Rev, gimme a moment, I think I gotta lie down for...I dunno, 30 hours...
You say that every time! C'mon, I wanna find-
Ah! Greetings, young dragon boy!
It's been far too long since we've met, hasn't it? Same for you, Mixerlydia!
And today, we can peacefully compete with each other, as opposed to hurriedly attacking crimson beasts†!
...wait, whad'you mean "compete"...?
What, haven't you heard?
Well would you look at that. I finally get to be relevant again for the first time in years.
You must be the wannabe Arc Villain.
Hate to break it to you, but your subplot's being cancelled before you can even reach your prime.
What, are they bootleg X Parasites or something? Besides, I have something that can at least keep Mechagodzilla at bay for a little while.
Time to Dynamax, Cursola!
Reaper, you say?
I’ve never had any farm boys up here.
So you farmers can fly now, huh?
Tell me all about the crops you harvest.
Well, well! What a pleasant surprise to see you guys here! You've sure missed a lot.
We're aware; Beta Shadow caught us up. ...Do you mind if we ask you something?
Oh, sure. What is it?
...Is Distortion Man here?
...Dimensional distortions? Yes, I've been detecting quite a lot of different distortions and tempo-dimensional anomalies since I've been here...
...W-well. At least during the times when I wasn't... You know,
Trying to take over the world with the other 5 of your brothers?*
Y-yes, that.
Ah, just give him a break, Ninja; He and the others have been doing their part to make up for their actions back then. That's why he's here, isn't it?
Yeah... Everyone's out there doing their best to make up for the things they've done...




...As for me, I've been making it up to Delta by helping him with some important and highly-classified research... And in my spare time, I've been following my own passions in researching the effects of the Chaos Zone and it's strange, anomalous properties!
Anomalous properties...?
...For over the past two years, the Chaos Zone has thrived greatly... Forging itself by copying data from other worlds, it has gave birth to many powerful entities, crazy dimensional distortions, SEVERAL alternate dimensions and timelines, and so many crazy anomalies. It has broken the laws of time, space, reality, and even life and death itself on several occasions. By all means... the very EXISTENCE of the Chaos Zone itself should've been enough to make the entire Omniverse we live in COLLAPSE...
...And the craziest part is... It hasn't even come CLOSE to doing so. If anything, the entire Omniverse has slowly been becoming stronger because of it!
The entire Omniverse... became STRONGER?
One day, I want to find out the secret to the Chaos Zone's anomalous properties, and how a place with so many anomalies haven't just not collapsed the Omniverse, but made it stronger... If I could find it... It'd be the biggest scientific discovery in the whole world... No, in the entire Omniverse! It's every researcher's dream come true! It's... it's...
...It's making me go on a bit of a tangent, isn't it?
Just a bit, yeah...
Mmmmmm....
It's kinda difficult to just tell somebody instead of showing them... but From what I know, Reapers, Walter says, putting extra emphasis on the term to dissasociate with farming, are like... I don't want to sound cocky, but they're kind of special people? I guess you could say we have the power 'harvest' certain people, places or things... at least I think that's how it works. Like, you can kinda just will them to exist.
It feels more like a job than a hobby... probably because it is a job. But I don't find it too fun. At least it's not just me who qualifies as one.




**

There's even, like, a lounge for us to chill at for all of us cool guys. Actually, I arrived here after meeting up with a few of them.
...But I don't really care for all the technical stuff...
But you know... I don't seem anywhere near as interesting as you. What do you... do here, exactly?
Normally Libra would be the one to knock you down a peg, but he's not blunt enough for this.
You could have enough firearms to take up two posts just listing them all off and nobody would care. If you want to win a fight immediately, you ain't getting what you want.
Bout time they showed up…shame it was after the law had to muck in business they don’t belong in.
And wouldn’t you know it, they set off one of my traps. And judging by how the guy in question ain't kicking and screaming right now…I guess that ol doctor’s right bout my mix expiring. Spite that…should be by the end of the hour fore he kicks the ol spitbucket.
(...Crossword City hmm...I reckon it’d be a few days tops. Should be enough time to pick off at least one of the stragglers. Speaking of which, let’s see the bounty board one more time.
How do these things work gin?
Well now…let’s see where the rest of em are.
And there he is, the head honcho emself…Don’t know whenever to feel honored or terrified that out of all the reapers I could be hunting right now it has to be him.
Guess we’re both unlucky in that aspect. Hmph. Least I don’t have to deal with that Walter fella. …That guy turned out to be a snoozefest. I mean really, he died of what now?
...Wait. If he died…why isn’t his Reaperspawn helping out right now?! That lazy sunva
You know, it’s these cool nights that I live for. No horns, no chatter, no loud music… just the melody of the cicadas and crickets.
*caw*
Couldn’t have said it better myself. *yawn*. And I owe it all to the big guy up there. …A poor shame what happened to him…hey…what did they say happened to him?
…Ah I see…
...Well…who knows? I might just…run for president anyways. Hey don’t give me that look. I mean…nothing’s really changed right? …Well, other than the consequences of losing of course. And…if I do run and happen to get into a fistfight with the opposing candidate, he won’t…well you know.
* confused caw*
Well…could you cover this word for me? I know it’s not a forbidden word but it still feels…
*caw*
Well…unless President Walter, I doubt he’d k-
*caw* me, thank you.
Overall, he’s a good man. Sure I don’t agree with his decisions, bills, use of power and…well that might be because of the way Vangus made me…but…still. You want to know something funny? They never did tell me about his road to presidency. Oh well I-
Coming Margret!
You must try Margret’s chili. Trust me, it’s out of this world. …Ah I see, I’ll save you a bowl for later okay? Perfect. Till next night my feathered friend.
(Oh I see. So that’s what they call the gods beyond the fourth wall that create us, our backstory and control every single event that happens to us..!)
(...I’m not all that bothered about free will though, you know.)
Ahem.
Heh… Well, as you can see…
Not a whole lot at all.
There is no apocalypse scenario right now, so nothing is really worth my attention.
Aaaaaaaaaand there! This place has had the strongest dimensional distortions that I could detect... Maybe this is where it is.
Cool! Just give us the coordinates, and we'll just warp right there!
...Just one problem, though... It's in an area with too much interference for Robot Masters like us to warp to.
(Because of course it's not going to be that simple.)
So where do we go to, then?
...I think it's better if I just show you...
...You're kidding me, right? Of all the places... It's on an island in the Bermuda Triangle?
Certainly an odd choice... But how do we get there without teleporting?
Well, to start, we'll clearly need a boat of some kind... But where can we possible find one?
...Well... I may know SOMEONE.
Oh, really?
Oh. REALLY?
Well, fellas? No need for cold feet...
...All aboard the Gangplank Galleon!
Sheesh...! I know I haven't seen them in a few years, but since when do they mean this much business...?
It must be a side effect of this virus... I think they're being pushed harder than their bodies should be!
〈If this goes on, they'll probably die of overexertion before we could save them... Not that we're fairing any better right now. We need to find a way to stop this fight as quickly as possible...〉
Hello, there! I believe I have the solution to your little predicament...
This here code will remove any traces of that virus! All I'll need is for those two to be kept together in a single spot for just a moment!
〈Showing up at just the right moment to help us in the nick of time, all while conveniently knowing location and the virus we're against, and you just so happen to have the cure for it. THAT'S not suspicious.〉
〈Better it came in a suspicious manner than never at all... Question is, who's going to get those two in one place?〉
Alright... Good luck you two.
Please, don't hurt them...
THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHER EQUALLY WORTHWHILE THINGS WORTH DOING. IT SEEMS YOU HAVE BEEN BLINDED BY A LACK OF EXPOSURE TO THE TRUE WONDERS OF THE REAL WORLD!
THE ROAD BETWEEN LIFE TO DEATH IS A JOURNEY. IT WILL NOT FIND YOU AS I DID. YOU MUST SEARCH FOR IT!
That's what I think, anyway. What if the apocalypse thing you're waiting for doesn't happen until, like, a gajillion years from now? That sounds pretty boring. Especially when there are so many other things you could be doing!
Like stopping the world from ending instead of just lazing about waiting for it.
I mean come on, are you a nihilist or someone with plans for post mortem?
Name is Spectrum Man, 19th highest paid bounty hunter of the Balance Conglomerate! I'm here to investigate a disturbance nearby, I was going to leave you two out of it but...
I love telling people they're wrong.
As for you...you're Walter, a reaper?
Let me keep this brief. Trio is back. And I get stuck on WEIRD PRESENCE! duty like some low level twat. Dagger Man and that stupid Tiger got the Trio job...
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