"Alright, I want you tell me this like I'm retarded." I said, crossing my arms. "You said a new nation has been formed, on R-18 island, and you DON'T want me going?"

"That is correct." Said Histoire.

"WHY!?" I exclaimed, moving my arms to the side.

"We're not going out of our way to make ourselves seem hostile." Said Histoire. "And you unfortunately have a track record of… well, you can tend to act without thinking."

"Seriously?" I sighed, scratching the back of my head. "I get why you're not letting me…"

"Just suck it up alright?" Said IF, as I turned to her. "Honestly, it's like you're a child…"

"Thanks for the vote of confidence…" I muttered, turning towards the balcony. "I'm gonna take a few to clear my head."

I opened the balcony door as I jumped over the railing, letting gravity do it's thing as I picked up speed.

I twisted in midair, firing a webline off to the side, as I swung low, before letting go at the apex of my swing, launching myself further through the air.

"Yeah right, I'm sure as hell not listening to that. R-18 island, here I come!" I shouted, landing on top of a nearby building. "Okay, so it's an island… how the hell do I get there… I can't fly, and there are no buildings to swing off of to get there…"

I looked down at the harbour. "Boating it is!"

I jumped down, swinging to slow my descent, as I ran over to a nearby boat, unwrapping the rope being used to secure it to the dock, before I jumped in, running to the driver seat. As I pushed the lever to my right all the way forward, the boat suddenly kicked back, as it tore out of the docks, jumping every now and then.

I pulled out my phone, directions to R-18 Island already cued up. "Alright, here we go!"

"...You know, it never occurred to me what would happen when I got here, huh?" I said to myself, as I pushed myself off of the ground, the flaming wreck of a boat behind me. "...No one will ever know…"

I sighed, in hindsight, Histoire was right… I am prone to do things without thinking straight.

I looked up, seeing the artillery cannons still in their neutral position.

"Huh… would've thought they'd be here by now…" I said, looking up to see 6 small figures in the distance, as they got closer and closer. "Speak of the devil."

I looked at the artillery cannons to see a pink form resting on the top of the middle cannon. I quickly decided stealth would be necessary.

I jumped to the left, rolling as I hid behind a tree, keeping an eye out for everything in front of me.

"Showtime…" I muttered, as I watched the artillery cannons start to raise up, only for them to fire out… balloons? "Uh, what?"

I shook my head. "I'll let them deal with things. It's time to do what I do best."

I moved through the brush of the trees nearby, moving so I had turned the entire way around the artillery cannons.

"Where is the entrance?" I asked myself, as I moved through the forest. "I know it's somewhere…"

"Looking for something?"

I kicked my right foot forward before spinning around to find myself face to face with Linda.

"Why am I not surprised?" I asked myself.

Linda shrugged. "They pay well."

"Compared to before? You were unemployed, I don't think you get money period for such a job." I said, flicking my wrists as my web shooters activated. "Now, you're going to show me where the hell the entrance to your secret underground base is, or else I'm going to teach you about bondage… That came out SO wrong."

Linda pulled out her trusty metal pipe as I just sighed.

"Alright, let's get this over with." I said, charging forwards, flipping over underling, before rolling to a stop behind her. I turned around firing a web shot at the incoming pipe, sticking it to the floor, kicking Linda away from her weapon, before charging at her.

Linda seemed to smirk, jumping back as she seemed to pull out a gun that seemed to have a bunch of wiring exposed, before aiming it at me and pulling the trigger.

"Woah! What the hell!?" I exclaimed, ducking behind a tree. "Since when did you have a gun!?"

"Since we started this whole gig!" Said Linda, as I slowly leaned my head out from behind the tree, waiting for her to do something.

She suddenly pulled out what looked to be a tiny bottle of sorts, the cap a solid yellow colour, with a black bottom and top, and a clear yellow centre, a strange liquid inside the bottle. She shook the bottle, before spinning the cap, as it seemed to click into place, before she lifted up her gun, slotting the bottle into a rail that was indented into the gun.

[HARD DRIVE!]

"Oh no…" I muttered, jumping back.

"Let's go!" Said Linda, pulling the trigger, before she suddenly was zapped as electricity ran over her body, forcing her to drop the gun. "Ow!"

"Mine!" I shouted, firing a webline and pulling the weapon over to me, pulling out the bottle as I pocketed it. "Now, what can this thing really do…?"

I pulled up my new gun as I pulled the trigger, a single shot hitting Linda dead in the chest as she was sent flying towards a nearby tree.

I walked over slowly, webbing her to the tree before crouching in front of her.

"Alright, so I'm going to ask this once." I said, pointing the gun at her forehead. "Where's the entrance?"

"See? Was that so hard?" I asked, several gunshot holes that were still smoking level next to her head on the tree she was webbed to. "No, wait, it was. Anyways, I'll be on my way."

"Hey! Let me go at least!" Linda shouted.

"Not until I know you didn't lie to me! Besides, the webbing dissolves in about an hour!" I shouted back. "I'm keeping the gun by the way!"

I eventually reached the entrance Linda was referring to, crouching down to open up the doorway before getting inside.

"Now, to find out what they're doing here…" I said silently to myself, closing the door behind me, as I started walking around. "Though first, I need a disguise…"

I looked to my right, finding a room filled with a certain familiar box.

"...that was easy…" I muttered, running over as I threw one over my head, sneaking around the underground area. "Now… where to go next?"

I kept walking, finding a room with it's door slightly ajar. "Might as well." I slowly crept over, making my way into the room before backing up against the wall in my cardboard box disguise.

There was a total of two guards in the room, as I sighed, taking out the tiny yellow bottle, as I shook it next to my ear.

"Need to figure out how to get past…" I muttered.

"Past where?"

I felt myself jump, as I put a hand against my mouth, making sure I didn't attract any attention, before putting the bottle next to my ear. "Hello?"

"Hi!"

"...Did I develop a case of schizophrenia while I wasn't looking?" I asked myself.

"Hey… I'm not an imaginary friend!" Said the voice echoing around my head. "...Wait, does that mean you're my imaginary friend?"

"...I'm going to say that I'm not exactly… imaginary…" I said, finding the two guards were leaving for a pee break. "Wow these guys suck at their jobs."

I snuck into the room, tossing the box over my head as I stood up. I shook the bottle again next to my ear. "So who exactly are you?" I asked. "I'm curious as to why there's someone talking to me through… I wanna say a bottle?"

"I'm Yellow Heart!" Said the voice, as I felt myself stop in place. "...Hello?"

"...I'm uh… Edge, OnEdge." I said, nodding to myself, looking around the room for a light switch. "Nice to meet you."

"Edge? That's a weird name!"

"So is 'Yellow Heart'." I said, rolling my eyes. "Hey, can I call you back? There's something I need to focus on real quick."

"Aw… Will we get to talk more later?" Asked Yellow Heart.

"Yes. Definetely. Sooner than you think, honest." I said.

"What if I think we'd be talking in a few seconds?"

"Okay, that, is an unfair assumption, but I'll talk when I got the chance." I said, my hand lingering overtop of what I assume was the light switch. "See you."

I moved the bottle away from my ear, as I flicked the switch up, lights from above illuminating the room around me, computers on the left of the room, some more on the right, and a command console in the middle of the room, stationed in front of this weird landing platform.

"This is weird…" I muttered, walking up to the command console. "Let's see… Enter Password?"

I looked up for a second, before typing 'LovelyNoire' in the terminal, as the console lit up. "Wow, either Anonydeath needs a new password, or I'd say that was… too easy?" My attention was quickly drawn to a program on the console titled 'Transwarp Converter'. "...What's this supposed to be?"

I opened the program, as a whole slew of command prompts and customization windows popped up on screen. I found an option for 'Last Pull' and selected the application, as a big red button showed up on the touchscreen of the console. I let out a breath, as I pressed down on the console, as the landing pad in front of me started to glow an ethereal white.

I stepped away from the console, as the lights seemed to glow more and more, as for 'arms' seemed to extend out from the platform as they started to zap the white glow with some kind of energy, before the glow died down, in the center of the pad, was a single box.

I looked back to the console, finding it had opened up to a log page for what I assumed was for… logging. Specifically, all of these 'pulls' this thing was doing. I walked onto the platform, picking up the box, finding what I assumed to be japanese on the front, a red and blue armoured warrior on the box, a diagonal crystal in his forehead.

"...Where have I seen this guy before?" I asked myself, before I opened up the box, finding what was essentially an empty version of the bottle I had stolen from Linda. "...Neat."

I walked back over to the console, tossing the empty box to the side, as I pulled out the gun and fiddled with the empty bottle. "I still have several questions…"

I felt my right foot slam into a cardboard box, as I looked down, a cardboard box filled to the brim with different things of different origins. I put the gun and bottle away as I picked the box up and placed it next to the console, taking out what looked like an album case.

"...Paid in exposure?" I mumbled, looking at the album cover. "...Wait, Nathan Sharp!?" I flipped the album around suddenly, a sense of unease coursing through me. "...June 2018… June? It was september when I ended up here… How long has it been… really?"

I sighed, opening the the album to find a CD in mint condition. "Okay, well, at least I get to hear some new tunes when I get back…"

I shook my head, putting the album away on my person. "No no no! Stop! Focus…"

My hands seemed to immediately tear into the box, pulling out random assortments of things, a box of Cards Against Humanity, an 'Art of DOOM' book, an Xbox Controller, a package of Oreos...

"These are all… from… home." The word struck light lightning in my system, as I immediately turned to the console, knocking the box of stuff onto the floor, as I furiously scrowled through the log list, as I found each item logged into the list.

"...102 days ago…" I muttered, looking at the first and only entry at the bottom of the list. It was the only one there for the first month, before they started to re update things. "...First test… success. Pull worked like a charm. The only issue is the subject of the pull ended up in an entirely different area from the platform. I'm unsure why, but we found the energy signature for it…"

"...In the Virtua Forest…" I muttered, taking a step back from the console as I felt my hand shake. I placed my right hand over my left, letting my fingers run along the merged device fused to my skin. "...It… was never her fault… Vert had nothing to… It was… I…"

I felt my skin start to boil, as I reached for the gun and the empty bottle, as I slid the bottle onto the rail.

[FULLBOTTLE!]

I ignored the cry of the weapon, as it shook in my hand, or my hand shook so much that my weapon did as well. My breathing became heavier and heavier, as I slowly raised the gun up, before pulling the trigger.

[STEAM ATTACK!]

A giant blast of pressurized steam rocketed out of the barrel, impacting the console as it seemingly exploded in a matter of seconds. I quickly turned to the computers on each side of the room, giving them a similar fate.

I finally turned to the launch pad, as I my left hand clenched in anger. I pointed the gun at the target of my hate, but the sound of the door opening behind me garnered more attention.

I spun around, pointing the weapon straight at the metal face of Anonydeath, Peashy and Rei Ryghts next to him.

"You…" I growled out, as my teeth clenched shut.

"Oh… It seems you found the Transwarp Pull…" Anonydeath said, sighing. "I was worried about that, and here I'd hope we'd come to an agreement…"

"Agreement!?" I exclaimed, as Rei flinched from the sound of my voice. "If you haven't noticed, you mother f*cker- You pulled me from MY life, into this shit fest of a a world, for the sake of testing a machine, and you DIDN'T, think I'd be LIVID!?"

Anonydeath shrugged his shoulders. "Oh well, no use crying over spilled milk."

I clenched my left hand, snapping causality in two, as I let out one of the most inhuman roars I've ever yelled in my life, as I repeatedly pulled the trigger, over and over and over.

I let causality snap back into place, as Anonydeath was suddenly slammed with the force of the weapon in my hands, knocking him out of the doorway. I pulled the empty bottle out of the gun, before turning back to the launchpad, pulling the trigger over and over again, the machinery beyond repair when I was done with it.

I let out heavy breaths, as I quickly bolted for the door, sliding underneath the tackle that Peashy tried to hit me with, as she suddenly transformed.

"Get back here!" She shouted, as I skidded to a stop and ran down the hallway, flipping off Anonydeath while I did so.

"This place is like a maze…" I muttered, running out the way I came, as I found myself suddenly tackled by Yellow Heart.

"You're not going anywhere!" She said, as she lifted me higher into the air. I clenched my hand, splitting cause and effect, as I maneuvered onto her back, as I grabbed hold of her hair, returning time to it's usual flow.

"What-HEY! LET GO!" She shouted, as I pulled on her hair like the rains on a horse.

"Not now, first, you're taking me home!" I shouted, as she started to fly around in an attempt to get me off. "I said your flying me to Planeptune!"

I pulled to the left, as she suddenly jerked in that direction, as we began the journey to the nation I was occupying, a constant battle for control. There might have been words to be said while we were up in the air, but I was too blinded by anger at the time to really say anything other than swears.

Yellow Heart was no different. Eventually, I saw the Nation slowly come into view. I let a sigh escape my throat, before I was suddenly flipped off my ride, as Yellow Heart Dive bombed me.

"I got you now!" She shouted, as I clenched my left fist, Causality stopping. I raised my let arm up, firing a webline at Yellow Heart, as I started swinging to gain momentum. When I felt I finally had enough, I swung towards the nation, and let go of the webline, releasing causality.

Yellow Heart ended up slamming into the water, as I flew through the air towards the nation. A sudden thought occured to me as I closed in.

"...Am I even going to get close enough to web to another building?" I asked myself, as I felt myself lose altitude. "Oh shit!" I shouted.

It seemed I had someone looking out for me for once in my life, as a figure caught me from my free fall. I looked up, finding the relieved face of Purple Heart, as I let out a sigh. "Do you have any idea how long we've been looking for you?"

"...A while?" I asked.

"Four hours. That was AFTER, we got back." Said Purple Heart, as she gained a look on her face. "...Care to explain why you were on R-18 Island?"

"...I'll explain when I get back." I said, a frown on my face.

Purple Heart's face also grew sad, as we slowly made our way back.

"Do you have any idea what the consequences of your actions might have been?" Asked Histoire, as I sat on the Sofa with everyone around me. The four CPUs were sitting to my left, with IF, Compa and the Candidates to my right, Histoire to my front. Plutia… was sitting to my right on the sofa, because apparently she didn't understand the atmosphere right now.

"..." I kept quiet, my mind going through the loops and bounds as it processed the information I was given a few hours earlier over and over.

"We went to try and avoid conflict, and you went off and stole a boat, and went to the island!" Said Noire, as I took an intake of breath through my nose. Noire seemed to stop as she looked at me. "Did you just… are you crying?"

"...I'm sorry…" I said, a shaky breath rolling out of my throat, as I raised my head, tears welling up in my tearducts. I turned my head to Vert. "...I'm sorry… It wasn't your fault…"

I muttered the last words to myself, as I looked at the floor in front of the CPUs.

"...What do you mean… it wasn't your fault…?" Asked Vert, as the tears started to roll down my face. "...Bryce?"

"...AAAAAUUUUUUUGHHHH!" I let out the most painful scream I ever had, as I slipped off the sofa and onto the floor, slamming my right hand onto the floor in anger. "...I'm sorry… I'm sorry…. I'm sorry…"

"Woah, hey! Bryce, calm down…" Neptune said, putting a hand on my shoulder. "What… happened there?"

"...A transwarp pull happened." I said, as I leaned back, eyes not really focusing on anything. "That's what the program was called at least…"

"Transwarp… Pull?" Asked Blanc.

"...It… Would pull things from another dimension… to here…" I said, taking out the now dubbed empty 'Fullbottle' and the gun as I placed them on the table. "These… are a few examples…"

I pulled out the Paid in Exposure album I had taken with me. "And this…"

Vert looked at the fullbottle in intrigue, while Uni handled the gun. "...They had…" I choked out. "Had a log table… of all the things they 'pulled' from this dimension…"

I closed my eyes, as I let out another breath. "Oh… Oh god…" I muttered. "A hundred… and two days ago… I awoke in the Virtua Forest."

I looked at everyone with a blank expression. "...One hundred and two days ago… their first pull attempt was a success… the only issue, was that the subject was brought to the Virtua Forest."

I let the information sink in, as I let my head hang. "...I'm… going to go take a nap… I… I'm so… Tired…"

I picked up the album, as I walked over to my room, closing the door behind me. I walked over to my laptop, putting the CD into the computer, as I plugged my phone in.

"...Old wounds… never heal huh…?" I sighed, as I crawled on top of my bed, and assumed the fetal position, as I shuddered, letting tears fall once more.

The door to my room opened once more, before closing slowly soon after. I felt a weight press onto the bed, as Neptune lied down next to me. "...It's going to be okay…" She said, as I let myself uncurl, rolling to the girl on my left. "We'll get through this… Together."

I weakly nodded, as my arms wormed their way around her, as I pulled her into a hug. It was probably the weakest hug I've ever given, but it was the one I needed the most.