New Plan!
Yunata, Jordyn, and Vivian walk over to the star organization as they all are moping, feeling like they've betrayed Yunata's trust.
Yunata: So, when were you guys going to tell me about this study.
Asura: We were going to tell you once you've finished your training!
Yunata: Why? So I could come kill you guys after saying that what you're doing is dumb as shit? You're lying. You weren't going to tell me. But I know you were going to use me to help you. You said so yourself the first day I joined.
Asura: We weren't going to use you, we-
Yunata: So now I'm lying?
Asura: No! No, but-
Yunata: But?
Asura: Bu-
Yunata: Someone else talk. You're all accountable.
Staria looks up as she is about to speak, but quickly goes back to moping when she sees Yunata looking back at her with a face of disgust.
Yunata: You guys have three days to explain why you're doing this. If you try to flee the continent, I will hunt you down. Immediately.
Yunata grabs Jordyn and storms away, Vivian follows without saying a word. They go back to the house to grab Danilo and fill him in on what's happening.
Danilo: WHAT! So your friends are secret terrorists!?!?
Yunata: Yup.
Danilo: Wow...
Jordyn: Excuse me, why am I hear...
Yunata: Because now I know you're in the right. So we have to find out what's gonna be done about you and your friends. What's your name?
Jordyn: My name is Jordyn, and I can just revive my friends! You don't need to worry about it!
Yunata: But I don't want you to revive your leader. So I have to worry about it.
Jordyn: No no I won't revive him. He was very controlling, we had no freedom because of him. So thanks for killing him!
Yunata: Yeah, i can't let you go after that.
Jordyn: Why not?!?!
Yunata: You just told me "THANKS" for killing your leader.
Jordyn: Okay look, in the first place he wasn't even a leader. The way he was treating you and her was the same way he treated us. We just went with it. But you've freed us so I'm grateful. Is that wrong?
Yunata: Oh... well I guess not. But where are you gonna go now?
Jordyn: Well I can just go back to our base.
Yunata: Or... You could join us!
Jordyn: Are you not apart of star organization?
Yunata: Not anymore! I am now the proud leader of... TEAM DAI GURR-
Vivian: (slaps Yunata)No you aren't!
Yunata: WHY DID YOU SLAP ME?!? Fine, I'll come up with a name later. But anyway I'm not in that group anymore. I'm making my own.
Jordyn: Well I don't know... you did just beat me up...
Yunata: Welllllll you can't blame me with the way you guys were talking.
Jordyn: What do you have to offer anyway? Aside from your strength.
Yunata: Ummmm. I have a lot of abilities that can be very useful.
Jordyn: Likeeee???
Yunata: Like this.
Yunata creates a giant building for them to stay in.
Yunata: See, now we have a base. Anything else?
Jordyn: What about a laboratory?
Yunata: That's in there too.
Jordyn: Library?
Yunata: That too.
Jordyn: Cafeteria?
Yunata: That too.
Jordyn: Gym?
Yunata: A gym? What do you need that for?
Jordyn: To work out duh. Do you not?
Yunata: Do I look like I do?
Jordyn: Yes?
Yunata: Oh.(blushes) Well I can make that too I guess.
Yunata creates a gym separate from the building.
Yunata: There, anything else?
Jordyn: Nope! Ok I will join you, but I have a project I'm working on as well.
Yunata: What is that?
Jordyn: Well, we were trying to find ways to avoid us being blown up in case we couldn't stop them, but we actually discovered that there are barriers throughout the universe. Which delighted us at first, but then we thought about the possible technological advances we could make when finding things outside of these barriers. For example, we found this planet in a nearby galaxy-
Yunata: NEARBY GALAXY?
Jordyn: Geez they really told you nothing. Well yeah we found a planet in a nearby galaxy that had weird looking ores. It could just be nothing but, we thought it was worth checking. But unfortunately we can't actually get to the planet because of the barriers.
Yunata: Have you tried breaking through them?
Jordyn: We haven't even gotten close to the barriers. We don't know what would happen if we were to.
Yunata: Hmm... This is actually pretty interesting. I'm willing to help you as much as I can, but can you fill me in and get me all caught up so I can?
Jordyn: Payton can actually do that for you, he-
Yunata: HE?
Jordyn: Yes?
Yunata: He sounds and looks so much like a girl, I would've never suspected he was a dude.
Jordyn: I KNOW RIGHT!?!?! Well anyways, he can share his thoughts to you, so-
Yunata: Will reading your mind not work.
Jordyn: What?!?! Don't read my mind! I don't give you permission!
Yunata: Fine, when are you gonna go revive them anyway?
Jordyn: Oh, you're right. Let's go now!
Yunata: Why do I have to come.
Jordyn: Well they were over there at your friends base, that's where you killed them all.
Yunata: Oh...(scratches his head)
Jordyn: It's fine, just come.
Yunata and Jordyn make their way to the Star Organizations HQ. With Yunata unable to hide his aura, the team is made well aware of their presence. Staria comes out to talk to Yunata.
Staria: Yunata...
Yunata: What? I told you guys you have three days. We're here for her friends, nothing more.
Staria: I know... but, I... I want to get it over with now!
Yunata: Well I don-
Staria: YOU DON'T MIND!?!? OKAY I'LL KEEP IT SHORT.(clears throat)We know you guys don't agree with us, but we can't just give up on this. W-
Yunata: Let me ask you this, why is it so important that you do this? Why would you rather die than just stop.
Staria: Because the world isn't perfect. And we want to make it perfect. If we were to become gods-
Yunata: Staria, you're thinking like a child.
Staria: I KNOW BUT, IT'S POSSIBLE. WE CAN MAKE THE WORLD PERFECT, ESPECIALLY WITH YOUR HELP, SO... so... please. Help us.
Yunata: Look, I understand you want to fix the planet. But that isn't possible. We could fix world hunger, global warming, everything. But in the end, the world isn't meant to be eternal. At some point something will happen that we don't have the power to fix.
Staria: But we CAN have the power to fix it, and that's what our goal is. So please, just consider it.
Jordyn: Why must you kill our god to have this power?
Staria: We don't, but how do we know he won't bother us for trying to fix the planet. How do we know he doesn't want it to be destroyed when he's done nothing to fix it.
???: Because I don't. This worthless planet will burn away at some point, and I won't do anything to stop it.
The group look around for the eavesdropper until they notice him, right in front of their faces. The group is too shocked to move when realizing that their god is listening in on their conversation.
Staria: Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-YOU... YOU'RE... HERE...
???: I am, and I hear you want to kill me, is that true?
Staria: ...
Yunata: What about it. I know you get that a lot.
???: You'd be surprised, most people know better.
Yunata: Mm. Do you always give them a personal visit?
???: Normally not, but I like the ambition of this lady, she's been dedicated for 8 years, yet hasn't come any closer. It's for reasons like this that your planet is worthless in my eyes. No one here is worth the time of saving. So if you're so upset about it, then take that anger out on your species, not me.
Staria: ...
Yunata: You must be joking, there's no one out there that is more important than us.
???: There are infinite species out there that are all way better developed than you worthless lot, I can show you if you'd like. Or maybe your fragile human brain can't process all that information without it harming you?
Yunata: Show me.
Mordekai: Dude, what are you doing?!?!? You're only going to-
???: Now now, he asked me so kindly, you shouldn't be putting him down for that.
Mordekai: ...
???: I will show you, this will be the last thing you ever see unfortunately, you should give your friends your final words.
Yunata: Nah don't worry, I wouldn't die so soon. I've only just started to grow.
???: If that's what you believe.
After 11 minutes of ??? showing Yunata through their infinite universe, he stops. Assuming Yunata's brain has already been fried by now.
???: He was so brave, standing up for you two. Now, wh-
Yunata: Staria, join my group. We'll have his head within three months.
Jordyn: DUDE, HE'S RIGHT THERE!? WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT!?!?!?
???: Hmm. You're ignorance is disturbing me. But rather than killing you off so meaninglessly, I'll allow you to put whatever this plan of yours is into fruition. Yunata Yamaguchi. I've always wondered what you'd become from your birth, but I never thought we'd be here talking to each other like this. I am Zagfreid, the god of this universe. I accept your challenge and will do nothing to inconvenience you.
Yunata: Cool, we'll be there. Three months. Promise.
Zagfreid: Very well. See you then.
Zagfreid vanishes, giving the group a shorter expiration date on their lives.
Yunata: Staria, go get the rest of those losers. Hurry.
Staria: O-okay...
Jordyn: WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO!?!? WE HAVE TO GET TO HIM IN THREE MONTHS?!? HOW COULD WE POSSIBLY!?!?
Yunata: Those barriers you were talking about aren't even barriers. It's just the spot where the gravity becomes more dense. That, and you're closer to exiting the galaxy.
Jordyn: Exiting the GALAXY?!?!?! That would mean...
Yunata: Yup. In order to bypass these "barriers", we must be strong enough to surpass the galaxy. But it doesn't stop there. Once we get past just the galaxy, we have to get past more and more layers of reality. It seems to be infinite, but once we're strong enough. We can surpass even that, and finally reach him. Outside of our own reality.
Jordyn: But how could he be outside if he was just here?!?!?
Yunata: It means he's strong enough to enter and exit as he pleases.
Jordyn: How could we ever reach those heights... in three months none the less...
Yunata: You'll see. Revive your friends.
Jordyn leaves to go revive her friends as Staria returns with the group.
Staria: They're all here!
Yunata: I'll explain everything to you guys once Jordyn is back.
Asura: S-
Yunata: When she's back.
Staria: How did you survive getting all of that knowledge Yunata? I thought your head was going to pop that very second.
Yunata: To be honest, I don't even know myself, but I'm lucky I did! Because now I can help you with your goal. And it shouldn't take any longer than 2 months.
Jordyn comes back after reviving her friends.
Asura: Are we gonna work with them?!?
Yunata: You have a problem with that?!?
Asura: I guess not...
Yunata: Alright, now we just need to go back to Vivian, then I can explain the plan.
The group returned back to the newly made HQ to discuss their plan. They have three weeks to reach the level of a god, and surpass him. Yunata and Mordekai are super confident they can do this after the information they've obtained.
END OF THE CHAPTER!!!!!!