He accepts Merida as a gift

Special thanks to Wolf13 for help writing this chapter.

You adjust your tie as you walk over to the on-site chapel your dad had built on their property specifically for your wedding. You had on a nice three-piece suit and had a peony flower and an orange dandelion flower in your suit pocket. Your hair was expertly combed by Becca, one of the Beauty-type pokemon trainer maids.

Already in front of the large chapel (it could be considered a mega church at this point) were several lanes of vehicles that were valet parked. Several early bird guests were already entering the chapel with a character or two on their arms or carrying a gift. Though you did note with a bit of surprise, a guest or two with a prime worlder partner.

Starfire, Gaige, Diana, and Erza were standing in front of the basket containing Merida to keep it hidden from the expected exit point for Walt or Uncle Hoss as he is known to you, to arrive from. The exit point being a fox shrine gate that was currently being messed with by a Toad and a red shelled Koopa. From the disturbed grass, it looked like someone had knocked it over with their car at some point.

“Turn it to the left,” You shouted at them as you noticed that the shrine wasn’t pointed the right way. Startled, they fumbled the shrine, knocking it over again and they scrambled to get it back up. Diana picked up the shrine and set it up right but it was still pointed the wrong way when it started glowing and a large portal gate thing appeared in front of it.

Out of the gate appeared multiple beautiful, and smartly dressed women on horseback who spread out to the sides before with a loud roar a monstrous two-lane suv gunned through the gate and tore up the grass. This sent some nearby birds, harpies, angels, and bird pokegirls flying off in fright.

At least you assume that is what was happening (other than the birds, you saw that); since the gate was pointed away from you, you only saw the back of the gate and the horseback girls when they spreaded out.

“Should we move?” Erza asked.

“Nah, let them come around to us,” you say as the SUV’s engine shuts off. “It's a good thing we gave the shrine enough space around it.” Watching Walt monster truck some of your guests’ cars would’ve been awesome but might’ve delayed the wedding a bit.

“Are you sure we arrived in the correct location? That sign says ‘Welcome to James’ and Aelita’ and Starfire’s wedding’ but I do not see one for Jimbo’s wedding. Are we possibly early or late?” The voice of a Penny Polendina asked as you heard a door open.

“My gates go wherever another of my gates are, so we should be in the right place,” another voice said.

“Jimbo is my nickname for James,” a familiar country voice clarified. “I wonder where he is, would’ve thought he would’ve wanted to see his favorite uncle arrive in style.”

“Oh, did Uncle Marlie arrive? I thought his ship was stuck in orbit,” You shouted at him with your hands around your mouth.

"Jimbo, you little shit, where are ya!?"

"Behind the gate, it got knocked over." You clarified for him

You heard a whistle and then the horseback folk turning in formation and trotting around the gate to properly present themselves in front of you. The gate disappeared as they got properly in sight. You grin at a familiar cowboy hatted man leading the formation in perfect sync with one another. They'd obviously been training together.

As they trotted over the big man grinned and called them to a stop. He patted the foxgirl seated in front of him and then carefully dismounted himself passing her the reins. "Ladies! It's my distinct pleasure to introduce you to my favorite pain in the ass, the one and only, James ‘Jimbo’ Gardner! Accept no substitutes!"

He held out his hand and when you took it he pulled you into a bear hug that lifted you off your feet. "I'm proud of you and so happy for you, Lil' Star and Aeli, Jimbo! Yall ever need anything jest say th' word, they will never find the bodies! It's good to see you... and neither of us in trouble for the moment! If we all don't die horribly today, come out and visit sometime!"

“Well, if anything happens, I’m sure Aqua would resurrect us if we give her enough wine,” you shrug your shoulders a bit, there shouldn’t be anything truly dangerous around with the uptick of security your parents’ setup. “All else fails, I’m sure we have enough money to do an old DnD style resurrection.”

"Aqua," He shook his head snorting. "Hard pass." You roll your eyes a little, Uncle Walt has always been bitter since the time an Aqua wasted all of your family’s and his money in a Konosuba world and got you and your siblings taken by the debt collectors when she was supposed to be watching you all. You didn’t see the problem, the succubus were very friendly and just gave us sweets in exchange for running errands that they couldn’t do without exposing their brothel from the church.

Then again, Walt also bragged about being a better resurrector then Aqua multiple times so maybe it's something about that. Maybe it's also the classic necromancer vs deity conflict also playing out.

He did smile though. "That reminds me I gotta stop in and see Wiz sometime. She sent me a really nice letter about some items that she wants to make."

You rolled your eyes but smiled. Walt was always nice to Wiz and she genuinely enjoyed his company. Something about birds of a feather or something. Jamie always thought they were sweet with each other but they were just good friends... or were they?

Walt grinned. "Anyways Jimbo! Come meet the ladies! Up there on Teddy is the Divine Senko. To her right is my sweet Penny and to her left my dear Neo! Next to Penny we have my precious Pyrrha and my darling Kali and my special mate Ahnassi and the incomparable Lifts-Her-Tail and then next to Neo we have my lovely Willow and my beautiful Sienna and..."

He went on and on as his ladies came over from the SUV. He went on and on some more introducing you to everyone personally. This includes the corgi Zwei, the robots/droids and very heavily customized gynoids he'd brought along before finally tapping his head with a wink, "... and of course, last but by no means least, my amazing Friday as well."

(("Congratulations, James,")) Friday said her voice emanating from Walt's phone, the familiar AI bringing a nostalgic smile to your face. ((“It's a pleasure to see you again as always. Best wishes for you and your family on this auspicious day and may the rumors of your demise continue to be greatly exaggerated, improbable and entertaining as per usual. Apologies in advance to you and your family for Walter. He and the ladies are both very overly excited and happy for you. Please bare with them.”))

Walt grunted. "Ok, Friday that's enough."

(("At least there's a small hope for some proper decorum from the ladies. They've been practicing. Walter on the other hand... well you know his track record for every 99 successes there's one critical failure and the odds of failure increase exponentially when-")) You start chuckling as Friday continues to rib us a little.

"Enough, Friday!" Walt growled.

(("Of course, Sir.")) Friday chuckled before terminating the message.

“Well, I’m glad y’all can make it,” you gave them a little bow in thanks. “But before we can head on in, there is some business we need to get to.” You wave your arm towards where Starfire and the others were standing in front of the basket containing Merida.

“Hello Friend Uncle Hoss and Friend Penny and Friend…” Starfire continued until she greeted all of Walt’s entourage with the others chiming in and commenting on their outfits.

“I know that on Earth and Tamaran it’s usually traditional for guests to bring gifts to the marriage partners however, today we have a gift for you,” Starfire said as the set of your girls parted to reveal Merida with her pretty bow ribbon on her head and a large wine bottle awkwardly held in her lap.

“Now, Star, while I appreciate the booze and archery equipment, why is there a pretty lass in the middle of it all?” Merida let out a huff before she grabbed one of the bottles and drank it. Once she was finished, she answered Walt.

“‘Jimbo’ ‘ere, wants tae clear up some debt or promises? Something aboot getting ye a princess tae rock wi’,” Merida shrugged. Walt looked a bit flabbergasted at this response before he facepalmed.

“Wow Jimbo, you really recall that promise of yours after all this time?,” Walt shook his head. You were about to reply when Starfire made a comment.

“James’ promise and debt book is twice as large as the Book of Grudges,” she said. You bowed your head in embarrassment. Walt just let out a belly laugh.

“You still have those?” He shook his head before approaching Merida. “Welcome to the family…” Walt held out a hand which Merida took to stand up and left the booze behind. After a brief exchange, the whole group of your guests started walking over to the chapel and you went off to greet more arriving guests. The Toad and Koopa gathered some of their friends and carried the basket off to keep the basket and its contents safe somewhere.

As the characters and prime worlders left the parking lot/parking field, some of the bushes close to Walt’s Canyonero SUY started shaking (the horses had been led off by Gerudo women). Out of the bushes left a small cluster of kids, all with either deer like or raccoon like features. As they approached, one of the smaller ones was pushed ahead with a long stick in her hands.

She shakily held the stick as she looked back at her friends who urged her on. She swallowed nervously before pointing the stick at the Canyonero and poked the sharp end at the massive SUV. She smiled as nothing happened and looked at her friends, grinning gleefully.

“I knew you could do it Sophie, you touched the great hunter,” one of the taller kids patted Sophie’s head as the group started walking away. Gwrrr. The group froze and looked back.

The SUV’s engine let out a low growl as its headlights turned on and the kids scattered as the Canyonero, the natural enemy of deer and woodland creatures everywhere, gave a roar. ((“Self-Defense: Babysitter mode activated”))

And thus the first fight of the James/Aelita/Starfire wedding has begun.

“Friday? Why are you chuckling?”

((“No reason Dave”))

“Friday…”

((“Just having a little fun Walter”)) Walt shook his head before he went back to his conversation with Merida.