We really haven't heard from Fate in a while, have we? The last time we saw him it was in a completely different timeline! What on earth was the pen man up to, anyways? Well, only one way to find out!

Back on the Flower Planet, as Fate would like to call it, he had been walking for a while now, and he still had that sprained ankle, which gave him a jolt of pain every time he took a step with his bad foot. By now it was more of an annoyance than anything. It wasn't going to kill him, thankfully. Heck, maybe walking would kick out the sprain sooner? ...eh, probably not.

Fate had, by now, left the forest area that he decided to sleep in, and he had also passed by a bunch of bees, and a few of them had offered him some more honey, which Fate had no problem in taking, but he was still suspicious of those big bugs. Those beetles didn't leave a good impression on him. Maybe these bees were just trying to get his guard down.

It didn't stop Fate from stuffing his face with honey whenever he was hungry. A guy's gotta eat, and he didn't think to get any food from his house before leaving for this overgrown garden of a planet, so this was all he had to eat. He wasn't complaining, though. This honey was delicious! It had to be one of the best things he's eaten.

Though, suddenly, as he was in the process of emptying out what was probably his second bottle of honey since he got there, he was tackled by...something, causing him to drop the jar and fall to the ground.

Fate quickly kicked into fight or flight, and he decided on a mix of both. He pushed whatever was on him off of his body and quickly got up, bringing out his giant pen as he did. The pen was prwctically his only effective weapon, though it was basically a baseball bat. Guess he couldn't complain there...

What he saw was actually the little Dersite before. It took a few moments for Fate to remember the thing, but by the time he recalled chasing this thing to the giant flower from earlier, the Dersite decided to run off.

"Hey, get back here!" Fate shouted before running after the tiny Carapacian. He wasn't nearly as fast due to his sprained leg, but he was able to keep the little guy in his sight, which was impressive considering how low to the ground this thing was. It could probably easily hide if it wanted to, but it didn't do that.

As Fate chased after the little guy, running out of breath as he did, he noticed a huge flower off in the distance. Another one of these things? Did he have to follow this guy up the giant staircase? Well, he could try, but he wasn't going to run all the way up the stairs. One, that was too much work, and two, there was the possibility that he could fall, and he wasn't going to take that chance.

Sure enough, unfortunately for Fate, the little Carapacian had indeed run towards the flower. The creature swung open a door that was built into the stem and rushed inside. Fate was quick to follow, only to hear the little footsteps echoing down the giant staircase. Alright, time for another long ascent.

Fate didn't want this to take took long, so he was a bit faster than normal while heading up the stairs, but not too fast. Just enough to break up a sweat and to make his legs grow tired by the time he had gotten up there. Well, no pain no gain, right? At least he was putting up some exercise. It would probably be good for him, anyways…

Fate finally made it up to the top and took a moment to catch his breath. He rested his hands against his kneecaps and looked down at the floor, taking big inhales and exhales. That was when something had hit in the head.

The boy moved his hands from his knees and up to cover his head. "Ow!"

Fate looked up from the floor and noticed the small Dersite sitting in the corner, mashing the button on a small, square shaped device. The device didn't do anything, and instead the little guy decided to throw it at Fate, who dodged it this time.

The Dersite then ran towards the wall opposite of Fate, which was decorated with many flashing buttons and panels. The Dersite then went from left to right, hitting as many buttons as his small arms could reach, which wasn't many, but he was trying his best.

The human in the room tilted his head slightly and took a few steps towards the Dersite. "Hey, what are you trying to do there?"

The Dersite ignored him, however, and reached the last button on the first row. He was going from bottom row to the topmost row he could reach. When the Carapacian hit this button, the door behind Fate suddenly close and petals fell past the window and would fall onto the ground.

Fate blinked and turned around at the door. He grabbed the doorknob and tried to open it, but it refused to budge, and Fate gave up after a couple attempts. The human then turend to the Carapacian and walked over to him.

"What did you do?" Fate asked, looking nervous, though it was understandable. For all he knew this thing could have trapped him in the flower forever. He didn't have enough honey to last forever!

The Dersite turned to the human and got a look on his face that made it seem like he just remembered the human was there. He stared at Fate for a few moments before bringing his hands up and shrugged.

It was then that there was a terribly loud noise, similar to that of a rocket taking off. Fate covered his ears and looked out the window, expecting to see something take off, but instead, the ground actually started to get farther away, and so was everything else on the planet's surface.

A sinking feeling that was most likely not only because of the elevation went through Fate as he realized that this flower head, somehow, was taking off. ...maybe this wasn't an actual flower? Most flowers don't have these kind of control hubs in them. Maybe it was just a ship made to look like a flower?

"Do you know what's going on?" Fate turned to the Dersite once more, but he simply shook his head and looked out the window as well, only to gasp and run away from the window as soon as he noticed their altitude.

"Well, I guess we're staying here for a while," the human muttered as he sat down and pulled out his captchalogue dice. What number did he need? Seven? Yeah, that sounds right. ...no, that's a ten. That just had his other jar of honey...ah! Here we go!

What appeared in front of Fate was the useless utensil he made earlier. The thing with the pencil point as well as a pen point. He then looked at the Dersite and offered him the pencipen. Pencipen? Okay, that was a dumb name. He really needed a better one.

"Hey, maybe there's some paper around here," he said as the Dersite took the item. "Go find some paper or something. We could draw something together."

The Dersite looked down at the pencipen for a few moments before looking at Fate. He nodded and ran off to look around the hub for a few sheets of paper. Meanwhile, Fate stood up and brought out his giant pen. He put the end where the point comes out against the ground and leaned on the other end, watching as everything on the ground - the trees, the rocks, the bugs, the other giant flowers - began to disappear. Hopefully this thing would take them somewhere safe…

A minute or two later of just staring out the window, Fate felt something poke his side. He looked down and saw the Dersite, carrying a few sheets of paper. He offered one to Fate, which the human took with a smile.

"Thanks, fella," Fate said as he let go of his pen, causing it to fall to the ground with a thump. Fate didn't seem to care, and instead sat down with his legs crossed before putting the piece of paper on the ground. "Also, I'm going to have to give you a name, unless you already have one."

The Dersite didn't respond, so Fate was going to assume that was a no. The human nodded and pulled another pen out of his modus. He had a ton of those things in his modus, actually, considering that pens weren't hard to come by, especially in his household. Fate tapped his chin with the pen, trying to think of a good name for this guy.

"What about Speedy?" Fate asked, writing the name down on the piece of paper. The Dersite stared at the name for a few moments before rapidly shaking his head and crossing it out with the pencil side of the pencipen.

"Okay, you don't like that. What about...Tyke? Or Tyrone?" Once again, the two names were written down on the paper, only to be crossed out by the Dersite. "Don't like those either...okay. What about...Noah? Benjamin?"

Once again, those names were crossed off. The Dersite looked up at the human, tapping his pen almost impatiently against the ground as if to say "Got anything actually good?"

"Fine, fine. Don't like those either. I get it. How about...um...I don't know. Ezra?" According to his dad, that was one of the things he thought about naming Fate, but he had decided against it and instead went for Fate. It was the first name that went into Fate's mind and, hey, it was a pretty cool sounding name. Fate then wrote down the name Ezra, expecting it to be crossed out almost immediately.

Instead, the Dersite stared at the name for a few moments before nodding and drawing a circle over it, as well as a check mark, a star, a thumbs up, and the word 'Approved' in a rectangle just big enough to fit it.

"Oh, you like that name?" Fate asked with a smile before nodding. "Okay, cool, so your name is going to be Ezra. What do you want to draw, Ezra?"

The Dersite, who we'll now refer to as Ezra, thought for a moment before putting a finger up to tell Fate to wait a moment. Ezra then took the paper and then rushed off to a small seat, which he put the paper on and began to doodle...something.

Fate smiled and leaned against the glass, his hands behind his head as he watched his new friend scribble quickly on the piece of paper. He wasn't going to expect anything good with handwriting that was that quick, and the fact that the pencipen didn't have an eraser on it. If the guy made a mistake then it'd have to stay.

As Fate watched Ezra scribble on the paper, he yawned, eyes slowly closing. He tried to keep his eyes open a couple of times, but all of those physical activities he's done...so tiring. He rarely ever did something like that, so it was almost bound to make him tired. Fate wasn't going to complain, though. It'd give him an excuse to take a nap. So, slowly, Fate closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep. His friend should wake him up if anything happened.

=== Inside the dream world…