Yo yo yo! (that's right, I'm using ponystoriesandothers' line XD) I'm back with another chapter and this one is going to be a time skip. You'll see what happens.

Tripledent: I don't wanna be a spoiler, but he actually didn't throw those four lights at the Memory Dump; he just threw the Orb of Power. And yep, that's what villains deserve.

Razorback 234: I know, right? And yep, we'll see if Riley will be back to normal! And thank you! :)

Orangebird124: YEAH FEAR! XD And yep, I'm sure that he did the right thing! And thank you! Is he defeated? You'll see! c:

lordhaxsupreme: Thank you! And how will he do that? Hm...read on and find out!

Jokermask18: Okay...

ponystoriesandothers: No problem! It was still perfect! :)

Enjoy, y'all!

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The indoors of Headquarters wasn't any better than you think. There was nothing but worried voice and the only person on the four emotion's minds if the one and only Fear. It has been 3 hours already and he hasn't returned. The longer he hasn't came back, the more worried the opposites got. 'Joy' tried to be positive by telling them that "Fear may be on the way back" or "maybe he just got lost." But the happy messages wasn't cheering them up.

"Dude, if that coward dies on me, Imma smack somethin'," Delight said, one of the most frightened emotion out of the rest. She was the one that made the biggest mess and now she had Fear suffer in the Mind World all alone.

"Smacking stuff isn't peaceful," Calm said, playing his you-know-what.

"I don't want him to die..." 'Sadness' whimpered on the couch who is the other emotion that is mostly afraid. It wasn't because she is the most negative person in HQ; it was because Fear is her best friend. 'Sadness' would definitely know the feeling if she lost a friend of hers.

"Guys, don't think like this! It'll only make us feel worse! Who knows? Maybe Fear defeated that cursing guy! We'll just have to keep our fingers crossed and pray hard," 'Joy' encouraged. She still wasn't giving up with her trying to cheer the others up.

"You said it, bud," Delight said crossing her fingers and patting 'Joy' on the back.

From above Headquarters, there was suddenly a shine of light. But it wasn't just a yellowy color; there was a bit of blue, green and red. A yellow bit of light entered Headquarters - and it was floating. Nothing was controlling it; it was doing it by itself.

"Whoa," the four emotions said with shock.

The yellow light headed for 'Sadness', making the upset emotion flinching a little. The light ended up doing no harm; it went through her stomach, and 'Sadness' had her eyes widen.

She looked around herself and started shaking her feet. "That's weird," 'Sadness' said. "My feet feel asleep. They're never asleep."

"Whaddaya mean? Ya always have sleepin' feet," Delight said with confusion.

'Sadness' took a glance at Delight and had the most perplexed face ever. "Disgust?" she said with surprise. "What the heck is wrong with you?"

"Wha-?" Delight paused. She suddenly remembered that they were swapped - and there was a way to cure them back to normal.

'Sadness' was swapped back to Joy. The old Joy.

"DUDES!" Delight screamed excitement. "Fear must've defeated Alternato!"

"Say what now?" Joy said even more confused than ever.

Before Delight could answer, the other three lights have entered Headquarters. The blue one went through 'Joy', the red one went through Calm, and when the green one was heading for Delight, she kept thinking to herself, I'm gonna change back to Disgust. I'm gonna change back to Disgust. I'm gonna change to Disgust.

...I'm gonna change back to Disgust...

The light went through Delight's body, and she opened her eyes immediately.

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"Hey guys look! It's Fear!"

"That guy who saved Riley from Alternato?"

"Yes! It's awesome, right?"

"Yeah, man! Defeating Alternato is one of the most sickest things ever!"

Fear happily went on the Train of Thought, knowing that he was famous after what he had done. As soon as the Orb of Power fell into the Memory Dump, Alternato had vanished into ash; dead. A Mind Worker was a witness of the defeat and had told Fear that "defeating someone like Alternato...a great accomplishment." And now, clipped onto Fear's shirt was a tiny medal from Trophy Town that read, "A Hero of the Mind." He couldn't wait to tell the emotions everything, and he was sure that they were cured, since he sent the four lights up the recall tube, after being explained by an updated Mind Manuel about what those lights were for.

The train arrived at Headquarters and Fear quickly exited the train, wanting to get out of the Mind World after that terrifying but cool adventure.

Fear rushed inside Headquarters, looking for the emotions right away. Like he thought, the emotions were cured because to his surprise, the emotions were dressed back into their normal clothes; Delight - now to Disgust - filing her nails; Calm - now to Anger - reading the newspaper, Sadness reading the Manuals and Joy, with confusion, looking at the screen.

The emotions immediately turned to see who came, and they gasped with who they ended up seeing.

Joy was the first one to rush to him and she frantically touched his shoulders. "Fear," Joy pleaded. "Tell us everything! Please! I have no idea what was going on!"

"You better be specific, beanpole!" Anger hissed. "I was wearing a freaking peace sign shirt with a stupid hula necklace, while playing a dumb ukulele! What happened to me?!"

"And what in God's name happened to me?!" Disgust shrieked. "I was the most dirtiest person in here! I had to take, like, four showers! It was like I changed into my opposite!"

"That's because you guys were changed into your opposites," Fear said casually.

The emotions were silent.

"What do you mean?" Joy asked.

"It's a super long story, but I'll tell you guys anyway," Fear said. "Okay, so it started off one morning. I was finishing up Dream Duty when I heard an accordion playing. I turned around and found Sadness playing it instead and dancing on the railing."

Sadness' eyes widened with shock. "Me?" she asked.

"Yep," Fear replied. "I was super duper worried and concerned. I didn't know what happened to you! You even called yourself Joy!"

"I did...?" Sadness said bewildered.

"Yes. It was nuts!" Fear said. "And then there was you, Joy. You looked like the most miserable person ever. You called yourself Sadness all the time."

"Wow," Joy said. "Who did this?"

"I'll get to that," Fear said and then continued, "Then there was Anger. You were playing the ukulele while singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. It was super strange. And you called yourself Calm."

Anger started to feel a little embarrassed as he never wanted to sing a song like that. Then he said, "I called myself Calm? Are you kidding?!"

"Y-You're not mad at me, are you?" Fear said nervously.

Anger sighed. "Continue," he muttered.

Fear took a heavy breath. "Then there was you, Disgust. I hate to say this, but you were the worst of all," he said sympathetically. "You were wearing unfashionable clothing, messy hair, riding on a skateboard and acting like a thug. You even caused Riley to be sick."

"I what?!" Disgust screamed.

"You were the one that hurt Riley the most," Fear said. "You just thought you were doing your job. You called yourself Delight by the way."

"Sounds like a girly name for a prick like me," Disgust muttered unhappily.

"Hey, you just thought you were doing your job," Fear said calmly. "That happens."

Disgust did a quiet sigh and shrugged in reply.

"Anyway," Fear continued. "So, we were at school and it was after Riley ate a bag of chips that-" He glanced at Disgust. "-touched the ground."

"Wait," Disgust said demented. "Riley ate poisoned food?!"

Fear nodded. "I tried to stop you guys but you were a control freak like Joy was," he said. Joy looked kind of hurt by that and Fear quickly added, "N-No offense, Joy."

"It's alright," Joy said soothingly.

"Get on with it," Anger said impatiently.

"Okay," Fear explained. "So, we were at school. Our friends were concerned with us because of the way we were acting and the clothes we were wearing. We even got away from getting in trouble and we got...T-Tessa in trouble instead."

"The school bully?!" Anger said with surprise.

"Yeah, and it was all 'Joy' and Delight's idea," Fear said pointing at Sadness and Disgust. "Speaking of, you guys were best buds."

Disgust and Sadness looked at each other. They just raised their eyebrows and looked away.

"Anyway," Fear said. "Tessa was mad at us for getting her in trouble and she punched Riley in the stomach. She still had the chips digesting and she ended up getting sick. That was when Delight started to feel bad because she thought it was her fault. I already had 'Sadness' on my side and Delight wanted me to tell her what was going on. So I did. And she believed me because-" He panted. "-if Delight would be here all Riley's life, she would be a wacky person, right?"

Everyone nodded their heads.

"So then, Delight explained to the other three," Fear said. "There was a bit of an argument but with some reasoning done, you all know that you guys were swapped. So we discussed on things and we planned on going to the Mind World. 'Joy' and Delight wanted to go with me, but something was preventing them from going. So I had to go on my own."

"And you defeated something on your own?" Anger asked glancing at his medal.

"Oh, yeah," Fear said looking at the medal as well. "Do you guys remember the movie Changed?"

"That movie when that family had their personalities switched by that villain...what's his name?" Sadness asked.

"Alternato, remember?" Fear reminded.

Joy gasped. "You defeated him?! All by yourself?!" she asked having the most shocked face ever.

"Yep," Fear said. "It's crazy, right? And it was pretty easy, if you ask me."

"Dude, you're NUTS!" Anger said feeling speechless.

"Heh," Fear said. "So...yeah, that's how I cured you guys."

The others just stared at him until Sadness said, "Wow."

"Fear, you're amazing!" Joy said cheerfully. "That's so brave of you!"

"I'll say," Disgust said. "I guess you aren't that much of a coward."

"Th-Thanks," Fear said feeling touched.

He noticed Anger, who did a little grin at him. He patted him on the back. "Not bad beanpole," he said. "Not bad."

Fear said nothing in response. This was amazing! It was about time that Anger showed him some respect!

He was interrupted by a tight embrace by Joy. He chuckled and hugged back. He looked at the others. He thought they were gonna watch the hug but instead, they joined in. Sadness softly hugged him, Disgust put her arm around his skinny neck, and Anger just placed his hand on his shoulder.

"Thanks for saving us, Fear!" Joy said. "You really are a hero!"

"Definitely," Disgust said. "I'd hate being a tomboy."

"I-It'll be my pleasure, guys," Fear said returning the hugs.

As soon as the group hug was done, the others were happily walking to the console, with their arms around each other.

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Aaaawwwww, that was so touching, was it? Well, there you go, guys! Fear killed Alternato! What a manly guy, eh? XD Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this!

And if you think that this is the end of the story, then you're dead wrong. We still have Riley to handle, right? Well, to be more clear, we have an epilogue and then that story will be finished. Ugh, it's so close to ending already? Wowie.

Anyway, see you next week! Toodles for now! :)