Note that this is a work of fan fiction and rights are reserved by the original creators. Reading part one first is a must to understand things and the cautions I added at the start of part 1 still apply. In part two, some things are explained in more detail as well as some background of the main character.

“Hey!” was the greeting I heard as I opened my eyes. “Are you awake yet?” A voice I recognized as the one I had for my whole life said. The only difference in his appearance was that he was white like Shirosakue was. “I take it we are going to have to fight to see who will reign over my body.” I said in the same voice I had when I transformed using Sodenoshidayuki. “Oh yes we’re going to have a fight but it’s not going to be quite like the one I know you are thinking of now.” He smartly replied while my thoughts were on the fight Ichigo had with his inner hollow. “Our fight is going to start out like the Maat match you tried to avoid.”

A cold shiver went up my spine as I heard that statement. In FFXI, there is a reason I didn’t use my Red Mage Testimony to fight Maat-it was a nightmare of a fight because going in he has the identical spells, skills, attribute buffs, etc. that you do on top of his Monk abilities. While the person going into the fight for the first time had only whatever healing items, equipment, and skills they had on their main job at the time they entered for the ten-minute fight. It has been said that winning against him is 70% luck and 30% skill. Winning against him is a requirement for you to advance from the level cap of 70 to 75. I had won against him by the slimmest of margins the first time I beat him and was NOT looking forward to a second fight. Not even as my main job, a Red Mage.

“Where are Zangetsu and Sodenoshidayuki?” I said quickly. “I’m right here” Sodenoshidayuki replied. “I AM Zangetsu!” my male body replied. “So, how is this going to work out? Are we going to fight here in this inner world or are we going to be duking it out in the limit-break area for the fight?” I replied nervously. “I was thinking of a two-fold fight. Round one would take place in the arena for and would be have me as Maat and you as yourself. No zanpakto for this fight. Round two would take place here with nothing held back” he replied.
“I guess I have no choice but to agree to your terms for the fights. I’ll fight you as a Red Mage/Black Mage since technically I already won against Maat once and subsequent fights are unrestricted in terms of level or sub job. And I AM going to be able to use Zangetsu against you after the first fight, regardless the outcome.” I said with the phrase “Do the Impossible; See the invisible, RAWH RAWH FIGHT THE POWAH!” echoing through my mind. I had a slim chance of victory against myself but I was considering it as a guarantee of victory however it went. “All right let’s start the fight up!” I said.

Next thing I know I am in the arena for the limit-break fight with Maat. First thing I say is “Job Switch: Red Mage/Black Mage.” Then, in order to be prepared fully I decide to start casting various buffs on myself, some of them being over the cap of 75 I knew my male self was going to have. “Protect V.” I said and a few seconds later I finished casting the spell. “Shell V.” I said and again a few seconds past. “Stoneskin.” I said with another delay while it cast. “Aquaveil.” I said waiting while it cast almost instantaneously. For my final spell I decided to go with Refresh II and then sat down to recover the MP used in the fight.

While resting I was able to tell that I had Sodenoshidayuki equipped as my sword. “I guess he lied about not being able to use zanpakto during the fight.” I thought to myself. Then after my MP was back at full I decided to go at my male self who I discovered to my horror was coming right at me. “Did you think this was going to work out like it did in that MMO? Did you think I would abide by those rules setup by the developers? Did you really think I would give you three minutes before coming to fight you? You were dead wrong.” My male self said before trying to cut me with Zangetsu. Luckily I brought Sodenoshidayuki up in time to block his attack.

“No. I expected you to be better than this-you’ve fallen into my trap” I bluffed before using my Red Mage two hour ability, chainspell. The ability that allowed me to cast any spell without any kind of delay provided I had the MP over the course of thirty seconds. Now upon looking in my mind I realized I had a second two-hour skill I could call upon named manafront. Now I was smirking because I knew if I could use BOTH skills, which you can’t do in FFXI, he was dead. If I could use both skills, he was facing a 99RDM/99BLM instead of a 99RDM/49BLM. “Chainspell. Manafront.” I said in right after each other, relieved they were on two different but equally long timers.

“Now it gets interesting” I said before I started to use some of the Black Mage merit spells in rapid succession. “Burst II. Quake II. Freeze II. Tornado II” I said right after each other, easily dodging blows he was trying to land on me. “I should be the one with both jobs at full level, not you!” I heard my male self-saying before he lost consciousness. “My inner-world, my rules. Do you not think I was as surprised to find I could use both abilities against you? This was a fight that in the game would have me as a 99 RDM/49 BLM with no use of the BLM 2 hr. or both it and chainspell would be on the same timer. It would have been a much closer match but in the end I would still have come out on top.”

“You have freed me from his grasp.” I heard Zangetsu say right after I found myself back in my inner consciousness, away from that arena. Continuing he said “You have my bankai but so does he. Do you really think you can win against your identical self?” “Of course I can win. I know exactly how to get him to submit to me.” I said to Zangetsu and then turning to my male self I said “next fight take place over the cursed springs of Jusenkyo. Since you are me, you know the reasoning why.” He said in response “That was going to be my choice for the next fight as well. I can’t wait do dunk you into the spring-of-drowned-boy twice after your defeat.” My reply back was just as snarky “and I can’t wait to dump you into the spring-of-drowned-girl twice.”

And so the two of us found ourselves over Jusenkyo in my mind. Now him losing this fight would mean that my body would be female but me losing would keep my male body and most likely a BIT to go along with it to prevent me from correcting the problem. At the same time we both said “Bankai”. My male half looked pretty much like Ichigo does while in bankai while I looked like myself as a female Ichigo without the hair change. “Behind you!” I heard in my head and raising my sword behind me right as I heard the two blades meet. “So you aren’t as slow as I thought. This could take a while.” My male self said before continuing “This will be fun.”

We kept trading blows, him getting in a few hits on me but for every hit he got on me I managed to get two on him. I said “Let’s end this now.” And to my surprise I heard “Yes, Let’s end it now.” And then right afterward we both said in sync “Getsuga Tensho!” I was throwing everything I had into the attack but he was slowly gaining the upper-hand in the fight.

“Take my power and use it to win.” Sodenoshidayuki said to me a few seconds later. With this extra spirit energy, I was able to send the blast at him, sending him crashing through the sky beneath us and into the spring-of-drowned-girl. Seeing him, now her climbing out of the pool I pushed her back into it, sealing the curse for good. “So you won against me at last. Very well, use my mask you can but know this. If you find yourself ever losing like Ichigo did, I will be the master and you the horse. Understand?” Panting I said “Yes I do understand.” Before passing out again from exhaustion.

“Hello, anyone home?” I heard a Fey say while she was knocking on the door. Someone else was with her saying “Are you sure she’s even awake? I let you tag along, sister but is she really what you claim?” To this I replied “I’m coming. Just give me a second. I had woken up in a big library-like room with books buzzing around. The half of the room I was in looked to have a kitchen, rec room with TV, and a hallway leading to a door. Realizing I was most likely in my mind as well as being naked, I imagined myself in a bikini and to my surprise it appeared. Not wanting to keep those two waiting, I went to the door and opened it, letting the two of them in.

“I never thanked you for saving my life, Danielle. Do you realize you are among the few people to ever survive a level five burnout?” Fey said. Now surprised at what level the burnout was as well as what most likely occurred in the real world to my body while I was fighting myself inside, I had to wonder what transpired at school.
“If you came here to find out more about me, feel free to browse my memories.” I said gesturing to the library but added a caution to it saying “There are parts of my past I don’t want to remember and things I know that you should never find out.” Gesturing to Fey’s companion, I said “Yes, Sara, I am an adult but you can’t take me to bed. I really mean the warning about things you don’t want to know about. Whatever Fey told you about my arrival is true.”

“Oh dang I finally meet another poesie who is an adult and can’t do anything about it!” Sara said in disgust. “What day is it by the way, I know I entered burnout on the 25th but have no sense of time passing afterward.” I said. Sara replied “You’ve been in burnout for about 24 hours. Mrs. Hartford had a meeting with some strange people by OUR standards regarding you and asked the two of us to find out more about you. You were mostly bones surrounded by fire that didn’t scorch anything for most of that time. It was weird to see flesh and tissue forming around a skeleton after the fire stopped.”

I said “24 hours, huh. I guess I must have been fighting for half that and knocked out till you two came and knocked. Well like I said feel free to peruse my mind for information and if you need a cold soda, raid the fridge.” After I said this they went off to peruse my mind. I was thinking to myself “my mind must be re-organizing itself with all the memories I got before coming to the school.” After what seemed like two hours to me they came back with looks of sympathy on their faces.

“I can’t believe what you went through or that you came from another Earth.” I heard Sara say. “Nor can I believe what you went through, you must have endured a lot of trauma while you were younger, not to mention PTSD from the incident you had in grade school.” “The less you say about that the better. I have been trying VERY hard to forget about that year.” I responded. Sara continued “What really surprises me is the shielding on a portion of your mind. I saw some books coming out of that area but most were going inside. Can you shed any light on the subject?”

“It is very simple really.” I stated. “Are either of you familiar with the anime called ‘Fullmetal Alchemist?” At their nodding heads I decided to continue with my theory regarding the shield “Consider the blocked area the portion of my mine containing knowledge of that which is forbidden by both God and man.” Sara, putting two and two together said “so I take it you have knowledge on how to do Human Transmutation but have been bound to never preform it.” “Not bound per se but I made an agreement to never preform it. I know the consequences regarding doing it and wound up in the same room Ed finds himself in after trying it thanks to two knuckleheaded devisors over here. It may be worth mentioning that they glassed over an entire college campus as a result of their device.” I said trying not to think about what happened. As far as I was concerned this was all a dream. A highly realistic dream but nonetheless a dream.

“Oh man now they are in DEEP trouble. Last I heard they had detention in Hawthorne for the rest of the summer semester but with what you just said they may be expelled for their little stunt.” Fey added. “I think that we can ditch code-name for now since it’s unlikely anyone is listening in. Call me Nikki. I was able to see from your memories you’re an aspie like Chris and you were high depressed. I saw your fantasies of being a woman and your wishing to God every night to become one. Sadly, from what the two of us have seen in your mind about the Earth you came from, any attempt to return there by you will probably be comparable to a humans worth of anti-matter meeting with equal amounts of matter.”
“In other words a burnout of level six. The scale only goes up to level five you know.” Sara said. “I would scratch out that maybe expelled. They WILL be expelled for their stunt. I bet there are other worlds that had a level 6 burnout occur but no one survived to document it. I can’t wrap my head around how you came from the future, since time travel is impossible for anyone from this Earth. That and building anything resembling a Gundam size vehicle. No clue why but it can’t be done.” Sara said.

“I would say time travel IS indeed impossible unless you somehow ‘exit’ this universe, do the time travel, and come back to this one. As to the size restriction, I would be it’s due to the fact that no power supply can power one adequately yet. If anything, my coming to Whately proves that you can do time travel if you know how you are doing it. I was guided here by higher powers for a mission. ” I said before continuing “I would also bet that as a side-effect of the burnout I suffered, I am going to have an edict memory.”
“I would expect that as well. By the way, can we have those drinks now? I am parched from some reason” I heard Nikki say. So after the three of us moved into the kitchen section of my mind, I opened the fridge, pulled out a 4-pack of Stewarts, and handed them out, one for each of us. “I don’t know why this stuff is so good but I’ve only had it a few times in the past. The packages were very expensive, even with my dad’s salary” Nikki said.

“It doesn’t contain alcohol, does it?” I heard Sara say after she had a sip of hers. “Of course not. It’s genuine root-beer. I had it myself for years. This brand is expensive even where I am from.” I added. “You shouldn’t mention the fact you are from another universe however. It might inspire other devisors to try making a repeat device.” Sara warned.“I agree with that statement. The devisors got lucky by ‘dialing’ into a dorm room. I can’t imagine what would happen if they dialed into a military base or had armed nukes come through their portal. At best only the absolute essential of people should know my true origin like how you, Nikki are the only one I revealed both secrets of my broach to. I know how to fix the rip the devisors caused unknowingly in the universe gut I will need to have their device and their lab to do to so” I said.
Nikki added “Yeaaaaaaa about that broach. It’s something I wouldn’t even have trusted MYSELF with knowing its secrets. If you let people know what is truly hidden inside it, you’ll have EVERYONE on campus and then some knocking down your door to get it. I would also suggest you try to get a stronger shield for your mid when you can. The stuff in the back I doubt people can access but I can foresee bio devisors using alchemy with all the elements a human being has and I can’t see the future if they got someone who can read your mind. Also, something that has been nagging me. Why the bikini?”

“There’s a bunch of stuff inside here I wouldn’t want others finding out about that involves you two and others so the suggestion is a valid one. As for the bikini, you said yourself and I told you in the forest-I was a guy for my whole life. So I wanted to enjoy this for as long as I could.” I said before suddenly feeling a bit tired. Yawning, I said “I think it’s time for you two to leave so I can go to sleep. I bet we’ll meet again in the real world.”

Before leaving my mind, Nikki asked “I think you are right in that we know enough now to tell the headmistress about you. Although before we leave I got a couple questions for you. Right before I entered your mind I noticed three people sitting at or near your bedside. Two looked like they were concentrating very heavily in your direction while the third was just sitting next to you. There were two others that alternated shifts with the third but the nurse could not see them. Can you shed any light on whom they are?”

Gathering my composure together I told them my theory “I bet the two that were concentrating heavily on me were the zanpakto I used during the two fights pre-burnout. Their names are Sodenoshidayuki and Zangetsu. As for the three people that alternated shifts, I have no idea on who they are but form what you tell me, they are from the Soul Society. Now I hate to keep you any longer so out you go-I’ll see you in a while.”
While they were halfway out the door, Sara whispered into my ear “if you ever change your mind, you know where I’ll be.” After they left I went back up into the lounge area and upon laying down I went right to sleep.

Notes: In the real Maat fight, you are limited to a ten-minute fight at an initial cap of level 70 with a sub job level of 0. Depending on the job you go in as, the objective to win can be to steal a scroll, outlast his damage, or defeat him. Later fights you can go in as any job with your sub job at its respective level however the only option to win is to defeat him.
Chainspell allows the user to cast any spell they know for duration of thirty seconds and is on a 2 hour timer. Manafront causes all spells to be cast by the user to not use any MP for thirty seconds and is on the same timer. Obviously, using the two in tandem can only be done by a GM (Game Master) as it would be game-breaking. Sub-jobs in FFXI are always maxed at 1/2 the level of your main job.
People have gone up vs. Maat as a lvl 70 Red Mage and gone 32 fights without a win. It is THAT random.
I have a part 1.5 sort of written in my mind (meeting with Mrs. Hartford) but wanted to get this up first.
The 'other worlds' tag will be used when I am relying on outside elements or characters from other universes.
As always, comments are appreciated