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[Bryan]

"Okay Bryan, parry this! Good job!"

Bryan was in the training room dueling with a training robot, while Kurt was off to the side giving suggestions.

"Okay wait for the opening…now Bryan! Block and strike!" Bryan parried the hologram's blow then tried to stab it, but it deflected his sword and slashed at Bryan's side. The wood sword didn't slash him to bits, but it did leave a bruise.

"Ow…" Bryan picked up his wooden sword and readied himself against the robot.

"Again!" Bryan took a cut at the robot's head, but it parried the blow and stabbed at his stomach. Bryan dodged the move. He tried to bring his sword down on the robot's arm, but it simply blocked the attack. The two swords clashed.

"Good choice, aiming for the sword arm," said Kurt. "Now twist your wrist around and swing your sword around his wrist and disarm him!" Bryan did what he was asked and sure enough, the sword flew out of the robots hand. Bryan pointed the sword at his face.

"Good job Bryan," said Kurt. "I think you have had enough training for today."

"Kurt, how do you know all of these techniques?" asked Bryan.

"I trained with Master Jay," replied Kurt. "He had the same sword as you." Bryan glanced down at his deactivated artifact sword.

"Kurt, you never told me about this Master Jay," said Bryan. "Tell me. What was he like?" Kurt the robot looked down at Bryan.

"He was extremely brave and ambitious. A good partner to work with. A hero. Not much different from yourself, actually."

Perhaps this Master Jay is my father, thought Bryan.

"I learned a lot from Master Jay," said Kurt. "But I guess now I'm learning stuff from you." Kurt slapped Bryan on the back.

"Go ahead and clean up. Briefing is in an hour."

Bryan walked out of the training room and started to head towards the main lobby. The night after he had the horrible voice in his head, his stab wound had somehow magically healed, and he was dismissed from the medical ward. Thank god. It was starting to smell in there. Bryan thought that perhaps, the magical healing powers had something to do with the Void. Maybe it was a bribe from them. Whatever. If it was, he would make them pay for taking his mother. Bryan placed his hand on the scanner next to the huge bay door, but before he could input his housing code, the door flied open, showing a huge white-walled room covered in paint splatters. Ink was ran out the door, wiping sweat from his forehead. He saw Bryan and ran up to him and shook him.

"Bryan! I need your help with something big!" He kept shaking Bryan until he was dizzy.

"Stop Ink! You are going to make me sick!" Bryan's vision kept spinning and spinning, and he stumbled around the main lobby until he fell face flat on the ground.

"Nuggggghhhh…"

"Sorry Bryan, just got a little excited, that's all." Ink put his hand out, and he helped Bryan up.

"So….what is it that you needed help with?"

"It's so cool, Bryan!" Ink pulled out a brown cube and pressed a button on the side, and it expanded into his tablet. He pressed a couple things, typed in a word, and pulled up a tiny hologram of a bar of metal.

"What's this Ink?"

"It's folonium. A rare metal that can only be found in the Manifestation," explained an excited Ink. "I've done some research on folonium, and I found that it can be repurposed as a paint if properly crushed. Can you help me get some?" Bryan looked at the shiny metal hologram. Bryan shrugged.

"Eh, why not? It's not like I have anything better to do. I'm still not cleared for missions. Besides, Sans and Blueberry aren't back from Undertale yet." Ink pumped his fists.

"Great!" Ink grabbed Bryan's hand and dragged him over to one of the windows in the hallway.

"Folonium can be found in asteroids throughout the multiverse." Ink pointed to an asteroid outside the Shooting Star.

"I'm pretty sure there are some deposits of folonium inside those asteroids," explained Ink. "If we can find a way to mine it, I'm sure that we can start some sort of mining operation!"

"But Ink, we can't just go out into space!" replied Bryan. "there's no oxygen. If only we had a ship…" Bryan turned slowly to the docking bay.

"Wait a second…" Bryan rushed over to the bay door labeled "_o_c_d I" and put his hand on the scanner. The door wouldn't budge; he would have to open it himself.

"Ink, help me here." Ink and Bryan each grabbed a side of the sliding door.

"Pull on three! One, two, three!" Ink and Bryan pulled as hard as they could, and a weird object popped out from above the door, and the doors slid open. Bryan picked up the strange object.

"A rubber duck? The door was jammed by a rubber duck?!" Ink burst out laughing.

"That was the most anti-climatic thing I've ever seen!" He rushed inside. "Cmon, let's get going!" Bryan walked inside the ship as the automatic lights turned on. He put his hands on the panels and lights and inspected them closely.

"Compared to the rest of the Shooting Star, this ship's technology is ancient." Bryan took a seat in the pilots chair next to Ink. "It's still much more advanced than what we have back on Earth." Bryan turned the key, which was already in the ignition. That was odd.

"I don't even know how to fly one of these things," muttered Bryan.

"Come on Bryan, it's can't be that hard!" said Ink. "Let's just press a few buttons here and there…" Bryan heard footsteps behind them, and saw Kurt running towards the docking bay door.

"Don't go in there guys! It's not safe!"

"Now let's press this button-"

"NO!" shouted Bryan. The bay door shut and the ship barreled forward.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Bryan grabbed the joystick controls and tried to realign the ship, but it was going too fast and the ship was spinning out of control. It was doing approximately a barrel roll a second.

"I'm getting dizzy again!" shouted Bryan. Ink was just holding on to one of the railings, trying not to fly everywhere.

"Why did you have to press that button?!" screamed Bryan. After another few minutes of struggling, Bryan finally got the ship straightened out and slowed it down a bit.

"Next time Ink, please don't press a bunch of random buttons." Ink shrugged.

"Sorry, got too carried away." Bryan stopped the ship and ran over to the window.

"Wow…would you look at that?" Ink walked up next to him.

"Now that's a view I'd kill to see."

"You almost did Ink."

From the outside, the Shooting Star looked like a planet with a bunch of orbiting rings. In the middle was a giant metal sphere, which Bryan assumed was the control room, where Dream was probably waiting. There were two concentric metal rings lining the outside of the metal sphere, and they were all connected by a single, straight hallway. At each spot where the rings connected, there was a smaller metal sphere. The first ring was close to the center sphere, but there was a long stretch between the first and the second ring. In between was a huge metal crane with two giant claws, which had tracks lining the top of the ring. Attached to the side were a bunch of tall metal poles with sets of gears on them. Attached to the gears were small clamps, which held a bunch of metal boxes.

"The housing units," guessed Bryan. Bryan looked towards the opposite side of the base. Out there was the asteroid field. On the side closest to them, there were a bunch of tiny bay doors which were closed off attached to the third ring. There was a single, lone bay door on the sphere connected to the first ring.

"That's where we came from," said Dream. Bryan nodded. The Shooting Star was much bigger than he thought. He had only been around the first ring. He would go ahead and check out the second ring later. However, in the small hallway that connected the two rings, there was a relatively large room located in the middle of the hallway.

"Let's go in for a closer look." Ink and Bryan went back to their seats in the cockpit.

"I'm going to take this nice and slow…" Bryan pushed the joystick forward slightly and pushed the lever to the side of him slightly forward, slowly accelerating the ship. He steered it towards the second ring. There were deactivated turrets around, and the small room in the middle of the connector hallway was dark.

"The second half of the ship is inactive," said Ink. "No wonder we never saw it. It's been invisible this whole time."

"I wonder why…" Bryan steered the ship around, but almost ran into some of the housing units. He yanked the joystick back and the ship shot straight up.

"Gaaaaaah!" shouted Ink. Bryan realigned the ship again, but he did it quicker than before.

"Those boxes…they had pictures on them. Look." From behind the cockpit windshield he saw icons painted onto the back of the boxes. One had a red heart. Another had an apple, half gold and half dark. A third had a blue heart instead of a red. Yet another box had a picture of Earth painted onto the side.

"I think they are painted based off who they house," said Bryan.

'Come on man! Let's go to the asteroid field!" Bryan directed the ship towards the asteroid field, but turned to Ink at the last second.

"Do we even have asteroid mining equipment?" asked Bryan. At that very moment, a small hologram of a boy of about 14 popped up in the control panel between Ink and Bryan. The boy had shaggy hair and glasses, and looked shyly up at the camera.

"Hey there, my name is Zach! If you are on this ship, you either got to the Shooting Star by mistake and are trying to escape, or you have figured out that there are asteroids chock-full of valuable minerals and ores located outside of the base. As the primary engineer of the Concord I, this small pre-recorded tutorial will help you learn how to either eject yourself from the ship or use your mining equipment, since this ship was repurposed from a fighter." Bryan and Ink watched the tutorial, referring back to the hologram and the buttons when necessary.

"Whew! That was a lot of information!" said Ink. "Thank god I took some notes on my scarf!" Bryan shrugged.

"Okay, lets get started. So what did it say to start?"

"Press the two yellow buttons on the control panel above to activate the asteroid scanner." Ink and Bryan pressed the buttons above to activate the scanner. The GUI showed which asteroids contained valuable materials and which ones didn't. Bryan steered over to one that had folonium in it. Ink pulled out his scarf.

"Pilot press the red button on the center control panel to activate the drill, and use the second joystick that pops out to control the drill." Bryan almost pressed the big red button, but Ink stopped him.

"Not that red button! The smaller one! The big one ejects us from the ship."

"Oh yeah, forgot." Bryan pressed the small red button, and a tiny joystick popped up from the dash. A small drill appeared from the hull of the ship. Bryan guided the drill until the tip touched the asteroid, then he pressed the button, cracking the asteroid as the drill spun deeper into the asteroid.

"Keep drilling until the asteroid breaks apart," read Ink, "then the co-pilot will push the lever on the right to activate the claws." Ink pulled the lever on the right wall, and two long sticks appeared from the ceiling in front of Ink. Bryan kept drilling the asteroid.

"Asteroid Integrity at 24%." The asteroid broke in half, leaving a shiny metal core in the middle.

"Grab it Ink!" Ink was clumsy with the controls, and he knocked the floating metal sphere around a few times before he grabbed it successfully. He pulled the lever back down, and the metal core was pulled back into the cargo container.

"Okay we got it!" shouted Ink. They high-fived each other, but something on the radar started to beep. Three red dots appeared.

"Ink, go check what's showing up on the radar." Ink got out of the seat and looked out the window.

"Void Dogfighters, three o'clock!" shouted Ink. Bryan cursed under his breath.

"Get back in your seat. We're rushing back to the Shooting Star."

"No, Zach said there's an emergency turret…here! Up here!" Ink climbed the ladder, and a camera feed appeared on the windshield GUI. It was the turret's view.

"Go Bryan!" Bryan pushed the lever halfway and the ship flew out from behind the broken asteroid. Bryan carefully maneuvered the ship through the asteroid belt. Purple laser blasts from the Void dogfighters broke several asteroids.

"Focus on flying! I've got the fighters!" Bryan spun, weaved, and dodged asteroids throughout the belt. Meanwhile, Ink was firing blue lasers at the Void dogfighters to keep them distracted. Bryan saw one of the red dots disappear on the radar.

"I hit one!"

"Nice job!" Bryan flew the ship out of the asteroid field and headed back towards the ship.

"If we make it back to the Shooting Star, the shields should automatically activate and we should be safe in there. Bryan looked up through the cockpit window. The base was still far. They still had a lot of distance to cover before they would reach the base. Suddenly, a jolt rocked the ship and Bryan fell out of his seat. He pulled up the ship diagram and checked for damage.

"Left ion engine is down!" shouted Bryan. The ship was going half the speed it was before. Ink shot another fighter out of the sky, but the other fighter weaved back and forth between Ink's shots with finesse and skill. The fighter flew past the cockpit, and Bryan peered out from behind the GUI. He swore he saw the face of a man he saw in a movie before fly across the window, his face covered in the glitches of the Void. Bryan shook his head and refocused himself. It was just an hallucination.

"Almost there Bryan!" shouted Ink. Bryan pushed the lever completely forward and the ship limped through the second ring of the Shooting Star. Instantly, the lights in the right lit back up and the turrets began to fire at the fighter. The pilot turned around and flew away, obviously aware enough of the dangers to cut off his pursuit.

"We made it!" shouted Ink, climbing down from the turret position. The ship's left wing was still damaged, so Bryan flew it to the small room that was darkened before, since it now lit up and said "Repair Ward." Bryan docked the ship slowly and opened the hatch doors, and Ink and Bryan walked out into the room. It was a giant workshop, filled with all sorts of tools, parts, and refinery machines. But the most surprising part, was that there was a boy of about 15 standing in the corner, polishing a wrench. Bryan and Ink froze. He thought that there were no more humans aboard this ship.

"Ah, nice to be back in the workshop," said the kid. He had neatly combed blond hair, and inspection glasses with magnifying glasses attached to the side. He was covered in grease and soot, and had a tool belt on the side. He wore a slightly worn green t-shirt and jeans. The kid froze and looked at Bryan and Ink, then blinked a few times.

"Wha…I thought nobody was aboard this ship. I was sure that Jay had evacuated everyone…but apparently someone deactivated the cyrofreeze. He said that my cyrosleep would end when…the next hero arrived. I guess that's you." The boy walked up to him and shook his hand.

"The name is Evan. Evan Dunlar." Bryan's eyes widened. He recognized that name from something, but what?

"Bryan Concord. This is Ink!Sans." Ink shook Evan's hand.

"Call me Ink." Evan nodded slowly.

"Another Concord, eh? Jay's last name was Concord too," muttered Evan. Bryan had a confused look on his face. His last name, Concord, kept showing up. Who was Jay? Maybe this Jay guy was his dad.

"I am…I mean was the mechanic for the Heroes' Alliance," said Evan, "until the Conquerors stormed the base. Jay put me in cryosleep and hid me here so they wouldn't take me."

"Conquerors? Heroes' Alliance?" asked Bryan. Evan waved his hand.

"Nah, it doesn't matter anymore. What's past is past." Evan poked Bryan.

"I'm here to help you now, I guess. As chief mechanic, I don't typically go on missions or quests; I just stay here in the Shooting Star and help with repairs and ore refinement." Evan walked over to the ship.

"Ah, damaged ion engine. It's fine. Hey Bryan, can you help me? Toss me the welder." Bryan ran over to one of the wood tables on the right side of the room and tossed Evan the welder. Evan put on a spacesuit.

"This will just take a minute." Evan walked into a small room labeled Airlock and pressed a button. Within a couple minutes, he was outside. Ink and Bryan watched him as he clipped wires and fixed the ship.

"Do you know this guy?" asked Ink. Bryan shook his head.

"I don't know what's going on here, who the Conquerors are, what the Heroes' Alliance is. This is all so wacky."

"Like it wasn't wacky already."

"Good point." After about ten minutes of work, Evan came back inside.

"I repaired the damage engine and patched up the holes in the left wing. The Concord I is getting a bit old, so I may make some improvements to it. Meanwhile, no more mining." He pulled out the folonium core and looked at Ink's paintbrush.

"I'm assuming you want this turned into paint. I'll get that done now. It will take a few hours, so you can go back and-" Evan froze. Bryan and Ink turned around, and saw Kurt in the hallway. Kurt kept glancing between Evan and Bryan.

"Master E-Evan, you were awoken by these numbskulls?" asked Kurt. Bryan turned to Ink. His eyes seemed to say ouch.

"It's fine KRT. I got it under control. Besides, they were about to head out back to the housing units. He called him KRT instead of Kurt, thought Bryan. Something is up here. Bryan and Ink walked past Kurt as he chatted with Evan.

"I think there's something up here," said Bryan, "something that we don't know about."

"Like the second ring of the base, and the time-traveling kid."

"Yea, like that." Ink and Bryan walked back to the main lobby for the first ring from Evan's workshop. Ink placed his hand on the scanner and opened up his white-walled room.

"Thanks for helping me get that folonium," said Ink. "That was a great adventure, and it will certainly help me create more things. We found some more secrets and-" Bryan held his hand up.

"Wait, adventure…" His eyes widened. "Oh god! We forgot the briefing!" Ink and Bryan ran as fast as they could to the control room to catch up on the briefing they had missed.

I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter of Manifesttale!

If you have ever read my other book series, you may have noticed slight references and tips towards that series. If you want, you can read it, but it is not necessary to understand the full background of this story (yet).

Credit for Evan Dunlar goes to Boboldaccount1234. Credit for all other characters besides Kurt and Bryan goes to their respective creators.

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-Blox