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Endbringers Hate Paperwork Part 17
🕑 Added 2023-03-28 06:38:19 +0000 UTCAlec reached out and touched one of the ornate bracelets on the desk, using the power Cloud was giving everyone to pick up the ability to nullify fire, ice, holy and gravity damage. "Do you have anything that nullifies physical damage?"
Cloud pointed to a bracelet made out of three rings of different types of metal that were fused together. "Best we have is the Ziedrich, it cuts physical damage in half along with most elements."
"It's useful for dealing with Shinra's goons," Yuffie offered as she looked through the collection of loot that Myst had laid out for them to copy.
Cloud glanced at Yuffie as Alec touched the bracelet. "You'd have less issues if you stopped stealing their lunch money."
Yuffie laughed. "Where's the fun in that?"
"You realize they're eventually going to destroy the bar, right?" Tifa asked, wishing Yuffie would stop causing trouble when she visited.
"I have a mask," Yuffie replied with a shrug, not particularly worried about them attacking the bar as most of the Shinra goons weren't that stupid.
Kara looked up from putting coins in bags. "Why are you stealing people's lunch money?"
"They're annoying and it beats getting a job," Yuffie replied with a shrug.
"She doesn't need the money, she just likes causing trouble," Cloud explained.
"Most of the guards are just trying to get by, they're not responsible for what the old president did," Aerith pointed out.
Yuffie sighed when she noticed the disappointed look Aerith was giving her. "Fine, I'll stop stealing their money, unless they're being annoying."
'Better than nothing,' Tifa thought. "Good."
Rachel picked up one of the bracelets and touched Angela's muzzle with it. "Do you think it works on the dogs?"
"They're part of the party," Jen assured her.
"Good," Rachel replied as she touched Brutus with the bracelet then scratched between his ears, unhappy about the idea of her friends getting hurt.
Amy glanced at the overly cheerful looking ribbon that Aerith had pulled out of her hair. "Is there a reason the ribbons don't work for guys?"
"No clue," Cloud admitted. "Vincent and I both tested a couple of the ribbons we found, we couldn't get them to work which means it's probably part of the enchantment."
Myst carefully reached down and touched the ribbon that Aerith was holding, picking up the immunity to status effects ability. "It doesn't stop us from picking up the ability."
"Nice," Cloud said as he reached out and touched the ribbon, wanting the ability to ignore status effects. "Just make sure you touch the safety bit, it gives you immunity to death effects, something the ribbon doesn't cover."
"Don't worry, we're touching everything," Vicky said cheerfully as she touched one of the rings of a strange device that consisted of a metal sphere floating inside of two rings that were perpendicular to each other, picking up the ability to heal from fire, ice, earth and lightning.
"Everything eh?" Alec asked with a smirk as he touched a ring that gave him a force field that cut physical and magical damage in half.
Vicky shook her head then went back to touching the collection of magical items scattered over the desk so she could pick up the rest of the abilities before Cloud and the girls went home. "Do you have anything that absorbs wind damage?"
Cloud shook his head. "The Ziedrich is the only thing I've seen that actually gives a defense against it, it's sort of annoying."
"Can you summon someone from another world that has wind defense gear?" Tony asked, not seeing a reason to leave a vulnerability if they could help it.
"Probably," Myst admitted as he thought about the various items from video games that might fit the bill. "Give me a minute."
Tony glanced at Kara's belt. "How much yellow sunlight would a Kryptonian need to get off the planet?"
Gor-Don shook her head. "Rao is a red sun, it wouldn't help."
"Humor me," Tony replied dryly.
Gor-Don frowned as she tried to recall some of the old military reports she'd uncovered that talked about yellow sunlight. "A couple of minutes to an hour."
"Would a tanning booth or a solar grenade work?" Tony asked, trying to figure out the best delivery method since they didn't have enough time for anything too crazy.
"Sure but you'd still need a way to keep the red sunlight from draining their energyβ¦" Kara trailed off as she realized she could make a stripped down version of her belt that the fortress could mass produce.
Tony smiled as he recognized the look on Kara's face. "Let me guess, you just realized something?"
"Yeah," Kara admitted. "I was too focused on saving the planet to realize that we should be looking for a way to save the people or at least the people willing to leave."
Gor-Don glanced between Tony and Kara. "What are you thinking?"
"My belt contains a number of extremely rare and nearly impossible to replicate metals that I salvaged from a group of Thanagarians but I have the schematics for a version the fortress could replicate, I just didn't see a point because it burns out after a couple of weeks of solid use."
"Except we don't need a couple of weeks, we just need enough to get everyone to the next star system," Tony pointed out.
"We'd never be able to make enough," Gor-Don argued, knowing there were a couple of billion people on Krypton.
"We don't have to make enough for everyone, just the people willing to leave," Kara pointed out, knowing that most of the people wouldn't believe them about the danger.
"We just have to get people to believe us," Gor-Don declared.
"The science council managed to silence Jor-El, you're not going to get anywhere in a week," Myst pointed out as he continued looking through versions of Final Fantasy like worlds for someone that was wearing the gear he wanted to copy.
"As much as I'd love to save everyone, the council isn't going to let us, which means we should work on saving everyone willing to leave."
Aerith shivered as she thought about all of the children that would never grow up if they didn't save them. "And the children."
"And the children," Kara agreed as she turned to look at Jen. "Can you help save the children?"
Jen glanced at Myst then focused on Kara when Myst nodded. "I'd need a wish and I'd have to go with Gor-Don but I'll do what I can."
"We'll save everyone we can but Kara's right, most people aren't going to listen," Mon-El pointed out, knowing his own people were worse.
"Where do we start?" Gor-Don asked, deciding that they might as well get started with saving everyone they could.
Tony looked at Kara. "We need the schematics for the belt."
Kara glanced at Barbara. "Ready to go back for a bit?"
Barbara pulled her attention away from the collection of magical items that Yuffie was looking through and looked at Kara. "Sure, it gives me a chance to drop the chair off and pick up some weapons."
"Cool." Myst waited until Barbara grabbed her wheelchair then let her and Kara return to their world.
"We should grab dinner," Tony suggested, not sure how long it would take Kara to get everything she needed.
"Good idea," Myst replied as he focused on pizza delivery people in other worlds that had wrong deliveries or assholes that refused to pay. 'Girls in trouble?' he mused as he focused on narrowing things down. "Pizza?"
"Pizza sounds good," Tony agreed.
"It's a bit late," Vicky pointed out.
"I've got it covered," Myst replied as he continued sorting through various possibilities, wondering if he could find someone that wanted to jump worlds. He frowned when he 'saw' a teenage version of Hermione Granger get pulled into a creepy mansion by a tentacle monster. 'Yeah, that's a waste of a stack of pizzas and a cute girl.' He summoned her as the door opened and a bunch of tentacles shot out to grab her.
"Shit!" Hermione cursed as she stumbled backwards, trying to get away from the pink and purple tentacles.
Myst reached out with his telekinesis and caught the pizzas and Hermione before she could hit the ground. "Sorry."
"What's with the ears?" Alec asked the girl that was dressed in a silly looking delivery outfit complete with a pair of fluffy bunny ears.
Hermione froze when she realized she was in a warehouse filled with strangers rather than the yard of a creepy and apparently monster filled mansion. "What's going on?"
"I have the ability to summon people from alternate dimensions and we ran out of snack food so I went looking for a pizza delivery girl that needed some help," Myst admitted.
Hermione stared at Myst for a couple of seconds. "You summoned me from another world because you wanted pizza?"
"Basically," Myst admitted.
Hermione opened her mouth to question his sanity or maybe his laziness then closed her mouth as she realized he'd saved her from being grabbed by something nasty. "Twenty pounds and I'll let you have the stack."
"Do you take silver coins?" Myst asked as he floated a handful of silver coins over to Hermione, figuring that would be easier than trying to pay her in American dollars from another dimension.
Hermione picked up one of the coins and examined both sides. "These aren't sickles. Where did you get them?"
"In a pocket dimension, they're nearly pure silver," Myst assured her.
"Sure," Hermione replied as she took the coins and stuffed them in her pocket, figuring she might as well get something for the botched job since she doubted the tentacle demon was going to pay for the pizzas and her boss was an ass about deliveries that weren't completed.
"What's with the delivery job?" Myst asked, wishing he'd taken a better look at her timeline.
"My uncle decided that I needed to learn an honest trade," Hermione grumbled. "Never mind that my other job pays more."
"And you didn't hex him?" Myst asked.
Hermione scowled as she pulled her rabbit eared headband off. "I don't have my wand, the ministry snapped it."
Myst winced at the look of rage on her face. "What happened?"
"One of my professors was a sadistic bitch and I called her on it," Hermione replied, wishing she could get away with setting Umbridge on fire.
"That never ends well," Tony mused.
Hermione glanced at Tony. "She took it personally and sent a group of dementors to kill me over the holiday break. I managed to escape, my parents weren't so lucky and she made sure I was charged for underaged magic."
"Lovely," Myst muttered.
"What's a dementor?" Cloud asked.
"They're basically flying skeletons in robes that can devour souls," Hermione explained, not seeing a reason to bother with the statue of secrecy as he didn't look particularly surprised by the giant.
"I can't save your parents but do you want to jump worlds?" Myst asked, figuring she might want to leave.
"Can I take my girlfriend?" Hermione asked without hesitation, not seeing a reason to stick around since her last remaining 'family' had stolen her inheritance and managed to sell the house she'd grown up in because of backroom deals and a crooked estate manager.
"Sure," Myst replied. "Does she have a name?"
"Rose Lily Potter," Hermione replied, hoping she wasn't making a mistake but willing to take a chance because she was fed up with dealing with the shit in her life and the wizarding world.
Myst summoned Rose Lily Potter from the same point as he grabbed Hermione from, causing a naked and wet busty redhead teenager to appear out of thin air. "Oops."
'I might have a type,' Taylor admitted, if only to herself as she studied the attractive girl.
"What the hell?!" Rose demanded then promptly screamed and doubled over in pain as it felt like something was trying to rip her skull apart.
"What the fuck?!" Grue blurted as black smoke started pouring out of the girl's forehead that he couldn't see through.
"Curse," Myst replied as he grabbed a bag of fairy dust out of his spatial ring and hit Rose, causing the black smoke to quickly finish rushing out of her scar and the pain to stop or at least he was assuming the pain stopped as she stopped screaming.
"That sucked," Rose complained as she stood up and wiped the black gunk from her forehead as the black smoke floating in front of her in the form of Voldemort caught fire and burned away.
"Are you okay?" Hermione asked hesitantly.
"Do I look okayβ¦" Rose trailed off as she turned and spotted her girlfriend dressed in a short skirt with a bunny girl shirt while holding a pair of bunny ears. "I'm starting to wonder if I fell and hit my head."
"You're fine, I mean you didn't hit your head," Myst said, trying not to stare at the attractive redhead that was covered in glitter. "Hermione ran into some trouble with a tentacle monster or would have, I summoned her so we could buy pizza before that happened."
"Pizza?" Rose asked, not making the connection.
"My uncle wanted me to get a real job," Hermione admitted, not particularly happy about working in a sleazy pizza joint.
"Delivering pizzas?" Rose asked.
"He's friends with the owner," Hermione complained.
"Lovely," Rose muttered.
"I offered her a chance to jump worlds and she wanted to kidnap you," Myst explained.
"Can you blame her?" Alec asked with a smirk.
"Ignore him," Brian said as he swatted the back of Alec's head.
Rose glanced between Alec and Brian. "Don't worry about it, my cousin's friends are worse," she told him then focused on Hermione. "I'll need my cloak and my wand."
"That's easy, I'll send you back and you can grab them." Myst glanced at Hermione, hoping his idea worked. "Can you pick Hermione up for a second? I want to test something."
"Sure," Rose replied as she reached down and picked Hermione up, suddenly happy that her aunt insisted on her doing all of the yard work as it meant that she could actually pick her girlfriend up, even if it wasn't as easy as she'd like to pretend. "How long do I have to hold her?"
"Are you saying I'm heavy?" Hermione teased as she looked up at her girlfriend's face, glad to see her because her summer had been positively dreadful so far.
"Nope," Rose replied with a grin. "Do we have a plan?"
"That depends, do you actually care about your world?" Myst asked, not sure how much work they'd have to do to pick up a pair of witches.
Rose considered the question, thinking about the sheer number of people in the wizarding world that wanted in her pants and weren't above spreading all sorts of stories about her. "I'm holding one of the only people I actually like in the wizarding world, Lupin never bothered to check on me growing up and Sirius and Luna are dead."
Myst winced, making a mental note to check on Luna. "Do you need to loot your vault?"
"I'm not leaving it with the goblins, they're already stolen enough," Rose complained, wishing she could get away with setting the thieves on fire.
"In that case, finish your shower and get dressed. I'll summon you back in twenty minutes so we can grab some trinkets and expanded bags. Just make sure Hermione is sitting in your lap so that she gets summoned with you." Myst let Rose vanish and checked on Hermione. He sighed in relief when he found her in the shower with Rose rather than being grabbed by a monster.
"Is there a reason you summoned her in the shower?" Aerith asked, curious if Myst had a decent excuse.
"She was in the shower when I summoned Hermione, I didn't want to risk glitching things in case my idea of saving Hermione didn't work," Myst explained.
"So it had nothing to do with summoning an attractive naked redhead?" Tony asked with amusement.
"Nope," Myst lied as he floated the pizzas over to a clear spot on the desk. "Have some pizza, I'm going to see if I can summon someone that has a better defense against wind attacks on the off chance we run into someone using it."
"Sounds good," Taylor agreed as she took a slice of pizza.
"Don't mind if I do," Vicky said as she grabbed her own slice.
Myst focused and summoned a version of Terra from Final Fantasy six from a couple of hours before her fight against Kefka.
Terra blinked when she found herself in a warehouse rather than on the airship. "What's going on?"
Myst looked at the attractive green haired young woman that was wearing a breastplate that reminded him of Wonder Woman's armor. "We're basically heroes from another world and we're going up against a monster that uses water attacks. Can I talk you into letting me examine your tortoise shield for a couple of minutes so I can duplicate it? No time will pass on your world and I can make it worth your while."
"How?" Terra asked, curious about how he was going to copy it.
"Magical items or silver coins?" Myst offered.
"I meant how are you going to duplicate it?" Terra asked as she pulled one of her extra tortoise shields out of her magic backpack and tossed it to Myst. "Go for it."
"Magical enchanting altar," Myst replied as he stepped over to the enchanting altar and looked at the shield, picking up the ability to duplicate the enchantment and the ability to absorb water damage. "Thanks," he said as he floated the shield back over to her.
"That's it?" Terra asked in surprise.
"Yeah," Myst replied with a grin. "You basically just look at something with the altar and you get the ability to duplicate it using the enchanting altar and magic dust that you get by disenchanting things."
Myst levitated one of the magic boosting staves he'd picked up in disgaea over to her. "One magic boosting staff, as promised."
Terra examined the staff and smiled when she realized that it gave a fantastic boost to magic. "What else do you want?"
"Do you have anything that lets you absorb holy damage, cuts the cost of spells, lets you move faster or increases your maximum health or mana?" Myst asked.
"Sure," Terra replied as she pulled an extra pair of Sprint Shoes out of her backpack and tossed them to Myst. "You can keep the shoes, I have extra." She pulled a bone bracelet out of her pack and tossed it to Myst, suddenly glad that Umaro didn't have bags to hold his gear. "You'll have to give this one back."
"Sure," Myst replied as he examined the enchantment on the shoes. He picked up the movement boosting ability then floated the shoes over to Taylor. "They should let you walk or run twice as fast." He put the bone bracelet on the enchanting altar and looked at the enchantment, curious if it matched what he remembered from the game. 'Not quite, it doesn't make his attacks unblockable. Still, boosting your health and strength by 50% and your damage by 25% is nothing to sneeze at.'
Myst picked up the ability then levitated the bracelet back over to Terra. He pulled a cheap bracelet out of his spatial ring and a couple of bags of dust and enchanted the bracelet with the new enchant. He examined the new bracelet with the altar then floated it over to Taylor when it proved to be identical. He pulled a magic boosting sword out of his inventory and floated it over. "Pleasure doing business with you."
Terra pulled the paladin shield out of her backpack and handed it over. "Be careful with that, I need it for the fight against Kefka."
"No worries," Myst replied as he picked up the ability to absorb Holy damage and cast Ultima. He examined it with the altar and winced when he realized how much the shield would cost to reproduce. "That's expensive, can I talk you into letting me pass the shield around so we can pick up the abilities? I'll toss in an extra magic sword," he offered as he handed the shield back to her.
"Is that something you can share?" Terra asked hopefully, not really expecting much but figuring she might as well ask.
"Yes," Cloud replied with a grin as he focused on including her in the group, getting the sense that she was a hero and could use the help.
Terra stared at Cloud. "What do I have to do?"
"Just focus on the shield and think about copying the magic," Cloud explained, not seeing a problem with helping.
Terra smiled when she focused on the paladin shield and a floating window appeared letting her know that she'd acquired the shield's abilities. She glanced at the magic items covering the desk with a smile. "Let's make some trades."
"Help yourself," Cloud said, looking forward to seeing what else she had.
