Boy’s Crazy

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Since regaining the ability to use magic, Sunset has been training herself to regain her lost skills. Thanks to all the videogame characters who been brought to life, she was able to tutor under them. To see if she can't use their brand of magic or at least be able to pull something off just like it.

Sunset learned from the turtle wizard Kamek, Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, Princess Peach Toadstool and Zelda among other magic users from games. While she couldn't do the same spell as her tutors can do, she did figure out how to do something just like it. As she did in coming up in creating magic that's like the spells in the anime Slayers. 

It's like designing a computer or an engine without actually making the thing, just drawing up the blueprints. Something that Sunset did with spells, knowing how they're supposed to work and coming up with how to do it, on paper that is. Sunset wasn't the top student in the magic school for nothing after all, coming up with the math of how spells work and how to recreate it or close to it as she could get it to work. (1)

Currently she's on the training mat, up against Firebrand from Ghosts 'n Goblins. She's been training with other flyers to learn how to fight as a winged humanoid. Both of them are trading blows as they floated in the air, maintaining both their wing flaps and blocking each other's blows.

"That's right fighting in the air is completely different from ground fighting. You have to keep up with your flight and your opponent. And remember unlike on the ground you can attack from below and above not just on the sides," Firebrand said.

Watching from the sidelines is Nitara, a vampire with bat wings on her back from Mortal Kombat. Who already had her turn teaching Sunset some combat moves. Along with Kowalski who is watching the match while eating cans of sardines, cheering them on.

"Hey boss!" Kollector who became one of the royal accountants of the castle called out. He now wears a custom suit fitted for his body and extra arms. 

"Yes," Sunset said landing on the mat stopping the match, Firebrand landed to take a breather.

"We need to talk," a small man said riding on top of a Mr. Handy said who is followed by a giant of a man.

The giant is Goah the Giant who use to carry Gilius Thunderbird a dwarf around on his back in a basket-like backpack. Both came from the Golden Axe game, and both are wearing normal clothes instead of their barbarian wears. With many videogame characters without jobs, Sunset hired many to work in her casinos, theme parks, and resorts. Gillis Thunderbird is the manager of the fantasy theme casino Dungeon Fantasy that also has a theme park. It was going to be another theme casino but after the videogame characters were brought to life and Sunset hired some of them, she made some changes. That has paid off as lots of videogame fans are coming to see their favorite characters. 

"What is it Gilius?" Sunset ask.

"Tyris and other women want to change their outfits to less skimpy ones. So do some of the guys who have nothing but loincloths," Gilius explains.

"Fine as long as their new outfits fit the theme of the casino, that goes for everyone else. Anything else?" Sunset asked.

"The Mushroom Kingdom is facing some legal trouble with Nintendo," Gilius said.

"Of course," Sunset said as even if it is Mario and the gang wanting to make a theme park base on their game, the company Nintendo still will have some issues with it. She turns to Nitara and Firebrand. "We're done for today."

"See you later than," Nitara said walking off with Firebrand.

"Kowalski make sure you clean up after yourself," Sunset said to the penguin and the empty sardine cans around him.

"Will do," Kowalski said looking for something to put all the tin cans in so he can dump them into the recycler. 

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Sunset's office - 

Still in her training clothes, Sunset is going over the reports and other paperwork that she needs to review and sign. Unlike Celestia she's does her job instead of just kicking the can down the road or have others do it for her. Such is her disdain for bureaucracy that she'll sign most official paperwork that crosses her desk without reading it. Sunset does have a workforce of Mr. Handies who read over the paperwork and put a sticky note on it to sum it up to her. But she does spend nearly all her time dealing with the minutia necessary to run the kingdom.

A new factory had open up a subsidiary of Vim! Pop Incorporated, a soft drink manufacturer that operates out of Maine on the East Coast. Sunset on a visit to Maine was introduced to the regional soft drink and took a liking to it. Seeing how before the Merge happen the company wasn't doing well thanks to the brutal tactics from Nuka-Cola, signed a deal with the company to supply Canterlot with their soda. 

All the casinos carry the soda and with good advertising, along with Sunset often being seen drinking the soda. Got many people to start drinking the soda, which came in 4 different flavors. Vim a combination of pure Maine spring water and other extracts and syrups, the flagship beverage of the Vim! Pop Corporation is slightly fermented, which helps to better bring out its unique and natural flavor profile. 

Vim Refresh which is even more energizing than Vim Quartz, and is flavored with apples. Refresh looks the same as regular Vim, but with a light green color and a lime wedge design on the label. 

Vim Quartz is bubble gum flavored and contained extra "oomph" (or "vim"), making drinkers more energized. The soft drink comes in a transparent glass bottle and is tinted a light yellow color that glows in the dark. 

Captain's Blend that has a taste that is fishy, with marketing has the taste of Maine in a bottle. The beverage inside glows brightly purple.

Vim has proven to be a popular drink among the griffins and loved the Captain's Blend as fish is a big part of their diet. Which is why the factory has been built to supply the demand for the drink. As well as allowing the company to get their name out there around the West coast. 

There is also another soft drink that Sunset took a liking to during a visit to Las Vegas to see Mr. House for a business deal. The root-beer type soda, Sunset Sarsaparilla is also a popular drink around Gravity Falls Brighton after Sunset started ordering the regional soda to be ship to the casinos. And became a big enough hit that a small factory was built to supply the demand for the soft drink. The company is also trying out new flavors like Diet Sunset Sarsaparilla.

Another soda, Nuka-Cola can also be found but the company is still facing the fallout from Nuka-Cola Quantum having radioactive isotopes in the beverage. Not to mention the underhanded tactics that the company uses to get rid of their competition. There is also the problems found at the company's theme park Nuka World. The company flagship drink also is very unhealthy because of the amount of sugar of over 120% of the recommended daily allowance of sugar. The CEO and founder of the company John-Caleb Bradberton has been busy making the changes and meeting the safety standards of the new worlds he found himself in.

Even with all that has happen, Gravity Falls Brighton still has people and companies moving in to setup shop. Thanks to Sunset's making Equestria into a place that people could legally gamble, and having tax breaks for companies that operate in the kingdom, with some conditions they have to meet to enjoy the tax breaks. So that they can't just build a factory and than shut it down to move operations elsewhere or having an one man office that does nothing just to enjoy a tax break there or backing out a deal without heavy fines filed against them.

There is also another reason why tech companies are setting up shop in Gravity Falls Brighton. A couple of months ago it was discovered that the gems that grow like some crystals that's found all over Equestria, once crushed and refined. Could be made into microchips that can be reduced in size and their speed increased as well. Computer systems that could handle the data centers of governments and companies, that took large rooms to be stored in could be made the size of a toaster using the gem microchips. 

Now after the invasion and with the rebuilding taking place. The news was released and different companies are now investing in the new microchips being created. The main investor being Professor Membrane who Sunset made a deal with to oversee the production of the chips. Thanks to Sunset knowing that she will always get a fair deal from him. She also made a deal with Mr. House to have some of the mines run by robots or partly and work with normal workers.

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Las Vegas -

Inside the new factory of Robco that produces his robots, Mr. House looks over the prototype of his newest employee. It's a clockwork robot that works, of course for safety reason all weapons were removed from the robot before it was turn on. It's powered by whale oil and is amazingly advance for a clockwork robot.

"This isn't robot. This is a work of art," Mr. House said to the young man name Kirin Jindosh who he had spirited away from the Isles. 

"Well, I wanted to show you what I can do with the tools, I had to work with back home," Jindosh said. 

"The only problem is the sheer cost. Besides wealthy buyers who just want to order one of showing off their wealth. This kind of robot will be more of a collectors item," Mr. House said then turns to face Jindosh. "You are one of those rare minds that only appear now and then with what you're able to do with the tools at hand."

"In my world anyways. It's hard to feel you actually make a difference with someone like Membrane around," Jindosh said. Learning about the professor who is so smart that he's called an omnidisciplinary scientist because of all the fields that he has mastered. 

"To be fair he was the one who kept his world from falling apart. Being one of the few people who is smart in that world and everyone else are just morons who can barely remember how to breath," Mr. House said. 

"I'm surprise how he's not crazy having to deal with morons all the time," Jindosh said.

"Anyways you shouldn't focus on what others have done or are doing focus on your own field. You are able to build a working clockwork robot, and now with the tools from me and funding you'll be able to design even better robots. But do remember to keep it practical and as people say get as much bang for your buck as you can. In other words unless you're designing a one of the kind robot, like the XJ sisters don't go crazy in the design. It be like in one of those high end restaurants where the meals are all small and tasteless, costing a fortune just to have a bad meal just to show off how much money you can spend," Mr. House explains.

"Same at the Isles," Jindosh said.

"You'll be working in lab 6 to learn the ropes and learn to use the machines that are new to you. With how smart you are I'm sure in no time you will learn how to operate all the technology my company has to offer," Mr. House said. 

"That's the plan," Jindosh said eager to learn all that he can. 

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Gravity Falls Brighton -

Mabel is walking away into the woods rather sullen. She, Molly and the others went to see Sev'ral Timez. But there after the show and sneaking into the backstage, they found out about Ergman Bratsman the manager of the boy band illegal boy band cloning operation. He was using clones to make the prefect boy band, and kept the boys in a giant hamster cage with the wood shavings for bedding, giant water bottle and even feeding them pellets. 

Mabel had wanted to bring them back to the shack and keep them. Molly and the others on the other hand quickly called the cops which ended up with the cops arresting Bratsman for illegal cloning and abuse seeing how he kept the boys in a cage. The boys were taken into protective custody where they would go to a psychiatric hospital. Where they can be given the help they needed seeing how they lived in isolation for all of their lives with their only human contact being Bratsman.

Mabel was happy she help save the band from being slaves to their manager. But she had so wanted to have a boy band. And…

"Gah! I hate this!" shouts Mabel as she kicks the can into the bush, which lets out a familiar squeal...

Mabel's eyes widen hearing the squeal. 

"Waddles?" she called out.

She jumps into the bush... and finds... a grubhog?

Mabel blinks and stares blankly and confused... then the grubhog gives a squeal of 'Mabel'.

Mabel just shrugs it off. 

"Eh, close enough!" she hugs the grubhog eagerly. "I'm so happy to see you Waddles 2! The future looks brighter already!"

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Tartarus -

In her office Doctor Buck is looking over the latest reports around the world of new SCPs. The SCP didn't just going around labeling everything not normal an SCP, only the ones that are dangerous and couldn't be controlled. With the governments and public watching SCP couldn't operate like they use to and with Reagan Ridley in charge, she's keeping a tight lease on the agency. Besides if they don't play ball, they loose their funding and that's it as many of the old higher ups in the shadow groups after the change happen, found out that without people to do their dirty work for them, they have no power. (2)

They now go around taking care of dangerous people and objects. Helping people who have been transformed or have uncontrollable things happening to them. Studying and researching on the people and objects brought to them, or locked up in Tartarus which is where the real dangerous ones are kept. 

Buck looks at 3 reports in front of her. 

The first is an after action report of an ancient Aztec ruins. An archeologist was nearly crushed when the temple he was in remakes itself. A swarm of exquisite cutlery and table settings would soon fly from the temple to turn anything they attacked into a twisted flesh-like Hors d'oeuvres. Later investigations would show that these abominations were a bastardized attempt by the Aztec's to emulate a ritualistic mass murder cannibal banquet ritual from an 'even older civilization' that would supposedly give them immortality.

Another ruin is razed to the ground with fire as XJ-10 sprayed a gel that can burn through ice. The ruin is home to a strange flesh eating plant that the natives kept from spreading by salting the earth around the ruin to keep it contain. XJ-10 already sprayed the ruin and flooded the temple with super weed killer that kills any plant. And now making sure by burning the entire temple. Any relics that could be recovered were already taken and are being soaked in tanks full of bleach to make sure the plant wouldn't be tagging along. 

XJ-8 has toss the hibernating form of the monster known as Jeepers Creepers into the recycler. With the machine breaking down his body to the atomic scale and making it into cubes, the Creeper can't come back as it needs to feed to heal and it now just a bunch of green cubes which are going to be used for the bioreactor that helps powers the base. Doctor Buck wishes that they had a recycler back in her home universe, would be nice to see if that would take care of the SCPs that they been trying to terminate. 

Buck looks at the report of the new chairwoman of the ghost world, Dani after Scratch went back to his body. She's being helped by Sunset in how to be a good leader and is powerful enough to keep the other ghosts in-line. 

A new report came on her computer screen of the cloning of the singers in that boy band. The manager is now arrested and the company is under investigation. The clones are going to get the help to adjust to normal life. The only real question is how a manager of a boy band managed to get his hands on cloning technology.

Buck then looks at another screen, there has been readings of temporal energy popping up here and there. All being centered around Gravity Falls, and around the lake area. She sent teams to find something but they found nothing, they did find more of those giant spiders that have made their home in the forest. The locals have taken to catching them and eating them, cooking them like crabs and lobsters. Buck just asked Danny to ask Clockworks about the temporal readings to find out what's going on. The reply was to just allow it to happen. 

"I hate time problems," Buck said as time powers are always a headache to deal with and the one in control of time just told her to just let it happen. Making it clear that it will just happen and will reveal itself later. 

Buck looks at the report of the kids who ate the candy that gave them superpowers. Given to them by Terrible Trivium a demon of trivial tasks and not important ones. A list showing a picture of the kids and what their powers are appeared on screen. They were all brought in for testing and see if there are any side effects.

Dipper, power Fix. Note - twin

Testing has shown him being able to fix broken objects but only inorganic material. Using the power drains his stamina.

Mabel, power Blow. Note - twin

Testing has shown she can blow harder than normal but it is limited by the amount of air her lungs can hold.

Wendy, power Ram. Note - a deer woman.

Testing has shown her being able to fly into an object at high speed. She's able to ram through just about any obstacle place in front of her and in her deer form increases the roaming power and speed. She is seem invulnerable to harm while using her power. Not known what her limits are due to testing stopping at a wooden barrier. 

Lincoln, power Dumb.

Testing has shown that he's able to decrease the intelligence of people. On a generator he's able to decrease the power output. He's able to dumb things down so they be dumber and less powerful. 

Six, power Cling. Note - is already a person of interest thanks to her being one of the survivors of The Maw and taking care of SCP - 2571 Cragglewoods Park.

Testing has shown she's able to crawl up walls and walk on the ceiling. Is able to cling onto any surface with little trouble. She needs her hands and feet to be bare for her to be able to get a grip. (3)

Ronnie, power Soup.

Testing has shown she's able to produce any kind of soup she can think of from her hands. All soups are perfectly edible for the ones meant to be eaten. She is immune to the heat and other effects of the soup she makes. She has produce soups that can't be consume by humans but can be consume by non humans. Using the power drains her of stamina. 

Pacifica, power Cloud. 

Testing has shown she's able to create and control clouds, like the pegasus ponies of Equestria before losing their magic. She is able to walk and ride on clouds under her control and create cloud related weather. She needs a body of liquid to make into clouds for her power to work. 

Twilight Sparkles, power Astral.

Testing has shown her being able to leave her body and travel the astral planes. Has gone to learn under Princess Luna who can still travel to the astral plane by her dreams. 

Dib, power Boost.

Testing has shown him being able to boost the power of machines beyond their normal limits. Drains his stamina and can cause the machine to overload if he boost it too much. 

Molly, power Friendship. Note - is able to leave her body as a wright. 

Testing has shown her being able to win people over to her with her friendly personality. According to her friends and family she was already like that before. 

Darryl, power Find.

Testing has shown him being able to find objects and living beings but only one at a time. The limit is that he needs to know what it is and has a good idea what it looks like for his power to work. 

Andrea, power Fragile.

Testing has shown she's able to make non organic objects fragile. There is no known limits to what she can make fragile enough to break. Only works on solid objects, gel like objects are immune to her power. Her power drains her of her stamina fast.

Libby, power Barrier.

Testing has shown she's able to create a barrier around her or create barriers of energy in any shape and form she wants. The barriers are only strong as long as she can concentrate and her stamina lasts. 

Kat, power Clean.

Testing has shown her being able to clean anything no matter what kind of strain or how long it has been on an object. Drains her stamina with use. 

Sheela, power Honey. 

Testing has shown her being able to produce honey from her hands. She can create harden objects from honey, only limited by her imagination. Drains her of her stamina from use.

Tammy, power Slide.

Testing has shown she's able to slide on her bare feet and hands as well as any other bare body part on any surface. Is immune to the effects of sliding one's body and a rough surface, or hot or cold surfaces. Can only use her power on naked flesh. 

Huntress Wizard, power Cook.

Testing has shown she's able to cook without any cooking tools. Note while she can cook a streak she can't prepare it like she can with a frying pan or an oven. More like cooking over an open fire without anything but a stick. She is able to disassemble organic objects simply by touching it. Using the disassemble power on a freshly dead chicken, the body had all the feathers, meat, organs, and bones in a neat pile. Test on a live fish shows the same results where the meat, bones, scales, and organs are in a pile. Huntress Wizard has agreed to limit her use of power and lie that it only works on dead things. She did say if she used it while she's hunting, it would just make things too easy. 

Buck frowns as the candy that gives the eater a power based around a word, reminds her of those fruits in that manga about pirates. She would want to do more testing but she couldn't as keeping them against their will when they're not dangerous to themselves or others is against the law. Plus with them being so open about their new powers, them suddenly disappearing would be more trouble than it's worth. And Dib's father is a major supporter of SCP, using his vast resources and wealth to help them build up after the change happen. Mind wiping is a major crime thanks to the magic users and if the SCP were to use it to just cover things up, all funding would be cut. 

"At least they all agree to update any changes," Buck said to herself, reminding herself that the SCP she's apart now, isn't the one she and her group came from. 

Buck brings up a screen showing Camila Noceda and her daughter Luz and adopted daughter Vee. They're staying at one of the resorts, Dream Castle, as VIPs thanks to Sunset who is using them to get PR and spread the word of her resorts in the Boiling Isles. Buck is interested in the Titan form of Luz and the demons and witches, who unlike other magic users still retain their magic. Thanks to the extra organ on their hearts that give them their magic in the first place. 

There is also the others form the Boiling Isles coming to the resort that are persons of interests. 

King Clawthrone the last of the Titans who is still young but will grow into a landmass size giant. Estimated to take centuries before he reaches the size of his father. Is heavily protected as magic users who lost their magic are hoping that his blood would give them their magic back. Testing has proven it false, the same with the bile from the demons and witches hearts. 

Buck had seen the game show episode where Stanley Pines met Eda Clawthrone his ex-wife, who is traveling around the states with her new boyfriend Raine Whispers. And seeing how the game show ended with fire, she wonders what's going to happen once she and the others get to Gravity Falls Brighton. 

"Still can't believe they changed the town's name to that," Buck said to herself. 

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Author's Notes -

1 - Creating a spell that's based on one fiction can work. Like how in real life someone made their own lightsaber using what they could use and getting as close as they could with the current technology.

2 - Many people in fiction and real life are only powerful because they have people who do things for them. And once they run out of money, that's it for them.

3 - Yes it is explained why Spider-Man is able to cling onto surfaces while wearing gloves and foot coverings, but it does still feel strange how he's able to do it.

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