"Oh, we're tourists, can't you tell?" replied Mach with snide tone. By now, the cool down was finished and he could move again. As such, he used his newly recovered mobility to walk up to the newcomers, answering their questions in the oh-so-charming way that only he could, "We heard Confederate America is just the loveliest little vacation spot this time of year and came for some R-and-R." at that point he removed his helmet and dropped it on the ground. As useful as it was, there were times when he wanted to just breathe the air. After that he dropped the sarcasm and started responding with as much hostility that Joshua was showing. Hey, if the guy was gonna be an asshole, he'd better be able to reap what he sowed.

"First off, I have no fucking idea how you got here, or why. Secondly, no, we're not the ones who fucking brought you here so quit screaming at us as if we were." he looked Joshua dead in the eyes, not afraid whatsoever of the guy, "See? I can swear just as easly as you, pal. But seeing as how swearing like a sailor isn't gonna help anything, I'll just say this instead. Those two jerks were just that, jerks, trying to help their even bigger jerk of a boss become a God or some such ridiculous thing like that. We're basically the good guys trying to stop that from happening because, you know, we'd like the universe to stay intact and all. We're just looking for some Princesses with special powers to help us stop them. Translation? That means you better buckle up, Dorothy, cause Kansas is going bye-bye."

“We can’t just fire on them!” The moogle shouted back.

Ninty tried her very best to glare even harder at the moogle, but it was easier said than done. She could feel the adrenaline slowly seeping out of her system and with it the blissful ignorance of just how many cuts and bruises she had sustained in the fight.

“Why not?” Ninty growled back, leaning heavily on her left leg. “We have the fire power to end this fight right now!”

“But we ri-”

Ninty missed the rest of the Moogles reply. A wave of nausea swept over her wrapping up the world into a dull, black expanse with only the sensation of falling left. But after a moment that too was taken.

The bright lights stung her eyes for a bit but soon enough Ninty blinked away the pain to find herself in the medical ward of the Gummi Ship.
“Jupiter?” Ninty called softly to her in the neighbouring bunk.
She didn’t reply.

Ninty then scowled at the ceiling. She was worried about Jupiter but there wasn’t really anything Ninty could do and besides rest was probably the best thing for her. With an annoyed huff Ninty also supposed that rest was best for her too considering, much to her frustration, she had collapsed mid shouting match.

“Out shouted by a moogle.” Ninty chuckled. “The guys ain’t ever going to let me live this down.”

And like a punch in the gut Ninty felt her mood drop even further. There wasn’t really any point in getting up, Ninty doubted she’d even be able to stay upright for long anyway if she did. Besides she presumed that some of the others would be joining her soon.

"You came here by an accident with a Corridor of Darkness, it seems," said Tocsax in response to Amaya and Joshua, "a botch by the enemy, from what those people say," he said the words with childish loathing. "As for who those people were, well, they are the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness, who in turn, are...it's complicated. Basically, the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness are thirteen incarnations made by Leo the Second Mathematician, our enemy. Said incarnations are made by either using - ugh - time travel to collect various past selves and split-offs of Leo, or by possessing other people with his essence. Angus and more sadly, Msizi - he's the black guy - were once indpendent people, but got possessed by the old man."

"As for what's going on, well, the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness are seeking the Seven Princesses of Heart, seven women with hearts of pure Light who are the components of a superweapon that can destroy the Multiverse and reshape it anew. So, yeah, like Mach here said," Tocsax gestured to the power armored person, "we're trying to stop someone from becoming a 'God'."

"Anyway, my name is Tocsax, a split-off of Ascot, a person whose name you are going to be hearing a lot of. I and this party were sent here by Basileus - wait, make that Emperor - Michael XIII Sideros from the World of Renovation to help stop Leo and save the various worlds of the Multiverse, including yours'. And, before you say anything more, there are other worlds; that's where the Moogles come from."

"You know..." the boy observed, "I think that this place is unsafe." He then clapped his hands, and enough Moogles appeared to take everyone back to the Gummi Cruiser. "Let's talk somewhere else."

And before anyone can object, the Moogles took everyone back to the ship, where Tocsax would guide them to a dining room filled with a feast; vegetarian dishes, turkey, duck, pork, beef, and of course, wine and water.

"You can ask me more questions while we eat," Tocsax stated. "Of course, I'm not the captain of the ship; that'd be one of the Moogles, so I might have infringed upon them. Again, though, I'm ready to answer stuff."

Amaya sighed as she grabbed joshua's arm "nit retaliate, we might need their help getting back home." Spoke amaya in her native tounge before saying in what English" back off we aren't exactly happy getting attacked by some girl going through that dark portal only to enter this world or timeline or whatever."she spoke having a heavy Japanese accent hoping to defuse a possible fight. She listened to tocsax explain as that was what she wanted as she was confused some still. She could feel the adrenaline slowly down as she fell to the ground exhausted from first training then getting attacked, then getting pulled through the portal to another fight using what she had left.what a tiring day.

When Nash decided to answer, Joshua calmly stared at the man, only to smirk when the man began cursing and berating him. Laughing to himself, he only shook his head before glancing over at Tocsax as he attempted to explain what was going on. Then decided that randomly teleporting to gods know where was a good idea. Sighing to himself as Amaya collapsed, he turned around and picked her up, carrying her bridal style.
"You two suck at explaining things, but I think I got the gist of it. Got no choice but to help you it seems, not that I care what your goals or enemies are." He said, glancing over his shoulder at them."But, considering that your enemy is targeting Amaya-chan here, I will more when willingly help, only to protect her. Beyond that, I will do nothing more. Now, where is a room for her to rest in, it's been a rather long day."

When Tocsax stepped in to provide a not-so-snarky explanation of the situation, Mach grabbed his helmet put it back on. And then Joshua gave his response. No one could see it, but Mach rolled his eyes under his helmet. This guy was really starting to sound like an absolute prick. Even when he was offering to join their quest, he apparently felt the need to do it in the most backhanded way imaginable. Finally having enough, Mach stepped back up to Joshua and gave him a total death-stare from behind his visor, "You know, I don't think I want your help." he said, deciding to briefly drop his snarky shenanigans and be blunt for a change.

"You're arrogant, you clearly don't give a crap about any of us or our mission, so why should I even trust you?" he went on, not relenting in his explaining just why he hated the man's guts, "And on top of everything else, you're kind of an asshole." Yes, it was true that he himself was known to be an arrogant ass, but the difference between the two of them was that, unlike Joshua, at least Mach actually gave a crap about others. Sure, Tocsax had to do a little brow-beating to convince him to join up, but Mach did in fact join the mission out of a genuine desire to help the universe. This asshole? He just cared about protecting his little girlfriend and was more likely to stab them all in the back if he had to choose between them and her. That made him a liability, and Mach made it pretty clear that he had no intention of working with anyone he considered a liability.

Tocsax was about to nod, but a nearby Moggle glared at him. Deciding that he had infringed on their privileges enough, the Nobody allowed said Moogle to guide Joshua and Amaya to one of the spare rooms, which, though not on par with an Imperial Palace's chambers, did have all modern amneties, including a bathroom, a wardrobe with a set of generic-looking clothes, a TV, and other stuff, including books on the 'Original Earth'.

One of the Moogles has also stated that he was going to give the Royal Family of Japan - Napoleonic Glory's Japan - a message as to the whereabouts of their daugther, and reassure them that they are well and that they will return as soon as it was guaranteed that they were safe from further 'security threats'. This statement was entirely the truth, but only technically.

To Mach, the boy said, once they had the time:

"I don't think he cares. But at the same time, he's one of the few that can match the Seekers of Darkness in skill; I saw that in him during the fight. So we'll need him." Tocsax then sighed, then turned to Ninty.

"Anyway, Ninty, sorry that you had to see all this. First having to fight, then having to see the members of the group being angry with each other, and, well, for getting a stressful day in general." Not hearing anything from Henry, the Nobody would say:

"All right, there will be no raid on Richmond today. We have to rest."

The Next Day

The Princess of Heart's name, as they would later learn, was Valerie. Valerie was born a slave in the plantation that the Heartless, and later, the group, had just devastated, and thus did not have much in the way of education and prospects. As she had grown older and more beautiful, several of her masters, or even her fellow slaves, had tried to subject her to 'indignities', but, like Marina from Shakesphere's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, had managed to convince those who wanted to prey on her to reform their ways; this would be recognized as the Princesses' Heart of Pure Light subconciously influencing people, or outright giving them a personality transplant. Thus, her time at the slave plantation was filled with hardship, but less so than others.

Either way, the Union and Mexico, whom, as mentioned, the Confederates had invaded and stolen land from, were now invading the CSA with the help of Emperor Michael XIII Sideros' fleet - of course, the Senate had forbade him, his party, and Tocsax from participating as they were children. However, the Gummi Cruiser's inhabitants, the party, had no such restrictions, meaning that they can finally do as Henry wanted - pop a cap into Jefferson Davis.

That, or they could just leave and let the Basileus do the blasting, but what fun would that be? Either way, it seemed that the choice would be decided for them...as a second Gummi Cruiser, colored black and white and sporting Swatsikas, would be heading for the group, using its sensors to find where the party's craft was located. But sensors were not the only thing it had - it also had several large guns attached to its deck, its sides, and even its bottom, along with missile launchers.

[German: "Ve know you are here, you humanoid insects! Surrender to the might of the Master Race, and your lives vill be spared!"] a voice shouted from the intercoms; in response, a Moogle's voice sounded out:

"Never, you nasty asses! As Captain of this ship, I, Admiral Mog, will defy you to the very end!" And with that, the Gummi Cruiser fired its own guns and missles, along with several Magitech Firaga launchers.

"Now," echoed the Captain's voice to the party over the speakers, "sorry for starting the battle, although as Captain of the ship, I can do what I like, technically. Anyway, you guys have a choice, either not fight at all - in which case the nasties will take the ship - or help repel the attack."

Suddenly, Mach would notice some interference with his armor - someone on the Enemy Cruiser was trying to hack it! Right now, however, the enemy was not trying to jam it or anything, but rather trying to steal schematics and such!

Henry had, as usual in these recent insane situations, kept quiet and let the more experienced people here do the explaining. He'd introduced himself to the others as soon the hostilities ceased, and did his best to not look at Valrie in -that- way. She was too young, and the giant blushed as he did his best to be a complete gentleman. The thought of blowing Jefferson Davis' head off helped, though.

And then the frigging Nazis showed up, and the wastelander swore as he started to draw his shotgun and Atom. He spat on the ground at the kraut's words.

"Good guys kicked your sorry ass before , Hans. Figure we can do it again." Hebshot back. He knew they couldn't hear him, but it was satisfying to say.

"I say we get ready to kick some Nazi ass."

Amaya rested soundly till that morning when she got up nearly Getting lost but heard the conversation" for crying out loud, what did Joshua get us into.father is probably freaking out and going to accuse all other nations of kidnapping, this isn't good." She said to herself getting out and on top of the ship using her Barrier spell to put up a barrier as she focus stretching it out as much as she could to block the enemies fire "Joshua is going to kill me for this but I can't find him anywhere" she said to herself.

"I simply stated the truth Amaya-chan, nothing more and nothing less." Joshua said, walking over to her while watching the scene unfold from one of the nearby windows. An enemy ship loaded with soldiers who had something against the people they were traveling with. That and they were firing on their ship, which put Amaya at risk. Breathing out in frustration, he turned towards Tocsax, his expression determined."Get me aboard that ship. I'll take them out. Should be fun, plus I can vent a bit of frustration on those bastards. Amaya-chan, don't push yourself. Rest and relax. Also, you might want to find something other then a yukata to wear. You might want something simpler that allows more mobility."

Tocsax nodded at Henry and Joshua's words, saying to the latter:

"You won't mind that Henry would be going as well, right?" The young Nobody then handed Joshua and Henry two black cloaks.

"I know it's identical to what the Seekers wear, but it'll protect you from the Darkness in my Corridors." And with that, Tocxas opened up one of said Corridors, one that led to the inside of the ship. Then, he, Joshua, and Henry - who may or may not have worn the black cloaks - went through to the bridge, surprising the Nazis' Admiral, a man in a suit of Power Armor, a framework of metal, motors, or hydraulics that increased one's strength tenfold, and whose bodyguards, about two dozen of them, had the same gear. All of them carried a mix of assault rifles, laser pistols, and the Admiral himself carried a whip that glowed with magical power.

"[German: Insects! You will face the might of the Third Reich!]" the man said. "Blinda!" he shouted, trying to remove Joshua and Henry's sight...

One Day Ago

At the tail-end of his, er, "conversation" with Joshua, Tocsax interrupted and said something to Mach regarding Joshua. It was something to effect that Joshua was apparently their best hope of defeating The Seekers. Okay, it wasn't exactly worded like that. But that was more or less how Mach heard it and, yes, it cut pretty deep. Good thing he was wearing his helmet at the time, otherwise everyone would have been able to see just how much those words stung.

Later that same day, when everyone had returned to the ship, Mach went off by himself. Alone in one of the ship's R&D rooms, he removed the components of his suit, and then reassembled them on a mechanical dummy the Moogles had helped him make. The thing didn't run on magic, so obviously he needed to recharge it, especially after that little super-kick stunt he pulled earlier. The dummy the suit was now attached to was hooked up to one of the ship's power generators and would be able to recharge its energy sources while there. Until it was fully charged, which Mach estimated would take about a day and a half, he'd just have to make due with his wheelchair in the meantime.

"Hmph," he huffed to himself while setting up the recharge, "glad to know you have such high hopes for the rest of us, Tocsax." he muttered, snarking to no one since he was alone in the room, "What was it you said? I had a 'stronger Heart than I think'? That was clearly a load of crap. You were just telling me what I wanted to hear so I'd agree to your insane request, I bet." clearly he was just venting to himself, frustrated. For all his genius, his logic, and most of all, his tech, he was still getting one-upped by the asshole with a magical sword. It really steamed him, he even slammed a fist on the right arm of his chair, "Yeah, well I could be stupidly powerful too if I was able to just ignore all the laws of science like magic does. But you know what, universe? That's just fine and dandy. You can take your magical bullcrap and shove it. I made myself able to walk again, able to run again, hell I turned myself into a goddamned superhero. No faith, no miracles, no magic whatsoever involved." who exactly was he taunting, or gloating to? Well, no one obviously, he was alone after all.

Now

The suit still recharging, Mach found himself still in his wheelchair when the Nazis of all people decided to show up. You know, because they didn't have enough problems already. Oh well, they would have had to go after them sooner or later so he supposed it wasn't that big of a deal to take them down now. Kill two birds with one stone, as it were. But when everyone else went to help repel the attack, Mach heard a beep coming from his lap that made him genuinely worry about something instead of being his usual arrogant self. Mach had brought with him with his own personal laptop from home. The reason he needed to bring it was because, as of yet, it was the only computer that allowed him to monitor his suit's status from elsewhere. And right now it was alerting him that the Nazis were trying to hack his suit.

"You German sons-a-bitches." he blurted out, opening up the laptop and beginning to type furiously on it, "Nobody, and I mean frickin' NOBODY tries to hack MY stuff and gets away with it!" unfortunately, his laptop wasn't equipped to combat the more powerful computer of a gummi cruiser... at least not by itself. Mach quickly wheeled himself up to the bridge with a cord running out of his laptop in his hand, "SorryMogIneedtoborrowthecomputerI'llgiveitrightbackthankyou!" he said talking a mile a minute. He was already plugged into the ship's computer before Mog could protest, "OK you Nazi bastards, let's see if you can hashtag-handle a dose of your own medicine." now with the processing power of the ship's computer at his disposal, he was able to amp up his own defensive software to match that of the ship's. Then he began hacking his way into the German P.A. systems, "This one's for all you Patriots out there." and began, not even kidding, blaring America - Fuck Yeah over the Nazi intercoms.

"See what happens when you mess with the Master? You get your ass trolled. Hard." once his little prank was pulled, Mach started doing some actual hacking, trying to disable security systems and just be a pain in the ass in general for the Nazis so that the efforts of Henry, Tocsax, and Joshua were a bit easier.

Of course the morons would teleport us right in the middle of the enemy squad. Couldn't put us somewhere safer like, I don't know, the fucking hallways! Joshua thought before he grabbed Henry. He had never pulled this off before but now was as good a time as any. He used Dark Barrier, expanding it over Henry to block the Blinda spell.
"On your own now mate." He said before dashing to the closest Nazi. He was fast and closed the gap quickly. He had never seen gear like this before, but he would guess it was not good news for them. he jumped over the Nazi, trying to get a guage on their armor. It didn't look like it had many openings. He would have to try and find any weaknesses before it was too late. Until then, best to play defense and hard to get until he knew how to deal with this shit.

Henry didn't hesitate as they caught the Naziso on the bridge. As soon as Joshua had set up his barrier, the giant young man drew his shotgun and fired both shells at the Admiral, aiming the buckshot at the man's armored face. He'd seen guys in power armor back home, those Brotherhood guys. And he's seen enough dead ones to know that even that fancy technology had its limits. Buckshot to the face was a good start to testing those limits.

"Don't know what you said, Fritz, but I'm gon' give you an asswhoopin'. My great great granddaddy beat your asses before." He taunted, charging forward to follow up his barrage of lead, swinging Atom around, aiming at the Admiral's neck.

Amaya looked over her shoulder before letting out a laugh " now, why would i ever need mobilo
ity? also, i didnt have a chance to grab the normal training outfit" to him before deciding to agree. she quickly moved about the ship looking around for something else to wear just finding some weird t-shirt and pants. As much as she didn't want to, Joshua was right about changing her clothing for now.

Amaya managed to find her room setting her clothing down before exploring the ship, finally finding the command center. Amaya took a minute to think about what to say before saying in as understandable English she could manage." How can I be of help?" She said to anyone who was even paying attention enough to notice

Mach would find it a challenge to hack the Nazis' systems at first, but would eventually break through the defenses in, well, somewhat more than ten minutes. This was because the Nazis, by denying any achievement that could come from their own 'Master Race', had subtly shot their own technological development in the foot. This meant that yes, security systems were being disabled, as well as the Nazis' own military data; Mach would see that while their weapons were powerful, they were also crude and unsophisticated for reasons already stated.

And, after the security systems got shut down, Mach would also discover that certain areas of the ship, such as the reactor room and barracks, can be deprived of oxygen, or have their gravity increased...

Joshua and Henry

As 'America Fuck Yeah' sang in the background, Joshua, Henry, and Tocsax would be fighting for their lives.

Of course, this was easier than it sounded, as Joshua would find his Desert Eagle and mundane blades having no effect on the Power Armor, which was made up of materials that, even in his world, would not be possible for at least several decades. This meant that the Nazi he was fighting would grin - not that Joshua knew it, before moving to shoot Joshua with his laser pistol...

Henry would find himself invigorated by the patriotic music as his buckshot hit harmlessly against the Admiral's faceplate, although Atom would find itself a better weapon, its edge scoring a gash that, although it didn't penetrate through to the insulation, still showed that the enemy was not invincible.

Screaming defiance at him, the enemy officer would crack his whip against Henry's left shoulder, a whip-crack that, if it hit, had the ability to boil the leather armor itself, causing it to drip down the Keyblader's arm, carrying burning pain as it went.

Tocsax, meanwhile, would use Multivortex*...only to find that while that technique managed to shear off several plates of power armor, the Nazis still had assault rifles and laser pistols.

The boy put up a Protect, before trying to avoid and parry as many bullets and laser beams as possible. However, his luck ran out as he was struck in the stomach by a bunch of assault rifle rounds that, though blunted by the Protect, were still enough to knock the wind off him. He would have recovered, had not the Nazis began shooting him over and over again.

Once the smoke cleared, the boy was lying down, bleeding out his life, smoke wafting from his black cloak. It was only Second Chance and Once More, two abilities that anyone can learn, that kept him alive, and that was not for long as the other Nazis were coming towards him, first to check for life signs, then to shoot him one final time when those were detected...

Amaya

"Are you good at aiming?" said one of the Moogles in perfect Japanese. "We have some Blizzaga missiles that you can launch, it's just as easy as pressing a button." Suddenly, the bridge shook under the impact of one of the Nazis' own guns.

"Of course, protecting the bridge is also an option."

*khwiki.com/Multivortex

"I can do that just show me what I need to do to help out so maybe I will make it home" she commented before grabbing on to the closest thing she could grab as the bridge was attacked by the Nazi.

Even with her ears tucked snuggly away within the protective ear-muffs the thudding boom of the light cannon still made her ears ring. Of course it didn’t stop her from singing at the top of her lungs in the very cramped seat of the turret pod.

“Fly me to the moon, And let me play among the stars.” Ninty grinned happily.

The little green squares in front of her fixed upon the enemy cruisers own inactive guns, which were a lot easier to fire upon than they had been before and Ninty for one was not about to look a gift horse in the mouth and question why many of them had stopped firing.

“Let me see what Spring is like, On Jupiter and Mars.”

Slamming her thumbs down on the joystick buttons Ninty felt her pod being rocked slightly by the force of the cannons sending shards of light at the enemy cruiser. The targeted turret was then swallowed up in a fiery explosion in just one short volley.

But of course that wasn’t enough for Ninty who, still singing away, continued to drag the next volley loaded into the cannon across the enemy cruisers hull onto the next inactive turret. The result was several further holes and dents forming a crude line of smouldering metal. As she began her assault on the next Turret Ninty made another mental note to ask for a gun at some point.

Sadly though not all of the enemies own turrets were out of action and were still frantically retaliating against them with a few close shots making Ninty instinctively flinch as she was momentarily blinded by the occasional gouts of flame on either side of her turret.

“Anyone want to see if they can get those other turrets to stop firing at us?” Ninty shouted into the microphone.

Henry swore as he felt the fire start burn through the metal pauldron on his leather armor. He store it off as quickly as he could, throwing it in the Hun bastard's face, hoping to distract him for a moment. He bellowed as he slashed at the man's neck, then rolled sideways from the inevitable counter attack.

"Feelin' sick there, Fritz? Quesy, light-headed? Radiation, ya sick Nazi bastard. It's a real bitch." He taunted, knowing it was for the best to keep this asshole's attention so that someone better with magic could get the job of killing this ship done.

It didn't take a genius to figure what Mach had stumbled into. If he had access to the ship's gravity and oxygen controls, then he basically held all the Nazis' lives in the palm of his hand. Or at least a large chunk of them anyway. This, to put it simply, could give him a powerful bargaining chip. It was time to put that chip to use. On the Nazi ship, the music from the speaker system died down. Meanwhile, Mach connected himself to Moogle's communication computer and established a connection to that of the Nazi ship. As the music from the speakers faded, a voice replaced it. Henry, Joshua, and Tocsax would recognize it as Mach.

"Okay, mein fuhrer, listen up. I've had my fun but this ends now." he no longer sounded sarcastic or even arrogant. He was dead serious, probably the most he'd ever sounded since coming on this little journey, "You may have noticed your current lack of control of your own security systems. That was my doing. I also hijacked your oxygen and gravity controls. I'm sure I don't need to explain what that means, but just in case you don't believe me," at that, the gravity increased in the Nazi's barracks. Nothing extreme, just enough to pin the soldiers still in there in place, "everyone in the barracks should now feel about twice as heavy as they normally feel. And that was a low setting, mind you." he spoke calmly, sounding like someone who had just taken complete control of the entire situation, which was essentially true since he basically did just that.

"To sum this all up, I could have every single one of you dead in less than a minute. Either by turning the inside of your ship into an inhospitable vacuum or by crushing you all under your own body weight. Neither sounds like a particularly enjoyable experience. But because I'm not an evil tyrant like your own rulers are, I'm offering you a chance to surrender. Give yourselves peacefully to the Basileus, and your lives will be spared. You may face questioning or interrogation, but given your current position I think that is a much preferable fate than what will happen to you if you refuse." with that, all Nazi monitors were showing a timer counting down from 5 minutes, meaning they had that long to respond to the ultimatum Mach had given them.