At The Wedding Pt 19

"Wow!"

Neo nodded. The camera Manami had given her auto tracking and giving them a good crowd view while Manami shot closer in without intruding to get a variety of angles and shots.

Walt smiled and held Penny's and Neo's hands as they watched the dances. "You girls like that sort of thing?"

Penny nodded. "The high-speed aerial maneuvering during Star's dance was quite impressive indeed. I wonder what her top-flight speed and mobility capabilities actually are? Perhaps we can get in some joint training someday!"

Neo nodded and texted. [Wondering if I can do something like the holograms are.... want to experiment?]

Walt laughed and when they both looked at him questioningly he kissed them both. "I love you both so much! I was kind of thinking the same thing! I think we'll include "Tamaranian dancing" to the test pilot qualifications and yeah, Neo, I think there's some good practical uses if you can fugure out how to make your semblance work like that. "

Pyrrha nodded. "With how somewhat sauced James is it's impressive he didn't vomit."

Willow nodded her head too along with the other "dance instructors". They were all expecting the others wanting to incorporate the moves they'd seen.

Ahnassi chuckled. "Ahnassi also think similar thoughts seeong smooth moves but was being the quiet cat. It spoils the romance, yes?"

Walt grinned sheepishly. "Sorry. I suppose it's just how most of us are wired. Kudos to all three if them though it's quite the spectacle."

Neo nodded. [Good showmanship. Nice performance.]

Walt heard the whirring of tiny wheels. "Oh! You ladies done with coffee? Pass them here, please." They did and he started exchanging them with tiny Muggy making him "so happy!"

Penny took the opportunity to converse with Neo. "How much will James remember?"

Neo grinned and pointed at the tape. She gave a thumbs-up. James definitely won't miss much including the plans for Walt's birthday they were busily working on.

Willow smiled. "Good. That's a relief. They deserve to keep as many of their happy memories of all this as possible. I wish them all the best!"

Kali nodded and squezzed her friends hand but glanced around the table. "Walt still suspects nothing?"

They all nodded... except for Yang and Merida being the newest ones. "Och? Whit's a' this now?" Merida asked.

The girls blinked and smiled. They'd actually understood that one! Merida's accent and manner of speaking were difficult for them to understand her. Still they were trying hard. She was one of them now and she Walt already seemed to have hit off. "Walters birthday is coming up and we've been planning it for awhile!" Penny said smiling.

"It falls on what used to be a major holiday in the before time and still is now," Lifts-Her-Tail said. "Technically it's "Unification Day" for Prime now but to Master Walter, and others, they still look forward to it as "Independence Day" in this region."

Nora grinned. "Apparently there's all kinds of good food, music and fireworks! Totally sounds like it's party time!"

Roberta nodded. "Americans used to celebrate it with such displays. Particularly in this region."

Neo grinned texting. [Roberta and some of the others are from a similar time and settings of 'Earth' to degrees. Their advice has been extremely helpful!]

Sayoko nodded. "It's one of the areas I can't help with. In my world American Independence didn't happen. To put it simply the Americas became the Holy Britannian Empire after the failed Washington rebellion and then the Britannia losses in Europe to Napoleon causing the nobles to flee to America. It's where my setting diverges from this world's significantly. The Empire rebuilt and reformed based in the colonies rising up to become the dominant super power. My people and many others were eventually conquered by them. It's actually quite fascinating and Walter has been explaining a few things to me."

Demona in her human form nodded. "Mines pretty similar until the 1990s."

"The 70's and 80's for mine," Baroness said.

"Mine is roughly the same until the rise of significant amounts of mutants and other people with powers. Especially in the forties and fifties," Mystique said.

"It's the same for Manami and I as well," Tsuyu said. "The rise of "quirks" changed the world but it seems to be similar in the 2010s through 2020s."

"Mine also becomes quite divergent around ze time of the Second World War," Curie said. "There are minor differences before but that's were ze changes really start piling up." She smiles. "But considering my setting is a post-apocalyptic wasteland devastated by war zis ees quite nice in many ways."

Senko smiled. "It is interesting that we come from so very many different versions of the same "earth". I suppose that's to be expected though."

Yang smiled too. "Well I dunno about all that... but a big party sounds good! So what's James got to do with it?"

Blake nodded. "I'm curious about that myself. What was he going about? He was kind of incoherent."

Sienna smiled thinking about her date with Walt. "Well... you see..." she quickly explained the rodeo they'd attended. "... so Walt and I surprisingly enjoyed ourselves quite a lot at the rodeo... and judging by his reactions he definitely likes Cowgirls as well as "Cow girls". Especially the minotaurs and other naturally occurring strong ones. James has one that needs a home and would likely be a good fit and we can get Walt some more from her instance through James and hopefully not alert Walt to the surprise. " She sees most of the others smiling and nodding but some of the others are surprised. "What?"

Blake blinked. "I just... you're advocating for Walt to "own" more "Faunus like" animal girls. I'm... surprised is all."

Sienna crossed her arms and sighed but nodded smiling. "I know what you're thinking. I worriedly thought the same thing. "Sienna Khan, mighty White Fang leader. Fallen to human dick" she shrugged and smiled looking at Walt smiling, Muggy running around in circles with joy after each coffee mug he was presented with and Toadsworth being stuffy and huffing about something. "And that's partly true I suppose and you can laugh all you like. But tell me... Walt owns everyone at this table... how many of you feel like that's a bad thing? A negative? Because I don't. I know he owns me but I don't feel any of that. I only feel how much he loves me. How much he loves and cares for us. Infact it feels like we own just as much or more of him then the other way around."

Sienna looked around the table. While some were still surprised the majority either knew, understood and smiled nodding along. The exception was some of the "bad" girls who pointedly looked away. They weren't ready to admit any such feelings yet... but she was syre by their reactions she was close to the mark. She caught Neo's and Penny's looks. They'd seen it too! That meant that they hadn't accepted it yet... but they "felt" the same on some level.

Sienna smiled. "Walt and his Companies aren't the-" she froze.

Willow reached out and patted her hand, nodding and smiling. "They aren't the Schnee Dust Company. They're making the best choices they can to treat Characters ethically within the laws of this world while using said laws to protect them in a way."

"Well that was certainly interesting thing to over hear!" The girls see Hoofer and Roger standing there. "Count us in by the way!" Rog said happily lifting his drink in a toast. "Charles too I'm sure! To a successful conspiracy!"

Hoofer laughed seeing the girls grins. "You all really get it and you're not wrong. The driving **** and motivator for those "property rights and laws" was Walt and 3S. He wasn't alone but they definitely quietly lead the way. Didn't nobody see the writing on the wall back then... but Walt did. He lead the way. When he formed his Company and started buying massive amounts of characters he started a run and other companies and corporations not wanting to get left out did it too buying up characters in a panic. They all played right into his hand and RealDreams quietly cleaned up getting even richer... hell they might have been in on it with him!" Hoofer chuckled. "I wouldn't put it oast him the old poker player. They weren't all as scrupulous mind you, but they all saw the importance of protecting their new "investments" afterwards." He chuckled and clapped his hands. "But enough about boring stuff! So the cowboy finally sees the appeal of "Cow girl" type Characters?"

Sienna grinned. "It was surprising how much some of the Characters were into the rodeo." She blushed a little but laughed out loud. "I think some of them enjoyed themselves more than the riders and ropers and even the crowd! Walt wasn't as interested in the cosmetic ones but the competitively enhanced ones and the natural ones really peaked both of our interests!"

Hoofer nodded smiling. "I completely understand that! I got bit by the Pony girl bug years ago myself! Competitive racing and the like." He rubbed his chin. "I tried getting Walt interested in putting a team together but he brushed it off and was less than interested. I think I get it now. He's too "cowboy". Normal racing was probably not his thing... I wonder if maybe I should try something like that? What do you think of barrel racing Pony girls?"

Rog laughed. "Sounds like you're going to be getting back into the game, to me!"

Hoofer shrugged but smiled. "We'll see."

"See what?" Walt asked returning to their tables.

Penny patted his seat. "You're missing the end of Aelita's dance! What kept you, Master?"

Walt quickly retook his seat. "Sorry. Just for a moment though... theres something I want to check out. Muggy remembered something that he wanted to tell me."

'What?' Neo signed. 'Trouble?'

Walt shrugged. "Maybe. Maybe not. He said something about beeping and a blinking light in the gift pile. I told him to tell Jimbo and Chuck when he gets a moment. Hopefully before-"

There's a scream. Two naked people go running by. Walt looks at the shambling space zombie creatures and shrugs. "Nah," he pulls his weapons and grins. The bowie knife seems almost to glimmer. "Nevermind. Trouble started. Round two."

[Walter Stark Penny Polendina F.R.I.D.A.Y Neopolitan Pyrrha Nikos Nora Valkyrie Yang Xiao Long Blake Belladonna Kali Belladonna Sienna Khan Willow Schnee Glynda Goodwitch Zwei Ahnassi Lifts-Her-Tail Senko Sayoko Shinozaki Roberta Cisneros Haruna Sasha Blouse Ilulu Raven Manami Aiba also with Tsuyu Asui Haruhime Sanjouno The Baroness Demona Mystique Pirotess Lydia Aela the Huntress Serana Mission Vao Curie Ada PAM KL-E-O and Merida with Special Guests

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At the Wedding Pt 20

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