The morning we all assembled on the Argo 2 before take-off. Everyone was there except Dave. Chiron had shown up with Mr. D and Coach Hedge who was coming with us again to wish us off. The only thing we needed was Dave.

"I thought he was supposed to be leading this quest," Jason grumbled looking off for Dave.

"Yeah, well, I am leading this quest," Dave poked his head from bellow the deck. "I got here early because I wanted a good room-but all of them were taken so I decided to bunk in the stables because it seemed obviously vacant of horses."

"You've been here the whole time?" Leo asked.

"Yeah," Dave answered. "And I have some news. I had a dream last night."

Everyone groaned and Dave looked confused.

"Demigod dreams are never good an often predict the future," Chiron informed Dave.

"Yeah, and Freud said that if you see it in your dreams, then you want to fuck it," Dave retorted. "That doesn't make Freud right."

"So if you saw your parent in a dream . . ." Hazel was trying to comprehend.

"If you saw anything that looked like a human that Freud said that you wanted to fuck your parent," Dave answered noticing the horrific looks dawning on most of the demigod's faces since they had often communicated with their parents in their dreams. "Again, doesn't make him right. Anyway, my dream."

"Anything bad?" Frank asked.

"No, let me talk. Captain Strider commands you to shut the fuck up and let me talk," Dave told Frank.

"Captain Strider?" Jason questioned.

"Well I am leading the quest and I'm the only one who knows where the hell we're going to I'm the Captain," Dave informed Jason.

"I thought you said that you didn't know where we were going to end up?" I asked Dave.

"Now I do. I would tell you what and how I got this information but I can't get a word in so if everyone would just shut the fuck up then I will talk," Dave commanded.

"I like this kid, this Dane Stroller," Mr. D whispered to Chiron.

"Alright, so it began like this," Dave began to retell his dream. "I was at a divide between a city of gold and a city of purple on the purple side. I was wearing a really cool set of red PJs and I had a cape and everything with a red cog symbol on my chest. I looked up to see Percy Jackson on the other side of the divide-the golden city. He was wearing what looked like gold silk PJs that also looked totally sweet. I looked to my right and I saw Jack Noir standing there. On my left was a green skull dude named Lord English. Above me on a giant flying red battleship was an alien with orange horns and black body suit that had a giant pink Pisces symbol on it, carrying a double-sided trident name the Batterwitch. Looked back to Percy and standing in between us was this strange orange guy. He looked scared, though he had no mouth, just white eyes and a nose. He started to freak out and was yelling at us 'It's happening again! Again! Seriously! Jack Noir, Lord English, and Condie! Doc Scratch, Sn0wman, Spades Slick! All of them! AGAIN! They're going to destroy both universes! You have to stop them from destroying Earth and Skaia! Prospit and Derse! Past and Future! Go! Before they do something bad!' Then the purple and golden cities began to break apart as the images of Lord English and the Batterwitch disappeared. Jack was wearing a golden ring with four pearls on it, and emitting from the ring were lengthy red tendrils breaking the two cities apart. As I saw the cities being destroy I heard the one dudes voice yell 'Get Jack first!'. Then I woke up."

"'A green skull dude' and 'an alien with orange horns'?" Jason questioned my descriptions. 'he had no mouth, just white eyes and a nose'. This dream seems nonsense."

"But I've been to the purple city before-Derse, it's called. I've never been to Prospit-the golden city, though," Dave told Jason. "Also, the Batterwitch, Lord English, I had to fight them and kill them! You know how I said Jack was the cancer? Well, Lord English and the Batterwitch are even worse than him! I don't know who they are or why I had to fight them but they're worse news than Jack."

"So what do we do?" Piper asked Dave.

"We go after Jack," Dave answered.

"But what about Lord English and the Batterwitch?" Frank asked.

"We leave them until we regroup up with my friends . . . wherever they are and . . . whoever they are," Dave said. "We're gonna need more firepower if we're going after the Batterwitch and Lord English along with their armies. Meaning Lord English's gang of gay time traveling leprechauns," Everyone was silent for a moment in confusion. Dave finally spoke up, "Wow, that sounded a whole lot more threatening in my mind. Well, anyway. We'll deal with Jack right now. He's our main problem."

"So where are we going?" Leo asked.

"After we jog my memory some more," Dave began. "We go to Derse."

"Derse? How do we get to Derse?" I asked.

"No fucking clue," Dave answered. "It has something to do with dreaming but I don't know."

"So we all go to sleep and end up on Derse?" Nico questioned Dave.

"No, we need to take the Argo 2 to Derse somehow," Dave answered. "Somehow. But let's just go to 21605 Fir Drive, Maple Valley, Washington for now."

"Good luck," Chiron bid a final farewell.

"Try not to die," Mr. D added.

"Also," Dave had one final thing to say. "I have no idea when we'll be back since we're going to go into another universe, so don't get you hopes up that we're dead too early. But, if I die make sure that you burn my body in apple juice."

With those words of assurance, Chiron and Mr. D left the Argo 2 as Leo prepared to take off.

Dave turned to the crew and said, "Mr. Valdez, Warp 10. Full speeds ahead."