Mist's Jumps Part 36 (Patreon)

Selena frowned slightly as she looked at the four empty crystal apples sitting on Mist’s old fashioned heavy wooden desk. “Is there a reason that you haven’t used the apples yet, we’ve had them for weeks?”

Mist looked up from his notes on the Tower’s collection of channelers that he’d been trying to distract himself with. “It’s a big step between mortal and god.”

Selena held her index finger and thumb half a centimeter apart. “Small god and you’re already mostly there anyways.”

“I know, it’s just that if I use the last apple, I’ll be a god, albeit a small one. Say goodbye to the last of my mortality.”

Selena snorted. “I feel like conjuring a newspaper just so I can hit you with it. There are gods that would gleefully kill entire galaxies to be half as immortal as you already are thanks to various perks and the demonic hospital. You already have more power than just about anything that isn’t omnipotent, anime bullshit, a greater god or the like and eating the last apple isn’t going to change that. Really, the only thing you’ll get is a larger mana pool, a random magical ability and a title.”

“What about wards against gods?” Mist asked warily.

“Most of those count as magic which you’re already nigh immune to,” Selena replied with amusement as she sat down on the desk. “I have three words for you, stop being Batman.”

Mist winced. “That’s low.”

“If the shoe fits.” She reached over and caressed his jaw with her fingers. “You’re immortal, you’re still the same caring and slightly silly guy I met on your first real adventure when you were just starting on your crazy chain. You’ve had godlike powers for years, getting a title isn’t going to change who you are. If it does, I can conjure a newspaper and hit you until you come to your senses. Worst case, Sin will whack you upside the head with her mallet that cures insanity and you can toggle the ability off then give it away with generous donation. The item description of Willow’s tree didn’t mention any personality changes and none of the girls have gone any crazier since using the tree, I think you’re safe.”

“Point.” Mist opened his inventory and pulled out the sparkly apple he’d grabbed from when they cleansed his world’s Shadar Logoth. He smiled faintly as he stared at the sparkling apple. He reached out with his magic and absorbed the energy in the crystal apple. He smiled as the magic of the crystal apple increased his ’godly’ mana pool and washed over him like a gentle caress.

“How do you feel?” Selena asked with a touch of amusement.

“Give me a minute.” Mist closed his eyes and focused on his body, now that the initial wave of energy had faded, he didn’t feel any different or at least not enough to notice. “Nothing, I feel the same.”

“Told you.” Selena stuck her tongue out at him.

“I know,” Mist agreed as he studied the empty apple in his hand.

Selena glanced at the other four crystal apples then looked back up at Mist’s blue eyes. “Have you figured out what you’re going to do with the empty apples?”

“I’m keeping this one,” he explained as he slipped the empty apple into his pocket. “I’ll probably turn the rest into jewelry or mana batteries, you?”

“I haven’t decided, probably a staff or something impressive. Speaking of plans and ideas, have you figured out where we’re going next?”

“Not really, we still have half a year. Willow and I have been trying to figure out what to do with a bunch of Slayers once we run out of shadowspawn and monsters to hunt and Scarlet mentioned wanting some perks for sorting out legal systems. I want to hit a jump with a couple more spell creation perks.”

“In other words, no idea?” Selena asked with amusement as she hopped off the desk.

“Pretty much.”

“In that case, let’s find a girl and fuck her silly.”

“Not that I have any objections but how is that going to help?” Mist asked as he stood up.

Selena smirked. “It’s called stress relief.”

“Sure, we might as well check in with Egwene and Dawn.”

0o0o0

Cordelia’s witch minion looked up from the glowing crystal ball she had in her hands and scowled at Cordelia. “How sure are you that this will work Boss?”

Cordelia glanced away from the open waygate and over at her minion. “If I was sure it would work, I’d place the lure myself.”

“In other words, I’m expendable, got it.” The witch stuck her tongue out at Cordelia.

“If it makes you feel better, I’m reasonably sure the lure will work on the Black Wind, I’m just not sure that Willow’s crystal ball will contain the creatures or separate the souls like she claimed.”

“Fine, let’s do this.” The witch turned and walked through the open waygate. She glanced around the darkness, the glow from the orb was barely enough to illuminate the bridge that she was standing on. Thankfully she didn’t hear any mad screaming which probably meant she wasn’t going to be eaten. She walked forward twenty feet then set the lure on the ground. She conjured the brightest light she could which was only about half as effective as it should be then turned and ran back to the entrance.

Cordelia smiled slightly as her minion jumped out of the portal to the Ways. “See, nothing to worry about.”

The witch muttered, “Right.” as she dispelled her light spell.

“I’ll be right back.” Cordelia walked into the ways and glanced around. She could feel the tainted nature of the ways and the magical darkness made everything dim even to her dark sight which was more than a little disconcerting. “Nice cheerful place.” She focused on a spot a thousand feet from her and opened a door to the ways in Willow’s world near the Black Wind. She scowled as she watched the black cloud flow through her door. ‘At least that part worked.’ She waited until the Black Wind had come through completely then closed the door behind it. She reached out with her magic and bound the Black Wind in a net of holy fire. She did her best to ignore the creature’s headache inducing unholy screaming as her holy fire ripped into its twisted essence. She raised her hand and sent a glowing beam of holy fire at the creature and held it on the nexus of madness until the entire creature burst into flames and the trapped souls were released. “Cordelia 1, Black Wind 0.”

Cordelia blinked as her vision ability kicked in and she saw several visions, Illyria pregnant, Dawn’s trip to the alternate world to save Manetheren and Rand turning into an actual dragon and claiming the sword from the Stone in Tear. She blinked as she found herself back in the Ways with the start of a headache from the combination of the visions and the screaming. “That’s annoying.”

She reached up and rubbed her temples. “At least it’s not as bad as it used to be. Still, I should get going if I want everything to line up.”

She focused on another point a couple of miles away and opened a door to the Ways connected to Mist’s world near ‘his’ Black Wind. She turned slightly and opened another door to the Ways that connected to the world that Mist’s in jump memories were from. She walked back to the entrance and waited until the lure pulled the Black Winds through the doors. She let the doors close then stepped out of the ways trapping the extra Black Winds.

The minion asked, “Any luck?”

Cordelia pulled the leaf shaped key out of her inventory and stuck it on the door to the Ways so that it would close then stepped out of the way. “I destroyed one of them and trapped another two in the Ways here.”

The minion shook her head. “You must really hate this world Boss.” 

“It’s the world we’re sending the worst of the worst to, so yeah, I don’t really care if they can’t use the ways to get around.”

“How come you didn’t destroy the other two?”

“Destroying the first one gave me a bit of a headache.” Cordelia pulled Harry’s resurrection stone out of her pocket and twisted it three times. “Trayal of Stedding Tsofu.”

The witch blinked as a ghostly ogier appeared. “Hello.”

Trayal blinked a couple of times as he realized that he wasn’t surrounded by insane voices. “Yes.”

“Your body is still alive, do you wish to be returned to it?” Cordelia figured Willow could stuff his soul in an empty shell for his singing potential before she placed his soul back in his body.

Trayal shivered as he thought about his family taking care of an empty husk for years. “I have no wish for my family to have to take care of an empty shell.”

“In that case, let’s go.” She opened a door back to the Emond’s Field in Willow’s world so that she could talk to Willow about Trayal and Illyria, Dawn and Spike about using the ritual of rebirth so they could get the other Fred back and so Spike wasn’t a vampire anymore.

0o0o0

Illyria tilted her head slightly as she studied Cordelia, Dawn and Spike. “What are you offering?”

Dawn glanced at the naked purple haired teenage girl standing next to Illyria then focused on Illyria. “I’ll give you and Blackberry a boost with my enhancement rod.”

“That requires little sacrifice on your part but it is an adequate start.”

“What else do you want?” Cordelia was just hoping she didn’t ask for the moon or anything impossible as she had a narrow window of time to get Dawn, Spike and Fred reborn before she sent Dawn on her trip through time.

“I want five untainted crystal apples for myself, magic and a place to hold our forces.” She glanced at the walls of the crystal chamber they were in. She wanted a palace fit for a god and her empire back but she was trying to be realistic.

Spike raised an eyebrow. “Our?”

Illyria turned to look at Spike. “My empire is dust and I was humbled. I mean to pay Wolfram and Hart back in kind for what they did. My guide has offered to help and my pet wants to raise an army of magic users.” She resisted the urge to smile as she patted Blackberry on her head.

Blackberry sighed. ‘At least my master is a goddess, could be worse.’

“Agreed.” Cordelia was looking forward to having both Freds running around.

Dawn pulled her enhancement rod out of her inventory. “Ready?”

Illyria tilted her head slightly as she looked at Dawn. “Yes.”

Dawn used her rod to give Illyria a magic girl form without changing her armor. “That should do it.”

Blackberry frowned as she studied Illyria. “She doesn’t look different.”

“Why mess with perfection?” Dawn asked with amusement.

Illyria smiled as she glanced down at her hands as she realized that she had access to more of her original power. “This is a good start.”

Dawn glanced at Blackberry. “What do you want her armor to look like?”

“Effective and inspiring, other than that it’s up to her.” Illyria frowned slightly as she studied Blackberry, the girl might have started off a spoiled princess but she’d proven a useful servant so far and would likely remain a useful servant for a long time thanks to the bond but eventually she’d grow old and die thus depriving her of her skills and abilities. “It can wait, how hard would it be to add her to the ritual?”

Blackberry blinked. “Really?”

“You’d be more durable this way and less likely to die on me.”

Blackberry smiled faintly as she realized that Illyria actually cared about her, at least somewhat.

Cordelia considered the risks, between Illyria’s durability and the fact that they were going to turn her into a god first, adding Blackberry wouldn’t complete things all that much. “Easy enough, let’s talk to Willow about the apples and the ritual. We can upgrade Blackberry’s alternate form once she’s reborn.”

“That would give us a chance to design something impressive,” Dawn agreed.

Spike had a feeling the next couple of months would be interesting.

0o0o0

Genie smiled as Mist appeared in the blackstone chamber dressed in shorts and a t-shirt. “Welcome back.”

Mist smiled as he looked at Genie’s mostly transparent red silk dress. “It’s good to see you, nice, dress.”

“Thanks.” She held her hands out for a hug. “Hug?”

Mist stepped closer and pulled Genie into a hug.

Genie giggled as she hugged him back. “Did you have fun?” 

“For the most part, I could have done without the bickering nobles.” He gave her one last squeeze then let go.

Genie let him go then stepped back a step. “You could always set them on fire.”

“Tempting but I’d rather not get yelled at by Hermione and Tara would be disappointed that I didn’t find a less destructive way to deal with them.”

“Point, so where are you going next?”

Mist shrugged. “No clue, I was hoping you had some suggestions.”

“I might, what are you looking for?”

“Cute girls, magic that I can hand out on my world without creating too many problems, more magic research options, incorruptible cops and a perk for coming up with sane legal systems. I spent a lot of the last year trying to piece together a legal code that is slightly more solid than be a good person because I said so.”

Genie smirked. “I know of a jump that hits most of those requirements.”

“Most?”

“It doesn’t have a perk for coming up with an actual sane legal code but it has people with magical abilities that would help with that project.” Genie smirked.

“Oh, which jump?” Mist asked warily.

“Pokegirls.”

“Pokegirls has an actual jump?” Mist asked in disbelief.

“Yep, it has some decent perks, girls and items.”

“I’m not sure spreading pokegirls to the rest of the multiverse is a great plan, what with the whole feral monster bit if they don’t have sex.”

Genie laughed. “No worries, it’s much like Worm, I’ll fix the insanity at the end of it.”

“In other words, they keep their powers and don’t go insane?”

“Exactly.”

“How does that help with the law?”

“Because there are pokegirls that get an encyclopedic knowledge of the laws just by walking into a country. I suggest Law Foxxes because they’re cute and are completely incorruptible. Officer Jennys are much the same and Calamity Janes would work decently well as troubleshooters.”

Mist smiled slightly as he pictured a bunch of vigilante cowgirls running around shooting criminals. “More like girls that shoot troublemakers. Magic research?”

“There’s lots of magic in the setting and the Vale Student capstone lets you rewrite a spell into a perverted version in less than a minute which is pretty cool.”

“I have a feeling Leo and Piper are going to freak about the jump.”

Genie tossed the Pokegirl jump up on the screen. “There are lots of idiots for him to deal with in the pokegirls world and plenty of girls that need rescuing. Not to mention all of the troublemakers in yours and Willow’s worlds that haven’t been dealt with. Besides, Sin is going to be over the moon, that’s plenty of compensation for dealing with an annoyed Leo, right?”

“Probably,” Mist muttered as he walked over to look at the jump document.

Genie conjured a set of juggling balls and started juggling as she waited for Mist to look over the jump document.

Mist spent a couple of minutes skimming over the document then turned and looked at Genie. “Juggling?”

“I’m trying to be patient but it’s like watching paint dry.” Genie let the juggling balls vanish with a grin.

Mist rolled his eyes as he scrolled down and looked at the companion import section. “Okay, 50 CP per companion trainer.”

“Yep, you can also import your friends as pokegirls. Who are you importing?”

“Other than Sin, I’m not sure.”

Genie snapped her fingers and teleported Sin into the room. “Hey Sin.”

Sin smiled as she ran her gaze over Genie. “Hey, I love the dress.”

“Thanks.”

Sin glanced between Mist and Genie then looked up at the jump doc being displayed on the wall. “Pokegirls?”

Genie snickered. “Think humanoid pokemon mixed with hentai. Basically, you have a bunch of monster girls scattered around the world that need sex to stay sane.”

Sin turned and looked at Mist. “Okay, what do you need me to take?”

Mist scrolled back up to look at the origins. “Probably either drop in or Tamer, I’m still looking at the various perks and items but I was thinking about importing one of the research girls for the Vale Student. You get 500 points to spend.”

Genie piped up, “The Trainer imports can take drawbacks and blood curses which give them points.”

“That’s useful. Who else are you grabbing?” Sin asked as she looked over the origins.

Mist turned to look at Sin. “Any suggestions?”

Sin considered their friends as they looked through the various perks. “Chris, Willow or Hermione might work for the Vale Student, Ranma for the Ki Master because he’s already a martial artist so I doubt the memories will be all that different. I have a feeling Xander, Uber and Leet would complain if they weren’t imported.”

“It’s worth asking them while I work on my build.” Mist scrolled down to look at the drawback options.

Genie snapped her fingers and summoned the suggested companions. “Hi guys.”

Xander blinked as he noticed Genie’s dress. “Nice dress.”

“Thanks,” Genie replied as she spun around showing off her nearly sheer red silk dress.

Ranma smiled as he watched Genie spin around. It was nice not having to worry about someone hitting you for looking at cute girls that were showing off. “Nice.”

Willow blushed slightly as she pulled her attention off of Genie’s body and back to her face. “Good to see you again.”

“Same.” Genie gestured and copied the jump document a couple of times so the rest of the people could look it over without crowding.

Xander looked at Mist who was scrolling through a jump doc on the wall. “What’s up?”

Mist looked away from the drawback section. “I want to grab a couple of useful perks and pokegirls and I figured you’d want a chance to fuck monster girls.”

“Right, because being a demon magnet isn’t enough?”

Sin stuck her tongue out at Xander.

Uber grinned at Leet. “This could be fun.”

“Hell yeah,” Leet agreed.

Hermione raised an eyebrow as she skimmed the jump’s introduction. “That explains everyone else, what am I doing here?”

“One of the origins is a magical student, I figured you and Willow would be perfect for that but if I’m wrong, I can find someone else.” Mist flashed Hermione a smile.

“Ah, that makes sense,” Hermione agreed as she scrolled down to look at the origins. 

Willow grinned as she scrolled down to look at the entry for the Vale Student. “I wouldn’t mind picking up more magic.”

Mist looked at Ranma. “Are you up for taking the martial artist option?”

“Always,” Ranma agreed.

Chris frowned slightly as he read the intro. “Piper is going to freak.”

“Probably,” Mist admitted.

“Does that mean you want to pass up your chance for monster girls?” Sin asked with amusement.

Chris laughed. “Hell no, someone needs to be around to keep everyone safe.”

Xander shook his head. “Right, best of luck convincing her of that.”

“That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.”

“What type of girls can we grab?” Uber asked curious how enhanced the pokegirls were.

“That depends on which girls you can find.” Mist blinked as he read the Little Sister flaw.

“Make a Pokegirl detector, check,” Leet muttered.

Mist turned to look at Genie. “Hey Genie, does the Little Sister flaw require you to have sex with them or can you get someone else to do it?”

Ranma shook his head. “That’s messed up.”

Hermione raised her eyebrows as she looked at Genie. “Sisters?”

Genie laughed at the look on Willow’s face. “Technically it just puts them on your official list of pokegirls and makes it so you can’t sell them or give them away. If you want to loan them out that’s between you and them. Basically the pokecenter either mixed something up with your starter or your in jump parents were cheap and gave you your sister as your starter.”

Xander coughed. “That’s messed up.”

“It’s a messed up world,” Mist agreed as he went back to reading the rest of the drawbacks.

Hermione smiled as she thought about Puck and their Ginny. “I wouldn’t mind having another sister or two.”

Willow blushed as she agreed, “Same.”

Ranma shook his head. “Hell no.”

Chris figured he needed something to distract Piper from focusing on the rather perverted world. “Only if someone else takes care of keeping them sane.”

“You’re all nuts.” Uber shook his head.

“That’s not exactly news,” Ranma pointed out.

Xander cut in before Leet could open his mouth, “Let’s look everything over then figure out what everyone needs to buy.”

“Sounds good,” Hermione agreed as she started working her way through her jump doc.

Mist continued looking through the drawbacks and blood curses, trying to figure out how many points he could rack up.

Willow turned to look at Genie. “Since no one else asked, I’ll bite, is my world still connected to the other Earth or Harry’s Earth?”

Genie shook her head. “That was more of a function of the Lords of Night bridging the gaps rather than an intrinsic quality of your worlds. Besides, do you really want to have to deal with the Powers That Be for the rest of your chain? I mean I can make it work but if you leave them connected things from the other worlds can reach your worlds.”

Mist snorted. “I’d rather not. I’d rather have a chance to build up their defenses before we have to worry about that level of insanity.”

Willow had given the issue a lot of thought over the last couple of months, she’d rather use magic or Mist’s weird town for supply runs than leave connections various demonic nightmares could use to reach their worlds. “Same.”

“At least we warned everyone the connection might snap,” Hermione pointed out.

Genie shrugged. “Don’t worry, I asked everyone that traveled to Willow or Mist’s world from Buffy’s world if they wanted to relocate to Harry’s world or return home just in case they had second thoughts.”

“Did we lose anyone important?” Chris asked warily.

“Not really, a couple dozen magic users and slayers decided to head back for one reason or another but that’s a drop in a bucket compared to how many people the group recruited. If it makes you feel better the mirror worlds are still connected.”

Mist sighed in relief. “That should make Egwene and Dawn happy considering how much time they spent saving Manetheren in the other mirror world.”

Uber spoke up, “Considering how many channelers their various agents ‘saved’ with the nymph mirror over the last two thousand years, it wouldn’t have been the end of the world if the mirror worlds were closed off.”

“Point.” Mist turned his attention back to working on his build.

0o0o0

Origin: Drop In

Starting Location: Africa

Age: 15

Perks:

Disease protection: [Free] You don’t have to worry about the Red Death. In fact you’re completely immune to any and all diseases you’ll ever run into.

Sire’s Choice: [100] You gain the ability to choose what powers/abilities/traits/talents those that you sire/carry to term through whatever methods inherit from you or your DNA.

Transmutation Proof: [200] Not only are you immune to being turned into a pokegirl you’re immune to being transformed against your will. 

Pokegirl Engineering: [300] Like Sukebe you’re a genius at genetic engineering. In addition, when working with any type of genetics you know without a doubt what each and every gene does and how it interacts with others and can ensure whatever horrible chimeric being you created through such mad science will always be loyal to you and won’t dissolve into a pile of nasty goop from all the genetic tinkering.

Items:

Trenchcoat of the Badass Jumper: [Free]

This interesting color changing magical coat can shape change into various different types of outerwear, all designed to make you look stylish rather than laughable. The most impressive thing about the coat is it generates a S.E.P. field which causes people to overlook your presence when it would be advantageous allowing you to avoid most challenges and a lot of negative attention from any law enforcement officers you run into. You can toggle the effect on and off as often as you want. You can import any type of coat or cloak into this item.

Sukebe Blueprints: [100]

You have a thumb drive filled with a bunch of Blueprints for a decent amount of Sukebe’s technology, everything from pokeballs to genetic modification devices.

Jusenkyo water flask: [200 x4 = 800]

An endless flask of Jusenkyo water. Each flask changes people into a different type of pokegirls, you’re free to select the type of pokegirl when you purchase it. After this jump, you’re free to convert people into pokegirls without the various drawbacks they’d normally have such as supernatural lust and feral state or even negative enhancements. Officer Jenny, Neo-Iczel, Archmage, Night Nurse.

G-Stylus: [400] 

This artifact is a stylus, a pen-like object that does not actually write. This object is used to merge pokegirls together into a G-Spliced. The stylus is black naturally. When touched to one pokegirl, it turns blue. If touched to a second pokegirl who is within two feet of the first, the two are immediately merged together into a G-Spliced of the original two, at which point the stylus turns black again. The new pokegirl is a perfect mixture of the original two pokegirls, in body and mind. However, she permanently loses her ability to evolve, and her ability to reproduce naturally. Note that a new pokegirl created in this manner can be further added to more pokegirls. In future jumps, this strange device can fuse anyone the owner wants to use it on rather than just pokegirls. The person that purchased the G-Stylus is immune to their own G-Stylus.

Sukebe's Staff: [800] 

While this staff was never owned by Sukebe and in fact never existed until you purchased it the naming convention remains the same... As do the effects; with this staff you can selectively spread the cough joys of pokegirls to other worlds. By planting the staff on the ground and channelling a large amount of mana into it you can 'rewrite' history to turn a controllable percentage of an area’s female population into pokegirls. When you do so a wildly advanced holographic computer screen will appear that allows you to customize which pokegirl types will appear, their frequency and the need for 'taming' (or lack thereof). The more mana channeled into the device the further back you can alter history and the larger the area you can alter.

Companions:

Tamer Import [400] 8 companions, free background, 500 cp each.

Pokegirl: Vivian (Camera Girl) [0]

Drawbacks:

Crossoverlord: [+0] Expect guest stars from other worlds.

Lost in Time: [+0] 

Rather than start three hundred years after the war when the world has had time to settle down a bit, you appear in your starting location a week before a certain nosey reporter sneaks into Jim’s mansion.

Kitted Out: [+100]

Shortly after arriving a five-year-old pokekit of any breed of up to extremely rare rarity that you choose will join you on your pokegirl journey. She is of course far too young to have sex or bond until she evolves to a full pokegirl around the age of fifteen but she will be taking up one of your active pokegirl slots for the entire ten years you are here.

Little Sister: [+100 x2 = 200]

Either your parents were cheap or a mix up with the pokecenter landed you with your sister as your starter. This is slightly problematic as she takes up one of your pokegirl slots and can’t be sold or given away. She’s either rather embarrassed to be in your harem or she’s rather enthusiastic, your choice. Either way, she’s bound to cause you a certain amount of trouble to start with. On the plus side, she can be anything up to and including a very rare pokegirl. Just remember the rarer she is the more special she thinks she is. This can be taken twice.

Team Troubles: [+200]

One of the dastardly terrorist Teams such as Team Rocket or Team Trauma is after you. If you are lucky they just want to kill you and steal your pokegirls. If not, they believe your powers will create a new breed of pokegirl perhaps on par with a Legendary and will stop at nothing to transform you.

Sanctuary Target: [+400]

The Sanctuary Goths are coming for you. They believe capturing you and breaking your will, will allow them to use your powers to take over the world.

Genesis: [+400]

One of the leagues has declared you a criminal and if they capture you they will be sticking you in the secret project Genesis. If caught your testicles will be cut out to extract your sperm and you will be forcefully exposed to a version of Gender Dust that can only be changed back by handling a Dawn Stone. You will then be forced to hyper ovulate several times before you are sold for human breeding stock. If they manage to complete the process you’ll fail your chain.

Blood Curses:

Cold Vulnerability: [+200]

Subjects suffer from an extreme sensitivity to cold temperatures. Their nervous system registers low temperatures with twice the intensity of a normal human, and hits the pain threshold much more quickly whenever cold or freezing temperatures are involved. This makes it very difficult for the subject to function in a normal environment; he will have to eat warm meals, wash with hot water, bundle up in almost any sort of weather, and avoid low levels of physical activity in cool environments. Shivering and constant complaints about being chilled are common in these individuals. Cold air and ice attacks are especially dangerous, causing such intense pain that the subject effectively suffers double the usual level of damage, and passes out. (The level of actual damage sustained does not change, merely the subject's perception of it.)

Cold Blooded: [+300]

The subject's body has lost the ability to regulate its own internal temperature, and instead must rely on the ambient temperature of the surrounding environment. As the local temperature rises, the subject becomes more active and alert, and as it cools, he grows lethargic and slow-witted; in a sufficiently cold environment, he will lapse into unconsciousness and die from hypothermia. For their own safety, most Cold Blooded subjects reside in tropical, subtropical, and the warmer temperate regions; in the latter, they either fly south for the winter or pass the months in their well-insulated homes with the heat turned up. It's quite common for a man with this Curse to own a Fire Pokegirl as an emergency heater, an exception to Ice-type Tamers' usual dislike of the hot-tempered Fire-types.

Cold Insensitivity: [+300]

The subject's nervous system is unable to perceive cold. This condition may initially be misdiagnosed as the Blood Gift of Cold Resistance, due to the subject's inability to feel pain from exposure to the cold or his capacity to Tame Ice Pokegirls without difficulty; it is typically only when the subject has been exposed long enough to begin showing visible symptoms that the truth is realized. Men with Cold Insensitivity are considered high-risk cases for frostbite and hypothermia, due to their inability to accurately assess their own condition during times of exposure.

Genie laughed as she looked over Mist’s choices. “So let me get this straight, you’re starting in the past and have organizations after you that don’t yet exist.”

“Problem?” Mist asked as innocently as he could.

Leet piped, “You need to work on your innocent act because that sucked.”

“I would have been less blunt but yeah,” Genie agreed.

“Fine, is it legit?” Mist asked with amusement.

Genie shrugged. “For a given value of legit, just don’t expect clear sailing.”

“Works for me.”

“Let me guess, you’re going to use the Lost in Time toggle to get around Piper screaming at you?” Chris asked with amusement.

“The thought had crossed my mind. If we stop the reporter from finding Jim Scott’s experiments then the world shouldn’t go to shit and we can use doormaker to explore or the staff to make monster girls without the drawbacks.”

“Happosai would have abused the hell out of that,” Ranma muttered.

Mist frowned as he thought about how much damage Happosai could do with the staff. “Yeah, I think I’m going to keep the staff in my inventory unless I’m using it.”

“Probably a good idea,” Chris agreed.

Willow looked at Genie. “How would the rest of the backgrounds work?”

Genie pointed at Hermione and Leet. “Their fault.”

Hermione blinked. “Wait, what?”

“It was probably a magic spell gone wrong or one of Leet’s experiments that sent you back through time or back in time in an alternate dimension.”

Leet frowned slightly. “That would imply that I was still a tinker in my backstory, thus it’s more likely to be Willow or Hermione’s fault.”

Hermione pointed at Willow. “She’s more likely to try out untested spells.”

Willow pouted. “Mist is much more likely to play around with weird spells and Chris has actually traveled back in time to prevent problems.”

Mist smirked as he shook his head. “I’m a drop in, by definition it can’t be my fault.”

Chris shrugged. “It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve gone back in time to fix stuff.”

That works.” Genie grinned as she looked over everyone else’s builds.

Abby/Selena

Disease protection: [Free]

Items:

Trenchcoat of the Badass Jumper: [Free]

Willow/Hermione/Chris/Sin:

Background: Vale Student

Age: 18

Sin only: Survival Skills: [50] You’re an expert at surviving in a monster filled wilderness where every scent and sound could lead the monsters to your camp. While this won’t keep you completely safe, it certainly helps.

Hermione only: Pokegirl Identification: [50] You can identify any pokegirl by sight alone. Post jump, this extends to any non monster.

Willow/Chris: Harem Dynamics: [50] You seem to have an almost supernatural knack for smoothing over disagreements and getting your pokegirls to get along. This also works to a lesser extent to the rest of your companions.

Magic Affinity Bloodgift: [Free] Basic charisma boost for dealing with magic girls.

Magic Affinity: [Free] You have the ability to channel mana and learn magic which many mistake for a blood gift.

Sexual Magic: [100] Through some strange quirk you have the rather unusual ability to benefit from sex with magic users. For some reason you don’t entirely understand your aura or soul compares notes the first time you have sex with someone with magic and uses the information to increase your own mana reserves by 10% of their total mana at no cost to them.

Teacher’s Pet: [200] While you’re not Merlin, you’re a lot better at teaching people magic than you have any right to be. As long as someone meets the bare minimum requirements to learn a magical spell or technique, you’re able to teach them at an unbelievable rate, teaching in hours what it would take a talented individual days to learn and days or weeks when it would take months or years. You also benefit from this advanced rate when you’re learning magic.

Perverted Mage: [450] You have completed the graduation requirements of the Vale Magical Academy. This includes passing Basic Attack Spells, Basic Defense Spells, and Basic Healing Spells. You have also mastered the Sex and Magic II course which will allow you to quickly master spells of a sexual nature and are exceptionally skilled in perverting regular spells to a sexual purpose. You’re able to come up with perverted copies of spells that you already know or have a copy of in a matter of minutes. Finally, you have succeeded in the final test Potions, Attack Spells, Defensive Spells, Summoning Spells, Illusion Spells, Necromantic Spells, Transmutation Spells, Conjuration Spells, Divining Spells, Healing Spells, Enchantment, Plant Studies, and Pokegirl Studies.

Items:

Student ID: [Free] Displaying this magical plastic ID card allows you to pass as a student or faculty of any school you’d care to name as long as it’s not completely unbelievable. This allows you to sit in on classes, use the facilities or catch free rides on city busses. Try not to cause trouble as anyone taking a detailed look at their records will find that you’re not actually a student or a faculty member.

Magic Homework Pen: [100] These magical pens never need to be refilled and can fill out paperwork as if you’d taken your time to do it personally. They can even write essays, stories or books as if you’d written them yourself.

Pocket Library: [200] Due to an accident or perhaps design, you find yourself bound to a rather powerful magical book. This book normally lives slightly outside of space and time, copying every book within a few hundred feet of you but you may call forth a copy of the book any time you want to read one of the books it has copied. You may also call forth an index of all of the books it has copied organized by subject so that you can find things more easily. This book doesn’t copy any magical properties of books just the contents.

Book of True Guidance: [300] A self-updating semi intelligent magical book that instructs you in whatever topic you feel would be useful taking your current abilities into consideration. Outside of magical topics, it is the equivalent of an average college professor at best, for magical subjects you’ll find that it’s always at least a little bit beyond your current skill level.

Blood Gifts:

Potent Spellcaster (aka "Sorcery Genius" ): [300]

The subject has greater-than-average potential with magic. His mystical energies are naturally in tune with magic allowing him to shape his spells in half the time and easily, assimilate its lore more completely, and just generally outperform a normal spellcaster wielding the same type of magic. 

Trainer: [100]

The subject is unusually competent at training others for combat or other physically-

oriented activities. This Gift manifests primarily as a heightened perception of body language, allowing the Trainer to discern subtle details about his student's physical and emotional state. He can tell where and how the student is making errors in a specific movement, whether she can give additional effort or is truly at the end of her strength, how she is likely to react to various forms of encouragement, and so on; these insights allow the subject to tailor his instruction to better-suit his student's individual needs and abilities. The trainee typically gains the benefit of three days' worth of training for every two days of actual effort, this stacks with other boosts. 

Balance: [200]

Subjects with this bloodgift have a slightly modified inner ear, allowing them to have a highly developed sense of orientation. In addition to this their hand eye coordination is highly advanced as well. They have the ability to find their center of balance quickly and can stand on precarious footing for an indefinite amount of time. Individuals can also perform feats such as running across narrow ledges or tightropes without falling. No individual with this gift has ever reported feeling dizzy or suffered from vertigo, in other words, you’re immune.

Mindbender: [200]

Charmers are unnaturally attractive to females via a mentally influencing aura thanks to magic ancestry. In all cases, this variant allows the subject to attract females within about twenty-five feet of his current position, and to have them interact with you in a favorable manner, even if you’re not doing anything to attract attention or merit such friendly behavior. The aura produced also has a mildly arousing effect on women, which persists for some time after you leaves their vicinity. The Gift is effective on ALL females, regardless of age or appearance, making it just as likely to attract a ten year-old looking for a hug or a randy grandmother as a beautiful adult woman. Mindbending can't change a woman's sexual orientation, but you’ll still be more than tolerable to associate with as a friend even if they aren’t interested sexually.

Drawbacks:

Kitted Out: [+100]

Little Sister: [+100 x2 = 200]

Team Troubles: [+200]

Sanctuary Target: [+400]

Blood Curses:

Cold Vulnerability: [+200]

Cold Blooded: [+300]

Cold Insensitivity: [+300]

Ranma/Xander:

Background: Ki Master

Age: 17

Awakened Aura: [Free] You have learned how to access your Ki, also known as life force or spiritual energy, which allows you to passively enhance your body granting greater physical strength, speed, agility, durability, and stamina during physical activities. The power level of this increase grows with base ability, training and usage. This boost is more impressive the less ‘godlike’ your natural abilities are but won’t fall below a 10% boost. This also allows you to learn various ki techniques with enough practice.

Iron Will: [100] You have an incredible amount of willpower and determination and have the ability to push yourself to your limits in order to accomplish your current goals. This also comes with a surprisingly high pain tolerance though it does nothing for preventing injuries. 

Master’s Assistant: [200] You have a remarkable gift for combat and teaching people how to fight, you can turn even the meekest and or most unskilled person in the land into a skilled combatant with enough time and effort, typically about a week to give someone completely unskilled at combat a talent that would have King Arthur willing to train them. With a month of dedicated training, you can turn anyone into a master of combat.

Master of the Martial and Erotic Arts: [300] You are a true master of fighting and sex. You find it easy to learn ki based techniques, be they for lashing out or loving, and can even figure out ways to use techniques made for one purpose for the other. You have a master’s knowledge of the Tamer Sex Techniques and how to perform them. You can also learn various pokegirl Fighting Type techniques and powers by sight. In future jumps, this extends to other special fighting techniques.

Blood Gifts: 

Phase Sight: [300]

The subject generates a particularly intense psychokinetic energy field, which interacts

with the P.K.E. of Ghost Pokegirls and renders them visible, audible, and tangible to the subject even when they are incorporeal and undetectable to the normal range of human senses. In future jumps this extends to other ghosts. You can also override a Ghost Pokegirl's phasing and force her back into corporeality when you touch her. In future jumps this works on anyone that is phased.

Items:

Weighted training uniform: [Free] This fancy magical weighted uniform comes with your symbol on it. It has been enchanted to increase its effective weight such that you’ll always get a decent workout when you practice with it no matter how much you can lift. You can adjust its effective weight anywhere from comfortable to why, jumper why?

Ki Training Equipment: [100] 

You have an eclectic collection of training manuals and strange equipment that lets you train your Ki twenty percent more effectively.

Sextome Tome of Sex Techniques: [200]

With the conversion of both Ranma and Genma Sextome to pokegirls at the Jusenkyo Spell Dump the tome of their family style of pokegirl taming has been left in the hands of first Soun Tendo and later Professor Stroak, and people have been able to steal copies. It has been noted that these techniques can cause pleasure so great that it has been known to cause glitches in pokegirls causing them to evolve into one of their available evolutions, with a greater chance of it being their preferred/wanted one. You now have one of these copies.

Dojo of the Jumper: [300]

You own a fabulous and dare I say magical dojo located in a League of your choice. Not only does the dojo generate a modest profit, it attracts martial artists. Thanks to the many secret Jump Chan approved enchantments layered on this fantastic dojo any type of martial arts or ki training takes half the time for the same benefits. Not only that but you’ll find the Dojo allows someone to teach Ki or Mana based knock offs of any supernatural techniques or special martial arts they know.

Ranma: The Hentainomicon: [400]

This book is the ultimate in pokegirl-related knowledge. It details their likes, dislikes, how best to tame them, etc. It also has information on virtually all pokegirl-related items, including but not limited to creation, maintenance, and even destruction. All of this, however, just scratches the surface of what it contains. Everything from sexual techniques to erotic dress is covered. People who've discovered the book have reported wildly different findings from reading its pages. Normally despite how obviously valuable it is, the book seems hard to keep hold of. Even locking it away in the depths of the Crimson League's Magic Guild didn't stop it from reappearing elsewhere. The Hentainomicon could turn up anywhere, at anytime. You on the other hand have no trouble keeping your copy as if it is lost it will reappear in your warehouse the next day.

Xander: The Destiny Ring: [400]

This golden ring is meant to be placed around a man's erection, magically resizing itself to fit whatever phallus it is placed on snugly but not painfully. The Destiny Ring can only be willfully removed; it never accidentally comes off. The Destiny Ring allows the user to decide many different factors about the sexual engagement, including things such as their or their partner's fertility, how many sperm have which kind of chromosome, and even giving a push in the direction of what breed a daughter could threshold into or what pokekit they'd be born as. 

Further, The Destiny Ring overcomes most circumstances that'd prevent pregnancy; chemical

contraceptives fail to function, and the female becomes pregnant despite age, or even if her womb is barren (such as a Warrior Nun). The ring seems to be made of gold, upon first look. However, by soaking it in vaginal fluid the ring shows glowing runes, possibly magical in nature, that give off a haunting green glow. 

Drawbacks:

Team Troubles: [+200]

Sanctuary Target: [+400]

Blood Curses:

Cold Vulnerability: [+200]

Cold Blooded: [+300]

Cold Insensitivity: [+300]

Uber/Leet

Background: Tamer

Age 19

Clearly Human: [100] All of Your alt-forms count as human for taming purposes, as a bonus as long as you’re in a humanoid alt form no one will really notice or care that you’re not a 100% human unless it’s pointed out to them. After this jump this perk works for the dominant species wherever you are even if that isn’t human.

Master of Sex: [Free] Due to a combination of training and natural or unnatural talent you’re incredibly skilled at sex and fucking people/pokegirls into the ground. You could continue until a Sultan’s entire harem is sated and be ready to do it again after a short break to grab a snack and something to drink.

Challenge Immunity: [100] Thanks to filling out additional paperwork you’re doing an important job for society or at least you have the documents to prove it. Because of this you legally don’t have to accept challenges from every punk kid who walks down the road looking to claim one of your pokegirls in a salvage battle. After this jump you have a slightly higher chance of talking your way out of a fight when you are doing something else unrelated to the challenger. You’ll also find that people will generally take no for an answer if you don’t want to duel them.

Not the Face: [200] For some reason, your enemies in this world are perfectly willing to attack your pokegirls rather than attack you unless you attack them. In future jumps, this translates into a general tendency for your enemies to target your bodyguards first. You can toggle this at will if you wish.

Cross Training Master: [300] You’re a master trainer, as long as someone meets the bare minimum requires to learn something, you’re able to teach them or help someone teach them at an unbelievable rate, learning in hours what it would take a talented individual days to learn and days or weeks when it would take months or years.

Blood Gifts:

Metalshaper: [300]

A gift that often goes unappreciated by tamers, the Metal Shaper trait allows an individual to exert an almost telekinetic influence over metallic substances. Using this influence allows the gifted individual the ability to manipulate the shape and position in space of any metal. There is a limit to how much they can lift, and it seems to correlate with their physical strength. The reshaping process is slow, and precision is limited to what the individual can see. Also, they are incapable of reshaping more than one piece of metal at a time. So, for example, they could not create an entire functioning clock simultaneously, each piece would have to be shaped individually. The bio-metals that compose the bodies of many of the steel and tech type pokegirls cannot be manipulated in the way that unliving metals can.

Teleportation: [300]

Description: The subject has the ability to instantaneously move from his current position to another, without crossing the intervening space. An untrained subject may Teleport reflexively whenever he is threatened or surprised, and his aim and range with the Gift are likely to be poor. With emotional discipline and practice, it is possible for even the most skittish subject to Teleport only when he desires to, and to arrive precise where he intends. Most Teleporters agree that it is easier to 'port into and out of areas that are familiar and easy to visualize, so they tend to explore new surroundings very intently to find the best 'porting spots. You can take groups of up to ten people, providing they are all in physical contact somehow.

Items:

Basic Gear [Free with Tamer’s License]

This basic tool kit includes a Pokedex, 10 Standard Pokeballs, 1 Premier Pokeball that has a slightly higher capture rate, a backpack, a three-person tent, and a basic set of heavy taming restraints for use with the stronger pokegirls.

Tamer’s License [Free]

Getting a Tamer’s License is basically a given since it only takes getting your name right on the test, a blood sample and getting scanned by a celestial aura reader or psychic mind reading pokegirl for suitability in most leagues. Don’t worry, your friendly Jump Chan made sure your blood results and scan passed muster. This license entitles you to obtain an active harem of up to six pokegirls. Beyond that number any pokegirls you capture, purchase, trade or win must be legally sold or put into storage if you have the proper license or you’ll face fines or confiscation by league officials if they catch you with more than six pokegirls.

Storage License [Free]

You have the required knowledge for maintenance of pokegirls in storage and have passed the test to obtain a storage license. Not only can you store any of your pokegirls in the League’s network of pokecenters this purchase comes with a crate sized storage device/computer that can hold an infinite number of pokegirls in stasis by feeding it pokeballs. Retrieval is as simple as selecting their names or numbers from a list, hitting a button and grabbing their ball from the slot in the machine.

Unlimited poke-chow: [Free]

You’ve been given an endless supply of poke-chow which will keep any pokegirls you have happy and healthy, just don’t ask what its made of.

Portable Healing Unit: [100]

This sunlight powered healing unit will completely heal a pokegirl in about ten minutes of all physical injuries by sticking her ball in the machine and pushing the button. Holds up to five charges, each charge requires an hour of sunlight to recharge.

Uber only: Amulet of Weakness: [200]

This useful amulet allows the wearer to mentally adjust their abilities to anywhere between their normal level and down to the level of a normal human while wearing it. Taking the amulet off or knocking the wearer unconscious restores all of their abilities to full. This comes with schematics an enchantress or enchanter could use to make more.

Leet only: PokeCompass: [200]

This item, when closed, looks like a regular compass, although one of beautiful quality thanks to the black lacquer covering and porcelain inlay. However, once opened, one can see that on the compass' face, there are no markings. When held in one's hand and concentrating on a type of pokegirl, however, the needle unerringly points in the direction of the closest one. The compass is always accurate, and points to the nearest pokegirl or pokewoman of the desired type. It always points in the shortest possible distance, however the pokegirl could be on the other side of a ravine or across an ocean. The compass is unable to detect pokegirls or pokewomen that are in pokeballs. Likewise, it only points to the nearest pokegirl of the indicated type. This is only a copy as the location of the real compass is well known. In future jumps this compass will point towards whatever monster you have in mind. Should you have none in mind it will point in the direction of the danger closest to you.

Pokegirl Ranch: [300]

Interesting, you’ve inherited a rather strange pokegirl ranch from a family member on their death. While this ranch seems normal enough at first glance, selling common and uncommon pokegirls and pokegirl related items and equipment much like most ranches around the world this one is special. This ranch updates its selection based on the non legendary pokegirls you’ve scanned with your pokedex, selling generic examples of the types of girls you’ve scanned. You may use a console at the ranch or in your warehouse to select which types are available from your available list. Not only that but no one will think buying sentient monster girls is any stranger than buying a dog or cat from a pet breeder in future worlds as long as they’re bought from the ranch.

Drawbacks:

Team Troubles: [+200]

Sanctuary Target: [+400]

Blood Curses:

Cold Vulnerability: [+200]

Cold Blooded: [+300]

Cold Insensitivity: [+300]

Genie snorted as she finished looking everyone’s builds over. “What are you going to do if you have to go somewhere cold?”

Sin snickered. “Considering we have ice absorption gear, gleefully ignore the blood curses or send someone that doesn’t have the curses. The only way they’d really matter is if you’re stupid enough to start somewhere cold and you don’t have teleportation or a means of getting out of the cold quickly.”

“Fair enough. Moving on to the background details, Willow, Sin, Hermione and Chris are Vale Students which means you probably know each other.” Genie turned and looked at Chris. “I’m assuming that your sisters are reluctant about being in your harem?”

Chris nodded. “Please, I figure one of the girls has been taking care of that side of things if it’s not too much trouble.”

“That’s fine, just expect people to make jokes about having your sisters in your harem.”

“As long as I don’t have to actually have sex with them, Mom probably won’t kill me.” Chris was just glad that Sin had managed to grind off some of Piper’s edges over the years.

Sin smirked. “I’d be more than happy to fuck them silly along with my sisters and everyone else’s sisters.”

Ranma shook his head. Unlike the rest of them, he didn’t want to see what a sister would be like if they were raised in this twisted world.

Mist smiled as he pulled Sin into a hug from behind. “That’s because you’re a naughty pervert.”

Sin rubbed her behind against Mist as she replied, “Damn straight.”

Xander laughed, “I love you but there is nothing straight about you.”

Sin pouted as she reached up and grabbed a lock of hair. “I guess it’s a bit too wavy to be called straight.”

Mist rested his chin on Sin’s shoulder. “Pretty much.”

Hermione asked, “Do we get to pick which pokegirls type our siblings are?”

Genie said, “As long as they’re common to very rare rather than extremely rare.”

“Which means what?” Willow asked uncertainty.

“Most of the extremely rare girls are at the top end of the power scale other than Legendaries and unique girls.” Genie tossed a few copies of the list of pokegirls up on the walls so the group could pick what they wanted. “That should help.”

“Thank you.” Hermione walked over and started looking over the magic girls to see if anything jumped out at her. 

“Any thoughts Mist?” Sin asked as she leaned into him.

Mist said, “I’d look for interesting pokegirl types that come with interesting enhancements that we can copy considering we can always turn them into archmages after we copy their odd abilities.”

Willow grinned as she started looking through the pokedex for interesting girls. “Sounds like a plan.”

Genie shook her head as the group started scrolling through the dex looking for interesting girls.

0o0o0

Chris raised an eyebrow as he looked over Sin’s choices. “You’re willingly making your sister a Farfuck’d? It says they’re insane.”

Sin smirked. “They also have several really nice abilities that I’d like to copy. Worse case we copy her abilities then stick her in stasis for a year until the end of the jump but the flaws should go away once we give her the archmage water.”

“That’s cold.”

“If nothing else, I have my sanity curing mallet.”

Xander shook his head. “That’s worse.”

Leet snorted. “I don’t know, I can think of a couple of people back home that needed a couple of whacks with her mallet.”

“Just about every cape.” Mist turned to look at Genie. “Speaking of stasis, have you tossed the demon lord’s nephew yet?”

“I was going to ask about that, do you want me to spring him so you don’t have to deal with him?” Genie asked with amusement.

“That’s probably for the best, I’d rather not have to deal with him or his uncle.” Mist didn’t see a point in pissing off a demon lord that could casually kill dark gods or steal entire worlds.

“No worries.” Genie snapped her fingers. “Done.”

“Thanks.” Mist glanced over the list of pokegirl siblings and munchkins. “Sin has a demon goddess and Farfuck’d for sisters and a demonic sorceress for a munchkin. Hermione has two rabbit siblings a Bra-er rabbit which is a plant type and a Spellbun which is basically a spellcasting rabbit girl that can see magic and a mutated pirate clone for a munchkin…” He trailed off as he turned and looked at Hermione. “What the fuck?”

Hermione shrugged. “They’re stronger and they’re immune to zombification. They’re a little slower mentally but we have scholar’s tea and upgrade to deal with that.”

“They’re also twisted and deformed.”

“We have Amelia and Amy, if nothing else, we’ll copy her various enhancements then hit her with the magic water, problem solved.”

“Point.” Mist looked back at the screen with the list. “Willow has a space traveling Starlight Express and an Elf Queen for sisters and a dark magic knight for her munchkin, I guess it could be worse. At least you didn’t make her a cloned magic knight.”

Willow shook her head. “No real point, I can copy the zombie protection from Hermione’s girl and we have better ways to boost their strength.”

“Probably for the best,” Uber agreed.

Leet grinned as he looked at Chris’s choices. “Nice, tech girls all the way, a gun Bunny and fox girl that likes tanks.”

Chris said, “Everyone else had magic fairly well covered so I decided to branch out a bit. Besides, getting the ability to summon guns and have innate mechanical knowledge and aptitude should help draw Willow and Mist’s worlds out of the dark ages.”

“Technically I think they’re more middle ages but it would certainly help,” Hermione agreed.

Sin looked at Mist. “Any reason you went with a candy catgirl?”

Mist shrugged. “They’re nice and they have an aptitude for food creation and the ability to conjure anything with sugar in it.” He turned to look at Chris. “Any particular reason you went with a dollmaster for your munchkin?”

Chris said, “Because they have some nice animation abilities that should let her contribute while staying out of harm’s way.”

Ranma nodded. “Not a bad idea.”

Willow said, “I still think you’re insane for going with a headless horse girl for your munchkin.”

“I’m not sure you have a leg to stand on, Ms. I go as a ghost for Halloween every year,” Mist pointed out as he stretched his arms over his head. 

“That’s different, I can take the costume off.”

“She looks normal enough most of the time and she has a jack o'lantern for a head in her battle form so she’s hardly headless. Besides, can you imagine the look on Ron’s face if we can duplicate her ability to safely remove her head.”

Hermione had to resist the urge to smile as she shook her head. “That’s mean.”

“And yet you’re trying really hard not to laugh,” Uber pointed out.

“Not helping.”

Genie laughed. “I’m looking forward to it. On that note, are you ready to start your next adventure?”

Mist glanced around the group. “I’m good.”

“Same,” Willow agreed.

Genie waited for everyone to agree then snapped her fingers and sent the group into the pokegirl world.

0o0o0

Abby blinked as she found herself in some type of ritual circle at night with Mist and her twin in what looked like scrublands. She glanced at the dozen mostly naked women chanting outside the circle then at the collection of two dozen strange almost human looking girls standing around watching the ritual. She frowned slightly as she spotted Vivian and two other teenage girls chained to a couple of metal spikes someone had driven into the ground about fifteen feet from the circle.  She didn’t recognize the other two girls but they were oddly familiar despite one of them having white cat ears and a red and white striped tail that reminded her of a candy cane and the other bright rainbow colored hair. “Where are we?”

“I’m guessing Africa,” Mist replied as he reached into his pocket and grabbed his pocket watch.

One of the women outside of the circle shouted, “They have arrived, get the water!” 

“Fuck that.” Mist pushed the button on his watch which froze time. He pulled his hand out of his pocket then glanced at the backpack and staff at his feet. “That must be our gear.” He picked up his new magical staff and worked on scanning it.

“Africa?” Abby asked absently as she walked out of the summoning circle so that she could get a closer look at the girls with Vivian. “Do you need help with your handcuffs?”

Vivian grabbed the metal manacles then twisted them apart. “Nope, I’m good.” She dropped the pieces to the ground.

“Any idea who the two cuties are?”

“Not really, we got summoned then dosed with a magic potion. They ended up like that, I ended up like this.”

Selena turned to look at Mist as he picked up the backpack at his feet. “Let’s see, random magical cultists who aren’t channelers or death eaters, three identical backpacks that just ‘happen’ to have been summoned with us, which flaws did you grab this time?”

Mist frowned slightly as he got an incomplete pattern from his scan of his staff. He placed his staff and pack in his inventory then walked out of the summoning circle and over to the mostly naked tattooed cultists. “Nothing too horrible as long as I avoid going anywhere reasonably cold.”

“That’s it?” Abby asked in disbelief.

“Mostly?”

Abby snickered as she studied the strangers. ‘Huh, that’s why they’re familiar, they look like Mist’s female form.’ She muttered, “Yeah, mostly my ass.”

Selena rolled her eyes as she picked up one of the other backpacks and started looking through it. “This looks like Trainer gear, complete with pokeballs.”

Mist turned to look at Selena. “That’s because we’re in a twisted world where a mad scientist created sex toys in the form of humanoid pokemon.”

“That’s a bit disturbing.”

“On the upside, we should have a week to deal with the mad scientist before events come into play that plunges the world into a slow death spiral.”

Vivian made a fist as she asked, “What are we going to do with the cultists?”

“You’re not going to do anything to them, I am.” Mist created an avatar.

The avatar sat down and started working on creating a skill book with his Transmutation Proof ability.

Vivian scowled at the cultists that had chained her up. “Why?”

Mist sighed as he started looting the cultists’ belt pouches, pockets and bags. “Because they might have a stone in their gear that turns any pokegirl that touches it into a Sanctuary Goth and you’re currently a pokegirl. I have a flaw that makes Sanctuary Goths try to capture me so they can rule the world. I’d rather not have to lock you up because you went crazy.”

“Good point Boss.”

Selena frowned as she looked at the cultists. “What about the rest of us?”

Mist replied as he moved to the next cultist, “It should be fine considering you’re not a pokegirl and have magical defenses but you’re welcome to wait five minutes until my avatar finishes making a skill book that protects against being transfigured against your will.”

Abby glanced at the strange lizard like monster girls that didn’t look quite human then shrugged. “I think I’ll just wait.”

“Who else did you import…?” Selena trailed off as a portal opened and Hermione, Sin, Willow, Chris, Uber, Ranma, Leet and Xander tumbled out of it. “I guess that answers that.”

“Nice timing.” Mist wasn’t sure if Genie had been waiting for the perfect time to drop everyone in or if it was just coincidence but he’d take it.

Xander rolled to his feet as the portal closed behind him. He glanced around the clearing as all of the frozen cultists started moving again. “Shit.”

Mist sighed as he realized their portal through time had broken his watch’s time stop effect. “Crap.”

The cat girl shouted, “Break their legs Mist!”

Willow gestured and sent a ghostly wave of blue energy at the cultists.

Mist frowned slightly as Willow’s spell waved over him and the cultists. He glanced around at the unconscious cultists and support staff, a touch surprised that Willow’s spell had hit all of them. “Where did  find that?”

“The spellmaker altar, I pieced it together a few months ago, I needed something to drop groups of people without hurting them.”

“Any idea what year it is?” Leet asked as he helped Sin to her feet. 

Sin shook her head. “Nope, we could try calling someone and asking.”

The girl with rainbow colored hair spoke up, “It’s September 1st 1999. Can you get these cuffs off, please?”

Mist gestured and teleported the cuffs off the girls. “Right, sorry.”

“Since when could you use magic? For that matter, since when was magic real?” She asked nervously.

Sin smiled at the girls she was assuming were Mist’s sisters based on appearance and the bright hair and cat’s tail. “It’s a bit of a story, let’s deal with the crazy people first.”

The catgirl frowned as she glanced down at her tail. “Mom is going to freak.”

“Probably.” Mist reached out with telepathy and checked the catgirl’s mind. ‘Rose and your twin is Brook, same house, brother and parents, even the same school, a few different teachers but that makes sense. Genie obviously grabbed them from a world like mine or maybe she just created them out of whole cloth.’

Willow asked, “Do we have a plan?”

“Yeah, loot the cultists then hit them with copied pokeballs. After that we should probably sit down and compare notes and trade skill books.”

Brook ran her fingers through her rainbow colored hair. “This isn’t going to wash out is it?”

Willow shook her head. “We can probably fix it.”

“You sound familiar.”

“Like a certain television character?” Sin asked ‘innocently.’

“Yeah…” Rose bounced to her feet. “When did you meet Willow’s actor? That is so cool!”

Mist mock glared at Sin. “I haven’t, meet Willow Rosenberg.”

Brook snorted as she looked at her brother. “Bullshit.”

“Let’s wait for proof until we’re somewhere safer,” Mist replied as he went back to looting the cultists. He had a sinking feeling it was going to take a while to sort things out.