The Reality Strikers Session 52: Mapping the Multiverse
Location: PAX
Si gives Ren some energy drinks that leaves her hyper and chasing Kaori through the station until she exhausts herself. Afterward she begins to study the Reality Map that Taiga has been designing with information on each Reality on it. It seems Taiga's plans is to map the Reality Multiverse and help them learn more about their enemies in 25, gain allies, and prepare for a possible battle down the road. The Michiverse is settling into becoming 65 as Ren goes over various Reality possibilities like the Dark Andrea Reality. Taiga joins and notes that while Oddverses will likely hold little meaning toward the Reality Pirates, they could be used as meeting points or realities to travel through to get to real targets, such as using an Oddverse with a cafe before moving to Reality 13. The group moves to an Oddverse after their talk and enters a reality where they find a cute little animeish world where they're on a large univerity campus that seems to stretch many blocks. The students here wear cute little uniforms and the school seems to run all the stores and cafes and the students work the stores and shops. Taiga announces that this is PAX University and they learn some of their counterparts are teachers here - like Andrea.
While Ren hits up a cafe run by their Charlotte, Noire checks out the Andrea's class where they teach basic theories of Dark elemental theories. As they finish up and Ren is moping about Charlotte talking about boys, Taiga opens up a portal to Reality 11. They arrive in a reality where Jaime did not convince Erevis to face the Empress and she went back in time with the others to the Croza War and when she returned, she defeated her and took over as Empress with a Progenitor-Mage tech like power. The group admits to being interested in the power of the Progeinitor-Mage tech before returning to Reality 11 where that Andrea gives her something and telling her about dinner and her date tonight, leaving Noire to ponder about that before Ren and Noire return to her place for food.
Date: 10-643.9.4
Location: Asteroid C
Taiga is reading over Jaime's files when the Noire, Ren, and Charlotte arrive and they begin their briefing on them. Taiga confirms that Jaime did talk Erevis out of going into the past due to feeling the Empress was a good person but in Reality 11 Erevis would have sought out power which was the Empress' goal and came back to defeat her which was the Progenitor-Mage power. It also seems their Empire is in better standing due to having spent less in the war even if their PAX was in worse shape. They decide to return to Reality 11 and head out to where Yggdrasil is located and find it's not there, but instead there's is something still somewhat there. Geyze and Kumen are present, indicating things like the Kaori indicent occurred and there's a spatial area around Yggrasil where it should be, leading to the theory that Yggdrasil is only in the Prime Reality and it connects to the other realities. Charlotte theorizes if the serpent eats the tree, this reality will die just the same and Taiga murmurs that Yggdrasil might be a way to travel realities too.
They decide to approach the PAX and introduce themselves to them after going through Syiean and others, they are granted an audience with Empress Erevis. She seems to have a walking stick despite the need for it and other things as they meet her and they discuss the situation with her. They agree to an alliance with their first reality partner outside the Alternate Reality and take it back to Lenneth to co-sign after hearing about the Serpent and everything she knows, though this Erevis admits theit Erevis should know almost everything she knows - maybe more since she killed her counterpart without learning everything she knew.
Session 571: Mega City and the Fourth Reich
Location: Earth; Repliforce
Session 572: Senreich Supreme
Location: Earth
Aya and Id create a temporary defense against whatever is happening inside the field surrounding Mega City and innoculate the group so they can go inside and try to find Senreich. The streets of started to become transformed into an updated version of a neo reich with alternate reality tech that is just as dangerous. Blimps in the sky that track them at high speeds and other items, as well as the citizens being against them now, the group lands at the president's office where they are met with high resistance from Senreich and are chased into the sewers. John takes off to try to find Lunar Girl and Michiru who have become the enemy and now sport mooschaches. Eventually however, Cheryl's entire group is captured by Senreich and all seems lost.
Location: Classic Reality
Cole, Blue, Alouette, and Jennifer, since she knows what the stone looks like arrive and are met Soma and Fuyu who after some persuading allow the group to come along. They find the world to be a more advanced society where reploids and humans have intregrated - literally in some cases. After some searching they work on preparing a stone for themselves and as they leave, it's clear Alouette has memorized some of the technology here - and that there's an Alouette here. Though they have no time to meet her, she seems to be tied to this world.
Location: Earth
After they return they learn that Cheryl's team has been captured and Cran has been ordered to prepare Repliforce and anyone else that wasn't sent in to retrieve Cheryl and the others before the became moosche wearing Senreich Nazi worshipers. While they use the stone to heal Warren, Lemon wakes up finally but for the most part seems in no shape to do battle and Cran reveals he has a new Repliforce member to aid Cole and the others.
Session 573: The Rise of Repliforce
Location: Outside Mega City
The Reality Strikers Session 53: Perils of the Multiverse
Location: Asteroid C
Taiga informs Noire that the process with Reality 11 is underway while Ren is having her lunch and feeding food to her tail where Akatsuki lurks. The group though decides to visit Reality 18 during the treaty signings and visit a reality where Jarivan wasn't destroyed and have a nice hotspring vacation, so Ren gives Akatsuki to Charlotte before they head over there. They check into their hotel and end up learning that eye-patch Charlotte and the other Adeline from Reality 25 are also checked in and are on the beach having their own vacation, so Aurica brings her side of the operation to low power so the group is not detected. Ren and Noire take to the beach first until Taiga arrives later and enjoy themselves until she does come with Si. Taiga and Si go off to investigate Adeline and Charlotte while Noire and Ren have a massage. After some close encounters the group reunites in their hotel room and Taiga ponders why the other Adeline is here since there are no PAXes in this reality. The group agrees not to bring Jaime here and just enjoy their vacation for the time being and they split off to do their own things.
However Jaime does arrive eventually and they all decide to spend the night inside the hotel. But come morning, Jaime is down on the beach where Adeline is located with her Charlotte and is being approached by her. The three have a conversation and Jaime asks how far along is she - leaving the question rather open ended. At first she seems confused but then seems to come to a conclusion about something after studying Jaime. They also seem to have a Noireish Dark One with them as well, being a body guard, who studies the data crystal that Jaime gives their Adeline. As Jaime returns and notes it's for her VI conditioning, Ren points out that Charlotte is tied to VI and might have helped her with such a thing already as they prepare to go.
Location: Asteroid C
Taiga calls Lorelei's team in to discuss the latest development on the Anima - her Anima 2.0 that takes in all the abilities of the current Anima but are slightly weaker overall. They also discuss how they know where Tareh is located on the Multiverse Map, but for some reason the dial up to the reality is not working right now. They consider that Harbringer might be the cause of the blocking. Taiga goes over the triangle of realities that once made up of the Prime Reality, the Alternate Reality, and Classic Reality, but noted how Tareh was also technically part of it by being a futuristic reality of Prime. With how the Reality Map is reconstructing itself, she will continue to work on dialing it. They detect the final Anima and Taiga offers the use of the Striker Ship, much to Kaelan's sadness of not using her ship the Ulieah named after Ulieah, but they all pile into Striker anyway.
They head to the Lunar Moon of Earth after handing out the Anima Gauntlets to those who can use them to investigate and find the final Anima. There they have Tsukiyomi aid them in trying to locate the Anima along with Christina. After some work they discover that the Anima is now in the hands of someone called Essex. They go to find him, being a collector of rare artifacts, where they find the maids are even dragoons before they meet with him. Durt uses his connections with Chad to get them a further audience to see his collection and they soon find Anima J. Durt uses his connections to buy the Anima off of the collector and they walk out with it.
Date: 10-643.10.10
Location: Aquarius
Lorelei has the children join the Aquarius while it's doing it's missions in the Unknown Region and has them practice with the full set of Anima in space so they kids can get a handle on using them. They practice and slowly get used to the full set of Animas along with 2.0 until they feel like they can handle them in space.
The Reality Strikers Session 54: Attempting to Gather Intel and Goods
Location: Asteroid C
The Srrikers attempt to visit various Realities to see if there are any realities out there with tech that can be useful for their organization like Reality 11. As they check out a few realities, even a few Oddverses, they discover that any of the realities that might have unique divergents will also be dangerous ones that will take exposing themselves or stealing the tech, which both can be risky in scheme of things, especially as news of the Reality Pirates have begun to spread throughout the Reality Map. They decide to check out the Oddverses and find that they seem to have little in the way of goods or intel, but remain places that one can shift back to as places one can hide after a major reality to try to hide their signature. Though they end up with little in the way of material goods, the group gains some information and add to the Reality Map.
Location: PAX
The Reality Strikers Session 55: Mission in the Multiverse
Location: Asteroid C
Ren looks up Kaoris and writes down the coolest Kaoris in the multiverse where Noire finds her trying to learn more about Kaoris after that one Erevis talked about everything with the serpent, she decided to look into her. She notes some realities have normal Kaoris and everything, so she was trying to recall how their Kaori got her powers in the first place. Taiga joins them where they discuss their run in with the Reality Pirates in Session 575, which has led to more defenses lately. Ren decides to plan a mission to look into some more Kaoris and she and Noire begin to head in with Taiga as the operator when Jaime joins them and informs that Kaori got her powers when she was made by the entity that came from Centerpoint. It's an Oddverse where Kaori runs an arcade that they arrive at and they find her playing a game where she challenges others. Jaime battles her in the game when Charlotte joins them as Jaime uses her powers to defeat Kaori where she wins a prize of an older arcade machine. They turn down the offer and the cocky Kaori returns to her office.
The next reality is one where there is no Geyze or Kumen here and Ren theorizes that due to the fact Kaori has no reality power in these main reality - or at least manifested it - they never brought it over. They seem to be in Reality 6 where the Mirrorverse situation probably ended poorly for the Mirror Univere since the Prime Universe and Mirror Universe were destroying each other. As they discuss Wind's interest in Kaori, they find her working part time in a food joint after she fell away from the team. After dealing with some kids picking on Kaori, they wait for her to get off shift they go to her apartment. Ren notes that the difference so far between the Kaoris that do exist is that they their power naturally, so what leads to the few who do not have it and the cause. As they check the apartment it looks like Hess might have been the cause of her leaving the team and then Ren realizes that Kaori likely began to manifest her powers after meeting the Centerpoint entity, so if she quit the team before meeting it she would never have gotten them. As they try to find data on if they ever ran into Centerpoint in this reality they hear Kaori returning home and decide to book it.
They stop at one more reality, Reality 37, where they find Kaori here used her power to fully repair the PAX over Geyze and Kumen. But the side effect is Kaori was fully drained doing it. When asked by Taiga over the comms if that means Kaori will never get her powers back doing this stunt, she informs her that she was almost fully drained once before - moving Kumen and Geyze over to the Prime Universe and that it can take months to years to fully restore depending on circumstances. She's been training with Wind as not to use up power so much when using it. The group decides to head back to review their findings.
Location: Kumen
Asarar's team is at her bar where meetings are occurring in the aftermath of the C'en incident where they go over the fact that the people of Geyze don't have the same faith in the younger generation of spirits and it's leading to crisises in the Kingdoms and blame games. While the Elder Spirits are doing well on Kumen due to the idol angle, the younger generation on Geyze outside Terra and Soren just don't seem to command the same respect. While discussing how various people have the C'en technology of those who were involved in the final battle, Ymir arrives and she seems shady like she wasn't involved in the battle. When asked for her opinion on the C'en plan to make everyone babies, she notes that it seems rather wasteful unless there was some plan to use with the babies. Going over how they used Shinobu's sister to get the noble's to back her and use Tenebrae, they made a beach head. The group goes over how to make the people see the children as the future of the spirits and worship them and how the Elders can help that happen. After Ymir leaves, Asarar declares she believes that the Ymir that helped Bella and the other children was not her, leading to speculate that Ylva is better now but for some reason Ymir and Ylva have not announced that fact to the wide population yet.
Date: 10-643.12.6
Location: Academy
While Lumi goes over the spirit plan with the Spirits, Selena has brought her C'en crystal pieces to the Academy where Simon and Id are studying them in the hopes of learning more about the technology; Selena notes that it feels like the pieces are resonating but being so broken down it's hard to tell without letting them rebuild. She offers to use her spirit powers since the C'en towers used the spirits, but they deem it dangerous to try it on Geyze at this time or have Selena near the pieces. They decide to attempt anything with the pieces far from Geyze where it will be safe while Soren and the spirits prepare to do spirit building missions together.
While this is going on, Asarar speeds through the Dark Lands in the Net with her group but they reach the limit of the Net eventually and have to tap out. Kira suggests using relays to see if they could extend the reach of the Net since it seems to be a Geyze thing now. As they check out the craters where the C'en tower was once that held Tenebrae, the crystals no longer litter the area. They spot Tenebrae using her powers to draw up C'en crystals from the ground in the distance and confront her; taking them with her, she ports them to a dark room where Shinobu is located. They find that Shinobu and Tenebrae are using the crystals to make a small C'en tower to try to locate Shade, since Tenebrae believes she felt her when hooked up to the C'en Tower.
Lumi is informed by Asarar of Shinobu and Tenebrae's plan as they float in space toward an empty planet. When asked by Simon about Death's status, Lumi admits she believes the spirit is allowing itself to be bound. The next hour or so after landing on the planet and begin to let the C'en crystals grow; it draws from the planet itself to let itself super grow by 3x. Soon it's a fully functional tower in an amazing rate by drawing resources from the planet itself and is an anti-spirit tower, with a chamber to trap spirits and use them. Ceilidh, Simon, and Idlet plan to spend the time investigating the structure.
Session 577: Faith, Spirits, and New Eras
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The Reality Strikers Session 56: Dark Alternatives
Location: Asteroid C
While Ren sneaks Noire's cooking onto the Asteroid, leading to hijinks, Taiga suggests visiting some new realities related to Dark Ones' activites recently post Dark War. Taiga gives them three options and Noire picks one tied to the Tokyo ongoings and Aurica guides them through to Reality 69. There they find governor building has become a Dark Tower under Andrea and Reikana idol figures on the streets. They locate the Arakawa Mansion and check it out where Jubei is hanging out, looking surprised to find Noire back. After some talk she leaves and they look into Noire in this reality where she creates dance routines that are known to be wild and untamed for people, gaining popularity. Noire checks and finds the lab non-existant in this reality in the manor - or moved. So they head for the Dark Tower where they meet Andrea who immediately realizes she is not her Noire. They discuss the differences between their worlds where they learn costs to this one due to Noire and Reikana not being fighters and how some Dark Ones on their side died, so this Andrea had to draw on power from the Dark leylines of Earth using this tower. After all is said she agrees to help Noire in the ways of magical dark warfare and to help out their world if she can - providing another ally for Taiga to present to Lenneth. Similcran appears to present a relic to Noire that allows communication and if there is another in their reality it can link up. The meeting ends with Thena declaring she wants some Noire's dance videos from this reality.
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 1: The Spirit Hunt Part I
Location: The Academy
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 2: The Spirit Hunt Part II
Location: Sasha's Pyramid
Sasha's Pyramid lands in the Spirit Realm where everyone begins to work on how to get it to travel to other phases of existence to reach the spirit's that Tenebrae feels when reaching out to Shade. Since the others are busy holding off Death, the team spit-balls some ideas before having Lana begin to retrofit the pyramid to be able to travel between planes of existence, but it will take a long time to be able to achieve that, meaning they will lose what time they gained by traveling here. Aska aids her in powering up the spirit-tech of the pyramid and they all hunker down to try to work as fast as possible.
Date: 10-643.12.19
The team loses a lot of time to the engineering process but eventually Lana has built something into the Croza designs that will allow them to jump between phases of reality/existence, but it has allowed Death to catch up to them. Kalam, who was busy studying the cores during this time, is interrupted before she can reveal what she learned as Neekito carries the spirit kids into the temple - all beat up. She even notes she was unable to copy it's power, a first for the mimic spirit. The female Shingami version of Death advances on the temple and begins to attack the shield that Alita puts up, but Neekito heads out to delay Death so they can escape.
Lana manages to reach the bridge and gets the controls working a few moments later and the temple jumps and warps, arriving at the Spirit Realm again, but it feels a little different - no sign of Death or Neekito and the air is heavier. Since they feel Shade nearby, Selena leads a team out to try to find her despite Avenir's warning that time feels dead. They soon discover when they arrive at the Academy that the people are moving much slower, almost like they are frozen, and that time must have moved forward a few years since Sasha's pyramid is back in it's place and the children a little older. Ellie seems depressed and upset in her frozen state due to something as they head from the Academy to the grotto, indicating something bad has happened to her at this point in the timeline. As they arrive in the grotto and feel Shade inside it, something fast moves about, indicating they are not alone, but discover black spirit energy floating about; Aska and Alita note it is Shade. Nicolette uses the empty core she has on her and the dark energy moves into it, allowing Shade to reform, but not before some super fast being attacks them in the grotto. They manage to repel it and escape before they spot the Shinigami Death Spirit being among the frozen ones in the Academy, indicating she has joined them at some point in the future; Tenebrae looks ready to kill it while it's frozen, but is talked down and they return to the pyramid. They note that Shade has a slightly different eye color than before, with hints of brownish mixed in.
Shade fills them in on what happened that Chronos used her time powers to move them around through time before they died; they aided her in helping with a few things through time to help follow something, but in the end something began to chase after Chronos for screwing with time so badly, so she hid the spirits. Nicolette surmises it must be the thing in the forest. Jaime and Terra help the group pinpoint Gnome to go after next while Death returns, weakened from her battle with Death as she drops the dead looking Neekito at her feet. The rip in time that Death has caused to chase after them, however, backfires as Ellie uses it to chase after Death and check on Neekito which allows Talia to surprise attack it, which keeps it from finishing off the Mimic Spirit. They retrieve Ellie and Neekito, healing the latter and putting Neekito in spirit-tech devices to heal her due to how badly she was hurt while Ellie stands over her, and they jump once again.
They arrive in the Spirit Realm once again, in the same hazy state, but there's one concerning thing - a scythe hole on the side of the pyramid indicaing something might have hitched a ride. They travel to the Ent village to find Gnome and discover Terra is much older now, probably putting this 6 years into the future. Leafy seems to be the leader of the Ents now and there seems to be trouble between the Ent tribes and signs of an epic spirit battle long ago due to the destruction. Kalam muses on wind causing it, but Jaime doubts Fae and Terra would fight and Ellie agreeing. Ellie and Fae note that they feel Sylph nearby as well as they locate Gnome and Jaime uses a core to reconstruct her, but the thing that attacked them in the forest seems to be lurking in the distance before it vanishes. Gnome having the same mixing issue as Shade with her eyes.
Selena warps Ellie and the others to the Naturalist Forest where Sylph once hung out, only to find it burnt to a crisp - the area unnaturally razed. Kalam tells Ellie about the last time jump where Ellie was depressed about something, believing it to be about a dead Neekito, so she believes things can change. Ellie uses a core on the green core and retrieves Sylph when the time creature attacks them. After being repelled Death shows up to double team them, forcing them to rush back to the pyramid and attempt to escape. While the time creature refuses to enter the spirit realm, Death continues her assault. While this is going on, it is clear Sylph and Gnome are a little different personality wise unlike Shade as they jump to get the next set of spirits and arrive on a planet of death and the pyramid begins to shut down, which includes Neekito's healing device.
Perhaps due to the far distance and jumping so far back in time, the team soon realizes they have jumped back into the Croza War era as Alita has to set up something to keep Neekito's healing chamber working as Cloud and Edna feel both Salamander and Brooke on the planet, but outside is a completely dead planet. The entire pyramid, no longer working spirit-tech wise, leaves the team stranded in the past on it. While Lana and Nicolette remain on the pryramid to try to fix it, Selena leads Alita and Ellie out with Cloud and Edna to try to find Salamander and Cloud when they come across a spirit that looks like the Shingami, but lacks the death aura. The spirit seems attuned to the death spirit, a proto-death spirit, and seems naively friendly, noting here is a Death Spirit lurking on the planet as well as the other two they are looking for right now. It agrees to lead them to the other two when the Croza arrive on the planet, no doubt looking for the spirit to turn it into Death. Selena heads back to the pyramid, leaving Alita and Ellie to go with the spirit to find the others, where she tells Lana and Nicolette about the situation - they come up with the plan to go to the Croza ship, steal the parts they need, and implant a code phrase into process of making Death to make it an ally, all the while avoiding Death and the time monster.
Timeline: 10-643.12.19 - 19,965 Croza Era
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 3: The Spirit Hunt Part III
Location: A Dead World of the Past
The Reality Strikers Session 57: Party Time
Location: Asteroid C
The Strikers are enjoying New Year's Eve while the PAX Party is going on on the PAX on the Asteroid. They go over soon forming an offical team due to Lenneth wanting the Strikers helping the Suisen Empre more often due to how often the Reality oftens are occurring happening. Taiga also notes that how other realities are celebrating New Year's Eve as well go over a Bunnyverse (an Oddverse) where the Gitari used sex to take over the universe. As they prepare to return to the PAX Party Taiga picks up something on a device she has made that can detector incursions after the C'en incusion and the 25th Reality, allowing her to detect if the Reality Pirates can move about the Reality Map, but to determine if it works she needs to go and see if it's them. Taiga, Noire, and Ren head quickly to the reality without much time to gain much data on it, arriving at Reality 41.
There they find themselves on Earth with a PAX over the skies as it seems all sorts of New Year's Eve parties are occurring with Earth cultures combined. They decide to try to locate them without them noticing the Strikers. They decide to stop at a KFC as their base of operations since that is popular during KFCs in Tokyo that they are at but find it's actually a KENTUCKY FRIED GACHA where Ren orders their food trying to when a golden nugget during their meeting. Ren ends up ending a glowing nugget and eats it and ends up foaming at the mouth, leaving Taiga to carry her around. Noire decides to take the rest home as they head for the governent building since it has a high vantage point. As they head up to Andrea's office since that's as high as they can go before reaching the roof, they run into an Andrea that doesn't seem to notice Noire not being her's. As they stand on the rooftop they spot Charlotte leading a group attacking the other PAX and stealing it as chaos breaks out on the streets, Suisen vs. the Pirates. After confirming her ping works, they head out as the pirates steal an anima and avoid the chaos on the streets, getting back to the Asteroid, heading back to the PAX Party.
Session 578: Brave New Systems
Location: The Aquarius
The Aquarius studies an empty Dark One planet that the Swarm once lived one, going over the ruins left behind. They leave a marker behind incase any traps have left behind and it is too dangerous to go too deep after probing it a little and see a statue of a tall dark one with female like features, but it doesn't seem to be quite like a Dark One - like iti s something ...else. After detecting what might be traps further into the tunnels, they bring the probe back and head out further into the Unknown Regions.
Date: 10-644.1.12
Location: Aquarius
The Aquarius arrives in a new system with lifesigns and satelites orbitting their world, so they tap into them to watch into their alien TV. They seem to a mix of Erusians and Dark Ones surprisingly, but the signal soon cuts off. As they near by thy realize there are cloaked ships about the area and after contacting them, they are allowed to land on the planet. The alien, Arceas, welcomes them and brings them to where they can meet - their technology seeming to be a mix of Erusian and Dark One. The group learns long ago when the Erusians and Dark Ones fought, a small group were stranded on this planet during it and came to populate together instead of slaying each other, finding it surprising the war is long over and having been hiding themselves here all these long years - indicaing they are from the first ancient wars. They warn about the other Dark Ones in the area and how with the Swarm gone, they will be trying to fill in the vacuum of power through strength and power as they sign a treaty with the Suisen Empire.
After the Aquarius leaves and goes back on it's journey, Erica and Yuki travel the ship while Larry encounters a disgruntled woman in the bar who was left behind by her boyfriend who works the ship, leaving her without a job. While the two go on their date through the ship, passing up dealing with her, she gets handed to Ben to handle along with Cookie. Learning her name is Rashmi and finding some interesting connections to the Gemini, he offers her a job on the ship that suits her skill set.
Location: The Aquarius
The Reality Strikers Session 58: The New Reality Strikers
Location: Asteroid C
Taiga and Noire begin to work to create a new roster for the Strikers as Charlotte nominates herself as vice-captain of the squad as they go through who all has been assisting the Strikers so far as well as Fumoffu club members. As they make pros and cons for each person such as Thena. Kaori joins up being part of the Strikers during the Reality Quakes incident and joins and Taiga notes she will see if Adeline is interested in joining which means Jaime, though they decide to have her join as a temporary member since she has been a little iffy during the test phase. They also put Kitty and Hess down as temporary members since Kitty was a former Striker and Hess might be interested being a Fumoffu club member. As they come down to a core team of Taiga, Noire, Charlotte, Ren, Si, Kaori, and Adeline with temporary members of Thena, Kitty, Hess, and Jaime, they look to see if they have any holes in their line up that they might need filled as Si points out that they also use to recruit from alternate realities as well in the old days. Noire notes they could use a magic user like a Maka and they decide on Zayne as a candidate and for a Weapon Kumiko. After discussing Alouette for a moment and her desire to get tech from the Classic Reality, Taiga goes to get Adeline while Si is sent to get Kumiko, while the others are sent to try to recruit Zayne.
Ren hands Akatsuki over to Kaori to cuddle up to from one of her tails as they find Zayne's apartment where she is planning a birthday month for Sunny. They discuss the multiverse and their hope of her joining their cause while they send Akatsuki to play with Sunny. After learning about the reality pirates, she seems uninterested since their cause does not line with her own - mainy dealing with murderers, rapists, and people who abuse women, and turns them down, but does tell them if things change she would be open to aiding them. They return to the Asteroid C where they meet up with Kumiko and Adeline and Jubei shows up from the shadows. As they team is hammered out as Jubei visits with Noire, it becomes offically Taiga, Noire, Charlotte, Ren, Si, Kaori, Kumiko, and Adeline with temporary members of Thena, Kitty, Hess, Jaime, and Jubei as they rope her into the organizaion and Ren trains with her, the two's abilities working well with each other.
Location: PAX
A massive dinner is planned out that involves everyone, including the various races and allies, and that means Kaelan is racking in the cash and since it's Sunny's birthday as well as Valentine's Day, all three events are having people running around getting things in place beforehand. As the dinner begins and everyone takes their seats, it allows everyone to unite and have groups of people get together that haven't in quite a while. The only unsual person among them is Paladin who is not in his Pope garb as he attends the party. After everyone has enjoyed themselves for a while Lenneth makes an announcement about the future of the Suisen Empire: she plans to divide the power of the the PAX into a main branch and into a secondary branch for the Suisen legislation branch. Since the Empress already does not have a whole lot to do with the legislation branch, Lenneth will move them to a new location as not to have the entire Suisen Empire wiped out with the PAX if it's ever attacked. During the toasting to her announcement, Ao drinks from Lenneth's cup after having switching with her for safety reasons and collapses.
This leads to panic as Ao has been poisoned and Cuddles has to be called in to take her to medical and an investigation begins on the matter. Cherry takes off lest the Dark Ones get blamed. Looking into the matter the find that it is a poison that has been used before - during the time Eve Winters was controlled on Erevis. However Eve was with Aya the entire time during the dinner and the gloved hand they have on camera doing the act doesn't seem to match her's. As they compile the arms Megumi gives Xanatos a scanner to help with his investigation as they narrow it down to a handful of men. At medical, Cuddles, Jennifer, Drasek, and Syiean are present while the former three manage to save her life through a complicated game of doctor and progenitor energy.
Narrowing down the suspects to Kane and Paladin, Cheryl helps Xanatos track Paladin down to a deserted church where he's praying and has mined the building. It's clear he plans to take everyone down and even Zephyr is oddly there to deal with him. After some conflict, they manage to get to Paladin alive and take him down, seeing the man has broken down mentally even as Jaime wants to kill him for attacking Ao and trying to kill Lenneth. But it might have been due to some in the Zhenmei family calling themselves gods. After it is over Ao is introduced to soap operas and Lenneth and Xanatos discuss her plans for the Suisen Empire, growing closer.
Session 581: Dragoons vs. Reploids
Location: PAX
Session 582: Alternate Problems Part One
Location: PAX
Lenneth holds a meeting where she informs the group that the Pope wishes to see the team after the attack on her life incident by Paladin, due to the fact the Pope is Paladin and the Church is not happy by this fake Paladin trying to ruin their friendship and make waves with the Church's image. While they bring Taiga to see if he is really a duplicate since the prisoner says he has been here a while, they split up to either go to meet with Taiga, the prisoner, or the Pope. Jaime is sent to meet with Taiga since she is feeling hostile toward the other Paladin after his attack on Lenneth which hurt Ao. While this is going on, Chad, Jikuu, and Lenneth meet with Pope Paladin where they go to the brig to meet with the other Paladin, passing "Xevil was right" written on the brig walls. As both groups meet up and question him, they find he believes Jaime and others like her believes they are gods and are walking the path of the Illium, which will see the world burn.
As the team discusses what the Illium are - the possible future of the Suisen Empire that went down a bad path and nearly destroyed the current day Suisen Empire with their futureistic power, Lenneth calls for a meeting. She warns each of them to not grow big heads lest they ever walk a path that could lead to a a new Illium or a variant of them and they need to look our for a reality that holds them as well, what with the realities being recreated. As Paladin is from the alternate reality, though it was hard to detect due to how long he has been here it seems, they group decides to go to the Alternate Reality to seeif they can learn answers as well as bring Alternate Katrina here to try to counsel him and fix his broken mind, as well as have the Strikers try to learn more about the Alternate Reality.
Location: Asteroid C
After the Strikers suit up and Aurica opens the reality gate, the team goes through along with some of the PAX personnel; however they find the reality no longer as peaceful as it was last time, as there is smoke and chaos going on in the city from riots occurring, EarthGov ships in the sky and police forces trying to quell the chaos. Erevis and her team move off to try to find Katrina while Taiga heads off to learn more about the situation with her Strikers. Id hooks into the holonet to learn that someone has been stirring miscontent between the Illium and others, leading to the riots. They also come across images of a tall looming Dark One like figure that is feminine, but also doesn't appear to be quite Dark One, though the images make the holonet act up. There is also hints that the man stirring up the miscontent might be the Dark creature, both having the same eyes in the images and making the images act up at the same time; however Jaime gets the alert that the reality pirates have entered the reality from Taiga's device, though Taiga informs them they will handle it.
The group contacts Katrina and once they get her location, head for her apartment, avoiding the looters and roiters. The entire area feels almost like a zombie horror flick, with how they act - acting as if they are in a hate field rage and as they near the area with the man giving speeches, the world feels wobbily, especially to psionics. As they hurry on and get out of the range of the hatred, they arrive at Katrina's where Victoire believes she can counter the effect of the hatred going on. They arrive at a radio station where Chad and Erevis work to repair the Illium/EarthGov tech so she can sing her Song Magic to the entire population, quelling the hatred that has gripped it. However, as Victoire manages to counteract it, she draws the attention of whatever caused it as the man who gave the speeches arrives at the station; Erevis goes into hyperspace form to rip out his heart, but nothing seems to happen and is flung away in her hyperspace form. As Jaime attacks next, it marks her as it's head is exploded off by it and worms fall, the voice speaking seemingly distorted and wrong. As Aurica opens the gate back home and they all retreat, Id stays behind to ask questions and learn it's real name, which it tells - learning it's name though proves to be fatal fo it.
Back at the Astroid, Erevis mumbles that she can still feel a hint of madness from being near it as they all recover and congratulates Victoire on cleansing the population. They worry over what the mark on Jaime's leg means as Katrina learns about Paladin and agrees to stay on to look after him.
The Reality Strikers Session 59: Alternate Problems Part Two
Location: The Alternate Reality
The Strikers arrive outside the EarthGov building where the rioters are throwing themselves mindlessly at the building while the Arcana Dragoons are holding them back; led by Haruki, they seem to be piling the bodies of the rioters in a corner after knocking them out when Taiga is alerted to the fact the pirates have arrived in the reality. The team shows themselves and Haru notes that they asked for help, but transmissions seemed to be blocked. The group is taken inside where Charlotte does subtle scan of the Illium technology that has been merged with the EarthGov technology before meeting with Aya. After being brought up on the situation with the pirates, the group ponders what they could be after and decide it is likely the Illium ressurection technology as well as the ship - both in the building. The other Arcana Dragoons Haruki, Haru, and Gemi go to defend the ship while Noire leads the Strikers to defend the ressurection machine while Taiga stays behind with Aya.
A smaller Arcana Unmei guides them to the ressurection machine where she has to unlock the door when the other Charlotte with the eye patch attacks - but her goal seems to be Kaori. Stuffing her into a sack, the two Charlottes face off as the Strikers repel her but end up trapped in the ressurection machine as it's turned on, which is bad since they are alive. Thena grabs everyone to teleport them out which is extremely painful as they continue the chase, leading the Arcana behind to try to shut down the room. They end up chasing off the other Charlotte and retrieving Kaori as they all go to the ship to see if anything happened, but the Arcana report no signs of anything. Leaving Ren and Kaori behind at the ship with the Arcana, they return back to the ressurection machine, they find parts have been ripped out while they were gone chasing after Charlotte and checking on the ship.
Taiga uses the ship's mapping system to guide them to an exit where Noire, Charlotte, Thena, and Si find mechs flying off with the parts up to a PAX in the sky. This leads to a battle to stop as many parts from entering the PAX while Kaori and Ren are ambushed by Charlotte in the hanger where she tries to grab Kaori once more. Charlotte wraps to join Ren and help ward off her counter part after she nearly throws Ren to her death. After Kaori's bite repels the other Charlotte and she teleports out and the others manage to stop a good portion of the ressurection parts from entering the hanger, a specialized Gear with PAX hulling enters the scene to try to steal the ship. The team forms up and after a harsh battle manages to keep the Gear from getting it's prize - leading to them finding out the pilot is indeed the other Adeline. Having enough of them, the other Adeline begins to tap into some sort of Spade like powers as it glows reddish when something scares her off and the pirates retreat.
The team returns to Aya and the others when Ao's son makes an appearance, claiming that he'll one day take over everything after all this chaos. After they make fun of his name a little, since Ao has only daughters in their reality, they move off for the time being. After they return to Asteroid C, the team debates what the pirates want with Kaori and what it can mean in the future and Taiga does point out that there's only a handful of possibilities where Kaori gets her powers due to how uniqe she is - the right combination has to occur. The team decides to go to Juan's spa and relax. Back in Reality 25, their Charlotte seems furious with Kaori accusing her of rape when she was kidnapping her and vows to show her darkness. Adeline notes to Charlotte that she is aware of Taiga's tracking of them and will use that against them to go to their reality and pillage them.
Session 583: Alternate Problems Part Three
Location: PAX
The adventures of the Alternate Reality continues in Heart of Darkness outside brief appearances with Alternate Katrina before then.
Location: Cheryl Manor
Cheryl draws Taiga with fangs after learning that she plans to actually take Cran's Repliforce to the Classic Reality and asks Angela if her spy will actually report everything they learn to her. Angela informs her that Anyata is a first autonomous Beta; all this is going on while Lemon works on wedding plans for Adeline.
Location: PAX
Katrina reports to the bar with her reports on Rachael and Paladin where everyone is hanging out and Andrea is posing as a waitress to mess with Marcus; soon Cran arrives at the bar with his Repliforce people to meet with the Strikers as they arrange things to go to the Classic Reality while having a meal at Katrina's. As Taiga goes over various questions like how Classic and Alternate and Tareh got their reality names compared to the numbers of the other realities and soon they head off to Asteroid C to transport to the Classic Reality.
Taiga notes that the last time she was here when she was 9, the reality was in bad shape due to Senreich, but now it seems more advanced than their reality by 300 years. They consider time is moving faster here, but then Wind's kids by Megumi showed up to greet them last time, leaving them wondering what is going on. Taiga notes the date of Classic was 2241 last time they were here; they travel through the wastelands and approach a city where people with red triangles on their foerheads are located. Alouette seems absolutely giddy as Cole and Blue try to figure out where the reploids are at when Alouette explains that she thinks they are a kind of race that includes both of them. The group is directed to an archive location to try to learn more about what happened to the reality after they were here last time, spending some time to go through the history.
They learn after Senreich, the heroes managed to help restore the Earth and there was an of peace in late 22XX, but then vanished until 23XX when Copy X rose up and his era of "peace" began. This led to his iron grip rule until the mysterious XX returned along the same group of heroes from the past that defeated him, however they remained behind keep the peace and X's guardians took over. Until an incident occurred dubbed Ragnarok and the heroes once again vanished. After things progressed timeline wise with Ciel creating the biometals to try to help humans and reploids to stop fighting and work together after how close Earth nearly was destroyed. This is what leads to the current day utopian era with a few outbreaks here and there of Mavericks that they worked together to overcome via The Sage Trinity that has risen up as the leadership and the Legion was created as the government. Soon Reploids and Humans had law that they would be equal and Humanoids was the term dubbed. The Guardians are a peacekeeping force and it seems people are hunting for biometals.
Armed with the knowledge they now have on Classic's history, Taiga admits to be surprised at how much time has passed - at least 300 years. Sirens are soon heard and outside is a giant airship in the sky as some forces are chasing after a Maverick thief through the city. Cran's reploids go after them while the Stirkers remain behind to continue to go through the files with Cran. Charlotte discovers that the Sage Trinity law to make Reploids and Humans one involves surgey and other details it appears, where humans at a cerain age remove parts and become more cyborgish almost. Cole and Blue meanwhile engage the Maverick that has a biometal with a Mega Man power and after defeating it they run into the Guardians where they run into a reploid that looks a lot like Alouette grown up in teenage form commanding them. She invites them to come along with her where she can give them answers about the past heroes, but they decide for the time being to return to the others, so she hands over to Alouette and Cole the way to get in touch with the Grand Nuage and says her name is Prairie. Alouette admits after they leave that she has a chip that makes her age up and that she looks a lot like that. Meanwhile Cran discovers the names of the Sages - Master Thomas, Albert and Mikhail.
Once they are reunited, the team has two choices - to go to the Legion HQ and talk to the Sages or go see Prairie and they opt to see the Sages in the hopes of getting the tech that Alouette wants so much. After working their way into the giant tower in the middle of the city and getting past the long wait lines that they'd have to wait, they are granted an audience. There they tell the three sages they are from another reality and why they are there, as well as hoping to learn more about the past. Albert informs them that Seraphna is an enemy of the state when asked and admitting they do not know much about the past, Thomas tells them the heroes used time to speed up the healing of the planet; then some of them used time to travel forward to aid the future knowing what was to come. However after the Copy X incident and Ragnarok, no one knows what happened to them until recently when they been working with the Guardians. Explaining how the biometals can turn someone into the power of a Mega Man and everyone is seeking them, Albert suspects the guardians are after the biometals for themselves despite working for Legion.
The Sages agree to help Alouette learn the Humanoid tech, so they leave her with the Sages while Taiga takes the others back to the reality portal. As they arrive, Ren and some of the others remain suspicious, like wondering where do all the human parts go after they undergo the process to become Humanoids and what about the Reploids who undergo, since the Sages remain secretative. Taiga and the others decide to reman behind to investigate and seek out the Guardians while Cran's people go back while they wait for Alouette to finish up.
The Reality Strikers Session 60: Classical Solutions
Location: Classic Reality
After Taiga and Charlotte have taken Repliforce, minus Alouette, back to the Prime Reality, the other Strikers continue to the coordinates provided by Prairie to meet with the
Grand Nuage using Alouette's name.
Prairie tells Noire that she is hoping to clear up the misunderstanding with the Sage Trinity believing them to be the bad guys, especially Seraphna; the Guardians are situated in the outer regions, mostly out of the Legion's territory where Slither Inc has influence and is run by someone called Serpent. Ren jokes that they found their Serpent finally, but the others doubt they're the same. When asked what the red triangle on the forehead is on reploids, Prairie tells them that Legion Law essentially makes Reploids/Humans one and that Reploids now have "natural" lifespans. When Noire asks about Bot World, Prairie admits that long ago they encountered such a world but it's been a long time since they heard from them. And when asked about Ragnarok, she tells them that after Copy X and Omega were defeated that a terrorist attack was enacted on the city and Harupia and others sacrificed themselves to stop most of it, but the damage was still massive to the surrounding areas. When asked why Maverick attacks still occur when Sigma is long gone and Prairie notes Mavericks will always exist in some form.
At this point Taiga has joined them and been joining in on the conversation as they arrive at their destination, a massive dig site owned by Slither Inc. Sneaking into it through a tunnel, they meet up with Wind and Megumi's twins Soma and Fuyu who seem to have discovered a female looking Mega Man X - XX. One of the heroes involved in Ragnarok, she looks busted up as Seraphna is using Biometal X to try to jumpstart XX's systems. As Taiga aids them in turning XX back on, they also retrieve Biometal F and seem to have Biometal H from earlier - the one that the Maverick was trying to steal. While Si and Biometal F hold a conversation no one can hear while she uses it, the Slither Inc mechaloids begin to pour into the dig site forcing everyone to foxhole out and back to the ship where Taiga and Prairie announce the mechaloids have gone a rampage toward the city due to some dark energy from two Biometals Serpent found. Biometal Z and something else.
The team goes out to defend the city and after a short battle, stops the mechaloids. Afterward Seraphna tries to get the Biometal W but finds it was fake in the battle and only attains Biometal Z. They learn that it was taken to the Slither Inc HQ. So they head there next. Having been joined by Leviathan from Copy X's guard, the ancient guardian is now repaird by Seraphna to help out. As they arrive at Serpent's inner chamber, he uses Biometal W and transforms to force them into battle where they put him down, denouncing them as Mavericks for stopping his plans to save the world. They find that Metal W seems to have been destroyed with him as they check the systems and find something unusual. Two figures that met with him and proclaimed that he could not handle the power of Metal W and would be consumed - Prometheus and Pandora. Seraphna seems to know who they are due to her long life.
They return back to Legion HQ to get Alouette and report their findings, with Thomas congratulating them and Albert aplogizing to them for doubting them. Alouette seems happy with the data she has on the Humanoid information and Soma and Fuyu tell Kaori to tell Wind to get his butt back to their reality. As they all leave, a shadow figure - perhaps one of the Sages, meets with Pandora and Prometheus, tells them to keep an eye on all the heroes and interlopers from the other reality as they are surrounded by multiple Metal W's. The adventures of the Classic Reality continues in Heart of Darkness outside brief appearances before then like with Wind.
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 4: Something Is Not Quite the Same
Location: Geyze
After the Geyze version of Thena proposes to Lumi, she holds a meeting with the Peacekeepers and members of the Academy to discuss everything that has happened the past few months since the return of the Spirits. They go over how the Kingdoms are disappointed at how the Spirits are weaker and can no longer take over their original roles, forcing the younger generation to continue to resume the roles, as well as the fact they seem to be having memory issues and acting strange. Aska and Shade, the latter who appears to not be affected by any of the changes so far, note that perhaps the new cores could be the cause and that some of their essence has been lost as the spirits grow with their cores overtime, becoming part of them. Lumi also goes over how Death is still missing over the past 3 months and Kalam claims to not have seen her when asked, but does note it is suspicious that her organization has been quickly repairing itself and recovering relics they lost after the attack. The group wonders if Death is aiding her as penance, but since the have no proof they move onto the topic of Sylph no longer being into fruit but hard candy until they discuss the fact Aska and Shade will be moving to Kalam to be their Light and Dark Spirits. Aska though promises to remain connected to Geyze due to her connection with the Hapian Royal Family and not wanting Void to be the only Elder Spirit looking out for the younger spirit.
Asarar contacts the team needing their hope for something so everyone heads up to the bar where she informs them that they have two situations - one is where the Elder Spirits will need protection to their temples that are completed incase there is an incident and the other is the Aquarius that is overhead. It seems Jelly hacked during the C'en incident and left hidden code to shut things down. After some talking Asarar heads off to deal with it since she's the best person they got, though Jaime does agree to send Adeline to help out. After a bit though the lights go out in the bar and it seems Jelly has arrived to slap butts and raid their files, leading to them to try and take their files while Jaime takes the kids out of there. While Nicolette provides lights and Kira hunts him down, Thena and Talia eventually capture him, allowing Lumi and the rest to take the spirits to their temples.
This begins the group being aghast at how idol worshipping the Elder Spirits are on Kumen compared to Geyze, as at the temples people are lined up to see the idols. For the most part everything goes smoothly - Gale is at the Ymir HQ Tower and the other spirits are spread out across Kumen, but at their last stop with Gaia some of the population gets a little handsy with her forcing the team to interfere until her priestesses can step in. After they return to the bar, Aska and Shade set up at two of the floors for their temples until they are constructed while Jelly is beat by Bella and Cloé. It seems a rival group hired him to steal files on the group and Asarar plans to learn who. As the team returns to Luci's bar, the group hears a commotion as Sylph and Shiva fight, the latter who got a core later on after being taken back home which meant she lost even more memories than the others. Demanding to see Celsius, Jaime has Jennifer bring the two together while Sylph warns that Shiva is "dangerous". Shiva is taken away by Celsius for the time being while Lumi decides to look into what is causing the strangeness of the spirits.
While Jaime wonders if it is an Ice/Wind thing, due their elements, Lumi wants a bit more proof and takes them to the Amazons where they meet with Qui. After some greetings they go to see Brooke who now goes by Undine once more and is more like her original haughty personality. There they summon Salamander and the two spirits immediately go on the offensive before calling Salamander away and are kicked out of Undine's temple. Everyone agrees that something is wrong and that they need to see the Summoni - which means Kalam.
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 5: Adventures in Summoni
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Session 585: Famfrit Evolution
Location: PAX
Location: Asteroid C
Lorelei gathers those on her team that has decided to risk going to the one way trip to Tareh: Lenny, Mercy, Durt, Wyrd and Truth, Moira, Kaelan, Rachael and Valen, Celeste and Asha, Michelle and Kellin, Sia and Lia, Id and Amazo. Taiga goes over what the Strikers have discovered with the probe before it was destroyed and gives them information on the new world, but warns them time likely moves faster there so she will try to keep the portal open as often as possible to keep it connected to them so time does not outpace them too often. Vesper and Valen share a kiss as Valen run throughs the portal, their first, and they all arrive in the ruins of a castle with a giant angel statue on it's side. Kaelan soon realizes, after they finish their scans, they are in Neer's capital and this is the castle of the queen. Mercy begins to lead them southward after they recollect themselves while they discover the mark isn't quite working well, but other things like dragoon powers and magik are super powered.
As they camp they see airships in the air heading back toward the castle ruins and decide to investigate, using Kaelan's foxholes to return back to them. While they hide on the angel's statue and observe the uniformed people searching the area with spotlights, when Kaelan uses her powers they seem to lock onto them with the spotlights. As they keep hiding, the ship soon leaves and heads back the way it went; the team realizing it's returning to their camp where they barely make it in time as they have arrived over the camp. Soldiers from the Kingdom of Gelus descend and the team confronts them where they talk to a red haired captain and bluff their way onto the ship by claiming they are from far away and do not know what happened here, taking up their offer for a ride.
Riding the airship and talking with Captain Montoya McTreggor, a descendant of Mimi McTreggor, who begins to bring them up to speed on what happened to the Kingdom of Neer. The Empire of Angel was a collection of the various Kingdoms working together with the Angel supporting them all until infighting began to cause the Kingdoms to begin to lose trust with one another and in the Angel and her Angel Guard. While she was at the Kingdom of Neer an attack was staged and the entire capital and part of the Kingdom itself was hit by a chemical like weapon, decimating the land, by the demons it was claimed. The Angel and the royal family were killed it is believed and what citizens of Neer fled into Gelus. The airship soon arrives at the captal of Gelus where McTreggor takes them to meet with the queen of Gelus due to how unusual the team acts.
They find Dragoon Guards protecting the queen and magi palace as the go to see her where the Queen asks Lorelei if she is the queen and is diisappointed to learn she is not. As the team sees te large painting of the Angel who looks like Lorelei, Queen Jules tells them about the Angel and the Angel Blades until the Kingdom of Amatsune began to dissent against her and the United Elven Front Kingdoms joined in with the leader of Amatsune in siding aganst the Angel. After that the attack occurred on the Angel. The team asks to see a library and Jules allows it, so they begin to study the books, looking up the history and how to cure elven insanity, learning that a half-elf named Ruun might can help or the Angel Mark might be the key. At that moment, a kitsune named Eliya Neru and offered to take them to the people who can help them if they come along. The group takes them up on the offer and Valen leaves a note behind on where they are going as they steal the books with them.
El takes them to the Demon Realm, a city underground, where she leads them to Deus. Deus offers them a room to wait in while she prepares their guests that will aid them on their quest.
Session 587: Children of Two Worlds
Location: Demon Realm
Session 588: Harbringer of Things to End
Location: Kingdom of Amatsune
The team faces off against an unwilling Dusk who has been compelled by Harbringer using Gartareh's power; the team battles her and her vampire army, forced to cut off her arm by Moira to get close to her and Michelle uses her arrows to blast her in the heas as they wipe out her army and even stop her from using Seraphim against them. As the Azuha arrived Gemane's ancestor, the alliance Kingdoms went to war against the Amatsune's anti-Angel Kingdom forces who were hold up in the city, forcing a siege against the Kingdom as well as the evil Anima who are protecting the city. Lorelei leads a small team along with the army toward the city while the others use their anima to battle the evil anima and to help bring down the city walls. Amazo joins the battle with the anima as Moira, Valen, Asha, Kaelan, Sia and Lia do battle with the Anima while Michelle and Kellin help battle along side with them. After a long hard fought battle, they bring down the enemy anima versions of their own - which seem to be the broken versions of their own before they were sent into the past to be repaired by Taiga. Sia and Lia gather the gauntlets or the time being as they bring the walls down for the armies to clash in the streets and the team joins the others.
The group finds the PAX looking even more broken and ancient that hangs by the palace, even as the repair systems are trying to fix it. While they wonder about trying to turn on CHIP, the Angel advises against it due to it being insane. The Angel warps them up into the ship where the lights are off and it feels dark like a coffin as they explore it. CHIP tries to get them to turn him back on and after some heehawing between the team, Durt goes ahead and does it. CHIP shows them a screen of Jubei's descendant on 1B looking like a puppet that's just sitting there not moving and they wonder if Harbringer is in another body. As they head up the elevator shaft to it, CHIP begins to work on regaining control of the PAX; arriving at 1B and finding it a mostly wrecked room a tower smashed through it, Renbei - Jubei's descendant - rises up as if expecting them.
Kaelan begins to talk to Renbei and tries to convince Harbringer to change his ways and the two engage in conversation instead of the team battling him, much to Mercy's rage. As they try to understand what he is planning, Harbringer admits he is out to gain control and after all he's done the leaders will not allow him to keep doing what he has been doing so he cannot stand down now. After he has wasted enough time, he tells them he has gotten away and drops control of Renbei. Kellin detects a unique energy signature from her, perhaps Harbringer's fingers in her as he's leaving her. The PAX is set to explode to help cover the escape and so the group rushes to the engineering where they solve Harbringer's puzzles and manage to shut it down.
CHIP informs them he is in the city and so they try to locate him while the Angel takes Renbei somewhere safe. After looking around and some misdirections, when the Angel returns and draws them an image of what Harbringer might look like younger, Rachael realizes they just missed him amongst some soldiers leaving to go on patrol. As they go outside they find the soldiers unconscious and tracks indicating he left on a vehicle. Mercy vows to track Harbringer down no matter what it takes while the others decide to return to the city. This leads to the teams meeting with the leaders one more time where Renbei, Deus, Jules, the queen of Neer and queen of Alrhyl, and Nami all meet with them along with the Angel and the team decides to split up - some will hunt for Harbringer while ther others will travel with the Angel and Lorelei to hunt for a while home while the Angel trains Lorelei to master her Angel Mark to help cure Rachael and the famfrits who will go insane in the future, to help cut off the problem. Since Harbringer claims he was not behind the cause of what was blocking them, they might have to travel the kingdoms, which means both groups will have to travel to the United Elven Kingdoms who might still be hostile even with Amatsune being dealt with due to them not believing Renbei was cured or that she was brainwashed. Id decides to continue to work with CHIP and see if he can fix the computer's insanity issue as the adventures continue into Heart of Darkness.
The Reality Strikers Session 61: The War of Redefining Reality Part I: Incursions
Location: Asteroid C
With Jaime, Adeline, and Gnome's wedding a few hours away, Taiga is studying the Reality Pirate's movements among the Reality Map and finding it strange as everyone joins her that hasn't attended the wedding yet. Charlotte, Noire, Ren, Si, Kaori, and Kumiko ponder what the movement can mean as they are stealing low risk realities and targets and it seems like they might know they are being tracked as they have changed their tactics. Charlotte wonders if they might be here replacing people but Taiga notes that she has detection to pick up people entering their reality, especially the 25th and C'en; she sets up a trap on Noire's advice while they go out to eat and get sushi. After they finish eating and return, Taiga starts the trap and it seems they respond a little too quickly like they are begging them to react.
While this is going on, Kaori suddenly collapses and Taiga and Ren have to use their reality powers to wake her from her coma. It is clear some sort of attack occurred on her in a reality sense, indicating something is up as Charlotte does a psionic scan of her and taps into something that messes with her sanity a little that gives het insight - something has happened at Yggdrasil. Ren notes that Yggdrasil is connected to Centerpoint which is connected to Kaori as she wakes up, so they deccide to go check it out as Taiga brings in Jubei to watch the place incase it's attacked.
Ymir greets them and guides them to the trunk of the tree where Brandr Windrunner gives them a "ride" to the bottom to make it quicker by grabbing them al land jumping to the bottom. Despite it saving them days, it nearly kills them all - but him - and they arrive at the cave where some of centerpoint still exists. Kaori finds she is unable to enteract with her mother computer as it's locked out, despite it being designed to only do so. Taiga theorizes that another Kaori might have been brought in to unlock Kaori's power and that will slowly drain her power. Charlotte at the same time finds Wind in the vines with a piece of a Emerald Sword in his chest, hyperspace shooting out everywhere. They take him back to the Asteroid C for the time being as they do not know if it's safe to remove it; the group decides to head to the wedding at Cheryl's manor and plan to try to find Reality Pirate's incase they are present, worried they might be there and planning something, having been replacing people for months now.
Session 589: The War of Redefining Reality Part II: Lockdown
Location: Cheryl's Manor
Session 590: The War of Redefining Reality Part III: The Alpha and The Omega and The Sigma
Location: Angela's Shuttle
They arrive in Cran's Owl Repliforce battleship and Adeline is given a spare battle suit by Jaime as she works to cover her upper body with what remains of her wedding dress before meeting with Cran and his command battle staff. Cran, Blue, Cole, Anyata, Death Star, and Angel fill them in on how the reploids began to go Maverick at will and Alouette has been taken and that they kept the shuttle to learn if the Sigma virus was from another reality before it was freed to go rampaging across the base by an outside force. What the group learns is the Sigma virus seems to have nothing to do with the current Repliforce going maverick at will, outside having the Sigma code in them and someone inserted it into the latest models, and that the Sigma shuttle was freed to help cause more distractions while Alouette was taken. Since the group agrees they are trying to take the latest technology, they wonder if they are trying to take everything they can while working their way up to the PAX and if that fails scrap it so the group can't have it anymore. As they have been joined by Noire, Dias, and Montana, the group is fully united now and Dias even surprises Cran with saying he thinks Repliforce is very important.
As they try to get past the Maverick ship that are covering for two escaping ships, Mavericks begin to teleport in and lead to a fight, but when another ship rams into the Owl, Cran orders them back to Angela's shuttle to try to intercept the fleeing ships while he handles it. The team slowly escapes while Cran prepares to ram and self-destruct the Owl to take out and crash as many of the Repliforce fleet that he can with Angel standing by to try to get them both out as the team takes to chasing after the two Repliforce ships. Soon Cran's manuever shakes the area but with no sign the two escaped. Death Star contacts them that he managed to get on one of the ships and set down a transcoder that Cole can use to get them on board, leaving Adeline to wonder when he did that. She and Jaime stay behind to help monitor things with Montana while the rest teleport over during which she tells Ren that they need to have Taiga scan her reality signature.
Liquid Montana strikes the hanger, their Noire having survived by touching Montana's foot in the last battle, and begis to rampage, holding Jaime like a tool to smash people with. They beat the group of Montana and manage to take it down without destroying it, force Liquid Noire to retreat down the elevator shaft and reveal Adeline was inside the chasis. As they move up to the bridge they find a bunch of Mavericks and Alouette being affected in this hive mind scenario. They seem to have copying abilities as the team has to deal with them copying their powers and using it against others in the party; as Alouette is restrained, she informs them that she designed the Reploids, but never put Sigma in the copy chips information. While Adeline studies Charlotte's phrasing on cheating curiously, the ship begins to crash due to Liquid Mech destroying the engines, leading to the team splitting up to destroy it while Cheryl and Angela try to crash land. The team manages to defeat her but not before she stabs deep into Noire's stomach and Cheryl crash lands the ship, but the other gets away. Cole is put into command of Repliforce as the teams are split up for the time being.
Location: Tokyo
Noire returns to Tokyo to check on her wound dealt by her alternate counter part where they learn from Andrea that she has injected herself into Noire's body to consume her. Andrea uses the Dark One ritual book to extract her and put into a jar for the time being until she thinks of what to do with her. Over at Cheryl's manor, Adeline and Cheryl arrive with her people to meet up with Chad and Taiga. They muse on what to do about the other Adeline and how she's been one step ahead while Jaime and Adeline move off to be alone finally for their wedding night and Taiga seems to be taking all this hard. And on the PAX, Lenneth is eyeing the Thena footage and notes she will have to assign someone else to the newly constructed Legislation building in which Xanatos volunteers.
Location: Geyze
The group goup goes over Selena's arrest and decide to try to confront Sasha with Taiga's wrist watch, which confirms another reality signature. After some back and forth, Simon freezes her so she cannot move about and she confirms that she has been brought here to repay a debt to the 25th Reality. The group plans to spend time interrogating her out of sight of the students.
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 6: The War of Redefining Reality Part IV: Stirring the Pot
Location: Kumen
Asarar is at her bar reading about Selena being arrested and learning about the connection between the two bars being locked down, even though Max is watching Luci's bar for them. At that moment a Kumen offical comes in and informs them through paperwork that Ylva is planning to use her Presidental power to do rennovations to the lower city for the homeless - which means tearing down the bar for it. Asarar blames Ymir, believing she is behind it, but Luci wants to talk to her first while Kira decides to sabotage the Macross Building Project, which oversees not only this but the Spirit-Tech Defense Towers that Ymir is building around the city. They split up, with Bonnie remainig behind at the bar since Chelsea hasn't given her an order, and Luci along with Asarar arrive at Ymir's office to discuss the situation. Ymir eyes the paperwork and informs them they been had then admits Ylva is better lately, but due to her injuries she has been taking it easy lately and given over the job of President to her as well as the Corporation title until she is better, which means she holds both jobs. At that moment Kira's explosions go off and Ymir is infuriated as she sends people to investigate and dismisses them.
As they arrive at the bar they find Bonnie is missing and it has been ransacked as well as a message from Max about duplicates. It seems someone lured them out to see if they had any technology to rob and pin the blame on them for attacking Ymir as they learn the spirit-tech has been stolen during the chaos of the explosions and they'll likely be blamed. Luci opts to confess what they did, so Asarar and Kira sneak out while she makes the call.
Location: Geyze
Lumi grows annoyed while they interrogate the alternate Sasha who informs them that the others are in Hapian Castle and seems annoyed at the idea that she harmed anyone, merely repaying debts. Threna, who is in a death mode due to what happened to the main Thena, marks Sasha with a cat mark, teleports everyone into Jaime's gnome garden that she made where they are trapped in some sort of three layer trap. After they manage to break through the floor to get out of the trap and scare the soldiers and bully their way past the soldiers who the fake Liana orders to deal with; after she is gone and they bully a guard to take them to the dungeons where the others are being held, suddenly Brandr Windrunner comes smashing through the ceiling and sends Talia and Threna flying through the sky and begins to backbreak Gwen when they inform him Liana has been replaced. As they sic him on the other Liana, the others find everyone safe and found in the dungeon.
As they arrive in the throne room which has a hole in it, there's no sign of anyone except a note from Brandr stating the duplicates fled onto a fled onto the Mew Mew being flown by another Charlotte. Selena decides to remain behind with some female guards she trusts to do some house cleaning in the castle and re-establish order before she rejoins them, having Celes take charge with everyone. As they arrive at the Academy, the students accept the real Sasha is back while Rain gets Sasha caught back up; the others investigate Cypher and Chelsea's house and find Cypher has been tied up and shot in the shoulder as well as Aimée and Mélodie being missing. The Mew Mew also is no where to be seen. Cypher seems to think Lana is the culprit, but admits that another red head could have done it - like Charlotte. As the Aquarius arrives, the group takes the time to get their ducks in order before they go off looking for the missing ship.
Location: Kumen
An enforcer named Zoë arrives to take Luci to Ymir due to her part in the attack on the Macross Building Yards. She states that they will help her find Bonnie and even have her help stop these pirates, but that her group will be held accountable for the damage that they did to the machines as well as allowing the pirates to steal. Asarar and Kira observe them walk off with Luci and stake out the bar, moving off to meet up with Logan to try to find out more about these pirates and why they're trying to gather all this tech and aim it at who.
Location: Earth
Ren escorts Charlotte to the teleporter to go to the PAX where she'll be safe now that her information is out there, planning to meet her on it later. Cheryl notes that the pirates seem to be working all the angles on all the planets but the PAX so far and Noire and Taiga agree they need to go on the offensive soon, with her planning to go to Asteroid C to gather the tools. She has Noire go get the other Sasha and interrogate her to see what all they can learn about why her reality would aid the 25 and see if there's something more to them. While this is going on, the mystery people who were investigating the Repliforce area reveal themselves to be Warren, Darien, Ariel, and Zephyr as they discuss the reality duplicaes. Darien and Ariel note they plan to go to Cheryl's manor and Zephyr to Stacey's and Warren will follow up on the Repliforce lead, verifying each person and see if they can block Taiga's scan. They also note that someone is using this time to kill V.I personnel from the latest incident under Hodges and McCabe, meaning they might be next, but that it is low on their list of concerns at the time as they head out.
Location: PAX
Charlotte is approached by Venerator who offers to clear her name if she works with him and after a lot of thought, decides to work with his secret organization if only to keep tabs though she doesn't trust the old man.
The Reality Strikers Session 62: The War of Redefining Reality Part V: Il Piti Dolendo
Location: Asteroid C
Taiga has been staying up since the first incident as she goes over the notes of Noire's interrogation of the other Sasha before taking it to the meeting with everyone. Discovering something that might be worthwhile, she sends Noire and Ren to meet with Myria to pick up a certain item that might help with their next battle with Adeline.
Location: Cheryl's Manor
Everyone has gathered for a meeting on the Reality Pirate situation, either in person or on communications, to discuss the situation and give each other updates, such as Charlotte being MIA, Cole running Repliforce while Cran is believed to be dead, V.I agents getting slaughtered, and more. Darien and Ariel show up, stating they are there to help out, havnig been working with a few others like Zephyr on the case and wanted to lend their strength where they could as Taiga arrives and begins to bring everyone up to speed on what the reality pirates have done so far from the beginning. It is theorized they might have used Kaori's reality pirates to hide their reality signature to hide among them and pose as them, leading to the group to become more suspicious. And she goes over how Reality 37 Sasha was working with them due to the fact the pirates lent them help in their reality after it suffered damage and needing outside help, as long as they did not have to kill anyone themselves, making it appear they helped save 37. Being given a set of coordinates where they were suppose to meet up as Noire and Ren arrive with Myria's object, leading to Adeline to wonder what it could be, they prepare to set out.
Location: Space
The group is split up to look for the Mew Mew in Cheryl's Shuttle, the Aquarius, and Xanatos' Suisen Ship as they try to locate where the meeting coordinates were suppose to be at. As they approach a group of asteroids that appear to be normal, they send the Aquarius in to try to learn more when the enemy base eats it and flies off. The Suisen Ship is the best at keeping up with it as Cheryl tries her best to keep up after it as Chad discovers it has materials from the Unknown Region in it to help stop detection. As the Aquarius is drained and Mireille flops over uselessly, the group inside has to try to plan a raid to try to free themselves while the asteroid leaps into hyperspace. While Kane is trying to locate where they jumped to, he finds interference within Cheryl's shuttle until he begins to try to locate where it came from and it stops, making Ren suspect it could be any of them. They suspect Adeline despite the scans saying it Adeline Prime, so she suggests they tie her up so they feel safer.
As they is is going on, they hear on their comms Stacey going a press conference clearing Charlotte's name suddenly and stating she was working with them undercover during the time of the attack and going over who did do the attack was trying to frame her, providing proof as well as saying the real Charlotte will bring her in. At the same time Taiga's wristwatch alerts her that an attack on Asteroid C is underway, leading to Taiga to warp out using the watch. As they arrive at the asteroid with nothing more to slow hem down and having trouble getting through the astroid's hull, Cheryl grows frustrated and rams it, which leads them to untie Adeline. As they manage to get inside a massive complex of hallways and working their way through the confusing corridors along with Xanatos as he keeps his ship on standby outside since Cheryl has crashed her shuttle, they work their way toward the Aquarius crew and look for the enemy.
The Aquarius crew, meanwhile, breach the hanger after dealing with poison out in there - leaving Celes and Ceilidh behind to guard the ship. Pepper copies Adeline form to open the hanger doors where Ben is shot up and is forced to return to the ship after showing how to drain the poison in the air and Airym finishes downloading the map from the security robots. They come follow the path given to them by the robot and rescue Aimée and Mélodie, but no sign of Bonnie so far. But they also come across Adeline wearing clothing of the enemy Adeline - who states she helped the two escape but couldn't find Bonnie. She seems to be on the up and up when Cheryl's team arrives and both Adelines seem to have a stare off, Jaime realizing this new Adeline is her own due to her not being guarded with her mind scans. The 25th Adeline admits she wanted to get close to them and observe them, going into how her reality Cheryl kept her reality powers and became a power madhouse ruler and wanted to check out Cheryl as she leads them through the base to free the Aquarius.
As she goes into the Cheryl incidents as well as their Cheryl, noting there is some things about her that don't add up, there is a gunshot that surprises everyone, including the 25th Adeline as the 25th Charlotte shoots their Adeline in the head. A fight breaks out as the 25th Adeline retreats and escapes and they begin to fight the evil Charlotte for shooting Adeline in the head and setting off the self-destruct on the asteroid, forcing them to escape. They manage to kill the 25h Charlotte with a combined set of attacks and using the device of Myria's as they rush to get of there and to their ships, taking Adeline with her as well as the Mew Mew. They decide to split up, some of them taking Jaime and the wounded Adeline who is most likely brain dead back to the PAX, while others head for Asteroid C since it is under attack and Taiga has been the only one defending it while they all handle their grief and anger at the news of what has happened. And Yuki learns on the Aquarius that the ship and Mew Mew had all it's data copied while in the Aquarius and transmitted elsewhere.
A figure on Earth tells another figure that their name has been cleared after watching Stacey's address and hearing reports of Charlotte being dead. He notes to the busty figure that they need to prepare to head out to another battleground - either Asteroid C or somewhere else now to help make the difference while dealing with the V.I killer. At the same time, elsewhere, on a PAX like location, the 25th Adeline rages at Charlotte's actions as she is restored by a ressurection machine and comes back to life. Telling her that doing that will have made the Prime Reality hunt them down to the ends of the earth and that they will have to wrap up here with what they want and leave. As the moves to go, she stumbles, looking dizzy.
Session 591: The War of Redefining Reality Part VI: A House of Cards
Location: Ships
The Reality Strikers Session 63: The War of Redefining Reality Part VII: Spades
Location: Cheryl's Manor
The teams have gotten together, in person or through calls, to hold a meeting to discuss the situation and what to do next. Taiga goes over what happened to Wind and Kaori in Strikers Session 61, noting Vodka is tending to them both. She plays footage of someone or something turning the lights off and stealing Wind with the piece of the Emerald Sword in him, so they brought Kaori there to protect her. As they go over what has been happening so far and their various setbacks, they narrow the reality pirates targets are down to the PAX and Sasha's pyramid due to it having a time machanism to it. Victoire brings up the fact that where she came from, Adeline was a major threat. After everyone finishes planning, they all log off to deal with their messes, agreeing that Charlotte 25 will likely be ressurected by Adeline 25 once more as Ren arms Kaori to protect herself.
Location: PAX
While Lenneth heads to the Legislation Branch to deal with the situation there herself since Thena has been blacklisted currently, Erevis asks Id about the chances Thena might be charged by Earth. As they discuss it, Lenneth comms them and informs them that Mykel is seeking to join the Suisen Empire which will put the Legion at odds with the rest of the Alliance on Geyze. As they wonder what would cause him to do such a thing, Lenneth agrees to see if it really is Mykel while others decide to get in touch with Alita if it is the real thing.
Location: Geyze
The academy remains flooded with students who wear Sylph/Fae merchandise when the students begin to summon multiple versions of the spirits to hug on them and talk to their idols. As Sasha tries to regain control of the situation, her pyramid is hijacked and it begins to lift up into the air, forcing everyone to break into it with Death's help. The team wonders if Mykel was behind all this since it was his holonet page that brought all the students to Geyze to act as a distraction as they work to try to retake the pyramid. Zayne arrives, dragging Sparkling, both of who were partying for her birthday, while Lana and Chad work on re-taking the pyramid; after they meet up with Rain who meets with them, they start back up for the bridge.
Location: PAX
Lenneth returns after having confirmed Mykel was the real deal and has sent Alita to talk to him; Taiga tells everyone the pirates are after the pyramid, not the PAX. They debate sending the PAX fleet into action where the pyramid is when Jaime snaps and tells them to just take the PAX itself. After some soul searching with Jaime, Lenneth orders Syiean to take the PAX into action as Jaime looks to becoming unhinged.
Location: Space Over Geyze
Due to Lana, the pyramid has been moving erratically when the PAX like ship in space tractors it inside as Darien arrives and comms them, informing them that he, Warren, Zephyr, and Ariel are there to help. As the group worries about Cheryl's bloodthirsty nature lately as the others move to join them inside the PAX like Ship, they find Rain and Sasha laying bloodied on the Pyramid Ship in front of the bridge doors. They are attacked by a frenzied Bonnie as an EarthGov force attaches to the pyramid ship and busts into it, led by an EarthGov forces that are not V.6 and seem to be some sort of black ops team trying to make a name for themselves. The busty chested leader aids them in taking Bonnie down and don't seem to care if they kill their targets; it's revealed the leader is indeed Charlotte, running a group for Venerator. As more ships appear - Mew Mew and the Aquarius in the PAX like Ship, they try to figure out how to bring down the tractor beam as Darien hasn't managed to do so yet, so Yuki leads a group to follow up on it.
Location: PAX
Athena has her idol machine going with Reikana and the others like Kiseki while Syiean gets them out of hyperspace to find the PAX like ship hovering over Geyze. As they commuicate with those inside, Jaime seems confused that there is not a massive fleet waiting for them, but only one smaller ship. Taiga reminds them that her reality detectors never picked up a fleet and that they came through the tree, meaning that they likely assembled or brought that PAX like ship through the tree. Wiith that infomation at hand, they begin to prepare.
Location: Little PAX
The group finds bodies Venerator's people have left behind as they take the lead; Warren and Darien place markers for the bridge and tractor beam on their maps for the others, but Zephyr gives no such update as she hunts for the ressurection machine. As they reach the bridge, they find Adeline standing there and have to protect her from the Venerator black ops as they almost shoot her down. As Charlotte controls her men, she informs them she already plans to leave as it was a final gamble and already has the information she needs from the ships even if she can't physically take them. She tells them she didn't have anything to do with Wind being taken and will use what she has to battle her Cheryl. After seeing her Charlotte is not there, she orders her back before leaving, still refusing to return Kaori's power as she goes, believing that the power is a problem after seeing her Cheryl. At the same time, Yuki, Pepper, Cookie, and the others run into Charlotte 25 at the tractor beam and get into a battle with her. As they fight, Charlotte and her forces join her and she stands down after she is chided about ignoring Adeline 25's orders. Surrendering herself to the group, Charlotte 25 agrees to be sent to the brig.
Location: PAX
Leira blows up Zephyr's ressurection machine as she begins to transfer it over to the PAX on Cheryl's orders. After being punched by Zephyr who walks off, they discuss that they think Adeline is still alive in Adeline 25 due to how she talked and the way her hand moved at certain times, refusing to hit a button when Simon was doing something. Cheryl looks outraged they let her go if that was the case since Spade could jump bodies and if Adeline gained that power and Adeline 25 just left the reality, it means Adeline's concsciousness is gone. As they debate how to proceed with a damaged Adeline body, Jaime prepares to ask Avenir to help Cuddles fix it while Adeline 25 arrives at the tree, fighting with herself as she has a nosebleed before she uses it to leave the Prime Reality. Venerator meanwhile studies the data with someone else and begins to plan for the next phase as Mem eyes them and Zephyr meanwhile brings the parts of the broken Ressurection Machine to Cran and Angel who has been hiding out observing how Cole is doing, asking them to repair it.
Session 592: The War of Redefining Reality Part VIII: Veneration
Location: PAX
Warren and Darien have been interrogating Charlotte 25 for the past few days to no luck, noting that psionics will be needed if they want to learn where Adeline 25 went after she left. He notes her psionics are off the chart even being dampened, likely a by-product of being with Adeline 25 which so far they haven't had to fight her head to head yet thankfully like Charlotte. Warren has Tabetha to go work on Charlotte some more due to her psionics and being Adeline's biological mother, while assigning the Strikers to deal with Venerator - who is currently pushing hard to get his name cleared with all these antics. While they set out and go, Tabetha and Charlotte 25 begin their private little battle in the brig.
Location: Kumen
Asarar, Chelsea, and Kira is at the penthouse that Chelsea and her found during their investigation that belonged to Adeline 25 while she was running her operations on Kumen, deciding to make it their makeshift base. With Luci being in charge of their club now in addition to her own, thanks to Ymir, the group is bitter when Asarar notices Logan is MIA; as the lights go out, Ymir sends her troops into the room led by Logan and Luci. It turns out to be ploy by the two to force it Asarar/Kira to talk to Ymir. They decide to go legit finally and it comes out that Luci is interested in Ymir, much to the surprise of everyone. As they return to the bar, they find Venerator waiting there for them to give them a job to inflitrate and retrieve a locked box of items, bringing it back to him; it turns out to be the locaion is Repliforce itself. After some sweettalking, and the amount of money, they decide to take the job as Bonnie returns to Chelsea, who seems to be a little different due to her experience.
Location: Earth
Ren, Noire, Taiga, Kaori, and Si walk with Stacey in the Presidental Building as they discuss Cartwright - Venerator, trying to locate him as they know she helped cleared Charlotte's name under his orders. As Dias busts in and Taiga dares him to fight her, Marcus shows up as well. Stacey informs them that the V.I killer has killed Hodges and McCabe in their cells, making them the last of the faux V.I that killed Katrina. They discuss Mem, the likely suspect, and how sending Dragoons will likely not be a good thing since she was made to kill them. As they head to Venerator's base after being given the location by Stacey, they come across a round bot made after Id that scans Dias before letting them in to see Venerator. He gives them something that was meant for Adeline's DNA that can boost one's psionics, but otherwise will do them grievious harm, noting it was made by V.I during the period he was dead. At that moment, Taiga informs them there is an incident going on at Repliforce.
Location: Geyze
Darien eyes the students who weren't chosen still protesting about the spirits, demanding that they sing for them and other nonsense, making Zayne, who was there for Sabrina's birthday the other day, finger her scythe. After Jaime gives her permission to not kill them but to use non-lethal means to punish them, screams are heard a momenr or two later.
Location: Repliforce
Asarar's team uses the Net to get inside until it crashes, even with the amplifers that they bring along. As they get to the top of the tower, they come across Alouette who screams and summons Anyata. As they retrieve the item, this brings about a battle between the Repliforce and their team as well as Marcus and Dias as they try to escape on Luci on dragon form. As Dias tries to launch Marcus at them and then leaps after them, trying to bring them down even if it means killing Luci and them all, they manage to evade until they meet up with Venerator and hand off the suitcase and get the rest of their payment as they take off. Dias and the others continue to track down them down, finding Venerator's scene and learn that he gave over the materials to Stacey and that what was inside it was part of the Sigma materials for study as well as some other reality materials that the other Adeline had during their brief encounter. Stacey confirms that he turned this all in and Dias gives him a warning.
Location: PAX
Warren and Darien dump the tools for the interrogationo n the table with Setsuna on standby. Cuddles warns that the booster that Venerator gave to them isn't compatible with Tabetha so they decide to have Setsuna use the anti-psionics for no, along with some "torture". Zayne also agrees to use her magic to help out in this. Meanwhile, Cran finishes sending a message to Dias giving him an update on the situation with himself, then decides he needs to turn his attention to the manor with Cheryl, telling Angel so as he works onrepairing the Ressurection Machine as be he can for now with Zephyr hanging about. At the manor, Vesta and Necia notice something is up at the computers downstairs and go down to the basement to check on it, to discover a body with a sword in the gut. Suddenly a figure jumps them from behind and adds them to the closet with the body, while Leira continues her patrols with Angela unaware, the two talking about Zephyr and her joining the team full time.
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 7: The War of Redefining Reality Part IX: Faith
Location: The Academy
Session 593: The War of Redefining Reality Part X: Reality Crumbles
Location: Asteroid C
Session 594: The War of Redefining Reality Conclusion: Alpha Reality
Location: Geyze
Sylph decorates the Academy for Ellie's birthday even as the Academy has world ending cracks appearing all over the place and Gwen throws items the cracks, watching them vanish forever. Lumi murmurs about investigating what Lana is hiding from everyone and how it might tie into this and how it won't let her talk about whatever it is. As an Ellie cake is brought out, Simon tries to get more information from the cracks when a female like energy being knocks him away that has a dragoon signature. The group decides they should head to Earth to let everyone there know about it since the group there is currenly working on getting rid of the cracks.
Location: Reality 23
The Strikers continue to work their way back to the reality gate without making a new one due to how unstable the gateway is currently. Along the way, Adeline speaks through 25's body as Jaime tells her that her body has been reparied through the work of Avenit and Cuddles, noting she counted on Jaime doing that, but admits her worry is that Jaime got them involved in 25's war to get her to come along with the group, fearing the enemy they've made in Cheryl 25. They are suddenly attacked by someone sending a ton of the flying vehicles at them, trying to kill them. After avoiding the attacks and being joined by Andrea, they manage to get to the gateway and through, where the set up Noire to watch over things before heading to the PAX at Jaime's insistence.
Location: Mega City
The military police continues to chase Zephyr and the others in their masked criminals persona as they plot their route toward Cheryl's manor; wondering how Venerator has become a big shot, they work on splitting up his forces. A massive reality crack opens up and swallows Venerator and his convoy, almost taking John as well until Angel saves him. Lunar manages to push some of the military people aside as the rest falls into the crack. They head into the manor to join up with the others.
Location: Cheryl's Manor
As Erevis uses the Emerald Sword to close up the cracks around the manor, Victoire and the others attempting to aid her, Chad notes this is not a viable solution in the long run until Kaori can be found. Darien lets them know Simon and his group is on the way from Geyze and that he wants to go check on Ariel who hasn't been in touch for awhile. He's joined by Angela as they go check on Ariel and Cheryl. Soon Cheryl shows up and Angela with her, but when questioned where Chii is at, Cheryl sends Angela to go find Chii. As Simon arrives in the Mew Mew and shares his data with Cran and Chad, Darien returns and claims Angela is asleep, as does Angela with Chii. John's group also arrives on scene when Chad, having grown suspicious, fires shots at Darien, Angela, and Cheryl when everything blips.
Location: PAX
Lemon tries to hurry them up as Cuddles warns beginning this could take both Adelines out of commission for some time. Both Adelines refuse to undergo any treatment as there seems to be something happening at the manor as Fate is summoned by Jaime. After being chided by Jaime for pushing herself too hard and informng her that "it" is focusing on other realities right now and using Cheryl 25 to it's advantage. As she reseals the mark, she goes into how it's not currently in their reality while hoping to make other realities grow weak and fall or push them to attack their reality. Jaime gives Adeline a special gun she made with hyperspace shots as they prepare to face Cheryl and warp to the manor.
Location: Cheryl's Manor
As those from the PAX arrive, they find blood and Taiga pushes open the front door to find Victoire singing for everyone inside like it is a normal day and Kane hosting a meeting about the cracks. Even Ariel and Chii are attending now with Mem tied up and gagged for the police. While Noire tells Taiga to scan everyone, the only odd thing is Cheryl has a slight wound as if she was shot/stabbed. Adeline TK slaps Cheryl, causing her to be shocked and accuse her, which causes some chaos to break out. As Id seems to be having information malfuction as well, suddenly things blip again and the conversation is erased as another crack appears and Lana has a knife and Jaime is splurting blood.
As some aim their weapons at Lana, others focus on the cracks, and some are focused on Cheryl, Cheryl begins to eye Kaori at this point since her memories are not being changed. As Mem is ungagged, she confesses to stabbed Cheryl, as if she recalls it somehow, and Angela feels in the bond and senses that there is something off in the bond with her when Chii shows up and notes that Cheryl goes to sleep in the bonc, allowing another to take control. Cheryl tries to use the broken piece of the Emerald Sword to kill Adeline as Chii attacks and more blips occur, but Kaori uses her power to banish the source of all this, knocking Cheryl 25 out of Cheryl's body. Cheryl seems to hold no memories of what happened as Venerator busts in and looks for Mem with his forces and Derrick. Venerator promises to look into Chad one day as well, too, as they go without Mem who hid. Threna promises Lana they will also discuss her "project" when they have time.
Location: Mega City
Darien and Ariel investigate around the Presidental Building as night falls with John and his kids when they find Warren with several gun shots and having been tossed from a great height. They decide to begin to look into the case as they get to Cuddles to heal him up. Meanwhile, Zephyr and Mem start up the Ressurection Machine to bring back Katrina, having picked a spot that was off the books. Iko beings her new job at the Legislaton Building since Thena can no longer do it while Cuddles prepares to pull Adeline out of Adeline 25 and place her back into her own building. While this is happening, Alternate Katrina leaves with her Paladin, who is mentally sound enough to go. After saying goodbye to Chad and Aya, they depart Asteroid C and Taiga works on returning Asteroid C back to the Known Regions so she can work on the Tareh problem for the kids.
The Reality Strikers Session 64: The War of Redefining Reality Epilogue: Il Piti Dolce
Location: PAX
Ren is being depressed over her birthday due to everyone being busy after everything that has happened lately as she sits at Katrina's bar. As she feeds cake to Akatsuki and bemoans things to Terra, Athena and Thena arrive to discuss Idol things with Zephyr's daughter Kiseki, another idol, planning an idol project that involves an Idol Ship. Both Adelines show up at the bar with everyone else as Adeline pretends she doesn't remember everyone at first, touching thier faces, but seems to be teasing them. Lemon seems to be intent on having Adeline stay at the manor for a bit so she can keep an eye on her until she is sure that everthing is okay. Adeline 25 decides to work at Terra's bar at the meantime until the group is ready to take back her reality. Lenneth also brings Myria in to set up a special Suisen Holonet type program due to the backlash the Cartel has begun against Thena, a lot of it biased and using their sources to stir, wanting it to weed our lies and be able to point out where things come from for the readers, so fact and opinion pieces can be traced in their reporting and held accountable. Myria agrees to work on such a program after questioning Lenneth.
Location: Cheryl Manor
Cheryl has been ducking her duties the past few days as X arrived to question them, eyeing a shot made to repair the damage done to Lemon's abilities. Miyuki, Kasha, and Isis also arrive to make Cheryl do her duties in a way that only Miyuki can do it while X and the others discuss the attack on Warren, bringing Cheryl up to speed after Miyuki is done. They decide they need someone to run against Stacey, feeling she has been too suspicious lately despite Dias endoring her and feel Andrea might be a good candidate since she is Governor of Tokyo. While this is going on, Andrea sees Noire and Charlotte in Tokyo about running where Noire encourages her not to run due to her just becoming Governor recently. They decide instead to have Cassandra run.
Date: 10-644.6.2
Location: Kumen
Asarar drinks in her bar, the team having been left alone since their last case. As they complain about being dragged into old people's fighters, Ymir arrives with a mission and gives it over to Kira before watching the dancers. Asarar is surprised when Kira accepts it. They learn it's from Cheryl to investigate who tried to bump off Warren, so the team prepares to head to Earth.
Date: 10-644.6.4
Location: Mega City
John's family has been checking the building across from the Presidental Building where Warren was shot, joined by Cheryl's team and Asarar's team. It seems Warren was likely attacked at some about 3/4ths height and thrown out of an open window. They decide to split into teams, one to go into the Presidental Building, the other to Stacey's house. Asarar's team arrives and find a defense system protecting documents that have been hidden there in the wall for sometime, since even before Stacey got the house perhaps, but as they manage to bring the system down they find evidence she has added information to the documents of her own. It seems like she is using Venerator, but there's definitely a lean toward working with the military to run ops for things that might be considered unsavory. Cheryl's team investigates the Presidental Building and finds Derrick there and finds evidence she had a meeting with Derrick recently who seems to have a purple haired familiar oddly that gets rid of them.
Date: 10-644.6.9
Location: Cheryl's Manor
A birthday party for Wade and Adeline is held as Athena tackles Tora and Ymir to work on her Idol Ship. Cheryl announces that Warren woke up but doesn't remember anything yet. Zephyr shows up, looking angry, and reveals that Weapons broke in and destroyed her secret base and apartment to get at the Ressurection Machine while Katrina was being brought back. She warns that Mem was hurt and is off looking for her, but the process was interrupted so Katrina is not quite right and is out there somewhere. John steps out to help find her as well.
Session 595: It All Comes Crashing Down
Location: Cheryl's Manor
Geyze: Record of Spirit War Session 8: Redefining Everything
Location: The Academy
After the chaos of the events of The War of Redefining Reality, things have begun to return to normal on Geyze as Kalam has continued her investigations into the spirits with her larger Summoni base. While Gwen pushes for a summer party, everyone else seems content to rest and the younger spirits go over having to learn math problems due to school. While everyone teases Gwen wanting to see them in swimwear, the Aquarius makes loud noises as Tora makes repairs and upgrades on it. The hope being that she can bring out Mireille's powers to help power up the Aquarius even more. While they talk about powering up spirits, Death shows up enraged that she was enrolled for school due to looking like a teenager, with Shin believing that is an insult. She ends up getting talked into it by Nicolette and the others as the spirits drag her into the classes. Neekito then remembers Kalam wanted to meet with everyone so Sylph takes them to the monestary where they are greeted by multiple people.
While Sylph and Sparkling have a snowball battle, the others step inside and are led to Kalam's office; while Gwen mourns the loss of summer due to the winterish conditions where the Summoni are located, Kalam brings them up to speed on how the Summoni are doing. She goes over how the students are adjusting easily and they've located many missing tomes and relics still, believing that in a year or so they can help the spirits like they did in the past, noting she needs time to train the students in the art of being Summoni before she can put them to work. She then goes into the Death situation, noting that it looks like Magik was used to bind her in the cell and hide her away Kalam's eyes, as well as locate powerful relics and tomes that were lost. They go over who might have done it, as well as their reasoning for doing it - causing strife in making it look like Kalam was behind it or they wanted to get back at Death for all the destruction she caused without knowing the full backstory of Death being reprogrammed. They decide to let it go unless Lana discovers something.
They go to the cell area where they find it had been repurposed into a student room with two students studying spirit theory. Neekito, who has been acting odd the entire time, leaves to do something while Lana investigates the room and moves some furniture to reveal dried blood from a while back that looks almost completely gone. As they check it out with spells, it burns away in flames in a pattern, allowing Nicolette and Ceilidh to take pictures of it. As they head out they find Neekito in an argument with a hooded Summoni who they manage to later get to admit was Kito. She confirms that Kito was the one who likely did the blood spell to trap Death/Shin before learning she was free of any influencel; the spell tapping into their power for the benefit of the Summoni - locate items, restore things faster, and more. The group decides to shelf the topic for now since Kito seems to not be going after Shin anymore.
Location: PAX
After the talk of the broken Emerald Sword, Erevis has decided to go searching for Progenitor relics that might aid them, since they do not have that many overall. She lets Charlotte hold a Progenitor staff that they happen to have on board and goes over how they got it long ago in a museum (see Erevis the Progenitor Session 11) and it turns out to be a memory staff. They teleport to the planet and begin to explore it; after going through some Progenitor traps and rooms, they locate a Progenitor headband floating over a pedestal. After taking it, the entire complex collapses on itself as they teleport out of there and back to the PAX. The headband is given to Myria as they continue on their journey when a surge emits from it while it is studied, knocking the lights out and bringing the ship to a complete stop.
It turns out that people have swapped places with others, much to their surprise. Charlotte finds herself in Erevis' body while Jaime seems to have switched with Lenneth. It even seems to have spread to Earth, where the PAX was nearby when this happened, leading to some switches there like Dias and X. The chaos continues while Myria studies the headband which seems to be meant to allow someone to switch bodies with whoever is wearing the band, but the power surge caused a wide spread effect. Working on reversing it, the problem is soon resolved.
Session 597: Hey Hey Hey, It's Summer
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Session 598: The Reality War Part I
Location: The PAX
A major meeting is held with many attending, including both Adelines, as they get into the situation Jaime has drawn them into - the war with Cheryl 25. Adeline 25 - Line - notes what connections she has outside the reality has informed that the other Cheryl has begun to move against her group and warns she'll take all the ships she gathered for this war and hid them in various realities; she also notes that Cheryl 25's powers are not the strongest in here, as Kaori proved already, but they are rather strong in the 25th Reality, so she shouldn't be able to yank ships outside the 25th Reality. They debate if they could draw her out of the reality if she is so strong there but Line seems convinced she will hold up if possible while giving Taiga the location of her ships. With the realities listed down, the Strikers decided to handle the majority of them and split up a few with the main group. A few of them also decide to go to the 25th to learn more about the Karen Cheryl as some of them nickname her, to see what they are dealing with ahead of time, and Line requests to bring along her 25th Charlotte from the brig.
Location: Asteroid C
While the two Charlottes stare at each other, Erevis and Xanatos decide to take the Oddverse with the Council of Chads while Taiga plugs in the realites into the gate addresses. She sends the one group to Reality 25 first, led by Line, then begins her search for the ships starting with Council since everyone is so eager. After warning them to becareful due to the nature of Oddverses, they all gate there. Using the Striker ship, they fly about with Ren, Taiga, Charlotte, Id, Xanatos, Angela, Si, Cheryl, Erevis, and Chad as they fly and encounter a group of Chads of all sizes, sexes, and races. Zephyr Chad is among them along with their own Ids as well; their Chad Leader and Grump Cat Chad allow them to travel about and they locate the PAXes eventually before they return.
Session 599: The Reality War Part II
Location: Reality 25
The other group arrives on a burnt out planet with a destroyed school that turns out to be Geyze's academy. Adeline, Marcus, Noire, Jikuu, Dias, Erevis again, Line, and Charlotte 25. Line informs that it was done because of the threat that Geyze's spirits and others here posed to her. She also informs that Cheryl runs this entire reality and that no one can stand up to her. Line leads them to a shuttle she hid long on the ship but thankfully Chad scans the ship and they discover a booby trap on it to alert Cheryl's people if it is used. As they bypass it, they are attacked by two spirits - Fae and Terra who look a little older here. After a brief battle with them, the group manages to escape and heads for Earth where they find a massive Fortress where Mega City is normally located and beyond, covering a good portion of upper North America.
They land far from the Fortress at a space port where they begin to show off what rule under Cheryl 25 is like. They find a police state with little room for freedom and everyone needing IDs to move about when Fae and Terra show back up again. Fae and Terra also drop off Jaime, who they grabbed earlier on back on Geyze, and show her off to the citizens. Jaime tries to reach out ot the two, since there should have been a Jaime in the 25th, but it seems to upset the spirit and shake Jaime roughly. Jikuu rescues Jaime and they teleport into a nearby building as Cheryl 25 arrives, blocking their warp out of the reality. They run and escape abck to the shuttle as she chases them, hyperspace jumping in the atmosphere to cause an explosion and damaging the entire area and blowing that Cheryl up to hurt her. Noire suggests enhancing the PAXes with magic/spirit attacks to help damage Cheryl 25 more while Line informs the group Dias 25 works for Cheryl; Dias declares Marcus will take care of him.
The Reality Strikers Session 65: The Reality War Part III
Location: Reality 13
The group arrives in a Kumen reality where Ymir runs things with a military grip using drones with cameras to spy on people in order to protect the citizens. They discuss what caused Ymir in this reality to become all military like and settle on Luci dying and thus tapping into placing the Spirits into their Spirit Towers to activate their powerful shields to keep intruders out. Due to their run-in last time with this reality, Taiga notes they will be on the alert for them as they prepare to get Line's PAX ships. As they head for the Earth Tower, Cheryl 25 arrives, which proves to work for them and against them since she will provide a distraction against Ymir's forces. They use shadow portals to get into the spirit tower and once there they have to battle through the forces guarding it until Ymir and Cheryl 25 arrive. Jaime works on freeing Gnome, recognizing the crystal tech from the C'en; after a fierce battle where they destroy it and the two flee before it goes up, the group sends the 13 Gnome on a mission to bring down the remaining Towers to help save her Reality as the Striker is able to come in now. The group heads out and meets with Line's PAX fleet and heads back to Asteroid C. The team decides after some rest to pick the Michiru Reality next.
Date: 10-644.7.18
Location: Michiverse Reality
The reality seems to be recovering nicely with ships in the sky when Billy meets with them and plays guide with them, commenting on the Noire 25 that they have with them protecting Line. She leads them to their new leader Ryoko after Michi Aya died of old age finally. They get into the fact Line took their PAX long ago when the group was trying to secure it, leaving traps to slow them down, noting she doesn't feel guilt over doing so due to her need for it. However, they are suddenly attacked by Cheryl 25 who creates massive ship in the sky and the being next to her seems wrong with massive bouncing breasts, giving off an aura that messes with everyone. The woman giving off wrong beings touches Billy and explodes her all over the place, forcing her to slowly reform but her body is completely broken, leading to the group to wonder if she only survived due to her being tied to the rune. A chaotic battle occurs with them trying to get the PAX out of there, using dark rituals to heal Billy, dropping PAXes on the creature, and trying to get the other ships out of there; after they finish it they say their goodbyes to Ryoko and the others.
Date: 10-644.7.19
Location: The Striker
The ship is piloted by Noire for a special asteroid with the PAXes in a reality with the Dark Ones having achieved victory. The team navigates through the multitude of Dark One ships and has to get the PAX ships back to their reality, suffering some damaget to the Striker in the process. Fate meets with them once they're back on Asteroid C and notes she has been hunting for the woman they ran into it while the group plans to mod the PAX ships with spirit tech since they seem to have done the most damage to Cheryl 25 over the past few days; they pick a location near Yggdrasil to do the upgrades.
Session 600: The 25th Reality Possibility
Location: Area Around Geyze - PAX
Death Star Summary (First Half of 600)
Seraphna Summary (Second Half of 600)