Last chapter, an eight hour time skip occured from when the incident with Commander Aora happened, which an awake and self repairing King Metallica, as well as a sleeping Seric and Karia were resting inside of the same empty damaged house as before. Their old friends from Magthera and The Long Sleeved Pirates got wind of the news of Seric and Karia's crimes, and they all did not hesitate to despise the two for breaking their trust. And out of the blue, Popshot's biggest enemy, Fixed Reality Casino, was finally revealed!

Seric's P.O.V.

"P.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.A.L.S.!! It has been a millenia, wake up already!!" I suddenly hear King Metallica's voice blaring from right beside my head.

"What?!" I shout out on reflex as I see King Metallica standing on top of the bed I'm lying in and leaning down towards me.

"Fucking!-" I hear Karia's voice shout out from beside me, and looking to my left I can see her clumsily sliding out of the bed and onto the wooden floor as she stares right at me.

"Wait, why did you guys keep me here?! I'm a- a monster!!" I cry out in fear as I back up against the wooden headboard of the bed, meanwhile the fingertips of my one arm are starting to heat up again.

"Hey, hey, hey! I already told you, didn't I? You're not a monster! I don't give a flying C.R.A.P. about what you were in the past, as of now you're not even close to a beast!" King Metallica tries to say reassuringly as he hops off of the bed and onto the floor where Karia is.

"What kind of bullshit logic is that, would you just forgive someone like Virile if he suddenly became a fucking priest?! He still killed all of those innocent people and could so easily be lying about his memory loss, it makes no sense! And just look at him now damn it!!" Karia shouts with more anger than fear this time as she points to my crying self- who is currently dripping out blue liquid flame straight through the bed.

"G.I.R.L.! Have you no faith in your pal? If our great but cowardly pal WAS a mindless killing machine in a treacherous disguise, why would he have wasted so much time helping us out?! And why wouldn't he use his true power when he got tortured over and over if he had it, and why would he shed tears over what was happening to his beloved pals if he was heartless?!" King Metallica shouts at Karia, who stares up at the robot and grits her teeth.

  "...I suppose I'll have to teach you both a lesson in B.E.T.R.A.Y.A.L. and why it's so abominably hideous! With a story of course!" King Metallica states as he raises his steel finger into the air, which makes me smile a little, especially seeing that his chest has been fully repaired as well.

But I snap out of it of course, and am mad by his lack of empathy for us.

"You're both fucking lunatics!!" Karia shouts out as she stands back up right in front of a confused Metallica, opening and running out of the door to the bedroom that's beside her.

"Metallica! A story isn't what we need right now..." I say shakily as tears still trickle from my eyes that are now staring down at the bedsheets on top of me, with the images of the countless innocent people I slaughtered flashing through my mind.

"Hmmm... is that so? Thank YOU for the lesson this time pal, I'll keep it in mind! Oh wait, I don't have a brain! YASHASHASHA!" King Metallica laughs as he points to his head with his index fingers. Course I'm not laughing.

The flames that are secreting out of my fingers only start to increase as I think more, "...How am I supposed to live like this? Even brushing off the fact that we're wanted now, I still have this huge pile of guilt weighing down my shoulders.... how do I know that I won't just become the same monster I was before once I get my memories back?! What a joke, how am I supposed to even have a purpose in this world without Karia with us, there's no way she'll stay with us- or my specifically my horrible self anymore-"

"S.T.O.P.! Sure some things may change for us now with this admittedly scary but S.P.I.C.Y. info, but mark my words our bonds will not be broken, Karia'll be back in no time, she just needs to cool off! N.U.M.B.E.R. T.W.O.! Just because the news we got was from Dissident, the info that the Hopian Army themselves got from the scene could be wildly incorrect! Considering how mighty the Blessings that the Five Kings have blessed this world with can be, anything could have happened with you back then! For example, what if a somebody used a parasite to hijack that tinsy body of yours and went on the killing spree? Or perhaps if someone made an E.X.A.C.T. copy of your body to do the deed, and just left the real you in the middle of the crime scene in order to frame you? The possibilities for what truly occured are endless, it's far to early to assume what happened!" King Metallica explains to me as he holds out both of his open palms to me.

"W-what, no, you..." I'm about to respond to him as I continue to cry until I start to think a bit harder.

"...Wait, he's- he's right! I've already seen how crazy Blessings can be like with my boat, so anything could have happened! Plus, if I commited the crime back then without any interference why would I wipe my own damn memories?! Yeah! There's no way I would have done that!" I think to myself with a surprising amount of certainty, which instantly lifts a huge amount of weight off of my shoulders.

"Yeah, I-I guess you could be right... but still I..." I somehow start to calm down a little as I'm still shaking, with my tears slowing down and the blue flames just barely dripping out of my fingers now.

"G.R.E.A.T., so you do understand! Now with you having literally cooled down a tad, you wanna skedaddle from here and go find pal #2? She couldn't have gone too far at all!" King Metallica asks as he leans down towards me.

"What, already? Uh... well..." I respond uneasily, with me of course wanting to stay here as I'm still VERY shaken up and am scared to face Karia, but at the same time I want to repay King Metallica's blind kindness to me by going with him.

"Come on come on, indecisiveness is another one of your big F.A.T. flaws! What if the owners of this residence come back, would a wanted B.O.Y. like you want to be found here alone?" King Metallica asks me with enthusiasm as he looks upwards and rubs his chin with his metal fingers.

"What? Wait... yeah, I guess you have  point... ughhhhhh fine, fine I'll go with you. Happy now?" I groan as I slowly slide out of the (partially) roasted bed, not wanting to do jack shit with all of these thoughts crossing my mind.

"Ah, it seems like your mood is still quite sour! How about I, give you..." King Metallica starts to say as he bends down and picks something up from the floor.

He then jumps back up and is now holding a decapitated arm, "A HAND!! YAAAASHASHASHA!!" He says...

I smile and can't help but laugh a bit, "Pfft. I mean, whatever... wait, is that mine?!" I ask him with a curious face as I walk towards him and examine the small damaged white skinned limb... gross. "How AM I going to function without an arm too now... my life is gonna suck so-"

"Yep! Now then, I've seen plenty of doc's fixing up my pals in the past, so I know exactly how to get this good old thing back on ya!" King Metallica says to me as he bends down and picks yet another object up from the floor.

"Hm? How? My body's already healed up the skin where the arm got cut off, so... I..." I gulp as I continue to look at King Metallica to see that he's now holding a giant bone saw.

"N-no!! Stay the fuck away-"

"Sorry pal, but that arm knub of yours must be, O.B.L.I.T.E.R.A.T.E.D.!" King Metallica says in a fully robotic tone as he starts to stomp towards me like a lunatic with his armed arm stretched out towards me.

A while later...

"Hm... what..." I mumble to myself as I  start to slowly open my eyes, seeing that I'm once again lying under the sheets of a bed like before, but I'm now in almost complete darkness.

"Ah! You're up pal, took ya long enough!" I hear King Metallica's voice say cheerily, and after hearing a few of his loud footsteps he stops for a moment until the lights in the room switch on and force me to squint my eyes shut.

"Ah! Where are we..." I ask grumpily and nervously as I open my eyes once more, seeing that we're in the same room as before. But, goosebumps run down my entire body as I can see that the sheets of the bed and the floor have blood splattered all over them!

"OH GO- whoa!!" I'm about to scream in disgust as I push the nasty bloody sheets away from me, until I realize that I used both of my arms to do so!

"Impressive, isn't it?! That was my first time doing surgery too, I suppose I can add that to my ever expanding list of expertises. It's a shame that you passed out A.G.A.I.N. before I did the deed, I just stuck and held that thing on where I cut off the knub and B.A.M. just like that it reconnected!" King Metallica says with a proud look on his face and when I glance towards the replanted arm I can see that it looks as good as new, and works the same as well!

"But still... if anyone walks in here they're gonna think someone was goddamn murdered, I have a feeling that the operation wasn't the smoothest..." I think to myself with another thing to worry about.

But I of course still say, "Thanks a lot King Metallica. But still... I don't even know what I a-"

"No problem, that's just what pals do! Now then, I've waited long enough, so let's go find pal #2 already." King Metallica rudely interrupts me as he raises his metal finger, and looking up at his face I can see that he's finally fixed the hole in his cheek he got ages ago as well.

"Ah, right I promised you I would... fine I guess. But wait, isn't it night right now? Would Karia even be awake?" I ask, not wanting to confront her at all.

"That's the point pal, if it's night then no one will see us walking around town! And if she really is asleep at this un-ungodly hour I've got my good ol' 100T Airhorn to get her up and running now! I couldn't get that thing working for ages, that foolish oil licker ruined it before..." King Metallica explains with pride as he starts to walk towards the closed bedroom door.

"Huh? 100T Airhorn? What's that?" I ask with a furrowed brow.

"Why it's a airhorn you B.U.F.F.O.O.N.! But times 100. Now chop chop we've got places to be on this fateful night!" Metallica claps his hands as he opens the door and impatiently holds it open for me as I continue to lie on the unbloody part of my bed.

"Uh..." I say uneasily and with disgust as I look over the side of the bed to see that there's, of course, a massive puddle of my blood everywhere on the floor.

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"Just what the hell did I do back then...? That voice back at the second trial told me it knew about my past, so I guess I'll have to wait until I complete the trials... wait! Damn, so if Karia decides she never wants to travel with me again then I'll be screwed, we need her strength and knowledge of Hopian to travel around! Shit, that's great... anyways, those poor people... if that was me... no! I would never do something as horrible as that intentionally... would I?" I can't help but think to myself with there being nothing left to distract me now but my own head, letting out a shaky sigh as I stare up at the cloudy night sky above us with the moon being nowhere to be seen. I do so as me and Metallica continue to walk through the dimly lit empty paths of Birzion, with the lights of the solar powered buildings we're walking by all being shut off.

"Hm... if I was a prideful, arrogant- but admittedly strong and great purple haired female homosapien, where would I be on a cool night like this..." King Metallica says as he repeatedly snaps his metal fingers together with his right hand, making a high pitched clanging sound each time.

"Like I said before it is late, so maybe she's um, in a hotel or something? But Metallica, I'm just thinking man, what if I lost control back when I was at Aprase or something? I-I could easily do it again and-"

King Metallica then starts to shout, "Seems like you're not the brightest tool in the rundown, makeshift shed at the moment my pal! We're infamous now, no ones gonna let her within a 100 foot pole of their homes! I suppose you must train your I.Q. up to make you truly incredi-pal! YASHASHASH-"

"SHHH!! And like hell if I care right now, seems like you need to learn a lot more about respect as well... do you have ANY idea what me and Karia are going through? " I respond in a well deserved annoyed tone which makes me with my prior somewhat cheered up mood now being destroyed into fear and anger.

"...Of course I do, I wouldn't be your guys pal if I didn't. I've always chosen to bare the combined pain of all my countless pals, past and present, including my very own self, on my metallic shoulders and to smile away! In this world moods are transferred by what people see around them you know. If you constantly see angry people around ya, of course you won't be happy! So that's why in this unfortunate, but blessed territory, I always choose to act enthusiastically around my pals! My apologies if that came across incorrectly... I just don't want to worry you two!" King Metallica says in a calmer tone as he looks down at me.

"...Don't worry about it, I guess..." I think to myself, starting to a bit guilty now.

"...There you are." I hear a voice say from behind me which makes me jump, but turning around I can see that Karia's standing there!... Shit. But oddly enough, I can see that the upper portion of her shirt is drenched in what seems to be water... not surprised...

"Pal #2! We were looking for ya, shall we be off then? I'm sure Seric could whip out his ship again and we could high tail it out of here!" King Metallica asks with enthusiasm, as I awkwardly and sadly look down at the ground.

"Pal #2...?" King Metallica asks with uncertainty, I guess she really is pissed...

"Fuck my life. Whatever choice I make I'm fucked anyways, so I guess I'll go with you and that- that monster. It's the only way I can do what I need to. Let's get the hell out of here. But before that-" I hear Karia say until she interrupts herself and I now hear her stomps through the sand, though I'm still not looking at her of course.

"Spirit of Kodan: Compress!" Karia shockingly shouts which finally makes me look up at her- but I'm only fast enough to see her clap her hands together, and not enough to avoid the two giant red open palms that fly towards me and crush my sides.

"AH- KARIA ST-STOPPP!" I can't help but cry out in pain, but she only crushes me harder as she grits her teeth and squishes her palms together.

Finally, she let's go of me, and I start to fall to the ground.

"Spirit of Kodan: Strike!" Karia shouts once more, sending out a giant knuckled fist right at me, which slams into my entire upper body and launches me through the sand as blood pours from my nose.

"That's for Erucid, you sick fuck!" Karia shouts out in an angry and quivering tone, which makes me feel even worse mentally as I groan and lie on the rough sand due to my physical pain.

"Wait, wait, don't have a messy temper tantrum just yet pal #2! Considering the Blessings from our Lords that reside in this world, anything could have caused Seric to commit that crime, he could have  been framed!" King Metallica tries to defend me.

"Shut up! I... know that already...... Either way, he sure as hell deserved it, and what your saying is still just a chance. And by the way kid, don't expect to EVER have a damn sliver of my trust again." Karia says to me in a deadly tone, meanwhile I'm just trying to recover as I stare up at the cloudy night sky above us, with the full moon peaking out from one of the gray clouds.

"I guess she's kinda right but- shit this hurts! And damn it, Karia's gonna treat me even worse now... great, the only one I'll have to really talk with is Metallica. What if this is karma for what I did... " I think to myself as my body is almost healed up enough to walk now.

"Well, I'm certainly glad that you get it! So pals, where are we heading next?! I'm sure another blast of a journey will await us wherever we go- even if it may be difficult!" King Metallica says with enthusiasm, with me not even caring about them yelling anymore.

I finally look up to see King Metallica rubbing his hands like a madman and Karia standing still with her arms crossed until she says, "I've got some major business that I remembered I have to settle there, so were going to the shittiest place in the world. The Hopian Continent." Karia says unenthusiasticly- but my eyebrows furrow as I remember all the horrible things I've heard about that place.

A/N: With the trio finally being back together, though with some of their relationships on the line, their next target is already in sight! Just what does Karia need to do in the Hopian Continent?

I hope you guys consider voting or commenting if you enjoyed, and just giving you guys a heads up, there MIGHT not be a chapter next week. Main reason for that is cause it has a lot of content in it that I need to try to get right... so yeah, we'll see-