Chapter 3: Doppelganger

The signal finally reached who Sky was sending it to. It only had taken him 15 minutes of connecting and disconnecting. That was a while compared to the near-instantaneous sending usually. Rythian, who was on the other side of Sky's newest transmission asked, "Sky? Is that you? How do I even get a signal here?"

His perky companion, Zoey, jumped in front of the transmission yelling happily "Hello"!

Sky smiled and said, "Rythian...you're still you!"

"Why wouldn't I be? Other than the fact I'm in this forest and I can't do any magic...at all."

"It's a long story but basically this...thing that looked like you attacked us and killed two recruits. He had wings with eyes and some kind of tail with spines. He was killing the recruits with some kind of poison which Seto is looking into right now."

"I'd love to help but I'm busy."

"I wasn't asking you! I was just checking in!"

"Okay then. See you later Commander!"


"Bye!" Zoey yelled before Sky ended the transmission which didn't answer any of his questions but brought up more.

He stepped out of the Nether Portal, his gray-red cape swinging about. He swung about with a diamond pickaxe, severing the connection of the portal before he could be followed by the ones he was running from. It...was terrible. Israphel had been betrayed by the one he had placed in his trust. When the man with the red sunglasses opened the portal, he turned on Israphel, along with another. He didn't recognize the other; he had just heard the other man had an affinity for lava. They didn't stop there but slaughtered the rest of Israphel's minions. Farrell had barely escaped with his life. He had no clue where he was now but he did hear voices, one of a teenage girl and the other of a boy, probably similar of age. There was a second girl too who had a matter-of-fact voice saying, "Flame is still not back?"

"No...I wouldn't blame him...he was hurt." the boy said.

"Did Seto ever find out what it was?" the first girl spoke.

Her voice seemed familiar to Farrell but he didn't think much about it as he continued to eavesdrop. "He's been at it for an hour. And Sky said he'd hold a meeting if Seto found out anything."

'The Sky Army?' Farrell thought, with a slight bit of annoyance. He didn't like the Sky Army for many reasons. First off, he regarded their commander as an idiot. The second was more personal. He crept closer making sure to stay in the trees. "We should go back to the main base." the first girl spoke again in a somber tone.

"Agreed." said the second.

He heard them getting up and walking away. A few minutes later he crept onto the beach. The trio had gone, only leaving their footsteps. With his sights set on the ocean, he walked as close to the water as he dared and asked, "Hello?"

A squid popped its head out of the water asking, "HEY?"

"Hello, sir Squid. What happened here?" he asked in the squid's native language. It was the main talent he had gotten from Israphel when he was recruited: the ability to speak and be able to understand any mob.

The squid replied in it's own language, which was at such a high frequency the normal human couldn't understand it,"You talking to me? I probably even shouldn't be this close to Sky Army base but with recent events I couldn't resist."

"So what happened?"

"I don't really know. Something attacked them but it fell into the ocean. One of us tried to drown since it...didn't feel right...y'know?"

"What was it?"

"I don't know. It was like a human but not?"

"Ah...thanks for the help." he sighed, trying to make it seem as if it had helpedhim. It didn't.

"I wouldn't go any closer to Sky Army base. They seem on the guard." the squid said before submerging into the water.


"I'll keep that in mind." he said, while walking back down the beach.

Seto came to Sky by the meeting room, asking him to come with him to his tower. Sky complied, asking, "So what did you find?"

"Both of the victims were afflicted by Minecraftian Obsidian Plague." Seto replied.

"Minecraftian Obsidian Plague?" Sky echoed.

"Which hasn't been documented as being a thing since about three centuries ago. It was wiped out when potion-making was found. However this one was even more powerful so not even a simple potion could cure it."

Sky stopped, muttering, "Mother of Notch...what was that?"

"I don't know. Let's just continue."

When they got to Seto's tower and opened the door, Seto yelled, for a stranger who was muttering was inside, "Hey! Keep your hands off that! It's extremely volatile!"

The voice was actually very similar to Seto's but more high-pitched and breathy. Neither Sky or Seto could see who it was; just that he had blaze rods orbiting him. He set the bottle of black contents on the counter and faced them. Seto yelped, which was an odd reaction to the oddly calm Crafter, "You're me?!"

The other Seto, who did look like him nodded and said, "More or less."

He had almost the exact outfit like Seto, except it was orange and white. His eyes were like the fiery blaze rods that circled him and he had a cape of the same color but it was tattered. Sky whispered, "He's like the other...like you but not you."

"Exactly! I'm technically SetoBlaze!" he grinned.

Seto finally gained his composure and asked, "Where did you come from?"

"Separate dimension when the Mutated version of you, or one of them, decided to drag us all here." he replied, pointing at Sky.

"All of who?" Seto asked, sitting in his main chair, which was in the center of his main room.

"The mutated youtubers."

"Mutated? So that thing was a mutated Rythian?" Sky asked.

"Correct. He's one of the more chaotic ones...not saying we're not all chaotic because we're all in one way or the other. Some of us are also stuck between two conflicting personalities. Like another mutated Sky. It's either helping humanity with him or conflicting genocide upon it." he said as if it was the most normal thing in the world.

"So what about you?" Seto said coolly, grabbing the diamond sword leaning on his chair.

"I'm willing to assist...why? It seems you will need it." he replied, in an equally cool tone.

Seto glanced at Sky and Sky sighed. This was a predicament. He asked SetoBlaze, "So who has a mutated version of themselves?"

"It would be easier to say who didn't have a mutated version of themselves."

"Okay...who of Team Crafted?"

"There's a couple of you, one really important one of Jason, another important one of Deadlox, one of Bajan and maybe some others I haven't heard of. Though a few allies of Team Crafted have mutated versions of themselves."

"Who, I dare ask?"

SetoBlaze sighed and rambled, "Brotato, Ethan, Dawn, GoldSolace, Bodil, Chimney, Ant, Caveman, Bashur-"

"That's enough!" Sky yelped, obviously frightened. That...was a lot of people he knew.


"I was just getting to the good part! Come on, I brought two along you may want to meet. But be careful...anything can set them off." he grinned sadistically as he said this.

"That's not the commander!" Darren yelled, shortly after the doppelganger landed.

"Wither!" Miki added.

With these two shrieks, the recruits scattered.

The doppelganger of Sky chuckled, "Tough crowd, huh?" to his companion who had decided to shift into a less startling form than his Wither form.

The Wither laughed, "Where'd Blaze go?"

"Hey!" came the voice of SetoBlaze as he ran up to them from down the beach, Sky and Seto in tow.

At the sight of his doppelganger, Sky inched next to Seto whispering, "I'm startled..."

SetoBlaze introduced them, "This is Skybrine and WitherMU...hey, didn't I invite Endy?"

Skybrine nodded and said, "He values his life since he had a run-in with these guys."

"Really? Is this his home universe?"

"Not the original."

SetoBlaze nodded sagely, "Yeah, more people died."

"Endy?" Sky echoed,"I feel like I should know him."

"You do! He's more commonly known as Enderlox though!" Skybrine crowed, obviously enjoying the commander's fear.

"He's here too!?" Sky screeched.

WitherMU nodded, as quiet as his counterpart.


And with that and a dull thud Sky was out for the count, sprawled on the sand.

Miki sprinted through the redwood forest, narrowly avoiding the trees. She had no idea where Darren or Annie or Flame had gone; all she knew is they fled once they saw the Herobrine and the Wither. She yelped as someone suddenly stepped out behind a tree, causing her to crash in him. They broke apart, both of equally confused faces that dissolved into disbelief.

Miki stuttered, "F-Farrell?" while her brother murmured, "Miki!"

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Author's Note: I forgot to mention: I have a week off for Thanksgiving and I'm super motivated! I just need to outline my ideas because this is as far as my specific plans went...oops.

SetoBlaze belongs to biggerblogger of dA

Skybrine belongs to DiamondSwordDS of dA

WitherMU belongs to ApplemintArts of dA