Ray and Allie woke up, but their vision was a little blurry. They couldn't figure out where they were. Everything looked grey. As their vision started to clear up a little, they noticed some blue lines that looked like they were some kind of thing you'd find on a water civilization circuit board. Then, they noticed they were in a cage of some sort. They reached for their gauntlets, when they realized they had none. They recognized this place, since they've been there twice.
"Allie?" Ray said.
"Yeah?" Allie asked.
"What are we doing on The Choten's ship?"
"I'm not sure. The last thing I remember was getting hit by... Well, you, actually."
"Me?" Ray asked. He was confused. He never hit Allie, nor would he want to have.
"Well, Grash hit you first. The impact sent you flying into me." Allie said.
"Wait, so Carny brought us here?" Ray asked. "Son of a bitch."
"Carny AND Jack, actually." Allie said. "Although Jack was the only useful one. If he didn't distract us with Megaria, Carny wouldn't have hit us with Grash."
"Well, we're in some deep shit, aren't we?" Ray asked.
"Yeah, probably." Allie said. "What should we do?"
"I guess we should wait for help." Ray said. "It can't take too long."
"We are on a ship in another dimension." Allie said. "It could take a while. But you're right. All we can do is wait."
"Yeah." Ray said. "They could have given us a bed at least. I'm kinda tired."
"How? We've been sleeping for... For... How long HAVE we been sleeping for?" Allie asked.
"Good question. Well, guess we just gotta wait and do nothing else." Ray said. "This is gonna be a LONG time."
At the hospital
"What do you mean I'm not 'fit to leave'? Is physical therapy really necessary?" Dylan asked.
"Yes, it is. Actually, you're not even supposed to be here right now without a parent or guardian." the nurse said.
"Guys, seriously. Couldn't you have taken me to Canada for treatment?" Dylan asked. "At least THEY'RE nicer about us leaving without physical therapy. Like, seriously, I can clearly walk just fine."
"Sorry, Dylan, but we can't let you leave without your physical therapy. Since you recovered so fast, it's only for a day or 2." the nurse said.
"Is that actually how it works?" Dylan asked.
"Not entirely. Your muscles still need to get used to moving, since you've been asleep for 3 days." the nurse said.
"Fine. Sorry guys. Looks like you gotta leave without me." Dylan said.
"Sorry, not happening. We'll wait right here for you." Blark said.
"Come on, really?" Dylan asked. "You heard her. It could take a day or two. You can't stay here for an entire day."
"Well, one of you can." the nurse said.
"I will." Lunaria said. "You guys look for Cole."
"Oh yeah, I saw him outside the dojo. Where did he go?" Blark asked.
"He split up with us." Ava said. "He went to look for Ray and Allie."
"Who now?" Blark asked.
"You haven't met them yet, Blark." Dylan said. "You probably will."
"What are you still doing here?" Rebecca asked. She arrived shortly after Blark defeated Geneic. "Do your physical therapy. The sooner it starts, the sooner it's done. "
"I guess. Alright. See you all later!" Dylan said, and ran off. Of course, he got stopped by the nurse, and told to go slow for a while. Lunaria couldn't watch him, so she went with everyone else to look for Cole.
Over to Cole
"They said they were eating here." Cole said. He went to the diner where Ray and Allie were eating. "Now you're saying you have no memory of them being here at all?"
"That's what I'm saying." the waiter said. "Maybe they just never had the time?"
"They texted me WHILE they were here!" Cole said.
"Sorry, mister. They weren't here." the waiter said.
"Hang on a second, let me see your head." Cole said.
"Umm, ok?" the waiter said, and he leaned his head forward for Cole to look at.
Cole looked around it until he saw it. 5 little dots in a pentigonic shape. The obvious sign of a cyber virus that drained his memories. That made sense.
"Alright. I'm gonna go now." Cole said. He gave the waiter some money. "Here's $20 for your troubles."
"Thank you, sir." the waiter said. He clearly found this weird.
Cole walked out, and saw Rebecca running to him, along with Lunaria, Ava and... Blark?
"Hey, Cole!" Rebecca shouted."
"Hey, what's Blark doing here?" Cole asked. "How'd he get here?"
"I took the beacon." Blark said.
"Beacon?" Cole wondered. "Oh, the ley line."
"Yeah, that. And I swear, ley line coule be the name of a phone sex line." Blark said.
"Dude, really? In front of your friend's girlfriend?" Cole said.
"Good point." Blark said. "But it's not the first time."
"And I hope it's the last." Cole said.
"It won't be." Blark said. "Now let's go somewhere. You know, have some fun."
"Well I'm going at about 7 or 8." Lunaria said.
"Dylan?" Cole asked.
"Yeah." Lunaria said.
"Ok then." Cole said. "Well, we should go, before anything unusual happens."
"Alright." Blark said. "What's gonna happen, anyways?"
7 years in the future
"Alright, going back in time will age us down, making us weaker." Dylan said. "Not that aging down will change myself very much, but you changed a lot over the years."
"Ok. How do we do this?" Blark asked.
"Just grab my shoulder. I'll do the rest." Dylan said. "But, we can only do this once, because traveling backwards through time requires a lot of energy, especially if you want to go around time paradoxes. Going forward takes twice as much, which our young bodies would not be able to handle."
"There's a sex joke in there somewhere." Blark said.
"I heard it right when I said it." Dylan said, and as Blark grabbed his shoulder, Dylan started thinking of a point in the past, back when he was in the hospital, still asleep. Only thing, he didn't know what happened during then, so he couldn't go there. So he went to when he was doing his physical therapy, while he was weak, but conscious. Only thing, he wasn't weak. But it's the closest he's getting to a point where he could beat himself while he was younger... Actually, since he had all 5 artifact, any point before he got the 5th he could beat, but this one part seemed the easiest. He concentrated on that one time, and everything that he knew happened. Soon enough, his body started glowing, as well as Blark's. He closed his eyes, and he could feel his body move, but not physically.
"Dylan, what's going on?" Blark asked.
Dylan wasn't paying attention. He was too focused on the time travel process. After a few seconds, Dylan opened his eyes, and they were standing in the same place, except it looked newer. They were standing in Dylan's old house, which to them, a few seconds ago, was in ruins.
They succesfully travelled through time.
Back to everyone else actually FROM this time
"Did anyone else sense some sort of disturbance?" Rebecca asked.
"In the force?" Blark asked.
"Uhh... No." Rebecca said. "I meant like something that's here that isn't supposed to be here."
"You're probably just sad that your brother is in the hospital." Ava said.
"My brother... Hey, Lunaria, is it ok if I stay with Dylan instead?" Rebecca asked.
"Well... He's your family. Go ahead. Why?" Lunaria asked.
"I just feel like something bad's gonna happen." Rebecca said.
"I think they'd want us all there if something bad were to happen. Fine, you can go there first. If something happens, give us a call." Lunaria said.
"Alright. C'ya." Rebecca said, and she ran up a building (since people would see her flying), summoned "Cyber Lord Finbarr!", and rode on his floating platform. She also summoned a stalker sphere to bend the light around her, and the platform she was on, and Finbarr too.
"Why was I summoned?" Finbarr asked.
"I need a ride to the hospital. My brother might be in danger." Rebecca said.
"And what will you say to get me to take you?" Finbarr asked.
"I'm friends with Ray, Allie, and Gabe." Rebecca said. "Also I'm one of the Choten's enemies."
"Hmm... That's not enough for me." Finbarr said.
"Fine. Maybe I'll choose a creature I've already bonded with." Rebecca said. "I do have to hurry, after all, and you're not taking me." She jumped off and onto the same roof she was on before, and she started dismissing Finbarr.
Before she did, though, Finbarr said "Wait, wait. I was kidding. Come on, let's go."
"Really? I didn't know someone on the Council of Logos had a sense of humor." Rebecca said. The gold hexagon symbol on Finbarr's head started glowing, and Rebecca slapped herself.
"BAHAHAHAHA!" Finbarr laughed. "How's my sense of humor now?"
"Point taken." Rebecca said as she jumped back onto the platform. She told Finbarr the directions to the hospital using her gauntlet. Once they got there, she had Finbarr drop her off on the roof.
"One more thing before I go." Finbarr said.
"What?" Rebecca asked.
Finbarr's symbol glowed again, and again, Rebecca slapped herself. "BAHAHAHAHA!" Finbarr laughed.
"Well, you're having fun." Rebecca said. "So I'm gonna dismiss you now."
"Alright." Finbarr said. Rebecca dismissed him, hopped off the building, and sat in the waiting room.
Back to Dylan and Blark from the future
These two were running through the streets faster than cars. Their bodies looked exactly like they did at this time, but the power subtraction only removed about half their power, not their skills or items.
They ran not even as fast as they could to the hospital, and once they got there, they burst through the front door.
"Hello." a girl said. She looked familiar, but Dylan didn't know where from.
"Hi. I'm, uh... I'm looking for Dylan right now." he said.
"Hmm..." Rebecca said. "What happened to your eye?"
"Someone cut me with a hot blade." Dylan said. He had a long skinny scar that he didn't actually know was there until now, because no one brought it up.
"Alright." Rebecca said. Can't be Geneic. Geneic doesn't have a scar. Although he looks a lot like Dylan.
"Well, anyways, is Dylan ok for visiting?" He asked.
"First, tell me your name." Rebecca said. "Both of you."
"Oh, I'm... Uh... Feral." he said.
"Feral? Really? Well, I'm not gonna criticize your name. What about you?" Rebecca asked the kid who looked a lot like Blark.
"Oh, umm... I'm... Uh... Killer." he said.
"Those names are pretty kick ass." Rebecca said. "Why are do you look like Dylan?" she asked 'Feral'.
'Feral' didn't say anything. He just stood there. After a few seconds, he said "Kill her."
"Not a problem." Killer said, and he rushed forward and created a sword. He moved at extreme speed, however Rebecca didn't even flinch, until right before Killer attempted to stab her, when she simply moved her head out of the way of his sword.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know we were starting yet." Rebecca said. She then grabbed Killer's sword, slid it out of the chair that she was sitting in slowly. Then, she whipped it across the room. Killer didn't even let go. He planted his feet on the wall, and jumped down.
"Well... That happened." Feral said. "Who are you?"
"My name is Rebecca." she said.
"Rebecca?" Feral said. He instantly remembered his sister. So THAT'S why she looks familiar.
"Ah, so you recognize me. So clearly I've met you before." Rebecca said. "Haven't I, Dylan?"
"Hmph." Feral said. "In this time, call me Feral."
"Alright 'Feral'." Rebecca said. "Why did you go with the name 'Feral' anyways?"
Instead of telling, he transformed into a wolf, no doubt with the Cloak of Dark Illusion. Although, that doesn't effect one's physical ability, so there was really no point. However, somehow, he had claws, and was even faster and stronger than Dylan. He jumped on Rebecca, and was about to bite her neck, but he stopped right next to it, and pulled back his head after a few seconds instead. He then ran towards the hall, turned around, and said to Killer "Deal with her."
"No problem." Killer said.
Rebecca turned on her smartphone's screen and called Cole's cell phone.
"Hey Rebecca." he said.
"Hey. I'm kinda getting attacked. You'll never believe who's attacking me." Rebecca said.
"The Choten's men?" Cole asked.
"No, Dylan and Blark." Rebecca said.
"Well, maybe Dylan's just- wait, BLARK is attacking you? But he's right here!" Cole exclaimed.
"Actually, that's one of the reasons I'm calling. As far as I know, Blark is the only one that stands a chance against Blark... Besides Dylan, but the other Dylan is attacking him.
"... Almost none of that made sense, but alright. He'll be there in about a minute, maybe half." Cole said. "He left at the first mention of his name."
" Sweet thanks love you getting attacked bye." Rebecca said. Killer summoned up a katana. Wow, he's REALLY getting desperate. Not even anything useful.
That's when he rushed forward, did a sideways slice, and then right before it hit, he changed to the same claymore that he used againt Geneic as Blark. Now THAT makes more sense. He made cut after cut after cut in Rebecca.
"Game over, bitch!" Killer shouted. He went to cut her in half. The instant before the blade made contact, though, someone literally jumped through the door.
Whoever it was shouted "DODGE THIS, BITCH!" It sounded like Blark. He, who was still airborne, was sent launched towards Killer at near bullet speed, and hit him in the face, pinning him to the ground. "Or how about stand still like a complete dumbass?"
Over to Dylan
"Hey, am I the only one who hears that?" Dylan asked, walking with the metal bars
"Hears what?" the nurse asked. It's always the same nurse, for some reason.
"It sounds kinda like a wolf." Dylan said.
"It's probably just your imagination." the nurse said. "Looks like you're doing good. We might be able to let you out early."
"I won't have to come back?" Dylan asked.
"Nope." the nurse said. "Although you should take it easy for a few days. No climbing, no jumping down stairs, no running too fast, and no fighting."
That last one sucked. "No fighting? Alright. Anything else?" Dylan asked.
"Actually, as a matter of fact, the only part of your body that didn't recover was your right arm." the nurse said. "Care to tell me why?"
"Well..." Dylan thought. There was that energy ball with the high pressure, but he couldn't tell her that. "I'm not sure. Maybe it's the part of my body that made contact first?"
"Maybe..." the nurse said. "Well, anyways, you're good to go." the nurse said, right as a wolf ran into the room and attacked Dylan.
"CALLED IT!" Dylan exclaimed. "Hey, would this fall into the no fighting category? If I'm fighting for my life?"
"Yes, it would." the nurse said. "It most certainly would."
"Could you make an exception this one time?" Dylan asked.
"Well..." the nurse thought about it. "Fine. But only because everyone else is busy!" she shouted as she ran out of the room.
"That works for me." Dylan said, as he rushed forward at extreme speeds. However, the wolf did the same thing, except it moved faster.
Dylan wasn't about to risk getting caught doing his Kaijudo shit on someone in front of people, but then he looked around and realized something. The room was completely empty, besides the two of them. He saw this as an opportunity, and he pointed his palm towards the wolf, moved a fraction of his mana towards his palm, and shot off a mana blast.
The mana blast went extremely fast, and is was pretty small. The wolf was just standing there, not even trying to run away from it. The mana blast exploded without actually touching the wolf. Dylan was confused, until he saw that grey mana do- wait, grey? What happened to blue and green? Now they added grey to the mix?
"Well, clearly, if you could do that, then you're not actually an animal, so go on and change." Dylan said.
"Very perceptive or you." Dylan heard himself say, but his mouth didn't move. He then watched the wolf, and it started changing shape. The front legs turned into regular human arms, and the back legs turned into human legs, and the head formed into a head of someone very familiar. Someone he knew. Someone he saw almost every day.
"Seto?" Dylan asked. "Or Geneic or whatever, I dunno how your whole name thing works."
"Actually, as a matter of fact, I am not Geneic. I am someone you know more than anyone else." the kid said. Dylan looked, and noticed the scar. He disregarded it.
"Me from 7 years in the future who's come back to kill me?" Dylan asked.
"Wow, just... Just take all the fun out of it for me. How did you know?" the other Dylan asked.
"Because it's the biggest cliché of all goddamn time!" Dylan exclaimed.
"Alright, how did you know it was 7 years?" the other Dylan asked.
"Because it's always 7." Dylan said. "And why do you hate yourself so much that you'd come back to the past and kill yourself?"
"It has nothing to do with me personally, it has to do with one of my actions. I am trying to rewrite history so that I don't kill the Choten. Because if he survives, then..." the other Dylan paused, and then said: "If he survives, then she still survives."
Dylan didn't have to ask who he was talking about. They were the same guy. He knew he was talking about Lunaria.
"Well, whatever. If anything happens to her..." Dylan said, walking up to the other Dylan. He clenched his hand into a fist, and punched the other him in the face. "... Then I would kill the person who killed her, not kill myself in the past out of guilt!"
"Except you DID." the other Dylan said.
"Then clearly something happens to me in the next few years." Dylan said. "Something that probably won't happen again."
"No, it won't happen again." the other Dylan said. "Because killing you will prevent it."
"If you really think that's true, if you really think that killing me will keep Lunaria from dying, then fine." Dylan said. "Kill me."
"I didn't expect you to go down so easy." the other Dylan said.
"There's a difference between going down, and giving someone what they want without fighting." Dylan said. "You want to kill me? You want to just blame yourself for what happened for the rest of your life? Then that's fine with me."
"Really? Alright." the other Dylan said. He made a mana sword, but then Dylan noticed something. It turned solid, and got set on fire. It looked like an actual sword, not see-through like the current time's Dylan.
"Well... Shit." was all Dylan said.
"You like it? Well, it can do more than be a sword. However, you're not going to see that." the other Dylan said.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Dylan said, grinning.
"What?" the other Dylan asked.
"5"
"Stop that."
"4"
"No, seriously, stop that right now."
"3"
"I am serious."
"2"
"I will stomp on your freaking face!"
"1"
"Oh, son of a bi-." the other Dylan was saying before he got hit by someone flying through the wall. Dylan sat up, and looked at who hit hit his future self. It was Blark. Dylan looked through the hole in the wall, and saw Blark again.
That rules him out as the human Fire Artifact. Dylan thought. "So, what took you so long?" Dylan asked.
"You know. Trying to stop my clone from killing me." Blark said.
"So, pretty much my average Thursday." Dylan said.
"Can we stop making jokes and just finish Killer and Feral off?" Blark asked.
"Killer and Feral?" Dylan asked.
"They came up with those." Blark said. "I just hope that we don't become as much of dumbasses as them." he added, offering Dylan his hand.
"Same here." Dylan said, grabbing Blark's wrist and pulling himself up. "Now let's hand them their asses."
"You know what? You're pretty weak right now, you should let me deal with these two." Blark said.
The other Dylan trasformed into a wolf.
"Uhh... Alright. You can take on Feral." Blark said.
"Which one's Feral?" Dylan asked.
"That one." Blark said, pointing to the wolf.
"Good to know." Dylan said, and he rushed towards it, with his mana sword made, and some darkness spears curving from his back, pointing towards Feral. Feral just ran towards Dylan, clearly a lot faster, with claws drawn. However, Dylan noticed one thing. What Feral had in attack power and speed, he lacked in defense and brain power. Also, he noticed a delay in the transformation between human and wolf. Finally, as a wolf, Dylan doubted thay Feral could move his hands (or paws, in this case) the right way to summon a creature.
Dylan got an idea.
"Twilight Archon!" Dylan shouted, and the instant he walked out of the portal, Dylan jabbed his hand forward, and Archon moved towards Feral faster than Feral could transform, and he also didn't have any time to react, and he got hit into the wall.
"You... You son of a bitch." Feral said, sounding weak.
"One hit? Really? Well, technically two, but still, that's pretty weak." Dylan said. Then, he got another idea, but had to wait for Blark to finish off Killer.
Blark rushed at Killer with his claymore out and hit him in the gut, launching him into the wall. Yeah. That's what would happen.
"Wow, that was fast." Dylan said.
"How long ago did you finish?" Blark asked.
"About half a minute ago." Dylan said. He then dismissed Archon.
"Hey, isn't that cheating?" Blark asked.
"Hey, I worked with what I had. If you had a gauntlet, you'd have done the same thing." Dylan said.
"Oh, THAT'S what it's called." Blark said. "Hey, aren't gauntlets supposed to be armour?"
"Let's just interrogate these two. There's some information I wanna get out of them." Dylan said, and he walked over to the out of commision Feral and Killer.
"Alright, we have some questions we wanna ask you two." Blark said.
"I think we know what one of them is, and we'll give an answer." Feral said. "Whatcha gotta do, is go down to the local pharmacy, ask for something called viagre, and it'll help you go FU-!" Dylan kicked him in the dick.
"Do you really gotta be so brutal?" Blark asked.
"What was I supposed to do?" Dylan asked. "We gotta get them to answer out questions."
"Actually, I only have one." Blark said. "Why did you two give yourselves such stupid nicknames?"
"We were on the spot. It sounded cool to us at the time." Feral said.
"Killer is what you'd name a goldfish, and Feral I think is an adjective for dangerous... Meh, the names fit you." Blark said. Killer took offence to that.
"Blark, let me ask these two my question, you meet up with everyone else." Dylan said. Blark ran out, and Dylan walked up to the two of the future dopples on the ground. "Who kills Lunaria?" Dylan asked.
Feral and Killer looked at eachother, then to Dylan.
"Sorry, we don't know. We just found her lying on the ground with a sword in her chest. None of us saw who killed her." Feral said.
"My guess it either one of the creatures who invade... Or Geneic." Killer said.
"Same here." Feral said.
"So, if you think it's Geneic, why would you go after me instead of him?" Dylan asked.
"Because... Because even if I wasn't the cause of it, I don't want to let you or me to live without her..." Feral said.
"And you think killing yourself is what you have to do?" Dylan asked. "Well, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I'll let you out of here alive, but don't try anything funny on the way out."
Feral scurried up, and then he waddled out of the room. Clearly, that blow to his... I'm just gonna stop right there. Killer ran out four times as fast as Feral was moving. After about five minutes later (when Feral left the building), Dylan walked outside and headed to his house, since his phone said it was 9 pm. Only problem, he was probably on an adrenaline rush during that fight, because he could barely walk. He had to sleep somewhere in San Campion, because the dojo would be closed this late, and he didn't have the energy to fly back home. He sent a text to Ray.
Texting
Dylan: Hey. Too tired to head back home. Dojo's closed, since the hours are only until 7. Could I come over to your place?
Back to Dylan
Ray didn't text back. Dylan wondered why. He then tried texting Allie the same thing, but she didn't text back either.
Over to Ray and Allie
"No one's coming for us, are they?" Ray asked.
"Probably not." Allie said. "Hang on, these are the creature pens, right?"
"Yeah. What about it?" Ray asked.
"Don't they have the giant gaps between the bars?" Allie asked.
"Don't bother. I already tried it." Ray said.
"I'm skinnier." Allie said. "I can fit through easily."
"Well, yeah, you're skinny near the bottom, but then you got two giant balloons on your chest." Ray said.
"I don't know whether to thank you or slap your face." Allie said. "Hey, do you have your cell phone?"
"Even if I did, how would it help? We're in the water civilization. What reception would we get?" Ray asked.
"Does it hurt to try?" Allie asked. "They DO have a lot more technology than the other nations... Well, except for light."
"Fair enough." Ray said, as he pulled his phone out of his pocket. "Hey, I'm getting a signal. Wait, I just realized we're ABOVE the water civilization. How am I getting a signal?"
"Well, there's a cell phone tower on the Choten's ship." Allie said.
"Hey, I got a text from Dylan." Ray said.
"Ok, it won't matter what it is if we're dead. Just ask him for help." Allie said.
"Alright." Ray said.
Texting
Ray: Dylan, help. We're on board the Choten's ship, and my pain-in-the-ass girlfriend and I need to get off, but we don't have our gauntlets
Back to Ray and Allie
Allie read the text and slapped Ray in the face.
Thanks for reading! Should Dylan go, should Nigel break them out, blah blah blah crazy shit like that, the only thing I actually want info on in the comments section (and I'm definitely doing this, not thinking twice about it) when should Ray and Allie break up? Anyways, follow and favorite this story and me, and have a nice day