A VERY Bad Nightmare

I woke up with a terrible pounding headache...I didn't know where I was...I didn't know what had happened either. That's when it all came back to me...the fight and argument I had with Stanley in the lab... My eyes suddenly darted open and I got up.

"Stanley?!" I shouted, looking around as I squinted my eyes.

I noticed Stanley was nowhere to be found...nor did this place look familiar... This couldn't be happening...I had to find out where I was and fast. I took out my broken spare glasses in my top pocket, continuing to look about and gather my surroundings. This place was strange to say the least. It was...I didn't know how to describe it. But it all felt and looked like a nightmare. All I could see was blackness, everything seemed to be black and dull. There were things I could make out, like the trees and strangely enough the grass.

I walked along for I had no idea until I heard things started to become a little clearer. I felt a bit more calmer. There wasn't anyone around, which was a bummer. I needed to find someone...anyone...to ask if they knew what this place was. After walking around for quite sometime, I came to gather that I was the only one in this strange place. It seemed that no-one was coming to join me any time soon, all I could do was walk. I hoped that I would at least find some clue to where I was and how to get back. I wanted to get back...I had to... I had to stop Bill...

I continued to walk around this...this place. So was this dimension Bill Cipher wanted opened so badly? Why was Fiddleford traumatized by this place when all it seemed like it was gray everything? I didn't understand. There was really nothing here. I felt a cold shiver going down my spine. That was strange. Was someone here? That's when I looked at the landscape again. It had changed. Now it seemed long and vast, almost like a forest. It was peaceful, the opposite I knew Bill was. He was a dream demon, after all. I decided to try something. I knew it was a long shot but I had to try.

"Hello? Stanley?" I asked, my voice echoing.

"Well, well, well. You are finally here, Sixer." A familiar voice taunted.

I paled almost immediately. Speak of the devil. The triangle demon appeared before me and it felt like he was smirking at me.

"Cipher, let me out of this place this instant!" I demanded, making a fist.

"Oh IQ, don't you realize that you are in MY portal?" Bill asked, twirling his cane around like a baton.

"Your portal?!" I questioned, my blood starting to boil.

Bill laughed as he answered, "Oh you are so easy to anger, Fordsy. It's amazing!"He wiped a tear from his eye and added, "Anyways, welcome to Dreams Deep, the place of - blech - happy dreams."

"And it happens to be my home, beast-with-just-one-eye." A male voice stated, coming from the nearby shadows.

Bill perked up and asked, "Oh, here again, eh Green Thunder?"

Wait, that was what Fiddleford said to me when I pulled him out of the portal. 'The beast with just one eye...' Did he somehow meet this Green Thunder?

"I have nowhere else to go since Junior won't let me escape." The voice replied, sounding annoyed.

Bill waved his hand and responded, "Oh just relax, you'll be out soon enough. And we aren't staying too long anyhow." He then turned to me as he added, "I want Sixer here to give me the other two remaining Journals."

I growled lowly, "I don't have them on me, I buried them where no one can find them ever again! Especially you, Bill!"

'Not even Stanley if I'm lucky,' I thought, now worried about my brother.

Bill sighed in annoyance as he replied, "Oh don't be so smug, Ford. Be advised that even though you haven't seen the terror in Nightmare Ridge doesn't mean that you won't." A shiver went down my spine when he said that. Was that the place I was just at before Bill brought me here? He added, "Besides, I know people from other dimensions that can help make you talk." He turned to the Green Thunder again and asked, "Ain't that right, Green Thunder?"

That's when I saw the Green Thunder approach Bill. He had on a black ninja outfit on with yellow buttons on it, he had an orange belt, a green scarf, a black mask around his eyes - making them an undeniable silver color, and a green cap on top of his messy brown hair. The black background had a backwards L on it. Was this the Green Thunder? I gulped a bit, wondering what Bill was going to do. The Green Thunder looked at me, smirking. He raised up his left arm, producing a green ball of electricity.

I looked at it, almost in awe. Did this man have electric powers? Was he working for Bill? Before my questions could be answered, I heard him say one word to me in a hushed tone.

"Run."

I didn't get a chance to react right away but the Green Thunder striked Bill with the ball of electricity, distracting him. I started to run, stopping when I saw Green Thunder was waiting for Bill to face him.

"Green Thunder, come on!" I shouted.

"You go on ahead. Avoid any cracks in the floor." He told me, his attention solely on Bill. His eyes fell on me as he added, "Don't worry, Author-of-the-Journals, we will meet again."

I was still worried as I asked him, "But what is your name?"

He perked up and answered, "Oh me? I'm just one of Count Bleck's former minions. THE GREEN THUNDER...MR. L!"

'Who is Count Bleck,' I thought. Just as I was about to tell Mr. L to come with me when Bill shook off the shock.

Bill stated, angry, "Well, you were always the feisty part of Thunderhand."

Mr. L shrugged as he replied, "I'll take that as a compliment."

I decided not to stick around, running away from the fighting. Unfortunately, I didn't pay too much attention to L's warning and fell through a crack in the floor. I screamed in surprise, not noticing the ceiling closing above my head. I did hear one thing as I was sliding down the tube of darkness.

"Alright everyone, listen up! We have a new guest, the annoying author of the Journals, Stanford Filbrick Pines. If you see him, bring him to me...so I may be the one to break him!"

'L,' I thought, my eyes closing as I slipped into utter darkness. 'Stanley...help me...'

When I finally could open my eyes again, I felt something wet drip onto my cheek. I opened my eyes slowly as there, sitting on my chest, seemed to be a fox of some kind. It was very hostile, having four pairs of eyes, eight legs, and six tails. I wanted to scream for help but the words never came out as the fox bit into my flesh, biting my left leg. I screamed in pain, trying to get the fox off of me. But it didn't seem to work. I could hear the bone almost breaking in my leg.

I bit my lower lip, trying to suppress screams of pain. The blood started to come out of my leg as I grabbed something stiff. I didn't know what it was but when I threw it at the fox, it ran almost immediately. I panted hard, the blood flowing down my leg. I could barely feel it but that's when I heard a hissing sound. I paled, looking at what I grabbed. It seemed to be a snake but it looked meaner than a cobra. I yelped, putting it down quickly as a blast went over my head. The snake slithered off as I looked up.

There, standing over my head on a ledge, was a creature. It had red scales, it was a reptilian creature with a long tail and tentacles on its head. It appeared to be a female creature, with 5 gold eyes with stripes running from them. It had 3-fingered hands and ostrich-like legs and feet. It seemed to be standing like a human, a lot taller than what I was, wearing what seemed to be dark blue jumpsuit, and what appeared to be a laser gun.

"Stanford Filbrick Pines, on the authority of Bill Cipher, you are under arrest." A female voice stated.

"W-who said that?" I asked, looking around for the source of the voice.

"I did," the female voice answered, the creature making a motion. "My name is Ameyst, a bounty hunter from dimension 32."

"D-dimension 32," I questioned, forgetting all about my leg. "A-Ameyst...?"

Suddenly, I finally saw my surroundings. They had changed back to the world I saw when I first arrived but now I could see blood red eyes looking at me from all directions. My blood went cold as I heard more voices.

"You really gonna take him to Bill, Ameyst? You just helped him."

"I have more to lose, don't you think?" Ameyst replied.

'What does she mean by that?' I thought, the pain suddenly coming back to me with full force. I screamed as a green-skinned goblin/troll-like creature with a white chest and stomach, a muscular upper body, and magic 8-balls for eyes that are usually are pointed in different directions. He also has large ears, a prominent underbite, large teeth, and cuffs around its right wrist and ankle with a small segment of broken chain dangling from them came over to me.

"I'll be taking him," the creature declared.

"Try me," Ameyst hissed, shooting him.

The creature fell back as Ameyst flew down to me, flying us away from the bloody red eyes. I didn't know why she was helping me or whatever she was up to but I strangely felt safe. I took out a picture in my top coat pocket, looking at a picture of Stanley and me, when we discovered the Stan-O-War. The tears swelled in my eyes as I hoped, beyond hope, that Stanley would never save me. I didn't deserve it.

I guess I passed out again cause when I opened my eyes again, I saw that I was in a cave of some kind. There was a fire going and Ameyst was making something that I presumed to be fish. I looked down at my left leg and saw it was poorly bandaged. Before I could talk to Ameyst, she turned to me.

"I did my best to patch you up, Stanford," she told me.

"I'm guessing you aren't used to seeing a human here," I theorized.

She seemed to have nodded as she replied, "Except for that one guy we all saw a few months ago. Fiddleford McGucket, Spectacles, as Bill called him."

That reminded me!

"Say, you don't know what Dreams Deep is, do you?" I asked. "Or who Mr. L is?"

"Sorry, I do not," Ameyst answered, sounding sad. "Nor will I be staying around."

"You are leaving?" I asked, surprised.

"I have to, I am now I wanted person like you are." She explained, pointing to a poster. I looked at it. There, was a picture of me. I was wanted alright. Ameyst was wanted too as was Mr. L. My heart sank. They were only wanted because of me. I looked up at her as she handed me the fish. "Chew, don't swallow whole." She instructed.

I did as she told me. I chewed and it wasn't bad. I assumed it was fish, from the way it was tasting.

"Why did you help me?" I asked, in between bites.

"I just felt like it," she answered shortly, before heading out.

I watched her go, completely rattled. I ran my hand through my hair, thinking, 'My name is Stanford Filbrick Pines. I am from Glass Shard Beach, New Jersey. My father was Filbrick Pines. My mom is Ma Pines. I have one older brother, Shermie. He has a wife and daughter. I have a twin brother...the one I turned my back on...Stanley Daniel Pines...' Upon thinking of Stanley, the tears started rolling down my face. Oh God, Stanley... What happened between us...? Why did it have to happen...?

I forgave you... I love you... Pa was just being a jerk that night... ...Stanley... Why did I have to trust Bill? Why did I make a deal with him? Why, why, why?

I decided to explore Nightmare Ridge more, taking out a notebook from my coat pocket. I decided to label it Journal 4. I mean if I was going to be here a while which it looked like I was then it was better for me to get used to my surroundings rather than getting lost every 5 minutes. I wrote down what happened, drawing what I had already seen. I tried to make a map but the only thing I had to watch was not to get caught. If I had got caught, I knew that I would be in trouble.

And I am not talking about the trouble like you get into at school but I mean real trouble that would probably end up with me dead. I walked around trying to see what there was about me. There was trees...a lot of...dead trees that is. Nothing seemed to live here everything was either non-animated or just well dead... I couldn't even tell what time it was. It didn't feel like morning, afternoon, evening, or night. I couldn't even tell if a second, a minute, or even if an hour had passed by already. I didn't know anything, I couldn't tell.

It was just so dark. And I could barely even move because of my leg. Did...did Ameyst leave me here to die? No, she couldn't have. I know she didn't want to stick around in case Bill's cronies looked here. 'Let's just hope that she and L will stay safe,' I thought, worried. Suddenly, cutting through my thoughts was a snarl. I barely looked up as I saw a wolf like creature there. It had snow white fur, black speckles, 3 red eyes, 3 legs, and 3 tails. I had never seen anything like it. But just like everyone else and everything else, it was definitely an anomaly.

I could barely even move, since my leg was still hurt. 'Damn it,' I thought, grimacing. It charged straight at me, knowing that I could not defend myself. I tried to get away but my pain was greater. I was really weak...so weak that I started crying. I didn't realize that there was something behind me. All I saw was that the creature was getting further and further away from me. I finally looked up and saw that I was going through a white portal this time. Where the hell am I going now? Another strange and weird dimension?

Someone...please help me... Stanley... Anyone... Please... My eyes shut closed as I felt myself landing on some sort of ground.

Wishmaker1028: With that, chapter 2 is finally done. Hope you all enjoyed! Please read and review! And always think outside of the box!

Gothgirl01: Hello. Don't know if I am suppose to do AN's but hey oh. I am gothgirl01 as some of you may or not know. I am the one helping Wishmaker1028 with her story. Or in other words her telling me what the chapter is about and me writing about it. Anyways, enjoy everyone.