Aiden sat in the nurse's office, and tried to give up some kind of explanation. Luz Notceda, his erstwhile illicit at school lover and, also, source of his recent discomfiture, hovered near the nurse as she examined Aiden, chewing her knuckles nervously. Aiden was kind of happy to have a nurse between himself and Luz at this moment, because he had no idea how to explain why exactly, after they had made love in the bathroom, he had vomited all over the floor.
Oh, the creators of this pocket dimension revealed you're all fake people made to make me happy. No biggy.
Except it
was
a biggy.
The nurse in question was also his English teacher, Miss Ziegler. Aiden wasn't about to question the Academy of the Multiverse's hiring practices, or the amount of work that'd be putting on the pretty blond girl. She used her tongue depressor to lower his mouth, peered inside, and frowned. "Well, I don't see anything as particularly indicative of viral infections or bacteriological infections - you didn't eat anything that's gone off, did you?"
Aiden shook his head.
"Well," Miss Ziegler - Nurse Ziegler, he supposed - drew back and frowned, tossing the tongue depressor into the trash can. "If you feel sick again, come right in and we'll see about getting you checked over. You are the most important boy in school." Her lips quirked up wryly. "Wouldn't do to let you keel over from some paradimensional bug and let the Chathurian get out."
"R...Right," Aiden said.
Luz took his arm as he started to stand, looking at him nervously as they stepped out. Another student was waiting by the front doors leading into the nurse's office - an absolutely drop dead
gorgeous
Egyptian girl with olive brown skin, henna markings under her eyes to add a bit of accenting to her. She was good looking and alarmingly well muscled considering her frame and build. Aiden could see the faint strain of her slightly too small for her top white blouse.
"Hey Luz," the girl sai1d, then blinked as she saw Aiden. "Hey...is that the Primer kid?"
"Yeah, this is Aiden, Fareeha," Luz said, gesturing to Aiden. "Aiden, this is Fareeha Amnotri."
Aiden had no idea where she was from, originally.
Ah, that's because she's not
from
anywhere, is she?
His brain thought. Aiden gulped back some of his nausea, while Fareeha edged slightly to the side, shifting closer and closer to the door. Nurse Ziegler, who had just stepped to the door, brightened as she saw Fareeha.
"Ah, Fari, please, come in, for your...ah...check up!" the nurse slash English teacher said and Fareeha - Fari, Aiden shortened her to - smiled and blushed at the same time. The two of them ducked back into the room, and the door closed to almost a sliver, leaving itself just open enough for Aiden to hear the soft sound of feminine kissing. His cheeks heated as Luz looked back at the door, then at him, then at the door again. Her cheeks heated.
"Ethics!" she said, then laughed nervously.
Ethics! Right!
Aiden wanted to scream. Instead, he gave her a weak smile and stammered. "H-Hey, uh...I think I'm going to call in sick for the rest of the day and head home."
Those two girls are lezzing out like crazy in there...for me,
he thought. In any sane universe, the realization that a drop dead gorgeous blond woman and her definitely illicit and unethical love affair was happening
specifically
so that someone like him could oggle and watch and drool over it all would have been reason enough to consider himself the luckiest boy in the universe. The only problem was...well, everything around it. Aiden gave Luz a weaker smile, a pair of thumbs up that were barely extant, and started to back away. Luz, looking faintly unsure and hurt, lifted her hand in an unsure wave.
Then Aiden was around the corner and practically sprinting away.
Aiden knew that heading home was just delaying the issue. Besides, his unbelievably hot foster mom was there, waiting to lure him into quasi-incestuous isekai bullshit. The library? No, way, there was going to be some obscure fictional libarian there, with a short skirt and officious attitude and an ice cold heart just waiting to melt for him. The roof? Hah! This was an American style high school, but this stupid universe was drawing from enough tropes that he was pretty sure he'd run into six different anime girls with weird anime hair - all of whom would want to jump his bones.
That was the
issue
, wasn't it?
He ducked out of school, onto the sidewalk, and started to speedwalk down the street, hearing the cars whipping by and shifting left and right to avoid running into the pedestrians. He frowned and thought furiously:
So. The Source Caretakers need a regular prime human to keep this dimension stable to serve as a freaking roadblock for the Chathurian. Cool! Cool. Cool. And to keep the prime human happy, they created a load of...of...of...
P-zombie had been the term.
Aiden frowned.
What the freaking hell was a P-zombie?
Aiden sighed slowly. His fingers went to the bridge of his nose and he grumbled. "Fine. Fine. Fine." He turned, then started walking back towards school. The campus was nearly empty thanks to all the students being in class - but since the campus was a threadbare excuse for him to get a harem of barely legal harem of eighteen year old cuties from various fictional franchises that some extradimensional creature thought he'd appreciate, Aiden didn't feel particularly guilty about cutting class. He stepped into the library, looked left, looked right, and then did a wild guess as to who he'd run into. The cute girl from
The Mummy
? Someone from the World of Warcraft? Oh, no, he knew! It was going to be a comic character!
He stepped up to the front desk and blinked as he saw that he was not facing a cute girl, but rather, a hovering skull that was studded with brass and steel. A glowing, pulsing orb sat in the base of the skull, emitting a field that seemed to keep it suspended in the air, watching him. One eye socket was empty, the other had a glowing, Borg style red eye-laser that swept over his face. Aiden opened his mouth in confusion - but then a husky croon behind him filled his ear, modulated only
faintly
with the sound of computerized digitization.
"Can I help you, Mr. Dalbert?"
Aiden turned around and blinked as he found himself eye to eye with a bountiful pair of breasts, barely contained within a...what he could only describe as a technogothic corset, with rib-bindings and cogwheel insignia intermixed with memento mori style skulls on the belly button and hips and shoulder clasps. Said breasts were on a woman, and said woman was a fusion of man, machine, and pure sex. Her face was elegant and hard edged, while her exposed flesh looked faintly gray and clammy, as if she was only
mostly
alive. The effect was less 'ew, zombie' and more 'auh, weirdly hot zombie.' Her hair was platinum blond, and her one still human eye was ice blue. The other was a gleaming cybernetic prosthetic that glowed with an inner red light.