“A manga?”
Penn-Penn nodded, his flippers outstretched and apparently manipulating something Shinji couldn’t see. “Many planes in the multiverse begin as someone’s fantasy. ‘Each reality is but the dream of another, and each sleeper a god unknowing,’ to quote a colleague of mine.”
Shinji sighed and looked around. “So who dreamt this up?”
“Don’t know,” the penguin admitted. “Tracking a plane’s origin is tricky, especially when a degree of time travel is involved.” He ceased his tinkering and nodded to himself. “Excellent.”
“What?”
“I’ve located a suitable plane. I’d have taken you to an alternate version of this world, but you’re already there, if you catch my drift.”
“Um…”
“The alternates of this universe already contain analogues of you and Asuka, among others. It’s best if we keep the possibility of you running into yourself a minimum, yes?”
Shinji nodded. That much he could understand and agree with. “Right. So, where are you taking us?”
“All in good time,” Penn-Penn said good-naturedly. “We still have a foulmouthed hemi-German to revive.” The planeswalker waddled to Asuka’s side and knelt as best he could given the position of a penguin’s knees. “Now then…” His flippers hung over the girl, glowing with blue-white energy.
“Possible,” said a deep voice. “I am not certain of the details of the battle prior to your entering a comatose state.”
“Who said that?” Asuka’s vision was blurry, her eyes pressed back into active service after a prolonged period of empty, unblinking staring.
“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.” That voice was familiar, at least.
“Shinji? What’s going on? Where are we?” Her vision was returning, slowly. The area was blurry, but it looked like something out of a historical district. Given the architecture of the building, it could be almost any point in the second millennium. “We’re in a historical district? We won?”
“Regrettably,” said the deep voice, who still looked to be a monochromatic blur, “neither is the case. You are chronologically before your personal present, in a different part of Japan, and in a different universe.”
“Vas!? What happened to my universe?”
“You don’t want to know. Shinji asked me to take you here before you recovered enough to see it. Personally, I agree with him.”
“Shinji no baka! Schiesskopf! You should’ve at least let me see…” Asuka’s eyes finally adapted, and she saw Deep Voice clearly for the first time. “Penn-Penn?”
The penguin grinned as best a beaked being can. “And now that you can see me, I can tell you where you are.” He swept a flipper out in a dramatic motion. “Welcome to scenic
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