-A quick trip and easy arrival at the island-
The mission was a little different Azul thought from the little he remembered. This island was more populated than before. Quistis informed him the reason was due to her. Over the years she orchestrated people to invest in the island. An actual Pseudo-Garden was placed there by her resources. To help with recruiting in the future. An actual military base with towns of civilians as a disguise. The problem was the World made them part of the forces of the actual story. So if the island blows up then no troops.
Quistis knew how to be very frugal. Alita and Galtea had to work overtime fixing everything when it was all set up.
System: World Quest Defend Island from Hostile forces. Reward: Island becomes a Sovereign nation under Silent Partner (Quistis). Failure: Removed from Garden, Quistis respect plummets, Students rebel.
'Hah! this will be fun. I am actually glad I do not remember what happens in this World.' Azul looked to all the forces in front of him. Several students for the most part as well as a few SeeD members. "Make sure you take out the opposition," Azul said giving them their final orders.
"You heard Teach!" Zell roused them up even more. "Move out. Do not forget to evacuate any civilians and keep property damage down."
The squads broke off under Zell's Command. Two stuck with Azul however. The boy now known as Rabbit as well as a transfer from another garden. His real name was Tom. Which was really just boring some how.
A freed Companion of a User. Who was more than happy that Azul had this place under his claim. She never wanted to see her actual User again. Her name was Faith Conners. From PS3/PS4
Mirrors Edge and Mirrors Edge Catalyst. The User pulled both and fused them together. Not only was she skilled but also very angry. Her awakened ability allows her to identify Users and Companions but not Followers. Scary if she was undercover.
"Alright, Conners what is it? Rabbit go and do surveillance." Azul said to the two. Rabbit nodded and shot off like the wind. "Just us go ahead and speak."
"Right. Are you demented like my previous User? That bastard turned all us into a sex factory. Men women children animals. Everything." Conners moved around like a caged cheetah. "I know this is your place, I will not interfere if you leave me alone."
"Got it. No, I don't believe I am. How strong is your mind to things?" Azul thought about it a little and realized he had done a lot of messed up stuff lately. Felt slightly off-put about that. "Oh wait I am deviant, but I do not have a sex factory. Forgot that was a thing. Is the User building force or something?"
"No, he is just doing it for pleasure and cause he can. His aunt is also a User helping him. THe good news they went to the Middle Worlds. So they can have fun with the craziness. As for my mind.. it is fairly strong why?" Conner's biotic strands were still on edge but she was a little calmer now. She did however kept looking ot where Rabbit went.
"I can let you shift through my mind some, to let yet get an understanding. However, I will shield a good bit of my people and the places I have been to."
"You are willing to do that for me?"
"Yup. You are trustworthy from what I can tell. Besides, if you wanted to hurt me you would have tried already." Azul offered his upturned hand to her. Conners grabbed hold and he opened a mental connection. It did not last long on the outside. Maybe 6 minutes or so. Mentally a day or so. Pulling free he looked at her. "Well, what do you think? This is faster than explining I have found. Especially if both parties can take in the rapid information." Mentally he let her see but he also used his Pather Power to gauge her emotional reactions to everything.
"You killed a lot of people that's for sure. Seriously Warhammer 30k your nuts." Shaking her head Conners touched her screen then nodded after hesitating. "Not many people survive those places long enough to leave." Showing her what happens there was a safe bet since if a User was willing to go there it would be fone since it was so expansive. Appropriate past World to show her he thought.
System: Faith Conners has offered to become your Companion.
"Alright." Azul agreed. This would let him keep tabs on the woman. "Hopefully this does not bite me in the butt. Going for optimism these days."
System: Aeon formed from trust between User and Companion. Converting to permanent Guardian Force.
"Wow, that is different. I usually have to implement that myself." Azul shook the goosebumps away. Faith just stared at him. "What?"
"Glad you accept. I will repay this in kind. I am free to love who I want to correct?" Azul gave her a nod. "Thank you for that. I will make sure to serve Quistis well. To think you married her. Not many Users do that with companions."
"A pity. But when Rabbit comes back, make sure you two do a full recon. Look out for any bombs and keep in touch. I have a spider to get to. Among other things."
"Right." Before Conners could make a little small talk she felt a change in the area.
"Fwoosh," in a burst of magical wind a body appeared.
"Sir here is the report." Rabbit return and passed a camera to Azul who started watching it immediately. He then turned to Faith and couldn't help but notice how she looked even more beautiful. "So.. Cute." He mumbled.
"What did you say Rabbit!" Faith looked at him angry as she walked up to him. "Go on and repeat yourself." Seeing the boy panic she didn't relent. "Are you a rabbit or a bug?! Say it again!"
"I..I.. said you were cute!" Rabbit yelled. "Oh crap oh crap." Azul held back his laughter while the boy freaked out. Little Rabbit made to apologize. Hoepfully it would work. "I am sorry I couldn't.. Mmpf." He was cut off as Faith kissed him. "Blah," He could barely catch his breath as he looked at her dazed.
"Jeez finally. Guess I am going to have to be the aggressive one in this relationship. So you better survive this." Seeing him still dazed she squeezed his ass a little hard as he lifted up. "Rabbit you are going to be my boyfriend cutie. Thanks for looking out for me in the last few months. I really needed it."
"Umm Umm yeah. Waaahh Commander what do I do?" Rabbit looked to Azul in angst. "She is really pretty and I am so.. me."
"I can hear you yah know?" Conners smiled.
"Rabbit just be you. My wife is hotter than me You see me freaking out? NO. If she wants you and you want her go for it. You have my support. But you better man up. I swear if you screw this up I will resent you till you die." Azul grinned at the two.
"Don't tease my rabbit!" Conners said Grabbing the boy. "Come on we have recon." They moved walking off leaving a laughing Azul.
"Hahah that is just adorable. I wonder if they boy will get any taller? People still get taller in their later teens right? Eh, I will check his genetics later." Feeling the time was right Azul left as well. 'Glad that is happening. Time to get to work myself.' The view down below was to bad he jumped up top. Turning he shot off on the rooftops. It. It did not take long to reach the tower. He could see the giant bug up there. A few spells going off from Squall and his squad.
A disturbance drew his attention. "HuH?" Behind Azul, a person appeared out of a black Rift. The weird thing it closed like a keyhole. Which was the weirdest thing he has seen in a while. Sending a message to Alita, he watched and Observe for a bit. He received no information.
Alita: Administration has been notified. He should not be there. Proceed with caution.
"Woosh," A quick Teleport to get there.
"Tch," Azul smacked his teeth as he appeared over by the person. "What are you doing here? You should not be here. Please leave at once."
"Oh is this your World?" The person turned to look at Azul. "You are.. something else.. way more powerful than most Users your level." With a quick scan, the User had most of the information on Azul that the World didnt hide.
"That's nice and all individual, but I rather you leave. If you want to talk, you can give me your Operator's information." Azul felt his hackles rise. This person was trouble. The biotic strands pouring out gave him pause. He was screaming for somebody to either help him or kill him? Azul looked at the clothes and was able to tell were they were from. "Your from Kingdom Hearts. Organization clothing how nice for you. Get in that Rift you opened and leave."
"We could be friends you know." The User stepped forward. On instinct, Azul activated his Adrenaline Rush and intercepted him. In his hand, a Sword appeared. It was his Elder Blade Slannesh. 'The hell?! How did you get here?' The sword shouldn't be possible for him to have. Especially with the change having taken place. 'Screw it!'
"Ching," the Blades clashed as the User actually used a regular Keyblade to fight with.
"Oh a powerful weapon you have there. I think I want it for myself." The question marks left from the Users head and revealed his level. It was in Yellow so not outside of his strength range really.
Observe: User Deal_With_It Lvl 30
"Overlords Fury!" Azul yelled pulling his power out. He slashed out fast and absolutely furious once he rebound with the sword. The Sword fed on his desire to rid Quistis of this bastard. Nothing was going to ruin this for him and her.
Deal_With_It tried to move but found himself actually afraid. 'What is this power?! This is the excitement I crave. To bad the circumstance.' He raised his Keyblade up to take the strike.
"Ping!!" The sound rang out from the swords louder than before. Separating his Keyblade he turned them both sideways igniting them in magic. Pulling them back in a cross to X slash Azul. Azul used his martial arts and kicked the left blade down. Placing his foot under the wrist he sent a blast of magic and kicked it out of Deal_With_It hand. "Thump," it fell and landed and landed on the rooftop stuck. Deal_With_It eyes went wide as they glowed under the hood. He was not expecting that.
"Fire Arrow!" An arrowhead made of flame fired from Azul's mouth. It pushed the hood off revealing the face of a young man with golden eyes. Seeing him now Azul felt the fresh biotic strand that came off. Deal_With_It was scared.
With a back flip he created distance between them and pulled his keyblade back towards himself. It instantly combined back into one. "Heh, not bad." Deal_With_It took three steps and stopped. He looked up above his head. "What the hell are those?!"
The very air screamed from the intensity. "Scrrre," Above his head, a fist of fire came down as well as a fist of water. "Bam!" The fire fist connected burning the clothes from the User instantly. He was unhurt but startled at the destruction of his armor.
'How much power is he putting out!?' Deal_With_It had no real-time to get his bearings as the water fist came at him. "Crap!"
"Schlick," the water fist turned into a clawed hand that came down. Deal_With_It was forced to guard himself. In his hand, he started to cast a spell. His skill was not low as it instantly finished.
"Firaja!" The flame hit Azul who only turned sideways from it. "How do you like that?!" Deal_With_It was surprised at the damage. Azul's face was burned off as he moved. The skin melted and the eye was burned out and exploded.
Health -137
"Splurt!" Azul stabbed the sword directly into the User's chest.
'He should have dodged. He took the full damage to strike back with his sword. Why?' Deal_With_It questioned himself. He had no idea what the sword could do.
"Slannesh drink your fill!" The sword happily did so. Feeling afraid the User tried to move. Azul was not gonna let that happen. "Your not going anywhere! Dark Andromeda chains!"
"Schup," out of Azul spine, black chains appeared and wrapped around the User. The Get ability he acquired from Bass gave him access to it.
"What is this?! I can't break free!" Deal_With_It started to panic. He felt himself getting weaker from Slannesh draining away at him. His soul started to feel weaker. "Chill man I will leave! Did you hear me?!" Panic set in as he knew he made a mistake.
"You had your chances. Don't worry I will make sure this never happens to you again. Because you will no longer exist here. And I will kill you everytime I see you. It is the only way Users like you learn!" Focusing his magic he put the chain under Anima the Aeon's control. "Mental Cleansing!" Hitting him with the spell knocked away the next spell Deal_With_It had been muttering.
Alita: Remember to take it easy Azul. A different approach to what you usually do. Explore all avenues first.
"Please let me go!" Deal_With_It said for the final time as Azul twisted Slannesh in his chest before pulling it out. "Haaa thank you." He breathes a sigh of relief. A fresh biotic strand hit Azul. Then a blue option appeared above Deal_With_It. Selecting it a blast of Paragon energy entered Azul clearing some of his anger away.
"Not done. I need to try some things and you are the one that I am going to try it on." Azul had Anima wrap around him completely. His water fist picked up the Keyblade and stabbed it in the roof. Testing its power and trying to break it. Did not work. Grabbing Deal_With_It by the head, Azul looked into his eyes. "Embrace Life!"
"Ahahaha!" The boy yelled as Azul went through his soul. He saw everything in a matter of moments. Pulling all the bad memories and experiences out to the forefront, he turned them into energy as they used a spell imprinting onto the boy. Azul finally put the Reaper Node to work on usuing indoctrination. The boy was then indoctrinated magically. Nothing to crazy. The instruction to not betray him. As well as self-preservation.
"That should be good enough." Azul stepped back and Anima retracted the chains back into him. "That takes a lot of magic. Get up kid, not gonna kill you anymore. For what it is worth... I am sorry."
"So scary. Thought if I acted tough, I could scare you off. Thanks for not killing me. I can't go back to the real world after this. Body is getting the plug pulled. Have not logged out in months really." Deal_With_It sat on his butt and grabbed towards he Keyblade and returned it. "So what happens now? To low in points to get away safely they are coming after me soon. "
"I shared with you why this place is important to me. You will not be staying here. I will take you with me to Mass Effect and you can go from there."
"Thanks!"Deal_With_It cheered. He looked at Azul and had to try to get on his good side he thought. "I know. I will follow you from now on." Before Azul could say anything the User had activated the protocols for it.
System: Deal_With_It has become a subordinate. Calculating rewards...
"Haa was gonna say not do that but alright." Azul sighed as an additional screen popped up. "Your out of points.. completely. No wonder you couldn't leave."
"That and I opened a Rift at random. My Operator is on vacation so there is that to. Those assholes chased me everywhere killing me. They should not have been able to do that. If it wasn't for my Keyblade I would not have been able to get access to this place."
"Yeah, it sucks those things can ignore Rift laws. Try not to get arrested for having it."
"It is approved already. Last thing my Operator had done." Deal_With_It looked lost. "I need to hide from those scum bags. Any ideas?"
"Yeah. Write up a report and I will get it set off." Azul stretched his hand out amd opened a Rift to his Nether World. "Go, someone will talk to you while I figure things out."
"Thanks!" Deal_With_It ran into the Rift. He was sent to a part of Azul Nether World that was cut off to everyone else. Inside was the Operator that he acquired from Ceripco. As well as A mental copy of himself that talked all day and kept the Operator company. "So peaceful here." Deal_With_It laid out and went to sleep. He was safe for once in a long time in his life.
The Operator appeared and watched him intently. This operator was in the form of 0's and 1's. Coding still hadn't taken place yet. the mental version of Azul stared and watched in wonder. tO this part of his mind, it would be interesting to see if it joins with him.
Waving its hands around several screens appeared giving a complete profile of the User. The information was then encrypted and placed away to the side for later discussion. The Operator reinforced the magical indoctrination that was in place.
Azul tapped against the sword. He still couldnt believe how it was here. Did it come from his psyche? His soul had hidden forces inside the Trickster warned. Maybe that is where it lay in wait.
System: Perception Check 23 Pass
"Powerful bugger. Thanks, Slannesh." Returning the sword back inside he started to heal his face. A cast of Regen, Heal, and Cura solved it. "Where is that blasted mechanical bug?" Searching around, it was easy to find. Just had to listen to the clanging and bashing in the area.