31Peridot sat a ways away from the others. While they were busy dealing with the aftermath of the battle with Prism; Peridot was using this private time to work on her logs. "Peridot's log 7 13 4: We have successfully defeated this renegade Glass Gem called Prism, but not without consequence. It seems that by destroying Prism's ultimate weapon the Crystal Clogs have needlessly endangered the earth that they are trying to protect." Peridot stopped the recording to look at the giant bubble hovering over Stonehenge. Watching as the heroes were getting ready to implement their rather foolhardy plan of transferring the stank from the bubble to the Urn of Aquarius. "The toxic gases released when the Prism weapon was destroyed is currently contained in a bubble but whether or not it can be secured or safely disposed of remains to be seen." She reported skeptically.
Over at the bubble Pearl had just finished examining it. "Alright if my calculations are correct, hmph if they are," Pearl laughing at the notion that she might be wrong. "The incision point has to be right here." Pearl creating a holographic line on the giant bubble.
"There?" Randy asked.
"Yes, and it has to be exactly 22.5 mm. Too big or too small and the bubble might burst." Pearl warned as she summoned a small surgical knife and prepared to make the cut herself.
"Got it," Randy said pulling out his sword on impulse.
"WAIT DON'T!" Pearl screamed.
"Ninja Bubble Slice," the Ninja announced as he quickly traced his blade over the holographic line Pearl made. To Pearl's surprised the bubble didn't pop as the stank slowly started to leak out of the bubble.
"Oh wow, it's exactly 22.5 mm." Pearl marveled as she measured the cut Randy made. She wasn't confident that she could have made the cut so perfectly. Not that she would ever admit that. "How did you do that?"
"I just followed your instructions. You made it easy." Randy simply said, causing Pearl to blush.
"Great so do we still have to keep doing this?" Amethyst asked projecting her power at the bubble along with Garnet. As a safety precaution, Garnet and Amethyst are using their powers to reinforce the bubble to keep it from popping. Since Pearl was needed to figure out a way to safely dispose of the stank, she was excluded from that task.
"Yes you do. Until we finish transferring the stank over to the urn." Pearl reminded her.
"Lame," Amethyst griped. Even though Amethyst is smart enough to know how important this job is; trying to keep a bubble from popping is incredibly boring.
"Alright time for the next phase," Pearl signaling the Tamers. As the stank slowly leaked out of the bubble, Zick and the other Tamers were using their Gesture Dom along with June and Taylor's telekinesis ability to carefully guide the stank into the Urn of Aquarius. Standing by the Urn were Randy and Jake with their genie bottles and vacuum. Just in case June or the Tamer's lost control; they would rush in and try and contain the stank before it spreads or infects anything.
"Peridot's log: it seems that the operation is going well so far." Peridot recorded admiring how well the human heroes are performing their tasks. "On a side note, these earth warriors seem very capable with fascinating abilities of their own. The one called June, other wise known as the Te Xuan Ze, despite her small stature holds a lot of authority over the others and her powers is pretty impressive as well. Off hand I'd say that she's the Earth equivalent to a Diamond only not as perfect or flawless." Peridot stopped her recording and took a few seconds to observe June directing the Tamers. "This is supported by the fact that the others follow her commands without question. The ones calling themselves Tamers even refer to her as the Lord High Tamer." Peridot recorded as she watched Jake and Taylor going after some stray stank that manage to slip away. "Also contrary to what the Crystal Clods have told me earlier, some humans do posses the power of flight and shape shifting proven with the Jake and Taylor specimens. Though this trait doesn't seem to be common as it has been suggested that they are some type of hybrid like Steven. Perhaps crossbreeding humans with other species can create new powerful beings." Peridot stopped recording for a bit and watched Randy in his ninja suit. "I have also observe that humans have created power enhancing 'shirts'. I'm still unsure of how they work but it seems to serve to give lesser humans powers and abilities equivalent to that of some of the more powerful beings. More study is required." Peridot ended her logs here. 'More study,' Peridot thought to herself. It is rather ironic that a Peridot like herself, who is technically a technician, design to work with technology, would find herself interested in biology. Yet the more she learns about the organic life on earth, the more she's fascinated by it. Especially now with this recent discovery about magical creatures has really got her excited. Right now Peridot is hoping that if she can report her findings to Yellow Diamond, then maybe she can persuade her Diamondship that Earth has value and should be spared from the Cluster, and maybe just maybe, Yellow Diamond will allow her to stay on Earth to continue her research here. Of course Peridot is confident that Yellow Diamond will be understanding. After all Yellow Diamond is the most reasonable, most rational, and most efficient decider in all the universe.
"Hey Peridot, are you going to give us a hand with this?" Steven asked holding some device he salvaged from the wreck of the hovercraft. It was decided that while the heroes were working on securing the stank, Steven and the sidekicks would be assist Peridot in repairing the hovercraft.
"I'll be there is a second," Peridot said storing her tape recorder in her gem. After all she still going to need that hovercraft if she's not only going to fly everyone back to their homes, but so that she can fly back to Homeworld to meet with Yellow Diamond.
It took the better part of the day but after a few hiccups, mainly from when they shifted the work so that they can each take turns taking a rest, they were about 96% done. "Alright just a little more to go, and we're done." June informed everyone.
"Finally," Amethyst said stretching out her arms.
"Amethyst don't!" Garnet warned but it was too late. Amethyst accidentally lost her focus causing the bubble to pop, releasing all the remaining stank! Responding quickly the Jake and Randy jumped into action using the vacuum and a genie bottle to collect the spreading stank. The Tamers drew out their Dom Boxes as well. Wanting to make up for her mistake, Amethyst started bubbling what small traces of stank her tiny bubbles can hold. Following her example Garnet also started bubbling the stank.
Seeing the heroes in trouble again, the sidekicks immediately dropped what they were doing and rushed over to see if they could help. Fortunately for them, Monroe enchanted the genie bottles to automatically suck in the stank when they are opened. So the sidekicks each grabbed a bottle and started sucking up the stank. It took every Dom Box, Genie Bottles, Vacuum Bags, and about 2 dozen bubbles; but thankfully they manage to contain the last remaining ounce of stank. All that was left was to empty it into the Urn. After pouring the last of the stank into the Urn, Jake then covered it with a sheet of metal and welded it shut. Normally everyone would have been upset with Amethyst for her blunder, but when they stop to think about it, she did save them over 4 hours of tedious slow work. Who could fault her for that.
"Glad that's over," June breathed a sigh of relief.
"Actually June it is not," Monroe said sadly as he, Fu-Dog, Timothy, and Pearl walked over to her.
"Where have you guys been? We could have used you for this operation." June scolded.
"We were over at Stonehenge with Pearl. Looking through Prism's files." Monroe informed her.
"What did you find out?" June asked.
"That Prism wasn't lying when she said she created over a million orbs," Monroe reported.
"Actually is more like a million thirty eight according to her records," Pearl corrected him.
"Yes and according to my calculations," Monroe brought out his abacus.
"Ugh I hate abacus," Connie groaned covering her ears.
"Hey show some respect," Monroe scolded. "An abacus is a great tool. Mastered properly and it is even better than today's calculators." Monroe preached.
"Is that true?" Steven asked.
"Oh yes, and I should know I helped invent it." Pearl bragged. "Or was that the soroban?" Pearl forgetting which version she had a hand in making.
"Anyway, calculating the amount of orbs needed to make her giant body," Monroe fiddling with his abacus. "She only used 302,065 orbs to make it." Monroe calculated. "Give or take a few hundred. Everyone's jaw dropped by this revelation.
"Great so you're saying that there are still a gazillion balls out there?" Howard ranted.
"Gazillion isn't a number, it's not even a word!" Monroe barked. "Here take this and learn how to count!" Monroe throwing his abacus at Howard.
"Ow," Howard cried as the abacus hit him in the eye. "Stupid abacus, worst present ever." Howard grumbled, but still accepting it because a present is still a present.
"So there are about 700,000 of these orbs out there in the world somewhere?" June sighed.
"And each one of them has the potential of creating another sorcerer and possibly another Prism." Monroe warned.
"I'll inform the Dragon Council right away. We'll make finding these orbs a top priority." Jake said.
"The Maximum Tutors will do the same," Timothy added.
"Fighting sorcerers is what the Ninja does, so you can count on me if another shows up." Randy promises.
"Us too!" Steven volunteering the Crystal Gems.
"Steven, this isn't what we do." Pearl lectured.
"But Pearl, the balls were made by Prism, and she was a Crystal Gem. That makes us partially responsible." Steven reasoned.
"He's right, we are responsible." Garnet agreed. "But if we are to do this, we might as well make it official." Garnet said walking over to June. Then to everyone's surprise, Garnet dropped to one knee. "I swear to assist the Te Xuan Ze in any magical endeavors even if they are not Gem related." Garnet pledging her oath. Even though it goes against everything the stood for, Pearl and Amethyst also started kneeling at June. Steven not really understanding what's going on, simply kneeled as well only because everyone else is doing it.
"You really don't have to do this," June said feeling very uncomfortable about people kneeling at her. "But I accept your allegiance," June recited. As she did so the Crystal Gems including Peridot even though she didn't kneel started glowing as if they were becoming magically bonded to the Te Xuan Ze.
"Looks like we're going to have to revise our tapestries," Monroe commented.
"Hey since we're all friends now I was wondering if you can do us a favor," Amethyst asked.
"Sure," June said. Amethyst reached down and pulled out a Gem core.
"Amethyst you were suppose to bubble that and send it to the temple!" Pearl scolded.
"I know, but well I was wondering if June here can find a way to cure her of the corruption." Amethyst explained.
"We can handle our own," Garnet insisted.
"No we can't!" Amethyst yelled. "We've been trying for thousands of years and we never even came close. Do you know why? Because the corruption is caused by Earth magic, so maybe Earth magic is the key!" Amethyst reasoned.
"You could be right," Garnet agreed.
"I suppose it wouldn't hurt to have them look," Pearl conceded.
"We'll do our best," June promised taking the Gem.
After camping over night at Stonehenge, Peridot was able to complete the repairs on the hovercraft. Which went faster than expected because it turns out that Viceroy built in an auto repair function that greatly helped out. Even so there were a few things that needed manual repairs like welding parts of the frame that got torn apart when it crashed. Fortunately they have a dragon what has experience welding things.
"Are you sure this thing is going to fly?" they asked skeptically since the hovercraft now looks like a reject from a junkyard.
"Maybe not all the way to space, but it should suffice for your needs." Peridot said after doing some last minute diagnostics. "So where to now?" she asked after all her tests came out green
"Greece, we need to return the stank to the River Styx, and to drop Taylor so he can finish his community service." June said, causing Taylor to pout and Marcus to celebrate.
Later at the River Styx, which took longer to get to since they couldn't fly at full speed, Jake ripped open the lid and poured the stank back into the river. To their surprise, even though the Urn had over thousand times more stank that was originally stolen, the river didn't overflowed. It stayed the same height even after they poured all the stank into it. Apparently the river itself has the same infinite storage capacity that the Urn did. Thankfully this solved their 'What to do with the stank' dilemma. The Boatmans were so happy to have their river back that the agreed to talk to Taylor's parole officer on his behave. While they didn't have the authority to pardon him, they could give him a weeks vacation so long as he's under supervision, which he decided to spend in Orchid Bay with June the perfect supervisor. Much to her and Marcus chagrin. Ophelia on the other hand was overjoyed at the idea.
The flight back to Orchid bay was uneventful. June used the mini-tv on McFist's chair to monitor the news, and it was as about what she expected. There was still mass pandemonium around the world due to the appearance of monsters. Some places, those that have superheroes, were taking it better than most but it still made her anxious about finishing up her mission. "Looks like there's still trouble around the world," a cold but friendly voice said.
"Yeah," June squeaked being startled a bit by her best friend. "Hopefully things should go back to normal once I renew the veil." she said sadly.
"That means we'll all lose our memories as well," Ophelia sighed.
"I'm sorry, but" June tried to explain.
"Don't," Ophelia stopped her. "You're job is important, I see that now. Me, well I wasn't much help was I."
"You were big help. Keeping our bottles and Dom Boxes empty helped us a lot more than you think." June tried to convince her.
"Yeah, but not helpful enough to actually make a difference." Ophelia argued. "June I understand that I won't be much help in the way of fighting monsters but I wish you'd reconsider allowing me/us to keep our memories so that we can still support you or at the very least understand when you have to run off all the time." Ophelia pleaded.
June could feel her heart being torn in two. While she would like nothing more that for her friends to know who she is and what she does, she also knows that she can't. "I'm sorry," June apologized.
"Yeah I expected as much," Ophelia sighed. "Well the good news is that once I lose my memories we'll go back to being best friends again with none being the wiser. So hurray for the status quo." Ophelia forcing a smile.
"That would be great," June forcing a smile as well. Usually she found the idea of everything going back to normal very comforting, but this time June found it heartbreaking.
A few hours later Peridot landed the hovercraft in Orchid Bay. From the looks of things, the city is still in a big mess. There was still a lot of fighting between monsters and humans. The only thing June was glad to see were her Ah-Mah Jasmine, her brothers Ray-Ray and Dennis, and her friends Jody and Roger, who where coming to greet them. Naturally they all had questions but those would have to wait. Jasmine guided June to one of the touchstones. Placing her hand on the stone June recited the oath of the Te Xuan Ze:
'I am but a hand
I am but a vessel
I am but a stone that balances the worlds'
As June repeated the oath the touchstone began glowing and a wave of magic was released restoring the veil. As the wave reached our heroes and sidekicks, one individual knew what would happen if this wave hit them. For he was there at the mess decks when he overheard Taylor telling Ophelia and Marcus what would happen, and just like them he didn't want to have their memories erased.
"NNNOOO!" Steven screamed as he instinctively activated his shield bubble surrounding not only himself but Connie, Ophelia, Judy, Howard, and Marcus. Safely protected inside the bubble they all witnessed as the wave made the monsters invisible again. Not only that but the humans who were once in full blown panic, were now returning to their normal routine. After the wave passed Steven dispelled the bubble. Since the humans were not magical they could no longer see monsters, but at the very least the bubble allowed them to retain their memories.
"Bark bark woof?" Monroe barked.
"Um what are you saying?" Ophelia asked. With the veil restored they are no longer able to understand Monroe.
Monroe casts an enchantment on his throat that would allow him to talk to humans. "I said, what did you do?" he demanded.
"I didn't want them to lose their memories," Steven explained.
"Thanks Steven," Ophelia showing her appreciation.
"I'm afraid it's not your call," Monroe informed him. "Looks like I'm going to have to use the amnesia stone again." Monroe pulling out a white crystal.
"Again, did you use that on us before?" Ophelia demanded.
"No, you'd remember if I did," Monroe jests. Ophelia scowled at the dog, suspecting that he'd most likely messes with her memories on a regular basis.
"Even though you won't remember this, I just want you to know I take no pleasure doing this." Monroe said as he pointed the crystal at them.
"Yeah me too," Ophelia said sarcastically. "Oops," she said as she slapped the crystal out of his paw sending it down into the sewers.
"Look at what you did," Monroe barked. "Without that crystal I will need to mix a batch of memory eraser potion," Monroe paused for a second. "And that would take me a week to get all the ingredients."
"No sweat, I happen to carry some memory eraser just in case Jake exposes himself." Fu-Dog said shuffling through his skin flaps. Just then Monroe upper cuts the Shar Pei knocking him out cold.
"Yup at least a week," Monroe emphasis.
"Thanks you old mutt," Ophelia whispers knowing that Monroe is giving her and her friends time to be with June.
"I didn't do anything," Monroe insisted.
"Well I guess that covers everything. Maybe we should all be heading back home." Jake said.
"Aw, I hate saying goodbye." Steven whined.
"Don't worry pal," Taylor said putting his arm around Steven. "Even though we're continents apart we will always be Hybros!" Taylor removed his shirt to reveal a T-shirt with a picture of himself in his demigod form, Jake in his dragon form, a tentacle monster design around Zick's 'O', and a smiley faced star guy, all high fiving each other with 'Club Hybros' stenciled on it.
"What the?" Jake and Zick yelped seeing that somehow they are also wearing the same T-shirts as well. They both glared at Taylor who they know must have used his father Loki's pranking magic to switch their shirts.
"Yeah Hybros!" Steven was so happy to see his friends wearing the club T-shirts that he pulled his own shirt off. Not realizing that he wasn't wearing anything underneath.
"Agh! My eyes!" Ophelia screamed. Covering her eyes, not wanting to see a half naked Steven.
"Come on, I did not need to see that." Trixie complained covering her eyes as well.
"I don't mind," Connie blushed still staring at Steven.
"Steven please put your clothes back on," Pearl pleaded.
"I've got this," Taylor said as he placed on finger on Steven creating a club T-shirt on him. Which Steven proudly showed off.
"Man I wish I was a Hybro," Howard complained.
"But you just said a few days ago that it was stupid," Randy reminded him.
"Yeah but now everybody's a Hybro so now I want to be one." Howard whined always giving in to peer pressure.
Just then June's bracelet started beeping. "Uh-oh looks like the Blood worms are invading the Molanoids again," June sighed.
"Is that a problem?" Marcus asked.
"Remember the quake of 75?" June asked.
"The one where half of downtown got demolished?" Judy recalled. "That was them?"
"Yup, and now I've got to mediate to prevent another earthquake." June explained.
"You want us to come with you?" Steven asked.
"No I got this. You guys should all be heading home." June said. With that June jumped away to do her duties. Heeding her advice the other heroes boarded the hovercraft and flew back to their respective homes.
"Well since we've got time, how about a game of Dungeons, Dungeons, and more Dungeons." Dennis suggested to Ophelia, Marcus, Jody, and Roger.
"I have no intention of ever playing that nerd game," Ophelia hissed.
"Oh did you know that most RPGs are actually based on real magic, and if a certain person should happen to have the right tools they can become a real wizard and the veil won't effect them." Dennis hinted.
Taking a second to allow all that to sink in. "You know I've always been curious to the appeal of those dumb games," Ophelia said accepting his invitation.
With the veil restored life more or less returned to normal. All around the world people reported the cause of the destruction to various reasons. Most blamed it on some natural phenomenon like tropical storms, or earthquakes, or tornadoes. Some said it was caused by rioters protesting the government. Others say it was some kind of gas that causes mass hypnosis or some junk like that. Like always people believe what they chose to believe and left it with that. All except one, Ronald Fryman. Most people in Beach City believed that the destruction around town was caused by a tidal wave, but not him. His conspiracy theory mind had already deduced that the damages around town could not be caused by a simple tidal wave. No, judging from the claw marks and bite marks, he concluded that the townsfolk must have been abducted by aliens! And all the destruction must have been from the people struggling to get away. He was just about to post his theory online when he noticed a video tape triple wrapped in tin foil. Not remembering having done that, but knowing that he only does this for his most important information so that they won't get erased; he played the tape and what he found even more astonishing than his wildest dreams.
"Okay is this alright?" a strange shark lady asked as she sat down on his chair.
"That's fine." Ronald recognizing his own voice.
"Phew where to begin? Well my name is Mako, and as you can see I'm a Sharkian. I live on Reef City which you can now see over there." Mako pointing out the window to the mysterious city that appeared with the veil went down.
"So how did you move your city here?" Ronald asked.
"Oh it's always been there, just invisible. And it's just not Reef City, there are hundreds of invisible cities around the world." Mako explained.
"And how did you all become visible?" Ronald asked.
"Not sure, but if I was to give a guess I'd say something must have happened to the veil." Mako replied.
"Veil?" Ronald asked.
"Yes, it is the magical barrier that keeps the human world and the magical world separate." Mako explained.
"So are you monsters plotting to destroy all of humanity?" Ronald asked.
"What no, if that was our intention we would have done it when we were still invisible." Mako laughed. "While there are some violent monsters out there, most of us are peaceful."
"Oh man peaceful invisible monsters, this will be great stuff for my blog." Ronald snickered.
"If it survives that it," Mako said sadly. "You see when the veil is restored then all evidence of the magical world will be erased."
"Don't worry I'll place special protection on this tape." Ronald assured her showing her a roll of tin foil.
"I don't think tin foil is going to work," Mako chuckled in amusement.
"Then I'll triple protect it," Ronald said.
"I hope it works, because I really enjoyed our time together and I hate to think that you'd just forget about me." Mako said sadly. The tape ends there.
After watching this video, shocked by what he had just seen, Ronald had a blank look on his face. After taking a second to let it all sink in, Ronald jumped for joy. "This is it!" he screamed. "This is the proof I've been looking for! I need to post this! There are invisible monsters living here, no, living everywhere! I'm not just going to Keep Beach City Weird. I'm going to Keep the World Weird!" Ronald got to work editing his web site renaming it Keep the World Weird. Unknown to him, a certain shark girl was sitting on his bed.
"I'm glad you still remember me," Mako whispered even though it was unnecessary since the veil made it impossible for Ronald to hear her. Not that it mattered since Ronald was so preoccupied with his work that he didn't even noticed when his door opened and closed on it's own when Mako left.
Epilogue
Somewhere beyond the universe, beyond reality, beyond imagination a single pink stream of light traveled to a single structure in the middle of nothingness. Upon arriving this light transformed into a beautiful tall woman. "You are late Rose Quartz," a strange being greeted.
"Forgive me Gatekeeper, but I had family business." Rose smiled.
"I know, it is the reason for this session after all." the Gatekeeper said as he opened the giant doors with an infinity symbol on it. "The others are waiting for you." the Gatekeeper informed her.
"Thank you," Rose said graciously as she entered the hall of the Divine Infinite Congressional Senate. There Rose found herself in a room with thousands of the most powerful beings in the multiverse who serve as the protectors of light. Beings like the Oracle of Kandrakar, the Ninja Tribunal, the Magical Elders, and the currently elected Chancellor the Ultimate Daimyo of the Battle Nexus.
"Ah now that we are all here, I call this special meeting of D.I.C.S. to order." The Daimyo announced banging his War Staff as if it was a gavel. "We all know why this senate was called. Rose Quartz, do you realized what have you done?" everyone turn their gaze to Rose.
"Yes I helped my son survive," Rose defending her actions.
"Rose Quartz I know that you are a new member to this senate, but you are aware that we have a vow of noninterference." the Daimyo said.
"I am aware, but didn't the noble members of the Ninja Tribunal break this vow when they participated in the battle against their ancient enemy the Shredder?" Rose countered.
"True we engaged the Shredder's forces," Kon-Shisho admitted.
"But we faked our deaths so that our acolytes can battle without us." Chikara-Shisho defended.
"And I didn't really interfere either. I merely projected myself as a hologram and gave my son and my allies the knowledge needed to defeat my ancient enemy." Rose argued.
"You lie! By fusing with them you indeed involved yourself." some of the members accused.
"Now I know that most of you don't understand how fusion works, but believe me, they still would have formed Queen Emerald without my presence. After all my son possess my Gem." Rose explained.
"And I suppose you had nothing to with Peridot, who up until now hated the idea of fusing, suddenly feeling compelled to do so?" another senator pointed out.
"Like I said, I simply guided them to what they needed to know. Whether they chose to follow me or not is on them." Rose smiled confidently. True the music she used had a hypnotic effect, but that was simply to guide the others in the proper dance steps. Also Rose liked to believe that Peridot would have joined in the fusion on her own anyway.
"Regardless your actions have tipped the balance of light and dark in the multiverse." the Daimyo said. Directing everyone's attention to a giant scale above the senate. With the hand pointing to the deep into the side of light.
"I didn't think defeating Prism would have tip the scales that much," Rose said.
"It wasn't just that. It was this." Daimyo used his War Staff to create an image of the Crystal Gems kneeling at June. "By swearing their allegiance to the Te Xuan Ze, they have increase the powers of light exponentially. No doubt the forces of darkness are already planning a way to restore the balance and use your interference as an excuse to cheat."
"Forgive me, I had no idea that my friends would do this." Rose apologized.
"It wasn't their fault, but this presents us with a problem. The dark forces will strike and strike hard; and they will be justified to do so. We won't be able to do anything until the balance tips in their favor again." the Daimyo warned, causing many of the senators to drop their heads in dread.
"I have a suggestion," one of the senators raising a hoof and speaking telepathically.
"The floor recognizes Waddles the Pig," the Daimyo announces.
"I know I am new to the senate. In fact I only became aware of this plane of existence when my own brain was hyper evolved when I ate the percepshrooms, but I believe according to our charter that while we ourselves are not allowed to directly interfere, every senator can enlist agents to act on our will. The Ninja Tribunal has their acolytes, the Oracle has his Guardians, the Elders have the Te Xuan Ze, even Rose Quartz has her Crystal Gems." Waddles thought out.
"Yes what is your point?" the senate asked.
"Being new I have yet to recruit my own agents," Waddles pointed out.
"But the balance is already so far into the side of light," the senate reminded him.
"True but I do not intend to recruit powerful beings. I plan to recruit normal humans to be my agents." Waddles explained. This of course brought huge debate through out the senate.
"Senator Waddles, you do know the dangers our agents face and you still want to recruit normal humans?" the Daimyo asked.
"Indeed, but I don't mean your typical run of the mill humans. I mean nonpowered humans that have become aware of the dangers to this universe and have face off against insurmountable odds with just courage, ingenuity, and determination. Since they are still mere humans, they will not upset the balance too much." Waddles explained. "They will serve as our first line of defense, looking for any abnormalities, confronting them; and if it is too much for them to handle, they will alert the more capable agents."
"And I take it you already have some potential candidates?" the Daimyo figured.
"Indeed," Waddle responded by pressing a button on his desk and soon the center of the senate floor was filled with pictures of people like Norman Babcock, Coraline Jones, Jimmy Neutron, Cindy Vortex, Dib Membrane, Marco Diaz, Tod and Riley Daring, as well as several hundred other people who have proven themselves.
"Yes these are all excellent choices," the Daimyo agreed. "Very well Senator Waddles, begin your selection process."
"Thank you sir," Waddles thought. Almost instantly the rest of the senate vanished leaving Waddles alone with his candidates. Scrolling through his selection he stopped at a familiar face. While he knew that this candidate would make an excellent agent, he is reluctant to do so. Thinking about it for a second, though it felt like hours, Waddles finally placed a check mark accepting the candidate Dipper Pines as an agent. "Sorry Mabel, but the world needs your brother more than you do." Waddles cried knowing that this decision will hurt his best friend.
The End