, and Angela decides to take steps to retake that old company over just to shut it down.
Afterwards, the group reconvenes for more serious issues. Taiga informs her group that Lorelei suspects her of being Gartareh, and of course, those in Lorelei's group already know this, but are surprised when Taiga informs them she suspects Lorelei is actually Gartareh. So she outlines a plan to confront her sister and shows her reasoning, the group knowing that if that's true, the kids are screwed due to their deep link through the Angel Marks.
The group shares theories, while Durt, helpful as ever, goes to inform Lorelei of Taiga's moves. Fate shows up and gives Valen a glimmer of hope, in the form of a glimmer, or shard of power that might awaken Dusk. She states that someone is going to die the following day, and maybe more if the team does not play their cards right. Everyone goes to rest, plan, and make their moves in a game of whodunnit, where both sides suspect the other of being the evil God.
Session 475: Turning Point (Part 2)
Location: PAX
Valen, Rachael and Moira visit Andrea's place on the PAX late at night. Here, Valen shows Andrea the shard of Dusk and asks if she can use her Dark One abilities to revive the fallen Goddess. Andrea swallows the shard and tells them she'll need some time to process, so they ready themselves for a long night.
On Geyze it is early morning, a meeting is called to discuss the trip to the Past to find out the secrets of the Ancients, and as they discuss the long term issues involved, Si'Chii unexpectedly arrives. She tells Lumi that Taiga needs her and after Lumi agrees to go, mentions they have someone else to pick up, heading off with her as the rest of the group makes their choices. Gwen, Lana, Talia, Simon, Alita, Celes, and Liana all decide to go, leaving Selene as Queen in Celes' absence.
A few hours later, back on the PAX, tension is in the air. The Aquarius in the hangar is brought to life as alarms go off, not to address the rising tension between sisters, but something worse, Dark Ones headed for Geyze. The PAX and the Aquarius mobilize to defend the planet. At the same time, the PAX goes into a lockdown while something else is happening in Taiga's room. The Space group makes a mad dash there only to find a busted in door and a trashed room, a device on the floor, quickly identified as a teleporter. The group's ping tells them that Lorelei is definately off station, but evidence suggestions that Lorelei took Taiga, not the other way around.
As the decide to follow the teleport, Si arrives with Lumi and Garterah, the original alien being that the Zodiac Gang befriended so long ago. The group together takes the teleporter to none other than Striker Station, the traps just about to activate. Si thankfully knows the codes however and halts them going off in the group's face. They then encounter Lorelei and Taiga battling one another, with evidence that Durt has been involved.
The God Hunters find themselves in a battle to save Taiga from the Evil Gartareh possessing the body of their Angel. And together, with much effort and intervention on Lore's part, where she severs the ability of the Marks to control the party, the group is able to subdue her. Taiga is mortally wounded in the process and Si does everything she can to save her wife's life. With Gartareh seemingly contained, they rush the two to the PAX medical unit, where Jennifer and Cuddles work together to keep the two alive.
Meanwhile, Geyze comes under the assault of the Dark Ones ship. The PAX and the Aquarius together manage to chase it off, however a single seed gets through and heads to the surface, where the Academy team meets it and the Dark One in charge of it. As they fight the corruption, the Dark One, who Jaime names Bobby, meets face to face with Andrea. As the two are about to duke things out, Bobby decides to steal an advantage for herself and teleports, somehow, Lorelei and all those who were around her to the surface. She pulls Gartareh out of Lorelei and takes it into herself.
The Academy and the God Hunters are suddenly united to face a Dark Gartareh. Jennifer uses this weird opportunity to have the Academy Mages like Alita heal up the two fallen sisters. The rest, joined by Marcus and Dias, fight the Dark Goddess and manage to knock Gartareh right out of her. He attempts to steal the body of the original Gartareh but is thwarted by the group as Andrea beats Bobby and earns her semblance of loyalty. A shade of Gartareh seems to get away, vanishing as it flies off, but the groups succeed in stopping Bobby and Garterah, the Academy saved from Seed Corruption as well.
Afterwards, Erevis and Xanatos are on board the PAX as everyone recovers and celebrates their victory. The Angel Kids happy to have Lore free and Gartareh gone, the PAX happy to have scared off the Dark Ones. Erevis moves back into 2b and down below on Geyze, the Academy team works on clean up before man of them ready for their next great journey.
Session 476: Moments of Transition
Location: PAX
A week has passed since the battle that decided the fate of the sisters, with Lore recovering but depressed and Taiga still recovering from her injuries. Dark One Bobbi hasn't yet returned with an answer and the kids are coming to terms with the idea that Gartareh may have tainted their powers. Most are, anyway, some already so tainted in other ways that it doesn't bother them, and others wishing it not to be so. Lorelei informs them of the possible change to her power and invites the kids to have their mark removed and restored without the magic she suspects came from the God.
Most accept this change, even if some debate it. Erevis and Empress appear to have come to an agreement, Erevis refusing to fight her and deciding to take things back in her own way has led to Empress returning half her power and training her. This unity leads Lenneth to back down on her own plans to take back the PAX, for now. Lorelei considers giving up her powers, but the kids convince her to embrace herself and do better. Their plans shift to focus on hunting down the remainig Gods, Amazo and others.
On Geyze, the Academy is working double time to clean up and repair from the damages. As the group breaks from their efforts for cleaning, they meet with Celes to discuss next steps. Ultimately the group decides that it is time to reach into the past for answers, and among them they decide who is going and who is staying. Erevis can be seen packing up to move back to the PAX, and Eve Hapian is named the Regent until Selena is of age/ready to become Queen.
Simon, BIX, Lana, Talia, Gwen, Alita, Liana, Celes, and a version of Id make up the team, with the rest remaining behind to guard Geyze against whatever is thrown at it.
Session 477: A Day in the Strife
Location: PAX
While things seem to be returning somewhat to normal - the Empress is still running the PAX while Lenneth is taking up duties under her with Syriean and has begun to train Erevis, putting her through the ringer to achieve what she sees is the proper way of the Progenitor without falling to the darkness that the old Progenitors did - the people at Katrina's bar find a peaceful moment. Lorelei training to get over the trauma in Session 475, Valen losing time and eating food before him, Zero the singer steps into the bar, the group talks about exercising and weight, as well as school. Soon though Syiean enters the bar and requests some of them to follow her for a meeting with the Empress, so some of them follow her while Kellin looks into getting contact with Shretrav.
As they arrive at 1A on the PAX, the group meets with the Empress and Erevis, who shows signs of bruises due to her intense training, which leads to some there to make sour faces. Ignoring them, she begins to go into the Aquarius' place in the upcoming war and tells them her wish to have it help them out instead of just protecting Geyze. After some pushback from Erica and Pepper, the Empress explains her interest in it: the War Council is being formed and due to the Aquarius abilities, she would like to make it stronger and have it help in the war. They set up an agreement for the Aquarius to join the war as long as Geyze and Kumen are protected, which the Empress agrees will be the case, due to their importance. Charlotte notes some dubiousness about the Cartel when they are discussed during the various things about the War Council.
They are soon teleported back to the bar where Noire asks Andrea what was bothering her during the meeting, but Katrina is found knocked out across the bar, Zero is missing as well as Terra. They contact security and bring in Ao while Ren and Asha track Terra's scent to the employee's door in the back; they all manage to unlock the door and find Vesper tied up in the back, who informs them about a man taking Terra and stealing her arm. They proceed and everyone jumps him before he can take the arm and open the jar he has on him. Noire tortues the guy for information until Ren hands him over to Ao to arrest; the stuff in the jar oozes like it's alive, even forming letters, and looks silver and a bit like the color of Terra's arm. They decide, since Taiga needs to rest, to find someone who can find out more about it.
Location: Aquarius
Erica has now gained a Level 3 ID, which grants he access anywhere on the PAX outside the family home of 1B, and they discuss not liking the Empress which surprises Nicolette them just coming out and saying that. Terra and those with her arrive to get the jar examined while they talk and are examined by the Aquarius equipment and Airym. The stuff in the jar seems to be made of a similiar material as Terra's arm, but it's reality signature is different; also there is something odd about it, almost like it might have been human, or humanoid, once. Terra wonders if that means this is an alternate reality Strife and Airym confirms it is from the same reality as Lunar Girl. Yuki and Nicolette talk about her deciding to stay behind and protect Geyze instead of going into the past while Mireille decides she wants to do more and change herself a little, perhaps going to school like Nicolette. After some annoyances by Durt, Terra actually opens the jar and lets the alternate Strife slide across her other arm, much to everyone's surprise, but then it rejects Terra and goes back to the jar.
Location: 1B
Erevis and company adjust to moving into the Japanese courts of 1B once again, the massive Japanese mansion having courts for each family member and gardens and other things on this floor. They discuss it being strange to be back here after being on Geyze for so long and setting up a teleporter to go back and forth, especially with Jaime living there. They discuss the Empress for a bit before Erevis pulls Kyouki close and asks for his permission to bring Kyouki into the family due to her wishing to grow closer, but notes it his feelings that matter most to her. Xanatos agrees, noting he learned his lesson with Megumi and that discuss the Famfrit who spends most of her time in the research center on the PAX, noting they need to drag her out more often.
Session 478: Points of Depature
Location: PAX
With so many birthdays so close together, a joint party is held at Katrina's to celebrate Asha, Ako, Athena and some guy named Leruste's birthdays. Antics ensue as members of all the teams stop by to with their loved ones, and some other guy, a happy Birthday. But as things are settling onto important matters such as cake, the news breaks out that the Tsivrixsh have declared war on the Erusian Ascendency. Officially now party poopers on top of just being agressive jerks, this leads the groups to decide to meet over what to do.
Many go to meet with Empress and Shretrav about the situation, and she deems Lorelei's team okay to begin investigating for their missing gods, and possibly uncover the imposter Emperor Kyuun, deep inside Tsivrixsh space. Some speculate that the Tsivrixsh are already allied with the Dark Ones, as they have been before, but the general agreement is that they don't yet have all the facts they need but they need to watch the Tsivrixsh in the coming months lest they take advantage of the Dark One's agression.
Meanwhile On Earth...
Lemon discusses the news with her team as Cheryl, Angela, and a few others from Space arrive to help out the Earth Team for a while, moving their stuff in. The team begins to scale up and prepare for the coming war times sure to hit them all.
Also on Geyze...
The Team going to the past finishes their final preparations and says their final goodbyes to their families. Chronos prepares the portal while this happens. Heavy goodbyes are had for Selena, whose mothers are going, as well as Slyph and Fae, who say a hopefully temporary goodbye to Ellie. Luci begins setting up shop as most of the Club team have agreed to take up the gap in personell at the Academy. Talia informs everyone she will soon conquer time and space. Fate appears to witness this moment as the team of Celes, Liana, Simon, Id, Talia, Alita, BIX, Gwen, and Lana step through the portal and into the ancient past.