101 Chapter: 101
Chapter: 101
"I am so incredibly stupid…" I lamented as I smacked my head lightly against the concrete wall in front of me over and over. I could have gotten Sif and I out of there easily! I had the perfect skill to refill my MP easily and there were thousands of zombie mooks in Times Square too!
The skill I was talking about was [Mana Replenisher]. It restored 10x the mana for each level of enemy I defeated. There were thousands of level 1 or 2 zombies surrounding us in that last fight. Each of them would have given me 10 to 20 MP! I could have carpet bombed Times Square with exploding [Lightspears] and instantly refilled my MP. Then I could have grabbed Sif and warped us back to Earth DxD.
"Is the Angel girl alright over there?" I heard the new woman whisper to Sif.
"I think she is just upset that we didn't emerge victorious. As an Asgardian, I am ashamed we had to flee. Especially upon seeing what had become of Thor. I should have stayed and put him out of his misery…" Sif trailed off
"Oh, so you are an Asgardian. I wasn't quite sure. My name is Andrea Stark. People used to call me the Iron Woman. Nice to meet you. And you as well, Angel." Andrea called out to me.
I spun around and faced her. "Sorry about that display there. I just realized I fought that last battle stupidly."
Andrea nodded. "Hey you were up against the Hulk. Not many ever face him and walk away. Let alone walk away perfectly unscathed." Andrea said, looking me up and down. "Do you have a healing factor? I was watching the nearby camera feeds as I flew towards the fight and the Hulk hit you pretty hard a few times."
"Layla was blessed by her father with a powerful healing sacred gear! None of the other Angels got one from him." Sif bragged for me excitedly. Well, that was the story going around at least.
I suppose from an outsider's perspective I would look like I had a healing factor since I never take actual physical damage. Gamer's Body for the win!
Andrea coughed before looking at me in shock. "You're father? You're an actual Angel? God's real?" She asked with some sadness. "Then why would he allow all this to happen…" She trailed off. She was obviously talking about the zombie apocalypse.
I pat her on the shoulder. "I'm not sure if he's in this dimension, but we're not actually from your dimension, Andrea. We're from one that's sort of similar but…"
"Another dimension… That's a thing? And everybody is still alive?" Andrea asked hopefully.
"Yeah. There's a bunch of them. Some people think the number of them is infinite." I explained.
"That's crazy. Well, welcome to our shitty dimension then! Once again I'm Andrea Stark. I'd offer you some cookies, but unfortunately I ran out recently and all the factories are full of zombies."
I laughed. "Nice to meet you. I'm Layla of the Fallen and my friend is the Goddess Sif of Asgard. Also you're a dude in our dimension. Everybody knows Tony Stark aka Iron Man." I added with another laugh.
Andrea bit her lip before looking at me pleadingly. "Please take me with you when you leave! I can't take it here anymore! I lost the Avengers… I lost my best friend Pepper…I lost Bruce…" Andrea looked defeated as she listed everything off. I felt bad for her. She was basically Will Smith from 'I Am Legend' at this point. Except her zombies had super powers…
"I would like to leave as well if Miss Stark is leaving." A robotic voice echoed out inside the bunker we were in.
"Is that you Jarvis?" I asked.
"Indeed. I assume there's no gender bent AI version of myself in your home dimension."
"No. Just another Jarvis as far as I'm aware." I said. I don't think Tony even bothered making Friday until the original Jarvis became Vision.
"I've never met another AI, let alone another me. It will be interesting to meet him."
"Did you guys not have Ultron here?" I asked.
"You know about Ultron! I never got to finish him before the outbreak. I was so close too!" Andrea said.
"Probably for the best then. In most realities he turns evil and tries to destroy the world. In some he even succeeds." I said.
Andrea blanched. "Oh… Well that's unfortunate."
I was kind of glad I panicked when seeing the zombie Hulk and forgot that skill now. Otherwise, Andrea would have been left to die in this world. I looked around her bunker. She barely had any supplies left. Her Iron Woman armor was also very scuffed and banged up. I'm surprised it was even flying anymore as it looked like it'd gone through a bunch of patch jobs.
[Yeah, had you remembered the gender-bent Tony Stark of this world would have been left for dead. It was a good thing you forgot. Imagine Tony's reaction when he meets the girl version of himself.]
That will be absolutely priceless…
"So when are you two leaving this dimension?" Andrea asked.
That was a good question. I checked on my MP and found that I was at about 400 MP so far. That was only the second time my MP had ever completely dropped to zero. I didn't want to have to rely on HP to MP Conversion either because each of the Hulk hits hurt like hell. Towards the end of that fight I only had around 2000 HP left. A couple more hits and I would have been suffering another Game Over. I only had 3 revives left after saving Raynare and I wanted to save them for absolute emergencies.
[Name: Layla of the Fallen]
[Title: Angel of Hope]
[Level: 15]
[Sacred Gears: Purger of Darkness, Orb of Anywhere]
[HP: 8200]
[MP: 413/2100]
[Vigor: 220]
[Strength: 70]
[Intelligence: 210]
[Luck: 100]
[Skills: Observe 3, Angelic Mastery 4, Acting 3, Light Manipulation 5, HP to MP conversion]
[Perks: Never Tell Me the Odds, Mana Replenisher, Lucky Shot, Mana Burst]
[Drawbacks: Sin of Lust]
[Available Free Stat Points: 0]
[Skill Up Point: 0]
I'd figured out that my MP recharged the same amount as my [Intelligence] Stat per hour. That meant I'd gain back 210 MP every hour. Unless I took down a whole bunch of mooks and refilled it that way.
"We can go in about 8 hours, Andrea." I said to the woman.
"8 hours…" she said with a faraway look. "Then I can finally escape this hell." Andrea ran up to me and gave me a hug. "Thank you so much for coming here!" She cried out with tears in her eyes. I could hear her sniffling over my shoulder. I patted her back and reassured her that everything would be okay.
She released the hug after a minute and wiped away her tears. Her look of sadness turned to panic. "I only have 8 hours to completely pack up all my stuff and download all my data! I have multiple petabyte hard drives worth of designs here!"
"Ma'am, I've already started the process so we can leave." Jarvis said calmly. "Everything should be uploaded to your portable storage drives within a few hours."
"Whoo! You're the best, Jarvis." she said as she took a seat to calm down. I giggled at her antics. Looking around her bunker, she really didn't have that much stuff. It was mostly supplies we could leave behind and scrapped machine parts she could replace easily enough.
I noticed Sif was staring off into the corner with a frown on her face. "Are you alright over there, Sif? You look upset."
Sif turned to me with a determined look on her face. "I don't want to leave yet. Not when this dimension's Thor still walks the earth as a Draugr. As an Asgardian, it would be incredibly shameful to leave my crown prince in that state!" Sif declared.
"WHAT!?" Andrea shrieked. "You want to go fight him!? He's not going to be alone. You two could barely take on the Hulk, and you want to take on all the Avengers now!?" She exclaimed.
"Yes." Sif replied bluntly.
"I guess that's that then." I said.
If Sif is staying, then I wouldn't mind taking on the Hulk again. It should be a different fight when I come at him with full MP. I could actually try out Mana Burst and immediately refill my MP reserves from all the nearby zombies. I wonder if I could then stack another Mana Burst on top of that one? I could be like Goku using Kaioken!
[Mana Burst isn't Kaioken...it doesn't stack.]
'Lame!'
"Fine!" Andrea pouted reluctantly. "I'll go with you two and help fight them as best as I can. Just don't expect much though. My suit hasn't had any really proper repairs in months, and my arc reactor is also running low," she said, pointing to her chest. "I can't let this thing run out of juice or else I'll die."
She had a reactor in the same spot that Tony did before I healed him. That just wouldn't do! My [Purger of Darkness] appeared on my wrists…
A moment later, Andrea marveled at her exposed chest, the arc reactor now resting on the floor beside her. Healing even faster than Tony, thanks to my potent Sacred Gear, I struggled not to ogle as she examined herself, having completely removed her shirt.
"This is amazing! Layla, you're incredible! Thank you so much!" Andrea embraced me once again, giving a grateful, shirtless hug.
"Ufufu. No problem." I welcomed this kind of gratitude. Having a pair of naked breasts thrust up against me was some appreciation I could get behind!
"Get off, Layla, you harlot! What kind of woman undresses so readily among strangers?" Sif exclaimed in clear jealousy. She was glaring at Andrea.
Andrea blushed at me before breaking the hug. She turned towards Sif with a red face. "What are you even talking about!? I I don't even like girls like that!" She retorted, glaring right back at Sif.
"Then don't jump into the arms of the woman I love when you're half-naked!
"I couldn't help it! I was so happy to finally be healed!"
"Liar, I know your kind. You're just trying to seduce Layla!"
"No I'm not!"
The two of them continued to bicker as I walked toward a nearby monitor. "So, Jarvis, any entertainment in this bunker? We'll be stuck here for a while after all while my mana recharges."
"We have all of the entertainment, Miss Layla."
Jarvis explained that, to preserve culture, he had downloaded every movie and song ever created and uploaded to the internet.
I whistled. That was quite the collection. I wondered what Star Wars in another dimension looked like. Time for an interdimensional pirated movie marathon!
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