This is a work of fiction and all characters are used without permission. All prior warnings about needing to know certain information still apply. Reading part one of the story will be very helpful in understanding it. Comments are very much appreciated.

She had seen the change in the sky from the classroom so Fey was not at all surprised by security calling upon her to enter the forest to see who had gone into it. After all, this person caused a person on security’s ‘watch list’ to run into a brick wall, something that a Brick shouldn’t be able to do.

Mrs. Hartford was surprised when her secretary called her up to say “Mrs. P has left a note for you”. So, deciding to wait to read it until after dealing with Mandark and Dexter, she said “send it up to me after the students leave my room.”

Dexter and Mandark were in her office both very scared and nervous about their future. “I take it the two of you know why you are here?” At their nodding heads she continued “According to the report from the power labs head, your device was successful, dialing another dimension. However, based on notes from the lab head, it was unstable on the opposite side, having much of the effects of a black hole. I could surmise this from the velocities everything exited the gate. You didn’t make a portal; you made a White Hole for 38 minutes.”

Continuing, she said “You two are to receive a D for power labs for the semester and be on probation for the next semester.” At the groans of both she continued “You are VERY lucky no one was hurt otherwise you two would be on the Whately Shit-list, aka expelled. For the remainder of the summer semester, you are to report to Hawthorne to do whatever the Dorm Mother asks you to do. Perhaps that will teach you to look into your projects in more detail.”

After the two chastised devisors left, Mrs. Hartford said “OK I’ll take that note from Mrs. P now.” The note itself was relatively short and enigmatic, as most future forecasts were however this one was for tomorrow. The note itself said “Expect to receive a new student assigned to Poe tomorrow. Clear your entire day. Mrs. P”

After reading the note Mrs. Hartford called her secretary to say “all right everything I have scheduled for tomorrow is either postponed or Genesis is to attend in my place.” As she left for the day she wondered what would happen. She had heard about a boy who had entered what appeared to be stage V burnout with an impossible ID but didn’t pay it much thought.

After Fey teleported the boy the nurse said “All right let’s see what we’re dealing with here.” while looking at the boy, who was getting even hotter. “This looks like it may be stage V burnout. Put him in the warded room and let’s see if we can contact his next of kin.” After looking at the driver’s license, she said “This is purely impossible. He can’t be from the future. Send this over to Security to have them determine if it’s a forgery or the real deal.”

At the Security building, Fey was busy filling out a report about what had happened after handing the license over. Thinking it was best to err on the side of caution, she left out the part about an energy beam being deflected by her shield as well as the sense that no one on campus could have killed those two things. After being chastised about taking off the mike when it would have been best for them to get as much Intel about this person as possible, she left for her dorm room.

“This is impossible!” officer Davis said “Not only does the ID pass the NJ MVC fraud tests, the identification used when applying for it either doesn’t exist or is totally wrong.” “Then are we dealing with an elaborate forgery here, Davis?” Security chief Delarose said before continuing “or is this the real deal and we have to accept that whomever the ID belonged to not only traveled from the FUTURE, but from a parallel Earth as well.”

“I was of the assumption it was a fake but a few things seem off to me.” Davis said. “The SS# belongs to a girl who was stillborn on the date and time listed on this birth certificate used for the license. No student worth their boots would forge this. In fact, I don’t think a New Jersey driver’s license has been successfully forged since they adopted the new security measures.” Delarose added “So we have to assume that the person in the Nurse’s office who owns this license is in fact who they say they are as well as potentially being someone who belongs inside Poe. Phone up the parents and ask them to come up here ASAP. They have a new child to meet and probably bury.”

“This is most unusual, Captain Kuchki. You claim that you want to adopt a living person into your family? You adopted Rukia on account of your wife being her sister I know. But THIS is unprecedented.” Head Captain Yamamoto said. “Not only that, but I have reports that the person in question was able to use Sodenoshidayuki’s Shikai as well as Zangetsu’s Bankai on top of the report of Soul Reapers failing to report in.”
“Head Captain!” Byakuya’s lt, Renji Abari said “There’s a note addressed directly to you that just arrived. I expect it has to do with the events that took place today.” “Very well. We shall discuss this later Captain Kuchki. I would expect you to be in mourning at the loss of your sister. I have matters to attend to.” The Head Captain said right before Renji and Byakuya left his office.
Upon seeing who wrote the letter as well as its contents he sent out a message “Attention all squads. This is the Head Captain speaking. No more Soul Reapers are to go into the World of the Living until I return from there. All Soul Reapers present and able to hear this message there are to return to the Soul Society at once! Captain Kuchki and Second-Seat Renji Abari shall accompany me in finding out more information about why Soul Reapers have been disappearing on assignment.”

After the three of them exited the senkaimon and found themselves at Whatley, they were greeted by a fourth member. “Well fancy seeing you stuck-up snobs poking around in this mess. You missed the emergency meeting so I had to notify you of the events that transpired. Why an Omni-potent being like me has to abide by such silly rules like being at the beck-and-call of a mere mortal as well as having to deliver complete transcripts to another mortal is something I can’t stand doing.”

“I believe we know who you are, 17th letter of the alphabet, but could you tell us where we have to go for this meeting.” Head Captain Yamamoto said before changing his tone “We have a serious matter affecting us and I believe our meeting here will clear up a few things. Captain Kuchki, that girl you wanted to adopt is still alive. She is on campus and her spirit ribbon has changed from white to red. When we meet her, we must bring a Substuite Soul Reaper badge and Soul Pass for her. ”
“Oh the meeting is over in the building over there.” Q said gesturing to the admin building before saying “I don’t understand why this girl wanted such a huge list of items.” He said before snapping his fingers as a big portion of the list was crossed off. Continuing he said “I also don’t get why I have to set this mortal up with a trust fund of 2 billion US dollars in cash and 2 billion in rare metals It’s unfathomable.”
And so as the 4 of them walked into the admin office Q said to the secretary “Excuse us but I believe we are here to see a Mrs. Hartford about a person who is currently in what your mortals call ‘burnout’ and hand over transcripts regarding said mortal’s education. Remembering the note for Mrs. Hartford, she buzzed the office.
“Excuse me, Mrs. Hartford but I believe the reason for that note from Mrs. P is here and wants to see you. They have what look to be school transcripts.” Realizing that she was going to probably be dealing with some sponsors for a new student she buzzed back “All right send them in.” Then after the 4 of them came in, Amelia Hartford thought to herself, “This is going to be a long day.”

“We are here about a few things but I will let my fried, Q speak first. I am Senregito Genreyusai Yamamoto, Head Captain of the 13 Court Guard Squads. My Companions are Squad 6 Captain and Byakuya Kuchki and his 2nd-seat, Renji Abari. We are here regarding a person who is in burnout on campus. ”

“I cannot believe that is the all-mighty Q without some proof!” Mrs. Hartford said Then snapping his fingers Q said “Call up Poe and ask the Dorm Mother to check in one of the empty dorm rooms if you don’t believe me.” Then calling up Poe and getting the Dorm Mother she was told “all right I will take a look inside an empty dorm room and call you right back.” The reply came back about 5 minutes later.

“I don’t believe what I saw! Instead of the normal dorm rooms, they have been made into a suite with 2 rooms sharing a common bathroom! There also appears to be a common area for the two rooms I saw. Based on this, I can imagine the rest of the dorm must have gotten the same makeover. Whoever you have in there, Amelia, is truly powerful to be able to do this so quickly.” The dorm mother stated.

“All right I believe you now. What do you have to show me?” Mrs. Hartford said before receiving a bunch of documents. After her perusal of the first set, which appeared to be elementary school records she said “All right it looks like this ‘Daniel’ person, whoever he is would have attended here starting 2002 and just graduated It appears he was a straight A student up till the end of 6th grade and then his grades slipped.”

Continuing onto the High School records she proceeded to state “He also appears to have been an average student, save for the French classes. Probably had something major troubling him. Based on these records, he graduated a month ago with a C average.”

Continuing onto the college transcripts which while official-looking were dated into the future “These are purely impossible but since I have an omnipotent being in the room I have to accept that they are true. It appears whatever was affecting ‘Daniel’ proceeded to cause him to plunge into a depression. The transcripts from the first school indicate that much.” Continuing onto the second set of college transcripts she said “It looks like he improved his GPA at this school but some of these classes we cannot accept credit for. I think we will have to take the Associates degree in Business Administration and give it to him, if only changing the name of the college. There will definitely be an aptitude test to determine what classes he needs to take here as well as a test on his knowledge of French.”

Still continuing to talk, Mrs. Hartford said “Judging from the lack of mutant-related courses in high-school and the fact that it was catholic, I am guessing he was a baseline before coming here.” “That is correct, Amelia. However SHE is more baseline than a baseline from this primitive Earth is. She came from a universe where the only mutants are in DNA, not people with superpowers running around.” Q said in response.

“There is another matter I am here to discuss with you. It involves setting up a trust for the person we are talking about. Currently she is in burnout on the opposite side of campus and for reasons I cannot tell you I have been told to setup a trust for her. Particularly a trust totaling 4 billion USD, 2 billion in cash and 2 billion in rare metals for her to use for whatever she needs to. Her tuition will be taken out of the money for all 4 years she will be here. She is also going to be able to draw upon it for other needs like buying up companies and rights. I believe you know of someone here, someone who is a student who can manage such a large sum.” Q stated factly.

“Indeed I do know of such a student but I am uncertain is said student will WILLINGLY manage the cash. Snap your fingers and I’ll setup the trust for her. Due to her being over 18 and legally an adult if we go by the birthdate on the records you gave me, it seems inappropriate for Whatley to request a 1% stake in whatever companies she acquires. However, we may still get that 1% stake in companies she founds here.” Mrs. Hartford said before asking the other 3 people in her office “What brings you here with Q? It can’t have been mere coincidence. You too must have a matter to discuss with me

“Indeed I do know of such a student but I am uncertain is said student will WILLINGLY manage the cash. Snap your fingers and I’ll setup the trust for her. Due to her being over 18 and legally an adult if we go by the birthdate on the records you gave me, it seems inappropriate for Whatley to request a 1% stake in whatever companies she acquires. However, we may still get that 1% stake in companies she founds here.” Mrs. Hartford said before asking the other 3 people in her office “What brings you here with Q? It can’t have been mere coincidence. You too must have a matter to discuss with me”

“Indeed we do, Mrs. Hartford. Byakuya wishes to ‘adopt’ the person we are talking about. However, such matter will have to wait till she is awake to discuss them. You were not made aware of this but many Soul Reapers around the world have simply vanished. My sources have no explanation for this. Also, I noticed that three of my people are around the room where the girl lies in burnout but that is another matter. Can you elaborate on the disappearances?” Yamamoto said raising an eyebrow.

“I can only give you guesses at this point.” Mrs. Hartford said before continuing “From what you tell me, they were probably seen as unregistered mutants and as such were handed over to the MCO. From there, I have to guess they ‘disappeared’ like so many others have that fall into their hands. I highly doubt you’ll be able to get your people back and for that I apologize. Best we can do is having you make a generic MID for each of your people using our system. That may prevent future kidnappings.” Mrs. Hartford stated. Before proceeding to say “So which of you am I to put as the sponsors of this new student?”

Head Captain Yamamoto came to a decision at once “We will sponsor her if that is appropriate. Of course, due to the lack of knowledge about Soul Reapers on this world, we will be providing a special instructor for her. We will also be providing a test of our own on top of whatever powers tests you may run on her. Those results will determine the course work we will have her undertake. Also, before we do the testing, we will want to confirm what occurred prior to the burnout.” The test he was thinking of was a test similar to the Captain’s exam on account of the person being able to use Zangetsu’s Bankai form. Of course a few other captains would be present if only to confirm the results.
Mrs. Hartford, pleased that the meeting was coming to a close said “All right. You may preform your test in about 48 hours, assuming the person in burnout survives. Few people survive a level 5 burnout. We’ll meet again in about 24 hours with the new student to discuss the matter.” Now after the 4 people had left, Mrs. Hartford called up Carmilla and asked her to investigate the burnout victim at her earliest convenience. Satisfied that the matter was taken care of, at least for now, she went back to work.

Meanwhile in the warded hospital room

“It’s good to see you two, Rangiku, Momo. Isane said to them. I” take it you want to sit with her through this process as well. Seeing as there’s only room for one of us to sit next to her at a time, why don’t we take up shifts of 8 hours each. I’ll take first shift, Momo second, and Rangiku the third.” Then she noticed the two Zanpakto spirits that were sitting across from the bed, looks of intense concentration on them. Gathering the courage she decided to ask them a question.

“What are your names, if I may inquire and why are you here?” Isane asked. The female spirit spoke up first “I am Sodenoshidayuki and my companion is Zangetsu. We are here using our power to ensure something terrible does not happen. We mourn the loss of our old masters but don’t want to see our new master wind up the same way. Therefore, we are taking what steps we can to ensure that does not happen.”

“I never heard of anyone taking another’s zanpakto!” Rangiku said astonished. Nevertheless, facts spoke for themselves: Rukia was dead and Ichigo had joined her. Yet here their spirits sat. “I guess we have to take you at your word. We’ll form shifts starting in a few minutes. It appears that no one has seen us thus far so the two of us not in here will stand outside just in case we are needed.” Rangiku said as Isane proceeded to sit next to the burning skeleton.

“I want you to join me on this investigation, Fey” Carmilla said inside Fey’s dorm room. “Apparently the two of you know each other and we may get more information if you are with me. Mrs. Hartford said to investigate but she didn’t say anything about anyone tagging along.” Fey said “Sounds like a good idea. Let’s head to the nurse’s office in the morning to find out more information.”

Walking over to the nurse’s office the next morning and after notifying the nurse why they were there, Fey saw the two people standing outside the warded hospital room. Not thinking much of it she went inside where she saw a third person sitting next to Danielle whom at this point looked like she had when Fey first saw her in the black kimono. Also noticing the two other people sitting across from the bed, she thought to ask Danielle about it but brushed the people off as being there as a form of comfort, for themselves and for Danielle.

After composing themselves for a minute and Fey assuring Carmilla that the people she may have seen were benign, Carmilla dove into Danielle’s mind with Fey tagging along. Finding themselves at a door, Fey decided to use the knocker and called out “Hello anyone home?”

Continued in part two
Notes: I tried to write Q as I imagine he would act in reality at being given such as assignment. If I butchered any names, sorry. Also two rules in Bleach you find out early: Never mess with the Head Captain. If you ever decide to mess with the Head Captain, see rule #1. The amount of cash at Danielle’s disposal is going to be used up by acquisitions of various companies that own items that Q crossed off his list. The acquisitions are for the simple reason that she has products that belong to them that in this timeline, products that have not been developed, are in development, or are not even on the drawing board yet. However, you can be certain she is going to be doing a bit of shopping with her cash. I have a lot of the initial parts of Danielle’s arrival at Whatley storyboarded in my mine where they have been festering for months so that is why I have been putting up so much so quickly. This chapter takes place at the same time as much of part 2 so that is why it is 3rd person. There will be no new chapters till Monday at the earliest and if things go well, I may have a short, non-related story related to a certain April Fools joke a certain channel pulled.

I am viewing this on a 1080p monitor so sorry if paragraphs look wider than they should-they looked normal in word when I set the page size to 8.5x11.

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

Down the Rabbit Hole part 3
This is a work of fiction and all characters are used without permission. All prior warnings about needing to know certain information still apply. Reading part one, part 1.5, and part 2 of the story will be very helpful in understanding it. In addition to the warning I used in part 1 I have to add that knowing a little about the Stargate universe will be helpful. This story is only to be posted on Big Closet unless I have given my approval to post it elsewhere. Comments are very much appreciated.

I had the feeling I had just experienced an out-of-body experience like I had happen once before. You know when you gradually regain feeling in your limbs after falling asleep. I decided to keep my eyes closed for a little bit while I regained my senses. I couldn’t tell how but I simply knew someone was sitting to my right and there were 2 others just like this person outside wherever I was. Deciding I should wake up now I decided to open my eyes. Upon looking to my left I saw the Squad 10 lt., Rangiku Matsumoto. So I decided to start up a chat “Morning, Rangiku.” I said in the voice I knew was that I had as a woman.

“My you sure are a late sleeper. It’s almost 10 AM. The nurse had some students come in here to check up on you. I believe she told them to push this button to let her know if you woke up” Rangiku gestured to a button right next to the bed on which my pocket watch was sitting. “You should take a look at yourself in the mirror, you know. I think there’s one in the bathroom next to here”

So heeding her advice I walked into the bathroom to look at my reflection for the first time since landing here at Whateley. Upon seeing the face in the mirror, I could make out my dad’s eyes but I had a lot of my mother’s looks. Pinching myself hard to make sure it’s not a dream I ran out and into Rangiku crying.

“What’s wrong?” She said as I continued crying. “It… all… happened. I gain what I wanted most but at a very high price.” I said in between sobs. “What was the price?” Rangiku asked to which I replied “My home, my friends, and my family. I have no ID in this universe so I’m nobody. Stay a little longer please and ask your friends to come in.”

“I wouldn’t be so sure as to that. If I remember correctly, there was a meeting with the Head Captain yesterday and it was regarding the events before you entered Burnout if that’s the right word. I suggest you take a shower to get used to your new body. I am not surprised you picked up our Spiritual Pressure-you are a Soul Reaper after all.” And so I decided to take a shower.

I wasn’t at all surprised by the jiggling of my chest or change in my center of gravity. I had dealt with them before I burned out. I was surprised at how sensitive my skin was now that I had switched sides. In the end I turned out to be just right in the top area, perfectly proportioned with regards to the rest of my body. Remembering to pat myself dry, like I had read in the many TG stories I read online, I proceeded to come back out.

Surprisingly I still had on the broach so I imagined myself in some jeans and a nice shirt along with an everything bagel with cream cheese and a carton of OJ. “I wish I could do that!” Rangiku stated jealously as she saw the event. After seeing her two colleagues enter I said “Morning Momo. Morning, Isane.”

“I am relieved that you are feeling much better as compared to 24 hours ago but how do you know our names?” Isane said. So proceeding to explain how I knew I said “in the world I come from, the 3 of you are characters in an anime that I happen to watch weekly. It is that simple.”

“I think you should call the nurse in to say that you are all right now but first can you see if Zangetsu and Sodenoshidayuki are still with you?” Isane said. So trying the obvious task of asking my inner consciousness if they were still here I said mentally “Hey is anyone else in here?”

“I’m still here” I heard Sodenoshidayuki say. “I’m here as well.” I heard a female voice say it continued “I’m Zangetsu but like you changed, so did I. You still can use my Bankai but the only thing that changed is my manifested form.” “I’m here too but remember our little chat before you got knocked out” a third voice said.

“Yes the two zanpakto are inside me.” I stated, deciding to leave out the 3rd voice for obvious reasons before Rangiku broke in saying “Amazing! You are the only known Soul Reaper in existence to actually gain the zanpakto of two different Soul Reapers after their death.” Deciding to not want to detain these 3 ladies from their jobs any longer I hit the call nurse button by the side of my bed after making a purse appear out of thin air and putting my pocket watch inside it.

“It’s a miracle you survived a level 5 burnout let alone the fact you are awake 2 days after the episode!” the nurse said before continuing “I believe your presence has been requested by the administration building for a meeting. I would have offered you a change of clothes but it seems you have a manifestor power of some kind. There should be a student coming here to show you off to admin as well as offer you a tour after your meeting is done there.” The nurse said before Beltane came into the room.

“I’m here to pick up the new changeling for her meeting with the admin.” She stated. After the nurse did some obvious things like take a blood sample, measure my heart rate and take my temperature, she let the two of us leave.

After we left but on the way over Beltane said to me “So how old are you really? My take is you are 14 but that can’t be right based on what security uncovered and has for me to hand back to you.” And I got back my Stingray wallet, complete with everything that was inside it, Driver’s license and all.

“It’s complicated.” I said to Beltane after I put the wallet in my purse. “Chronologically I am 18 if you go by my birthdate. Where I came from I would be 23, turning 24 in a month.” Astonished by my answer I said “Like I said. Complicated. I know for sure I can’t date anyone that hasn’t turned 18 for fear of underage sex charges. I can’t do a lot of stuff you can because you are not 18 yet.”

“And here we are.” Beltane said at last after depositing me outside the admin building. “Once you go inside say you are here to see Mrs. Hartford. You are being expected at a meeting once inside. I’ll be back to take you for a tour after your meeting is completed. Good luck! You’re going to need it.” She said to me before running back towards her cottage.”

“I’m here to see Mrs. Hartford.” I told the secretary “I was told there’s some kind of meeting going on regarding me.” “Ah yes, you’re the burnout victim Fey brought to the nurse two days ago. Amazing how they knew when you would wake up. Anyway the meeting is taking place in the first door on your right.” The secretary said, after glancing at me curiously.

After going inside I saw Mr. Delarose, Mrs. Hartford, my parents, the Head Captain, and Byakuya before sitting myself down. “Are you Danielle, the person who went into burnout?” I was asked by the security chief, Mr. Delarose before he continued “We would like your interpretation of events that transpired on July 25th. Leave out as little detail as possible.”

And so I decided to fill in tell them as much about the events as I possibly could. The Head Captain Stated “Most interesting. We will have to do our own testing about what occurred.” Mrs. Hartford said “Those two are EXPELLED for what you have said. I thought that no human life was involved but what you tell me says otherwise. Very much otherwise.”

It was at this point that with a flash Q teleported intro the room “Oh I almost forgot to mention. She handles their punishment beyond whatever you gave them already, Mrs. Hartford.” Q said, pointing at me. “I’ll see you later.” He said in a flash.

“Well that is a surprise” Mrs. Hartford said before proceeding to continue “Now we have already decided on your admission to Whateley Academy. Your cottage has already been decided-your burnout and subsequent form have all but determined it. Poe is definitely the cottage for you. As for the year of high school, we’ll put you in as a freshman but with only the absolute minimum required classes for freshmen, pending an aptitude test. The Soul Society has informed me that they will be providing a special teacher for an extra powers theory class to occur later in the day.”

“All right that sounds fine to me. Can we set it up for tomorrow?” Now I turned to my parents “I expect you want proof I am your daughter.” At their nods, I started to tell them details about our family that no one outside the family would know. “Satisfied? Some events may be different or altogether wrong but to me they happened.”

My father said “I didn’t expect my daughter to know something I taught my uncle over 30 years ago unless I also taught it to her. As for the other stuff, it’s accurate. I didn’t expect to get a daughter on my birthday.”

“That brings me to the reason I am here.” Byakuya said. “The last wish of my dying sister was to adopt your daughter. Seeing as how she is still living, there is probably a sort of compromise we can come up with so that I adopt her and she remains your daughter.” We have this to give you, Danielle. I bet you know how to use them.” The Head Captain said, handing me a sub Soul Reaper badge and Soul Pass.

“I suggest a compromise between the two. While I am inside my body, I have my parent’s last name. While I am outside my body as a Soul Reaper, my last name is Kuchki. It’s a little complicated but it’s like keeping your maiden name in marriage. I hope that is acceptable?”

“I believe it’s acceptable. Gives you and me the best of both worlds.” Byakuya said. “Is Rukia’s zanpakto still here? I would really like to know.” Surprising everyone in the room, she manifested when I had thought for her to tell Byakuya herself.

“She’s beautiful.” Everyone who wasn’t a Soul Reaper said as all of a sudden the temperature in the room dropped. “Yes, Byakuya I am here. It’s lucky that Danielle came along when she did, or I might have joined Rukia in death. Zangetsu is in here as well.” Sodenoshidayuki said. “I have to go now. Manifesting like this while she’s not in spirit form puts a big strain on her body and I can stay manifested for only a brief time.” She said before disappearing back into my mind.

“I would think that we have seen proof she needs to be tested.” the Head Captain said after that spectacle. “I will schedule our testing for tomorrow around 7 PM. That should give you time to do your own testing tomorrow.” Mrs. Hartford cut in to say “I agree with that statement. I will schedule your powers testing for 9 AM tomorrow. That should give enough time for all the required testing. I believe our meeting is done for now. Since I know you two have another child on campus, why not go spend the day with her?”

“I am going to want a security officer to go down to the lab where my stuff came out with a hand truck so we can cart stuff to my dorm room. There are more boxes and heavy objects than you think. I’d also like my dad to go down there with me.” I said in reply.
Mrs. Hartford’s response was quick but efficient. “Very well. I’ll send Officer Davis down with you. You also might want to have this.” I was then given a Visa debit card. “The card has a spending limit of $100,000 and the money is being taken from your trust fund as you use it. Yes you are a trust fund baby. Q gave me net assets worth 4 billion USD, half cash and half in rare metals to put in a trust for you.”

Security chief Delarose stated “Because you are over 18, you can come and go off campus as you wish, without the need of notifying security. However, you will not be supervision for more than 3 people; yourself included and in such a case will need to notify security as to such events. If you bring alcohol onto campus, which with your MID you will be able to do, keep it well hidden. People on campus tend to really want alcohol. Officer Davis and Beltane will escort you down to the lab. To our knowledge, nothing has been touched inside although since you saw Q pop in and out, that can be debated. As to your request that your dad accompany you, all right.”

“Dang it I wanted to give you the tour now.” Beltane said before she continued “I can see why you want to get down to that lab-it must contain some pretty important items as well as to take a cursory look at what’s lost. Obviously, all your old clothes are lost.” After officer Davis showed up, assuring us that a hand truck would meet us at the lab, we headed off in that direction.
Upon traveling down to the lab, I was able to see that it was cordoned off with caution tape. After the hand truck showed up, we went through the lab airlock to find a mess. Not only was everything from my side of the dorm room present, but there were other items that we would sift through here. Luckily I had us stop at the huge campus store for several large containers as well as a backpack for me. After I entered the lab, I saw my computer and monitor in one piece I said “Where is there a plug so I can see if the contents of the machine has been tampered with?” “Over there on the far side of the room.” Davis said.

So I powered up the machine and was surprised to find that not only was everything I had on the drives was present, but the drives had their capacity doubled. Not only that but the graphics cards were the latest models. Deciding to get a start on organizing the stuff, I powered down the machine and said “All right let’s get started on sorting all this stuff out."

And start on the sorting we did. First thing to come up was a large box set of an anime. Upon seeing it tears started streaming down my cheeks. When asked why I was crying I said “This was never released uncut in the US in its entirety. Put it in this box over here. We’ll use this box for stuff that hasn’t been release or items that are development kits.” And thus the sorting started.
“Samurai 7 Blu-ray?” my dad asked “in the box with that anime box set.” I replied “Project Rapture server-20120406 and Project Rapture client-20120406?” officer Davis asked “In the box with the anime box set. A bunch of stuff that looks to be here will end up in that box.” I replied “Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn volume 1 Blu-Ray?” My dad asked. My reply was very quick “in the same box. Future volumes of which there should be a grand total of 6 will all go in that box.”

“Hellsing Ultimate complete set on Blu-ray?” Davis asked although he already knew the answer to the question before I even answered. By now, we had almost filled up the bucket with various shows before getting to two that I hold dear to my heart.

“There’s a set in here that looks to be pretty big. Bigger than that first set, Danielle. Which box does it go in?” my dad said. “What is the title?” I stated. “Bleach” my father replied. “WE MAKE ROOM in the bucket for the complete set. We probably have to start a third box for the game stuff-put the Rapture server and client disks inside it.” I stated. “Now this I like. The 3 Stooges Complete Knucklehead collection (volumes 1-8).” My dad stated. “Bring it over here. I got a birthday gift for you.” I said.

“Neither of you saw me do this.” I said to them as I made a duplicate of the box set and handed it to my dad. “Happy birthday, dad. Sorry it’s not giftwrapped and sorry I do not have anything else to give you. These are the remastered episodes in chorological order. Sony doesn’t even have a copy of the set.”
“Sweetie, you didn’t have to give me anything. You simply being alive is enough of a gift for me. I gained a daughter and a very nice gift to go along with it. Thank you for remembering my birthday however. ” My dad said to me. “Let’s get back to work.” He stated.

“Duke Nukem Forever PC copy gold disk (“I know someone whose going to lose his code name”)” Davis said. “Put it in the box with the development kits.” I said.
“FFXI test server-20120406, FFXI server-20120406, FFXI-test client 20120406, and FFXI client 20120406” my dad said to me. “They go in the box with the development kits. I don’t know but somehow I’m going to be figuring out a way to merge the two games into one. I sure hope the next item that comes up is the Crystal Tools development kit. If so they go right next to the games” I replied.
“You are in luck because that’s what these DVD’s say.” Davis said handing me a stack of 3 DVD’s. “I also got a few DVD’s here with the title Kingdom Hearts. Various subtitles but I don’t know if they are an anime or game.” “Definitely games. Also for varying systems as well. Two sets of lawyers need to see those before they are able to be sold. I sure hope we got emulators on those DVD’s for the games.” I said not wanting to elaborate on the Disney and Square-Enix mashup series of games.

As we neared the end of the pile, we found ourselves with 3 full containers and a fourth almost full. Davis had called for another person from security to come down with a hand truck so we could carry these to my new dorm room although I knew that we would be making 3 trips with my computer. It was near the end when we got to some of my childhood shows.
“The New adventures of Winnie the Pooh Blu-ray” officer Davis said and to his surprise I said “That series goes inside my backpack. It’s a series that I consider a ‘guilty pleasure’ at my age.” “I guess here’s another series that goes with that one” he said, handing me another box set. “Yup this definitely goes with the other box set.” I said packing the 9 DVD box set into my back pack.”
“Well it sure looks like you could use a hand.” I heard a female voice say from the direction of the airlock. I stood up and was able to see that it was officer Everheart and she had a second hand truck with her. Not wanting to push my luck, I said “Well we got 4 full boxes of stuff I’m going to sort through. The rest of the disks scattered about the floor are going into a fifth box for me to sort later on inside my dorm room. By the way, all I know is I am in Poe. I have not been given the room number or anything.”

“I am here to clear that up for you” Everheart said as we were gathering stuff and putting it in the fifth box. “You’ve been assigned to room 207 with Phase. From what I heard yesterday all of Poe got a redesign so instead of being 2 bathrooms a floor it is 2 rooms to a bathroom. So your suitemates are Tennyo and Generator.” She said before continuing
“After we bring this stuff to Poe you will get your room key and be given a quick tour around campus before you go off with your parents to go out to eat. I understand it’s your father’s birthday and you want to do something special for him tonight. I can carry that computer for you” She said to which I said “It’s eighty pounds. Are you sure you can carry it all the way to my dorm room? We got a mini fridge and microwave as well to get over there.”

“Have you taken a look at them?” Everheart asked me. “They are in terrible shape. That wheeled toolbox with locks is a good idea but a lot of people are going to be able to break into it. As for carrying the computer over, I can carry much heavier weights than I may appear to be able to.” I took a look at the mini fridge and microwave and indeed they were beyond saving. The front of the mini fridge was missing, shelves were bent, and it was no better than the microwave, which was in two pieces not counting the top.

“The mini fridge and toolbox were for snacks anyway. I probably can pick up another microwave and fridge at the school store unless my roommate has them.” I said. I actually had put in things like Sins of a Solar Empire-Trinity & its standalone expansion-Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion in the toolbox because I wanted to keep the containers to being anime, stuff that wasn’t released yet (of which a lot of the boxes contained), or game engine development tools (which I wanted to keep out of everyone else’s hands).

It wasn’t until the four of us saw two books that we were dumbfounded about where they should go. The books weren’t released yet but were from a very popular series by a certain British author.

Everheart spoke up first “As impossible as these books lying here may be, they MUST get back to the author who wrote them at the earliest convenience.” I spoke up in rebuttal “Nope these are my copies of the books. What I will do is this: make a single copy for me of each and then send the originals off to the author.” “I don’t see a problem with that. After all didn’t you hear what the chief said about the stuff in this lab and suspending belief about time travel being impossible?” Davis said, coming to my defense.

After packing up everything we could, I shut down my computer and packed up its cables. We exited the lab with my dad pushing 1 hand truck and Officer Davis pushing the other. I was carrying the monitor with my backpack on my back as well as wheeling the toolbox. I had the locks on it and had taken the extra key from amongst the wreckage that was my old desk and put it inside my purse.
Everheart spoke up as we neared the cottage. “You will get your school ID tomorrow after your powers testing but before the special testing with your sponsor.” She said. We had just opened the doors leading into the cottage when Mrs. Horton, the Dorm Mother met up with us.

“I’ve been expecting you for some time, Danielle Smith. You really should get a code name once you go for your powers test. Anyway here’s your key. There will be time for a quick tour and then go off with your parents. Your suite mates are out currently but I bet they’ll be surprised by a new addition to their little group” She said, giving me the key to my room.
After that we set off to my room. Upon opening it I saw it was half-furnished, much like the way mine was before my roommate moved in with me. So we put the boxes underneath my bed. It was at this time I heard a female voice say “So you are the older sister I just found out about.”

I turned around and saw my mom and a young lady whom could easily pass as my sister “and who might you be? Are you going to join us in going out for dinner?” I said.
“I’m Jennifer and am much like you but we can chat afterwards. You should spend the night with our parents, as much as I would like to I want you to get to know them alone.” She said. I then decided to head off with my designated student-guide, Beltane.

“Welcome to Hog- er Whateley Academy” she said as we started the quick tour.

“I wouldn’t mistake this place for Hogwarts.” I said

“Why is that?” Beltane said.

“Simple-I don’t see the castle, or Hagrid’s hut, or the Quidditch fields, or the Womping Willow, or the lake” I proceeded to state, chapter and verse things missing from the campus that Hogwarts had.

Laughing Beltane said “Finally I meet another Poesie who knows about Hogwarts. I’ll go easy on you with jokes this school year.”

And show she showed me the quick tour of the campus, showing me where my classes would take, the Crystal Hall, showed me where Emerson, Dickenson, and Whitman cottages were, and gave me a very brief tour of the Homer gallery.

Apologizing to me after our return to Poe, she said “Sorry about the short tour. Normally you’d see the underground tunnels and the Combat arenas but we are on a tight schedule and you have parents to catch up with. Based on what background I have heard, you know the general information about the campus. Still, you’ll get a welcome packet delivered to your room tomorrow. Go and have dinner with your parents.”

After leaving Beltane, me and my parents went to a Charlie Browns that was in the area. I was surprised at how much business they got from the local community. After placing our orders with the waiter and getting our drinks (me and my dad both had a Root beer while my mom had a Gin martini on the rocks) I decided to drop some family related bombshells regarding two events that are upcoming.
“Your mom, my grandma” I said to mom “has a rare type of liver cancer and isn’t going to live to see 2007. Grandpa will precede her by 25 days in a Hospice facility located near to home. I think there’s a cure for the cancer but I doubt she’ll be willing to live without the man she was married to for fifty years.”

“Are you some kind of precog?” my parents asked me together. I replied “No. I was a pall bearer at their funerals, which occurred 25 days apart from each other. That is how I know” I said with tears starting to form in my eyes at the memories.

After I said this we got up and went to the salad bar with me grabbing a little bit of what I usually got there, desiring to eat as much of my steak as I could. I had ordered an 8 oz. steak and was wondering if my new stomach would be able to handle eating it all. The three of us talked about various topics for a while as the food was being cooked.

After the meal, which I ate completly, I used the restroom and we went to Cecilia’s shop in town. She greeted us saying “What can I get for you today?” I replied “I kind of need a whole new wardrobe. I don’t have any known fabric allergens or special requirements regarding fabrics and I have a rather large budget. I need enough stuff for at least two weeks.”
At the statement of two weeks she asked “Are you the recent burnout incident that is rumored to have occurred at Whateley?” I simply nodded my head “Well step into the cubicle and let me get your measurements.” I took my purse and left it with mom heading into the cubicle Cecilia had pointed out. A computer scanner came and got my measurements after I had pulled everything off.

A dummy became my likeness and Cecilia wove her magic, making multiple blouses, skirts, pants, shirts, etc. of various fabrics. She also threw in two dozen sets of panties and bras. I said to her “give my measurements to my dad-I know he knows a tailor in Thailand who he uses for his suits” as I handed her the visa. I also said “I’m going to need a gi as well.” So one was placed in the cart
My dad whistled at the total of the bill as he drove back to campus. I was a little annoyed when he parked near the security building. “Why aren’t we heading to Poe?” I said. My dad said “I was in a meeting before you arrived and was told to bring you to security at my earliest convenience so you could pick up your new ID. I didn’t want to ruin our chat and your conversation has really upset your mother. We’ll drop your new clothes off at your dorm room. We will be in town a few more days-I got the rest of the week off due to you popping up. You sister in Poe has my number if you don’t know it from that other earth.”

I walked into the security build to be told “Ah, Ms. Smith. There you are. We need you to sign a few papers and you will have your new Identification. Normally parents would do it but you aren’t a minor so you have to do it. You also need to get a picture taken as well.” She said bringing a few forms for me to sign.

I looked over them carefully as I read them. One was a document regarding a new birth certificate and name change. Another was acknowledging that I had passed the New Jersey driver’s license test in both written and driving forms. This form also stated that I had my license for the necessary upgrade from a provisional driver to a regular license. This form looked to be non-official but when I asked I was told “This is what the NJ MVC sent us when we told them about you.” The third form was simply stating that I was enrolling at the academy. I happily signed all three forms.
After I got out of there, it was about 6:30 PM. I had a security official escorting me to Poe due to the late night. As we approached the door, a ship seemed to appear off to our right, off the path and out of the way. I told the security officer “Ask for Officer Everheart to come here so I can take a look inside this ship.” I said as I saw the name on the side of the ship.

Peacemaker. That was the name of the ship I had in my daydreams. I was being encouraged to head inside the cottage while security came to deal with it but I told them “I think Q may have created this ship as an item on a list he may have had. If that is true, Officer Everheart will be of more use investigating the inside of the ship” I said while eying the airlock to the ship.
Finally Officer Everheart arrived after ten minutes. “I’ll take over from here” she said and the other officer went back to the security building. “I take it you want to go inside this thing?” she said while cautioning me “This thing could be a trap.” I dissuaded her thinking by saying “If it’s a trap, we’ll find out and with you here, we can override the controls and get ourselves back to campus quickly” referring to the fact that she was integrated with a whole lot of nanites without saying such. Slowly we opened the airlock and entered the inside of the ship.

The ship had the dim glow of red emergency lighting. The fact that the airlocks did not close automatically behind us was an indication that there was little power here. I soon spotted a cabinet labeled “ZPM’s and other power supplies” next to a door labeled ‘power room.’ Opening the cabinet, I saw that it was fully stocked with ZPM’s and other supplies I might need. “Come here, Sam and pick up a ZPM” I said and her reply astonished me.
“It seems that the main computer for this ship is offline.” Hive was able to tell Sam in under a nanosecond. She continued “How you know my first name must be related to you coming from a parallel Earth. Whatever we do, we must not move the ship. We’ll observe and try activating stuff but nothing else.”

Ignoring her warning, I put the first of the two ZPM’s into the slot inside one of the three slots in the center console in the power room. As soon as I had done that the main computer came online and said “Main power at 33%. Auxiliary power at 1%. Batteries at 15%. Please insert another ZPM at minimum.” Taking my second ZPM I inserted it into the second open slot. I gestured to Sam to put hers into the third open slot and reluctantly she did so.

“Main power restored. Power for stealth systems is available but requires manual input from the cockpit. Batteries are charging. Auxiliary generators should be replaced at the earliest possible convience.” The computer said. Deciding against replacing the burnt-out generators as well as my desire to see the cockpit, the two of us went up to it.
The cockpit was not too small but it wasn’t that large either. There was room for three people to sit and move around. Sam tried some of the controls at a console and said “I can’t do anything. The computer is mentioning something about a genetic lock on most systems. I can access life support and other basic functions along with access to a database called “Ancient Database”. Access to that database required me to give my military information.”

At this I smirked. I knew now what the control system of the ship was but not how to fly it. That would have to be done in a simulator or with the help of someone experienced in flying Ancient spacecraft. Looking at the center chair, my thoughts immediately went back to the pilot episode for Stargate: Atlantis where John Shephard sits down in the chair and everything lights up…

“You mean the drone?” Doctor Bekket said to a puzzled Major Shephard. “It’s the weapon the Ancients used to defend this outpost from their enemies. You do have security clearance to be down here, don’t you?”
“Yes I was just given clearance by General O’Neil. Anyway what harm can there be sitting in an old chair…” he said as he sat in it. At once the chair platform powered up and everything came to life. Doctor Bekkit said “Quite a lot actually. Can you focus on where we are in the solar system?” at once information regarding Earth came up in the air. “Dr. Wier…”

…Then my thoughts came back to the present. “Let me try sitting in the center seat” I said. To my expectations, the consoles in front of me started to light up. A startled Samantha said to me “can you get a comn line to security so I can report that we are friendly? I sure as heck hope you aren’t going to take off without any flight experience in this ship.” She said as I tried to open the comn line. “I think I have it. Try the radio.”

“Security this is Officer Everheart. Against our better judgments, me and Ms. Smith have restore power to a ship we found here that was low on power and restored its primary power supply. I am seeing here that it has an extremely advanced sensor system that we can use to monitor the campus better. I suggest this info be shared with only the Chief and myself due to information I found inside.”

“Security to Officer Everheart, we didn’t even see such a craft on our monitoring until it appeared for you. I suggest you talk to its pilot after you put it back in stealth mode about us utilizing its sensors to monitor the campus.” “Acknowledged. Everheart out” she said as she hit the close communication button.
She queried me about how I was able to get the ship functioning and asked me to put it back in stealth mode. I replied “Simple, really. I got the ATA gene. It’s a very recessive gene so few people will have it in the world.” I said before thinking ‘invisible’ and as I thought it, the display indicated that the cloak was now active.
As I got up from the center chair, most of the status displays that had been lit up went dark but the cloak indicator was still on. “I think we can wait on seeing how the sensors work. Let’s see what the part of the ship we traveled through looks like when it has power.” I said to Sam as the power to the displays went out.

She raised no objection to this since we would have to travel back that way anyway to exit. I asked her “Why didn’t you reveal the information about the database you found?”
Her reply was simple. “It said ‘Top Secret or Prime Directive clearance required to access database’ but opened up for me when I input my security credentials. I only had read-only access but whatever is stored inside that database is huge in terms of sheer information.” She said as we made our way back to the airlock.
Under normal lightning, I was able to see a kitchen-like setup in one corner of the main room. In another corner of the room there was a chair platform similar to the one I just got up out of. I was also able to see a hallway with more doors. Not wanting to waste time looking inside the rooms, we headed outside the ship which was now invisible again. Parting ways, I enter Poe and went up to my room to meet my new roommate.

“Hello. I’m Phase, also known as Ayla Goodkind.” She said to me while hold out her hand. “I’m Danielle Smith. No codename as of yet due to no powers testing. It’s nice to meet you” I said. Ayla was surprised at my calm reaction to her “I take it you don’t know of my family?” At my nodding head she said “Good. That makes one person on campus who won’t judge me based on my last name. Your sponsor must have had to convince someone of who they were based on the renovations to the cottage that occurred in under 24 hours.”

At this point Jade jumped her head in the door that I guessed was the common area between our rooms. “Hello. You must be Phase’s new roommate. There’s a karaoke going on downstairs that the rest of the team is attending.” She said to us. “I wouldn’t go down there. I heard some of them singing coming up. It sounded awful” Ayla said.

“I’m going down there to preform 3 songs and I bet I can do them better than any of you can. I suggest you two join me down there” I said while grabbing my iPod touch and checking its music contents. Satisfied that the songs were intact on the device, I headed down to the area where the songs were taking place. Sighing, the two of them decided to follow me down to the room.
Ayla was right about one thing. Some of the people singing were awful. I recognized the music of one song and was able to tell he was VERY off-key just by his singing. At the request for other people to come up I raised my hand and came up to the front and looked at the device. It seemed you were scored on how well you were able to match up to the vocals. Selecting one of the full-length intro songs to the anime Gundam Seed, I flipped the karaoke line to off before I started to sing the English lyrics.
[Note that line breaks during a song indicate a pause of about 5 seconds unless indicated. Longer times will be in brackets]

Song name: Invoke

[18 second pause]
When we pass each other in haste,
We collide and hurt each other.
We feel the pain beneath each other’s wings.
I held you in my arms, so full of loneliness.
But that was because I didn’t know about anything else
I long for the moment when we connect,
And awaken eternity.
Having been exposed to
the twinkling of time’s rapid flow
I can’t reach it alone
With fragile words such as “wish”
[short pause]
They won’t get us anywhere.
[10 second pause]
Even though I’ve kept my eyes on them,
I’ve lost sight of the stars.
But their light remains, and no one can steal it.
The light of our existence is confirmed by our hearts.
It’s blazing up from our emotions that are bottled up inside
Is it love that lies ahead, or will everything break apart, it bewilders me…
Having been exposed to
The twinkling of time’s rapid flow
I can’t reach it alone
With fragile words such as “wish”
[3 second pause]
They are still there.
[40 second pause]
Having been exposed to
The twinkling of time’s rapid flow
I can’t reach it alone
With fragile words such as “wish”
The honest truth of
The entangled fever I want to impart
Who am I protecting it from?
Because the feelings you always wanted me to have…
[10 second pause]
It lies in you

I heard clapping from the audience as I looked at my score for the first song. Apparently a devisor had made it so that it was able to distinguish when lyrics in another language were used. My score for sticking to the beat was a 99 but my score for the lyrics was a zero however there was another line underneath that said ‘foreign lyrics used’ and next to that was a 100. Underneath that there was another line saying the same thing but with a x2 multiplier next to it. Underneath that was my total which was 398.
Fey came up, looked at the score and said “you HAVE to do at least one more song.” I told her quietly “I have three planned in total, one just like this and another in the original language because it would sound butchered if I sang it in English.” Resetting the machine for another song, I picked another song that I hope most people with knowledge of anime would recognize-the full opening theme to Outlaw Star.

Song Name: Through the night

Don’t make fun of it! Don’t cheapen it! Don’t destroy it!
That one special thing that everyone has
My love! My dreams! And you!
Those are the only things I won’t ever let go.
[6 second pause]
On nights when I can't settle down no matter what,
I just want to throw it all away.
Don't say a word, just open up the door,
I don't have time to quibble with you.
I wanna fly all over the place.
I want to throw caution to the wind.
It isn't because I've lost anything
I ain’t even started yet.
Don't make fun of it! Don't destroy it! Don't cheapen it!
That one thing everyone has that they won't give up.
My love! My dreams! And you!
Those are the only things I won't ever let go.
What do you want? What do you want to do? Where do you want to go?
Cut through the darkness and run to grab what you want (all) through the night
Sometimes I'll let my guard down to your kindness,
but sometimes I worry.
I've been doing whatever I want as much as I wanted to,
But to tell the truth, being with you is the best.
Believing, I want us to believe in each other.
I want it to be as plain as black and white.
Because it's not just intensity
Because it ain’t just gentless...
Don't make fun of it! Don't destroy it! Don't cheapen it!
Who do I want to hold? I should know.
Only love! Only dreams! Only you!
I can't protect even those unless I get moving.
Even if I get hurt, or I hurt someone, or I have to take the long way,
With my heart as it is, tumbling as I am, I'll pierce (all) through the night
[25 second pause]
Don't make fun of it! Don't destroy it! Don't cheapen it!
That one special thing that everyone has.
My love! My dreams! And you!
Those are the only things I won't ever let go.
Holding each other, getting hurt, then loss...
Everyone hurts the one they hold most dear.
Anyway, I just can't understand
being shackled with a promise... I can't put my finger
What do you want? What do you wanna do? Where do you wanna go?
Cut through the dark and run to grab what you want (all) through the night!

Again there was applause as I read my score to myself. Again for sticking to the beat I got a 99 and my score for being on with the lyrics was 0. However the line indicating ‘foreign lyrics used’ was a 95 however the line underneath it was still a 2.0 meaning my total score was a 388. Apparently this was either ‘humiliate the new girl’ night or they really wanted me to go on with their chanting of “Another!”

This time Chaka came over to me and whistled while looking at my score “Dang, girl you are either a good Siren or you have those lyrics memorized! That is two songs in a row you pulled off better than anyone else here tonight. Let’s not mention the fact that you didn’t even look at the karaoke lyrics on the machine. I hope you have a third song up your sleeve.” I whispered into her ear “I do but it’s more beautiful if sung in the original Japanese. I think you’ll understand once you hear it. I also highly doubt I’m a Siren.”

So a third time I went to the karaoke machine and picked a song out. However, unlike the past two songs, I wasn’t going to flip off the karaoke indicator. I was going to need that for the song. So after setting it up for the song ‘suteki da ne’ (‘Isn’t it Wonderful?’ in English) I proceeded to sing.

Song Name: suteki da ne (‘Isn’t it Wonderful?’)
kaze ga yoseta kotoba ni oyoida kokoro
kumo ga hakobu ashita ni hazunda koe

tsuki ga yureru kagami ni furueta kokoro
hoshi ga nagare koboreta yawarakai namida
[5 second pause]
suteki da ne
futari te wo tori aruketa nara
ikitai yo
KIMI no machi ie ude no naka
sono mune
karada azuke
yoi ni magire
yumemiru
[43 second pause]
kaze wa tomari kotoba wa yasashii maboroshi
kumo wa yabure ashita wa tooku no koe
tsuki ga nijimu kagami wo nagareta kokoro
hoshi ga yurete koboreta kakusenai namida
[5 second pause]
suteki da ne
futari te wo tori aruketa nara
ikitai yo
KIMI no machi ie ude no naka
sono kao
sotto furete
asa ni tokeru
yumemiru

I was surprised to find out the effect that having the karaoke setting to on had. Not only did the syllables appear on screen for me to sing, but they were broadcast into the air from the front of the machine and as I sung, there were effects on the syllables in the air. I decided to look at my score for the song. Staying on-beat got me a perfect score as well as singing the syllables right. However, as a consequence, my ‘foreign lyrics used’ score was a zero and the multiplier was a 1 so I only got a 200. I decided at this point to give up the mike and head back to my room to continue unpacking.

Continued in part 4

Note: I decided to rush a few parts because the admin knew that it was the dad’s birthday. I pondered over the songs for the karaoke scene for a few days before settling on these three. There is another bombshell that I have yet to drop regarding the family and a family friend. The sister will appear in part four and would have appeared here if not for the fact that part 3 came out to be rather long. IRL I lost two of my grandparents in one month. I think part 4 is going to be the rest of the night and meeting the other changelings.
ZPM stands for Zero Point Module. It derives its power from a self-contained region of subspace-time. ATA is the name of the Ancient gene that unlocks most Ancient technology for usage.
I must reiterate that I really need an editor to look at this series.
Like I said at the start, I really want to hear comments on the series so far as well as on part 3 itself. I’m adding a keyword because people have been talking about ‘Mary Sues’ in the series.

This is a work of fiction and all characters are used without permission. All prior warnings about needing to know certain information still apply. Reading part one, part 1.5, part 2, and part 3 of the story will be very helpful in understanding it. This story is only to be posted on Big Closet unless I have given my approval to post it elsewhere. Comments are appreciated.

“I never knew you were so talented!” I heard Jade say to me after I got back to the dorm room. “I bet you have given everyone in the cottage the impression you’re a Siren with that performance.” Another voice that I recognized as being that of Ryoko. Deciding to pull a little joke on them I decided to try pulling a Kioyne on her.

“Space pirate Ryoko you are under arrest on over 500 charges.” I said trying to contain my giggling. “I always imagined pulling that on you if I ever met you and the rest of your team-I just never expected it to be in the flesh.”

On the verge of punching me she stopped after thinking about it “I take it you’re an anime fan too then. By the way my name’s not Ryoko. It’s Billie.” She said to me before adding “I hope you can stand Ayla’s music. It annoyed her last roommate to no end.” I added “I haven’t heard of the Brass Monkeys but if they sound anything like modern bands from where I am from, I am not going to like it.”

Around this time the other female changelings decided to come and introduce themselves to me. “You already met my roommate, Nikki but you haven’t met me yet.” Toni said after Nikki had raised a protection field around us. “It looks like you haven’t unpacked and did quite a bit of shopping” Billie said while gesturing to the bags sitting on my bed. It appears that someone had been kind enough to put sheets, my blankets, and pillowcases on my pillows because they were all there on the bed.

“No need to thank me for making your bed and putting the sheets on. I had no trouble at all with that.” Jade said to me. “You don’t want to know how I feel right now.” I said to everyone. “I feel like I passed up something real bad when I made a choice to come here.” I said once again remembering the events that led to me coming to the academy. “Do they have anything to do with your powers? Can you show us some of what you can do in this room?” Ayla asked me.

“Well I can try but I highly doubt everyone will be able to see my powers.” I said while pulling out the Soul pass from my purse. Holding it up where everyone could see it, I said “Raise your hand if you can see the thing I am holding up. If you vaguely see it tell me. I saw 4 hands go up and Ayla said “I don’t see anything so I guess the rest of you will have to describe what you see.” I then pushed the soul pass against my body and instantly my soul exited my body, startling everyone.

“I’m still here, no need to call for the nurse. I have to exit my body to show you part of what I can do.” I said while seeing Ayla scrambling for her phone to call the nurse. Drawing out Sodenoshidayuki I said “I’ll pull out my swords, which are actually zanpakto and release them. If I have the energy to manifest their spirits I’ll introduce you to them.” I said before saying her release command.

“Oh man that is a neat looking sword. Where can I get one that looks just like that?” I heard Nikki say.

My reply was brief but swift “sorry to say it, but Sodenoshidayuki’s a unique sword. Even if you became a Soul Reaper, you wouldn’t get her as your zanpakto. The circumstances in which I acquired the two zanpakto” I said while carefully grabbing Zangetsu off my back with my right hand “are very unlikely to occur again for any of you. The sword in my right hand is Zangetsu. Let me attempt to bring them out to meet you.”
Everyone else was perplexed by my statement but they were dissuaded once I managed to get Sodenoshidayuki out for them to see. “She is beautiful.” I heard Jade say. “I wish I knew what you knew at the time you grabbed her, Danielle. Then I might have had a chance at owning her.” Nikki said in a authorative voice before switching back to her normal voice “Aung is jealous of you for owning that sword. Don’t get me started on other stuff you have that she knows about.”

“I kind of see her but all I see is an aura of blue standing next to you.” Toni said. Deciding to switch it up I sheathed the sword and went back into my body. Grabbing a pencil off Ayla’s desk I said “See this pencil? Watch me change it into a notebook.” I said while imagining the change in my mind.

“You could make a killing off of that ability” Ayla said to me. “How did you gain that ability? Was it as a result of your mutation?” “No.” I said “It was something I gained at a high price. Possibly the highest price anyone on campus has ever paid for a ability.”

“What was the price?” Ayla pestered me, wanting to know the little details. Nikki came to my defense very quickly. “The price she paid was a level 5 burnout shortly after she came to the campus.” Obviously deciding to leave the little info about the white Philosopher’s Stone in my broach out of the conversation. “Oh. That’s an extremely high price. At least you are alive.” Ayla said consolingly.

“I got more abilities I learned but due to circumstances, I cannot show them to you inside my dorm room.” I said while starting to unpack my stuff that we brought back from the lab. Unknowingly, a undesired visitor had been packed inside by Officer Davis and was now about to make his debut.

“Finally. I thought I was going to be buried under that stuff for days. Come to daddy!” I heard a voice which could only be Kon’s say as he leapt towards me. Kicking him against the wall I said “Kon, I’ve had a VERY long day and I don’t want to hear anything from you about it. You’re going to be surrounded by girls whenever you are in this dorm room. Now are you going to behave or do I have to take you to Kiskue Urahara to get your gender changed?”

At that threat, Kon changed his attitude. “I’ll behave I promise.” Not wanting to think about what Kon was really thinking I reached inside his throat and pulled him out. Showing the pearl to everyone in the room I said “This is what Kon actually looks like. I don’t think I need to tell you what he might do to any of us given the chance. Regardless of if he can hear this or not, I’m going to Kiskue when I find him and asking him to change Kon’s gender so there isn’t any ‘trouble’.”

“I don’t get what is so important about a silly little pearl.” Billie said. Jade interrupted her by pulling out a folding door by using Jinn “Lookie what I found inside the container.” Jinn said. “It even has easy peel-off sticky backing so it can go up on a wall.” “Let’s see what will happen if we hang it in our common area.” Billie said, gesturing to the door containing a short hallway linking our dorm rooms. “All right let’s see what happens when it goes up but be prepared for anything.” I cautioned.

After we put the door up, we entered it and found ourselves inside a large room which was  ½ kitchen and  ½ living room. It had two TV’s, one of which I instantly recognized as being an identical copy of the TV in my uncle’s bedroom that I used to play NES and Sega Genesis games on. The other TV looked like it was an HDTV and I couldn’t be sure of the number of speakers it had.

Everyone else was looking around in surprise when the computer said “Hello, Danielle and team Kimba. I’m the computer for this lair. There is a letter for you on the kitchen table, Danielle. I suggest you read it.” The computer said. Picking up the letter I read it and here is what it said.

Danielle,
I hope you enjoy this gift from me
Signed,
Your favorite letter of the alphabet

“Q!” I said in a loud voice, startling everyone. To my surprise he popped his head in saying “Yes, mon petite?” “Why did you give me this ‘lair’?” I asked him. His reply was relatively simple “I gave it to you so that you would be able to go to and from your house and Whateley Academy rather easily. Don’t think that it’s also so you can have someplace to think, away from prying eyes.”

Around this time, Ayla came up to Q to say something. She had looked around and found the enormous game libraries that existed for each system. “Thanks for giving her this, Q. I think Danielle needed this to take her mind off things.” Q responded “You’re very welcome, Ayla. Now if you excuse me, I’m a very busy Q. If you need me just say me name.” Q said before disappearing in a flash.

I then inquired about the power supply for the entire lair as well as life support. The reply I got back from the computer was a surprise. “The power supply is a stable draw from a parallel universe. It will never run out. Life support I have no control over and is totally automatic. There is a TARDIS translator device that can be turned on or off at your convenience.” The computer said to me.

I heard Toni then say “Why won’t this mini fridge open for me?” as I came over to look. I saw that it was reinforced to prevent opening without unlocking and saw a place to put my hand. So doing that I was able to get the mini fridge to open. After taking a brief look inside I said “Toni, the reason you couldn’t get it open is you aren’t 21. There is liquor inside it. Why don’t we move a few of the containers inside here for safe keeping?”

And with the agreement of everyone else, we proceeded back to my room. I carefully unpacked a couple of the anime that had been released on DVD up to this point and put them on my desk, next to my monitor. After we got back inside the ‘lair’, we proceeded to unpack and fill up the entertainment center.

“I heard rumors about this movie.” Ayla said while handling my 3-disk Blu-ray copy of the Star Trek remake. I stated “They did an all right job with casting but Scotty was spot-on perfect. That movie does NOT leave this ‘lair’.” Toni had something to say about Bleach “I don’t get how there can be an anime about a liquid you use in the washer.”

“You’ll find out come September 22nd. Anyone in here will be free to watch the premier on DVD but no one interrupts when I am watching. In fact, since I am so far ahead of you guys in the show and you would be extremely lost while watching, no one can come in to watch it.” I neglected to mention I was at episode 248 in the series and had already given them some tiny spoilers.

As we pulled out the 3 Stooges: Complete Knucklehead collection Ayla asked “What are the 3 stooges?” at that question 5 sets of eyes turned towards her. Billie phoned Hank to come inside her room and into the hallway and upon him showing up I said “Hello Hank. Ayla here just asked who the 3 stooges are.” His response was very calm but reflected the fury everyone else had. “Ayla, go to the bathroom. You’re going to find out who the 3 Stooges were.”

“If you intend to hold Ayla down while watching, I have a better idea.” I said while Ayla went to the rest room, puzzled. “Wait until Ayla is on the couch and then let me try my attempt. If it works, Ayla will be immobilized. If not, you hold her down.” He decided to agree with me on this point for once.

After Ayla had returned to the room and sat down I went in front of her and said “Hado #1: Scythe!” and right away Ayla was restrained by invisible chains. “Don’t try to struggle. We’ll only torture you with three of the shorts.” I said while Jade had Jinn put disk 1 of volume 1 into the DVD player hooked up to the big TV. Right away the big HDTV shrunk in size to be an old school TV.

“I assure you. You’ll be laughing in less than 5 minutes after the shorts start up.” I said with everyone else nodding their heads in agreement. After turning the TV on with a nearby remote, I saw that it was already at the menu. Clicking the play all button caused speakers to disappear except for the speaker beneath the TV. As the music started up I said “I’ll be right back. I want to start setting my computer up. I’ll leave the door open.”

I started to pull out the cables from one of the boxes and assemble my machine back up. Thinking against connecting the computer to the campus network for fear of hacking, I kept the Ethernet cable set aside. All told it took me 5 minutes to hook everything up. The coaxial cable I had for my TV tuner I had to snake across the floor to hook it up to my PC.

While I was doing this I heard a voice in my head. “Hello, Danielle. I heard about you and suggest you visit my office in Schulscher room 206 on the 29th at 3 o’clock.” The voice said. Turning around from my computer which at this point was booting into Windows, I said “Hello Louis. I hope you can keep a whole lot of secrets from the rest of the world.” “I am the most powerful psychic in the world. Of course I can keep a secret. That is why I am a therapist and psychologist. We can chat over a game of chess.” Louis said.

Sighing, I said “All right, Louis. I will visit you at the time and place you stated.” I said and Louis replied “OK see you then. Good night.” Louis said before vanishing from my dorm room.

Deciding to do what I came out here to accomplish hidden from the others, I grabbed the 1st volume of the Sailor Moon box set and looked at it. I giggled at the sight of ‘Gurren Lagaan Productions’ on the back. I had tears in my eyes as I saw the features on the disk. Although it was only 3 episodes those episodes had 3 video angles, one being the original US broadcast version, one being a remastered one from Funimation complete with 5.1 dub, and the Japanese video angle with both audio tracks.

After booting up the software I used to rip the disk I whistled after I saw it finish loading. The disk was about 43 GB large so I knew it would take about an hour to start. Deciding to boot up Steam on my PC, I set that into offline mode before I headed back inside the lair which I decided to call the “Kimba Kwarters” to hear Ayla laughing to the 3 stooges short that was playing. It just so happened to be the second short on the disk that was playing.

“She has been laughing since about 90 seconds into the first short.” I heard Hank say to me. “However, Toni had some sugar and is practically bouncing off the walls.” “I can see that” I said as I saw Toni talking very fast. “Ohmygodyouhavetogivemeacopyofthisset!” she said to me. “Can you remove these chains binding me? I’ve tried everything but I can’t get out of them.” I heard Ayla say. Deciding that she had seen enough I proceeded to remove the bindings.

“Hado #1 release.” I said in front of Ayla, removing the invisible chains around her. “Do you now have an idea of who the 3 Stooges are?” I said. I saw her nodding and at that I stopped the DVD and ejected it. Again Jinn took the DVD and put it back in its case. “Thank you, Jinn.” I said to her. Deciding to want to investigate the lair further I said “Why don’t we all decide to take a look around this lair? We might find something out about it.”

And so we paired off but we had Toni head out to her room due to her being hyperactive. Ayla and I were to investigate the kitchen/living room area. Jade and Billie were going down one side of the hallway, looking inside each door they found if possible. Nikki and Jinn were going down the other side of the hallway, again going inside each door if they could. Everyone was to return to the center area in fifteen minutes to say what they found.

Looking inside the center console we found the Blu-ray player as well as connections leading to an Xbox 360, a PS3, a N64, and a Wii. Looking inside the sides of the entertainment center revealed one side to be full of the movies I didn’t find inside the wreckage in the lab.

Checking the kitchen area, we found that it had a working sink, drawers with forks, knives, and spoons, cups and plates. Checking the fridge, I found that everything I had in the fridge in my old dorm room was here. I also checked the nearby cabinet and saw that my 12-packs of soda were there, less the cans I had in the fridge. The mini-fridge we didn’t even bother checking because the two of us knew what was in there.

When we got to the wall next to the hallway, we stopped and looked at it. Sitting in the wall was a replicator that looked like it would belong on the Enterprise. “Do you want to see what things this has on file?” Ayla asked me. I replied “Yeah I’ll look and see what it has in its databank.”
The computer interrupted me saying “I wouldn’t suggest you do that. You wouldn’t even reach the end of the list of categories before everyone came back. Suffice to say that it contains a whole lot of dishes.” Sighing I said “All right I’ll take your word for it.”

And we proceeded to investigate the area around the smaller TV. I was surprised to see a complete lack of games for the systems hooked up to it. I also was surprised to see that there was a cable going out the back of each unit and into the wall. When I inquired to the computer about the wires I was told “I have the complete ROM list of each system on my hard drives. Each system has a hardcoded menu selector along with optional cheat codes that can be used for each game.”

I then proceeded to start to examine the other game consoles but was interrupted by everyone returning. “We are all getting bathing suits. I saw a large pool at the end of our search area.” Nikki said to everyone. “What Hank and I saw was a bunch of bedrooms, a room that looked like a Holodeck from the Enterprise-D, and a room that was identical to the Sick bay from the Enterprise-E.” Billie said.

“We didn’t find out much that we didn’t already know about here.” I said while Ayla proceeded to explain “What we found was a Star trek-style replicator, the kitchen is furnished like a normal kitchen, and what else, Danielle?” Ayla said to be, telling me to add my input.

“ The NES, SNES, and Genesis don’t have cartridge games.” I said to the gasp of everyone. “The games are in ROM format on the computer’s hard drives. The consoles themselves have a menu to select the rom and to add cheats and I would also hope has a search function. We found some more movies that belong to me that I didn’t find inside the wreckage of the lab. I wouldn’t be surprised if the n64 is the same way as the other 3 consoles we saw.”

“Well it’s getting late and we don’t want the Dorm Mother wondering what I’m doing up here so late at night.” Hank said, gesturing to his watch. It was 8:30 PM. “I guess I should head back to my room as well then, do my homework, and get ready for bed.” Nikki said.

I added “It looks like we can ditch code-names while we are inside this ‘lair’ due to no one being able to gain access to it. I came up with a name for it. I’d like to call this area the Kimba Kwarters. That is if you’ll have me on your team.”

Everyone nodded their heads that they’d like to have me apart of their team. When they raised questions about me being able to be on the team Nikki said “I’ve seen her before burnout and she was a candidate for Poe 2 days ago. Nothing has changed except she has a mixture of joy and sadness whereas before she was all depressed. Was it worth it to pull a Yurameshi in the forest, Danielle?” Nikki asked me straight out.

“For me it was like going through hell and facing your worst nightmare but I got what I wanted most out of it. I wouldn’t recommend anyone else use up their life force in one huge attack like I did unless they REALLY want to die.” I said not wanting to go into much detail about events that occurred in my mind while I was in burnout because they didn’t need to know how close I was to actually not being here.

“Well welcome to the team.” Hank said, holding out his hand which I shook. After that, Nikki and Hank left the newly dubbed Kimba Kwarters and went back to their rooms. “Jade, Jinn, and I should get back to our homework too.” Billie said before they left as well. That left Ayla and me alone in the room. It was time for me to tell Ayla a few important things.

“Ayla” I started “I have a few companies I need to acquire because Q left me with Intellectual Property belonging to those companies. I know exactly how to get Duke Nukem out of our hair for the remainder of his stay here but I’m going to need help getting the capital out of my trust fund that Mrs. Hartford setup.”

“Sounds to me like you got your work cut out for you. How much is in the trust fund?” Ayla said. I whispered into her ear “4 billion total. I have two billion in liquid assets and 2 billion in rare metals. Since I am over the age of 18, I can access all of it.” At that Ayla whistled and said “I only got 300 million and I am a Goodkind! What is the reason you got 4 billion in a trust?” I told her about the reason I came to the campus.

“I have to take your word on that. I can understand WHY you don’t want people knowing about your true origin. Can I see that proof you have that will keep Duke Nukem out of our hair for the rest of his time here?” Ayla said to me. So I decided to search in the lair for the PS3 version of the game and a controller. Upon finding them in the entertainment center, I powered up the PS3, showed Ayla the game, and popped the game into the console, booting the game up and handing her the controller.

The big TV changed to be its original display and other speakers came up around us. In order to keep the game’s details as hidden as I could, I took the controller away from Ayla and ejected the disk after the intro had played. After putting the game’s case back where I found it and shutting the system down I said “Now do you see how we can keep him out of our hair?”

“Yup that’s a sure-fire way to keep him out of our hair. But what’s to prevent him from just charging at us? He has the code name right now.” Ayla said. I stated simply “A contract which states that if he attacks any member of the team or their associates outside of a Combat arena of Combat final, he loses the right to the codename. But for that I need to own the IP and transfer it to Gearbox which I then wish to be the owner or majority stakeholder in.”

Understanding that I was speaking in terms she understood she said “Give me $3 million of your money to manage. I doubt you’ll be spending all of that money.” I retorted saying “I am going to be buying at least ONE Japanese company that is publically traded. Another I will attempt to buy the distribution service for. A third I am going to need to buy and give money so that they can operate for a while before they release a game.”

“Give me a list of the companies you intend to purchase, the estimated costs, and the total in liquid assets and I’ll see how much you can give me so I can make more money for you.” Ayla said. After this, we exited the Kimba Kwarters and headed to our dorm room. It was now 8:45 PM and my sister, Jennifer decided to come into the room now.

“Hey there sis I’ve been knocking on the door for ages. I heard you doing those 3 karaoke songs and have to say you were amazing. Are you a Siren perchance?” My sister said to me. I replied “I’m no Siren. At least I don’t think so. I’d like to hear how you wound up in Poe as well as what powers you have.” I said to her.

“I’m a shifter. I can change into any living form that I touch and concentrate on. However, exactly 1 hour and fifty minutes after I change, I change back. For some reason, when I change back I can only wear skintight clothing. Hence my code-name: Megamorph. As for coming to Poe, well I was a guy and started to develop a girl’s puberty about 7 months ago.” She said to me.

At the description of her powers I instantly was reminded of the name of a young adult book series I had read that was titled ‘Animorphs’. The only difference here was something was compelling her to change back before the two-hour deadline.

And so the two of us chatted about little stuff with Ayla deciding to do her homework in the Kimba Kwarters as she could see this was going to get into personal family stuff. I found out that my little brother had the same birthdate and that she had been a Cub Scout. She was in 8th grade at the catholic school I graduated from when the changes started so she was pulled out for homeschooling to avoid a backlash occurring from parents of kids at the school.

I also found out that we still lived at the same address but our house was on three lots not one. Dad still worked at the same job he had where I came from and mom still liked her flowers and ceramic molds, two things I hated with a passion back at home.

I found out my sister liked magna and was reading Bleach online so I told her quietly “If you want to watch the anime, go ahead. Just make sure none of the others know. Avoid episodes 64-108 and 167-189 as those are filler. Don’t watch any further than you are in the magna. You will be getting WAY ahead of where the subs are if you watch my DVD’s.”

“And what episode are you at that allows you to know those are filler episodes?” she said to which I had a quick reply. I told her “I was on episode 248 when I left. I am going to continue my watching them at midnight on Saturdays. If you want to stick to where the dub is, you’ll start watching the DVD’s in September and stop watching when I tell you for how long I tell you.”
At this she said “I guess you don’t want me seeing something that hasn’t been completed yet by telling me that part. I’ll do as you requested. I’ll even ask to watch the episodes ahead of time. Speaking of time I should be going. Lights out is in an hour.” Jennifer said after which she ran out the door.

At that statement I decided to start watching the Blu-ray disk I had copied to my computer. I took the disk out of the drive and put it in the case and put that away. By now as I was about to sit down to watch an episode Ayla asked me “When and where did you assemble that PC? I took a quick look at it and it looks like it was a custom build machine.” I said to her “my dad ordered the parts I picked out off of the internet and we assembled it together. It was over 3,000 for the parts alone minus the external e-SATA adaptor and OS. It was my 21st birthday gift.”

“I assembled it for one game that I have.” I said, recalling the NDA that I signed about project Rapture. Finding a set of disks I had in my backpack I handed them to Ayla saying “Here Ayla. They may be dry listening to but you might learn something about trading from them.” Ayla simply said thanks and by now I had to put my stuff away as it was nearing the time for lights out.
Sighing, I decided to start putting everything into drawers. The bras and panties I put in one draw with tops in the drawer underneath. The skirts I put in a third drawer off to the right side while the pairs of jeans I put on the left side. I hung the two dresses up in the armoire I had before changing into one of the three nighties that were purchased.

I asked Ayla “Do you mind if we use my IPod touch to wake up in the morning?” “Do you have any Brass Monkeys on there?” she replied. “No but I think you might appreciate some of the music on it.” I said. “All right but tomorrow night we use my music as the alarm clock.” Ayla replied. So setting the alarm clock to 6:30 AM because I had a powers test at 8 AM and wanted to make sure I had eaten breakfast before then, I decided to go to sleep. I had a hunch tomorrow was going to be a very long, very tiring day.

Notes: the rest of the people on campus are there either on Summer Session III or on a summer bridge semester. I moved the events of everyone meeting up by about 2 months. The events of the team’s first night occurred the night before, while Danielle was in burnout. I really need feedback on how good the story is. This is short because it is the rest of that first night. Part 5 will be the powers testing and events afterwards (basically the whole day). I included a certain Tenchi reference to make sure they knew I was into anime if my collection didn't indicate otherwise to them. Yes I used real accounting terms. I really WAS under a NDA for FFXIV (which same may recognize as Project Rapture) so that knowledge is need-to-know.

This is a work of fiction and all characters are used without permission. All prior warnings about needing to know certain information still apply. Reading part one, part 1.5, part 2, part 3, and part 4 of the story will be very helpful in understanding it. This story is only to be posted on Big Closet unless I have given my approval to post it elsewhere. Comments are very much encouraged.

At 6:30 on the dot, the airship theme from FFXI started playing, indicating that I should get up to face the day. Seeing my roommate was sleeping (or at least she was pretending to), I grabbed some toiletries that had been purchased in the school store before going into the bathroom to take a shower. I noticed that no one was in there when I knocked so I proceeded to go in, locking the door behind me. Then after going to the bathroom, remembering to wipe from front to back, I went and took a shower.

I must have been in there for a while, enjoying the hot water on my skin when I heard Jade say “Hey Onee-san (big sis), are you going to be getting out soon? I got to go to the bathroom.” After turning off the water, I said “yea I’m just about out. Give me two minutes. I quickly brushed my teeth, got on my bathrobe, and unlocked the door to hear Jade say “Thanks.”

Upon going back into my dorm room, I saw that Ayla was just waking up to the song ‘Kazham’ playing from my IPod touch I said “Good Morning, Ayla. If you are looking to use the bathroom, Jade’s in there already. Was this selection of music nice for waking up to?” I said having set the IPod touch on random shuffle through the songs on my iPod touch. “Not as nice as waking up to the Brass Monkeys. Knowing Billie, she’s already in line for the bathroom so I got to wait.” Ayla said.

I decided to put on a blue blouse and a blue shirt that had been purchased the day before at Cecilia’s. I threw my nightie and used underwear into my hamper and decided to wait on the others before heading to breakfast. I also put back on my broach, which I had put on the nightstand prior to going to sleep. After Ayla got out of the shower, the clock said it was 7:15.

“Why did you wait for me to get out of the shower before heading off to breakfast?” Ayla asked me. I replied “for a few reasons really. One is that I don’t know what hours the Crystal Hall serves breakfast and two is I didn’t want to get there behind the rest of the team.” “Well since its summer, breakfast is served from 7-9 in the morning. Everyone should be heading there now.” Ayla said. With that I grabbed my purse and said “I guess I’ll see everyone else over there”

I was told about the flags at I walked down to the cottage doors with Ayla and I saw the intro packet in my mailbox along with a note that I was to report to Schulscher 105 for powers testing at 8 AM for powers testing. Upon reading that, I said to Ayla “I got to put this intro packet in my room to be read later. I need to get something into my body for energy so I can survive powers testing.” And coming back down from the room the two of us headed off to the Crystal Hall to eat.

The Crystal Hall was much like my old college’s cafeteria was. So I grabbed a plate and got in line. After taking a brief look at what they had, I picked up one Belgian waffle, a couple pieces of bacon, and a piece of sausage, thinking that this would be enough, I headed down to the end of the line where I handed over my temporary student ID that I got from security the night before so I could eat. I also grabbed a bottle of OJ before looking for everyone else. I saw them in a corner with Jade talking about Hello Kitty. Knowing this to be a fake, I walk inside the barrier and the conversation instantly changed.

“So can you give me a hand with understand this math stuff, Fey?” I heard Billie say before everyone turned to me. “How did you find our table?” Nikki asked me. “I heard Jade talking about Hello Kitty so I figured that this must be your table.” Ayla said “She has power testing in about a half-hour.” At that everyone groaned because powers testing takes so long and is pretty boring.

“That’s not the worst of it. There was also a statement about taking placement tests for general high school courses and for French.” I said adding in the information Ayla had overlooked. “Good luck!” I heard from everyone.” I looked at my watch and saw that I had about 20 minutes before I had to go and since I had already eaten I asked everyone “So what classes are each of you attending today?”

Nikki was the first to speak up “I got intro to magic and powers theory.” Billie added “I got math and powers theory.” Ayla said “I got accounting 3&4 and powers theory.” Jade said “I got powers theory and English. Jinn has math and history.” Hank said “I have the same schedule as Billie.”

“So let me guess: the first class is before lunch and has short breaks in it for people to unwind, go to the bathroom, etc.?” I said to the nod of everyone. “Chances are that I will have additional powers testing done by my sponsor directly after my standard powers testing. Based on who they are, I doubt any information about it will end up on a MID.” “Sounds like you got a long day ahead of you. Leave your tray here- I’ll take care of it.” Jade said. With that said I said “I’ll see you all later” before heading off for powers testing.

After showing up I said to the guy who was at the desk “I am here for my power testing.” I said before handing over the notice saying that. The guy said “Ok you’ll be heading into the room behind me and be given more information from Mr. Davison, one of our power testers.” Upon heading into the back I meet up with Mr. Davidson and he said “Ah, Ms. Smith. Good to see you. This part of your power testing isn’t really a testing of your powers. It is more of a placement test and I am to be here monitoring you until you finish, timing you.”

“Good. Let’s begin.” I said to which he added “The test will not take longer than an hour. Sit at computer five please.” So I sat down and was presented with questions about math, English, and science, which I answered to the best of my ability. The calculus questions it presented me with I was only able to adequately answer half of them because I knew how to solve transcendental equations, not trigonometric calculus equations.

After about fifty minutes Mr. Davidson said “I’m surprised you finished early. Please wait while the computer analyses your answers.” After the computer spit out the answers Mr. Davidson whistled before saying “Well looks like you place into college level science and English which I am going to guess are going to be optional for you to take based on your answers. However, your math score while good for a freshman would place you into calculus. While is looks like it may cover knowledge you already know, you lack knowledge about how to do trigonometric calculus functions. Now we move onto the real powers testing. Follow me.”

I followed him into an elevator that went down for what seemed like ages but after checking my watch it was only ten minutes. He gestured to the women’s locker room saying “Get into the suit in there. My colleague and I will be monitoring your powers test here.” Since I was concerned about the possibility of theft I asked him “No one else is getting their powers tested in this lab are they?” “If you are concerned about theft of personal items, don’t worry. No one will steal them.”

With that I went inside the locker room and found the suit. After I went to the bathroom I took everything off and got inside it. I didn’t like the fact that it was skintight and left little to the imagination. I walked out the other door to hear a female voice say “Hello, Ms. Smith. I’m Mrs. Watkins and and Mr. Davidson and I will be doing your power testing today. Normally we’d start off with the Xavier test but Mr. Davidson informs me you already had that done. Have you decided on a codename yet?”

At that statement I thought carefully. There was no way on earth I was going to be using a name from Fullmetal Alchemist or the name of one of my Zanpakto. Names that came to my mind right away didn’t cover all of my powers. So I decided on a name I had on a short mental list. “Yes I’ve decided on my codename. Is DIVA taken?” I said

“No it is not.” Mrs. Watkins said. “You know you have until the end of the spring semester to change it, DIVA. Anyway we’ll begin by running through the gamut. The exemplar testing can wait until later. We’ll start with the Gadgteer/devisor testing. Since reports filed at security mention magic usage, you’ll be heading down to those labs after the exemplar testing after a short break for lunch and the restroom.”

After that, I was led into lab A. I had decided upon what I was going to be making-a PFG with a different kind of power supply than ones I figured were on the market today. I was then given a bunch of items and told to try to make something in under an hour. Seeing that what I was given wasn’t adequate for my purposes, I decided to use alchemy to make the items I needed for working.

I worked furiously on it for about twenty minutes and had it working. However, the power supply wasn’t adequate because I didn’t have my broach and the atmospheric pressure in the room had dropped a lot. I was happy that it would work but I didn’t know how much force it would be able to absorb or for how long.

I was tinkering with it, trying to maximize the usage time when Mrs. Watkins came in and said “Time’s up. It looks like you are some kind of manifestor because of the fact that you have items we didn’t give you.” I replied saying “I didn’t manifest anything. I merely used Alchemy and the law of equal exchange to make some things I didn’t have but needed.”

She was dumbfounded saying “so THAT is why the pressure in here dropped by 25%. You converted oxygen atoms into what you needed. I suggest you don’t do that for heavy elements because you’d pass out. That means you are definite devisor. What have you made in the time given?” I told her “I made a PFG that I am pretty sure it will work but the power supply I doubt is adequate. I estimate it may turn on for about 30 seconds tops.” “Well turn it on and let’s see what happens.” Mrs. Watkins said.

Turning it on, the PFG emitted a protection field for 15 seconds before exploding. After that, Mr. Davidson came on saying “I think we can pin her as a DIV/GDT 3.” Mrs. Watkins said “What about the manifesting? I would peg that as MAN-4/s.” Mr. Davidson cut in “All right whatever you say Onto the Exemplar testing then. Now, DIVA would you please head into lab C for this segment?”

And so I headed over there while preforming some basic tests. They had me lifting weights and I topped out at about 200 pounds, 70 pounds heavier than I weighed. I had lost 2 inches to come out to 5ft 8 in and they had me running on a treadmill. My top speed was about 25 MPH, that of the fastest baseline. They had discovered that I couldn’t walk up more than a 50 degree slope and I was waiting on the one part they never spoke about but I had read online-the danger sense test.

As I was walking at a zero degree slope, trying to figure out how long I could go for I heard Sodenoshidayuki say in my mind “There is someone behind you with a knife. Are you going to do something about it?” My mental reply was brief but swift. “I am going to do nothing. It is best to keep some things hidden even during a powers test.” After this brief exchange I felt a pain and said “OW!”

“Sorry about that.” Mrs. Watkins said before explaining “We had to do a test to see if you have a ‘danger sense’ or if you were a precog and that was the only way to do it.”

They then tested my agility. Not wanting to fudge the test, I stuck to what I had and didn’t change to my thief because not only did I not know if that would fudge the test, I didn’t want to reveal more than I needed to. That choice resulted in me getting hit 30% of the time. I was bruised but knowledge about how to do self-healing specially Alkahestry (healing alchemy) came to the front of my mind, allowing me to come out with bruises rapidly healing.

Mr. Davidson was surprised that after he performed the regen test, it healed back right up in under twenty seconds. “I want to put DIVA down as a regen-3.”

Mrs. Watkins chided him saying “I highly doubt she’s a regen. It’s probably related to a form of alchemy she did on herself. She used it during the DIV test you know.” Deciding it was useless to argue, he said “All right I’ll put her down as a faux-regen 3 as well as an EX-3 on top of the DIV/GDT 3 and MAN 4/s.” I conveniently left out the fact that before my burnout, I could eat as much as I want and not gain an ounce. I chalk that up to genes from my dad’s side of the family.

“Now after we eat you and Mrs. Watkins are going to the WIZ labs for testing.” Mr. Davidson said. “Great. I’m starving. What time is it?” I said. “It’s 12:30 PM. Everyone else is eating in the Crystal Hall but we got sandwiches down here.” Mrs. Watkins said. So I walked over and had enough sandwiches that I felt full. I asked about going to the bathroom with the suit on and was told by her “Sorry. You have to get out of the suit to go to the bathroom. Luckily you’ll get a different suit so you can take a shower and go to the bathroom in the locker room. I’ll see you in lab M in about 30 minutes.

Getting out of that suit, I found that I was very sweaty from all the activity. Tending to my bladder first, I took a shower and then got back into my clothes, grabbed my purse and broach, and headed over to lab M. I found another suit that was identical to the first and got into it.

Exiting the locker room into the lab I heard “Welcome to the WIZ labs, DIVA. I’m Circie and I’ll me the main tester for this portion of the testing. Now would you mind using the provided items to perform some kind of magic?” “I think I can do one better.” I said before thinking “Job Switch: Red Mage/White Mage.”
After this changed my clothes Circie said “Amazing! You must have some kind of Warper or Shifter trait to be able to change your clothes as well.” Mrs. Watkins cut in saying “Let’s have her perform some magic now. DIVA would you please?”

With that I decided to perform some simple buffs on myself. After casting protect V, shell V, Refresh II and Aquaveil in under a minute I hear Circie saying “Yes she’s doing magic. I can sense it. However, it’s not magic most mages use. DIVA, how are you able to do the magic this way?” “I would rather not talk about it. I have other magic I can perform as well.” “Very well, let’s see an example of this other magic.” Mrs. Watkins said.

So again I switched jobs mentally, this time saying “Summoner/Red Mage.” I then proceeded to concentrate on summoning the first Avatar all Summoners in FFXI get when they unlock the job-Carbuncle. With the things I had equipped (and effects I hoped were present in the equipment), I summoned him. “Amazing! She actually summoned an Avatar!” I heard Circie say with surprise. Much to everyone’s surprise but my own Carbuncle proceeded to speak.

“I guess you could call me and my friends ‘avatars’. She has many others but decided to summon me because she can rest with me summoned. With the other summons, she has to maintain her concentration and they will go back where they came from after she runs out of what you call ‘essence’.” “How many others does she have available to summon?” Circie asked in disbelief to which Carbuncle replied “there are 7 others and 6 spirits she can summon. Summoning a spirit can tax her more but allows her to restore some ‘essence’ every so often.”

Circie then proceeded to talk to me saying, “DIVA, can you un-summon him and let’s move to the magic target range.” Mrs. Watkins interjected saying “we have absolutely no readings from the suit so she must have changed out of it. Nevertheless we must find out if she has offensive magic capability.”

At that I mentally said “release” and Carbuncle disappeared. Then although I was a little tired I said mentally “Job Switch: Red Mage/Black Mage” and my clothes changed again. “How many times can you do that?” Circie asked me. I replied “Not that often in rapid succession. I’m kind of mentally exhausted now.” Mrs. Watkins, fearing a burnout was going to come if they pushed on said “Just use one offensive spell on any target, DIVA. Then change back to normal and we’ll call it a day.”

At that I was relieved and decided to use my most powerful offensive spell available, burst II. After a casting time of 30 seconds, one target literally exploded. “Amazing! One second the target was there and the next there was a strong discharge of essence. I want to put her as a combo WIZ/ESP” Mrs. Watkins said to which Circie replied “WIZ/SHI! Not WIZ/ESP.” Back and forth they went for what seemed like ages. By now, I had changed back into the suit which was indicating that I was very exhausted. Based on the sensors but they were still arguing.

After thirty minutes of arguing, they reached a consensus. “We’re going to put you down as a WIZ 3/SHI 1/ ESP 3. We want to do further testing to find out more but it’s getting a bit late and your sponsor has their own powers testing to do. Sadly, we won’t get a look at it. After you exit the locker room, we’ll give you our results to bring to security so you can get your student ID.” I heard Circie say.

After stripping out of the suit I checked the time on my watch. It was almost 3 PM, not yet time for dinner, yet too late for lunch. Figuring that after I got done with business here, it would be 3:30, I resolved to raid my roommate’s stash and see what she had that would give me something to eat. After taking a quick shower and going to the bathroom, I went, grabbed the paperwork and went to security. I waited there for about 30 minutes while the processed the paperwork, asking me to sign my name to some papers.

Using my picture they took yesterday, they added it to my new ID and Officer Davis said “You have a balance of $10,000 on there. The visa you were given is still active but you should stop by the admin to get information to setup your own checking accounts. Meals will not subtract from that balance, as you are on an unlimited meal plan. The school store will accept that payment as well as several businesses in town. However, you cannot buy alcoholic beverages with money on your student account.”

With my new ID as well as my MID in hand, I headed to admin and got the required paperwork. Checking my watch, it was 4PM. I decided to head back to my dorm room to make that spreadsheet for Ayla and possibly get a cat nap. At security I found that my 2nd powers test was to take place at the Heavy Weapons range and that I was to show up at the security building at 6:30 PM to be taken there. I had a hunch that I would be meeting my special instructor there and what they were looking for.

I looked in Ayla’s fridge but found nothing that would satisfy my hunger. I decided to manifest a 6 inch Italian B.M.T from Subway and eat that, putting the wrappers in the garbage can.

Perusing the welcome packet, I noticed that the Crystal Hall opened for dinner at 5 PM and closed 2 hours later. So upon it reaching 5:15, I headed over to the Crystal Hall and picked up some Sloppy Joe’s that they were having, some fries, and a cup of coke before heading over to the table I figured everyone else would be at, based on them being there for Breakfast.

Upon reaching the table, I saw that the others were there with the protection spell in place. Upon sitting down Fey asked “So what were the results of your power testing?” I replied “EX-3, DIV/GDT 3, MAN4/s, faux regen-3, faux AV-1, WIZ3, SHI1, ESP3.” “Dang did they not know how to categorize you?” I heard Chou say

“Actually yes they did not know how. Circie and Mrs. Watkins were arguing about it. Mr. Davidson was arguing that I was a regen when in reality I am not; I just know how to heal my injuries really well. They also said I placed into college level classes for math and science but I have to take calculus.” I said with disgust.

Ayla chimed in saying “Relax. You don’t have to worry. That math course isn’t a requisite to graduate-you just need it if you are going to be doing some stuff involving NASA and orbits and that kind of thing. Did you pick a codename though?” At that I said “Yes. I picked DIVA to be my codename. The testers indicated it wasn’t taken and of all the code-names I had in my head, nothing covers everything I can do so hence the choice. Also, I was pretty exhausted when they did the WIZ testing so that was kind of brief.”

“That’s great.” I heard Hank say. “I had a meeting with my advisor and he suggested that we all team up for Team Tactics next semester. Odd as it may be, apparently Mrs. Hartford wants to see how our powers interact in combat situations.” I butted in saying “Some of us barely know how to defend ourselves! I doubt some of my skills can be replicated in a simulator. They should at least have waited till we took Basic Martial Arts.” Hank proceeded to add “That is exactly what they suggested. We take the two in the same semester. Highly unusual but it was done before.”

After talking for a while and watching both Hank and Billie go back for seconds Nikki handed me something saying “this is so we can communicate without being monitored.” I replied “I am not going to accept a kind of implant, which is what that, is. No offence, Nikki but I’ll try making my own version of it. Maybe not as simple as that but something that won’t be obvious.” I said while creating a Bluetooth-like headset and after mentally turning it on saying in my head:

<DIVA: “testing 1, 2, 3. Testing. Anyone hearing me?”>

<Fey: “I hear you coming in loud and clear.”>

<Chaka: “Lucky you. You have a headset that works on our frequency without a hitch.”>

<Lancer: “Enough chit-chat, ladies. We know that her device works on our frequency. Maybe she can make us more powerful stuff cheaper later on.”>

<DIVA: I have to get going now I got to get to security for my second powers test of the day. I may be too tired to talk to you people later. Due to what I am anticipating the test containing.>

<Tennyo:”And what do you think the test will be.”>

<DIVA: “Now that would be spoiling an anime for you guys as it is tied into that. Regardless I got to go now. I highly doubt this will work while I am outside my body.”>

<everyone: “Good luck with your powers test DIVA!”>

With that said and checking my watch, I saw that it was 6 PM. Wanting to change into something casual as well as take my Soul Pass with me along with stopping by the campus store to get a large safe I said to Hank.

<DIVA: “Hank, could you walk with me back to Poe and to security? I want to pick up a large safe and bring it back to Poe but I doubt I can lift it on my own.”>

<Lancer: “Of course, DIVA I’ll go with you. Although Phase might be the better bet”>

~DIVA: “I don’t want the floor giving way due to her weight when heavy though.”~

So we stopped by the campus store to get the safe. I decided upon one that had a dual keypad/combo lock. Not bothering to look at the $2,000 price tag, we headed off to Poe right away.

<Lancer: “Girls sure know how to shop. DIVA just bought a $2,000 safe.”>

<Fey: “What does she need with a $2,000 safe?”>

<Phase: “The security of knowing our solution to the problem of Duke Nukem is secure till the IP can be restored to its proper owners.”>

<Fey, Chaka, Tennyo: “Oh. That’ll be a relief. Now can you do something about peeper and greasy?”>

<DIVA: “Is having a water gun loaded with water and saying it’s from etonnichuaan violating any school rules if I am bluffing?”>

<Fey: “Is that the spring Ranma was sent into and as a result he turns into a girl when he gets splashed with cold water?”>

<DIVA: “Yes, that’s the spring.”>

<Generator: “Well, as long as it’s not actually CURSED water and you are actually just bluffing, you should be fine. The bluff may keep them away. A simple water gun wouldn’t have a need to be registered with Security provided it looks like a water gun.”>

<Lancer: “Until it is called, however long down the road that is.”>;

<DIVA: “We’ll cross that bridge when it comes. Anyway Lancer and I are in the Kimba Kwarters and have put the safe down. I am off to security and Lancer is going to meet up with you guys after I am safely there.”>

After I got to security, I was escorted into a car by Samantha Everheart. After we drove for about 5 minutes she stopped the car saying “I see the representive from your sponsor over there waiting for us. I’ll stop the car here and they’ll call us when you’re done with the test.” Getting out I was able to see it was Renji waving at us. I didn’t proceed to ask what the test was going to be until after she left and we were walking towards the range.

“So what kind of test am I being subjected to tonight by the Head Captain?” I said to Renji. His reply was rather complex. “Since he didn’t know how much you knew about the sword, he has gather captain Kuchki, Soi Fon, Captain Unohana, and himself along with Kiskue.” Whispering to me he said “I don’t know what you did to convene a Captain’s exam but it must have been worth the effort”

After talking like this for 5 minutes and getting his permission to use his zanpakto (and Bankai) if I could, we reached the field.

Right away the Head Captain started talking saying “Danielle, you are here because you possess and have demonstrated the ability to use a Bankai. That is the purpose of this examination. Your opponent is Kiskue Urahara. Your task is to demonstrate what you can do in conjunction with what lt. Abari reported in the forest on the day you entered burn-out. Captain Kuchki has given me his objections to subjugating you to this matter of test but your power needs to be measured! Let the test begin.”

At that statement I pulled the Soul Pass out of my purse and pushed it against my body. “I see you didn’t waste any time, Danielle Kuchki.” I heard the voice of Kiskue say. “Now let’s see what you can really do.

“She has two swords, Head Captain?” Captain Unohana said to which she was told “It is unusual for a Soul Reaper to have two zanpakto. However, she is even more unique. She has the ability to summon any zanpakto that she knows the release command for, including my own. However, some swords may be harder to control than others.”

“Bankai!” I said and immediately my kimono change to be similar to that of Ichigo’s when he is in a bankai state. “Getsuga Tensho!” I said, letting the attack reach Kiskue. However, Kiskue was able to block it with his Blood Mist Shield, a special ability of his zanpakto, Benehime. “Is that the best you got?” Kiskue said before adding “Could you tell us the name of your bankai perchance?”

“Tensa Zangetsu.” Was all I said. Kiskue also asked me “what abilities does it give you as a result of going Bankai?” I replied “Well Tensa Zangetsu gives me increased speed and strength. But since I do not know the flash-step, the most basic of abilities for a Soul Reaper, speed is pretty much moot.” “Is it moot enough to avoid THIS? Hado #33 Sokatsui!” he said launching a kido as me. I narrowly dodged it before he proceeded to shoot off another and another.

I was able to avoid about 9 of them before I was hit by his attack. “Get up. A soul Reaper doesn’t hold anything back in battle.” “Are you sure you want me to use it in front of the Head Captain and the other captains?” I replied, knowing full well what he wanted out of me. He wanted to see how strong I really was and if I had all of Ichigo’s powers. “Head Captain, I apologize if what I am about to do will disturb you in any way. I have been backed into a corner and have no choice. Know that I will be in full control the whole time however.”

“Very well. We came out here to see how much of Ichigo’s powers you had obtained and therefore you may proceed. We knew full well about Ichigo’s hollow mask.” The Head Captain said.

“All right then, Kiskue. Prepare for a world of hurt!” I said as I summoned the mask. Deciding to keep this as brief as possible, I opened up with another Getsuga Tensho, this one a whole lot more powerful than the one I initially let out. I managed to get in close enough, dodging the kido Kiskue was throwing at me that he actually had to use his sword to block me. We exchanged blows, me landing a couple on him and him landing two or three on me.

It was a surprise when thirty seconds later my mask came off and I came out of Bankai. Panting severely I awaited the verdict from the captains.

“We have decided on the Soul Reaper rating we are going to give you. Captain Kuchki has talked me into lowering you from being the equal to a captain to that of a lt. if only because of your lack of knowledge about the skills of a Soul Reaper and the way you reacted in that fight. This was a 3-1 decision with Captain Kuchki being the dissenting voice in making you the equal to a captain.” I heard the head captain say.

“Well that was a fight I really put my full game on for.” I heard Kiskue say. “Tessai and I along with the other captains are going to be teaching you Soul Reaper skills 3 nights a week once the Fall semester starts up. You had the upper hand in raw strength but lack the speed. That is why you lost. In that way you are a little like Kenpachi Zaraki.”

“Enough.” I heard the Head Captain say and right away Unohana came down to heal my injuries first and the Kiskue’s. After that was done, Renji called security to tell them to send a vehicle out to pick me up.

“That was an interesting Captain’s exam.” Renji said to me while walking back. “I never knew that Ichigo had so much power. It seemed like he was keeping it hidden for a reason.” “There was a very good reason for keeping it hidden-it almost consumed him” I said to Renji’s astonishment. “I had to fight myself twice during burnout-once for control over Zangetsu and once for control over the combo of the hollow mask and my body.”

“Was it worth pulling a Yurameshi in the forest like you did?” Renji proceeded to ask me. I stated quite simply “Oh it’s only worth it under 2 conditions: one is that you want to kill something outright.” “And what about the other condition?” Renji asked. “The other condition is when you simply want to die. For me I met both conditions-I wanted to kill Grimjow but I also wanted to die as a woman. I think I see the security car now.” I said

Getting into it and seeing Samantha Everheart again driving I asked her “How long were you listening in on our conversation?” Her reply was blunt “Long enough to hear the part about pulling a Yurameshi. Why would you want to throw your life away?”

I stated quite factly “I wanted to throw my life away because I was praying for death. I figured that if I died killing Grimjow, I would at least gain some form of peace. I HATED being a guy. Where I am from there are no magic springs, no devisors, and no real-life superheroes. The world where I come from consists of 6 billion baseline people. Magic wishes do not come true there no matter how hard you wish for them.” I said with tears forming in my eyes.

Trying to console me, she said “At least your body and soul match up now. Also, you are lucky that although security knows we are coming back, they can’t hear our conversation. I suggest you see a therapist right away.” At that statement I said “Louis already made an appointment with me for tomorrow at 3 PM in his office.” Samantha added “Louis is a good therapist. What you tell him in a therapy session, no one else in the world will ever find out.”

“Good.” I said as we approached the security office. Accepting the offer for her to drop me off in front of Poe I walked inside and heard everyone asking me

<Fey: “So how did your power testing with your sponsor go?”>

<Chaka: “Were you subjected to the torture of one of those suits with the sensors during the test?>

<DIVA: “Oh it went as I expected it to turn out. The outcome wasn’t what I expected, however. Also, I wasn’t subjected to one of those stupid suits that leave little to the imagination. I am pretty tired though. I think I am going to be heading right to bed.”>

<Phase: “But it’s only 9 PM. Oh by the way, Mrs. Hartford wants you in her office at 1 PM tomorrow. I expect that it has to deal with how you came to the campus.”>

<Fey: “I would almost assure you it’s to expel two stupid devisors who brought DIVA here. That is what is going to happen, isn’t it DIVA.”>

<DIVA: “Part of me wants to kill them for the slaughter of 500 innocent people. Part of me wants to thank them for making the wish I have held most dear come true. What do I do when I am the one handing out the punishment?”>

<Phase: “If what you say is true, then they unwittingly committed genocide as a result of their experiment and you were pulled along for the ride. If that weren’t the case, then you wouldn’t be here in Poe right now.”>

<DIVA: “Thanks for the reminder of what they did, Phase. I’ll keep that in mind when I decide their punishment. I may even tell them thank you. However, I think I’ll make them work for me. Their lab becomes my own. That mess they created still needs sealing on this side and for that I need a Time Lord. I have an idea of how to close-and-keep operating it but I need a Time Lord to develop the part of the program corresponding to their device.”>

<Phase: “Why wouldn’t a regular devisor do? Surely the two who made the gate can fix the problem themselves.”>

<DIVA: “I was told it was a universe rip. My plan is to combine a Stargate and their device. For that I’m going to need a lot of power, a dialing program that can handle two devices, and their lab. The longer the rip sits unchecked, the worse things will get. Simply put, having even a high-level devisor to do the work would result in even more damage because of lost time due to having to code the fix.”>

<Fey: “Oh man you know how to bring problems to campus. I bet Mrs. Hartford is steaming at those words!”>

<DIVA: “She doesn’t know. What she does not know about will not kill her or me. If she knows a fix is in place or is in the works when she is made aware, she will probably be lenient on everyone concerned. I even have Q in my corner.”>

<Generator: “Seems like you got a lot riding on fixing this rip. Anyway you have been sounding more and more tired so just go to bed and get some rest. From how you sounded, the 2nd powers test was very draining, energy wise.”>

<DIVA: “Thanks, guys. I’ll see all of you at breakfast tomorrow even if I am a little late”>

The entire conversation took place while I was walking up the stairs to my dorm room. Ayla graciously opened it for me. Not having the energy to do anything else, I flopped onto my bed and went right to sleep. Ayla graciously covered me with my blankets.

Continued in DIVA in wonderland.
Note: here is the end of Danielle’s first couple days at campus. I have said before and I will say it again: I really need an editor and appreciate any and all comments. Based on what I have said here, you can guess who is showing up next to help work on the problem. If anyone sees any parallels between this and a certain move in Bleach that Ichigo uses, she didn’t use it. I REALLY hope I haven’t confused anyone too much with the quick releases. I might have the next part written after the weekend depending on how it goes writing wise. As for her REAL MID here it is
Name: Danielle Martha Dorothy Smith
Code-name: DIVA
Powers:
EX-3
ESP-4
MAN 7/s (with broach). Man 4/s (without broach)
WIZ-4
affiliations:
Team Kimba
Soul Society (sponsor and not listed on MID)

As for the Soul Society rankings they go from 0-4 (well if you count people like Danielle, 0-5)
0: normal, human being. Not a soul Reaper
1: Basic Soul Reaper. Not currently in the top 10 of a squad
2: basic, seated Soul Reaper. May or may not know the shikai release for their zanpakto.
3: 2nd-seat or lt. position. Can also be a seated officer that knows how to do Bankai.
4: Captain of a squad
5: Vizord (aka Soul Reaper that has defeated their inner Hollow and gained the ability to use its mask. Danielle technically meets this description.)