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Mist Jumps Part 16
🕑 Added 2017-09-05 22:37:21 +0000 UTC Sin giggled as she gestured around the ‘outdoor’ park at the various hot naked female minions that were hanging out or walking around. “So, what do you think?”Piper blushed as she looked around at the attractive naked women. “I feel like I should be putting my hand over Pandora’s eyes.”
“I have x-ray vision, I could see through your hand,” Pandora replied smugly as she watched two of the naked girls by the fountain kiss. “Besides, they’re hot.”
“That really isn’t an excuse to run around naked,” Piper muttered.
Sin snickered. “You’re just bent out of shape because you’re not getting any sex with Leo.”
“Enough about my lack of love life.”
Pandora twitched as her traitorous mind conjured an image of her father together with Piper. “I need mental bleach.”
Sin snickered. “If you and Leo aren’t knocking boots yet, you could always flirt with some of the girls?”
“How about no,” Piper asked sarcastically as she started walking toward the arch that led to the shopping district. It wasn’t that she didn’t find the girls attractive, she did, which was all sorts of weird as she hadn’t found girls attractive before becoming a witch. It was just that she wanted to practice flirting a bit before she crashed and burned in front of Sin, who basically oozed sex appeal and made her more than a little self conscious.
Sin grabbed Pandora’s hand then followed after Piper with a spring in her step. “We could always conjure someone for you like we’re going to do for Chris.”
Piper shook her head. “No thanks. I’m not sure I even have time for romance with how much effect it takes to keep Quake running.”
“You could always quit and come work in Mist’s strip club, we need a decent chef.”
“Don’t tempt me,” Piper complained as she stepped through the arch and into a shopping district that looked a bit like a nudist’s version of a ren fair.
Sin grinned as she looked around at the various people. “I could get used to this.”
Pandora snickered as she walked through the arch and into the marketplace. If she couldn’t sense magic she would have missed the fact that the arch was a door to the next expanded magical trunk. She knew that her Dad still had a lot of work to do on the marketplace but the basics were in place and the minions seemed to be enjoying themselves. “Oh yeah.”
“Is it too much to ask to find a handsome man walking around?” Piper asked half sarcastically.
Xander spoke up from where he was waiting on Kyra and Cordelia to pick out which bolt of silk cloth they wanted to make their dresses out of. “Probably, I mean we don’t grow on trees.”
The minion shopkeeper snickered. “Speak for yourself.”
Pandora turned to look at Xander. “Hey Uncle Xander.”
Xander flashed the minion a smile then turned to look at Pandora as he asked, “What brings you to the marketplace?”
“Piper wanted to get a dress for her date with Leo and Sin and I wanted to oogle the naked girls.”
Sin smiled at the naked minion girl that had just walked by and blew her a kiss. “What can I say? The minions are hot.”
Piper blushed bright red as the minion turned and did some rather inappropriate things with her fingers and tongue then spanked herself playfully and walked off. “Yeah, you’re all perverts.”
“Happy perverts,” Sin agreed.
Cordelia spoke up, “On the upside, the silk is extremely cheap.”
Kyra pointed at a nice sheer red silk she had a feeling would help her catch Cordelia and Xander’s eyes. “That one.”
“Oh course, one silver coin.” The merchant handed Kyra the bolt of silk after the ex-demon handed her a silver coin. “Thank you.”
Kyra said, “You’re welcome.”
Sin gestured toward the other side of the marketplace. “Shall we wander?”
“Might as well,” Xander replied he moved over to the next stall which happened to be sweets.
Pandora smiled as she followed along. She had a feeling that things wouldn’t stay quiet for all that long but she was going to enjoy herself until things went crazy.
0o0o0
Mist’s avatar scowled as he walked into the police station looking like an overly flamboyant black pimp from a bad 70’s show with a huge afro. He’d been getting tickets for the last week stuffed on his car claiming that he’d parked in the wrong place, never mind the fact that he had a perk that should have let him park damn near anywhere without problems, police tape over the entrance to his club at random times and an entire list of other petty annoyances including a couple of cops harassing his strippers. He glanced around the police station then smiled as he noticed one of the cops was actually a demon. ‘That makes it easier.’ He reached out with telepathy and checked the demon’s mind. ‘Checkmate asshole, trying to ruin the local businesses so you can take over is a decent scam, I’m just not interested in playing fair.’ He cast a silent notice me not charm on the demon then glanced over at the container of pens sitting on the help desk counter and teleported two of them into the demon’s brain.
Andy jumped back as the new guy burst into flames and then vanished in a burst of fire. “What the hell?!”
Darryl Morris stared in shock at the spot where the new guy had just burst into flames and vanished. “Did you see that?”
Mist ignored Andy’s shout and Darryl’s frantic looking around as he reached out with his technopathy power and told the computer that controlled the security system to overwrite the last ten seconds of video. He didn’t really care if Andy found a glitch in the system, he just didn’t want to leave evidence of magic. He was just glad that it wasn’t a couple of years in the future or the video would already be on a network somewhere.
He tapped into the computer’s network and erased all of the complaints and citations against him. Sure, he could have just paid all of the various fines but he didn’t really want to deal with having a criminal record for the next year when he hadn’t actually done anything wrong. He snuck a glance at Andy and Darryl who were rather confused that no one else was reacting to the fact that one of ‘their’ officers had just burst into flames.
Andy whispered, “Security tapes, now.”
“On it.” Darryl jumped up and headed for the security office at a fast walk.
Mist’s avatar ignored the cops as he used his x-ray vision to look through the wall of the records room then the filing cabinet where the paper copies were stored. He teleported the paper copies of his supposed crimes to his house so he could shred them at his leisure then settled in to wait until someone was free so he could complain about panhandlers, halfway across the city from his club. He wouldn’t have bothered except he needed a reason to be here and they’d harassed one of his dancers for money yesterday after she politely told the guy no.
0o0o0
Mist’s avatar frowned slightly as the ‘chosen one’ detector that he’d created pointed at the happy brown haired girl walking down the L.A. sidewalk wearing a girl scout uniform. He circled around the girl just to make sure that it wasn’t pointing at something behind the girl, it wasn’t. ‘Right, I’m not giving a copy of my magical powers to a teenage girl scout.” He studied the girl to see if she was going to be a good person in the future as he followed her and her friends while invisible. ‘At least she’s a decent person.’ He smiled slightly as he noticed the silver ring the girl was wearing. ‘Change of plans.’ He reached out with telepathy and checked how often she took off the ring off and was happy to find that she almost never took it off. ‘That should work.’
He pulled his stopwatch out of his pocket and pressed the button which caused everything to freeze. He carefully slipped the girl’s ring off her finger then pulled a ring of non detection out of his inventory and transferred the property to the girl’s ring. ‘This should keep the demons or angels from finding you and convincing you to bother me.’ He slipped the girl’s ring back on her finger then walked away. He unpaused time then stuck his watch back in his pocket and teleported back home to hang out with the girls before they crashed out and he tried to find a project.
0o0o0
Gabriel Statler pulled open the door and glared at the young man standing on his porch holding an old fashioned watch. “What do you want?”
“Gabriel Statler, Lord of War?” Mist asked curiously.
The man gestured behind him and summoned his sword.
Mist pushed the button on his pocket watch and frowned as nothing happened, the sword was still moving, the man still glaring at him. He quickly opened a warehouse portal in front of the flying sword then closed it after it went through the portal. He pushed the button on his watch twice, once to unfreeze everything and twice to try to freeze the man again. He smiled as the man froze now that his magical sword wasn’t close. “Much better. I’ll be right back.” He turned invisible then teleported twenty miles back up the road. He glanced at the frozen cars on the highway then opened a warehouse portal and stepped inside.
He walked over to the crystal blade lying on the ground and scanned it. He looked over the pattern for the magical soul stealing blade of protection. “Compared to Excalibur you suck but I guess that’s to be expected.” He picked the blade up then walked back out of his warehouse and closed the portal behind him. He teleported back to Gabriel’s house then unfroze time.
Gabriel blinked as his sword was suddenly not where it was supposed to be. “What the hell?”
“You’re not coming back this time.” Mist gestured and cast soul trap then stabbed the man with the crystal sword. He let go of the sword as it burst into flames along with the rather dead Lord of War. “Live by the sword, die by the sword.” He glanced around to make sure that no one had seen his little display then shimmered back to the house to hang out with Paige, Phoenix and Poppy.
0o0o0
Prue blinked as a large rainbow appeared in the middle of the living room. “Did someone order a light show?”
Piper raised her hands just in case she had to blast something. “I don’t think so.”
Pandora giggled as she stepped out of the rainbow which faded behind her. “So worth the 150 dollars it took to get the leprechaun drunk enough to teleport me to Ireland so I could copy his power.”
Phoebe shook her head. “You got a leprechaun drunk so he’d teleport you?”
“Hell yeah, teleporting via a rainbow is awesome.” She snickered as she walked over and took a seat at the table. “Besides, it was a teleportation method I didn’t have ye. Speaking of, I need to borrow Chris and Dad’s mirror so I can go back in time and rescue a wizard from a spider demon.”
“Spider demon?” Prue asked fairly sure she didn’t want to know.
“She’s basically a demon that drains magic and webs people. She caught a wizard in 1904, I want to go back and rescue him so that he’s not a drained husk.”
Phoebe glanced down at her rather large belly. “I’d offer to go with you, but I’d rather not get into a fight right now.” She was just glad that they hadn’t had to deal with all that many demons the last couple of months and that Mist’s group and Wyatt and Chris were around to help.
Pandora glanced over at Piper and Prue who were also rather pregnant. “Don’t worry, Chris and I can totally deal with the spider demon.”
“What am I being volunteered for?” Chris asked as he walked in.
“Going to the past and killing a spider demon so that we can rescue a wizard from spending the next 100 years in agony.”
“Having a couple of wizards around would certainly help our spell research.”
“Seriously? That’s it?” Piper asked.
“It’s not the strangest request I’ve had.” Chris smiled as he pointed at Phoebe. “Have you heard some of her sandwich choices?”
Phoebe snorted. “Not my fault, blame Xander, I do.”
Paige said, “Just try to stay safe and avoid getting trapped.”
“Don’t worry, I won’t let anything happen to him.” She was planning on killing the spider demon from long range with her crossbow by shooting it through one of Lily’s smaller doors.
Chris shook his head at his cousin’s antics. “Don’t worry, I’ll keep her safe.”
“Awesome.” Pandora smiled as she teleported next door to ask Mist about the mirror.
“Do we have a power to steal some of her energy? Because she has way too much of it,” Piper complained good naturedly.
“I should have told her to grab one of Mist’s avatars to give me a foot massage,” Phoebe complained.
“Shouldn’t you ask Xander?” Prue asked a touch sarcastically.
“I’m not picky,” Phoebe replied.
Pandora snickered as she thought about all of the times her aunt had bummed foot massages from people over the years. It was hard to believe that they’d already spent half a year running around killing demons. She knew they had another six months before they jumped and had to figure out who was coming and who was staying behind.
0o0o0
Dawn gestured and teleported the knight’s black shield to her hand as he reached for it. “Yoink!”
Xander felt slightly guilty as he slammed a magical sledgehammer into the back of the Black Knight’s head in the middle of the demon bar as hard as he could. He winced slightly as the demon’s head exploded thanks to his supernaturally boosted strength. He gestured with his off hand and sent a stream of lightning into the demons in front of him.
Dawn stuck her new shield in her inventory as several demons opened fire with unfamiliar attack powers. She smiled as her mimicry power copied the powers used against her and made her immune to them after the first hit, not that she wasn’t already immune or nearly immune to everything they could toss at her thanks to her elemental resistances and immunities. “Anyone that isn’t evil, might want to flee now.”
Xander turned to blast the other side of the bar and stopped mid cast as he saw Snyder sitting at the bar. “What the fuck?”
The Snyder lookalike vanished in a blue and white spiral of magic.
‘Now I’m seeing things, shit.’ Xander turned his attention toward the rest of the bar and started tossing out waves of fire and other rather nasty spells.
Dawn wasn’t surprised as the remaining demons shimmered, flamed or otherwise teleported out of the bar. “We got what we came for, we should leave.”
“Let’s go.” Xander shimmered back to the alley.
Dawn followed him. “We should probably walk a bit before we change back.”
“Probably,” Xander admitted as he started walking down the alley. While they couldn’t be tracked, scryed on or predicted thanks to several magical trinkets, they didn’t want to take a chance that their method of transport could be scryed or tracked. He didn’t want the random attacks on demons to be connected to the Charmed Ones or linked back to them if they could help it, at least not until the sisters had their babies and had a chance to recover.
Dawn glanced around then followed Xander. While she trusted her magical items, it didn’t hurt to be careful.
0o0o0
Genie smiled as Mist appeared in the black stone room. “Welcome back, congratulations on surviving becoming a father several times over without the various mothers killing you and for putting up with Buffy’s week long demon slaying extravaganza at the end.”
Mist glanced around at the empty room then looked back at Genie. “It was a bit touch and go when the demons attacked the sisters in the hospital thanks to a crooked nurse but we survived.” He was just glad that Willow and Tara had tossed up some anti demon wards over the hospital or things might have ended up worse. “I’m not sure the demons will recover from Wyatt and Buffy’s crazy hunting spree any time soon.”
“We can hope.” Genie snickered as she brought the Charmed jump up on the screen. “You have 3,500 points to spend on powers, items and companions. You’ll need 300 for Paige, Poppy and Phoenix, 400 for Chris, Wyatt, Leo and Kyra and 600 for both sets of sisters if you want to bring them along.”
“I only really need 600 for the evil perk that lets me kill monsters and improve my talents, the rest is just gravy.”
“You should probably avoid mentioning that perk to Leo or the girls.”
“Probably then again nothing says I have to do some elaborate ritual and I’m going to be killing monsters anyways.”
“Does that mean you don’t want the creepy statue that traps souls?” Genie asked sarcastically.
Mist shook his head. “It’s tempting, I could try to justify it by lying to myself and saying I’d only imprison monsters in it but there’d always be that temptation to just go on a killing spree.”
“How is that different from the evil capstone?”
“With the murder for power perk, dead is dead, someone else can judge their souls. If I grabbed the statue, I’d want to use it. I’d find something I could imprison, that I could justify trapping in agony for centuries or millennia… then I’d do it again. Eventually my justifications would be paper thin and I’d turn into the very monsters I’m trying to stop.”
“Yeah, let’s avoid that.“
Mist frowned slightly. “Speaking of weird things, I don’t suppose you can tell me why Paige was bisexual?”
Genie plastered an innocent look on her face that wasn’t fooling him. “Oh?”
“I could buy Phoenix and Poppy being different than the show considering they were from alternate worlds and you can find a lot of weird stuff with the dimensional breach controller if you look hard enough and I’m sure we looked but Paige should have been like the show, right?”
Genie nodded. “Yes.”
“Yes? That’s all I get?” Mist asked uneasily.
“Would it make you feel better to know that I dropped you into a bog standard Charmed world?” Genie shifted uncomfortably.
Mist sighed. “Not particularly as that would mean one of the girls is messing with people’s heads.” While James, Cordelia and Buffy also had biokinesis he really doubted they’d altered Paige’s gender preference which left Selena, Amy or Amelia and his bet was on Amelia given the fact that Earth Bet’s Victoria was straight and her version wasn’t. That and Amy really didn’t like working on brains.
“Not to change the subject but what else did you need to grab?” Genie asked hoping that Mist wouldn’t get her in trouble with Amelia. Not that it really mattered but she liked the biokinetic and didn’t really want to sell her out.
Mist decided that was probably Genie’s way of saying, ‘Please don’t put me in the middle of things.’ He asked, “Would the Piece of Heaven item that creates a pocket heaven follow me to other jumps or just get recreated each jump?”
“Which do you think is less work?” Genie stuck her tongue out at Mist playfully.
Mist laughed. “I guess that makes sense.”
“Thinking of setting up a permanent base?”
“Yeah,” Mist admitted as he walked over to the screen. “The chests are nice but I need somewhere to store them that isn’t my warehouse or inventory.”
“That would certainly help. The little slice of heaven is also fiat backed so that no one other than you and your friends can teleport there.”
“Which should come in useful if I need to dodge enemies.” Mist selected the Piece of Heaven item and Heartless. “There goes another 1,200 points.”
Genie snickered. “Easy come, easy go. What else are you going to pick up?”
“Hey, I killed a lot of demons for those points. Let’s go with transplanted power for 300 which gives me 600 points worth of powers that I can share.”
Genie shook her head. “There are times when I think the council of jump makers were dropped on their heads as children.”
“It’s all about discounts,” Mist replied with amusement as he selected the item in question.
“What else are you grabbing?”
“I was thinking about the 200 point whitelighter perk that lets me talk someone through using an unruly power or magical ability so they get complete control over it. Considering the small army of rugrats and the fact that projection normally starts off at least a little unstable, it seems worth the points.”
Genie snickered. “I was sort of hoping you’d forget to grab that.”
Mist turned and looked down his nose at Genie. “I’m sure the munchkins will cause enough trouble without their powers being uncontrollable.”
“True.”
“Generation Hex is 100 points and it makes sure my children don’t end up evil little monsters as long as I’m not being evil while they’re growing up. That leaves me 400 points for more powers or 200 if I take magitech like Pandora.”
Genie playfully pouted. “You fiend, you’d copy your daughter’s trick?”
“I asked her about it, she said to go for it if I wanted it,” Mist replied with amusement as he looked over the rest of the perks. “On the other hand the Gotta’ Have a Montage perk looks pretty useful considering it lets me train people to use their powers more creatively.”
“Eight people at a time, once a month.” Genie had a feeling the perk would come in pretty handy over the next couple of jumps for teaching people how to use their powers more effectively.
Mist shrugged. “It’s still a decent permanent boost.”
“That takes care of your points. What do you want your power container to have?”
“I was thinking the uncapped slow growth type of invincibility so that we get more and more durable over time.”
Genie snorted. “Right, because you need more durability.”
“I don’t but being able to hand out extra durability to heroes I meet in my travels would be nice. Besides, I can pretty much fake everything else with Projection.”
“That makes a certain amount of sense. Where are you going next?”
“Somewhere I can kill magical monsters by the hundreds.” Mist wasn’t all that picky as long as it was somewhere that wasn’t too horrible as he didn’t really want everyone from Charmed to freak out.
“Do you want me to bring everyone back so you can discuss things?” Genie asked.
“Unless you have some suggestions first?”
Genie nodded enthusiastically. “You haven’t been to any of the Final Fantasy worlds for a while and Leet and Uber would love to jump to a game world.” She smirked as she brought the Final Fantasy X jump up on the wall.
“Oh, that could be fun.” Mist walked over to look at the jump.
0o0o0
Genie snapped her fingers and brought the group to the black stone chamber. She smiled as one of the Pipers tried to freeze her as soon as she appeared. “Sorry, I’m a genie, we don’t freeze.”
Piper blushed slightly as she glanced around and realized that everyone was safe including her two and a half month old baby that was tucked in her crib sleeping peacefully. “Sorry, Genie?”
“That’s me.” Genie bowed playfully. “I’d say the one and only but that would be a lie.”
Paige frowned as she looked at the cribs in front of Phoenix and Poppy then over at Pandora. “I’m guessing, Pandora is mine?”
“Yep,” Pandora replied as she pulled Paige into a hug. “Sorry you don’t remember me growing up Mom.”
Leo lurched slightly as he tried and failed to orb closer to his Piper so that he could orb her and their child out. “Where are we and why don’t I have my powers?”
Paige hugged her daughter as she glared at Genie. “It’s not your fault.”
Genie turned to look at Leo. “A pocket dimension and no one has their powers other than myself because of safety concerns and union rules.”
Phoebe pulled her attention from her and her double’s babies and back to Genie. “Union rules?”
“Basically, a long time ago in a land far far away mistakes were made…” Genie trailed off as everyone other than the sleeping babies glared at her. “What?”
Pandora snickered as she switched from a full hug to a just an arm around her mother’s shoulders. “I thought it was funny.”
Leet asked, “Why haven’t we went to Star Wars yet?”
“Because there are better places to get magic,” Mist replied absently as he continued working on his build for Final Fantasy.
Genie shrugged. “To make a long story short, a Jumper that shall remain nameless jumped to a rather nasty world and picked up a ‘perk’ that caused them to be a functional psychopath.”
Both of the Phoebes blurted, “That’s a perk?” at the same time.
“In that particular world yes, not so much other places. Anyways, he went on a rather long campaign of terror and destroyed a dozen or so worlds and two solar systems before he was eventually stopped.”
“What stopped him?” Paige asked.
“He went nuts and eventually tried to kill his jump chan for his powers. His jump chan wasn’t impressed and atomized him.”
Wyatt asked, “You can do that?”
“If people attack me, sure. Everyone has a right to defend themselves.”
“Why wasn’t he stopped earlier?” Prue asked warily.
“Free will. Outside of self defense, we’re really only allowed to hand a jumper a rope and let them hang themselves.”
Leo’s eyes narrowed. “If you’re as powerful as you’re implying, was it really self defense?”
Genie reached up and tapped her finger on her nose. “Ding, ding, we have a winner. That was what some of the less than nice jump chans on the council argued. Eventually it was decided to strip all perks and drawbacks while the jumpers are choosing their worlds to avoid influencing them.”
“How do you blow up a planet?” Phoebe asked.
“From what I recall that particular jumper liked bombs. Don’t worry, Mist is a lot saner than that idiot.”
Leet glanced over at Mist. “Where are we going next?”
Mist turned and looked at Uber and Leet. “Final Fantasy X, I need a tech volunteer and a Blitzball star.”
Uber smirked. “Count me in.”
Leet grinned. “Hell yeah.”
Prue asked, “What about the rest of us?”
Mist’s Piper spoke up, “What about the kids?”
Mist smiled at Piper. “I grabbed a pocket dimension as one of my exit prizes, they’ll be safe as buttons up there.”
“You realize that buttons get lost all the time, right?” Selena asked playfully.
Mist turned to look at Selena. “You’re not helping love.”
Selena snickered.
“We could always import the children, right?” Victoria asked.
Mist shook his head. “I’d rather not. We really only need one blitzball star and Uber is a perfect fit for that because it comes with training perks.”
“Which goes nicely with my power,” Uber agreed.
Hermione asked, “What about the other options?” as she walked over to the screen.
Mist said, “Guardians are raised to protect summoners and the summoners are basically all followers of an anti tech cult that worships a demon pretending to be a god. I’d be leery of importing anyone as a summoner or guardian, let alone the children.”
Prue glanced down at her cute little baby daughter then over at her double’s daughter then over at Harry. “Not to mention we’d miss them growing up.”
“I’d rather avoid that,” Harry stated firmly. He’d grown up without his parents, he wasn’t going to do the same to his daughters if he could help it.
“In that case, let’s figure out what we need to take.” Prue was looking forward to seeing a new world, a world where no one had ever heard of the Charmed Ones.
0o0o0
Mist
Race: Ronso (cat like humanoids)
Class: Drop In
Perks:
Lancet: [Free] Basically blue magic.
Chocobo Riding [100] Ability to summon a Chocobo.
Faithful Steed [100] (Requires Chocobo Riding) You can train your summoned chocobo. He’s also no longer a coward.
Foraging [100] You can send your chocobo out to find things.
Distillation: [1 CC] Fiends and monsters you lay low will always drop a sphere of a specific type.
Aggressive beasts may drop attack spheres, passive beasts may drop defense
spheres, but with these spheres you can slowly enhance yourself, or another, or
even an item.
The Grid: [3 CC] Sphere grid like the game, used to upgrade yourself.
Grid Designer [2 CC] A more advanced way of using the dress spheres is by placing them within grids. While the grids that you make won’t have any particular effect to them to begin with, it does help anyone trying to learn how to use a dress sphere by making it easier for them to manipulate the powers of the spheres. Making a garment grid doesn’t take much effort or many resources at all – and though it’ll take a substantial amount of time, eventually you’ll be able to merge grids together as well to share their effects.
Awoken Fayth: Level 2 = [6 CC]
The creation of an Aeon can be facilitated between yourself and two others. The appearance of the Aeon will however, become a bit more convoluted as a result. Also, any Aeon you make in such a fashion will have an “Overdrive” ability – with its aspects taken from one ability that each
contributor possesses. The strength of the ability will be dependent on the strength of the Aeon.
Taming Contract: [200] Get stronger by catching monsters in Spira.
Creature Creator [100] Use Pyreflies or spiritual energy to create monsters based off what you’ve captured. Also allows you to modify monsters with the use of material items along with spiritual energy, much like how the Guardians can modify their weapons. It’ll consume a substantial amount of items, but with this you can teach your pets new tricks.
Frivolous Experimentation [200] Ability to modify captured monsters.
Pyrefly Injection: [100] You can use pyreflies, or a very substantial amount of spiritual energy to create “pyrefly additions”. Those with sufficient skill can take control of pyreflies and weave them into armour components and additional parts for your monsters. Artificial wing components, additional tails or appendages, and other such parts that you can find on Spira’s monsters can be added to your monsters with this.
Fiend Arena: [100] Battle your creations.
Experimental Capturing Device: [Free with Taming Contract] This handheld device doubles as a net gun as well as a standard weapon. Anything captured will be automatically sent to the holding cells within the Arena itself.
Tiny Bee: [Free] This small handgun fires mystical bullets, completely removing the need for reloading.
Companions: [500] 600 CP/7 CC to spend on skills for 16 companions.
Drawbacks:
A Clash of Ages [600] The main boss has upgraded minions and they’re coming for me.
Genie raised her eyebrows as she looked at Mist’s build. “Let’s ignore the insanity of getting on the radar of something that can actually kill you for a minute, why only two levels of Awoken Fayth?”
Mist frowned slightly as he thought about the last boss in the game, he had a couple of ideas how to deal with him but it was still a bit disconcerting to be reminded that he wasn’t actually indestructible. “Two levels gives the newly created Aeon an overdrive ability and the shield from the first level which is really all I need right now. I’m planning on having someone grab the Soul Fragment item which will let us upgrade Aeons and other summons which means that I don’t need the third level of the ability.”
Willow spoke up, “And the level four ability makes their abilities erratic and five basically twists them so that they change when someone else in the group summons them.”
Mist smiled at Willow then looked back at Genie. “Exactly, which is not what I want in a summon.”
Vista asked, “How are you planning on dealing with this world’s version of an Endbringer?”
“Through trickery and cheating. Without his armor, he’s not all that impressive.”
“Other than his ability to take over aeons,” Genie pointed out.
“One of the reasons I didn’t want to start with any. I’d rather not have to defeat my own summons in some cataclysmic battle like the game.”
Leet spoke up, “I think we’re done with everyone’s builds so we can grab everything we need to.”
“Let’s take a look.” Genie brought up the builds for the people being imported. “Let’s see Buffy, Willow and Sin are sphere hunters, Leet is a drop in Al Bhed with five levels of weapon creation, Uber is a blitzball star and the rest are drop ins with way too many level 5 unlock spheres. Do you honestly think you’ll need sixteen of them?”
Leet smirked at the look of disbelief on Genie’s face. “Considering they’re not consumed and each key sphere works once per person, that’s sixteen boosts we can apply to anyone we want to boost. Chris and Willow picked up some nice weapons that we can mix together to create legendary weapons for everyone.”
Genie looked over the weapons, they made more sense if you were going to put them together in an ultimate weapon than leaving them separate. “I still think ten counter attacks on a weapon that ignores physical defenses is a bit excessive.”
“I needed something that I know can kill the endgame crap my flaw is going to send my way,” Mist admitted.
“I guess I can see that. How come you bothered grabbing the ribbon when you have your armbands?”
Buffy spoke up, “We wanted to hit the ground running and Leet mentioned being able to use a copy of the ribbon to teach a ribbon ability to the aeons and monsters we capture.”
Genie turned to look at Leet. “You play way too many video games.”
Leet laughed. “No such thing.”
“Exactly,” Uber agreed enthusiastically.
Leo asked, “How is everyone taking this so calmly?”
Pandora turned to look at Leo. “What do you mean? This is going to be awesome!”
Paige shook her head. “If by awesome you mean dangerous then sure.”
“Dad has a plan, I trust him.”
Sin reached out and ruffled Pandora’s hair. “We’ll be fine. Worse case, we hide in Mist’s new shiny pocket realm for a year and play video games.”
Mist said, “We shouldn’t have to. I’m hoping to have Penance defeated within a couple of hours of jumping into the world.”
Genie turned and looked at Willow as she conjured a deck of cards. “You accepted the three cards for extra points for your magic boosting weapon, time to draw the cards.”
“Right, let’s just hope it’s worth it,” Willow grumbled as she walked over to draw the cards.
Genie snickered as Willow drew the Hierophant card. “Not so bad, you’ll run into a summoner that needs help a fair bit.”
“Could be worse.” Willow put the card back on the deck then pulled her hand back hastily as the cards started shuffling themselves. “Neat trick.”
“I try,” Genie replied with amusement as the cards came to a stop. She smiled as Willow drew her next card. “The world, people will get twitchy if they find out you caused the death of Sin.”
Sin muttered, “That’s going to get annoying.”
“We should probably figure out a decent nickname for you,” Taylor pointed out.
“What about Lusty?” Harry asked with amusement.
“I was going to suggest sexy but I guess that works,” Xander pointed out.
Fred spoke up, “I’ll second Lusty.”
“Lusty works,” Sin agreed.
Willow drew her last card. “Hierophant card, again.”
“Sometimes you get lucky.” Genie banished the deck. “I’ll see you in a year then?”
“Yeah, we’re ready…” Mist trailed off as he found himself on a beach with large cat people versions of Abby, Selena, Buffy, Willow, Sin, Uber, Chris, Wyatt, Paige, Poppy, Phoenix and both sets of Halliwell sisters. The only one that was still human was Leet.
One of the Prues looked around the beach. “Where are the girls?”
“They should be tucked away in the companion housing, safe and sound.” Mist focused on the little slice of heaven he was supposed to have then orbed everyone ‘up’ there.
Both Phoebes twitched as they reappeared on a gleaming white marble floor with large marble pillars that disappeared into a ceiling of clouds. One of them spun left, the other right, looking around to see how far it extended. “How large is this place?”
“It’s currently the size of a small island. I’ll probably expand it as soon as I have time.”
Buffy pulled her attention off the clouds and looked around at the various cat people. It was weird and it took her a few seconds to connect everyone’s cat forms with their normal look. “How long will it take to destroy the machine that targets everything and everyone around you?”
“If everything works like I’m hoping, maybe twenty minutes. I just need to copy the new weapons and move some enchantments then do some scrying.” Mist opened a door to his warehouse. “Can someone let everyone know they can come out and look around?”
“Sure.” Willow pulled a shiny new blade out of her inventory then handed it to Mist. “I’m going to want it back as a keepsake, so no torching it.”
Mist scanned the magic boosting sword then duplicated the sword with his Diablo trick. He handed the original back to Willow. “Thanks.”
Willow put the sword back in her inventory.”
Selena glanced around. “I think we’re going to need a couple of tables and some lounge chairs.”
“Here.” Chris handed Mist his new weapon.
“Draw up some plans,” Mist replied as he accepted Chris’s weapon. He scanned the blade then duplicated it and handed it back to him. “Thanks, now it’s just a matter of putting everything together.”
Poppy said, “I’m going to check on the munchkins.”
“Same,” Phoenix agreed.
Chris put his sword in his inventory then walked through the portal to the warehouse. “Let’s go.”
Leet asked, “Do you want me to take a look at the ship?”
“If you can find it, sure.” Mist was less worried about the ship and more worried about getting everything set up so he could destroy Penance without causing a massive amount of collateral damage in the process.
0o0o0
Mist’s avatar would have felt bad about the group surprise attacking the strange looking giant creature if the giant monster hadn’t already vaporized one of the lessor clones Mist had sent to ‘trick’ him into using several interesting and unique abilities so they could copy them. The thing vaguely resembled a torso with floating disconnected gauntleted arms, a spinning disk like hat and a large weird strangely flexible crescent piece of metal or something attached above where the head might be on a person. He was sort of regretting Mist not picking up any of the local perks for dealing with the local magitek because his attempts at scanning the creature hadn’t been all that useful.
He frowned slightly as the flying machine hit one of the five avatars flying around him with an attack that instantly popped the avatar’s mana shield and seriously damaged the avatar. ‘Shit, so much for tanking the shots.’ He smiled as the avatar struct the boss ten times in a blur almost too fast for him to see. ‘At least the counterattack part of the plan works...’ he frowned as he noticed the complete lack of noticeable damage to the boss from the ten hits.
He twitched as the boss blasted the group of avatars with a bunch of multicolored energy explosions which caused them to start falling out of the air before they were brought back to life by their auto life boots. ‘Obliteration, that’s nastier than the game version.’ He smiled as another avatar teleported in and slashed at the left arm several times as the rest of the group healed themselves. He scowled as he watched the avatars dressed like silly fantasy cowboys try and mostly fail to damage the boss over the next minute. ‘This is going to take a hell of a long time...’ he trailed off mentally as the boss grabbed its spinning hat and brought it in front of it. ‘This is going to hurt.’ He tightened his grip on his sword as he watched the pulses of dark energy coalesce into a vortex of death and destruction then teleported into the path of the blast as several of the other avatars teleported back to base rather than get hit by the attack of doom.
He wasn’t all that surprised when the blast burned through all of his mana and left him feeling sunburned. He pulled an elixir out of his inventory and drank it then recast cast his mana shield again hoping that the boss couldn’t cast that particular spell all that often. He smiled as five new avatars teleported in to keep the machine busy. “Fucker.” He teleported back to where Mist was ‘hiding’ in the desert. “Judgement day sucked.”
Mist laughed. “No shit.”
The avatar started stripping as he explained, “I think I can recreate his judgement spell from what I’ve seen, merge?”
“Yeah, none of the others managed to survive but they weren’t as powerful.” Mist winced as another avatar died to the monster. “I was expecting a bit more damage to the boss.”
“It would have been nice.” The avatar reached out and merged with Mist.
Mist smiled as the avatar’s memories sorted themselves into place. He looked at the fifty staff wielding weakass avatars he had created and equipped for the next stage of his plan. “Plan blitz is a go.” He reached out with his teleportation power and teleported the fifty avatars into place then ghosted the teleport capable avatar captain so he could watch the battle. He smiled as the fifty avatars pointed their staffs at the boss and started chain blasting ultima spells at it hoping to kill it before it managed to kill them. He felt like laughing as the first volley of fifty glowing black and blue spheres of magical energy ripped the arms apart and visibly damaged the boss. ‘Die!’ He winced as several avatars were obliterated by the boss’s next obliterate attack.
He teleported the falling indestructible gear back to the base so that the wave of replacements could get ready in case he had to continue tossing bodies at the boss. Thankfully less than five seconds later the boss lost its tail and switched to trying to punch the various avatars to death as the avatars continued raining destruction down on the boss. He winced as one of the avatars failed to dodge out of the way and was splattered from the force of the import. He scowled as the arms regenerated then smiled as they were destroyed by the constant spell barrage before they could get off any spells of note.
He was rather relieved when a minute later the boss finally died and exploded in a flash of light. He reached out with his magic and turned the creature into a magicite. He teleported the magicite, four spheres and a dark rock to his hands as they appeared out of thin air. He opened a portal back to the temporary base. “Back to base!”
