Pokemon Umbral Theatre 36: We're Alone, We're Very Alone

[Menarker]

Missions sounds pretty good. Still skeptical about the rewards, but hopefully we can discuss that in more depth and hopefully with more people around.

[Astral Harmony]

Bowls of Stupid Productions Presents...

An Armored Bishoujo Omake Series...

Armored Bishoujo: "I found a lotta The World Ends With You sprites online, so who knows? If this is good enough, I might find the motivation to do a comic, but, y'know, I'm a lazy bitch so for now you get a script."

The World Ends With An Impact: Day I, Omake 01

*Impact comes to in the dead center of the Scramble Crossing, and, disturbed that nobody regards him at all, comes to his feet.*
Impact: "What happened? What happened to my glorious victory? My legions of loyal soldiers and followers? My money? My harem? Is it all...really...gone?"
*Impact's Theme plays on his Inquiry Visor. Impact withdraws it from his pocket and finds an e-mail on the Visor.*
Impact: "Reach the 104 building. You have sixty minutes. Failures will be erased."
*Impact pauses for a moment and thinks about the heavy implications of the e-mail.*
Impact: "At least it's not more damn Cialis spam."
*Just then, Noise starts to appear all across the streets, rapidly erasing any Players who haven't made a pact.*
Impact: "What the hell are these things? They're not Pokemon, not Hallucinacrums, not Fiends or Knomere or anything! I hope my sword arm's up to par."
*Impact reaches for his Dragon Slave sword, only to find it missing.*
Impact: "My sword! It's gone!"
*High tension music begins to play.*
Impact: "Wait, how exactly does someone 'find something missing'? I mean, if I found it, then it isn't missing, is it? And if it's missing, how could I possibly find it?"
*Frogs with tattoos for legs begin to attack Impact.*
Impact: "Might be in a spot of trouble here. No sword. Too many to slay 'em all. This is not a very epic winning moment I'm having here!"
*Just then, Impact is surrounded in a beam of blue light as another Player forms a pact with him.*
Impact: "What the hell's going on?!"
????: "Now you can fight them. Try using the pins."
Impact: "Using the pins. Using what pins? Look, dying is bad enough without having to deal with a weirdo talking crazy shit."
????: "Look, are you going to try to not die or what? Because if not, I'll just go find someone else."
Impact: "Okay, okay! But how do I use these pins?"
????: "Well, for that pin, you need to tap the frog."
Impact: "What, you mean like tap his ass? I'm not tapping any frog ass."
????: "Ugh. Half my kingdom to exist in the same space as you during battle so I can reap you myself. Slash the frog to use that pin, tap any area to use that one, and tap the frog to use that one."
Impact: "Damn it...I guess I'll just have to take your word for it."

*A battle ensues. Impact and his mysterious partner manage to silence the noise pretty effectively.*
????: "Well, looks like you aren't a complete embarrassment in every possible way after all, Impact."
Impact: "Oh, it's you! To think we'd meet in such a way again!"
????: "..."
Impact: "..."
????: "You...actually have no idea who I am, do you?"
Impact: "Yep, I'm clueless."
????: "You don't recognize me at all? We fought together a lot, occasionally even on the same side."
Impact: "Ergh."
????: "Goddamn it. It's me, Impact!"
Impact: "But...but that's impossible!"
????: "I'm glad you finally recognize me."
Impact: "But I'm Impact!"
????: "What."
Impact: "I'm Impact, so of course you couldn't be Impact."
????: "Huh, how about that? Even an evil deity of darkness can have an aneurysm. No, Impact. I am Dark Charlotte."
Impact: "..."
Dark Charlotte: "..."
Impact: "..."
Dark Charlotte: "You know...Charlotte."
Impact: "..."
Dark Charlotte: "Charotte Beaufort?"
Impact: "..."
Dark Charlotte: "You know. The woman who tried to kill Shannon in the first mission? Moera and I were the best of enemies? I killed General Burkmont out of unquenchable malice?"
Impact: "..."

Dark Charlotte: *sigh* "I'm the other evil one."
Impact: "Oh, Charlotte! Hey, how y'doin'? My god, you look great! Evil certainly has a slimming effect on women, I'd say."
Dark Charlotte: "Were you always this retarded, or did you hit your head a lot when you died?"
Impact: "Shut up, I've had a lot on my mind. So I'm really dead, huh?"
Dark Charlotte: "Yep."
Impact: "And you're dead, too?"
Dark Charlotte: "Ha! No offense to you Impact, but I'm not about to let a ragtag group of imbeciles get the better of me. Evil will always triumph because good is dumb."
Impact: "But then why did I die?"
Dark Charlotte: "Sometimes evil can be dumber...-er."
Impact: "So, you just came down here to mock me for my failure?"
Dark Charlotte: "Well, that and something else. I guess even an evil deity can have a sense of mercy. I don't like how things ended, so I was thinking I'd come help you out of this little situation of yours. Then you can go sew chaos back into the world of the living again."
Impact: "So, you'll help me out here so I can cause trouble for you?"
Dark Charlotte: "Well...yeah."
Impact: "Damn it! Again!"
Dark Charlotte: "Again?"
Impact: "Yes, again! Once a-fucking-gain I'm being used like a goddamn tool!"
Dark Charlotte: "That should be pretty obvious, yes. Nearly everyone in the world is a mere chess piece. And despite the size of the board, there can only be so many chess masters. You were one, once, but not now. Maybe when you complete the Reaper's Game, you can pick up where you left off...or were thrown off, in this case."
Impact: "...I guess I'll just have to be satisfied with that, then. So what do I do?"

Dark Charlotte: "In the Reaper's Game, you have seven days, and during each day, you have a mission. See the timer in the palm of your hand? You have to complete the objective given by the Mission Mail before that timer reaches zero. When it does, you lose the game."
Impact: "Crap, I just lost the game."
Dark Charlotte: "What? No, you didn't. You still got forty-six minutes left."
Impact: "No, no, the other game. When you think about the game, you lose the game."
Dark Charlotte: "..."
Impact: "You just lost the game, too, right?"
Dark Charlotte: "...Well, I guess if the mission objective is to not be a dumbass, my partner would spontaneously deatomize. Now shut the hell up and let's go complete the objective."

To Be Continued...

Dark Charlotte: "Wait, you mean I have to put up with this some more?!"

[Dracorion]

So, Charlotte is Joshua?

I disagree. Dark Charlotte isn't fucking with Impact enough to be Joshua.

[Menarker]

Why do I get the feeling that Renny is going to end up as the Rhyme counterpart, and consequently be the first one to die or be erased? (Although come back as a powerful pin)

[Astral Harmony]

Bowls of Stupid Productions Presents

An Armored Bishoujo Omake Series...

Armored Bishoujo: "Changing Dark Charlotte's coloration since it was a li'l hard to read. By the way, I got an idea on how to use Enforcers. I'll tell y'all 'bout it tomorrow."

The World Ends With An Impact, Day I, Omake 2

*Impact and his partner, Dark Charlotte, approach the northern end of the Scramble Crossing that connects to 104, the destination in their mission. Dark Charlotte follows Impact at a distance close enough to join him in battle and yet far enough to not make people believe they were...y'know...together.*
Impact: "Ow!"
Dark Charlotte: "Fuck's wrong with you?"
Impact: "There's...like, some kind of invisible barrier or something."
Dark Charlotte: "And it hurts to touch it?"
Impact: "It did sting a bit, yes."
Dark Charlotte: "...Could you try it again?"
Impact: "Huh? Why?"
Dark Charlotte: "I...uhh...I think I heard a sound...like the barrier powering down."
Impact: "Oh, okay."
*Impact tries to access 104 once again and gets hurt by the barrier again.*
Impact: "Sonuvabitch, that stings! I thought you said you heard a fucking noise?"
Dark Charlotte: "Huh? Oh, yeah, uhh...wait, there it is."
Impact: "What, the noise? I didn't hear anything."
Dark Charlotte: "Well, maybe if you would stop flapping your cockholster, you'd've heard it. But I'm sure the barrier is down this time."
Impact: "I sure hope so."
*Impact tries to access 104 yet once more and gets hurt by the barrier.*
Impact: "Oh goddamn it, that hurts like hell!"
Dark Charlotte: *laughing* "Oh god, this is funny all day."

Impact: "Look, Charlotte-"
Dark Charlotte: "Dark Charlotte."
Impact: "Okay. Look, Dark Charlotte-"
Dark Charlotte: "Look, before you say anything that makes me wonder why Irene ever entrusted you with Honmyr that one time, I'm going to begin shutting you up for the rest of today. Check out that asshole."
Impact: *looking around* "Which asshole? They're everywhere. We're surrounded by assholes."
Dark Charlotte: *murmuring* "You can start with the asshole in the mirror."
Impact: "Huh?"
Dark Charlotte: *pointing* "I'm talking about the douchebag in the red hoodie. See 'im?"
Impact: "Douchebag in a red hoodie. Got it. What's so special about him?"

Dark Charlotte: "He's the one who put up the barrier. He's a Support Reaper. He puts up barriers and he administers rules for passing the barrier."
Impact: "So, I should just go talk to him?"
Dark Charlotte: "If I relied on you to talk to him, we'd run outta time. Not that I mind you failing, but I have a reputation of succeeding at everything."
Impact: "Even failing?"
Dark Charlotte: "Ugh, go...learn how to properly use toilet paper or something. I'm tryin' to work here."
*Dark Charlotte puts on her Inquiry Visor and stares at the Reaper. Impact tries fiddling with something.*
Support Reaper: "Peelz here? How the hell did that get in my mind?"
*A bus with a hot Dragonite Pokebrid decal in an enticing pose and equipped with a comical amount of high-powered guns runs over the Reaper, killing him and disabling his barrier.*
Dark Charlotte: "I sell awesome and bowls to put it in."
Impact: "What in the hell did you do?"
Dark Charlotte: "I used the Inquiry Visor to imprint a meme into his mind. Specifically an internet meme."
Impact: "Ah. Hyacinth's Memebusters. I didn't know they could also bussassinate internet memes in the world of the dead. I gotta try that once."
Dark Charlotte: "You can't do it."
Impact: "What, I can't imprint memes into people's heads?"
Dark Charlotte: "No, you can. You just can't do it to Reapers like I can. It's against the rules in this game."
Impact: "But how can you do it, then?"
Dark Charlotte: "Because I'm a goddamn fifty-five gallon drum of awesome."
Impact: "Wait, but I'm-"
Dark Charlotte: "Ha ha ha ha ha, no. Anyways, what're you messing with there?"
Impact: "This? It's a Toilet Paper Pin."
Dark Charlotte: "You...have a pin that possesses a psyche that does something involving toilet paper."
Impact: "Yeah. You told me to learn how to use it properly, and honestly, I've been having problems with it."
Dark Charlotte: "How so?"
Impact: "Well, I can use it in battle and everything, but it doesn't work when I'm actually in the shitter."
Dark Charlotte: "..."
Impact: "..."
Dark Charlotte: "Best. Reaper's Game. Ever."
*Dark Charlotte then abandons Impact in the Scramble Crossing.*
Impact: "Hey, wait up! Don't leave me to go tap more frog ass!"

*Scene transitions to 104.*
Impact: "I said wait, goddamn it! ...Huh?"
*Impact finds that the numbers in his palm have vanished.*
Impact: "So...mission accomplished?"
Dark Charlotte: "And you've merely been an atrocious embarrassment four or seventeen times today. A new record! Mommy's so proud of her little Impy!"
Impact: "You kind of became a total bitch since you turned all dark on us, Charlotte."
Dark Charlotte: "I got a reputation to unhold."

Young Man's Voice: "Aw, crapdoodles! I guess it was too much to hope that they would be erased on the first day."
Young Woman's Voice: "Let's try to erase them with one last Noise!"
Impact: "...I remember those obnoxious voices."
Dark Charlotte: "Hey, check out the Noise they created."
Impact: "Oh, god, it's so...so...cute!"
Dark Charlotte: "Kill it with darkness! And fire! And fiery darkness!"
*Impact & Dark Charlotte are attacked by a sickeningly adorable Noise with really cute background music. They win easily but-*
Dark Charlotte: "That...may have been the most dangerous Noise I've ever faced. And I've faced like...well, only a couple, actually, which isn't a good sign."
Impact: "Heads will roll for what I had to endure during this battle."
Young Man's Voice: "Drat! They defeated our special Noise! We spent a night together cozy near the fireplace and sipping hot cocoa with rich vanilla and cinnamon while watching Titanic coming up with that one! I'm so angry I can't even make a kawaii desu kitty face."
Young Woman's Voice: "You may have won this day, but we shall return again tomorrow. You won't escape, even if it costs us a mild inconvenience!"
*The two presenses vanish, leaving Impact and Dark Charlotte completely in the dark about who the two mysterious troublemakers could have possibly been. They might never figure it out.*
Impact: "..."
Dark Charlotte: "..."
Impact: "They were Renny Tresserhorn and Lola Phelps, weren't they?"
Dark Charlotte: "I'd say so, yes."

[Menarker]

Hehe, Renny and Lola as Reapers strike me as hilarious. :3

Anyhow, looking forward to the specifics of your enforcer idea.

And a happy birthday to Dantefalcon. ^^

[Astral Harmony]

Bowls of Stupid Productions Presents...

...An Armored Bishoujo original omake series...

The World Ends With An Impact, Day II, Interval I

Armored Bishoujo: "I'd just like to say that you won't find many laughs this time. It actually turned out quite a bit more serious than the last two."

*Impact awakens on the second day. Charlotte is several yards away, apparently singing her own version of Sexy Back.*
Charlotte: "I'm bringin' evil back,
Those fuckin' heroes cannot attack,
I have everything that they all lack,
And when I'm done, they will all see black. (Take 'em to the grave!)"
Impact: "Charlotte, what the hell happened?"
Charlotte: "Oh. Mornin', numbnuts. Have a good nap on all that sharp gravel?"
Impact: "Slept like Irene after a karaoke binge drinking party. So why did I go to sleep?"
Charlotte: "It happens. Mission's done, you go beddy-bye and awaken before the next one. Otherwise, you'd roam around and probably cause trouble or get your penis stuck in a window or something."
Impact: "Right. So, uhhh, about Renny and Lola..."
Charlotte: "My guess is that they figured out that you could come back to life due to the Magatama's powers, and are here in person to see that you don't actually start shit up again in Honmyr."
Impact: "Haven't they ever heard of a second chance?"
Charlotte: "Yes. Apparently, they've never heard of a forty-second chance."
Impact: "Aw c'mon! I haven't had that many chances."
Charlotte: "Actually, you did. With the Impact's Chance Counter app for my Inquiry Visor, I know exactly how many times you've had a chance to stop being an evil douche. You've blown it forty-one times so far."
Impact: "Well, guess I can't say much to my defense. I mean, evil is just so hard to give up."
Charlotte: "Preachin' to the choir there, bucko."

*Impact's Theme plays on his Inquiry Visor.*
Charlotte: "Yar, thar be the mission, matey."
Impact: "Don't talk like that. Let's see...'buy season 2 of K-On! on bluray and-'"
Charlotte: "That's an anime advertisement, dipshit."
Impact: "I'm not finished, Charlotte. '-and deposit it at the statue of Hachiko. You have 180 minutes. Failures will not be epic winning."
Charlotte: "..."
Impact: "..."
Charlotte: "Lemme see that damn visor."
Impact: "Just read your own."
Charlotte: "My 'situation' doesn't allow me to get the mission mails, Epic Failing. Now lemme see the fuckin' visor."
*...and several minutes later...*
Charlotte: "...I still can't believe that the mission is to buy some damn blurays and put 'em at the statue of Hachiko."
Impact: "Do you know where the statue is?"
Charlotte: "No clue, but it sounds stupid enough to probably be an unusual statue. We'll just have to dick around until we find it. Try using your Player Pin to dip into some minds around here. I don't have a pin so I can't do that, either."
Impact: "Well, first we should find an anime store or something. The statue does us no good if we don't have the blurays to put there."
????: "There is no anime store."
Impact: "It's you, Shannon."
Charlotte: "Took you fuckin' forever to recognize me but you know her immediately? It's because of her larger breasts, isn't it?"
Impact: "Nope. More like a deep personal grudge. You died before I got to exact my personal revenge for what you did, Shannon. Now is the winter of your discontent."
????: "Would you mind sort of not doing that? I kind of need her since she's my partner."
Impact: "Discord?"
Charlotte: "Didn't she join you willingly? What's your grudge with her?"
Impact: "This time, I actually did recognize her because of her breasts."
Discord: "Huh? But mine aren't as big as Shannon's. Anyways, I see you wound up here as well, Impact. And is that Charlotte behind you? Can't imagine how you died."
Charlotte: "I didn't. I'm manipulating Impact into surviving the Reaper's Game so I can do some shit I've always wanted to do while he takes the fall for it."
Discord: "That's our Charlotte!"
Shannon: "Totally called it."
Impact: "This doesn't make any sense. I know I wound up here because of my Magatama, but neither you nor Shannon had implants."
Shannon: "I don't need breast implants...do I?"

Discord: "Get your mind off your breasts, Shannon."
Impact: "Yeah, still talking about Magatama here. Magatama implantation binds the soul to the Hungry World when the body expires. I got the implant. I died. I go to the Hungry World. How'd you two wind up here when you don't have them?"
Discord: "Does it really matter?"
Impact: "Well, I guess not. It bothers me, though. So, the two of you became players and partners, huh? How did that happen?"
Shannon: "Desperate times, I guess. I was hoping to pair up with Moon or someone I recognized as a friend, but I guess only I died. Anyways, not to get back on topic here but can we get back on topic? ...Here?"
Charlotte: "Right. You said there were no anime stores."
Discord: "She's unhelpfully shortening her story. Okay, normally we're invisible to people. They don't see us, they can't hear us, they can't touch us, and they definitely can't help us. But when the store has a badass placard on it like that store over there, we can become visible and shop. But none of the anime stores around here have them."
Charlotte: "So steal it."
Shannon: "I can't do that! It's wrong"
Discord: "I can because I like doing wrong things, but couldn't. Can't move shit around here unless it helps us in battle, like using telekinesis pins to hurl shit into those weird tattoo monsters."
Impact: "That doesn't exactly help us, then."

Shannon: "Well, actually, we ran into this one reaper. He has the blurays we need, but he wants a Definitivo Chili Dog. We earned a buncha pins that gave us money when we sold them, but you can't buy the hotdog with money."
Discord: "I suggested a blow job, but Shannon didn't wanna do it."
Shannon: "So we found an old guy in another store who sells the ingredients that we need to make the hotdog, but they were really expensive."
Discord: "I suggested a blow job, but Shannon didn't wanna do it."
Shannon: "So we hit the mean streets of Shibuya and got in a lot of fights with some of those wolves that have tattoos for front legs. They're very difficult to defeat."
Discord: "I suggested a blow job, but Shannon didn't wanna do it."
Shannon: "Why is the answer always blow jobs?!"
Charlotte: "Enough with the retarded progressive dialogue! How many more pins do you need?"
Discord: "Can you get us about twenty-five more of them? We've been fighting wolves since we learned about the ingredients."
Charlotte: "Well, Impact, let's go-"
*Charlotte puts on sunglasses*
Charlotte: "Kick The Dog."

[Aldurin]

Gave the Sidequest a little kick to remind the others that it still exists. My guess as to why there's no posting on it is because there's next to nothing to ask about the mission, as the OP already covered most of it.

[Menarker]

I totally call Renny and Catherine getting in a tag-team prize match in the underground arena, possibly fighting a Luchador!

EDIT: Uh, I thought Sakuya already knew of the black market, due to selling some of the weapons herself...

"Care to explain that, Styx?" Irene asked as a very large railgun extended out of the top of Millenium House.
"I don't quite follow," Sakuya said, deploying her Hiroshiho Rei powered armor and climbing inside.
Irene deployed Balor and Unownaut, then drew her swords. "I remember that cannon from five years ago. It mounted your Supreme Fragtank as its primary weapon."
"That last civil war cost me big time, more than you'd ever know. I ended up selling a lot of my weapons on the black market just to feed my people the following winter."

[Astral Harmony]

Same black market, two different time periods.

Well, since the edupads won't load up, I'll take the time to elaborate.

Before the First Successionary War, the Hiroshiho Empire was a proud and self-sufficient nation full of proud, self-sufficient people. They didn't sell to non-imperials. They didn't export to other nations. They didn't even take kindly to foreign assholes in their nation, which until it became a republic was the entire Honmyr landmass. All that jazz.

Post First Successionary War saw imperials first embrace the rewards of lovely, lovely capitalism, and while the empire did sell some of its goods to the republic, they kept what they are best known for, like their katanas and traditional armor and other crap. But that didn't stop some people from acquiring said riches from not-quite-so proud and self-sufficient imperials through the black market.

After suffering the epic ass-whupping in the Second Successionary War, a wartorn empire and a desperate Sakuya did all she could to save her people, and sold much of the empire's artifacts and military grade technology and weapons to accomplish this.

Six years later since the start of our adventures, Sakuya is reaping the benefits of this tradeoff, and by finally taking advantage of the technology the republic had to offer in return, is rapidly rebuilding her empire and her armies. A Third Successionary War is possible, but nobody expects Sakuya to pull something so stupid until she's certain she can wipe out all possible barriers to her conquest (The Prideguard, the Republican Guard, PATCA, etc.)