The last chapter was kinda short- so I'm doing double- maybe triple- upload today! Enjoy! :)
Reverse opened his eyes, finding himself on a bed. What the- he thought, jerking up suddenly, scaring two steves who were beside him. They stared at him in shock.
"You okay...?" The white and violet steve asked slowly.
"Where am I?" Reverse asked, looking around in confusion.
"You're in our house. We found you in the woods, and brought you here. You looked very beat up honestly." The yellow and purple steve said. "I'm Speed Steve, and this is my brother, Sweet Steve. Who are you?"
"Reverse Steve.." Reverse replied shyly.
"Nice to meet you then, Reverse Steve." Sweet Steve, the white and violet steve, said. As Reverse looked at them, he realized that they were quite beat up as well. Sweet had multiple scars on his face, and what looked like a bite mark on his arm. Speed pretty much looked almost untouched, but he was definitely bruised in a few places and tired looking.
"What happened to you two…?" Reverse asked. Speed winced, a bit amused.
"We've been fighting our brother. He's ah… difficult at times." Speed answered.
"What's his name?" Reverse asked, tilting his head.
"His name is Lapse Steve." Sweet replied. "It used to be Twilight Steve- and we had a nickname for him too- 'Lullaby Steve'. But he got killed fighting another steve, Puppet Steve- who isn't actually that bad most of the time. Puppet was furious at himself for killing Twilight, so we all went to Origin Steve to revive Twilight. It worked, but Origin asked us to leave Twilight there so he could make sure everything was okay with him… but he tricked us.. He merged Darkness with our brother, and turned him into 'Lapse Steve'. He was… okay at first.. But his temper rose. A Red steve was mocking our sister, Whisper Alex, and Lapse got overprotective and attacked the steve…. But… something happened to him. He seemed to lose all control of himself. The Steve we were fighting against at the time, Shattered, even tried to stop him, but Lapse was too powerful for any of us. He destroyed our old home, and hours later, we managed to trap him with his own powers. He disappeared, and we put everyone that really knew about him into a hypersleep, so when he came back, we'd be freed as well, and there to stop him."
"Seems like it isn't going well." Reverse remarked.
"No… some of the others who helped us before are evil again… they'd help Lapse before they'd help us again…" Speed sighed.
"Well… what if we can still turn the tide on your brother's rise?" Reverse asked.
"...You'd help us stop our brother…?" Sweet asked.
"Seems like you need it."
"Then it's a deal." Speed says, smiling. "But first… we'll need to know as much as we can about Lapse. And that means visiting two steves- both evil, although at least one of them will talk willingly about Twilight and Nightlock, the darkness that Origin merged to create Lapse."
"What are their names?" Reverse asked.
"You heard both from the story…" Sweet says, smiling weakly. Speed finished for him.
"Puppet Steve... and the king of the steves- Origin Steve's brother- Shattered Steve."
