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Chapter 17 - FIRST MISSION

[WARNING!!!]

[WARNING!!!]

[WARNING!!!]

The entire chat was in a state of chaos as we were bombarded with warnings from the chat group, the system that runs the entire thing crying out for our attention. I instantly paled as I was half way to the X-Men barbecue and it just happened to be my like that something was going down...

[FIRST MISSION PENDING!!!]

Tony Stark- Okay can someone tell us what is going on? Who has an issue that requires a mission!?

Jester Lavorre- WHOA! This is SSSUPER awesome!!! 🎇🎇🎇 I wonder if it will make us tame uNiCoRnS!?

Luke Skywalker- Either way I cannot aid in this, Ciri has just awoken and my wife is currently threatening to slice off my privates...

Aegon Targaryen- I do not know how much aid I can be but I am here nonetheless.

Drecarios Frost- I'm on my way to a barbecue, this timing sucks balls

Loki Odinson- A mission, finally I can stretch my limbs a bit. ALSO, JESTER! Why have you refused to show me your Seidr talents!?

Jester Lavorre- Ah... Did I do that...? Nah, no way... I mean... Just because we're like, fighting huge fire giants, and stuff, doesn't give mean I would blow you off... HAHAHAHA DID I REALLY JUST TYPE THAT!!!??? 'BLOW' my mother would be LiViD! 🤣🤣🤣

Loki Odinson- Perhaps this mission will satisfy my curiosity?

Jester Lavorre- SSuuuuuuRRRe! 🤞🤞

[MISSION TRANSLATED AND CODIFIED]

[GOBLIN INVASION OF YAMANTO- AKIHABARA]

Shiroe of Log Horizon- Damn this thing works fast!

Drecarios Frost- Shiroe???

Shiroe of Log Horizon- Yeah we're currently under threat from millions of goblins that are invading the entirety of our section of Yamanto. They have a Goblin king, dire wolf riders, cannoneers, Hob Goblins, Trolls, Giants... Etc... 

Tony Stark- Lemme just go get all of my weapons loaded and my ACDC playing...

Loki Odinson- Wonderful, finally I can spill some blood without Odin bitching and complaining to me about fragile peace treaties and such!

Aegon Targaryen- I do not know if I can aid you in this

Jester Lavorre- Goblins??? HAHAHAHAHA, they're WEAK! We kill them for breakfast. Well, not LITERALLY, but stilllll...

Shiroe of Log Horizon- Well if you guys are coming then you need to be prepared for several days worth of waiting and strategizing. All of the PVP guilds are gearing up for combat and we have a princess trying to rouse the other players in cooperation

Drecarios Frost- I wonder if time passes on missions... Because if time passes in my world, well, I could be in some trouble...

Tony Stark- Same with me, Pepper would never let me forget about it

Shiroe of Log Horizon- I don't know?

[MISSION DETAILS:

TIMELESS (No Time Will Pass In Origin Universe Whilst Inside Mission),

URGENT (Must Be Completed Within Allotted Time Frame |1 Week|),

MAGICAL (Enemies Will Be Magical In Origin) ] 

Drecarios Frost- Well that answers that! I'm in!

Tony Stark- Me too, I'm just going to go grab me some cheeseburgers for the trip!

Drecarios Frost- McDonalds? 

Tony Stark- Yeah, why? Want something?

Drecarios Frost- Couple Big Macs and an Orange Juice?

Tony Stark- Jarvis has ordered it, it'll be here in ten minutes most likely

Drecarios Frost- 👍👍👍

Jester Lavorre- I'm GOING too!!! Oh boy, this is GONNA BE SO MUCH FUN!!! 🎂🎂🎂🎂

Loki Odinson- Let me go borrow some provisions and get my knives from my quarters, I'll see you all there.

Aegon Targaryen- Should I come along?

Shiroe of Log Horizon- Absolutely, you may not be capable of killing many goblins in comparison to us but you will be able to gain some experience and perhaps some magic items for your return to your world.

Tony Stark- I agree with Glasses, you should come and hang... Let your hair down, maybe listen to some jazz...?

Aegon Targaryen- What is 'Jazz'?

Drecarios Frost- Stop corrupting him!

Tony Stark- Too late, already told him about the Kamasutra 

Drecarios Frost- 😔😔😔😔

Pulling out my phone I started furiously using my technopathy skill to save a bunch of images inside my phone's memory pertaining to the structures of certain elements across the periodic table. Besides that I also began altering my phone's outer case into Titanium. Where I would be going it could get damaged and if it wasn't at least durable that could be an issue.

Whilst browsing on my phone I began downloading image breakdowns of various guns and tanks, breaking them down into individual parts and necessities. I found this surprisingly easy to comprehend as my Technopathy served to download the information directly into my mind. Alongside my Xenoglossy I was able to understand technical jargon as if it were a first grader's spelling book. This was something new to me...

My browsing went up a few levels in complexity as my brain could instantly recall the images and schematics I had browsed. APCs, Tanks and Trucks seems rather simplistic at the end of my ten minute search, with my research beginning to lean into hypothetical weapons that used electromagnetism... That was when I ran into the fact that if I could manipulate Electrons sufficiently I could alter the velocity of projectiles coming out of my guns... Simply, I could make railguns without a need for any fancy tech...

Tony Stark- Hey, just got back, the food is here. What you doing Elsa?

Drecarios Frost- I just found out I have eidetic memory when I use my Technopathy to scoop info from the net...

Tony Stark- We're going to be exploring all sorts of science when we get back Elsa! Maybe I can finally find someone that can speak on even terms with me? 

Drecarios Frost- Yeah, well, to further blow your mind, I can also manipulate subatomic particles... Electrons, Protons, Neutrons... Meaning I can make guns using my Matter Manipulation but also manipulate how the electromagnetic field works around whatever I use; as long as I understand the gritty details of what is happening

Tony Stark- 😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶😶 That's, fucking OP!!!

Shiroe of Log Horizon- This is nice and all but when are you guys getting here? I have to explain this to my allies.

Drecarios Frost- Ah, sure! I'll go now... I've done enough research for now

Tony Stark- Same, see you there in a second Glasses!

Loki Odinson- I am already present, I believe I'm in a market district? 

Shiroe of Log Horizon- Damn, give me a moment, I'll get Akatsuki to go get you

Loki Odinson- You're not coming to greet me personally? 🤨

Tony Stark- Don't take it personal reindeer games, he's probably busy getting that princess 'ready'

Aegon Targaryen- Why did you put 'ready' in quotations?

Drecarios Frost- Because he's a perverted man-child who needs to really blow off some steam with his girlfriend

Tony Stark- Not denying it, it's true!

Jester Lavorre- So, like, is it OkAy to bring magical items???

Shiroe of Log Horizon- Perfectly fine, we all wear magical gear

Jester Lavorre- AWESOME!!!!!!!! 🎇🎇🎇✨✨✨✨🎂🎂🎂

I pressed on the mission button at the top of the panel and quickly navigated down to the bottom of the new pop-up menu. At the bottom was a join button that I quickly pressed. Moments passed as If nothing had happened but that notion was quickly vanquished when the entirety of the world around me slowed to the point I could see a bee's wings flapping in slow motion... Until that too froze.

My vision went completely white and then exploded in a variety of colours as I was suddenly on my feet surrounded by the noises of Japanese speaking people and the lights of the market. 

"Whoa, that was weird..." My voice echoed out as right beside me Tony emerged in his latest version of the Iron Man suit. His arc reactor was brightly shining as his helmet retracted inside itself, a grin spanning the entirety of his face as the soft mutters of Jarvis whispered in the background.

"You got that right Elsa. Now, here is your Big Macs and your Orange Juice, don't ever say that I don't care about my friends..." He grinned mischievously before looking around at the large gathering of strangely armoured people. 

"Let's do some tests while we wait..." I spoke up before he could get distracted by the crowd and sights.

"Yeah sure, why don't you test out your powers and I go shoot at a tree or something. Jarvis seems to work so I don't think my repulsors will have issues." I nodded at his slightly bored tone, it was obvious he wanted to go off exploring.

Reaching my perception outwards and into the ground I found my ability to sense and manipulate matter being unaffected, my mind churning through the information at the same speed as the other night. I did detect someone invisible before us however, the man's boots being of a material that I couldn't recognise and seemed far denser than usual materials... Spreading my sense further I found the image of the man appear in my mind.

"Loki, you can stop hiding, we aren't going to eat you..." A series of coughs broke through the glamour the man had put up, his form following his blunder as he emerged from invisibility.

"How did you manage to find me, Drecarios?" He sounded disgruntled as he walked towards me, his hands straightening out his Asgardian cape.

"My powers, Loki." I smiled insufferably and merely received a chuckle for my efforts. The god of Trickery loved a mystery and couldn't help but admire new tricks when they emerged. 

"I was right, you do deserve to be an Asgardian..." He huffed and pulled back his straight black hair, a golden helm with two upward curving horns suddenly appearing from nowhere in the aftermath of his movements. 

I rolled my eyes at the man's theatrics and simply began altering some of the ground below me, finding no resistance or hesitance in the nuclei or atomic structure of the material I was changing. My powers would be perfectly fine here, like Tony said.

Speaking of the playboy, he was wandering back towards me with a skewer in his right hand and a cheeseburger in his left. The man could eat people under the table if he wanted to and the rat bastard had the guts to simply not gain weight.

"How did you get food from them when we don't have their currency?" Tony smirked evilly.

"Gold is a universal solution." I scoffed and simply began eating my Big Macs, joining Loki in waiting for this Akatsuki person.

Jester Lavorre- I'm comin!!!!

The chat message blasted through right before a blue blur spontaneously phased into existence beside us. She was the cutest woman I had ever met, if not also the strangest. Her clothes were sparkly and flowy with small artworks painted around the material. Her backpack was filled to the brim with pastries and other random items from her adventures. Two ram-like horns curled around her head and poked out just above her ears. Elven ears poked out from the side of her head with purple-blue skin that reminded me of a blueberry. 

"AND I'M HERE!" She clapped her hands and summoned some spectral pink unicorns that danced around her and then faded into nothingness. "And my powers work~! HAH, that shows you Traveller!" She giggled adorably before turning to the three of us with a wicked grin, her incisors glimmering a touch in the night-time lights whilst her lilac eyes shone.

"Finally we can chat face to face! SO, what sweets do you all like? Mine are cupcakes! Oh, oh, oh, do you also have magic like I do or is it more the, YAH KNOW, swinging of SwOrDs???" The three of us just turned to face one another before we all shrugged at the same time.

"Sup Blueberry, good to see you again." Tony mumbled the greeting out between bites into his cheeseburgers and meat skewers. 

"Hey Jester. I like cupcakes and chocolate... I can't use magic but I can do other things..." I answered her to the best of my abilities, trying not to stare into her, honestly, quite stunning eyes. Secretly I wondered why all the women in my life were hot, sexy, attractive or utterly adorable/cute.

"Greetings mortal. I see your Seidr is unique... Why do you conjure the image of the enhjørning?" He frowned a touch as he delivered his query. 

"En-whore-what-now??? I made UNICORNS man~!" She pouted her lips and folded her arms beneath her breasts. "Y'know, Uni-corns, horses with a big pointy HoRn~?" Her accent was something between Spanish and French, it was really, unique.

"Ah, Midgardians and Mortals call them Unicorns? Intriguing... We know them as enhjørning... Alas, you didn't explain why you summoned them." She grinned mischievously. 

"I was testing my magic~~~" She waddled side to side in excitement as a shadow-cloaked figure emerged behind us all, my sense informing me that she; and it was a she, was watching us.

I coughed and received the attention from all of them.

"Our escort is here people, Akatsuki-san, if you could please come out of the shadows and greet us like a normal person?" The shadows shifted from a nearby tree and the short woman popped up between me and Tony, her dark eyes looking over each of us.

"How did you find me?" I smiled.

"Magic~" Jester giggled whilst Loki shook his head in hilarity. 

The Ninja, if her garb was anything to go by, nodded her head shortly and then gestured to follow her. "I am my master's Shinobi. He has ordered me to bring you to him." Tony finished off his cheeseburger, licking his fingers off, before speaking up.

"Glasses I'm guessing?" She grew a little colder at the nickname and refused to answer him.

I glared at Tony for a second, the playboy raising his hands in defeat, turning back to the Ninja. "He meant Shiroe. Please excuse him, he likes to make nicknames and cultural references." She stared at me for a moment whilst still walking forwards, a pert nod being the only answer we got from her as we travelled towards a massive blue building in the mid-distance. 

Shiroe of Log Horizon- Luke you coming?

Luke Skywalker- No, even with the time thing it would be unwise for me to interrupt my wife's punishment... I'd just have to do it when I got back

Shiroe of Log Horizon- Punishment? What did she get you to do?

Luke Skywalker- I have to take all of her training classes and have to give her as many massages as she wanted for the period of a week... Not that bad in the long run...

Tony Stark- Boy are you whipped, what happened to the guy who blew up death stars???

Luke Skywalker- He's still there, my saving of Ciri is an example of that.

Tony Stark- Touché 👌

Just Ciri- I am sorry Luke, I dislike being a burden

Luke Skywalker- You aren't a burden. I would not be a Jedi if I failed to aid you in the midst of your plight

"This is the Alliance headquarters." The Ninja broke the silence eerily, her cloaked form pointing out towards the building we were steadily approaching. "My master is in the main lobby awaiting Princess Lenessia." She then suddenly vanished, her matter translocating into the shadows a hundred metres away. I grinned.

 Looking directly at her place in the shadows I turned my grin into an innocent smile. "Thank you Akatsuki-san, it was good to meet you." I bowed slightly before walking forwards, Tony and Loki striding side by side with me as Jester sprinted ahead and then stopped, watching some of the butterflies and sights of the road ahead of us.

"LOOK! They have magic FiSH!?!?! SOooo COOoool!" Loki sighed whilst Tony held his chuckle back with his hand. I just openly laughed at her antics.

"This is going to be fun." 

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