Chapter Twenty-Three: Senpai Night Owl

Place: Seto's House

Time: ten minutes later

Sky's POV

"There are at least one hundred Skys out there," Seto informs us with wide eyes as he peeks out the window of his house. He's put a small protection spell on the house, but it won't last long, and the Skys are trying everything they can to break past it.

"There's no way we can kill them all without Sky getting seriously hurt. He can't even help, since if he kills one of the other Skys, they'll be permanently dead," Ty says, pacing back and forth in Seto's living room.

"Let's see, we have how many people?" E-Ty asks, glancing around the room. "In just this room we have Mitch, Jerome, Seto, the other me, Quentin, Ian, and Jason. Sky doesn't count. Couldn't you get some of your other friends to come help us out?"

"Nah, all our other friends are idiots," Jason says. "I mean, we're idiots, too, but... they're bigger idiots."

"Ant and Jordan could probably help, and Ryan isn't too bad at PVP," Jerome says.

"And we've got a few other friends who could help, but... not enough," Mitch sighs.

"Dang it," E-Ty whispers, looking down.

"SO MANY SKYS!" I shriek, looking out the window at them. Then a thought hits me, and I laugh, adding, "So many Skylox possibilities!"

Ty and E-Ty groan, and I laugh harder. "I wonder if they have Tys at home waiting for them to come back?" I ask, stroking my imaginary beard. "I wonder if they have little Skylox babies waiting for them!?"

Ty throws a couch pillow at me, and E-Ty groans again. "Can you just not?" Ty grumbles, glaring at me.

"Wait, actually..," Seto says slowly, turning away from the window to face us. "Actually, Sky might be onto something..."

"Oh my Notch, guys, I am 99% sure that Skylox isn't real in any dimension," E-Ty protests.

"No, no, that's not what I meant," Seto says, rolling his eyes. "There are as many Tys as there are Skys, right?"

"Not quite," E-Ty mumbles. "My Sky is dead."

"Aw, I'll be your Sky!"

"Shut up, Sky, geez," he groans.

"Guys, focus," Seto commands. "What if we went to a bunch of different dimensions and gathered up a bunch of Tys to fight the Skys?"

"It'd take less time to just gather all of Team Crafted from a bunch of different dimensions. We'd have to visit fewer, then," Ian points out.

"Shh, it's cooler if they're all Tys," I say quietly, patting his hair. He wrinkles his nose and backs away from me.

"Are we gonna do it, then?" Quentin asks, glancing around at us all.

"Yes, and we'd better do it now," Seto warns, peering out the window at the faltering force field that surrounds the house.

"How? We can't break bedrock!" I point out.

"Right. Well- Well, we'll just use the portal I have in the basement. We can go to the Evil – erm, Misunderstood? – Dimension and use the hole Sky made when he was there to get to the Night Owl's Platform."

"Okay. Wait, I've been meaning to ask you, why do you have a portal to the other dimension in your lab?"

"Oh- uh- well, I, um..," Seto stammers, looking down and rubbing the back of his neck. "Well, I sort of wanted to... maybe... use it as a testing ground? I figured if a spell or potion went wrong, no damage would be done..."

E-Ty glares at him. "Really? You were going to use my home as a testing ground!?"

"Well, it's not your home anymore, is it?"

"Seto! Rude!" I scold him, slapping him gently on the arm. "You can stay with us, E-Ty! This can be your home."

"I guess," he shrugs, though he doesn't look too excited.

"Alright, let's just go," Ty says, moving towards the stairs. We follow him down to the lab, and Seto leads us to the portal room.

He laughs nervously when seeing the sign that says "TO THE EVIL DIMENSION." "Let me just.. fix that..," he mutters, changing it to "TO THE OTHER DIMENSION."

"That's better," E-Ty says, crossing his arms. I roll my eyes but smile as I walk through the portal, not enjoying the sticky feeling that comes with going through portals.

E-Ty sighs as we pop into his dimension. Maybe Seto could try to fix this dimension later. He might be able to, you never know.

"Okay, the hole to the platform was somewhere over here," I say, walking toward it. Seto takes out some glowstone when we find it and uses it to surround the top of the hole with it.

"Now we won't have to look for it again," he says, shrugging.

We all jump down into the hole.

Then I realize something.

THE SPIDERWEBS AREN'T THERE.

Last time E-Ty and I were jumping down to the Night Owl's Platform (and all the other times he and E-Sky used it, I'm guessing), the Night Owl had three spiderwebs waiting for us at the bottom, which is good since we both forgot we weren't in Creative mode and therefore wouldn't be able to survive the fall.

THE SPIDERWEBS ARE GONE NOW.

"WE'RE GONNA DIE, GUYS!" I warn them all semi-calmly.

"SNAP, WE DIDN'T THINK THIS THROUGH," Jason yells.

"AT ALL," Ty adds.

"COMFORT ME TRUELOX," I yell, hugging my two buddies.

"WE DON'T SWING THAT WAY, SKY," Jason shouts.

"THAT WHAT YOU THINK," I yell back, hugging them more tightly.

Suddenly our fall ends, and I slowly open my eyes (yes, I had closed them out of fear) to see three spiderwebs slowing us for the last three blocks of our fall. "We're- We're alive?"

"Y-Yeah," Ian says quietly, smiling.

"You idiots," E-Ty groans. "You weren't even at risk of permanent death. The only one of us who could have actually legitimately died from that was me."

"Oh. Right," I remember, turning away from him to face the Night Owl. "Hey, dude, we need to go to a random dimension now to pick up some Tys."

"Sorry, by the way, I forgot to put the spiderwebs down until the last minute. Dimension name?" the Night Owl asks, sounding bored.

"What? Ain't nobody got time for that!"

"Just give me the dimension name."

"I don't know it."

"Then you can't travel between dimensions."

"Well, snap," I say, turning back to my friends. "What do we do?"

"Just make up a name," Jason suggests, stepping forward. "We'd like to visit dimension H-36-G-9-0-0-J."

"Uh, you're going to the Death Dimension without any armor at all?" the Night Owl asks, raising an eyebrow.

Jason's face pales. "Uh, I meant 'H-36-G-9-0-0-K.'"

"Right. Well, sure. Regular or softer landing?"

"Softer. Not that it's softer."

"Don't judge our systems, boy. If it isn't broken, don't fix it."

"But it is broken-"

"Shh. Don't fix it."

"TELEPORT US, SENPAI NIGHT OWL!" I scream, jumping up and down. "I WANNA KNOW IF THE SKYLOX EXISTS IN OTHER DIMENSIONS!"

"IT DOESN'T!" Ty shrieks.

"YOU DON'T KNOW THAT!"

xXx

Don't waste your time trying to figure out what the dimension code means, 'cause it doesn't mean anyhting. :3

OH. And I'd like to credit CrystalFeather0900 for the 'what if the Tys defeated the Skys? :3' idea. Except she suggested it in a more smarter way than that. Thank you, Crystal, for making this story bearable again. :)

Sorry if this seemed rushed or pointless, though. I'm tired. And the song I'm listening to just said 'so I punched a hole in the roof.' Not sure what happened there.

I don't know. Bye. I love you all a whole lote. Yep, a whole lote. . Stupid tiredness. Ugh.

Kthxbaii, my be-ay-yoo-tiful Rulers!