I was lifted in the air as the tentacles tried to crush me, but they had almost no effect on me as I scrolled through a list of the girls I had given Systems to. I had a new ability that I wanted to try out, but there were so many exciting choices.“If I can’t crush you, I will just devour you!” Thesta screamed, tipping her body to reveal a fleshy pit filled with pointy teeth.No part of me wanted to get tossed into this thing’s mouth. So, I decided that I would fight fire with a flamethrower and selected Tiga from my list, and my body started to grow and change rapidly.Thesta screamed as her tentacles were torn apart as I became a monstrous twenty-foot-tall male Mantiken.My hands were massive paws with razor-sharp claws four feet long, legs a mass of my tentacles that moved on their own but at my command. Massive wings sprouted from my back as my hair grew longer, and I could feel my scorpion's tail as well.“What?! Impossible! How is it possible that you can change your body like
Jilly and I took the elevator back down to the bottom level of the ship, and I held her hand the entire way down. I was feeling a bit strange, but it was hard to just get used to having a straight head. “Are you okay, Zack?” Jilly asked me. “You seem like something is bothering you.” “I wouldn’t call it bothering me. It is just nice to have all my thoughts free, and now I am trying to figure out where we should go first. We don’t have to go anywhere first, so I am just trying to figure that out,” I said, but the truth was I didn’t have a clue where I was going. “Don’t worry. Mex will be the one piloting us. Do you remember who he is?” Jilly asked, but I shook my head. “Not anyone that we knew. There aren’t going to be many people that we know. I think you will all be close to me because I was close to you girls in the development teams for the game. I am going to have to talk to everyone because many of them will be just getting some of their memories back,” I said, and Jilly leane
I focused back on the vast Hydrous ocean before me. I started thinking about how I could fix the problem that was central to all of this but gave my head a shake.“I have time,” I said with a sigh, but then I turned to the sound of the door sliding open.“Yes, you do. I am sure that you are probably trying to solve all the problems that you have in your head right now, but you should stop,” Lidy said as she walked into the room.“I know I should, and I am trying,” I said with a weak smile as Lidy walked over with her horns swaying back and forth.“You know, things haven’t really changed much since then. I am still preparing your meals, and you are still making me eggs,” Lidy said with a smile as she slipped her hands around my waist.Lidy Forester, my favorite cafeteria worker, always gave me extra servings in the back room. She was a relief from the constant stress I had been under while working on the God Frequency, but I have been intimate with many of the girls.Still, Lidy and I
“I agree with that, but I would like to talk to Lizy about this first. She deserves a choice in this, but I will also explain to her that it is essential. How long will it take for us to get there, and is there anything that is closer that we can go to in the meantime? I asked, and the table lit up before me, and a map appeared on the top of it. “Hey! This is pretty cool! Did you make this?” I asked, looking at Mex, but he shook his head. “No, this is Keita’s rendition of a map that I had saved. It is pretty comprehensive, but it’s nearly impossible to find a map that has every island on it,” Mex explained as he gestured to the map displayed on the table like it was on a glass computer screen. “Wow, I can’t wait to go see what she has been working on!” I laughed as I looked over the map that was spotted with islands. “We are down in the corner where you are, and Gardaina is this massive land mass on the other side of the world. I wish that we could lift the map up and put it on a
“You can’t be serious, Zack. Think about what you are doing slowly for a moment. You have no idea what I could look like underneath all of this,” Nixi said as she motioned down to her gremlin-Yoda body, and I laughed. “Not to poke fun, but I really can imagine you becoming anything worse than this. You are four and a half feet tall, and your head is football-shaped,” I said, and Nixi narrowed her beady eyes on me. “You think this is going to swoon me? My looks aren’t even the point! I am an old woman! You have all my descents to enjoy!” Nixi complained. I sat the corner of my ass on the table and grinned down at Nixi. She had something I wanted, and it would be worth it to do this to get it. “You have an ability that I want to be able to use more reliably. Your ability to transport people instantly is powerful and will be really useful in the near future and going forward. We have no lifeboats to get to the islands. We aren’t going to want to pull the submarine up on every beach.
“Sure, I get it, but I think that you look good. Once we have some fun, we can see what is hiding under that phat ass!” I laughed, and Nixi glared at me.“That was rude. I am not fat!” Nixi growled, and I laughed.“Nah, P H A T, like the kids say it,” I laughed, and Nixi rolled her eyes.“That wasn’t funny even when I was a kid,” Nixi complained as I opened the door to leave but stopped in shock.The door had opened fast, and everyone that had been inside the room before had their ears pressed to the door that no longer existed. I had to step back and out of the way as the girls all fell over.“Really? What are all of you doing?” I asked as Beeno, Jilly, Lizy, and all the grandmothers, including Clesh, tried to untangle themselves and get off the floor.“I was just curious if you were actually going to do it. Lizy and I made bets about it, so we were just trying to hear the results, but I lost. For now at least,” Jilly laughed as she looked at Nixi, who had her face buried in my chest
A fire roared from the back of the ax head, and I dashed forward to grab the handle before it smashed back into Keri's mid-section. I tossed Keri back to Nushi, and latched onto the handle of the gigantic jet-ax with both hands.The damn thing nearly ripped my arms off as my Earth and Fire Pacts both kicked in to weld me to the ground. The force it had could have cleaved through the floor, and then ripped me down into it.Finally, the ax ran out of juice, and I let out a long sigh as I relaxed my arms. This was one hell of a weapon, and there was no doubt that it worked the way it was intended.“Sorry!” Keri squeaked, running over to hug my side as I put the massive jet-ax down.I looked down at her and picked her up, sitting Keri on my shoulders. This was the best place for her in a shop filled with this many dangerous things.“What is all the noise out here?! We are trying to test weapons, and I can hear you over the explosions!” Keita complained but then stopped when I turned to lo
“She seems excited,” Lidy giggled as we walked over to the door that Kieta had just walked through.“Leave her be. Keita will come to me in her own time, not like I don’t have enough else to do right now,” I said as I pushed the door open to find a small room filled with monitors and panels with more displays. “Wow, You really spiffed this place up!”“I worked for a privately contracted weapons research facility before you blew up the known universe. Once you got up top to deal with the sea witch, I got all my memories back of who I was then. Now I can create some pretty wild things thanks to this thing that you gave me,” Kieta said, pointing to her eyes that were a series of moving cogs like the inside of a watch.“I guess making computers and things like that aren’t really much of a problem for you then,” I laughed, and Kieta’s cogs rolled around in her head.“I could build a computer from scratch before I left grade school when I was fourteen. I didn’t need these eyes for that. The