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Theodore Roosevelt was in his office looking over the reports on his desk, and he's enjoying a bowl of ancient fruits that came from a displaced town called Pelican Town. The town is a small town that rested in a valley that suddenly appeared about a several months ago, and small it is as there was only 38 people living there when it appeared. With one of them being a traveling merchant who travels by a wagon pulled by a pig. The town was connected to the new power grid and water main of the state of Washington after the local bus driver Pam drove to the nearest coast city of Bargo, trying to find help. When the town appeared the water and power was cut off as the town depended on power and water from a nearby larger city. The only place that still had power was the Jojamart thanks to the solar panels on the roof of the store, run by a man name Morris who also lives in the store. The other town's people were using battery packs to provide their homes with power. 

The valley is surprisingly rich in resources, from having a quarry and a mine that's rich in minerals some of which are only found in the valley. Then there are the crops which are largely better then the ones being used, which is one of the rare times farming seed came from a future world which will help prevent the great dust bowl that would happen in the mid-west if something isn't done. Crops that are tougher to what kills other crops and need less water. Then there are the ancient fruits and star fruits that the lone farmer grows on her farm, which makes great wine and jams. Then there are the monsters as the locals call them, with little blobs of slime being the largest in numbers. Which turns out the slime monsters slime is very useful as a stand in making things instead of using oil, mainly in making a stand in for oil base fertilizer and making plastics. 

Then there are the two new farm animals the void chickens and turkey size like stegosaurus dinosaurs. The dinosaurs were hatched from 2 eggs that the farmer found while fishing, inside of a chest, and from those two eggs a male and a female hatch allowing more to be born from the breeding pair. The dinosaurs are being ship around the world to zoos and farms, as it turns out that the dinosaurs could be raised like other farm animals for food both for their meat and for their eggs. And some of the dinosaurs are being bred to be pets. 

As for the void chickens while the chickens are strange black feathered and red eyed birds they're still chickens, it's their eggs that are the strange thing about them. The eggs  are jet-black with red flecks and warm to the touch. They can be eaten like normal chicken eggs but it's still strange. Then there's the void mayonnaise that the farmer had been making with a mayonnaise machine, that is a thick black paste that smells like burnt hair. It can't be eaten as it makes anyone who eats it raw sick but it can be used to cook with, as cooking it with something makes it safe to eat. (1)

There are also a old man who is a wizard who like other magic users found they no longer have magic, which many magical items in the valley no longer work. Like the rings that act like flashlights that no longer work. There are also two none humans, a dwarf who only goes by the name of Dwarf. And a monster that looks like a shadow with white eyes and mouth, name Krobus. Then there are the small little creatures called Junimos that run around the valley. 

The only people of real note in the valley is a man name Demetrius who is a scientist who studies the valley's local wildlife and his daughter, Maru who has a passion for creating gadgets. Both of them have been employed in Spookhouse with Demetrius doing research in the animals and Maru working in reverse engineering any machine. There is the local doctor who is now teaching at a medical school. In all it's a nice change of pace from some of the more headache causing events that show up. 

Roosevelt put down the paper and picks up another paper with a report on the new water pump filter machines. In Maine some people found a machine in a pond that turned out to a water purifier that turns heavily polluted water or seawater into drinkable water. The machine has 3 large containers, two of which are filters which is called reverse osmosis, there's even a cloth on top of the machine that collects dew and rain water that dips into a funnel pipe. The lab coats and engineers have gone over it and while it was built from scrap metal it still worked. After reverse engineering the water pump, blueprints and working models are being sold around America, with larger scale ones being built in water treatment plants to provide clean drinking water. 

Picking up another paper he saw the project in Hawaii is going well. Hawaii is something that he's quite proud of as he restored the sovereignty of Hawaii back to Queen Liliuokalani and disbanded the Committee of Safety by deporting the American ones back to American and giving all the land they own to the queen. He did stamp out a deal for a navy base to be built, which would provide defense for the island nation. As the whole thing is against the law that America made themselves. To help repair relations he's having a power plant and a water treatment plant being built, both would provide power and water to the navy base being built and the island they're built on. 

Picking up another report he's please to see that that Bolder Dam project is going well. It's a joint effort with the help of a Robert House who suddenly found himself and the people within the Lucky 38 a hotel and casino in this world after an event a few months ago. He seems to have come from the same world as Captain Ironside but before the war. Which Mr. House was preparing for as he rebuilt his hotel into a fortress with a laser defense grid to destroy any incoming missiles. Now in this world Mr. House has turn his efforts in building the infrastructure needed to fulfill his plan for the aftermath of the war, which is to turn to flying to other worlds in space. Which Las Vegas be the engine in creating the money needed to make it happen. With the law being pass in making gambling legal in Nevada, Las Vegas is already raking in money thanks to all the dam workers. 

It's the reason why Mr. House managed to win over so many people in a short amount of time. His securitrons and the other robots in his hotel, that he has already built a factory to make robots of his world. With a few upgrades thanks to several engineers from other worlds and people good in machines. In fact Sual Pong and the astromech DR5 are working with Mr. House in improving his robots to work better by micronization or making technology work on a smaller scale. Which meant it took less resources to built and power machines, which will give raise to advance efficient technology. Mr. House is very interested in computers with as much processing power as the room size computers of his world but can fit in the palm of his hands. 

Speaking of engineers thanks to some events bringing people with engineering skills to this world. Many big building projects are being done around the country. Getting people with knowledge of future tech or powers is nice but the people who have working engineering skills are the ones of high value to lookout for in Spookhouse. People who worked in metallurgy, factories, construction, sewer workers, power plants, working the civil service jobs, even people who work in sanitation department are much more valuable then someone who can fight. People with working engineering skills are invaluable for building up the infrastructure and better standard of life for the people in the country. Aqueducts are being planned and built to bring water to places that badly need it, thanks to some people who showed up who worked with transporting water around. Roads are being paved to make it easier for people to travel from one end of the country to another, which would had been done under his cousin's term of office. (2)

Then his thoughts drifted to news he received coming from China. It has descended into a civil war. The dethroned emperor had come out of hiding with an army at his back. Empress Dowager Cixi managed to escape the coup that saw the Forbidden City being taken and now with what forces remaining loyal to her, is fighting back the Guangxu Emperor forces. The main interest is that the army backing the Guangxu Emperor are armed with advance weapons and military vehicles. Which the forces of Empress Dowager Cixi are also using as they seem to have been stockpiling advance weapons for some time. But like many who been stockpiling advance weapons but never did any real research and development in them, those weapons can only last so long before simply running out of ammo. Which is happening in the Chinese civil war, with Empress Dowager forces weapons just breaking down or just having no more ammo to fire. 

Which is why he's putting so much effort in building up The United States as to be able to use advance tech you must have the proper production, power, and logistic infrastructure setup and being able to maintained all of it. The few farms from other worlds have been a great source of knowledge in farming. Mechanized and industrial farms are springing up around the country, the smaller farms are also been given new crops to grow thanks to a government programs. Thanks to the events many possible futures have been shown what the United States could end up, giving those in power like himself to choose to build something better.

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France -

Like many other countries with a group that killed on sight for people mainly none humans and destroying any items from other worlds with few exceptions, suddenly found themselves on the short end once the United States revealed what many orders had done everything to keep hidden. Which all started when the current president Roosevelt revealed the giant talking 9-tailed fox and the boy Naruto who both came from another world. Yes there is Empress Norton who made herself known as an out worlder once she began displaying her powers and began drawing others to her. But it was Roosevelt who gave the movement the boost it needed to become unstoppable.

The United States was always a hard nut to crack as many groups tried to put down roots but because of how big the country is and how different culturally the Americans are, many of the old ways didn't work and could only setup small groups. Which went all down hill after Roosevelt brought in many reporters and more came after he revealed the fox. And once the door was open it was impossible for the different groups to put a lid on things, as through Roosevelt's different careers he always had the fox who he tamed and the boy Naruto who he taken in as his ward close by. After that it seemed that all the beings from other worlds came out of hiding around America, which made it so much harder for the small groups to do anything with so many people watching the beings from other worlds. And revealing that it's not just happening in the United States but everywhere, as out worlders from other countries made their way to America. Which many in A,Erica had thought was only happening in their country. Then it all came ahead once Roosevelt  became president and open Spookhouse.

Advancements in all fields of science, engineering, food productions, and warfare, followed the opening of Spookhouse. So many people from other worlds with knowledge and skills went to work for the government of the United States, along with items from other worlds instead of either destroying or stored away are researched and studied in how they work. Now the United States is changing into a more advance country which some of the few people who worked in the groups of hunters, said is on the path of the world they came from. Power lines spreading across the country, water treatment plants bringing indoor plumbing to many places, building projects which would had cost much time and money made faster and cheaper thanks to advance construction machines and tools. All of which are based on the machines and tools that came from other worlds. Then there are all the other advancements from farming, medicine, electronics and other household goods that raised the standards of living for many of the United States. Even the education school system have been improved so the younger generation will be smarter then the last.

With all the advancements and improvements being done in the United States because of off-worlders and items brought over to this world thanks to events. The different world governments have been scrambling to catch up with the Americans. But because of how the groups operating in their countries, the pool of off-worlders to draw upon is very small. 

The many different groups operating in the different countries have roots connecting them to a small group of hunters who started the spark and their ways in dealing with events. They were the Inquisitors who served the Emperor of Mandkind who found themselves in this world thousands of years ago. They spread their teachings of hunting down xeno's and destroying anything that could be daemonic in nature or from the Warp and to destroy any machines that could think. And thousands of years passing their teachings have been warped by time and people rewriting them to suit their own needs. 

The rulers of the countries which many of the group of hunters work for or backed, tried of having to buy and trade for advance technology from the Americans, set down the new rules they have to follow. The ones who stuck to their old ways, were dealt with by firing squad. Many of the hunters suddenly found themselves being hunted for keeping to their old ways, whole orders of hunters were wipe out. The remaining groups seeing what happen to the other groups, bowed their heads and followed the new order. They now followed how Spookhouse treated the people both human and non-human brought to their world by events, and research any device found. Examples were needed to be shown as some members were slower to change then others, having other members of the order beat the offender to death like how the Romans did in the ancient days quickly put an end to anyone who thought that they could get away with secretly killing off the off-worlders and destroying items. And when that didn't work, the entire group to the last member were killed off. With a entirely new group taking their place.

The French hunters made up of new members as most of the old members were killed off, found a lucky find. Hearing reports of strange machines being found near some warehouses, the group of hunters found a strange looking open crate with a pad with numbers on it on the side. Searching around they discovered 3 robots and looking inside the crate revealed what they are thanks to some papers. 

The robots are called Operators which are roughly trapezoidal shaped floating robots that have small robotic arms coming out of them. They were designed to perform menial tasks in a space station and for other places that brought them.

The Medical Operator has a vast anatomical database coupled with a top-of-the-line compact surgical tool set, rivaling even the most skilled surgeon. 

The Engineering Operator is equipped with two GenSENSE manipulators and a swappable utility arms with a full array of tools, there's little that can't fix. 

The Science Operator even if it no longer has access to it's scientific databases which it connected to by a signal or something, still has two highly customizable utility arms to make an unrivaled laboratory assistant that in the world of scientific progress, nothing is more important than accuracy and safety. 

It's not much but the French Hunters are still cleaning up the mess the old order left behind. And finds like this shows the higher ups that they can follow their new orders. As the groups that were wipe out were replaced by government agents and the remaining hunters don't want their rulers to start to wonder if it's not be better to just get rid of them and replaced them with government agents.

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Japan -

Inside a newly built walled off government building which houses the female government agents. Chiyo lead the way to a large room and behind her is the wheelchair bound Motoko who is being wheeled by one of Chiyo's aides. Chiyo has been maintaining the information gathering unit that Motoko started before she was put into cold storage. Her unit gathers data and information around Japan and keep an ear open to world events. Which is the reason why Chiyo's unit is made up of mostly women to act as spies. 

Once in the room Motoko saw that there are 21 women who appear to be in their 20's waiting for them. The women are all dress in western clothes for office work but it's clear that all of them are from another world. Which is easy to tell because of their large eyes like Chiyo's and colorful hair, which she has seen many times before, with someone claiming to be Japanese while having blue eyes and purple hair. Most of those people with very few exceptions tend to look more like westerners then Japanese. Then there's the biggest example that they're from another world's Japan as all of them have bodies very unlike the slender bodies that most Japanese women have. All of the young women have giant breasts by the standards of Japan, even by her world's standards as few women with android bodies like hers had their breasts made the sizes she's seeing. She made a guess that all but the black haired girl with an eye patch over her left eye with a C-cup all had breast sizes at F-cups at the smallest. 

"All of these girls came from a world where Japan has ninja high schools. Like you remember the ninjas make their living doing mercenary work, mostly different companies hiring them to steal or sabotage their rivals. I was traveling about 6 years ago when I witness an event happening. I discovered all of these girls in what remained of a school yard. They were fighting when the event happen taking all of them to our world. I explained things to them and they're all working for me as agents," Chiyo explains then introducing all of them from what schools they came from. 

From Hanzo National Academy are, Asuka, Ikaruga, Katsuragi, Yagyu, Hibari, and Daidoji.

Next is Homura Crimson Squad, Homura, Yomi, Hikage, Mirai, Haruka and Rin. 

Gessen Girls School, Yumi, Murakumo, Yozakura, Shiki, and Minori.

Hebijo Clandestine Girl's Academy, Miyabi, Murasaki, Imu, Ryobi, and Ryona. 

"Good thing you're the one who found them first," Motoko said. 

"Yes all of them but Daidoji and Rin were under the age of 17 when I found them. And all of them have more mature bodies then most girls or adult women have at that age. I remember well what you told me of what happen to many girls like them with busty bodies and wearing revealing clothing that you would only see in the red lights area. I can't tell you how hard it was for me to put some shame into their heads before something bad happen to them," Chiyo said causing the women before her to blush. 

"We have learned how to behave in this world so we won't draw unwanted attention," Rin said. 

"We no longer have the ninja powers we once had," Daidoji said. 

"Something many women discovered too late," Motoko said as more then once women like them suddenly found themselves at the mercy of which ever group discovers them. And many of them only got away with dressing in revealing clothes because of how powerful they are in their world, which in this world even those with fighting skills quickly learn this world doesn't follow the same rules of their world. 

"Seeing how all of them don't look Japanese like me at least in this world. They have been gathering information from people from other countries using their looks. As well as taking trips to other countries where they're able to blend in better then around here, gathering information and sometimes samples of whatever is the target on the mission," Chiyo said.

"People always seem to forget that the ninjas are mostly for information gathering not those ninjas who show up who do noting but fight," Motoko said and saw the women in front of her uneasy. "They're those types of ninjas aren't they."

"Using ninja powers to fight and strange fighting styles, oh yes they were. Not to mention wearing those so called ninja outfits that unlike in their world have them popping out and exposing themselves, and then there's how they failed in the training room where their fighting styles like most of the styles from other worlds only works in their world," Chiyo said.

"We weren't that bad," Asuka said.

"I seem to remember how you and the others tried to show me how your ninja skills would make you more useful as a strike team which ended up with all of you in a pile," Chiyo said before smirking. "And how your outfits are so revealing that many of you pop out them exposing yourselves, ended up in some very lewd positions."

"Yeah that was fun," Katsuragi said drooling slightly as she remembered being in the pile of busty flesh while the others blush.

"Sloppy more like it," a middle aged woman dress in a man's army uniform said entering the room from behind.

"Motoko meet my second in command, Abelia who came from a far future world set after then end as some call it. She was second in command of a flying fortress name Hellywood under a man name Hamdo, she is generally dismissive and cold commander who has the intelligence and ability to maintain Hellywood. She has been a great help in keeping the young kids in order and picking out those who can be of use and those who aren't," Chiyo explains. 

"I just came back from the event bringing another school to our world. The school is Hyakkaou Private Academy which is a prestigious school for the children of the richest of the rich. But unlike a normal school, the main curriculum isn't academic studies or sports, but the art of reading others and taking advantage of chaotic situations. In other words, the art of gambling, with a touch of Social Darwinism. Student-gamblers are encouraged to bet huge amounts of money, or even themselves, all for the chance to climb up the social hierarchy where the top dogs rule the school, and the bottom-feeders live like slaves," Abelia reported.

"And the students?" Chiyo ask.

"They're a complete write off with very few exceptions who knew skills beyond gambling. Most of the students are spoiled rich brats who because of how rich and powerful their families are in their world think they could do anything they want. With the small handful who knew things like computer programing and other useful skills, none of them had skills that we're looking for. Those rich kids are the type who spend funds on frivolous money-losing endeavors. The school president built a hi-tech tower that serves no use other than indulging her very specific gambling interests. She told me herself that she hadn't been able to find a use for it. And like many of those rich kids that we have met before, all thought that their status and money still mattered in this world. I sent them to the factory to be processed to see if there's anyone with useful talents. Most of them are just going to be let go and have to fend for themselves, or take up the job in sorting through items from other worlds for anything useful," Abelia reported. 

"You two are still dealing with what, I had to deal with," Motoko said.

"Most of the schools appearing from events are elite schools for the rich or teach only one main subject. There have been many game or sport schools, which many of the teachers and students ended up being useless to use besides having someone who can point out what a device is able to do and how to use it. Which we have plenty already so we just let go most of the people from a school event. The only school event that proved valuable for the last couple of years was the vocational and agricultural high school Hokkaido. The teachers and students there had useful skills in farming and raising animals. Unlike so many other schools that all seem to be made to please a certain group of people who are all into something like a game or something like that," Chiyo said. 

"What about advance machines?" Motoko ask.

"Same problem you faced before. Most of the people had no idea how to even repair the devices they used, and those who did only if they had the right parts. Then there's the personalities of many people who are smart and have engineering skills, they're impossible to work with," Chiyo said.

"Somethings will never change," Motoko said.

"Yes but after being cast out of our protection and having to fend for themselves. Many of those genius quickly learn that this world doesn't spin around them and everything goes their way. Many came crawling back begging for us to give them another chance," Abelia said. (4)

"And how many did you take back in?" Motoko ask.

"Only those who had skills we could used and those who didn't pissed off the wrong people," Abelia said.

"Which is why we brought you here. As there are some people we took back in or those we're still deciding on who work in robotics. They now can show me that it's the right choice in taking them back in by repairing you back to an operational level," Chiyo said. 

"It be nice to walk around again," Motoko said. 

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Author's Notes -

1 - Besides using void mayonnaise to make strange buns, I'm guessing it can be used to cook with other stuff. As that's the only reason I can think of why it can be sold in Stardew Valley.

2 - Sure having someone from another world who is a fighting might be cool and all. But if there isn't any war happening or that the fighter style of fighting wouldn't work at all in the new world they find themselves in, they're pretty much useless. But the person who worked as a plumber who can fix or lay down the groundwork for indoor plumbing is much more valuable then the fighter.

3 - Warhammer 40K is a nightmare universe.

4 - Most of the genius found in anime are either crazy or have bad personalities that in real life be impossible for them to get anyone to hire them. As someone with a personality that causes people to become pissed off or brings down the morel of others which causes their work to become bad. In real life has caused entire companies or at least a department to be closed down because of one person. If they're even be able to get past the interview for the job, which many anime genius wouldn't for one reason or another.

First appearances of fictions in this chapter -

Stardew Valley

Warhammer 4000

Prey

Senran Kagura 

Now and Then, Here and There

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