Helllllllo, friends! I combined chapter two with chapter three bc chapter two was too short, but now chapter two is far too long xD its fine its fiIEN

Ahem, anyways. Expect very long chapters for this book. 2,000-4,000 words, usually. It's very freeing not to have to struggle to hit a certain word count – this book can be as dang short as I want it to be! That's awesome. Also really fun to write except aHHH I've been getting really out of character in the coming chapters and im like oh crap o.o I mean I guess that's ok cuz no one remembers sky and like he shaped a lot of their personalities in one way or another butnotch daNG IT

Anyways I have like 16000 words written so I am set like dear lord also pREPARE FOR A MILDLY EMOTIONAL ENDING OK BAI EN-JUH-HOY

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I just proofread it and

This is the stupidest thing I swear to notch

i love it

sO MUCH GAY

Remember Me

Ch 2: #Tylesa Had Better Not Be Canon/We Are Not Toddler

Seto's POV

"Now, hold on," I say, running to catch up to Shouty Citizen, who has started toward Ty's house. "Explain yourself."

"Ty will remember," the citizen says determinedly. "He has to!"

"Remember what?" Brice asks, running next to me. He starts panting a bit, so I cast a small floating spell on him, and he laughs as his feet lift off the ground.

"Oh my Notch, that was adorable," Shouty Citizen breathes as he turns a corner.

"Ty isn't at his house," I tell him, and something inside me makes me trust this man enough to tell him Ty's whereabouts. "He and Alesa are at the pizzeria."

"The pizzeria?"

"Um…" I raise an eyebrow. "I guess so?"

"Wait-" The shouty citizen freezes in his place, and I skid to a halt, barely managing to keep Brice from flying into a building. "Wait. If I never existed, then- Then, hold up, is Alesa dating Ty!?" He reels back as though I've punched him in the face, and I roll my eyes.

"Calm down, Ty doesn't like Alesa like that."

"But Alesa likes Ty like that, so if we keep hoping~" Brice singsongs, and I sigh.

The citizen hisses at Brice, and I step in between them. "Look, sir, I'm going to have to ask you to step away from us. Any violence will not be taken kindly."

Shouty Citizen huffs. "Come on, guys! You know me, I'm your friend! This is my city! The city's enforcers are part of my army! How can you just forget!?"

"I think you may have gone insane," Brice comments, and Shouty Citizen groans.

"Now, wait just a moment," I say, furrowing my eyebrows. "You said you never existed? You said we forgot you." I turn toward Brice. "Do you think-"

"Oh my Notch," Brice whispers. "No way!"

"Ha, see, you're catching on!" the forgotten citizen exclaims, grinning.

I spin around, motioning with my hands for Brice and the citizen to follow me as I head toward the town's most well-known pizzeria. "All right. If what you're saying is true, then what happened to you has never happened before. Assuming one of the monsters killed you, which would be the only way to make everyone else forget about your existence, you would not respawn. Your coding would have been erased. However, since you did respawn, I'm guessing that your fate was teetering between two endings - you could have died forever and been erased permanently from everyone's memories, or you could have respawned normally with no other consequences. Somehow, you managed to end up with a little bit of both situations. You respawned normally - but everyone still forgot you. The Respawn Machine must have caught you, somehow, a split second after you were killed. The memory damage had already been done, but the machine was still able to save your life."

"Right. That's great and all, but how do I make you guys remember me again?" the forgotten citizen asks, and, for the first time, I realize how familiar he looks.

"That depends."

"On what?"

"On a lot of things," I answer, pushing open the pizzeria doors. "To begin with, exactly how quickly the Respawn Mechanism caught you after your death. And, how it caught you. Ty, Alesa!"

The two jump at my shout, and then they laugh and turn to face us. "Seto, Brice, hey! Who's this?" Alesa asks, scooting over to allow me some room on the booth. Ty moves over a bit to allow Brice some room on the other booth, and the forgotten citizen stands awkwardly at the end of the table.

"Ah, this is… I'm sorry, I don't believe I ever caught your name," I say, frowning and looking up at him.

"Oh, I'm- yeah, I'm Sky, sorry," he reveals awkwardly, laughing slightly at the end of his sentence. He looks down, but then glances up to gauge Ty's reaction. "Hi."

"Hi," Ty breathes, looking up at Sky. Neither of the boys breaks eye contact for a while. Then Ty jumps a bit in his seat and shouts "Ow!" while glaring at Alesa.

"You zoned out," Alesa says, shrugging and trying to hide a smirk.

"Sorry. Uh, nice to meet you, I'm Ty," he says, turning to face Sky again.

"I know," Sky begins, smiling softly. Then his smile drops. "I-I mean- Oh, Notch, that sounded creepy, but I swear I'm not a stalker! I'm your friend! Er, I used to be- I still am? Wait, crap…"

"Sky, here, claims to have been erased from everyone's memories," I explain.

"Everyone being..?" Alesa asks.

"Literally everyone. Remember how I was telling you guys about the monster things, with their insane power? Yeah, if Sky's telling the truth, we did lose someone during that battle - and that someone was him."

"Notch," Ty murmurs, looking down at the table. Then his head whips up, lightning fast, to stare wide-eyed at Alesa. "Do you think that Fable character was named after-"

"Oh my Jeb I ship it," Alesa whispers, eyes as wide as Ty's.

"Fable character..?" Sky asks.

"Uh, it's nothing," Ty replies, blushing quite impressively. I didn't know a face could be that red.

Sky laughs. "Okay, if you say so." Then his eyes grow sad. "But, um, so… do you, maybe… remember me? At all?"

"I have a vague remembrance," Alesa comments, shrugging.

"You look familiar, to say the least," I add.

"I think I maybe remember something including gold?" Brice asks, raising his eyebrows. Sky smiles a smile that is clearly very forced.

"I'm sorry, Sky, I- Your name seems familiar? But it's a pretty common name, I guess, and we did have that video game character that shared your name. No, I'm sorry, I don't remember you at all," Ty answers, smiling apologetically. "Are you sure we knew you?"

Sky drops the forced smile. Swallows hard. Forces a smile even faker than the last. "I- I-" He swallows again, blinks a few times. "M-Maybe- I- Sorry, to, to interrupt your lunch, I- Maybe-" his voice cracks slightly, and he clears his throat and smiles more widely. "Maybe Jason will remember. S-Sorry, thanks, bye."

One more time, for good measure, I suppose, he widens his smile. And then, with one more "Sorry," he darts out the door.

Sky's POV

My smile disappears the moment the door falls shut behind me, and silent tears run down my face. I silently curse myself as I take off my glasses to dry their lenses, but when I see my sorry reflection in them, I have to choke back a sob. This must have been what Ty felt like when I lost my memory.

Oh, Notch, I can't handle this. I had just gotten him back, in more ways than one, and now… well, I kinda wish the Respawn Mechanism hadn't saved me.

Ty's POV

"Did I say something wrong..?" I ask after Sky leaves.

"Absolutely," Seto sighs. "You and Sky obviously used to be really close. The first person he wanted to see when he realized we didn't remember him was you."

"Plus, woah, what about those heart eyes you were giving each other?" Alesa laughs. "That was intense. I'm pretty sure you forgot your name for a moment there."

I blush. "S-Shut up, Alesa."

"I'll bet you five diamond blocks you and Sky were dating before he got almost-erased."

"Stop, oh my Notch," I mumble, looking down.

She snorts. "Regardless, you clearly like him."

"Come on, we just met," I huff.

"Yeah, but he's cute, isn't he?"

"Oh my Notch, Alesa."

"Much more attractive than the Fable character, I must say."

"Please stop, oh my Jeb."

"I'll bet you five more diamond blocks that you'll fall back in love with him by the end of the week."

"Okay, Alesa, give him a break," Seto laughs, shoving her gently. "Although, I would place money on the idea that Sky, at least, is in love with you-"

"Seto!" I shout, standing up.

"Ty," Brice giggles, pulling me back down. "Oh my Notch."

An angry-looking man storms toward our table, very nearly releasing steam from his ears. "How many times will I have to say it," he growls, "before you finally begin to listen?"

"Say what..?" I ask, tilting my head.

"You are banned from my restaurant, you and your obnoxious friend!"

"Maybe 'the pizzeria' will be your 'always,'" Alesa breathes, staring at me with wide eyes. I raise my eyebrows.

"Um..? I've never been banned from this restaurant, sir, and neither have any of my friends," I tell the angry manager.

He bristles. "I'm not falling for that again."

"Ty, you and Sky!" Alesa says, reaching across the table to shake my shoulders.

"Geez, calm down, hold on!" I protest, pulling back. "What?"

"You and Sky, you guys got banned from this place! I remember, because you were on the phone once, remember? With Sky. And he said 'the pizzeria?' and you said, 'the pizzeria.'"

"I- No, I don't remember that."

"Everyone shut up," Seto orders, running his hand through his hair. "All right. We all forgot. But this manager guy-"

"Get out of my restaurant!"

"Brice, freeze him," Seto says, rolling his eyes and waving the manager off.

Brice bites his lip. "Um… Duratis?" The angry manager is suddenly trapped beneath a thin layer of ice. Brice grins, and Seto smiles proudly at him before continuing.

"Anyways. All four of us forgot. From what I could gather from Sky's rambling, he used to be very close to us. The angry manager, on the other hand, would have had, at most, three or four run-ins with Sky. And yet: the manager remembered him."

"So..?" I ask, not exactly getting the point.

"So, I have a theory. Perhaps," Seto starts, pausing to think through his words, "perhaps, the memory erasure began with those who had the most memories of Sky. And, since the Respawn Mechanism caught Sky relatively quickly after his death, it was stopped before it could finish the job - before it could get to people who didn't know Sky as well. Ty, from what I've heard of your past relationship with Sky, you probably would have had the most memories of him. You would have been the first to have your memories of him removed, and, therefore, you would take priority and end up with the least amount of memory left. Alesa, on the other hand - well, I don't know what her relation to Sky was. Regardless, we know she wasn't as close to him as you were, because Sky didn't even greet her when we walked in. Therefore, it makes sense that Alesa would've been a lower priority on the erasure list, and it follows, also, that she would be more likely to remember parts of her memories with Sky than you would."

"Yikes," Brice says, exhaling slowly. "That sounds complicated."

"It is, which is why it may take me a while to figure out how to fix it."

"Can I help?" Brice asks excitedly. He bounces up and down on the booth, and I notice that his hair roots have started growing out blonde again.

"Of course you can," Seto replies, smiling softly. Then his gaze moves to the angry manager, who is still frozen. Oh, crap, but the ice seems to be melting. "We should probably leave before he thaws," Seto says, voicing my thoughts.

"Good idea," Alesa chuckles nervously, sliding out of the booth after him. Brice and I hurry after them, and we're already outside and around the corner when we hear the voice of the angry manager screaming angrily. Seto casts a quick invisibility spell on us all, and the angry manager runs right past us. "Oh my Notch," Alesa giggles, looking at me, "how many times did you guys make that dude mad?"

I shake my head. "Probably far more than once."

"Yes, probably," Seto snorts, and Brice leans over laughing. "All right. We need to find Sky."

"Where do we even look?" I ask.

"Well, we used to be friends - would we still have his phone number?" asks Brice, and Seto shakes his head.

"He did say something about going to find Jason," Alesa mentions.

"Jason's on that date with Tyler," I point out.

Seto shrugs. "But Sky wouldn't know that."

"Well, then… Jason's house, I guess..?"

"Right. Or possibly the lab, since we all seem to hang out there a lot," Alesa offers. "But perhaps we should go get Jason and Tyler first, so we can tell them what's going on."

"Good idea," Seto nods, walking off towards the non-pizzeria that MunchingUniverse chose for their date. "Brice and I will talk to them. You and Ty can go find Sky."

"What do we do once we've found him..?" I ask nervously.

Seto raises an eyebrow. "You bring him back to the lab. Or, if he's already there, just wait for us to arrive."

"Oh! Yeah, okay, I knew that."

Alesa giggles, and Seto snorts while Brice smiles apologetically at me. "Okay, we'll see you two later," Seto says finally, turning away from us and grabbing Brice's hand to pull him along. Aw.

"All right!" Alesa laughs, copying Seto and grabbing my hand, though not in the romantic way. "Off we go!"

"Oh," I say quietly, watching as Sky curls up into a ball against Jason's front door.

"That's adorable," Alesa coos.

"Jasoooooon!" Sky wails, burying his head in his knees.

"That's obnoxious," I huff, crossing my arms, and Alesa shakes her head.

"Pfft. You don't have to pretend not to like him in front of me, you know."

"... Shut up, Alesa."

She laughs as I roll my eyes and push past her to approach Sky. "Hey, buddy, ah… you okay there..?" I ask uncomfortably.

"No," Sky whimpers as though his world is ending. "I've been forgotten by everyone I love, Jason has most-likely been kidnapped and/or killed by the squids, and the Respawn Machine erased the stock of emergency budder I hid behind Jason's house."

"I didn't catch half of that," I admit, dragging out the "I" at first. "But Jason is fine, he's just on a date with Tyler."

"Oh my Notch, really?"

"Really."

Sky uncurls from his tiny ball position and starts rolling around on the ground. "My life is compleeeeeete."

"Stop that, what- what are you doing?"

"Drowning in OTPs," he sobs, and I sigh.

"Come on, get up, you big toddler."

"I prefer the term 'fanboy,'" he sniffs.

"Oh my Jeb."

"You just indirectly insulted the fangirl/boy nation," Alesa whispers. "We are not toddler!"

"Oh, good, it got worse. Okay, come on, guys, we're going to the lab."

"Ah, the lab!" Sky says dreamily, jumping to his feet and walking next to me. "I have such good memories there!"

"Great. Come on, walk faster."

"Geez, Ty, chill," Alesa snorts, and Sky nods and nudges my shoulder lightly.

"You need to relax a little. D'ya wanna do a jump map tomorrow?" he asks, looking up at me hopefully.

"Uh, I'm not really into jump maps-"

Sky frowns. "What? But that's our thing, we do jump maps together! Once I tried to let Tyler join us, and you were super offended. Come on, remember.

"Sorry, not ringing any bells. Anyways, maybe we can do some other kind of map after Seto figures out a plan."

"Better than nothing," he mumbles, and I try to ignore the twinge of guilt in my stomach.

"Here we are!" I announce to keep my mind off of Sky's frown. "The lab. Ta-da!"

"Ah, Ty!" Seto greets me from across the room. "Brilliant. Jason, Tyler, say 'hello' to Sky."

"Hello, Sky!" they say, only slightly out of sync. Ah, they'll get there someday.

"Hey, guys! Okay, okay, Jason! You remember me, right? Right, you've gotta!"

Jason shrugs, and I can feel Sky's hopes shattering. It's all I can do not to walk over and hug the poor guy. "Sorry, but, uh, no, I don't think I've ever met you before."

"Oh. Okay," Sky says blankly, and I give up and move closer to him.

"Don't worry, I'm sure he'll- I'm sure we'll all remember you eventually," I reassure him, and he smiles a little bit, which is enough for me.

"We may be able to force our memories to return," Seto informs us, and Sky perks up a lot more. "Tyler here seems to know something about it."

The sorcerer turns to stare suspiciously at Tyler, who smiles nervously. "U-Uh, I just-"

"It's in the past," Sky says firmly, smiling at Tyler. "We're his friends. He's our friend. Now maybe he can help us fix this mess I've gotten myself into."

Tyler grins, looking terribly relieved, and then he freezes for a moment and furrows his eyebrows. "Woah," he says after a few seconds. "Um- I think I just remembered some of my Sky memories-" His eyes widen. "Actually, I think I just remembered all of my Sky memories!"

"Holy crap, yes!" Sky shrieks happily, running over to hug Tyler. "Yay, we're friends again!"

"We were already friends again," Tyler snorts, and Sky's smile gets even wider. I try not to feel jealous of how close those two are.

"Well," Seto starts. "That happened. Tyler, care to tell us how to fix all of this?"

"Of course! But it might take a bit of thinking."

"What doesn't?"

"Merome," Alesa offers helpfully, and I snort.

"If it's going to take a while," says Seto, "then I suppose we don't really need all of you here."

"We'll stay anyways," I tell him. "But it is getting late…"

"You all can sleep in the room down the hallway. Tyler and I will stay up a bit later working on this."

"Sure. 'Night, Seto, Tyler." A bunch of people echo me, and Brice lands a peck on Seto's cheek, which leads to a blushing sorcerer and a couple of potion bottles shattering on the ground. Brice laughs as he runs off down the hallway, and Seto calls out a mumbled goodbye to the rest of us as he scrambles around trying to clean up the potions and get his magic under control.

"That was cute," I say simply, and Seto blushes again and drops the potions shards he was holding up with his magic.

"Notch dang it," he curses under his breath, and I laugh and follow Brice down the hallway.

"Jason thought I was Tyler and hugged the crap out of me when I woke up," I complain, yawning as I stumble into the room of the lab that Seto and Tyler are in. "Go make him sane again, Tyler."

Tyler glares at me and runs out of the room, and Seto chuckles, yawning along with me. "'d you sleep well?" he asks, looking up from one of his many desks.

"Did you sleep at all?" I ask, raising my eyebrows. He shrugs and yawns again.

"I'll cast an energy spell in a second. Maybe."

"Hmm," I reply, walking over to stand next to him. "What were you guys doing?"

"Researching the monster-mutants. Looking for reversals. So far, all I've gotten is that we need to do whatever it is we're doing within a week of Sky's respawn – after a week, well, that's when all of our unused backup memory files are permanently erased."

"Grand. Tyler helping at all?"

"Oh, yes. We might be able to figure this out before the end of the week. Might."

"Sounds stressful."

"Is stressful." Seto takes a deep breath and then chants, "Renovo." Immediately, the slight bags under his eyes disappear, and he stands up a little straighter and smiles. "But we can handle it."

"Seto!" Sky yells, running down the hallway and almost tripping on his own feet. "Tyler is kissing Jason! It's gross!"

"Uh, only on the lips, right?"

"No, even worse – on the forehead! It's so cute," Sky hisses angrily, and I roll my eyes.

"Hmm. Well, I'll get Tyler back out here in a few minutes, and then you, Jason, and the others can go play around in the city. We won't need any help for the next few hours," Seto explains, and Sky grins.

"We can go to the pizzeria!"

"No, we can't," I snort. "The manager chased us out yesterday."

Sky snickers quietly and then runs out of the room to get Jason and Alesa, and I laugh. "Well, there he goes - he'll be back soon. Um… See you later, Seto."

"Have fun, Ty."

Sky pulls Jason down the hallway and out the front door, and Alesa goes running after them both, yelling something about interrupting the gay, and my eyes go wide. "Uh, I'd better- yeah, okay, bye!" I shout, running out after them.

"Skyyyy!" Jason whines, digging the heels of his feet into the dirt outside Seto's house. "Why!?"

"There was too much gay happening!"

"You are literally the gayest person I know, except for Merome!"

"You barely know me!"

"Pssh!" Jason stops for a moment. "Okay, fine. But I do remember bits and pieces, okay- and you are very, very gay."

"What!? I've dated, like, four entire girls!"

"Wooooow," Jason drawls, sticking his nose in the air. "Let's be real. You've been gay for cute little Ty over there ever since you popped out of the womb."

"Jason, oh my Notch," I breathe, covering my face with my hands. "W-Why would you say that."

Meanwhile, Alesa is literally rolling on the floor laughing. "Oh, oh, someone get me an inhaler, I can't breathe," she giggles, clutching her stomach. "S-So gay…"

I groan. "Everyone just shut up. Jason, don't you have to go feed Jeffrey and Dillon?"

Jason's eyes go wide, and he stops laughing. "Oh, no! They didn't get dinner last night, I've gotta go! See you later, guys!" he shouts, and then he speedy-gonzaleses towards his house.

Alesa laughs again, and then she stands up, takes a deep breath, and then laughs one more time. "Okay. I'm good! I'm good. Can we go see Ashley?"

"Sure. Why?"

"She's my best friend! And I want to know if she'll remember Sky, since she never spent all that much time with him."

"Oh, good idea. Well, come on, then! She's at your house?"

"Probably," Alesa replies, shrugging. "Either that, or she's hanging out with Annie and Tiffany."

"All right, we'll check your house first."

It only takes us about three minutes to show up on Ashley's doorstep, and then Alesa knocks on the door very, very loudly to get her housemate's attention.

"Do you know a man named Sky?" Alesa asks immediately.

"Hmm, the name sounds familiar, but, no- oh, hi, Sky!" Ashley laughs, looking past me and Alesa to greet Sky, who grins.

"Hey! How are you?"

"Good, good. You?"

"Half the city forgot me, but you remembered, so that's cool!"

"Cool!"

Alesa shakes her head in disapproval. "We have the weirdest conversations."

"Got that right," I huff, and my shoulders shake a bit with my laughter. "So, who's up for a trip to the park?"