Chapter 20: Warship of the Demon King
Y/N and Shiki were surprised by the fake Elsie's skull face.
Y/N: Elsie, was it? I don't want to be rude, but that's just creepy.
Shiki: Yeah! And where's Erza?!
Fake Elsie: Still on this ship, but not for long.
Shiki: You're not really a human, are you? More like a skull-human.
Y/N: Is that even a thing? Skull-human?
Fake Elsie: (looks at Y/N) I have to say you have quite an unique ability. (looks at Shiki) Shiki. Inheritor of the Demon King's Ether Gear: Satan Gravity.
Shiki: Wait a second, how do you know who I am?
Y/N: Maybe you two met before?
Fake Elsie: Show me your coveted power.
Y/N: What do you-
He was cut off when Elsie's arm turned into a purple tentacle and smacked Y/N, sending him flying into a wall.
Shiki: Y/N!
Shiki dodged an attack from Elsie as he went onto the ceiling downward, however Elsie wrapped her tentacle around his neck.
Y/N: Alright! If you want a fight, you got one!
Y/N managed to reach the Omnitrix and slammed down on it once he found the right alien with a green flash he turned into an alien that resembles a mix between a grasshopper and a praying mantis with significantly large three-jointed hind limbs. He had a green film connected to the tibia and tarsus of his legs. He has green skin, a large segmented horn on top of his head, and two smaller horns on the sides of his head where the eyes are placed. Each horn has three tiny spikes behind them. There were also three spikes on each forearm and the back of both tarsi on his legs. He had two sharp fingers, a thumb on each hand, and two light-colored claw-like toes on his feet along with one on the back. His chin was quite small with two lines, he also had gill-like structures under his armpits, and his segmented neck extends from a green collar that is fused with the torso. The suit he had on represents green overalls with three black stripes with a green tip. The green stripe on his stomach has a large green hexagonal patch where the Omnitrix symbol was nestled and a smaller white stripe.
Crashhopper: Crashhopper!
Shiki: (scared) B-b-b-b-b-b-b-BUG!!!!
Crashhopper: Don't worry, this bug alien is on your side. Plus, it's still me after all.
Shiki: (scared) I know, but it's still a bug!!!
Crashhopper: Less being scared, more fighting!
Using his powerful legs, Crashhopper managed to break out of the tentacles holding him and then used them to rocket off toward the fake copy of Elsie, with no time to react, it got hitted by a powerful punch, and then he putted his legs on it and jumped off with the fake getting send into the floor with a powerful strike.
Shiki: You're wide open!
Shiki runs on the window while avoiding the tentacles and jumped towards the fake Elsie.
Shiki: Magimech Attack! Gravity-
Shiki tries to land a gravity fist on it, but it blocks and counters at the last second.
Crashhopper: Are you alright?!
Shiki: Yeah! Damn it, she's so strong!
Crashhopper: Well she looks like Erza, why not be as strong as her too. But that doesn't mean we can't beat her.
The fake Elsie unleashes her tentacles at Crashhopper, but he jumps and bounces away from them. Shiki's fists were coated with green orbs as he jumped toward the fake Elsie and was able to land one hit on it.
However, it grabs his face before it slams him to the floor. It then started dragging around and then throws him over its shoulder across the room.
Crashhopper: Shiki!
Suddenly, Crashhopper got wrapped by the tentacles as he was being lifted in the air.
Fake Elsie: This shapeshifting power you hold is quite a treat. I wonder what would happen if I took that device of yours? Let's find out!
(with Erza and Elsie)
Both sisters were still locked in a hug, both enjoying holding one another after so long apart. Then, they heard the noises coming below them.
Erza: What was that?
Elsie: That would be something on board that has been here for a while.
Erza: Would be a part of those tentacles. Come on, we have to help them before something happens.
Erza was about to leave, but she was blocked by Elsie with a spear that consists of a dark-colored polearm, a cross-shaped spearhead with four diamonds adorning it, having three blades made from Ether jutting out. On the other end is a similar diamond with a jewel embedded in it.
Elsie: Sorry, Ezzie, but I can't let you interfor with my plan for Y/N and Shiki.
Erza: Y/N and Shiki? What do you want with them?
Elsie: With Shiki an old favor from someone I knew, but as for Y/N who's know? (smirk) Maybe I'll make him mine?
Erza: (glares at her) What did you say?
Elsie: (smirk) You heard me. I'll make him M-I-N-E! Mine!
Erza: I see...
Erza swings her sword at Elsie who blocks it with her spear, but gets pushed back.
Erza: Then it appears we're at odds then!
Elsie: You really want to settle this like that? Even after reunion?
Erza: Yes..... I know that, but....
Suddenly she glared at her.
Erza: (angry) I feel like you did things that I wouldn't like while you and I were apart!
Elsie: (smirk) Very well, I'm gonna enjoy this.
Erza: Oh really, last I recall you couldn't even tie your shoes without me to help you.
Elsie: (angry) For the record, I was 5 years old the last time you did that!
Erza: Oh really, the last time I recall that I helped you did that was the day before we were separated!
Elsie: (angry anime tick mark) Oh, now you've REALLY done it now! Meteor!
Suddenly, Elsie's body was cloaked in a red Ether aura as she dashed towards Erza at incredible speed. But Erza, in her Flight Armor, dodged it and tried to slash her, but Elsie dodged it.
Elsie: You're keeping up with my speed, impressive.
Erza: Of course, while you were a princess and a criminal, I was getting strong.
Elsie: (laughs) I told you I was never a princess, just a tool to used. The people who adopted me could have a real child, but that means giving up the child to strengthen themselves.
Elsie dashed behind Erza and struck her down with her spear. But Erza swapped out her current armor for a new one.
Erza: Requip!
She was now in armor that seemed to be made entirely out of silver metal. The upper portion of the armor consisted of a small breastplate that was composed of feather-shaped plates that pointed upwards with a large metal flower on the front. Her biceps were covered by metal straps and her very large plated gauntlets sported feather-shaped plates at the edges. Her waist was circled by large, decorated plates reminiscent of feathers that lay on a long skirt. She wore a pair of plated boots which were partially hidden under her skirt, each boot sported metal ornaments shaped like wings. Erza was also wearing a neck guard made of feather-like plates and a tiara with prominent metal wings. The armor also sported two pairs of large metal wings which adorned Erza's back, composed of metal feathers which got longer and larger at the edges. Lastly over a dozen swords appeared in a circle behind.
Erza: Heaven's Wheel Armor!
Elsie: Oh, so you can Requip more than one armor at a time.
Erza: Of course! I'm Fairy Tail's strongest woman! And this is Circle Sword!
Erza swords formed a large circle around her waist, then swords shot out toward Elsie who then used her spear to deflect them.
Elsie: (smirk) Impressive Ezzie! I have to say that armor is quite nice!
Erza: Of course, my Heaven's Wheel Armor is one of my strongest armor in my arsenal.
Elsie: I can see that... (gained a sly look) May I take it for a spin then?
Erza: What?
Then Elsie was covered in a bright light, and when it faded Erza saw something that shocked her bones. Standing in an exact copy, with the only differences being the eyepatch and the Ether Spear, was Elsie in the Heaven's Wheel Armor.
Elsie: Requip! Heaven's Wheel Armor!
Erza: She can Requip too?! But I'm still wearing Heaven's Wheel!
Elsie: I have to say, it fits like a glove. Of course, we're twins after all, so our sizes would be the same. (brought a hand to her chin) What was that name again?...... Oh right! Circle Sword!
Elsie then used the same attack on her at Erza, who in shock barely managed to block the attack.
Erza: She can even use my moves! What kind of power does she wield?!
Elsie: (smirk) Yours of course! You think that I don't have the same magic too? Really Ezzie?! Of course, I have something else too!
Erza: (confused) Something else? (her eyes widened at the answer) An Ether Gear? But how?
Elsie: To answer your Requip question, did you know that sometimes twins can have the same energy wave and if they use magic that has dimensional aspects the other can use it? For example, you and I!
Erza: (shocked) So you can access my Requip space?!
Elsie: (happy) Bingo! Whatever armor you have I can use and to sweet it, I can create an exact copy of armor if you are using at the same time! It's like we're kids again, remember? We had to share everything.
Erza: It appears I underestimate you. I can see why you've become a member of this so-called Oración Seis Galáctica.
Elsie: Of course! But... I have a proposal for you!
Erza: Proposal?
Elsie: Yes! We've been apart from each other for so long, I don't think we could leave with our respected groups if we could.
Erza: Your point?
Elsie: Join my crew! If you truly want to be sisters once again let's do it side by side!
Erza: What?
Elsie then gained a smile on her face at the idea.
Elsie: (happy) Yes! I missed you to hell and back, and I don't want to leave you behind, so join me!! I know it will be tricky at first, but I'll help you out and in no time-
Erza: Sorry, but I have to decline your offer.
Elsie: (shocked) W-w-w-w-w-w-what?
Erza: Don't get me wrong, I want for us to be together again. Really, I do, but I've made a family in Fairy Tail as well. I can't just abandon it for your sake even if I could.
Elsie: (sad) N-n-n-n-n-no! You were supposed to.....
Erza: (sad) I'm sorry, Lise. I wish I could've done more for you, but...
Then a sword shot and nicked her cheek, looking at Elsie's face, Erza saw she was crying.
Elsie: This family you made... (angry) IS IT MORE IMPORTANT TO YOU THAN REAL ONE?!?!?!
(with Y/N and Shiki)
Crashhopper: (struggles) You coward! Is that how you fight? I guess pirates don't the meaning of honor and-
Suddenly, the grip got tighter.
Fake Elsie: (angry) THAT BITCH!!!!
Crashhopper: Umm... did I miss something?
Fake Elsie: (angry) IF SHE WON'T SIDE WITH ME, MAYBE SEEING YOUR DEAD BODIES WILL CHANGE HER MIND!!!!!
Crashhopper: (confused) She? (eyes widened) You mean Erza?
Shiki: What did she do anyway?!
Just then, Shiki punches fake Elsie in the face, pushes her back and releases the hold grip on Crashhopper.
Shiki: Are you alright, Y/N?!
Crashhopper: Yeah! But I don't think Erza is!
Shiki: (looks at fake Elsie) Now answer me. What the hell are you?
Fake Elsie: I told you I am Elsie Crimson. The one who surpassed the Demon King!
Shiki: (shocked and confused) What?
Crashhopper: You surpassed Shiki's grandfather?
Fake Elsie: Tell me who you are, Y/N and Shiki. Are you people who STEAL SOMEONE YOU LOVE?!?!
Crashhopper: I don't steal like a villain, I'm a hero!
Shiki: (takes off his jacket) I am an Adventurer!
Fake Elsie: And what is your objective?
Shiki: We're gonna go see Mother! And I'm gonna be the first one to do it!
Crashhopper: And with her help, I'm gonna get home!!!
Fake Elsie: The universe beyond the Sakura Cosmos is a place beyond imagination. I know plenty of people who've tried finding Mother, never to return. But YOU WILL NEVER SEE HER!!!!
Fake Elsie then shoot tentacles at them, they managed to swiftly dodge them.
Fake Elsie: (angry) FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!! I WILL USE HER SKULL AS BOWLS!!!!!
Crashhopper: Umm... You can't use skulls as bowls.
That just made her madder.
(back to Erza and Elsie)
Both sisters were in a violent clash, both of them using the power of the same armor to one up each other.
Elsie: (angry) YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT SOME STUPID GUILD MORE THAN YOUR ACTUAL SISTER?!?!?!
Erza: They're the ones who helped me move on to a better place! If they can do for me, they can do the same for you!
Elsie: (angry) I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SAY!!! AFTER ALL THESE YEARS OF SEARCHING, YOU PICK SOMEONE ELSE?!?!?! SOMEONE ELSE!!!!!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I WAS UP EACH DAY SEARCHING FOR EARTHLAND?!?!?! TILL IT WAS DAWN!!! I DIDN'T SLEEP FOR DAYS ON DAYS JUST FOR YOU!!!
Erza: (sad) Lise...
Then with all her might, Erza breaks the clash and then....
Elsie: (angry) LET ME GO!!!
She hugged her.
Erza: (sad) I'm so sorry about what happened to you!
Elsie: (angry) I TOLD YOU I DON'T CARE ABOUT-
Erza: (sad) I NEARLY DIED LOOKING FOR YOU!!!
Elsie gasped in shock as she saw tears from her left eye
Erza: (sad).I did the same thing you did! I spent days without a wink, after looking for you for so long I thought you were dead! So I...
Elsie: Ezzie...
Erza: (sad) I... almost... if the master didn't stop me when he did I would have died from not eating or sleeping.
Elsie could feel tears pouring down from her remaining eye.
Erza: (sad) I know how hard it really is, but I love you more than life itself. So please...
Erza then grabbed Elsie's hands on her own.
Erza: (crying) Please come home with me!
Elsie: (crying) But... I'm a pirate now. Why would you need me when you have a guild as your family?
Erza: (crying) Because it's a real one for me, even if you're not there with me! But having you there would make me so happy, and for you as well!
Elsie couldn't help but hug Erza while crying.
Elsie: (crying) I'M SO SORRY ABOUT THIS!!! I TRULY AM!!!
Erza: (crying) I know...
Meanwhile, the interstellar union army has a fleet heading towards Elsie's ship.
Officer: This is the recon team. Elsie's ship is at point-five-two. No movement from CN9.
Leader: Roger that.
Inside the main ship is a tall, slim, able-bodied young man with light blue eyes and effeminate, bushy white hair. His only attire consists of a brown-and-white armored space suit that covers his entire body.
He was known as Justice, the commander of the Commando Carrier, leader of his own team of soldiers, and one of the Oracion Seis Interstellar.
Justice: Well, Elsie, we've finally got you back to the corner. Let it be known that I, Justice of the IUA, will be the one to capture you today.
Victory, a fellow officer walks right next to Justice. He is a burly man with medium brown hair, a square chin, perma-stubble, light brown skin, and brown eyes. He has a thin scar running up his right cheek to the top of his nose. His only attire consists of a black-and-gray armored space suit that covers his entire body.
Victory: (smile) You sound like you're in love.
Justice: If you consider my overwhelming desire to imprison her as love, you may be right.
Victory: (frowns) Are you even capable of taking a joke?
They then see their scanners are picking up an abnormal Ether reading.
Justice: What's this abnormal Ether reaction being picked up?
Another officer named Creed traced the abnormal ether to Elsie's ship. He is a bespectacled young man with a tuft of black hair resting atop slicked-back, brown hair. His uniform consists of the standard black and gray spacesuit of the Interstellar Union Army.
Creed: It's from Elsie's ship!
Justice: But it doesn't appear to be coming from Elsie.
Creed: Is that even possible? What are the chances of being two people with Ether Gear?
Victory: Are you trying to tell us we don't know how to do our jobs properly? Huh?
Justice: That's enough, Victory.
Just then the computer detected something else.
Creed: (shocked) What?!
Justice: What is it?
Creed: (shocked) No... This cannot be right there's no way someone....
Victory: Spit it out!
Creed: (shocked) There's someone or something with an extremely high energy level on that ship!
Victory: How high?
Creed: (shocked) It's not possible... But it's over 100?
Justice: (annoyed) 100? That's not high.
Victory: Idiot!
Creed: 100 Billion...
Justice: (shocked) W-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-what?!
Victory: (shocked) But that can't be!
Creed: (shocked) The computer is saying it's wrong! No... It's rising. It keeps going to another number, then rescanning the signal, then does it again!
Then very suddenly the computer began to short-circuit and then...
Justice: Hit the deck!
It exploded, destroying everything it was near.
Victory: What just happened?! Did it malfunction or something?!
Justice: No. Our computers were the newest model. Whatever it picked up on was too powerful for it to completely understand. Creed!
Creed: Yes sir?
Justice: What reading was it before it exploded?!
Creed: It stopped reading at around 999 trillion. But...
Justice: These readings here. They must be fighting. But who is it?
(back to Y/N and Shiki)
Crashhopper: Do you know what's going on here?
Shiki: Not a clue!
They were asking that because the Fake Elsie was on her knees crying.
Fake Elsie: (crying) Even the Demon King Ziggy, who used to be the ruler of the Sakura Cosmos, gave up on trying to locate Mother.
Shiki: (surprised) Grandpa tried to find Mother? (smiles)
Crashhopper: (smirks) Well I'll be damn... But seriously, why are you crying?!
Fake Elsie: (crying) She finally made amends to me... But it won't last long once I'm done with you!
Crashhopper: Okay?! But how about we change things up?
He reached for the Omnitrix and slapped it and turned into a humanoid alien with his entire upper-body covered with green eyes, around 20 of them each of them symmetrically; although he ironically has no eyes on his face, which consists of a mouth and a very large pair of elastic bat-like ears. He had a dark tan skin with a lighter tone of tan on his chest and the underside of his arms. His palm also had an eye on them as well. He wore a pair of black pants, green cuffs and a green belt with a white stripe and he additionally wears green cuffs on his hands. The Omnitrix symbol was located on the belt.
Eye Guy: Eye Guy!
Shiki: Wow, this alien has so many eyes!
Eye Guy: (laughs) It was an easy naming choice for this guy for me and Ben.
(Back to the main ship)
Creed: (surprised) Look here! Those readings for the high energy level are rising again along with the Ether source! The Ether Source is going to reach 100,000, but the high energy level has gone to 7 quadrillion!
Victory: That's impossible! Seriously?! What is energy anyway?!
Justice: Who is this?
(back to Y/N and Shiki)
Fake Elsie starts her attack while Eye Guy and Shiki were on the defense of blocking and dodging her attacks.
Fake Elsie: Everyone has delusional dreams of meeting that legendary goddess! No one has ever found her and no one ever will!
Shiki went on the ceiling before he started charging his Ether as his shirt and boots were ripped off.
Shiki: No one's found her 'cause we haven't tried!
Fake Elsie: (surprised) What?!
Shiki: Just know, we're gonna see Mother even if it costs our lives!
Shiki's hair and skin color changed to a lighter shade, light green Ether markings spread across his body, and a pair of energy horns on his head, identifying him as the new Demon King.
Eye Guy: I don't know what's going with Shiki! But I'm liking it!
(back to the main ship)
Victory: (confused) Hey, what's with this abnormal gravity field over here?
Creed: The ID code... (shocked and disbelief) No way!
Justice: Hmm...
Creed: The Demon King!
(back with Y/N and Shiki)
Fake Elsie tried to attack, but she got blasted by energy beam from the eye on Eye Guy palms, sending her flying.
Eye Guy: Now Shiki!
Shiki enhances his feet with gravity and jumps from above onto the fake Elsie before he strikes her.
Shiki: I'm gonna keep fighting for Grandpa's dream! And see it through to the end!
He then crashes her down through several floors and uses the one move he learned on his own and mastered without Ziggy.
Shiki: Magimech Attack! Gravity Comet!
Elsie, Erza, the Fairy Tail wizards, Braedey, Rebecca, Robo-Happy, Pino, and Weisz felt the ship shaking as the ship had a hole before it repaired itself. Shiki stands over the defeated fake Elsie.
Eye Guy: Nice one, Shiki!
Shiki: Thanks!
They heard the door open and saw the others (except for Erza).
Rebecca, Lucy, and Ur: Y/N!
Eye Guy: Hey, you missed the party.
Weisz: I should've known good ol' Gravity Boy was behind all that ruckus.
Rebecca: We got here the second you two fell. (notices Shiki is shirtless) Wait! Why the hell aren't you wearing a shirt?!
Shiki: Oh, some of my clothes tore off when I used my power.
Pino: The gravity must've destroyed the fibres in them.
Gray: And what's the walking eyeball museum form?
Eye Guy: Hey, watch it buddy!
Ur: Yeah! Though a quick question? (smirk) That form of yours got x-ray vision?
Eye Guy: Lady, you really think my eyes can see your naked bodies the way Weisz's goggles do?
The girls pick up on that small detail.
Lucy: I'm sorry did you say the way the goggles did what?
Eye Guy: (blush) D-Did I say that? Oh, I mean, how Weisz's eyes work. Not that he could do anyway.
Robo-Happy: (approaches the defeated Fake Elsie) Is that... Elsie?
Suddenly, the Fake Elsie's body starts melting, causing Robo-Happy to freak out. After Elsie supposedly melted, it is revealed to everyone that it wasn't Elsie, but a slimy pink one eye parasite.
Rebecca and Weisz freaked out so much that they turned white as the parasite runs away.
Gray: What was that thing?
Lucy: (scared) A walking slime ball!
Braedey: Must've been a shape shifting alien.
Eye Guy: Wait! Where's Erza?!
Rebecca: We thought you found her!
Eye Guy: No, we've find only that thing! (worried) ERZA!!!!
Erza: Relax! I'm here!
Erza, back in her regular armor, walked into the room. Everyone was relieved at the sight of her. Well, almost everyone.
Eye Guy: (happy) You're alright!
Erza: (smirk) Of course I'm alright.
Pino: Where were you?
Erza: Getting some answers, but before that. NATSU!!! GRAY!!! HERE NOW!!!
They immediately come to her and stood up straight.
Erza: Starting from now there's going to be some big changes! You understand?!
Natsu and Gray: YES MA'AM!!!
Erza: When I say something you do it without question! Got it?!
Natsu and Gray: AYE!!!
Erza: Now! Let's begin shall we!
Rebecca: What's up with Erza?
Lucy: She was strict before, but not like this.
Suddenly before anyone could question further, a blur appeared from the door and bonked Erza on her head.
???: I TOLD YOU NOT TO DO THAT!!!
Eye Guy: What the?
The blur in question was another Erza.
Erza #2: If you're going to join, you cannot boss people around. Do you understand!!!
Erza #1: Oh come on! If you ask people nicely, there is no way they will do it! You gotta use fear to do it!
Erza #2: Okay! When we get back I'm going to undo everything you learned!
Eye Guy: Okay, time out! Can someone explain to me why there's two Erzas?!
Erza #1: Oh boy look at their confused faces! It's laughable!
The second Erza bonked her again on the first one's head.
Erza #2: Another thing, we do not laugh at people who are confused.
Happy: (confused) Please can someone explain what's going on here?!
Erza #2: Lise, change back into your clothes please?!
Erza #1: (sighs) Fine, you're no fun.
The first Erza begins to glow before it fades, revealing it to be Elsie Crimson.
Shiki: Oh, I get it. She must be the real Elsie Crimson.
Elsie: That's Elsie Scarlet now. Can't have my last name be different from my twin sister, can we?
Everyone: TWIN SISTER?!?!?!?
Eye Guy slapped the Omnitrix symbol as he turned back into his human form.
Y/N: (looks at Erza) You didn't tell me you had a sister.
Erza: (sighs) It's a long story... But yes ,this is my twin sister: Elsie. Elsie, please say hello to everyone.
Elsie: Alright. (smirk) Hello! Please give me all your valuable stuff or else!
It was no surprise for them, when she got smacked for that remark.
Erza: (angry) I told you, no more being a pirate! You're Elsie Scarlet of Fairy Tail, and we at Fairy Tail don't steal anything!
Elsie: (laughs) You're too serious, Ezzie. Keep that up and you'll never get a boyfriend.
Erza: (angry) Excuse me?!
Braedey: But what about that shape-shifting alien who took your appearance?
Elsie: That was a parasite, capable of mimicking the human body. Kawpicatt S4. I've been using that you're aboard as a storage unit for a while. Looks like some bugs made themselves right at home there.
Shiki: (scared) A bug?!
Elsie: If I had to guess, those things alter their forms using the of the crewmen on board. Although I supposed they were too weak to make a good copy of me, huh?
Erza: (sighs) Still having trouble picking up after yourself don't you?
Elsie: You have my thanks for getting rid of those filthy things while I had a chat with my sister.
Shiki: So you tricked us! You were a stupid bug?!
Erza: She meant that thing took on her form and used a mental like to trick you.
Elsie: Save your anger for cleaning up the rest of that ship. It's all yours now.
Ur: (confused) What do you mean?
Elsie: (smiles) That ship is your own, I'm giving it to you.
Shiki: (shocked) Seriously?!
Rebecca: Huh?
Weisz: Giving it?
Happy: But why?
Pino: I fail to compute.
Braedey: Me too.
Elsie: Shiki and Y/N defeated the copy of me, so it's only fair. And well, to be honest, I was planning on giving you the ship eventually, Shiki.
Shiki: Huh?
Elsie: But it would have been boring to give it up too soon. And I wanted to see your power for myself.
Y/N: You were planning on giving the ship to Shiki? Why?
Elsie: That ship used to belong to Ziggy, the Demon King.
Shiki: (gasps in shock)
Elsie: Long ago, Ziggy left on a journey outside the Sakura Cosmos in that same ship, to find Mother. I first met Ziggy while he was on his way home. As you can guess, he never found Mother. But he did find you, Shiki.
Shiki: So then, I wasn't actually born on Granbell?
Robo-Happy: I had a feeling you weren't.
Rebecca: It did seem strange you were the only human there.
Elsie: Ziggy knew that the end of his life was near. So he returned to Granbell instead of finding Mother. And he did it happily, so that he could raise you.
Shiki: (gasps softly)
Pino: Do you mean... my master has already left us?
Shiki: (looks at Pino) He died back on Granbell when I was little.
Pino: (gasps)
Shiki: Sorry I hadn't told you that.
Pino: (sad) So then it is true. My master is gone.
Pino is then saddened, learning the master she wanted to return to is dead. Weisz, who was looking at her, felt bad because he knew how much she wanted to see her master again.
Y/N: Elsie, how is it you know much about Ziggy? I mean if your Erza's sister?
Elsie sat down on the floor crossing her legs.
Elsie: I owe a debt to the Demon King. Actually, it's more. Ziggy once saved my life. I'll never forget. It was actually Ziggy's personal request. He asked me to give Shiki this ship when he left on his own journey outside of the universe.
Shiki: This whole ship... is mine?
Weisz: (smiles) I can't believe it's ours now!
Robo-Happy: (deadpanned) I thought your ship was the small one you took from us.
Erza: I own a debt to Ziggy. One that I'll never get to repay.
Elsie: Oh come on! Ezzie I told you to lighten up! So it wasn't you who found me, I'm just glad we're back now.
Y/N: So then, you're not going to sell us to Guilst after all?
Elsie: (laughs) I promise. I was only half-joking. Come on, do I really look all that evil?
Rebecca: (sweat drop) Kinda...
Robo-Happy: What do you mean half?
Then Berhman appeared on a video screen.
Berhman: (shows the video) Heh, evil or not, that tentacle thing made for a gnarly video. Don't ya think?
Y/N: (blush) What the hell?!
Rebecca and Lucy became embarrassed that someone saw and took a video of them being bound by the parasites.
Elsie: (stern) You will delete that right now. Those are my sister's friends and I will not stand for that!
Shiki: Thanks a lot for the kind offer. But I'll have to pass.
Weisz: Are you kidding me?!
Shiki: Listen, I think she's actually a pretty nice person. I feel bad for taking her only ship.
Elsie: Trust me, I won't be needing a ship anymore. I'm coming back with you guys to Earthland.
Lucy: Really?!
Ur: But what about your crew?
Elsie: (shugs) They can handle things on their own.
Elsie then jumped up and hugged Erza on her side.
Elsie: (smirk) Unless my sister would want them to come along, of course.
Erza: (stern) NO! The deal was you and only you!
Jessie: So you're really quitting being a pirate?
Berhman: You really sure about this?
Elsie: Unfortunately, but I can always come back anytime you need me. Besides, the cops cannot lock me up! I'm Elsie Scarlet now! Not Elsie Crimson!
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know what that remark earned her.
Jessie: Ma'am, it seems they finally cornered us.
Elsie: (sarcasm) Oh dear. That can only mean... (looks at the window) it's the Interstellar Union Army.
The interstellar union army has finally caught up to them.
Elsie: Well! No better way to announce my retirement than to tell these guys!
Erza: You think they'll still try to capture you?
Elsie: Of course not! I read their rulebook from front to back! Legally, they cannot arrest me if someone can prove I'm Elsie Scarlet and not Elsie Crimson.
Erza: (deadpan) Let me guess I'm that someone!
Elsie: Yup!
Erza: Again not good at cleaning up by yourself.
Creed: We're almost in range.
Victory: (smirk) Still no idea what the Ether and that high energy reaction was earlier. But the good news is, we've located Elsie's whereabouts.
Justice: No one escapes the Hammer of Justice.
The Interstellar Union Army were about to fire. But before that, they got an incoming call.
Justice: Who could it be now of all times?
They answered and Elsie appeared on their screen.
Justice: Elsie Crimson.
Elsie: (smirk) Excuse me, but I have some very important news for all of you and make sure you tell everyone in your group about it!
Justice: Have you come here to surrender yourself?
Elsie: No silly! I'm retiring!
Justice: (surprised) What?
Elsie: (sad) I know right! Truthfully, my eye was opened and I've learned that by being a pirate that I was hurting someone I love! (happy) So I'm retiring to go live the rest of my time with them!
Justice: "Them"?
Elsie: Now I know it will saddened you to learn that I'm going away! But look back at all the lovely memories we had with one another! All the chasing, shooting, trying to kill me, capture me, all the explosion that happened...
???: You're getting off track, Lise.
Creed: Am I hearing it right? She's retiring?
Victory: That can't be, she's a member of the Oración Seis Galáctica.
Elsie: Oh I'm leaving that too. Tell you the truth, half of them were craaaaaaaaaaazy!!!
Justice: I don't like this.
Elsie: Again, look back at those fond memories! And remember one important thing... Legally, the next time we do meet, you cannot arrest me!
Justice: I see. You really think we can let you off the hook that easily?
Justice slowly activates his Ether Gear as his hair turns from white to blue, along with a distinct Ether marking formed around his right eye.
???: What the?! He looks like...
Elsie: Time to go! See you Justice, and remember I'm free as a bird next time.
With that the transmission cut off.
Justice: (angry) Damn coward.
(Back with the group)
Elsie: (smirk) Perhaps we can chat more next time, Justice. Sad to say farewell, but still, I'm glad I got it over with.
Shiki: (smiles) Thank you. For everything.
Elsie: I was merely repaying an old debt! Now... Let's go before they shoot us!
Y/N: Wait, you said something. Or well that fake you said something about Mother?
Elsie: Right. Listen Closely. Ziggy once told me something about that goddess.
Whoever is lucky enough to find Mother, will be reborn.
Y/N: (confused) Reborn?! What did he mean by that?
Rebecca: But is that even possible?
Happy: Uh, I don't get it.
Weisz seems more interested in finding her after hearing that.
Weisz: (thoughts) Mother, huh?
Y/N: Can she teleport someone to another universe?
Braedey: Can she?
Elsie: Yes. Ziggy found something from long ago, saying that Mother was once gifted with powers capable of doing anything you can name.
Weisz: I've heard enough. (grabs on a lever) Let's get out of here.
Rebecca: Weisz, don't!
Weisz: It's gotta be one of these levers.
Weisz pulls the lever down as the ship and Braedey's ship which was being towed speeds away in a flash.
Creed: Movement detected! We've lost track of that ship with the strange Ether reading and high energy signature!
Victory: Ugh, we're too late. She was on that damn ship that escaped as well.
Justice: She's not off the hook yet. She'll be considered a member of the Oracion Seis Galactica by the government. But most of all, she'll never run away from her sins. That I promise.
Chapter 20 ended.
Erichuber9: Well hello everyone I hoped you enjoyed my work on this story, especially the Scarlet sister loving moment in this chapter! I was tearing up as I wrote my part of it! I hope you continue to enjoy Sam's story and my work in it! See you next chapter!
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