Side Story 3 – The Misfits Make a Decision!

Side Story 3 – The Misfits Make a Decision!

The Misfits were relaxing in a small tavern in the nearby village of Elso after a hard day's work. They'd begun to steadily level up over the past year and were confident that they'd soon be able to handle the dungeon within their forest home.

"See, I told you that I could make C4!" Daikael said as she put a ball of putty onto the table.

"I didn't say that you couldn't. I said you shouldn't." Shiru sighed.

"Why are you putting that on the table?" Alveron scooched away from the explosives. "That's dangerous!"

"Nah, it's fine." Daikael began to smack the putty. "Without a blasting cap, it's harmless." She began to sculpt it into different forms.

"Danger putty meow~!" Ara hissed at the C4.

"How much damage can that stuff do?" Avahn looked closely at the small snowman Daikael had created. "Is it more powerful than your grenades?"

{I wonder how it would feel to get exploded by it?} (Avahn)

"I don't know!" Daikael said with a massive smile. "We need to test it!"

"Preferably not in my forest..." Shiru knew what happened last time Daikael did weapons testing on her trees.

"It will be perfectly fine!" Daikael smiled. "Remember, I've been in the military for a while, so I'm a trained professional."

{If you're a professional, then I'm worried about the American military's readiness level...} (Avahn)

"I thought you were in charge of landmine clearing? You know, like how they have animals walk into conflict zones where they couldn't remember exactly where they put them." Alveron laughed.

"For you're information, I only exploded three times." Daikael chuckled. "After that, they transferred me to Okinawa so I could teach others my ways!"

"Kaboom meow~!" Ara made an explosion noise.

"I wonder if this counts as AWOL?" Shiru asked. "You've been gone for nearly two years now."

"I have no idea, but seeing as my CO isn't breaking the laws of reality to come to drag my ass back to base, it's probably fine." Daikael didn't really like her commanding officer and thought he was a bit of a hardass.

{I wonder what would happen if he did that, though? It would be kinda nice to run around Earth as a fox girl.} (Daikael)

"Hey, guys?" Avahn interrupted their conversation. "Are you seeing this?" She was referring to the global chat.

"What's going on?" Alveron opened up an additional screen. "Silfana... attack.... Hassan?" He began reading a few chat messages aloud.

"Silfana is leading an army to attack Hassan?!?" Shiru's eyes went wide. "Is this real?" Even this far detached from the wider events of FWO, the Misfits generally knew what was going on and who the World Bosses were.

"I assume this isn't part of the plan." Avahn knew from talking to other players that Silfana was dangerous, so to hear that she was leading her army of monsters and Demons was both concerning and exciting.

"I didn't think Bosses could move from their locations?" Daikael mulled over this information. "There's something about Akagi in the flurry of messages."

"And I guess that means that I'll have to come with to make sure that you don't do anything stupid either." Shiru giggled. "The babysitter needs a babysitter of his own. Or should I say ratsitter."

"I AM NOT A-" Alveron stopped himself. The army of small rodents he'd been making via his taming magic had basically turned him into the Rat Lord, and that was actually one of the titles he'd gotten. "I hate you all..."

"We love you too." Shiru said while petting him on the head.

"Yeah, meowhat would we do without nyour resident seasoning nya~?"

[Yeah, what would we do without our resident seasoning?] Ara enjoyed making fun of Alveron for falling into the soup pot back home.

"That was only two times! One of which was your fault, cat!" Alveron growled. Ara had thrown a pan at him while he was floating next to Shiru in the kitchen and caused him to fall into that night's dinner.

"One of these days, Shiru's just gonna trap you in the stew and eat you up." Daikael laughed.

"I don't need him in the stew to do that." Shiru's comment caused everyone but her and Daikael to go red.

"Why did I fall in love with such a woman?" Alveron sighed. "There must be something wrong with me..."

"As if you aren't happy with things." Shiru rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, at least you've got a girlfriend." Daikael said. "The rest of this team is hopelessly single."

Ara and Avahn exchanged looks and sighed. "She really is stupid." Avahn said.

"Yeah..." Ara agreed. The two cats had already gotten together and so technically only Daikael was single, but it seemed she hadn't noticed this fact yet.

"Well then, let's get you a boyfriend." Shiru decided to mess with the fox.

"Hmmm." Daikael thought about it.

"Nah I've got a better idea." Alveron's lips curved into a nasty smile. "Let's find a way to clone Daikael, that way she can be her own waifu!" He laughed and got a bonk on the head from Shiru.

"That's just...." Shiru shook her head. "I don't even know what that is, but it seems bad."

"Hmmm." Daikael thought for a moment. "If I cannot find a waifu, then I can become my own waifu!" It seemed she took to this idea quite well.

"Oh no." Avahn had a bad feeling.

"Snyupid rat meow~! why would nyu put that nyidea nyin her head nya~?"

[Stupid Rat! Why would you put that idea in her head?] Ara figured the fox was crazy enough to try it.

"Hey, I kinda wanna see it for myself." Alveron said while rubbing his head.

{Not like she could actually do it anyway...} (Alveron)