Session 51: The First Reality Jump
Location: Asteroid C
Taiga and Noire discuss bringing in other volunteers into the Strikers group while sitting at the cafeteria and go over some of the operations going on and discussing one of the older Strikers units back when Taiga was a kid. While discussing the base layout and how it connects to the various other outfits as well as the reality portal, including defenses, as well as the Pirate's being located in Reality 25. As Noire is elected team lead and Charlotte is made a temporary secondary lead for the time being, Taiga explains the Reality Map and sends a probe into one of the Oddverses, Oddverse 3. There they use spirits to defeat demons and clear our dungeons that have appeared to over take area and then during the day study at school. It seems only school age kids use the spirits as well. After they finish probing, Taiga adds it to the database. Noire, Ren, and Charlotte then spend their time cataloging more realities for the Reality Map, addig more realities such as the Battle School, one with Warren running a noir detective agency with familiar faces being noir like faces, an odd world where Omega Coke is the main drink and people are addicted to it and an underground resistance has risen up to fight it, there's a reality where there's no catgirls - Dog Girls are the main thing, Famfrits are nowhere to be seen and every dog has it's day, there seems to be a reality where Makas are all over the place, and many more such a witch Megumi reality.
After several more days later, Noire selects an Oddverse Reality to be there first reality test as a Striker team and takes them there where Ren and Noire finds a reality they are otherwise normal high school students and are going out solving mysteries, using the fact they will be away from the campus to usetheir club room as a base camp. They decide to use the time before going on the mission to relax and spend the time doing hotsprings, musing on the other reality, and various other things like food. A few days later they suit up and get ready for the mission with Aurica serving as the navigator and Taiga and Jaime joining them on the mission where they arrive at the school and have the Striker uniforms shift into school uniforms. As they investigate they learn there counter parts are the scooby gang, but there's also another dark secret about this reality - it's a dating sim like reality as one particular student tries to harem route everyone, including Noire and Taiga. As they suffer the hijinks of the Oddverse Dating Sim, they encounter various tribulations until they decide to return.
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 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.
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.
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: 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.
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 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.