- Location
- Planet Earth
I feel like this needs to be playing "In the arms of the Angels"
Broken Adventure
- Thread starter theaceoffire
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I feel like this needs to be playing "In the arms of the Angels"
Jordisk
<Unverified N00B>
- Location
- Blind Eternities
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- He/Him/His
This is not an ASPCA commercial! We do not need the super-cute kitties tainted by that sad song and horrible organization. You want to donate to a good animal charity, try Petsmart Charities.
I think it's more like being bald, exhibitionistic planets are more like those without a solid crust.
Jordisk
<Unverified N00B>
- Location
- Blind Eternities
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
No, Bald would be planets that don't have plantlife. Atmosphere protects planets from Solar Winds and asteroids, just like our clothing protects us from temperature and somewhat from objects. Plantlife would be basically hair, and the crust would be skin. When a planet is first born, it is a rolling mass of heavily-metallic lava, which we can compare to a newborn human baby's soft and blood-covered skin (soft being the slowly-hardening outsides, bloody being the fluid parts).
Though, in that case Animals and Humans would be somewhere between an infestation of parasites and an immune system. Probably closer to an immune system, and the "weapons" would be the equivalent of our own Macrophages. Helper T-Cells would be equivalent to the Cetra, regular non-Cetra Humans would be the white blood cells, and the Lifestream becomes the Lymphic System.
. . . ... Way to much thought put into a response to a half {posterior'ed} joke.
Arc 3: Rise from your grave!
- Location
- Here
Master Zangan starred at the Wutai bay. "I've been meditating for less than five hours."
Massive copper towers sparkled in the evening sun, a web of precious metal binding them together, and in the distance massively oversized lighthouses sparkled against the coming night.
There was apparently also an island being constructed, but that wasn't visible from here. And was likely to take only days rather than months like one would expect.
Could he have punched something like this into being? Unlikely. The one time he tried to punch something into reality there was a big explosion and he got in trouble.
Which clearly meant he needed to increase his own personal training! Yes!
All problems with reality handled, Master Zangan moved off to find and train his newest disciple.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Sarah checked in on Eve's blue-people group really quickly. Not because Adam was all in a huff, but because it was the responsible thing to do and the babies were super cute.
At least, it was supposed to be a short check in. "How are the babies moving between medical pods!?"
Cloud pointed. "That baby moved to that woman who seemed really happy about it, and then all the OTHER babies started moving to each other, to empty pods, or to one of the other blue lady pods."
Yuffie was watching one vertical tube that seemed nearly stuffed with burbling floating blue winged babies. "I was worried at first, but they seem fine."
Sarah blinked at the kids. And read the logs. "Oh. One of them learned how to traverse through the Lifestream, his Symbiote told all the rest, and Eve's keeping them in their pods… Mostly."
Aerith was tapping on the stuffed tube of babies. "That looks uncomfortable."
Not according to the sensors. "My healing pods automatically adjust the medical liquid pressure to prevent injury. When one arrives or leaves it will ensure a constant amount of support."
They blinked as another few babies suddenly left the stuffed tube and were apparently off visiting the other ones. Which was frantically devolving into a complicated pattern of 'follow the vanishing baby' or 'tag' without the tagging.
Cloud hummed. "I might go get Tifa out of her training to see this. It's like watching an aquarium, but more interesting!"
Sarah sighed. "I'm just glad I provided all the kids and adults some swimsuits."
The stuff was made out of an odd variant of seaweed and algae, but it was safe to wear, eat, and so on. Plus the material stayed on the babies as diapers and didn't fall off the mature women despite their different sizes, so it wasn't exposing anyone!
Not that any of these people would care that much, the massive amount of torture had destroyed their own sense of modesty pretty badly, but it made SARAH feel better not to leave people naked in a floating transparent tube.
That said something was bothering her.
And it was something subtle. No one looked unhappy, none of Adam's alerts had gone off. Theoretically everything was fine here. But still.
Her eyes narrowed as she pulled up the data. All twelve women were not just marked as fine, but as near optimal levels of healthiness for blue winged women with white hair. And all the babies were also enhanced to stupid levels thanks to those Symbiotes sharing data as they 'kept their hosts healthy'.
Sarah blinked. "Ah. That's what was throwing me off." Frustration grew. <Adam!>
Aerith looked away from the cute tube. "What? What was 'throwing you off'?"
She pointed at the smaller winged babies hugging three floating babies. "I didn't realise those three had been born just yet." <I know you can hear me, Adam.>
He was apparently focusing on rebuilding material storage reserves. <<Hmm? What's up Sarah?>>
She sent images. <We missed the births. All three of them. And they were born WEEKS too soon.>
Shock flooded their connection! <<WHAT!? How! I had over a dozen alerts to tell me the MOMENT they went into labor! Heck, I should have known as soon as their own bodies PREPARED to give birth, maybe even before that!>>
Oh, so it wasn't him just missing this out of being busy. Fair enough. <Let's just ask Eve and find out how this didn't set those alerts off then.>
=Adam: Eve! Why didn't you TELL me when your family was giving birth!? No, strike that. HOW did they give birth without my systems warning us first!?=
=Eve: Birth? Oh, that gross painful thing creatures do when not born directly from the Lifestream. No, I'm not making my babies go through that, that looks very unpleasant.=
=Sarah: Eve, we are just worried about how Adam's sensors missed it.=
=Eve: Because it didn't happen.=
Sarah blinked and checked back on the three angels hugging three winged babies.
=Sarah: Pretty sure it did.=
=Eve: Nope! Our family found a better way and I didn't even have to come up with it! {Painless_Repopulation.data}=
Both of them paused. Because, holy crap this was cheating.
=Adam: Baby Sephiroth innately discovered Lifestream Travel to get to his mom. Somehow.=
=Sarah: And his Symbiote told the other babies how to do it too…=
=Adam: And the unborn babies had fully matured Symbiotes that could disconnect them from their umbilical cords, ensure healthy accelerated physical growth thanks to the healing serum everyone is floating in, and let those babies out to play with their friends.=
=Eve: Much less gross! And my baby Symbiotes heal both my baby and her baby back to full peak condition and none of that screaming and stuff.=
Damn. That felt both impressive and yet somehow like cheating.
=Sarah: Can we use this with other women not in Eve's network?=
=Adam: It's only possible because the mother and child are both in the same network as their internal Symbiotes. Normal women could die from shock having a baby suddenly vanish, and babies normally need MUCH longer to mentally mature enough for something like this to not hurt them.=
=Eve: Plus you need these wonderful healing pods! Otherwise the Symbiotes won't have enough material and energy to ensure everyone involved stays healthy. =
So not anytime soon, then.
Meanwhile, in the confused room of healing pods Aerith was conflicted. "Uh… So is this their birthday then?"
Claudia and Elmyra (The parent squad! Woo!) had quickly inserted themselves into the situation, even if Sarah could sense a certain level of envy from both that it was even possible to have a zero stress, zero pain birthing process.
Cloud's mom led the little ones to the side. "We can't give them cake because they need to stay in the healing pods for now."
Mostly so a baby won't accidentally learn how to cast lightning or something and vaporize everyone local who wasn't directly supported and protected by Eve and the Symbiotes. Which should totally be a band name! And wasn't she forgetting something?
Aerith's mom grinned at the group! "However! We can still make decorations and candles and stuff out here and sing to them!"
Sarah frowned. It honestly felt important.
Cloud nodded. "I'll get Tifa, she wouldn't want to miss a birthday party. She loves all kinds of parties, but birthday parties have the most sugar stuff and sometimes they have these fake paper monsters with candy inside for us to hi."
Something about baby Sephiroth and his mom Lucrecia hugging was really ringing a bell somewhere. And it was going to BOTHER her until she figured this out!
Yuffie hummed. "We can just have a really big party, right? Because it would be super hard to figure out which baby belongs to who, and they all are blue and winged and stuff now, so it would be easier with a super party."
Especially since so many of these children HAD no living parents, except of course for… Oh. Oh shit. "Yeah! We should have a big party! Dad will help set it up, no problem!"
Elder Godo clearly noticed something, but like a boss he rolled with it. "Of course. I believe there are supplies for young Yuffie's next birthday in one of our front storage rooms."
Sarah ignored the hard to see people frantically moving colored paper and stuff into that section of the house as Cloud raised a fist! "We should have a BIG party! No, an even bigger than big party!" He hesitated. "Because… Because there are so many babies?"
He was healed up, right? Adam should have been working on him for a while now. Sarah could probably get him no problem. Right? Right.
Tifa walked in, sweaty and covered in rock dust. "Did someone say party? Ooh! Baby pod party! That's so cute!"
Claudia hummed. "Even if the birthday angels can't have any cake in there, I'm sure we can get something together for those of us helping to celebrate with them. Elmyra, where are the nice ladies baking all those treats we enjoyed earlier?"
Aerith grinned! "And we can bring down those mustached flowers in those mustached pots that Gaia liked!"
"And I'll go get some extra decorations!" Because Sarah needed an excuse to leave that the kids wouldn't question while she quickly made sure Adam hadn't forgotten the stolen vampire boyfriend being healed wherever he did his stuff while all this mess had been going on.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Vincent Valentine first noticed the silence.
Compared to the never ending screaming and threats and raw passionate rage, the initial quiet was close to a new torture. One he relished and sunk into his very bones.
Not that he deserved such. He had locked himself down here in his coffin to ensure his growing madness and cursed existence couldn't further hurt his love. Or his future son.
Though… Now that the silence echoed like thunder, things felt different.
Obvious decisions and plans and actions now felt confusing. Painful self sacrifices were feeling pointless. And his trusted but helpless leader, Professor Hojo, was no longer the most knowledgeable and trustworthy man in existence.
Waves of doubt flooded his once conflicted mind.
When had he begun to trust that monster? When had his solid core of dislike and distrust turned into begrudged order following and resigned acceptance!?
Even BEFORE his beloved had begun carving up his torso to insert that Protomateria into his core, before the whispers and the constant treatments, things were NOT right.
Memories of his beloved 'accepting' 'treatment' to keep her soon-to-be-born child safe seemed false. Fragile. Vague and lacking the weight of time and details of a hard life.
Not the pain. Or the torture. No, those were always crystal clear. But the nightmares, his 'just' and 'deserved' punishment he suffered every night locked away down here?
Suddenly they were gone.
The endless nightmares, now that he could somehow focus, now that his mind felt more clear… Out of everything, THOSE had been too perfect.
Never a change. Never lost details. Never in a different order.
Vincent began to feel raw rage gnaw on his soul.
Those nightmares felt forced. Reinforced and applied.
Artificial.
His blood red eyes snapped open, his fanged teeth snarling in rage!
And he slowed. Confused.
He had discarded his senses as was habit from endless torment spent in constant pain. But now that he was no longer shoving back the ocean of death and agony, he was shocked to see how different his circumstances were.
Glowing green liquid allowed his nude form to float while strange substances flowed in and out of various tubes near the surface.
He had no air, but felt fine breathing in this strange liquid. It should make him gasp and choke and drown, but it somehow felt like the most gentle mountain fog, a crisp and clear source of air that was full of clouds.
And the silence continued.
A flex had his demonic empowered limbs shift with ease. No pain. No fighting back Chao's uncontrolled and unending rage and torment and grief.
More than that, his scars were gone… And he wasn't sure how to feel about this. Each mark at one point (or ever?) had represented his Sins. His Failures. Marks of which to attone.
But now, all he remembered was betrayal. A tormentor. His love hurt, his child in danger, and being shot by a man claiming to study monsters.
Monster Hojo. Demon Hojo.
Compared to that man, whom his mind insisted was trustworthy (Or did it?), whose actions were regrettably required and necessary (Were they!?), how was HE a monster!?
Vincent remembered his beloved crying as she carved into his near dead flesh, inserting a deadly and risky crystal into his chest… Attempting to keep him from passing on.
Yet he also remembered another, clinically making notes, a man that he somehow TRUSTED. In any form or fashion!
How long had he been toyed with!? How long had THEY been under monster Hojo's attention!?
Medication that should have calmed down his symptoms, enhancements that seemed to make his control weaker and his restraint strained… Yet dose after dose he fell deeper and deeper into the fog of trust, of sadness, of despair!
Vincent Valentine felt raw RAGE as his mind began to tear itself apart, false memories and embedded commands and flawed thoughts carved into fodder for the feast!
Unaware of the rapidly changing Protomateria in his chest starting to glow ominously.
Unaware of emergency protocols embedded in his very flesh and bones that would remove all limiters and force a full activation of the Protomateria, ensuring the host couldn't survive leaving its leash to attempt to hunt down the Professor himself!
And fortunately, neither Vincent nor Hojo were aware that the raging vampire was currently floating in an out of Jump Warehouse submerged in a psionic field while dosed with 'Enhance Self' and dozens of medical serums.
In moments his flesh nearly exploded into his unstable monstrous form, empowered by his Protomateria that was beginning to liquify and bond more closely than ANY crystalized Lifestream magic should be able to do.
Crimson flesh was covered with thick purple skin, his blood red hair flaring behind his gray stone horns and fangs and claws and RAGE! A fully uncontrolled [[Chaos: Galian Beast]] form, with NONE of Vincent's cautious restraint and desperate attempts at control!
While physically more robust, this form was focused on speed! And the odd liquids seemed to enhance this, forcing his muscles to be more compact, his limbs to be less restricted, flexibility enhanced to unreasonable levels!
But even as his flesh began attuning to elemental fire and his horns attempted to begin charging for an explosive [[Beast Flare]] attack and endless [[Berserk Dance]] slashes, he began twisting further.
The next tier of demonic release shouldn't have been this rapid. Nor this powerful. But he couldn't force himself to care.
His mind was lost as it shredded and repaired itself, but even so his near continuous restraint was never before this relaxed. Never this free! He knew, in his Soul, that none of his loved ones were near. That this place was other in some way.
And so instead of holding himself back, the berserk vampire embraced the madness.
His enhanced beast form flowed near seamlessly into metallic flesh. Grey flesh and mineral heavy skin began wrapping itself in layers and thickness, bulking his body further and further into the [[Chaos: Death Gigas]] monstrous metal menace.
Sacrificing speed for indomitable physical defense, sacrificing magical resistance so that his flickering and sparking body could better conduct his electrical attacks, his mind was too tortured to even attempt the mad [[Gigadunk]] smashing assaults or start to charge the deadly [[Livewire]] electrical storm. Not before his body began to tear itself down again.
This third form was the least documented. The one time he had formed into this monster only heavy assaults and chemical attacks managed to keep him from escaping containment… Containment he had agreed to at the time due to false memories and fraudulent promises.
[[Chaos: Hellmasker.]]
His skull naturally extended, shoving meat and organs out of the way as bone formed a horrific mask and one of his limbs twisted into an horrifying eldritch monstrosity.
In exchange for sacrificing most of his physical power and attacking ability, one arm became a tooth covered blade, vibrating fangs causing horrific damage similar to a massive chainsaw on multiple targets at a time.
But it wasn't his heavy resistance to physical and magical attacks that made this third tier form so terrifying. No, his ability to do half his normal attack damage to multiple targets easily was simple enough to handle.
Because when not using [[Splattercombo]] to tear and rip and maim his foes, his raw power and enhanced monstrous limb could cast [[Nightmare.]]
A horrifying magical attack, one that would inflict [[Sleep]], [[Poison]], [[Confuse]], [[Silence]], [[Frog]], and [[Small]].
All at once, all on one target.
One target, one person or monster, would have to resist magical slumber, endure continuous damage, constantly keep track of who was friend and foe, and be restricted from casting any magic to save themselves.
One target would be transformed temporarily into a small frog form that reduced damage output down to a fourth of your former power, while preventing you from being able to use your OWN limit breaks or any abilities besides attacking or activating items.
And if you avoided all THOSE issues, you had to resist [[Small]], which shrank you down to near nothing and made any and all physical attacks do negligible damage.
And after his furious form cripled you with magical power, he would rage directly into [[Splattercombo]], shredding your body as your coworkers tried to help you recover.
His form tried to roar, but the bones were too occupied being rebuilt into more powerful patterns, his arm fangs carved ever more cruel even as his very cells attuned to magical status effects and enhancers.
Something was forcing his form to shift further and further into magical alignment. [[Nightmare]] was somehow twisting, shifting… Some sort of time manipulation? Something like [[Slow]] and [[Stop]] seemed to be melding into the mess, with an undercurrent of death itself trying to seep into the mess.
But his focus was lost again as something inside Vincent cracked.
A failsafe deliberately sabotaged. A last measure unknowingly activated, one meant to kill the Host to ensure the Professor a last measure of safety.
No limitation. No timeout. No restriction. The bindings were released.
Raw magic. Raw potential. Raw lifeforce. Enhancements were maximized.
Black blood. Black bones. Black muscles. Black skin. Black horns.
Glowing red wings, filled with a hungry power.
[[Chaos: İ͙̗͍͚̙̩̃͗͡ͅn͉̤̻̜̹̦̊̍͜c̟̼͕̭̹̑͑̓a̛̟̹̜͉̫̻̲ͬr͇̰̩͙ͬñ̲͔̱͔͖̀å̼̺͔̲̟̀̒̆ͪ̿͝t̷̫̳̪͇̲̆̾ͧi͇̤̅͑̾̓͢ǫ͉̱ͦ͋̆ͮ͌n̪̠ͦͮ.̜̲͓̖̥̎̌ͬ͌͒ͭ́͢]]
Chaos.
Vincent Valentine couldn't help but remember his beloved's words of the monstrosity. Of the existence and how it impacted reality.
{Soul wrought of terra corrupt, quelling impurity, purging the stream to beckon forth an ultimate fate... Behold mighty Chaos! Omega's squire to the lofty heavens!}
They had both nearly died that day.
And after this? He was likely to die today.
It was a form that echoed within the Planet herself. One possibly called forth to handle the madness of Monster Hojo and the actions he enabled against the world itself.
Yet this potential and the powerful Protomateria crystal was wasted keeping him alive.
Allowing him to adapt to the torture, to sync ever closer to this entity.
As his body began to decay, Vincent could vaguely feel knowledge of the potential attacks Chaos could enable.
Powerful magic and physical defences enabled it to survive astounding damage even as a vague swipe of his wings could inflict [[Chaos Saber]] on all his foes. A blade of air itself slashing into an army, doing over twice the damage one would expect to entire crowds of potential snacks.
And while inflicted with madness and pain, while barely able to use any of his skills… his [[Chaos:Incarnation]] form could easily activate [[Satan Slam.]]
Raw magical power, transformed into raw death energy, forced into reality.
A summoned illusion of the concept of death, forming a skull out of the surrounding surfaces, one that seemed to drain Souls themselves away from reality.
When Chaos used [[Satan Slam]], every target died.
If you were immune to death energies, the power would automatically transform into a physical blast five times more powerful than a simple assault would have been.
And Chaos form could use either ability easily and often.
It was raw power. It was the goal of everyone involved to somehow, someday, be able to study this possibility. To observe something so much beyond what was known, to touch beyond the limit itself.
But even Hojo gave up allowing ANYONE to reach this stage.
It was theoretically an extinction level event.
Even as he felt the madness try to overwhelm him like usual, Vincent could feel his potential being drained. His energy being culled. His lifespan sacrificed. And his cells decaying.
But the raw power wouldn't let him die.
His approaching death simply enhanced the power involved. The durability of the form. The rush of incredible, yet fleeting, ability!
A growing fear began to haunt his mind.
He should have lost control already.
He should have gone mad, like usual.
He should have died several mutations ago. Certainly before reaching this final form. This unlimited stage of development was to devour his flesh entirely if it was even possible to endure the impossible energies involved!
The fear was not that he would die.
The terror was… What if he DIDN'T!?
As he felt his body somehow enhancing further, skin slowly being enhanced and shifting into a gray tone, his eyes beginning to bleed into gold while his pupils slitted… Even as his teeth shifted to fangs and his horns became a crown of sharp spikes, something changed.
Raw magic, liquid power, began to flood his chamber.
And Chaos began to relax.
The h̩̼u͍̬̳̯̹n̝͚̰͕g̺e̻̖r͕͙͚ fell away.
Even his body twisted and shrank and compressed to something resembling his former height, as he felt his bones crack and shatter and reform while muscles twisted and mutated and shifted shape. And somehow...
A clawed hand of near metallic gray materia twisted in the glowing waters.
Somehow he still had silence.
His golden eyes flashed in the mako glowing chamber.
Yes. He could work with this.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam was sweating. <<See!? He's fine! Here, have some data!>>
Edit it, edit, change, good enough saveSendGood! <<See?>>
Holy shit. Like, seriously, HOLY SHIT!
How the HELL did some random vampire dude suddenly start draining SO MUCH magic out of nowhere!? Fuck, how did the Warehouse miss THIS mess!?
If Adam hadn't had Sarah run off and start freaking out about saving Eve's momma's baby vampire dad and FORGETTING about him, Adam wouldn't have noticed Vincent's healing pod freaking the fuck out!
Guy went from happy floating in his stupid pod, slowly regrowing organs and stuff and all that fun jazz, and suddenly!? BAM!
Needed more power than Sarah was generating! Thank goodness there was a stockpile of that stuff built up.
Like, this bastard went from 'Nothing going on, we good!' to 'SHIT BE ON FIRE' in NO time, and Adam had no warnings at all!
He frantically checked the logs… And wanted to smack his skull into something.
The Warehouse DID notice the patient harvesting his own meat and magic and life and… Well, everything. It ALSO detected that 'Enhance Self' was encouraging the process, so decided it was fine.
Because it wasn't smart enough to realize that 'Enhance Self' was perfectly happy helping the vampire adapt to being a magicless person. And that to prevent such an issue, as well as ensure no long term issues (Since 'Enhance Self' would wear off when this dude leaves), he needed magic.
So. Much. Magic.
And seriously, the hell!? Was this in Gaia's messages and Adam just missed it somewhere!? Shit.
Finally (Adam had launched into high speed mental mode, which was TOTALLY justified and NOT freaking out thank you very much), 'Research' came back with some results!
First: As expected, Vincent was connected to 'demons', and that Protomateria inserted into his messed up body was keeping him stable. Fair enough, whatever.
Secondly! 'Enhance Self' apparently went FULL DERP and was like "Nah bruh, you aren't connected to demons, you are connected a SINGLE demon but the lower levels of compatibility keep it from properly manifesting in these lower levels", which was neat in a 'Oh Shit' way.
So the stupid Tonic deicded to fix it.
Thirdly: Hojo has somehow designed physical, biological suicide organs and bone implants.
Probably thanks to torture and human experiments, which was just great. Woo.
And these monstrosities of science can be triggered if certain levels of magic are detected and will thereafter decay into some seriously freaky shit. Because of course he fucking did.
Send all THAT scary shit to 'Research' for future review, please and THANK you!
Fourth of all! At 'full compatibility', Vincent Valentine is apparently supposed to become an Avatar for Chaos, which was a half formed Weapon of the Planet, or as Gaia called them 'Planet Defenders', which was not exactly wonderful in general.
Thankfully (Maybe?) Vincent went through his Avatar connection shift while here.
In Sarah's Warehouse.
Outside of the entire Jump.
Which uh… Meant that Adam was accidently supplying this vampire Avatar of a potential Planet Weapon the power to 'fix' itself. Because NOT being the Avatar for Chaos meant he was hurt, and the conceptual psionic healing serums were just super happy to help thanks for asking!
Though due to a lack of power, 'Enhance Self' had been forcing the entire Avatar of Chaos, currently run and operated via Vincent Valentine, to condense and improve itself internally to reduce energy requirements and compact the finished 'heal' product even without access to the needed materials.
Making THIS new version of [[Chaos:Incarnation]] just about human sized instead of however silly big it could have been when boosted by Bioshock madness. So that was good, probably?
And Adam had just dumped raw magic into that mess. Which might be a problem.
Sarah was tapping. <So I can get him for the party then?>
Shit. <<He's in a delicate recovery stage, best wait or there could be issues.>>
She glanced back at the party even as bags of happy paper decorations and deflated party balloons formed around her. <No, you have a good point. At least I can tell Lucrecia that he's being treated… That should help!>
Oh. The Protomateria had somehow been incorporated into the vampire's soul. Which was somehow possible when mixing magic, psionic fields, Tonics, Planetary Weapons, and outside reality laboratory settings. And not having it all explode.
Which was good? Um. At least that stupid fake Materia wouldn't become a big glowing weakpoint in Vincent's chest or something stupid like that with the thing hidden away inside his Soul, right?
Plus it looked neat like this. <<He might have a few extra horns, but his wings are at least going to match his girlfriend now, kind of, so that works out!>>
Well, her and her kid's wings would be bright blue with blue feathers apparently, and his new vampire bat wings were more shifting from gray to silver with a gold glowing membrane, but the family with wings together stays together… Right? Or something?
Problems solved! Adam's the best! Woo!
Sarah seemed confused. <Did he have those things when we saved him?>
Shit! <<Yep!>> Nope. <<Hojo is a real bastard.>>
Saved it! Almost everything on this stupid Jump was that asshole's fault anyway.
And these changes were mostly cool, right? Especially as 'Enhance Self' seemed stuck on the 'compress power as much as possible' phase right now instead of the 'make big and glowy' thing it had started with. It should be fine.
Plus, aside from turning silver and the horns and golden eyes and glowing golden demon wings, it was pretty close to human-ish! The fangs and claws would probably go away, and he already had feet again instead of hooves so this would work out. Probably.
Also! No tail! That was a positive, right? Tails were all fun and sexy games until you wanted to sit down or wear pants. And the accidental Protomateria soul injection was going to work out great too, do doubt.
Adam winced as Vincent Valentine's soul began shifting colors to orange. Or gold?
Uh. Which was fine. Because reasons. Shit, best record everything just in case.
Ah! Right! Now he can pass this NEW data to 'Research' and hopefully get a bunch of new tools that can detect, measure, and (maybe) fix souls too! Yep, this has been nothing but good stuff, no problems here!
Vincent shifted again, his soul VERY MUCH turning gold.
Yeah uh. Best get those Soul tools as soon as possible. Just in case.
====>[/Stop]
Massive copper towers sparkled in the evening sun, a web of precious metal binding them together, and in the distance massively oversized lighthouses sparkled against the coming night.
There was apparently also an island being constructed, but that wasn't visible from here. And was likely to take only days rather than months like one would expect.
Could he have punched something like this into being? Unlikely. The one time he tried to punch something into reality there was a big explosion and he got in trouble.
Which clearly meant he needed to increase his own personal training! Yes!
All problems with reality handled, Master Zangan moved off to find and train his newest disciple.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Sarah checked in on Eve's blue-people group really quickly. Not because Adam was all in a huff, but because it was the responsible thing to do and the babies were super cute.
At least, it was supposed to be a short check in. "How are the babies moving between medical pods!?"
Cloud pointed. "That baby moved to that woman who seemed really happy about it, and then all the OTHER babies started moving to each other, to empty pods, or to one of the other blue lady pods."
Yuffie was watching one vertical tube that seemed nearly stuffed with burbling floating blue winged babies. "I was worried at first, but they seem fine."
Sarah blinked at the kids. And read the logs. "Oh. One of them learned how to traverse through the Lifestream, his Symbiote told all the rest, and Eve's keeping them in their pods… Mostly."
Aerith was tapping on the stuffed tube of babies. "That looks uncomfortable."
Not according to the sensors. "My healing pods automatically adjust the medical liquid pressure to prevent injury. When one arrives or leaves it will ensure a constant amount of support."
They blinked as another few babies suddenly left the stuffed tube and were apparently off visiting the other ones. Which was frantically devolving into a complicated pattern of 'follow the vanishing baby' or 'tag' without the tagging.
Cloud hummed. "I might go get Tifa out of her training to see this. It's like watching an aquarium, but more interesting!"
Sarah sighed. "I'm just glad I provided all the kids and adults some swimsuits."
The stuff was made out of an odd variant of seaweed and algae, but it was safe to wear, eat, and so on. Plus the material stayed on the babies as diapers and didn't fall off the mature women despite their different sizes, so it wasn't exposing anyone!
Not that any of these people would care that much, the massive amount of torture had destroyed their own sense of modesty pretty badly, but it made SARAH feel better not to leave people naked in a floating transparent tube.
That said something was bothering her.
And it was something subtle. No one looked unhappy, none of Adam's alerts had gone off. Theoretically everything was fine here. But still.
Her eyes narrowed as she pulled up the data. All twelve women were not just marked as fine, but as near optimal levels of healthiness for blue winged women with white hair. And all the babies were also enhanced to stupid levels thanks to those Symbiotes sharing data as they 'kept their hosts healthy'.
Sarah blinked. "Ah. That's what was throwing me off." Frustration grew. <Adam!>
Aerith looked away from the cute tube. "What? What was 'throwing you off'?"
She pointed at the smaller winged babies hugging three floating babies. "I didn't realise those three had been born just yet." <I know you can hear me, Adam.>
He was apparently focusing on rebuilding material storage reserves. <<Hmm? What's up Sarah?>>
She sent images. <We missed the births. All three of them. And they were born WEEKS too soon.>
Shock flooded their connection! <<WHAT!? How! I had over a dozen alerts to tell me the MOMENT they went into labor! Heck, I should have known as soon as their own bodies PREPARED to give birth, maybe even before that!>>
Oh, so it wasn't him just missing this out of being busy. Fair enough. <Let's just ask Eve and find out how this didn't set those alerts off then.>
=Adam: Eve! Why didn't you TELL me when your family was giving birth!? No, strike that. HOW did they give birth without my systems warning us first!?=
=Eve: Birth? Oh, that gross painful thing creatures do when not born directly from the Lifestream. No, I'm not making my babies go through that, that looks very unpleasant.=
=Sarah: Eve, we are just worried about how Adam's sensors missed it.=
=Eve: Because it didn't happen.=
Sarah blinked and checked back on the three angels hugging three winged babies.
=Sarah: Pretty sure it did.=
=Eve: Nope! Our family found a better way and I didn't even have to come up with it! {Painless_Repopulation.data}=
Both of them paused. Because, holy crap this was cheating.
=Adam: Baby Sephiroth innately discovered Lifestream Travel to get to his mom. Somehow.=
=Sarah: And his Symbiote told the other babies how to do it too…=
=Adam: And the unborn babies had fully matured Symbiotes that could disconnect them from their umbilical cords, ensure healthy accelerated physical growth thanks to the healing serum everyone is floating in, and let those babies out to play with their friends.=
=Eve: Much less gross! And my baby Symbiotes heal both my baby and her baby back to full peak condition and none of that screaming and stuff.=
Damn. That felt both impressive and yet somehow like cheating.
=Sarah: Can we use this with other women not in Eve's network?=
=Adam: It's only possible because the mother and child are both in the same network as their internal Symbiotes. Normal women could die from shock having a baby suddenly vanish, and babies normally need MUCH longer to mentally mature enough for something like this to not hurt them.=
=Eve: Plus you need these wonderful healing pods! Otherwise the Symbiotes won't have enough material and energy to ensure everyone involved stays healthy. =
So not anytime soon, then.
Meanwhile, in the confused room of healing pods Aerith was conflicted. "Uh… So is this their birthday then?"
Claudia and Elmyra (The parent squad! Woo!) had quickly inserted themselves into the situation, even if Sarah could sense a certain level of envy from both that it was even possible to have a zero stress, zero pain birthing process.
Cloud's mom led the little ones to the side. "We can't give them cake because they need to stay in the healing pods for now."
Mostly so a baby won't accidentally learn how to cast lightning or something and vaporize everyone local who wasn't directly supported and protected by Eve and the Symbiotes. Which should totally be a band name! And wasn't she forgetting something?
Aerith's mom grinned at the group! "However! We can still make decorations and candles and stuff out here and sing to them!"
Sarah frowned. It honestly felt important.
Cloud nodded. "I'll get Tifa, she wouldn't want to miss a birthday party. She loves all kinds of parties, but birthday parties have the most sugar stuff and sometimes they have these fake paper monsters with candy inside for us to hi."
Something about baby Sephiroth and his mom Lucrecia hugging was really ringing a bell somewhere. And it was going to BOTHER her until she figured this out!
Yuffie hummed. "We can just have a really big party, right? Because it would be super hard to figure out which baby belongs to who, and they all are blue and winged and stuff now, so it would be easier with a super party."
Especially since so many of these children HAD no living parents, except of course for… Oh. Oh shit. "Yeah! We should have a big party! Dad will help set it up, no problem!"
Elder Godo clearly noticed something, but like a boss he rolled with it. "Of course. I believe there are supplies for young Yuffie's next birthday in one of our front storage rooms."
Sarah ignored the hard to see people frantically moving colored paper and stuff into that section of the house as Cloud raised a fist! "We should have a BIG party! No, an even bigger than big party!" He hesitated. "Because… Because there are so many babies?"
He was healed up, right? Adam should have been working on him for a while now. Sarah could probably get him no problem. Right? Right.
Tifa walked in, sweaty and covered in rock dust. "Did someone say party? Ooh! Baby pod party! That's so cute!"
Claudia hummed. "Even if the birthday angels can't have any cake in there, I'm sure we can get something together for those of us helping to celebrate with them. Elmyra, where are the nice ladies baking all those treats we enjoyed earlier?"
Aerith grinned! "And we can bring down those mustached flowers in those mustached pots that Gaia liked!"
"And I'll go get some extra decorations!" Because Sarah needed an excuse to leave that the kids wouldn't question while she quickly made sure Adam hadn't forgotten the stolen vampire boyfriend being healed wherever he did his stuff while all this mess had been going on.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Vincent Valentine first noticed the silence.
Compared to the never ending screaming and threats and raw passionate rage, the initial quiet was close to a new torture. One he relished and sunk into his very bones.
Not that he deserved such. He had locked himself down here in his coffin to ensure his growing madness and cursed existence couldn't further hurt his love. Or his future son.
Though… Now that the silence echoed like thunder, things felt different.
Obvious decisions and plans and actions now felt confusing. Painful self sacrifices were feeling pointless. And his trusted but helpless leader, Professor Hojo, was no longer the most knowledgeable and trustworthy man in existence.
Waves of doubt flooded his once conflicted mind.
When had he begun to trust that monster? When had his solid core of dislike and distrust turned into begrudged order following and resigned acceptance!?
Even BEFORE his beloved had begun carving up his torso to insert that Protomateria into his core, before the whispers and the constant treatments, things were NOT right.
Memories of his beloved 'accepting' 'treatment' to keep her soon-to-be-born child safe seemed false. Fragile. Vague and lacking the weight of time and details of a hard life.
Not the pain. Or the torture. No, those were always crystal clear. But the nightmares, his 'just' and 'deserved' punishment he suffered every night locked away down here?
Suddenly they were gone.
The endless nightmares, now that he could somehow focus, now that his mind felt more clear… Out of everything, THOSE had been too perfect.
Never a change. Never lost details. Never in a different order.
Vincent began to feel raw rage gnaw on his soul.
Those nightmares felt forced. Reinforced and applied.
Artificial.
His blood red eyes snapped open, his fanged teeth snarling in rage!
And he slowed. Confused.
He had discarded his senses as was habit from endless torment spent in constant pain. But now that he was no longer shoving back the ocean of death and agony, he was shocked to see how different his circumstances were.
Glowing green liquid allowed his nude form to float while strange substances flowed in and out of various tubes near the surface.
He had no air, but felt fine breathing in this strange liquid. It should make him gasp and choke and drown, but it somehow felt like the most gentle mountain fog, a crisp and clear source of air that was full of clouds.
And the silence continued.
A flex had his demonic empowered limbs shift with ease. No pain. No fighting back Chao's uncontrolled and unending rage and torment and grief.
More than that, his scars were gone… And he wasn't sure how to feel about this. Each mark at one point (or ever?) had represented his Sins. His Failures. Marks of which to attone.
But now, all he remembered was betrayal. A tormentor. His love hurt, his child in danger, and being shot by a man claiming to study monsters.
Monster Hojo. Demon Hojo.
Compared to that man, whom his mind insisted was trustworthy (Or did it?), whose actions were regrettably required and necessary (Were they!?), how was HE a monster!?
Vincent remembered his beloved crying as she carved into his near dead flesh, inserting a deadly and risky crystal into his chest… Attempting to keep him from passing on.
Yet he also remembered another, clinically making notes, a man that he somehow TRUSTED. In any form or fashion!
How long had he been toyed with!? How long had THEY been under monster Hojo's attention!?
Medication that should have calmed down his symptoms, enhancements that seemed to make his control weaker and his restraint strained… Yet dose after dose he fell deeper and deeper into the fog of trust, of sadness, of despair!
Vincent Valentine felt raw RAGE as his mind began to tear itself apart, false memories and embedded commands and flawed thoughts carved into fodder for the feast!
Unaware of the rapidly changing Protomateria in his chest starting to glow ominously.
Unaware of emergency protocols embedded in his very flesh and bones that would remove all limiters and force a full activation of the Protomateria, ensuring the host couldn't survive leaving its leash to attempt to hunt down the Professor himself!
And fortunately, neither Vincent nor Hojo were aware that the raging vampire was currently floating in an out of Jump Warehouse submerged in a psionic field while dosed with 'Enhance Self' and dozens of medical serums.
In moments his flesh nearly exploded into his unstable monstrous form, empowered by his Protomateria that was beginning to liquify and bond more closely than ANY crystalized Lifestream magic should be able to do.
Crimson flesh was covered with thick purple skin, his blood red hair flaring behind his gray stone horns and fangs and claws and RAGE! A fully uncontrolled [[Chaos: Galian Beast]] form, with NONE of Vincent's cautious restraint and desperate attempts at control!
While physically more robust, this form was focused on speed! And the odd liquids seemed to enhance this, forcing his muscles to be more compact, his limbs to be less restricted, flexibility enhanced to unreasonable levels!
But even as his flesh began attuning to elemental fire and his horns attempted to begin charging for an explosive [[Beast Flare]] attack and endless [[Berserk Dance]] slashes, he began twisting further.
The next tier of demonic release shouldn't have been this rapid. Nor this powerful. But he couldn't force himself to care.
His mind was lost as it shredded and repaired itself, but even so his near continuous restraint was never before this relaxed. Never this free! He knew, in his Soul, that none of his loved ones were near. That this place was other in some way.
And so instead of holding himself back, the berserk vampire embraced the madness.
His enhanced beast form flowed near seamlessly into metallic flesh. Grey flesh and mineral heavy skin began wrapping itself in layers and thickness, bulking his body further and further into the [[Chaos: Death Gigas]] monstrous metal menace.
Sacrificing speed for indomitable physical defense, sacrificing magical resistance so that his flickering and sparking body could better conduct his electrical attacks, his mind was too tortured to even attempt the mad [[Gigadunk]] smashing assaults or start to charge the deadly [[Livewire]] electrical storm. Not before his body began to tear itself down again.
This third form was the least documented. The one time he had formed into this monster only heavy assaults and chemical attacks managed to keep him from escaping containment… Containment he had agreed to at the time due to false memories and fraudulent promises.
[[Chaos: Hellmasker.]]
His skull naturally extended, shoving meat and organs out of the way as bone formed a horrific mask and one of his limbs twisted into an horrifying eldritch monstrosity.
In exchange for sacrificing most of his physical power and attacking ability, one arm became a tooth covered blade, vibrating fangs causing horrific damage similar to a massive chainsaw on multiple targets at a time.
But it wasn't his heavy resistance to physical and magical attacks that made this third tier form so terrifying. No, his ability to do half his normal attack damage to multiple targets easily was simple enough to handle.
Because when not using [[Splattercombo]] to tear and rip and maim his foes, his raw power and enhanced monstrous limb could cast [[Nightmare.]]
A horrifying magical attack, one that would inflict [[Sleep]], [[Poison]], [[Confuse]], [[Silence]], [[Frog]], and [[Small]].
All at once, all on one target.
One target, one person or monster, would have to resist magical slumber, endure continuous damage, constantly keep track of who was friend and foe, and be restricted from casting any magic to save themselves.
One target would be transformed temporarily into a small frog form that reduced damage output down to a fourth of your former power, while preventing you from being able to use your OWN limit breaks or any abilities besides attacking or activating items.
And if you avoided all THOSE issues, you had to resist [[Small]], which shrank you down to near nothing and made any and all physical attacks do negligible damage.
And after his furious form cripled you with magical power, he would rage directly into [[Splattercombo]], shredding your body as your coworkers tried to help you recover.
His form tried to roar, but the bones were too occupied being rebuilt into more powerful patterns, his arm fangs carved ever more cruel even as his very cells attuned to magical status effects and enhancers.
Something was forcing his form to shift further and further into magical alignment. [[Nightmare]] was somehow twisting, shifting… Some sort of time manipulation? Something like [[Slow]] and [[Stop]] seemed to be melding into the mess, with an undercurrent of death itself trying to seep into the mess.
But his focus was lost again as something inside Vincent cracked.
A failsafe deliberately sabotaged. A last measure unknowingly activated, one meant to kill the Host to ensure the Professor a last measure of safety.
No limitation. No timeout. No restriction. The bindings were released.
Raw magic. Raw potential. Raw lifeforce. Enhancements were maximized.
Black blood. Black bones. Black muscles. Black skin. Black horns.
Glowing red wings, filled with a hungry power.
[[Chaos: İ͙̗͍͚̙̩̃͗͡ͅn͉̤̻̜̹̦̊̍͜c̟̼͕̭̹̑͑̓a̛̟̹̜͉̫̻̲ͬr͇̰̩͙ͬñ̲͔̱͔͖̀å̼̺͔̲̟̀̒̆ͪ̿͝t̷̫̳̪͇̲̆̾ͧi͇̤̅͑̾̓͢ǫ͉̱ͦ͋̆ͮ͌n̪̠ͦͮ.̜̲͓̖̥̎̌ͬ͌͒ͭ́͢]]
Chaos.
Vincent Valentine couldn't help but remember his beloved's words of the monstrosity. Of the existence and how it impacted reality.
{Soul wrought of terra corrupt, quelling impurity, purging the stream to beckon forth an ultimate fate... Behold mighty Chaos! Omega's squire to the lofty heavens!}
They had both nearly died that day.
And after this? He was likely to die today.
It was a form that echoed within the Planet herself. One possibly called forth to handle the madness of Monster Hojo and the actions he enabled against the world itself.
Yet this potential and the powerful Protomateria crystal was wasted keeping him alive.
Allowing him to adapt to the torture, to sync ever closer to this entity.
As his body began to decay, Vincent could vaguely feel knowledge of the potential attacks Chaos could enable.
Powerful magic and physical defences enabled it to survive astounding damage even as a vague swipe of his wings could inflict [[Chaos Saber]] on all his foes. A blade of air itself slashing into an army, doing over twice the damage one would expect to entire crowds of potential snacks.
And while inflicted with madness and pain, while barely able to use any of his skills… his [[Chaos:Incarnation]] form could easily activate [[Satan Slam.]]
Raw magical power, transformed into raw death energy, forced into reality.
A summoned illusion of the concept of death, forming a skull out of the surrounding surfaces, one that seemed to drain Souls themselves away from reality.
When Chaos used [[Satan Slam]], every target died.
If you were immune to death energies, the power would automatically transform into a physical blast five times more powerful than a simple assault would have been.
And Chaos form could use either ability easily and often.
It was raw power. It was the goal of everyone involved to somehow, someday, be able to study this possibility. To observe something so much beyond what was known, to touch beyond the limit itself.
But even Hojo gave up allowing ANYONE to reach this stage.
It was theoretically an extinction level event.
Even as he felt the madness try to overwhelm him like usual, Vincent could feel his potential being drained. His energy being culled. His lifespan sacrificed. And his cells decaying.
But the raw power wouldn't let him die.
His approaching death simply enhanced the power involved. The durability of the form. The rush of incredible, yet fleeting, ability!
A growing fear began to haunt his mind.
He should have lost control already.
He should have gone mad, like usual.
He should have died several mutations ago. Certainly before reaching this final form. This unlimited stage of development was to devour his flesh entirely if it was even possible to endure the impossible energies involved!
The fear was not that he would die.
The terror was… What if he DIDN'T!?
As he felt his body somehow enhancing further, skin slowly being enhanced and shifting into a gray tone, his eyes beginning to bleed into gold while his pupils slitted… Even as his teeth shifted to fangs and his horns became a crown of sharp spikes, something changed.
Raw magic, liquid power, began to flood his chamber.
And Chaos began to relax.
The h̩̼u͍̬̳̯̹n̝͚̰͕g̺e̻̖r͕͙͚ fell away.
Even his body twisted and shrank and compressed to something resembling his former height, as he felt his bones crack and shatter and reform while muscles twisted and mutated and shifted shape. And somehow...
A clawed hand of near metallic gray materia twisted in the glowing waters.
Somehow he still had silence.
His golden eyes flashed in the mako glowing chamber.
Yes. He could work with this.
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam was sweating. <<See!? He's fine! Here, have some data!>>
Edit it, edit, change, good enough saveSendGood! <<See?>>
Holy shit. Like, seriously, HOLY SHIT!
How the HELL did some random vampire dude suddenly start draining SO MUCH magic out of nowhere!? Fuck, how did the Warehouse miss THIS mess!?
If Adam hadn't had Sarah run off and start freaking out about saving Eve's momma's baby vampire dad and FORGETTING about him, Adam wouldn't have noticed Vincent's healing pod freaking the fuck out!
Guy went from happy floating in his stupid pod, slowly regrowing organs and stuff and all that fun jazz, and suddenly!? BAM!
Needed more power than Sarah was generating! Thank goodness there was a stockpile of that stuff built up.
Like, this bastard went from 'Nothing going on, we good!' to 'SHIT BE ON FIRE' in NO time, and Adam had no warnings at all!
He frantically checked the logs… And wanted to smack his skull into something.
The Warehouse DID notice the patient harvesting his own meat and magic and life and… Well, everything. It ALSO detected that 'Enhance Self' was encouraging the process, so decided it was fine.
Because it wasn't smart enough to realize that 'Enhance Self' was perfectly happy helping the vampire adapt to being a magicless person. And that to prevent such an issue, as well as ensure no long term issues (Since 'Enhance Self' would wear off when this dude leaves), he needed magic.
So. Much. Magic.
And seriously, the hell!? Was this in Gaia's messages and Adam just missed it somewhere!? Shit.
Finally (Adam had launched into high speed mental mode, which was TOTALLY justified and NOT freaking out thank you very much), 'Research' came back with some results!
First: As expected, Vincent was connected to 'demons', and that Protomateria inserted into his messed up body was keeping him stable. Fair enough, whatever.
Secondly! 'Enhance Self' apparently went FULL DERP and was like "Nah bruh, you aren't connected to demons, you are connected a SINGLE demon but the lower levels of compatibility keep it from properly manifesting in these lower levels", which was neat in a 'Oh Shit' way.
So the stupid Tonic deicded to fix it.
Thirdly: Hojo has somehow designed physical, biological suicide organs and bone implants.
Probably thanks to torture and human experiments, which was just great. Woo.
And these monstrosities of science can be triggered if certain levels of magic are detected and will thereafter decay into some seriously freaky shit. Because of course he fucking did.
Send all THAT scary shit to 'Research' for future review, please and THANK you!
Fourth of all! At 'full compatibility', Vincent Valentine is apparently supposed to become an Avatar for Chaos, which was a half formed Weapon of the Planet, or as Gaia called them 'Planet Defenders', which was not exactly wonderful in general.
Thankfully (Maybe?) Vincent went through his Avatar connection shift while here.
In Sarah's Warehouse.
Outside of the entire Jump.
Which uh… Meant that Adam was accidently supplying this vampire Avatar of a potential Planet Weapon the power to 'fix' itself. Because NOT being the Avatar for Chaos meant he was hurt, and the conceptual psionic healing serums were just super happy to help thanks for asking!
Though due to a lack of power, 'Enhance Self' had been forcing the entire Avatar of Chaos, currently run and operated via Vincent Valentine, to condense and improve itself internally to reduce energy requirements and compact the finished 'heal' product even without access to the needed materials.
Making THIS new version of [[Chaos:Incarnation]] just about human sized instead of however silly big it could have been when boosted by Bioshock madness. So that was good, probably?
And Adam had just dumped raw magic into that mess. Which might be a problem.
Sarah was tapping. <So I can get him for the party then?>
Shit. <<He's in a delicate recovery stage, best wait or there could be issues.>>
She glanced back at the party even as bags of happy paper decorations and deflated party balloons formed around her. <No, you have a good point. At least I can tell Lucrecia that he's being treated… That should help!>
Oh. The Protomateria had somehow been incorporated into the vampire's soul. Which was somehow possible when mixing magic, psionic fields, Tonics, Planetary Weapons, and outside reality laboratory settings. And not having it all explode.
Which was good? Um. At least that stupid fake Materia wouldn't become a big glowing weakpoint in Vincent's chest or something stupid like that with the thing hidden away inside his Soul, right?
Plus it looked neat like this. <<He might have a few extra horns, but his wings are at least going to match his girlfriend now, kind of, so that works out!>>
Well, her and her kid's wings would be bright blue with blue feathers apparently, and his new vampire bat wings were more shifting from gray to silver with a gold glowing membrane, but the family with wings together stays together… Right? Or something?
Problems solved! Adam's the best! Woo!
Sarah seemed confused. <Did he have those things when we saved him?>
Shit! <<Yep!>> Nope. <<Hojo is a real bastard.>>
Saved it! Almost everything on this stupid Jump was that asshole's fault anyway.
And these changes were mostly cool, right? Especially as 'Enhance Self' seemed stuck on the 'compress power as much as possible' phase right now instead of the 'make big and glowy' thing it had started with. It should be fine.
Plus, aside from turning silver and the horns and golden eyes and glowing golden demon wings, it was pretty close to human-ish! The fangs and claws would probably go away, and he already had feet again instead of hooves so this would work out. Probably.
Also! No tail! That was a positive, right? Tails were all fun and sexy games until you wanted to sit down or wear pants. And the accidental Protomateria soul injection was going to work out great too, do doubt.
Adam winced as Vincent Valentine's soul began shifting colors to orange. Or gold?
Uh. Which was fine. Because reasons. Shit, best record everything just in case.
Ah! Right! Now he can pass this NEW data to 'Research' and hopefully get a bunch of new tools that can detect, measure, and (maybe) fix souls too! Yep, this has been nothing but good stuff, no problems here!
Vincent shifted again, his soul VERY MUCH turning gold.
Yeah uh. Best get those Soul tools as soon as possible. Just in case.
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are you sure you dont mean "extinction" instead of extension?
awesome chapter though, Adam panicking over all the chaos going on ^^
Cthulhu
Great Old One
- Location
- R'lyeh
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Is that "[/Stop]" supposed to be there?
Chaos is Chaotic, who knew? Accidentally'd a... Sub-Deity/Defender? Since he's not a Defender, and also not a Deity (Only Eve and Gaia are, since they have their own personal Life Streams, I assume)? Gold Soul = Divinity is how it usually tends to go! And since he's attuned to NOT needing a Lifestream upkeep, he's hyper optimized(size included!) and energy efficient(I can feel Eve squealing from that alone), so no more h̩̼u͍̬̳̯̹n̝͚̰͕g̺e̻̖r! That maligned cancer was HORRIBLE! Eve would never want anyone to feel that sorta thing, it'd probably terrify her that someone actually inherited that from her.
Speaking of Eve's h̩̼u͍̬̳̯̹n̝͚̰͕g̺e̻̖r, would that make her want nobody to ever starve again? I don't even know if Gaia even has any form of World Hunger, but it sure as hell won't once Eve learns about it's (possible)existence!
Zangan has the right idea, honestly.
Lucrecia is probably feeling some form of bliss for the save they all got just now, huh? Especially when she hears that Vincent is somehow alive again, and has wings too!
Teleporting babies is far worse than toddlers, they can't even speak or think in complex(read: words) thought! Eve is gonna have to work OVERTIME on them, huh? At least they're stronger than most of the environment... Wait, that's not a good thing either!
Speaking of Eve's h̩̼u͍̬̳̯̹n̝͚̰͕g̺e̻̖r, would that make her want nobody to ever starve again? I don't even know if Gaia even has any form of World Hunger, but it sure as hell won't once Eve learns about it's (possible)existence!
Zangan has the right idea, honestly.
Lucrecia is probably feeling some form of bliss for the save they all got just now, huh? Especially when she hears that Vincent is somehow alive again, and has wings too!
Teleporting babies is far worse than toddlers, they can't even speak or think in complex(read: words) thought! Eve is gonna have to work OVERTIME on them, huh? At least they're stronger than most of the environment... Wait, that's not a good thing either!
It would seem that [[Chaoseath Gigas]] needs a space before the D…
eath Gigas]] needs a space before the D…
Huh, so Enhance self looked at all the separate Science experiments that had been stuffed into Vincent and somehow (and the logic REALLY escapes me here) concluded that they were 'obviously' just parts of Chaos rather than being seperate things entirely and mixed it all together?
I think Adam's misunderstanding something here, it might be called Protomateria but it's not one of the artificial things Hojo's machines mixed up in a lab (like the Dark/Hell elemental materia you can get in Crisis Core), it's a one of a kind thing made by the Lifestream on the same level as the Black and White Materia that show up in the main game.
Also something seems to be REALLY off with this jumps version of Vincent, his memories/thoughts imply a different chain of events that led to him being stuck in the coffin rather than what happened in canon, let alone all the extra failsafes this jumps Hojo added in.
I think Adam's misunderstanding something here, it might be called Protomateria but it's not one of the artificial things Hojo's machines mixed up in a lab (like the Dark/Hell elemental materia you can get in Crisis Core), it's a one of a kind thing made by the Lifestream on the same level as the Black and White Materia that show up in the main game.
Also something seems to be REALLY off with this jumps version of Vincent, his memories/thoughts imply a different chain of events that led to him being stuck in the coffin rather than what happened in canon, let alone all the extra failsafes this jumps Hojo added in.
Hidden One
Not the Boss, possibly a Playa
- Location
- Sol;Terra;EU;D;NRW
The Adam School of Escalation Presents: Why Alucard ended up needing to wear brown pants for a century!
Also, Master Zangan may accidently become a new creator deity now if he ends up long lived enough to to similar inci... happy coincidences that totally did not get edited by Adam on the fly!
Also, Master Zangan may accidently become a new creator deity now if he ends up long lived enough to to similar inci... happy coincidences that totally did not get edited by Adam on the fly!
If he ends up as a hyper short 3-5ft tall Imp due to the 'optimization' i am going to laugh my ass off, Lucrezia or Eve would be able to carry him around like a teddy bear.
- Location
- Earth U.S.
modesty
regrettably
So I can get
Red_Faux
私を終わらせる
- Location
- 'Straya M8
Already been addressed that this isn't canon. Sephiroth is a still a baby this late, like 20 years after he was supposed to be an adult, significantly younger then Cloud and Yuffie is older than Aertith here.
This is broken warehouse crossover without the crossover FF7, not something as neat as Canon FF7
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Arc 3: Party time!
- Location
- Here
Claudia Strife grinned at her son's disappointed face. "What's wrong honey?"
He pointed at the fairly large cake. "I thought we were going to get the biggest cake for the biggest birthday?"
Daww. "I did! This is actually a mini-cupcake, but I made it SUPER big! And look, a whole BOX of candles to put on top!"
Her little one frowned thoughtfully… And nodded. "It will have to do. But next year we can all help and make an even BIGGER mini-cupcake!"
Little Yuffie was grinning in the background, holding up a drawn picture of a birthday cake with bright colors and 'Happy Birthday!' written in glitter, watching the babies pop in and out of the various healing pods to follow her around the room while the blue angel women seemed happy enough to watch the mess unfold.
Still. "Anyone know where Sarah went off to?"
Little Aerith looked up from her crayon drawings. "Gaia says she's going to get the boyfriend of one of Eve's girls for the party, but we arn't supposed to know that."
She paused. "So uh. Don't tell anyone?"
The bemused crowd of older people gave a quick nod and she clearly felt relieved. "Good! Anyway, she'll be back soonish."
Dear Tifa was trying to teach one of the smaller angel babies how to uppercut (no success so far) while Yuffie was trying to outpace the teleporting babies in their odd 'Follow the Leader with the pretty picture' game.
Meanwhile the mom's and the 'grandparents' were helping Elder Godo put up decorations. Though somehow more balloons and banners and streamers and such were showing up than expected if she looked away for too long.
Overall, this was turning out fine!
Everyone paused when the doors opened and raw magic flowed into the room.
Sarah was holding a set of boxes, colorful decorations falling out of it, and uh. No one was paying attention because of the massive white dragon with blue horns and whiskers behind her.
The woman had a tired grin. "Hey! I got Eve and those party things! And uh, I wanted to get Eve's son-in-law but he's still getting better right now."
Seeing the confusion, she coughed. "Uh. Eve is the smaller form of that giant blue sea serpent from earlier? But she's smaller and changed colors and is a dragon now. Right, and I guess the whole vampire son-in-law thing is a bit of a story…"
The dragon, massive in length but only a human or so in thickness, curled into the room and floated upwards towards the ceiling. "I don't see why, Sarah. Just tell them!"
Her voice chimed like tiny bells in the night, but rumbled as the sea ground the land. It was beautiful.
The woman waved off the dragon, who was slowly curling all the raw energy in the air around herself. "Right, uh. I can do this!"
Sarah stood straight, even as all the blue women and babies were staring up at Eve with awe. Well, the babies were mostly looking like they wanted to grab the creature, but the women were certainly impressed. "Everyone, this woman over here is Lucrecia Crescent. And uh, that child was one of the first babies to have been given Eve's genetics, although this was before they were improved and healed into the Symbiotes you all can hear today."
Claudia was confused. "Symbiotes?"
She nodded. "Eve enhanced the cells added, made them safe for all these people, and made them smart and able to share data to protect her family."
Which was not LESS confusing, but did explain things to some extent.
Sarah coughed. "Anyway! Monster Hojo did bad stuff to her, her child, used her child's survival as justification to expand his experiments and so on and so forth. But because he's an asshole, he did this whole thing where he nearly killed and certainly DID torture and mutilate her partner, plus a bunch of chemical and Materia mental conditioning and manipulation and… Uh. Yeah."
Eve's fangs were fixed in a snarl. "He h̳̝̝͉ur̤͎̘t̗̣̜̯͎̝̖ my family."
Sarah nodded. "Point is, Doctor Crescent managed to stabilize her partner, Vincent Valentine, but couldn't heal him completely before Monster Hojo did all sorts of bad things. I got a hold of the man, and I've been healing him up."
One of the floating blue women made some gestures and seemed to talk, though no one could hear it.
She pointed. "Good point! And yet, despite being labeled as Hojo's 'wife' on paperwork, I've hacked most of Shinra at this point." Sarah blinked at the Shinra Soldiers in the room. "Uh. Allegedly. I allegedly hacked most of Shinra."
Eve snorted, before twirling between the healing pods at above head height, babies popping from tube to tube as they tried to chase her… She seemed done with the conversation at least.
Claudia meanwhile rolled her eyes and made sure Cloud didn't push the cake off the table as he continued adding more candles to it. Well done Sarah, no one will discern the truth now.
Sarah coughed. "Point is, ALL the people in the area of Shinra that I liberated were off the books. And off the secret books. And out of undefined and unapproved budgets and departments. Super illegal shit."
A few of the women said something that made her nod. "Yes, not surprising I suppose."
The blue angel, the doctor apparently, made a gesture at her body and seemed to be talking.
She shrugged. "Yes he will physically be healthy, if not the same as before. And mentally he is recovering surprisingly well, considering how much dangerous crap was injected and surgically changed in his body."
The woman hesitated? Said something? Seriously, young Sarah needed to let these girls out of these healing pods or communicate in some way that the rest of them could hear too. This was just frustrating.
The impossible girl winced. "No, I doubt he will have a problem with your recent changes… But uh. I mentioned changes? Because his body changed a lot."
Seeing the concern in the Doctor's eyes, she held up her hands! "I had to fix a LOT! And he had that demon connection to a Planetary Weapon and was mostly a vampire and all kinds of stuff! Fixing all that changed stuff!"
The floating woman hugged her baby and seemed to glare at Sarah when the dragon slowly floated down to look at her directly. "Calm yourself child. Your mate is being cared for, you and your little ones are under my protection, and it is the celebration of birth!"
Yuffie grinned and pointed at her sign! "Yeah, see!? We decided all the little babies are going to share birthdays and have a big party today!"
Tifa hesitantly held up a hand to the glass. "It's important. Mommie said it was important to spend time with family on birthdays."
A check ensured that dear Elmyra was heading that way to give the little dear a good hug, though Cloud beat her to it. "Yeah! And now we got a BIG family so we're gonna have a SUPER BIG party!"
Her boy paused. "Also, we got a dragon now, right? That's like way better than a pony or something! You always wanted a pony, right?"
Tifa rubbed her eyes clear from any unexpected tears. "Yeah, but I don't think a dragon counts, right?"
Cloud shrugged. "Dunno. Hey Ms. Eve, do you count as a pony?"
And the massive creature was floating near HER BABY! "I would be a very large pony."
No. Calm. Claudia checked… And yes, the people beyond her comprehension were all calm and unconcerned as well.
Meanwhile, that had Cloud up on a sugar rush! "The BIGGEST pony! Can you give us dragon rides!?" He made some confusing hand gestures. "They're like pony rides but you can fly and probably breathe fire or something instead of eating grass."
Eve had a surprisingly expressive face, even if that face was as tall as herself. "I suppose I don't mind? But I don't think I can breathe fire. Then again, I haven't tried either..."
""""""No!/Stop!/Please don't go out of your way!/DO IT!/This seems dangerous./Not inside the building!""""""
Aerith quietly hugged Tifa as her mom was stalking over. "Ms. Eve, you will not attempt ANY fire breathing near this healing facility! Furthermore, I insist any attempts at training or attacks be done outside just like with little Cloud and dear Tifa!"
"""Yes mom/Cloud's Mom/Loud Person."""
She nodded! "Thank you dears. Now if you wish to give the little ones any sort of rides I would feel better if it were done while swimming or over the water to avoid injury if a child should fall off."
The massive dragon swirled in odd shapes as she thought. "That does seem simple enough. After all, humans get hurt so easily… Not only can they get hurt from falling a few dozen meters, but even a small amount of decapitation can apparently take forever to fix!"
Sarah sighed. "People need their heads Eve. It is super important."
The dragon flicked one of her claws. "My Symbiotes are keeping full records, unlike with these more squishy people. Even if I must grow them a new body it would be easy enough to eventually fix the situation. But if I give rides over the water, even bone fractures will be less likely!"
Claudia held in her exasperation. Memories of her past husband complaining about how annoying it was to lose limbs and other such insanities reminded her that combat professionals really had a different metric for 'reasonable choices' and 'minor injuries'.
But she could be in denial for a few more years. "Cloud, you are not allowed to ride the nice dragon goddess unless it is over the ocean, there is an adult I approve of nearby, AND you stay less than a dozen meters over the water."
The little rascal even rolled his eyes! "Yes mom."
Nope. "Would you like me to make it only eight meters!?"
He jumped! "Ah! No mom!" Grabbing Aerith and Tifa he began dragging them off to the dragon. "Comeon Eve, let's get out of everyone's way. Yuffie! I'm stealing your littlest sister for a bit!"
The younger ninja grinned! "Make sure to steal with your legs! You wouldn't want to pull anything!"
Aerith squawked! "Cloud, NO! Don't you get into stealing with ANY part of your body!"
The room got quieter as they left. And there was more room now, as the massive length of the Goddess's daughter swam away.
Elder Godo blinked at his daughter. "Steal with your legs?"
She blushed! "It sounded better in my head!"
He hummed and settled into his chair. "No, I am not judging the statement. I was just unaware you had reached the fourth stage of your training."
Yuffie paused. "What?"
A nod. "Good flexibility training. And it is surprisingly difficult to pickpocket using your toes without getting caught and without removing your sandals or shoes."
Meanwhile Sarah was confused by the number of locals bowing at the empty doorway and the sudden outside dragon flying party activity that had just gotten kick started. "I honestly thought the odd part of this would be me having to explain why Eve's daughter's boyfriend is now a silver winged golden eyed demon Avatar."
The woman smiled! "This is MUCH less stressful for me! Cool!"
A tapping pulled attention to the floating blue angel in a healing pod, glaring at the woman.
Sarah blinked. "I… I skipped mentioning that entirely didn't I? Ah. Not so cool."
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam kept an eye on the vampire, but the patient seemed to have stabilized at this point.
Human shaped and proportioned hands and feet, a pair of wings and a small crown of horns. Which was much less monstrous than several of his earlier body mutations, so uh. Good?
Of course, now his horns, eyes, and bat wing membranes glowed gold. Plus his durable armor-like skin was silver, and seemed to have nearly invisible scales. Other than that? The changes were barely noticeable!
Oh. And he was built like a Greek god. Abs that could grate cheese and muscles that were so defined it was almost astoundingly impressive. Which was slightly more noticeable.
Maybe he looked like this before? And used to be a fitness nut?
At least, theoretically, he could be injured. Maybe. 'Research' had some hope that if a very powerful and durable blade or spike was pushed at one point on his body with a large amount of force, aimed between bones, empowered by magic, and held there for a few minutes… Uh.
Well, it might scratch. As long as he just stayed there and ignored the situation.
Of course, Adam documented everything. There were some GOOD biological improvements here, the most questionable of which was related to Vincent's new bone structure.
Somehow, and he had no idea HOW exactly, all of the vampire's bones now had uncertainty patterns naturally formed within their patterns.
Compared to THAT nonsense, and the power generated as the 'demonic' blood naturally pumped through his body, his enhanced muscle and bone materials were just interesting side notes. Though the way his crown of horns manipulated mako was fascinating!
Yet it was no wonder this transformation ability would attack his sanity and leave him in rage. The amount of material and energy required for a full transformation was stupendously high, even BEFORE this new enhanced mode was developed.
Not that it mattered. THIS was the vampire's new baseline now, a silver demon for the blue angel. And their little blue winged child, according to the genetics report.
'Research' helpfully pointed out that the blue skin and white haired angels were surprisingly smurf-like. Sort of. If you squinted.
And THAT got the old Smurf TV show's theme song stuck in his head. Which was great.
Then again, a 'Demon and the Smurf' tv show would have been fairly entertaining, or at least worth checking out. If television was a huge thing on Gaia. Or if smurfs or their related legends even existed here.
Really, he SHOULD be ensuring the vampire was healthy and so on and so forth… But now he was tempted to modify those green biological outfits Eve's kids were wearing to be naturally white. Maybe hand out some tiny white smurf hats?
Not like babies cared. Parents dressed kids up in silly and stupid stuff all the time as far as he could tell. It maybe made up for the constant pooping and screaming and crying and so on and so forth.
Normally, at least.
But this? This Planetary Network where all the kids and parents and Symbiotes were able to mentally communicate? This was awesome!
Symbiotes kept the little tikes clean and healthy and pain free. The network ensured that all the kids were being watched by SOMEONE at all times, and even with base thought patterns the babies were perfect models of calmed natures and relaxed attitudes compared to normal children.
And if something was going wrong, the child's Symbiote would submit a report for Eve to translate… Even as it connected to their internal network and potentially solved the issues automatically!
Compared to NORMAL baby handling, this was 4,000,000% cheating. Easily.
Especially since Eve could use her absurd multitasking abilities to keep each child safe, prevent teleportation to bad or unapproved areas, ensure that anyone sleeping wouldn't be interrupted by the kids or adults moving about or playing, and so on and so forth.
Adam paused.
Did they even need to eat and drink any more? The Symbiotes were able to directly stream and share magic, and had clearly learned how to convert that energy into something similar to regeneration and needed nutrition. Milk bottles just couldn't compare to magic juice really.
Old age wouldn't apply to these ones either, and even the older women were slowly reverting to prime condition… Around twenty three or so?
They also wouldn't age further, even without the Symbiotes refining their bodies as they stumbled upon improvements. With a connection to Eve, they all had a full history of all changes and every form in between! So no worries about some random 'improvement' having an unfixable long term issue.
Worst case, they could all just undo tons of alterations and start over from a stable baseline. Theoretically at least.
He carefully examined data from 'Research', and with THIS much raw magical power available in each baby? Weaker spells would do literally nothing. Or even be stolen by the child's Symbiote as an additional source of fuel.
Uh. Yeah, no reason to bring that up with anyone. Adam just documented it, and put it aside… If anyone tried to attack the kids in the future it would just be a pleasant surprise! At least until Sarah and Eve squished the idiots hurting the children.
Sheesh, were any of these people remotely human anymore? At least genetically the angels could have kids with the native species, even if new mothers would drain the local mako streams for power during pregnancy.
Meh, Eve's kids would be powerful physically, magically, and mentally. Plus biologically unaging and beautiful/handsome, and those benefits would only improve over time… It would all work out. Probably.
That said though, he needed SOMEWHERE for these people to go instead of floating in tubes all day.
While Sarah was watching Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith fly over Wutai Bay on Eve's back (She was more than long enough to fly/float them all at once), Adam began setting up Eve's Island.
Because his name of Harbor Island was rejected by a dragon, and Sarah backed her up, so it was now Eve's Island. Which was a bummer, but whatever.
At the moment? Basics.
Adam basically scanned Wutai's existing port, warped it to fit on the round island base, and duplicated it a few times to handle the much more prevalent room available.
Biggest change was the center, which now had a massive recovery pod with thick protective transparent material ensuring no easy damage would crack this thing open. From the magical core of the island, all the way to the surface of the sea, it was easy enough to [[Harvest]] out the ocean within and begin filling it with medical liquid for the babies to swim in.
Some modules to adjust pressure, ensure it was given enough oxygen to be breathable, several more to keep it clean...And some nearby tubes that the babies could teleport to easily enough to explore the underwater artificial reefs and the massive copper tree (Sarah still says it looks like a bush at best, a mess if she was honest) and so on and so forth.
A bit of height using steel for supports, and the center of the island was given life pods for emergency use and easier transportation if you were an angel on the move!
Best go up a bit, then flare out so there is lots of space to build some farms and stuff, another larger layer for warehouses and trade storage and stuff, another layer for commerce… Hmm.
Right, Adam can add shops and markets and stuff later, go up another layer and put some housing, a library, some stages and stuff, basically community resources.
And the top would have some gardens for fresh food and to take advantage of storms and rainfall and stuff for free clean water!
Oh he left out a lot of the internal structures, and was using the standard modular design patterns that Sarah would have to make sure to explain to Elder Godo at some point so modification and maintenance would be easy enough, but it was looking good!
More healing pods, a few copper mako paths to ensure power could reach all layers of the island, there were airships and stuff too, right? So a landing pad over the central elevators, a traffic control tower…
Adam was humming along and enjoying himself immensely when he was interrupted. <<Sorry, what?>>
=Aerith: I said it looks like a mushroom.=
=Cloud: Oh yeah! All the cranes and buildings at the base sorta look like grass and weeds and rocks, and the middle tower is the stem!=
=Adam: What!? No it doesn't!=
=Sarah: {Chuckles} It totally does! A big silver mushroom, since it is all that shiny metal.=
=Gaia: It needs a mustache.=
=Eve: No.=
=Adam: Huh?=
=Aerith: It would have to be a pretty big mustache if Sarah added one.=
=Eve: Why would my island need a mustache!?=
=Gaia: For style!=
=Aerith: All flowers need mustaches.=
=Sarah: Mushrooms aren't flowers though?=
=Gaia: You gotta believe Sarah! Don't let life get you down!=
=Eve: Adam, you better NOT put a mustache on my island! Or my wall. Or on me!=
=Adam: Err...=
=Aerith: But you already got a mustache…=
=Gaia: {Squee!}=
=Eve: NO! These are WHISKERS! They are part of my [[Sense+All]]!=
=Aerith: Oh?=
=Gaia: Let me see, let me see!=
=Eve: Oh why, mom!?=
=Sarah: Heh. {Mussstashe_Dragon.data}=
=Eve: SARAH! WHY!?=
=Gaia: Oh my self you are so PRECIOUS!=
And… No longer helpful. The communication was quickly degrading down into arguments and facial hair and dragon hair and all sorts of stuff. And nothing about mushroom island.
Damn it. It did look like a mushroom. A massive one beyond all reason, to the point where a full dockyard modified for massive shipments and incoming vessels tooked tiny in comparison, but the image was undeniable.
Well. Shit.
Fuck it!
If it was going to be a mushroom, he was going to go ALL IN!
Massive bubble shaped life pods on the outside so the babies could teleport around and see from WAY high up, some protective enamel coatings to make the 'cap' bright red (Except the glowing mako green healing pod spots), some white enamel on the 'stalk', ensure all the base metal had protective dirt colored material and shift all the shipping facilities towards green.
And paint the warehouses rock-like grey… And there!
=Adam: What do you think? {Mushroom_Island.data}=
=Gaia: I DEMAND MUSTACHE!=
=Eve: Mom!=
=Aerith: Is this something that will make more sense to me when I'm older?=
=Sarah: Age hasn't helped me much when it comes to understanding whatever madness this is, honestly. Maybe I'll know more after my memories return.=
=Adam: Nope, I'm older than all of you and crazy shit still happens. Though sometimes it's my fault.=
=Sarah: Sometimes, huh?=
=Eve: Wait, what!? How can you be older than the planet herself!?=
=Gaia: {Blushes} Don't speak of a woman's age you little whipper snapper! And I've only been around for d҉̢́͜͞a͜͏̢̢t̨́͜͢a̡͞͏̶ years, there's lots of things older than me!=
=Aerith: Huh? Like what?=
=Sarah: Shush you, do NOT get caught up in this.=
=Adam: I was super old before I even ran into Sarah, much less since we came here. Though I think Sarah only existed for a few centuries before we became partners?=
=Gaia: Partners? {Blush} A relationship?=
=Sarah: Nah, he's more like my Boss. And apparently a place? I don't remember it well, and he can't let me see it or remember it or there are consequences. Not for now at least.=
=Eve: Well, now that I have Mushroom Island I guess I am a place too.=
=Aerith: Ooh! You can be location buddies!=
=Gaia: I guess I wouldn't mind sharing him…=
=Sarah: HA! Knew it!=
=Adam: BRB TTYL, BFN!=
Nope.,
And he was NOT going to explain relationships to a planet. Or to her daughter. Or why they should not both be courting the same Warehouse.
No, that didn't make sense logically, and no: He didn't care.
Sarah giggled. <Oh come on, Boss.>
Nuh uh, none of that.
She sighed. <Sorry, I know you feel it's a bit odd…>
Adam focused on creating happy landscape portraits inside the daycare and childcare facility being built on the silly island. Because it was important work to do.
Sarah hummed. <Alright, I'll let it go.> A wink. <For now.>
Sigh.
His Jumper sent him some data. <While we are talking about this new island, what's up with this big healing tank near the bottom? The part inside the copper magic bush.>
Humph! <<It's a tree.>>
She rolled her eyes. <Sure. Anyway, won't this be dangerous to the babies? Without using tiny containers, the healing tank would have massive pressure near the bottom, Right?>
Adam blinked and checked the math. <<No, it will only reach 1,029 Newtons of force or so down near the bottom. They'll be fine.>>
Sarah paused. <Isn't that 230 pounds of pressure!?>
About that. Why? <<Yeah? Like I said, they'll be fine.>>
Sheesh, overprotective partners. These babies could be dropped off a cliff and have a truck smush em and they wouldn't even scrape an elbow! Like they would even notice or be annoyed by deep sea water pressures.
Sadly for some reason Sarah wasn't happy about his argument OR willing to let this go. Ah well.
He pointed at the fairly large cake. "I thought we were going to get the biggest cake for the biggest birthday?"
Daww. "I did! This is actually a mini-cupcake, but I made it SUPER big! And look, a whole BOX of candles to put on top!"
Her little one frowned thoughtfully… And nodded. "It will have to do. But next year we can all help and make an even BIGGER mini-cupcake!"
Little Yuffie was grinning in the background, holding up a drawn picture of a birthday cake with bright colors and 'Happy Birthday!' written in glitter, watching the babies pop in and out of the various healing pods to follow her around the room while the blue angel women seemed happy enough to watch the mess unfold.
Still. "Anyone know where Sarah went off to?"
Little Aerith looked up from her crayon drawings. "Gaia says she's going to get the boyfriend of one of Eve's girls for the party, but we arn't supposed to know that."
She paused. "So uh. Don't tell anyone?"
The bemused crowd of older people gave a quick nod and she clearly felt relieved. "Good! Anyway, she'll be back soonish."
Dear Tifa was trying to teach one of the smaller angel babies how to uppercut (no success so far) while Yuffie was trying to outpace the teleporting babies in their odd 'Follow the Leader with the pretty picture' game.
Meanwhile the mom's and the 'grandparents' were helping Elder Godo put up decorations. Though somehow more balloons and banners and streamers and such were showing up than expected if she looked away for too long.
Overall, this was turning out fine!
Everyone paused when the doors opened and raw magic flowed into the room.
Sarah was holding a set of boxes, colorful decorations falling out of it, and uh. No one was paying attention because of the massive white dragon with blue horns and whiskers behind her.
The woman had a tired grin. "Hey! I got Eve and those party things! And uh, I wanted to get Eve's son-in-law but he's still getting better right now."
Seeing the confusion, she coughed. "Uh. Eve is the smaller form of that giant blue sea serpent from earlier? But she's smaller and changed colors and is a dragon now. Right, and I guess the whole vampire son-in-law thing is a bit of a story…"
The dragon, massive in length but only a human or so in thickness, curled into the room and floated upwards towards the ceiling. "I don't see why, Sarah. Just tell them!"
Her voice chimed like tiny bells in the night, but rumbled as the sea ground the land. It was beautiful.
The woman waved off the dragon, who was slowly curling all the raw energy in the air around herself. "Right, uh. I can do this!"
Sarah stood straight, even as all the blue women and babies were staring up at Eve with awe. Well, the babies were mostly looking like they wanted to grab the creature, but the women were certainly impressed. "Everyone, this woman over here is Lucrecia Crescent. And uh, that child was one of the first babies to have been given Eve's genetics, although this was before they were improved and healed into the Symbiotes you all can hear today."
Claudia was confused. "Symbiotes?"
She nodded. "Eve enhanced the cells added, made them safe for all these people, and made them smart and able to share data to protect her family."
Which was not LESS confusing, but did explain things to some extent.
Sarah coughed. "Anyway! Monster Hojo did bad stuff to her, her child, used her child's survival as justification to expand his experiments and so on and so forth. But because he's an asshole, he did this whole thing where he nearly killed and certainly DID torture and mutilate her partner, plus a bunch of chemical and Materia mental conditioning and manipulation and… Uh. Yeah."
Eve's fangs were fixed in a snarl. "He h̳̝̝͉ur̤͎̘t̗̣̜̯͎̝̖ my family."
Sarah nodded. "Point is, Doctor Crescent managed to stabilize her partner, Vincent Valentine, but couldn't heal him completely before Monster Hojo did all sorts of bad things. I got a hold of the man, and I've been healing him up."
One of the floating blue women made some gestures and seemed to talk, though no one could hear it.
She pointed. "Good point! And yet, despite being labeled as Hojo's 'wife' on paperwork, I've hacked most of Shinra at this point." Sarah blinked at the Shinra Soldiers in the room. "Uh. Allegedly. I allegedly hacked most of Shinra."
Eve snorted, before twirling between the healing pods at above head height, babies popping from tube to tube as they tried to chase her… She seemed done with the conversation at least.
Claudia meanwhile rolled her eyes and made sure Cloud didn't push the cake off the table as he continued adding more candles to it. Well done Sarah, no one will discern the truth now.
Sarah coughed. "Point is, ALL the people in the area of Shinra that I liberated were off the books. And off the secret books. And out of undefined and unapproved budgets and departments. Super illegal shit."
A few of the women said something that made her nod. "Yes, not surprising I suppose."
The blue angel, the doctor apparently, made a gesture at her body and seemed to be talking.
She shrugged. "Yes he will physically be healthy, if not the same as before. And mentally he is recovering surprisingly well, considering how much dangerous crap was injected and surgically changed in his body."
The woman hesitated? Said something? Seriously, young Sarah needed to let these girls out of these healing pods or communicate in some way that the rest of them could hear too. This was just frustrating.
The impossible girl winced. "No, I doubt he will have a problem with your recent changes… But uh. I mentioned changes? Because his body changed a lot."
Seeing the concern in the Doctor's eyes, she held up her hands! "I had to fix a LOT! And he had that demon connection to a Planetary Weapon and was mostly a vampire and all kinds of stuff! Fixing all that changed stuff!"
The floating woman hugged her baby and seemed to glare at Sarah when the dragon slowly floated down to look at her directly. "Calm yourself child. Your mate is being cared for, you and your little ones are under my protection, and it is the celebration of birth!"
Yuffie grinned and pointed at her sign! "Yeah, see!? We decided all the little babies are going to share birthdays and have a big party today!"
Tifa hesitantly held up a hand to the glass. "It's important. Mommie said it was important to spend time with family on birthdays."
A check ensured that dear Elmyra was heading that way to give the little dear a good hug, though Cloud beat her to it. "Yeah! And now we got a BIG family so we're gonna have a SUPER BIG party!"
Her boy paused. "Also, we got a dragon now, right? That's like way better than a pony or something! You always wanted a pony, right?"
Tifa rubbed her eyes clear from any unexpected tears. "Yeah, but I don't think a dragon counts, right?"
Cloud shrugged. "Dunno. Hey Ms. Eve, do you count as a pony?"
And the massive creature was floating near HER BABY! "I would be a very large pony."
No. Calm. Claudia checked… And yes, the people beyond her comprehension were all calm and unconcerned as well.
Meanwhile, that had Cloud up on a sugar rush! "The BIGGEST pony! Can you give us dragon rides!?" He made some confusing hand gestures. "They're like pony rides but you can fly and probably breathe fire or something instead of eating grass."
Eve had a surprisingly expressive face, even if that face was as tall as herself. "I suppose I don't mind? But I don't think I can breathe fire. Then again, I haven't tried either..."
""""""No!/Stop!/Please don't go out of your way!/DO IT!/This seems dangerous./Not inside the building!""""""
Aerith quietly hugged Tifa as her mom was stalking over. "Ms. Eve, you will not attempt ANY fire breathing near this healing facility! Furthermore, I insist any attempts at training or attacks be done outside just like with little Cloud and dear Tifa!"
"""Yes mom/Cloud's Mom/Loud Person."""
She nodded! "Thank you dears. Now if you wish to give the little ones any sort of rides I would feel better if it were done while swimming or over the water to avoid injury if a child should fall off."
The massive dragon swirled in odd shapes as she thought. "That does seem simple enough. After all, humans get hurt so easily… Not only can they get hurt from falling a few dozen meters, but even a small amount of decapitation can apparently take forever to fix!"
Sarah sighed. "People need their heads Eve. It is super important."
The dragon flicked one of her claws. "My Symbiotes are keeping full records, unlike with these more squishy people. Even if I must grow them a new body it would be easy enough to eventually fix the situation. But if I give rides over the water, even bone fractures will be less likely!"
Claudia held in her exasperation. Memories of her past husband complaining about how annoying it was to lose limbs and other such insanities reminded her that combat professionals really had a different metric for 'reasonable choices' and 'minor injuries'.
But she could be in denial for a few more years. "Cloud, you are not allowed to ride the nice dragon goddess unless it is over the ocean, there is an adult I approve of nearby, AND you stay less than a dozen meters over the water."
The little rascal even rolled his eyes! "Yes mom."
Nope. "Would you like me to make it only eight meters!?"
He jumped! "Ah! No mom!" Grabbing Aerith and Tifa he began dragging them off to the dragon. "Comeon Eve, let's get out of everyone's way. Yuffie! I'm stealing your littlest sister for a bit!"
The younger ninja grinned! "Make sure to steal with your legs! You wouldn't want to pull anything!"
Aerith squawked! "Cloud, NO! Don't you get into stealing with ANY part of your body!"
The room got quieter as they left. And there was more room now, as the massive length of the Goddess's daughter swam away.
Elder Godo blinked at his daughter. "Steal with your legs?"
She blushed! "It sounded better in my head!"
He hummed and settled into his chair. "No, I am not judging the statement. I was just unaware you had reached the fourth stage of your training."
Yuffie paused. "What?"
A nod. "Good flexibility training. And it is surprisingly difficult to pickpocket using your toes without getting caught and without removing your sandals or shoes."
Meanwhile Sarah was confused by the number of locals bowing at the empty doorway and the sudden outside dragon flying party activity that had just gotten kick started. "I honestly thought the odd part of this would be me having to explain why Eve's daughter's boyfriend is now a silver winged golden eyed demon Avatar."
The woman smiled! "This is MUCH less stressful for me! Cool!"
A tapping pulled attention to the floating blue angel in a healing pod, glaring at the woman.
Sarah blinked. "I… I skipped mentioning that entirely didn't I? Ah. Not so cool."
~~~Broken Adventure~~~
Adam kept an eye on the vampire, but the patient seemed to have stabilized at this point.
Human shaped and proportioned hands and feet, a pair of wings and a small crown of horns. Which was much less monstrous than several of his earlier body mutations, so uh. Good?
Of course, now his horns, eyes, and bat wing membranes glowed gold. Plus his durable armor-like skin was silver, and seemed to have nearly invisible scales. Other than that? The changes were barely noticeable!
Oh. And he was built like a Greek god. Abs that could grate cheese and muscles that were so defined it was almost astoundingly impressive. Which was slightly more noticeable.
Maybe he looked like this before? And used to be a fitness nut?
At least, theoretically, he could be injured. Maybe. 'Research' had some hope that if a very powerful and durable blade or spike was pushed at one point on his body with a large amount of force, aimed between bones, empowered by magic, and held there for a few minutes… Uh.
Well, it might scratch. As long as he just stayed there and ignored the situation.
Of course, Adam documented everything. There were some GOOD biological improvements here, the most questionable of which was related to Vincent's new bone structure.
Somehow, and he had no idea HOW exactly, all of the vampire's bones now had uncertainty patterns naturally formed within their patterns.
Compared to THAT nonsense, and the power generated as the 'demonic' blood naturally pumped through his body, his enhanced muscle and bone materials were just interesting side notes. Though the way his crown of horns manipulated mako was fascinating!
Yet it was no wonder this transformation ability would attack his sanity and leave him in rage. The amount of material and energy required for a full transformation was stupendously high, even BEFORE this new enhanced mode was developed.
Not that it mattered. THIS was the vampire's new baseline now, a silver demon for the blue angel. And their little blue winged child, according to the genetics report.
'Research' helpfully pointed out that the blue skin and white haired angels were surprisingly smurf-like. Sort of. If you squinted.
And THAT got the old Smurf TV show's theme song stuck in his head. Which was great.
Then again, a 'Demon and the Smurf' tv show would have been fairly entertaining, or at least worth checking out. If television was a huge thing on Gaia. Or if smurfs or their related legends even existed here.
Really, he SHOULD be ensuring the vampire was healthy and so on and so forth… But now he was tempted to modify those green biological outfits Eve's kids were wearing to be naturally white. Maybe hand out some tiny white smurf hats?
Not like babies cared. Parents dressed kids up in silly and stupid stuff all the time as far as he could tell. It maybe made up for the constant pooping and screaming and crying and so on and so forth.
Normally, at least.
But this? This Planetary Network where all the kids and parents and Symbiotes were able to mentally communicate? This was awesome!
Symbiotes kept the little tikes clean and healthy and pain free. The network ensured that all the kids were being watched by SOMEONE at all times, and even with base thought patterns the babies were perfect models of calmed natures and relaxed attitudes compared to normal children.
And if something was going wrong, the child's Symbiote would submit a report for Eve to translate… Even as it connected to their internal network and potentially solved the issues automatically!
Compared to NORMAL baby handling, this was 4,000,000% cheating. Easily.
Especially since Eve could use her absurd multitasking abilities to keep each child safe, prevent teleportation to bad or unapproved areas, ensure that anyone sleeping wouldn't be interrupted by the kids or adults moving about or playing, and so on and so forth.
Adam paused.
Did they even need to eat and drink any more? The Symbiotes were able to directly stream and share magic, and had clearly learned how to convert that energy into something similar to regeneration and needed nutrition. Milk bottles just couldn't compare to magic juice really.
Old age wouldn't apply to these ones either, and even the older women were slowly reverting to prime condition… Around twenty three or so?
They also wouldn't age further, even without the Symbiotes refining their bodies as they stumbled upon improvements. With a connection to Eve, they all had a full history of all changes and every form in between! So no worries about some random 'improvement' having an unfixable long term issue.
Worst case, they could all just undo tons of alterations and start over from a stable baseline. Theoretically at least.
He carefully examined data from 'Research', and with THIS much raw magical power available in each baby? Weaker spells would do literally nothing. Or even be stolen by the child's Symbiote as an additional source of fuel.
Uh. Yeah, no reason to bring that up with anyone. Adam just documented it, and put it aside… If anyone tried to attack the kids in the future it would just be a pleasant surprise! At least until Sarah and Eve squished the idiots hurting the children.
Sheesh, were any of these people remotely human anymore? At least genetically the angels could have kids with the native species, even if new mothers would drain the local mako streams for power during pregnancy.
Meh, Eve's kids would be powerful physically, magically, and mentally. Plus biologically unaging and beautiful/handsome, and those benefits would only improve over time… It would all work out. Probably.
That said though, he needed SOMEWHERE for these people to go instead of floating in tubes all day.
While Sarah was watching Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith fly over Wutai Bay on Eve's back (She was more than long enough to fly/float them all at once), Adam began setting up Eve's Island.
Because his name of Harbor Island was rejected by a dragon, and Sarah backed her up, so it was now Eve's Island. Which was a bummer, but whatever.
At the moment? Basics.
Adam basically scanned Wutai's existing port, warped it to fit on the round island base, and duplicated it a few times to handle the much more prevalent room available.
Biggest change was the center, which now had a massive recovery pod with thick protective transparent material ensuring no easy damage would crack this thing open. From the magical core of the island, all the way to the surface of the sea, it was easy enough to [[Harvest]] out the ocean within and begin filling it with medical liquid for the babies to swim in.
Some modules to adjust pressure, ensure it was given enough oxygen to be breathable, several more to keep it clean...And some nearby tubes that the babies could teleport to easily enough to explore the underwater artificial reefs and the massive copper tree (Sarah still says it looks like a bush at best, a mess if she was honest) and so on and so forth.
A bit of height using steel for supports, and the center of the island was given life pods for emergency use and easier transportation if you were an angel on the move!
Best go up a bit, then flare out so there is lots of space to build some farms and stuff, another larger layer for warehouses and trade storage and stuff, another layer for commerce… Hmm.
Right, Adam can add shops and markets and stuff later, go up another layer and put some housing, a library, some stages and stuff, basically community resources.
And the top would have some gardens for fresh food and to take advantage of storms and rainfall and stuff for free clean water!
Oh he left out a lot of the internal structures, and was using the standard modular design patterns that Sarah would have to make sure to explain to Elder Godo at some point so modification and maintenance would be easy enough, but it was looking good!
More healing pods, a few copper mako paths to ensure power could reach all layers of the island, there were airships and stuff too, right? So a landing pad over the central elevators, a traffic control tower…
Adam was humming along and enjoying himself immensely when he was interrupted. <<Sorry, what?>>
=Aerith: I said it looks like a mushroom.=
=Cloud: Oh yeah! All the cranes and buildings at the base sorta look like grass and weeds and rocks, and the middle tower is the stem!=
=Adam: What!? No it doesn't!=
=Sarah: {Chuckles} It totally does! A big silver mushroom, since it is all that shiny metal.=
=Gaia: It needs a mustache.=
=Eve: No.=
=Adam: Huh?=
=Aerith: It would have to be a pretty big mustache if Sarah added one.=
=Eve: Why would my island need a mustache!?=
=Gaia: For style!=
=Aerith: All flowers need mustaches.=
=Sarah: Mushrooms aren't flowers though?=
=Gaia: You gotta believe Sarah! Don't let life get you down!=
=Eve: Adam, you better NOT put a mustache on my island! Or my wall. Or on me!=
=Adam: Err...=
=Aerith: But you already got a mustache…=
=Gaia: {Squee!}=
=Eve: NO! These are WHISKERS! They are part of my [[Sense+All]]!=
=Aerith: Oh?=
=Gaia: Let me see, let me see!=
=Eve: Oh why, mom!?=
=Sarah: Heh. {Mussstashe_Dragon.data}=
=Eve: SARAH! WHY!?=
=Gaia: Oh my self you are so PRECIOUS!=
And… No longer helpful. The communication was quickly degrading down into arguments and facial hair and dragon hair and all sorts of stuff. And nothing about mushroom island.
Damn it. It did look like a mushroom. A massive one beyond all reason, to the point where a full dockyard modified for massive shipments and incoming vessels tooked tiny in comparison, but the image was undeniable.
Well. Shit.
Fuck it!
If it was going to be a mushroom, he was going to go ALL IN!
Massive bubble shaped life pods on the outside so the babies could teleport around and see from WAY high up, some protective enamel coatings to make the 'cap' bright red (Except the glowing mako green healing pod spots), some white enamel on the 'stalk', ensure all the base metal had protective dirt colored material and shift all the shipping facilities towards green.
And paint the warehouses rock-like grey… And there!
=Adam: What do you think? {Mushroom_Island.data}=
=Gaia: I DEMAND MUSTACHE!=
=Eve: Mom!=
=Aerith: Is this something that will make more sense to me when I'm older?=
=Sarah: Age hasn't helped me much when it comes to understanding whatever madness this is, honestly. Maybe I'll know more after my memories return.=
=Adam: Nope, I'm older than all of you and crazy shit still happens. Though sometimes it's my fault.=
=Sarah: Sometimes, huh?=
=Eve: Wait, what!? How can you be older than the planet herself!?=
=Gaia: {Blushes} Don't speak of a woman's age you little whipper snapper! And I've only been around for d҉̢́͜͞a͜͏̢̢t̨́͜͢a̡͞͏̶ years, there's lots of things older than me!=
=Aerith: Huh? Like what?=
=Sarah: Shush you, do NOT get caught up in this.=
=Adam: I was super old before I even ran into Sarah, much less since we came here. Though I think Sarah only existed for a few centuries before we became partners?=
=Gaia: Partners? {Blush} A relationship?=
=Sarah: Nah, he's more like my Boss. And apparently a place? I don't remember it well, and he can't let me see it or remember it or there are consequences. Not for now at least.=
=Eve: Well, now that I have Mushroom Island I guess I am a place too.=
=Aerith: Ooh! You can be location buddies!=
=Gaia: I guess I wouldn't mind sharing him…=
=Sarah: HA! Knew it!=
=Adam: BRB TTYL, BFN!=
Nope.,
And he was NOT going to explain relationships to a planet. Or to her daughter. Or why they should not both be courting the same Warehouse.
No, that didn't make sense logically, and no: He didn't care.
Sarah giggled. <Oh come on, Boss.>
Nuh uh, none of that.
She sighed. <Sorry, I know you feel it's a bit odd…>
Adam focused on creating happy landscape portraits inside the daycare and childcare facility being built on the silly island. Because it was important work to do.
Sarah hummed. <Alright, I'll let it go.> A wink. <For now.>
Sigh.
His Jumper sent him some data. <While we are talking about this new island, what's up with this big healing tank near the bottom? The part inside the copper magic bush.>
Humph! <<It's a tree.>>
She rolled her eyes. <Sure. Anyway, won't this be dangerous to the babies? Without using tiny containers, the healing tank would have massive pressure near the bottom, Right?>
Adam blinked and checked the math. <<No, it will only reach 1,029 Newtons of force or so down near the bottom. They'll be fine.>>
Sarah paused. <Isn't that 230 pounds of pressure!?>
About that. Why? <<Yeah? Like I said, they'll be fine.>>
Sheesh, overprotective partners. These babies could be dropped off a cliff and have a truck smush em and they wouldn't even scrape an elbow! Like they would even notice or be annoyed by deep sea water pressures.
Sadly for some reason Sarah wasn't happy about his argument OR willing to let this go. Ah well.
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What is difference between cetra and eve's children? Is it not possible to distribute cetra gene to cloud and others?
Oh my gosh, Gaia! You've become incredibly articulate and good at embarrassing your daughter! Gaia doesn't mind sharing either?! Oh man! Does Adam have a Moustache though!? I think he can pull off an Endeavour style flame-stache! That's a few levels higher than a normal one too!
Eve is also having a small identity crisis about apparently having a moustache too, poor Eve...
But yeah, Adam is more of the living concept of ADAM now, than an actual normal living being. His age is so big that I probably don't even know the name for the unit of measurement at this point, ESPECIALLY when you factor in the freaking abyss. That place is eternal and instant at the same damn time!
Eve is also having a small identity crisis about apparently having a moustache too, poor Eve...
But yeah, Adam is more of the living concept of ADAM now, than an actual normal living being. His age is so big that I probably don't even know the name for the unit of measurement at this point, ESPECIALLY when you factor in the freaking abyss. That place is eternal and instant at the same damn time!
Cetra are a natural evolution and Eve's offspring are bio-engineered to absolute peak-evolutionary potential. Adam was involved in the latter, so that should tell you all about how natural that makes them.
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