One Piece: Overlord Buggy, The Blues

Phallenmora, The Entertainment Of Gods, History of Graphen, And Future Plans

Looking around, I found myself in a gray room, and after wondering where I was, another thing came to mind: "Did I die defeating Grim?"
I looked around, and I didn't recognize the room, but it was full of medical equipment, which I was sitting up from laying on a.. medical bed to look around.
I noticed lights were on, and the many different weird looking pieces of equipment, all of which I could not recognize.
"Well, I guess that they all have some form of purpose, but I still don't know where I am." Turning my head to search the circular room, I found a door, and something came to mind. "Why is everything gray? Not even white? OR black? I... Um... Does this mean I am dead?"
I got off the bed, and realized that I had my right arm back. I felt my eyes widen as I stared at my fixed arm, moving it around, checking that I had it back.
"Why do I have my arm back? Didn't Grim destroy it? I don't WANT it back! Please! Someone tell me what happened!"
I yelled into the gray room, only for no one to answer, and for an echo to ask me exactly what I wanted to know.
I sighed. "This is getting me nowhere. Do I... just leave? Like.. out the doors?"
I walked to the doors, and found the conference room on Graphen, also colored in gray.
"Why am I here? Dang it! Why did I not pay any attention to the layout! And! Why is this place also gray!?"
Walking around the massive center table, I walked to the doors that I knew, the ones leading to the outside. Pushing them open was harder than I thought, as friction refused to release the doors for a second, until I jumped at the doors, and they slammed open. I fell to the ground on the other side of the doors, and dusted myself off, only to find the hallway, as well as the same annoying gray color.
I facepalmed before growling a little before walking down the hallway.
"First, it's a hospital or something. Then, it's the meeting room that's like.. the first room at the end of this damn hallway! And now, it's the damn hallway! Why did the creator of this place decide that gray was a good choice? Must've had a sale or something!"
"You know, you once hated the colors we wore, and now you want a lot of it?"
I turned to find myself, Buggy, leaning against the wall. This only confused me, as I felt my whole face scrunch up to convey just how confusing this was.
"... Aren't you... Like... Supposed to be in my head? Are you a figment of my imagination? You were in my head before.. and the last time I saw you was when I was being stupid and needed a push to survive, so..... how are you here right now?"
I saw him cross his arms, and then lift his head to meet my own gaze.
"I don't know how I'm here. Yes, I think I'm supposed to be in our head, and no, I shouldn't be a figment of your imagination. I'm just.. here."
I stared at him, and stated outright "You're no help, you know that? I mean, outside of internal, mental affairs, and in a fight, you aren't that helpful. That's what I meant."
He raised an eyebrow. "Yes, I know what you meant. Now, thanks to.. well, your influence, I have come up with some.. thing.. to help US out. I don't have full proof, but if we leave this hallway, and go out the entrance, we may find something. And before you ask, I've wandered every interior room of this place, it's all gray, and there is not any other exit that I could find."
He stared at me, proud that he answered some questions that I didn't even ask yet. He was smug, and I just said "Well, thanks for being smart. But uhm.. did you try... Ooh! Did you try observation Haki?"
"Yes. It doesn't work. As in, it will not even manifest."
I was trying to outsmart myself at this point, so I ended up turning and walking down the hallway that I was originally going down.
"Hey, aren't you going to bring me along?" echoed throughout the hallway, all the way down it.
I stopped for a second, and only said "Well, if you're a part of me, you should know the answer, right?" And I simply continued on.
All that I could see was gray, even the light itself was gray, and I just ignored it, trying to rack my brain for answers on what was going on. I felt myself start to doze off while walking, and before I did anything else, I felt my other self tap me on the shoulder.
"Hey, you... uhm.. we were about to walk into the door, can you not doze off like that?"
I shook my head, rubbed my eyes, and stopped in front of the main entrance door.
"Uh.. yeah. Sure. I don't know why that happened, but let's just see outside."
I pushed against the door, and found it surprisingly easy to open it, as I fell face first into the ground, or what I thought was ground. Lifting myself off the ground that was surprisingly soft, as it didn't hurt me when I landed, I found that I was on white clouds, and that the door behind me swung closed, which was weird as I didn't remember the door being that way.
"Oh..kay then. Is this maybe a dream?"
"Nope. This is not a dream. I wouldn't be here if that was the case."
Buggy, or myself, put a hand out and pulled my to my feet.
"Thanks."
"No problem. Now, uh.. where are we?"
"I don-"
"Do not worry about where you are, my project."
That voice was one I hadn't heard for over a year, and the only one I felt I could trust. I turned to find a androgynous figure sitting on a throne made of clouds, in a sea of clouds, sitting in the middle of a palace made of clouds as well.
"Director? What am I doing here? Also, where is here?"
Director themself ran their hand over their face, and sighed.
"Do not worry, my child. I will explain everything. Why don't you come take a seat? It may be a while."
Some couches formed out of clouds, and I looked at myself, we both nodded and then went to sit on the couch.
I sat with my elbows on my knees, hands clasped together while the other me sat with his arms crossed. Up close, I could tell that Director was extremely tired.
"I thought deities didn't get tired."
Director then shook their head, and spoke "Do not worry about me, your creator, I have just been going through a lot since I first sent you to your current world. It was all stressful, and so, I would like to answer any questions you had before asking me about why I am stressed and tired." Director leaned back in their throne, asking "So, what do you want to know? I can answer all of your questions as long as you ask them."
Both me and myself looked at each other, then turned to Director.
"Um.. where are we?"
"We are currently in between worlds. You asked yourself why everything was gray when you awoke, right? That is because I had frozen all time in your world, just to make it a little easier to tell you everything. Freezing time makes all color disappear, and so that is why everything was gray. As for HERE, my child, this place was thrown together very quickly to have this meeting of sorts, which is why, while it does look like a palace of clouds, it was just some quick work with creation. It is also inaccessible by any other deities, but that's because none of them know."
I looked at them for a second, and asked "So, why are we here again?"
"Wow, your original life REALLY affected you, your memory has become foggy from just a couple minutes ago. Let me say, you are here for some explanation, as I need to do so, but I wanted your original questions out of the way before I started to tell you things."
I nodded. 'Well, obviously something crazy happened while I was doing whatever. But I have to ask my questions first.'
My other self spoke up "Are we dead?"
I looked to Director for some closure on that question.
"No, you are not dead. As I had said before, this place is for a meeting, not to kill you."
"Cool. Uhm.. thanks for not killing me? Or.. us?"
"Well, myself, that brings another question. Why do I exist here?"
I could tell Director looked at both of us before speaking "I could not have this meeting without the existence of both of you could I? You are one in the same, and yet you are seperate minds sharing a consciousness. You see, my child, he is more of an addition onto yourself when you transferred into this new world of yours. I know I said that you would replace the original soul, but I never said they would disappear. Unless I did, in which, something, somehow either went wrong or something was tampered with, both of which are very possible. Now! Onto your next question, I only have a limited time for all of this before the other deities decide you need to be back."
"Forcing this? Okay.. um.. how about...."
"Since the both of us are one in the same, as you said, what was the '30 Second Full Awakening' we were given?"
Director sighed again.
"Already to those questions. Not anything else?"
"Nope, unless we forgot something, which we most likely did. So, if we ask questions out of the blue, don't mind that we didn't ask them before."
"Fine. If you must know, that was a gift given to you by the deity known as Lentor. I don't know how he got through the security of this world, but You were given it nonetheless, which saved your life. If you hade not used it, you would have died, and ended up meeting me no matter the circumstance."
"Uhm.. thanks? For not killing me?"
"You should be thanking Lento-"
"That reminded me of a question I forgot! Oh, um, sorry, please continue."
"As I was saying, you should thank Lentor, as he was the one to give you that. And aside from that, I couldn't have stopped it from happening before.... You know what, my child? On the topic of gifts, I should list them off! All of the deities watching you for entertainment were generous and gave you a gift of some kind! Would you like to know them?"
Director was sounding angry, forcing the words to be spoken near the end, and I could only squeak out "Sure?"
Director then blew up at me and myself.
"OH, LENTOR WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE! WHILE HE GAVE YOU THAT, OBSERVER DECIDED THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT! AND GRAN DJOR DECIDED TO ADD ONTO THAT, AND GIVE YOU ACCESS TO ALL TYPES OF HAKI, YOU JUST HAD TO ACTIVATE IT, AND THEY WOULD ALL WORK! YOU STILL HAD TO ACTUALLY LEARN HOW TO USE IT, BUT WITH YOUR CURRENT ABILITY THAT I GAVE YOU, YOU LEARNED IT LIKE NOTHING! THE GODS, ASIDE FROM ME, WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE ACCESS TO YOU, LET ALONE GIVE YOU GIFTS! THEY WERE ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO WATCH, AND YET, SOMETHING IS WRONG ENOUGH FOR THEM TO JUST DO WHATEVER THEY WANTED!"
Me and myself leaned back when Director got up and walked towards us, but they stopped, and turned to sit back down, sighing a heavy sigh.
"I.. am sorry about that, my child. To explain my outburst, you were originally supposed to not be accessed by any other deity than myself, and yet, I can only think of one way that they had done so, which is to use their 'Higher Authority' to gain access. Let alone the fact that they shouldn't have been able to do so, but they have done so without so much as a word from 'One'. And that is the main reason why I am tired. It is because I have been trying to find why you had such abilities so easily. Originally, I had thought that my own gift to you of being able to take anything and everything and use it to create something else, would be the explanation of why, and so, I threw those thoughts away, until they came back and hit me in the face when Lentor up and gave you a 'power up' as you would call it. That stirred up everything, as I then dug around what had been done to you to find some gifts were bestowed upon you while I wasn't looking. I am mad at them, but I can't do anything TO them, directly at least."
I was still leaning back, holding my arms in front of me for a possible attack, with the same going for myself, still sitting next to me, making sure he wouldn't get hurt either. We looked at each other again, and I spoke "Um....."
"Oh, sorry, you had a question before hand, and I showed you some of my anger. I'm sorry my child, what were you going to ask before?"
Slowly, I fixed my position to have my arms crossed, still concerned.
"Ooooohkay then.... Um... What did I want to ask before? It was something about.."
"You thought of it after saying 'thanks for not killing me?'."
"Oh. OH RIGHT! Um.. why is my arm back?"
"Your arm is back because in this place, you are your true self, which also includes your ideal looks. It also suppresses your power, mainly because you are here, not physically, but rather, spiritually, which also allows your ideal appearance to manifest."
I looked to the side, and only said "Oh-kay then. Weird, but all right. Now! Um.. what is..."
I started to think back on things I wanted to ask. 'there was so much said just then, what? What are some things Director just said? Didn't they say that I got other gifts, or did I just completely imagine that up? Other gifts? Didn't I also learn of some of them? What is up with me?'
"So Director, can you tell me more about these.. other gifts from.. other deities that I was given?"
"If you must know of your gifts, I find it will piss off the other deities that messed with you in the first place. I bet that they had thought you would have never learned them, but just to screw with them, I shall tell you again. You, my child, were given multiple personalities by Observer, and the best thing I can tell you is that you have already met one of them, and it comes in the form of that personality switch you call 'Lucifer'. He is one of your other personalities, and while you have others, they are more like different changes to your own personality, the different modes you have, if I remember correctly, the 'Zen' and your 'Chillax' modes. And as one more message to completely ruin their fun, I'll tell you that there is another, more feminine one. You have yet to name it, but she has also yet to come out, so I guess you'll have to see later about that one, but I feel just a bit happier knowing that I can screw up their own interference! I cannot wait to see how you add on to this! Please make it worth while that I did such a thing!"
I sweat dropped. 'Why is Director so happy about messing with them? Can't they do something without their knowledge like it was nothing? There should be more caution, right?'
"W-well thank you for that knowledge, I'll look out for it, and I may~ try to do something, but it will probably be a small thing. I don't know what, but I can MAYBE do something."
For a second there was silence, until my other self broke it.
"Speaking of other deities, didn't you want to ask about Director's name?"
"Yeah, I did. My gosh, thanks other me! I would've never remembered that, and then disappeared back into our world, and then remembered to ask! Sorry that I thought you weren't useful before!"
My other self had a smug smile that changed into a straight face, and voiced a response "We had this conversation before. You really do need me to keep your memory and everything in line."
I inhaled, acting hurt. "You don't trust me to do that myself?"
"Ah. The dramatic side you rarely showed in your last life. Now, can we get back to the topic at hand?"
"What was it again?"
"What Director's name is, you idiot."
"You didn't need to emphasize that." I turned from staring daggers into myself, and looking calmly at Director. "What is your name? If I can ask?"
Director tilted their head, leaning on a hand, showing themself having calmed down from the excitement of petty revenge against other, apparently higher ranking, deities. "My dear child, while I would have loved to tell you for the first time, you have already heard mention of my name. The others..." They scowled for a second at the mention of others, which I took as mentioning the deities. "Have already spoiled my name."
Me and myself looked at each other again.
"What is it?"
"I do know it, since I am a part of you rather than you being a part of me. I do have access to basically all of your memories, so let me enlighten you to a point you can come up with it yourself." He turned and faced his whole body towards me, and I did the same. Facing each other on the couch, my other self started my saying "Your thoughts during first having the 30 Second Full Awakening appear. Those thoughts were angry at them too, right?"
"Yeah."
"What was something mentioned multiple times?"
"Um..."
'What WAS something mentioned multiple times? I really only remember the fight, and I just barely remember that, so.. what was mentioned multiple times? Was I angry at this? Because I do kinda remember going through the new messages and finding things to be mad about, especially in that situation.'
Raising an eyebrow, I spoke "You do know how bad my memory is right?" While moving my hand in the air, swiping in it. What happened next made me jump a little, as a blue screen appeared where my hand swiped.
I noticed that myself and Director were both confused as well, before Director put their head into their hand, and spoke quietly "It seems like I missed some other things too. It's too bad, I would have liked to rub it in their faces more that you knew about all of them, but I seem to be wrong."
I heard that, but ignored it, then looking at the blue screen before me, and it looked like a phone screen with a list of messages from different people. "Of course it has to be a phone. Why does every single isekai world have this? It's become overdone, so which stupid deity was all like 'Oh, I'm so awesome that I'll give this.. entertainment the ability to text with us!', which one?"
Director sighed, rubbing their temples, and responded "I'll have to give you a rain check on that. Just finding who had tampered with you before was a painfully long process, so wait until next time, I can't just do everything on a whim when other deities are mixed in."
"Okay then."
'I trust you on that, so maybe I do need some revenge on them myself. Sadly I can't do that without a lot of planning, so I'll have to deal later.'
I turned back to the screen, tapped on one of the names, and I read over the message from Gran Djor, then switching to one from Mornisa, repeating the process, and doing the exact same thing from Lentor's message.
Looking at all 3, Gran Djor had nothing, but Lentor had a name: Phallenmora. After taking a quick look at Mornisa's message, I found a nickname: Phalla.
Looking up from my message thing, I asked "Is your name... Phallenmora?"
My other self pointed finger guns at me, and said "Bingo!" While Director, now known as Phallenmora, spoke "I really am surprised what 18 years in one world can do. Yes, my name is indeed Phallenmora." And I could see them smile a little, just enough to change back to a straight face in a split second.
"can I just call you Mora? Or would you prefer Director still?" I asked, swiping downwards in the hopes that the screen would disappear.
'Mental note: don't text them.'
"My child, you may call me whatever you wish, be it Director, Phallenmora, any nickname steming from Phallenmora, or even mother if you so chose."
Looking at them, I asked "You.. are a.. goddess?"
"No, I am not, as I am not definable by and gender standards humanity has created, I am a deity, not a god or goddess, just a deity. But if you so chose, you could indeed call me mother, my child."
"Well, I'm just gonna go with... Mora. It's short enough for me to remember easily, and it perfectly fits the nickname idea."
"Mora. If that is what you choose, I have no issue with such a name. I know how much you like shorter names."
'Mora. Replace Director with Mora. I'll have to remember that, but I have my other self, the actual Buggy, to remind me if needed.'
My other self spoke up "So, off of that, why can't the-"
Mora's expression went dark.
"I'm sorry my child, it seems as though this place is compromised. I had hoped I would have finished speaking with you before they found out, but I can only do so much."
"Bu-"
"No buts, my child. I must return you before anything else happens. I am sorry that is has been cut short, but it is good to know you are having fun."
Mora smiled.
"How do you-"
"I am a deity, now, continue to have fun, and do whatever you want in this world of yours."
Before I could even get another word in, me and myself were whisked off back through the invisible doors and to the room I woke up in, immediately losing consciousness.