Chapter 101: Chapter: 101
Chapter: 101
"I am so incredibly stupid…" I lamented as I smacked my head lightly against the concrete wall in front of me over and over. I could have gotten Sif and I out of there easily! I had the perfect skill to refill my MP easily and there were thousands of zombie mooks in Times Square too!
The skill I was talking about was [Mana Replenisher]. It restored 10x the mana for each level of enemy I defeated. There were thousands of level 1 or 2 zombies surrounding us in that last fight. Each of them would have given me 10 to 20 MP! I could have carpet bombed Times Square with exploding [Lightspears] and instantly refilled my MP. Then I could have grabbed Sif and warped us back to Earth DxD.
"Is the Angel girl alright over there?" I heard the new woman whisper to Sif.
"I think she is just upset that we didn't emerge victorious. As an Asgardian, I am ashamed we had to flee. Especially upon seeing what had become of Thor. I should have stayed and put him out of his misery…" Sif trailed off
"Oh, so you are an Asgardian. I wasn't quite sure. My name is Andrea Stark. People used to call me the Iron Woman. Nice to meet you. And you as well, Angel." Andrea called out to me.
I spun around and faced her. "Sorry about that display there. I just realized I fought that last battle stupidly."
Andrea nodded. "Hey you were up against the Hulk. Not many ever face him and walk away. Let alone walk away perfectly unscathed." Andrea said, looking me up and down. "Do you have a healing factor? I was watching the nearby camera feeds as I flew towards the fight and the Hulk hit you pretty hard a few times."
"Layla was blessed by her father with a powerful healing sacred gear! None of the other Angels got one from him." Sif bragged for me excitedly. Well, that was the story going around at least.
I suppose from an outsider's perspective I would look like I had a healing factor since I never take actual physical damage. Gamer's Body for the win!
Andrea coughed before looking at me in shock. "You're father? You're an actual Angel? God's real?" She asked with some sadness. "Then why would he allow all this to happen…" She trailed off. She was obviously talking about the zombie apocalypse.
I pat her on the shoulder. "I'm not sure if he's in this dimension, but we're not actually from your dimension, Andrea. We're from one that's sort of similar but…"
"Another dimension… That's a thing? And everybody is still alive?" Andrea asked hopefully.
"Yeah. There's a bunch of them. Some people think the number of them is infinite." I explained.
"That's crazy. Well, welcome to our shitty dimension then! Once again I'm Andrea Stark. I'd offer you some cookies, but unfortunately I ran out recently and all the factories are full of zombies."
I laughed. "Nice to meet you. I'm Layla of the Fallen and my friend is the Goddess Sif of Asgard. Also you're a dude in our dimension. Everybody knows Tony Stark aka Iron Man." I added with another laugh.
Andrea bit her lip before looking at me pleadingly. "Please take me with you when you leave! I can't take it here anymore! I lost the Avengers… I lost my best friend Pepper…I lost Bruce…" Andrea looked defeated as she listed everything off. I felt bad for her. She was basically Will Smith from 'I Am Legend' at this point. Except her zombies had super powers…
"I would like to leave as well if Miss Stark is leaving." A robotic voice echoed out inside the bunker we were in.
"Is that you Jarvis?" I asked.
"Indeed. I assume there's no gender bent AI version of myself in your home dimension."
"No. Just another Jarvis as far as I'm aware." I said. I don't think Tony even bothered making Friday until the original Jarvis became Vision.
"I've never met another AI, let alone another me. It will be interesting to meet him."
"Did you guys not have Ultron here?" I asked.
"You know about Ultron! I never got to finish him before the outbreak. I was so close too!" Andrea said.
"Probably for the best then. In most realities he turns evil and tries to destroy the world. In some he even succeeds." I said.
Andrea blanched. "Oh… Well that's unfortunate."
I was kind of glad I panicked when seeing the zombie Hulk and forgot that skill now. Otherwise, Andrea would have been left to die in this world. I looked around her bunker. She barely had any supplies left. Her Iron Woman armor was also very scuffed and banged up. I'm surprised it was even flying anymore as it looked like it'd gone through a bunch of patch jobs.
[Yeah, had you remembered the gender-bent Tony Stark of this world would have been left for dead. It was a good thing you forgot. Imagine Tony's reaction when he meets the girl version of himself.]
That will be absolutely priceless…
"So when are you two leaving this dimension?" Andrea asked.
That was a good question. I checked on my MP and found that I was at about 400 MP so far. That was only the second time my MP had ever completely dropped to zero. I didn't want to have to rely on HP to MP Conversion either because each of the Hulk hits hurt like hell. Towards the end of that fight I only had around 2000 HP left. A couple more hits and I would have been suffering another Game Over. I only had 3 revives left after saving Raynare and I wanted to save them for absolute emergencies.
[Name: Layla of the Fallen]
[Title: Angel of Hope]
[Level: 15]
[Sacred Gears: Purger of Darkness, Orb of Anywhere]
[HP: 8200]
[MP: 413/2100]
[Vigor: 220]
[Strength: 70]
[Intelligence: 210]
[Luck: 100]
[Skills: Observe 3, Angelic Mastery 4, Acting 3, Light Manipulation 5, HP to MP conversion]
[Perks: Never Tell Me the Odds, Mana Replenisher, Lucky Shot, Mana Burst]
[Drawbacks: Sin of Lust]
[Available Free Stat Points: 0]
[Skill Up Point: 0]
I'd figured out that my MP recharged the same amount as my [Intelligence] Stat per hour. That meant I'd gain back 210 MP every hour. Unless I took down a whole bunch of mooks and refilled it that way.
"We can go in about 8 hours, Andrea." I said to the woman.
"8 hours…" she said with a faraway look. "Then I can finally escape this hell." Andrea ran up to me and gave me a hug. "Thank you so much for coming here!" She cried out with tears in her eyes. I could hear her sniffling over my shoulder. I patted her back and reassured her that everything would be okay.
She released the hug after a minute and wiped away her tears. Her look of sadness turned to panic. "I only have 8 hours to completely pack up all my stuff and download all my data! I have multiple petabyte hard drives worth of designs here!"
"Ma'am, I've already started the process so we can leave." Jarvis said calmly. "Everything should be uploaded to your portable storage drives within a few hours."
"Whoo! You're the best, Jarvis." she said as she took a seat to calm down. I giggled at her antics. Looking around her bunker, she really didn't have that much stuff. It was mostly supplies we could leave behind and scrapped machine parts she could replace easily enough.
I noticed Sif was staring off into the corner with a frown on her face. "Are you alright over there, Sif? You look upset."
Sif turned to me with a determined look on her face. "I don't want to leave yet. Not when this dimension's Thor still walks the earth as a Draugr. As an Asgardian, it would be incredibly shameful to leave my crown prince in that state!" Sif declared.
"WHAT!?" Andrea shrieked. "You want to go fight him!? He's not going to be alone. You two could barely take on the Hulk, and you want to take on all the Avengers now!?" She exclaimed.
"Yes." Sif replied bluntly.
"I guess that's that then." I said.
If Sif is staying, then I wouldn't mind taking on the Hulk again. It should be a different fight when I come at him with full MP. I could actually try out Mana Burst and immediately refill my MP reserves from all the nearby zombies. I wonder if I could then stack another Mana Burst on top of that one? I could be like Goku using Kaioken!
[Mana Burst isn't Kaioken...it doesn't stack.]
'Lame!'
"Fine!" Andrea pouted reluctantly. "I'll go with you two and help fight them as best as I can. Just don't expect much though. My suit hasn't had any really proper repairs in months, and my arc reactor is also running low," she said, pointing to her chest. "I can't let this thing run out of juice or else I'll die."
She had a reactor in the same spot that Tony did before I healed him. That just wouldn't do! My [Purger of Darkness] appeared on my wrists…
A moment later, Andrea marveled at her exposed chest, the arc reactor now resting on the floor beside her. Healing even faster than Tony, thanks to my potent Sacred Gear, I struggled not to ogle as she examined herself, having completely removed her shirt.
"This is amazing! Layla, you're incredible! Thank you so much!" Andrea embraced me once again, giving a grateful, shirtless hug.
"Ufufu. No problem." I welcomed this kind of gratitude. Having a pair of naked breasts thrust up against me was some appreciation I could get behind!
"Get off, Layla, you harlot! What kind of woman undresses so readily among strangers?" Sif exclaimed in clear jealousy. She was glaring at Andrea.
Andrea blushed at me before breaking the hug. She turned towards Sif with a red face. "What are you even talking about!? I I don't even like girls like that!" She retorted, glaring right back at Sif.
"Then don't jump into the arms of the woman I love when you're half-naked!
"I couldn't help it! I was so happy to finally be healed!"
"Liar, I know your kind. You're just trying to seduce Layla!"
"No I'm not!"
The two of them continued to bicker as I walked toward a nearby monitor. "So, Jarvis, any entertainment in this bunker? We'll be stuck here for a while after all while my mana recharges."
"We have all of the entertainment, Miss Layla."
Jarvis explained that, to preserve culture, he had downloaded every movie and song ever created and uploaded to the internet.
I whistled. That was quite the collection. I wondered what Star Wars in another dimension looked like. Time for an interdimensional pirated movie marathon!
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Chapter 102: Chapter: 102
Chapter: 102
In other places…
–Frank Castle–
"Please Frank! Don't do this!" The Colonel pleaded as he scooted backwards with his hands. A small trail of blood followed him on the hard cement floor. Frank Castle had double kneecapped the man to prevent him from running.
"You lied to us. You told us our missions were sanctioned by the government! And then when I found out they weren't and chose to leave peacefully and not report you all, you tried to kill me and my family! You killed my wife!" Frank yelled angrily as he leveled his assault rifle at the Colonels head.
"That wasn't my decision. I swear! This goes so much higher than you or me Frank! You can't kill me you. You don't know the organization you're messing with!"
Frank scoffed. "And what is this mystery agency? Hydra? The people who ran away scared from Layla?" Frank asked. He noticed the look of fear in the Colonel's eyes when he mentioned them. Frank put his finger on the trigger and snarled. "Absolutely disgusting. To think the man I respected and followed all this time was a disgusting Nazi…"
"Frank! Wait no!"
BANG!
Frank lowered his rifle with a tired sigh of relief. He'd finally avenged his wife and made sure his children would be safe. If Hydra ever reared their ugly heads to come after he and his, then he'd put them down too.
…
Frank limped his way out of the secret safehouse/bunker that the Colonel and the other members of his former squad had been hiding in. Once they had heard he survived and was on a warpath aiming for their heads, they had all turtle up and hid from him here in the middle of nowhere. He made his way up the stairs and emerged to fresh air and sunlight. This place was in the middle of woods bordering Canada. The perfect place to hide if they needed to quickly flee the country.
That was why Frank was surprised when he saw an obvious suit waiting for him just outside. There were a couple other agents behind him sweeping the area. None of them had their weapons drawn on him though so he figured he might as well hear them out.
"Frank Castle I presume. Are you alright. Your limping and covered in blood." The Agent asked.
Frank glanced down at his left leg. A bullet was stuck in their alright, but he had had worse. "I'm fine. Most of the blood is not mine." Frank said.
The agent nodded. "If you're sure. I've read your file and I suppose you've had worse. Anyway I came with an offer for you. I'm Agent Coulson of Shield."
"SHIELD?" Frank asked. He'd heard whispers of them in the military. They became a bit more known when Hydra was exposed to the world recently in the "Race Track Incident" that happened overseas. "What do you all want from me? I ain't joining you guys to be an agent. I have two kids to raise now." Frank said dismissively.
Coulson waved him off before presenting him with a folder. "You're not exactly subtle enough to be an agent. We'd like to offer you a spot in an upcoming initiative we have. We call it the Avengers."
…
–Yasaka–
"Mom! Check out this awesome move Sif taught me!"
Yasaka was sitting under the kotatsu watching her daughter swing her practice sword in the yard. Her daughter had rarely been so enthusiastic about anything, but she was really liking swordsmanship. Yasaka would see about getting her a proper full time teacher. Sif gave Kunou a decent foundation, but Yasaka knew she couldn't be her daughter's teacher now. Not until Kunou was older at least and could travel. Layla and Sif both struck Yasaka as women who were constantly on the move.
Yasaka envied them a bit. She wasn't able to leave Kyoto for long because she was linked to the Leylines. If she did, she would lose a massive amount of her power and wouldn't be able to protect her daughter. Nine tailed fox Yokai like them were incredibly rare after all. Yasaka had no doubt some evil devils had their eyes on her young daughter!
Yasaka continued to watch her daughter practice sword moves for a few more minutes while she enjoyed a calming cup of tea.
That was until someone knocked on her door and interrupted her relaxation.
"Lady Yasaka! The Fallen who poisoned Lady Kunou have returned. They are claiming to have the antidote to her poison and are acting very arrogant. They clearly do not know that she has already been healed." One of Yasaka's servants spoke to her through the door.
Yasaka's eyes narrowed into slits and a wicked grin formed on her face. The ones who had dared poison her daughter had finally come. Just like layla had predicted they would.
The air vibrated around Yasaka as natural energy laced with her killing intent started to leak out of her. She stood up and headed out to go visit her guests/future prisoners. She had promised Layla that she wouldn't kill them, but she never said anything about some casual torture. She'd find out who gave those Fallen the poison and who sent them after her daughter. Once she found out she'd send them back to the Grigori where Layla had promised her they'd be further punished.
…
–Akeno Himejima–
Akeno Himejima was currently sitting with Asia and Gabriel in the two girls' assigned bedroom. Akeno wasn't quite sure how to feel right now. When she was a devil, she'd been constantly told that angels were evil and that they would kill her on sight. Doubly so because she also had Fallen Angel blood. To Akeno's surprise though, Gabriel didn't have any hostility towards her. In fact, Gabriel looked at Akeno with kindness and even love in her eyes.
"Hello, Asia. Hello, my dear niece Akeno. It's so nice to finally meet you both!" Gabriel said enthusiastically.
"I can't believe you're actually here Gabriel! This is amazing. Did God hear my prayers!?" Asia asked. She was so excited that she missed the wince that went across the Archangel's face when mentioning the Lord. Akeno did not. She made a note to ask about that later.
"Hello…Aunt Gabriel?" Akeno said questioningly. "Is there a reason you're here? Also, how are you even here? Isn't this the Grigori Headquarters?" Akeno asked. Shouldn't the Fallen all be mobilizing to drive the Archangel away?
Gabriel laughed. "The Angels and the Fallen Angels aren't as divided as the Devil's make us out to be. Sure, a few hundred years ago we might have been, but now it's much different. We've learned to remember that at the end of the day despite the color of our wings' were all still family. Well most of us have…there are still a few outliers unfortunately." Gabriel explained.
Akeno blanched at that information. They didn't hate each other. Weren't the Devil's screwed then!? If another war broke out, it wouldn't be a three way fight but a 2 on 1 instead!
"That's so wonderful Miss Gabriel! Family shouldn't fight after all." Asia said innocently.
Gabriel nodded. "That's right, Asia. They shouldn't. And speaking of family, have you heard of the Brave Saints system heaven has been creating?"
Akeno and Asia shook their heads. Gabriel explained it to them. Akeno was shocked to hear what it was. A way to reincarnate other beings as Angels. That was another Game changer. The evil piece system was the only thing that saved the Devil's from annihilation and allowed them to remain the strongest of the three factions. With an influx of Angels in Heaven though, Akeno knew the balance of power would shift. She realized the Fallen would also not have a problem with the new system because some of those reincarnated humans would Fall themselves after becoming Angels. Both factions would have their numbers bolstered.
"So I can become an Angel!?" Asia asked excitedly.
"Yes, I want you to reincarnate under me, Asia. It'll be like having a daughter." Gabriel said.
"I've always wanted a mother!"
Akeno felt bitter at hearing that word.
She was startled when Gabriel hugged her suddenly. "I know I can't replace your mother, Akeno. The offer extends to you as well. I heard you hate your Fallen Angel wings. As a half human, you can also reincarnate and turn those black wings white." Gabriel said to her.
Akeno's eyes widened before she laughed. "There's no point. I would immediately Fall…I'm quite the sadist you know and I don't think I can abstain from sex forever." She said. She laughed at Asia's blushing face when she said the S-word.
"Ah, that would be true. However, Heaven's System will be undergoing some…changes in a few years. Michael and I do not think Angels will even be able to Fall soon…" Gabriel explained.
What!? Did Akeno hear that right? What was even going on in this world anymore?
"You can take your time to decide. There's no rush since the Brave Saints system isn't finished yet and you'll all be leaving soon with Layla." Gabriel explained.
Akeno grimaced at that reminder. The Gremory Clan had posted an actual bounty for Akeno's return. Akeno now knew the truth. She wasn't Rias's sister or even servant. She was her escaped slave who Rias wanted to buy back from whoever came to claim her bounty…
Akeno then had her mind blown for the final time when Gabriel went on to warn the girls about the place Layla would be taking them. Aliens? Mutants? Evil planet killing Space Gods!? And they thought Akeno and Asia would be safer there…
Akeno figured that it would at least be interesting. Akeno did also want to finish High School for real and not just because Rias wanted to play schoolgirl. She figured Asia could use some friends her age as well. As long as they were the right sort of friends that was.
Akeno had spent the past few days with Asia and found the girl incredibly endearing and kind…and also very naive. Akeno would be sure to keep Asia away from boys until she wised up a bit.
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