The group of 4 travel across the Whale'd-fied branch of the Imaginary Tree, Ai-chan has conquered almost all the worlds on this branch, they know that they have to stop her now, before she surpasses the limit, which is conquering a part of the Tree.

"Wait, don't count me in with these freaks, Author!" - Senti looks at the camera, said angrily.

"Where did she go?" - The Captain asked Y/n who is hanging onto his back.

"You're not going to like the answer..." - Y/n looked away.

"..." - The Captain knows that he means Ai-chan is returning to her base world, which is also his world.

"..."

"How'd you use that?" - The Captain changed topic.

"... You're just full of questions, aren't ya?" - Y/n asked.

"Hah, just in case Ai-chan removed you first, and then one of us will have to find a way to use it." - The Captain said.

"Don't worry, I won't die." - Y/n said with a confident smile. "But to answer your question... The only way to be worthy to use it, is you have to be a whale yourself." - Y/n said.

"... A whale, wait, what? But you..." - The Captain asked back with confusion.

"Yeah I know, I faked my identity in the Council, none of them knew about it, but yeah, to use it you have to be a whale like me." - Y/n said.

"..."

"She's here." - Y/n looked around, as he sensed Ai-chan's presence. The others looked around as well, looking for Ai-chan, she could attack them from any direction, while Senti is panicking because she sees a lot of salt being sprayed around by whales like they were nothing.

"Oh my god! I can literally jump start the salt economy with those salt! Stop wasting them!" - Senti yelled at the whales.

"Quiet!" - The Captain shouted as he took out the 3rd Divine Key, it is in its slingshot form now. "Shit. Why is it grumpy right now? Calm down! I need your help!"

"Ahahahaha!!! Captain! You really came after me? It seems you brought friends with you this time." - Ai-chan's voice echoed around them.

"Ai-chan! Leave our world alone! Or I will defeat you!"

"Defeat me? How are you going to do that? You can't even touch me, the only way for you and your friends is to become whales together!" - Ai-chan said with an evil laugh coming after.

"I will never whale! I will show you that F2P can beat you!" - The Captain shouted, then he turned to the 3rd Key on his hand now takes the form of a crossbow. "Come on!"

As he is convincing the 3rd Key, Ai-chan emerged from one of the worlds, and appeared using a cosmically giant form of cabbage, looking at them as her eyes start glowing, shooting lasers at them.

"AHHH!!!!!"

They got hit, but none was injured, to make it worse, all 4 of them fell off the sword and fell into different areas of this one Whale'd-fied world. And Ai-chan sinks into that world after them.

"The hunt begins."

"Ah where am I?" - The Captain stands up after the fall, it's a miracle that he is still alive, he takes out one Sword of Xuanyang and walks around with it, in search of others. "Anyone?"

"Young man, what are you here for?" - A lady's voice appeared next to him, the Captain swung his sword around, but found no one.

"What the..."

He got pinned down to the ground a second later. By the mysterious woman with a familiar voice.

"Wait... Himeko?"

"Wait, who are you?"

The Captain looked up to the woman, who was indeed Himeko in the Godslayer battlesuit.

"I was going to battle Herrscher of the Void but something happened before we fought." - Himeko said. "Can you tell me what is going on around? This place smells weird."

"Well... It's a long story."

Before the Captain gets the chance to explain anything to her, they sense someone is behind them, they both turn around at the same time, they see Thanos.

"What the fuck are you doing here?" - The Captain asked.

"Buying milk." - Thanos shows him the bag filled with some bottle of milk.

"The hell is going on?" - Himeko is confused.

"Don't worry it can't get any weirder." - The Captain said, he looked up to the skies as he saw some Pteranodon. "That's still normal."

He looks around and sees the fishes are advancing on the land, battling with an army of cabbages.

There's some Ottos flying up there in the skies with the dinosaurus.

"..." - He closed his eyes and chose an empty spot, he sat there and covered his ears, wishing this was a fever dream.

"Where is everyone?" - Sushang gets up, she sees Senti unconscious in the rubbles, she pulls Senti out. "Hey wake up, are you okay?"

While everyone is having fun... Well Y/n is battling the final boss at the moment.

"WHERE IS EVERYONE WE WERE SUPPOSED TO FIGHT TOGETHER-" - Y/n throwing out every shit he could to counter Ai-chan.

"Teammates be like." - Ai-chan said as she simply blocked these attacks. "Come on, use it."

"You asked for it." - The Captain deactivates all his Divine Keys, he takes the rainbow crystal out right after, then activates it.

As expected, Ai-chan's power got reduced a lot, but she isn't escaping from this field of energy like before. Instead, she is just standing there.

"I don't know what you're planning but you made this easier for me!" - Y/n equips the Grisp of Taixuan, rushed over to Ai-chan, then released a barrage of punches on her.

But Ai-chan doesn't seem to be affected by the punches, even though she's not guarding against it, he is confused, but Y/n decided to continue punching.

"Why won't you die?" - Y/n asked as he pushed Ai-chan back with a powerful punch.

"Crystallium, son! They made me high as fuck so I can't feel the pain." - Ai-chan takes out a bag of crystallium, then proceeds to sniff it. "You can't hurt me, Y/n!"

Y/n doesn't believe it, he ran over and landed another punch on her face. However, Ai-chan remained unflinched. "What did I just say?" - Ai-chan asked before she punched Y/n really hard, sending him away.

"This is impossible... Even though I have neutralized her powers... But crystallium... They can't be stopped..." - Y/n is trying to get up after getting that punch. "That hurts... I must inform the others about this..."

The Captain runs away from where he is, to find the others, on the way he meets Sushang and Senti who is still unconscious.

"Ah thank god you're here, where's Y/n?" - The Captain asked.

"I have no idea." - Sushang responded. "Let's go look for him."

They walked around, this world is kinda doomed as more and more portals are appearing around, releasing more strange people, creatures upon this world.

"I feel bad for whoever lives in this world." - The Captain said.

Will of Honkai : ....

Imaginary Tree : this is fine

Sea of Quanta : oh hey free salt falling from the tree

absorbing the salt intensified

After a little bit of walking, they have finally found y/n who is unconscious on the ground, Ai-chan is also there, whose hands are bloody, it seems that she just beat the hell outta Y/n.

"Y/n!" - The Captain takes the Oath of Judah out, then runs towards them.

Ai-chan vanishes as she releases some smoke.

"Sushang! Take him away from here! I will fight Ai-chan from now!" - The Captain shouted as he dragged Y/n back to Sushang.

"Understood!" - Sushang nodded, then proceeded to run away with Senti and Y/n.

The Captain goes into the mist, preparing to battle Ai-chan, all Keys are in his reach, but the biggest problem is Ai-chan being powerful as f.

"Come here!" - Ai-chan appears in front of him, summoning her cabbage servants.

The Captain fries all of the cabbage with the Judgment of Shamash. Mmm something's cooking. Ai-chan keeps throwing crystallium around to the newly summoned cabbage, to boost their stats.

"Oh hell no." - The Captain watches as the cabbages are as large as mountains. He activates the Cleaver of Shamash, but cannot release its full power.

"That's all you got? Captain?" - Ai-chan asked, with a sadistic laugh after. "You can't stop me! You can't change anything! I'm the one that will bring more profit for Hoyoverse so it will grow stronger!!"

One of the cabbages lands a punch on the Captain, the second later it is cut in half, its wound is burning, which fries him later.

"What?"

"Typical Ai-chan..." - The Captain said, as he grunted a bit after, Ai-chan noticed the flames from Shamash was on him, which was burning him, little by little.

"You..."

"Give every captain the chance...? Full of shit." - The Captain takes the Star of Eden out, and pressures the cabbages in place. "You're just like every other game developer I've seen before... Spend money and you'll get more contents... We will use the money to improve the game..."

He walks forward as he speaks, as well as cutting down the cabbages one by one.

"Big promises, but all talk." - He points the blade at Ai-chan. "All you care about is harvesting money from us!"

He cuts the cabbage which Ai-chan mounted on.

"That, and our crystals!" - The Captain attacks Ai-chan furiously, as if his powers could match Ai-chan now. "You've got no parents, just like all the dream stans!"

He releases a quarter of the Shamash's power, swings it forcefully, forcing Ai-chan to step back as her clothes got burnt by the flames.

"If the Multiverse gone to shit, you're just another cabbage sitting in the fire!" - The Captain said, as the fire is slowly taking over his arm.

Ai-chan heals the clothes' burnt spots, and then sniffs the crystallium.

"Alright, the truth then." - Ai-chan said as her smile disappeared from her face. "You're right about one thing... I do need money... And crystals..."

Ai-chan approaches him.

"Wanna know why?" - "I have a dream!" - Ai-chan said, as she smiled.

The Captain looks confused now.

"That one day... Every Captain playing this game will be able to pull for the girls they want without being limited in anything!"

Ai-chan then throws the crystals at the Captain in huge chunks, he blocks them with the blade but they knock him back a little.

"A game of WAIFU, not META. Ruled by SKILLS, not META!" - Ai-chan summons a big, buffed cabbage to fight the Captain. "Where the game mechanic changes to suit the characters, not the other way around."

The buff cabbage grabs his neck.

"Where battlesuits like White Comet, Chariot, Bladestrike,... will go back to where they belong, in the games!"

The Captain struggled and got out of the grip, but was pushed back by the cabbage.

"Where every Captain is free to whale, to pull for himself!"

He headbutts with the cabbage but the cabbage is stronger, so he got a bit dizzy.

"Fuck all these new challenges and META bullshit! Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and White Comet so useless bullshit!"

The cabbage punches the Captain straight down to the ground.

"Fuck the incomes, Fuck these unfunny memers!" - The Captain got punched by the cabbage in the face. "Who were the girls who stuck with you from the beginning of the game? So that you can put them in the corner and have a nice closet for top tier weapons and stigs that will be out of meta after a few months?"

The Captain got beaten while he's listening to Ai-chan. The cabbage put its foot on him lying on the ground, he can't get up now.

"This game is down because of the existence of META, we need to clean it from the core. PULL IT OUT!! BURN IT DOWN!!"

The cabbage stomps on the Captain.

"In my new Honkai Impact, people will play freely with their favorite girl in their favorite battlesuit!" - Ai-chan takes out more crystallium and sniffs it. "So... What do you think?"

"You're... Insane."

"Goodbye then." - The cabbage prepared to land another punch in his face.

"Stop!" - Y/n's voice came out from behind Ai-chan, he used the 3rd Key, destroying the bag of crystallium which Ai-chan was sniffing.

"NO!!"

The Captain uses the chance, cuts the cabbage in two with the cleaver of shamash, the fire is consuming him, he can't feel his right arm anymore.

"Y/n! I will do it for real now! Take care of everyone for me!" - The Captain shouted, as he looked up to his friend, only to see Ai-chan punched a hole through his body. "NOOOO!!!!"

"SHUT UP!!" - Ai-chan turned over as she launched some razor blades, the giant ones which cut the Captain's right arm along with the Shamash. "HOW DARE YOU..."

She is angry about the crystallium, but calms down a bit later. She searches for the Key that could suppress her power, but it isn't there, on his body.

"Where is it...?"

The Captain is still feeling the immeasurable pain coming from his wound. He is grunting on the ground.

"Nothing will hurt you anymore..."

The gentle voice shows up right behind the Captain, the pain suddenly disappears, although it's still bleeding. But the Captain can't really feel the pain anymore. He looks around, in the mist, the tall lady is standing there, as if she has a divine aura, the mist around them is disappearing.

"What the..."

The Captain looks at her closely, it's Aponia.

"Aponia?"

"I do not know what is happening... But I assume you're not the bad guy here." - Aponia said to the Captain on the ground, as she kneeled down, and gave out her hand. "Please come closer to me..."

"That's Aponia, what is she doing here?" - Ai-chan looked back to them, she saw Aponia and planned to attack again, but was stopped by Sushang, with the Water's Edge.

Then there's also Senti who joins the battle, teaming up with Sushang, they both can buy a few seconds.

"I... I..." - The Captain tried to say something, but Aponia stopped him.

"You don't have to tell me, I know, what you've been through, what you need to know that I am here, in front of you." - Aponia said as she was fixing the Captain's hair before putting the hat back on for him.

She noticed the happiness and the sadness, both mixed up with many other emotions at the same time in the Captain's eyes.

"Don't worry, after this... There's always the second chance for you, Captain. Take this..." - Aponia gives him a ring. "You can see this as a token of luck from me..."

"..." - The Captain takes the ring. "Thank you, Aponia."

He stands up once again, turning his back to Aponia.

"I will never repeat the same mistake again... I will try and get you next time, onto my ship, thicc nun." - The Captain pulled out the Void Archive before running into the mist again.

As he looks back, Aponia disappears as he's running deeper into the mist, but he can't turn back now, the fate of the multiverse is shared on his back.

When he finally sees Ai-chan, she has defeated both Sushang and Senti.

"AI-CHANNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!" - The Captain yelled as he ran towards her.

He uses the Void Archive, creating copies of the Divine Keys and managed to push Ai-chan away from the other injured two, but his attacks were stopped, all at the same time, in fact, Ai-chan didn't even get scratched.

"How many times do I have to tell you, Captain? You can't stop me! No one can!" - Ai-chan throws a giant cabbage at him, pushing him away. "Screaming like a shounen MC after getting a friendship boost, then runs at me won't do shit Captain!"

Ai-chan flexes her powers by creating an army of cabbages. This shows how strong she is at the current state, her powers are unmatchable, no Divine Keys can do shit.

The Captain realized that. The amount of blood lost, the wound's still bleeding, has worn him out.

He started to ask himself.

Where the fuck is the damn key.

As he is trying to stand up.

Ai-chan has already decided to Whale'd him right now.

But was stopped.

By Sushang's voice.

"Captain!"

End of Chapter 6

Final chapter coming up nexttt