THIS IS WRITTEN FROM COMIC GAIA'S PERSPECTIVE

Ah, my other me's kill list... Who is this Zikh supposed to be? Why is Krill crossed out? The people in this place seem to be uncomfortable around me. The young boy filled me in; I was supposed to be dead in this universe.

"No, not an alternate universe, you're summoned from a story!" Some weird water filter explained to me. He handed me a comic book, and sure enough, everything seemed to add up.

"Neat." I said with no expression in my eyes. It's been a few hours since sunrise, and since I'm a self-proclaimed psycho, I can probably finish the giant rod in a few hours. Then come my slaves, they got me everything I needed.

Exhausted bitches. My head can't help but twitch a bit. "Is that all?"

"The second batch of materials is coming later, FC." Some angel who calls himself Zikh replies.

"FC? I'll kill you if call me that next time."

"Heh, like you will." He bantered out, walking away.

As soon as the materials were prepared, I quickly commanded the airplanes to weld the steel beams together. No need for scaffolding, their wings do just fine. As for me, I began setting up the digital typewriters and began coding the Arduinos. I asked for a few in case one of them fucks up.

"Gaia! You want lunch?" The young boy asked me. Sorry kid, but I was pretty occupied at that time. I even forgot you asked that question.

A few code cleanups here and there, and it's ready to connect to the Arduino. Did I forget to mention that it was the big one? I'm gonna fucking kill you.

I kept myself busy for a couple of hours after that, working nonstop. I connected the two servo motors to the giant steel beam, the first part was finished; it could finally rotate.

But crap, my lapse of judgment has to come along with my arrival here.

I forgot about the motors that will spin the reel of the fishing rod. Fortunately, miraculous stupidity saved me some time; the birds didn't know what a servo motor was, so they brought even the motor engines here. Heck to make it even more fortunate, the motors were also heavy-duty.

The winches and the carbon fibers eventually arrived next, and since I forgot all about the hook and the guides, I tasked Policeman and Emo airplane to forge one using the remaining steel beams. Good grief, Policeman told me he's over a thousand years old so perhaps he learned steel-cutting skills during his lifetime.

Once they started that, I told the little boy and the water guy to equip the carbon fiber rope into the winches. It's around 200 feet long, but it's probably long enough. It doesn't have to reach the center of the pit, it just has to brush the midpoint of the pit's radius.

I added a little hint of surprise for everybody by testing out the lifting mechanism without telling them. The steel beams suddenly lifted thanks to the servo motors and everyone ran away. The code seems to be working well, our little Arduino doing all the work, and a sufficient power supply to power up these giant rotors.

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Now that Policeman and Young Boy finished their tasks, I finally focused on the rod's pulling mechanism. I removed the handle of the winches and connected it to the motors. It was smooth sailing from there, the sun just a few inches away over the horizon.

It was a very busy day.

"Done. I guess that's it." The back of my mind seemed to tell me how much of a beauty this machine was. Their hard work paid off; now all we had to do was pull that eel out.

"It feeds on human bait, right?" I told them as I looked at the hundreds of bodies lined up behind me. "Take your time, we have a hundred attempts to do this~"

"99." The water filter corrected me.

"99... attempts to do this."

"No, we're not using them as bait!" The young boy told everybody. All of a sudden, the water filter banters along with them. "Says the guy who used Scott's body to bring Gaia to life!"

I didn't understand what he meant, but I didn't question anything. The young boy had other things to say.

"I'll be the bait." Insane words. I'm going to kill him if he dies on me.

"If there's one thing that Zikh told me, it's that I entered The Industry knowing well about the horrors we're about to encounter. There's no more time to whine. Besides, I have an idea."

Thus, the fishing session begins. The kid inhaled some... smoky thing, and his body got high. Neat. I wanna try that. He climbed his way to the tip of the pole that was facing the pit and climbed down the carbon fiber rope.

"Lower it!"

I ran the program. Slowly but surely, the rope comes down.

"It's a bit hot in there, you might get sunburn." I told him. Right beside me are his four friends, Policeman here nail-biting, Water Filter there trembling, The FC guy and some angel duo praying. I noticed that they had been silent the whole day so I grabbed the opportunity to converse.

"Good weather out here, huh?"

...

No response. I guess they're hyperfixated.

As I leaned back and focused on the lava pit, I noticed the lava currents trembling. The hook is a foot away from lava, and the kid was just partially above that.

...And then, the eel came. It was faster than what my eyes could see. Young kid is nowhere to be seen, but at least something else is left hanging, and with a bulge in its middle. I instantly ran the code and the servo motors started to lift the pole upwards; the motors pulling the winches up fast. Hah, it looks exactly like a working fishing rod to me... But then...

The servo motors decided to crap all over and catapulted the eel away... Now the poor thing's flinging in the middle of the air.

"Was that... part of the plan?" Policeman and Water Filter asked me.

I answered: "Hah, rip."

Every angel started ranting out at me. "THAT WASN'T PART OF THE PLAN!?"

"It wasn't." I told them. "I guess that settles everything, right? Can I go now?"

Somehow, the young kid heard me and started talking; he was inside the eel.

"Okay! We'll take it from here, Gaia! Thanks!"

A big sigh of relief came out of everybody's faces. I guess I have finished what I had to do.

"I'm gonna kill you if you lose to that thing."

"Got it!" The young boy nonchalantly told me.

Well, at least I could rest now~ I can finally go back home. Wait a minute... how do I do that, though?

SMOKE EVERYWHERE.

Scott reappears from the smoke and falls to the ground.

Gaia has disappeared.

The bulge makes its way out of the giant eel's mouth; There goes Iggy, in a bubble in the middle of the air~ although he was late to recognize it last second.

"Shit."

The eel, meanwhile, is no unconscious being. It takes notice of Iggy, its anger running wild.

It starts swinging its body.

"Uh oh, Home run..." Iggy says, gulping.

SLAM.

"IGGY!" Pickle says in shock.

Iggy's bubble takes a direct hit, flying a far distance away from First Gate and into the heights of Mount Sinai.

He takes a painful impact as he lands on one of the plateaus.

The angels are in shock at the eel's power. Silence is on everyone's faces, but the eel doesn't notice it. It was provoked, So it thinks that Iggy shouldn't get away with it.

It floats its way to the mountains in search of Iggy...

The final battle is about to start.