A/N: This story is a little weird. Definitely not the usual feel the past chapters has been. It's starts out a little awkward, but he comedic feel returns midway through. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy this chapter!
The girls sat around the tree that Monday and looked at a certain spot near them. Tridon wasn't there. Sayori hugged her knees. Monika wrote through her notebook while Yuri read her book. Natsuki bounced her knee before standing up.
"Can we stop acting like this?!" She shouted, "Yeah he's not here and yeah he might've gotten threatened by some rich prick and he might not be here at school..."
"Get to the point Natsuki." They interrupt in unison.
"Right." Natsuki nodded and continued, "We shouldn't let that affect our meeting. We have a workshop submission, right?"
"No..." Monika answered, "Nobody has handed one in since we've been on a break from the club."
"And I think it's gonna be just a little harder." Yuri added.
"Wait a minute." Sayori jumped up and joined Natsuki in front of them, "Natsuki's right. We can't let this stop us from enjoying the club. Tridon will get out of this hole eventually. It's happened before and you see how he was before all this happened. If I know my best, childhood friend, then I know that he'll come back soon with all the energy in the world."
"You know what?" Monika started, "You're both right."
"We are?" Natsuki and Sayori ask in unison.
"They are?" Yuri also asked.
"Yes. We've managed before without him. We can continue our day normally without a problem."
"I guess." Yuri stood up and nodded, "What do we do without a workshop submission though?"
Before Monika could say something, their world changed to look heavy in orange and teal along with a brighter sun. They looked at themselves and noticed that they were in normal, casual clothing along with a muscle car next to them.
"What is this?" Monika questioned, "How did he drag us into a world?"
In Erica's neighborhood, Tridon stood outside her house wearing dark, skinny jeans, a white shirt, and a khaki bomber jacket. On his hip was his revolver holstered. His hair was combed over with his sides shaved. He wore amber sunglasses that had her house reflecting from them. He had his hands in his pockets while staring at the house.
Inside the house, Erica ran to the window once she realized the world changed, "Oh no. Oh no..." She repeated. She looked out the window to see Tridon standing there with his hands in his pocket. He glanced at her before walking further down the street. She noticed his holstered gun and backed up, "No..."
Meanwhile at the school, the girls still stood confused as to what was going on. Sayori tried to call Tridon, but he wouldn't answer. She groaned and leaned on the car.
"Did he force the whole world into this new world?" Yuri asked while looking at her phone, "Because we're not the only ones." She held her phone up to show that news stations across the world were trying to figure out why their looks and overall feel has changed, "He did this on a global scale."
"Girls!" They turned around to see Tiffany and Lucy running to them.
"What happened to my brother?" Lucy questioned, "He isn't answering his phone and this isn't normal."
"It's probably what happened this past weekend." Monika answered.
"What?" Tiffany asked, "We have to stop this because this is going to cause some certain people to appear. Some people that he was afraid of."
"The government?" Natsuki asked inciting a nod from Tiffany, "Well we don't know where he could be. He could be anywhere in this world."
"Well," Lucy started, "whatever stirred him up caused his power to get unstable and create this world. For it to be on a global level could mean he either did it on purpose or his mind isn't in a stable state."
"Let's say both." Sayori commented. She sighed and explained, "Saturday, Tridon hung out with Erica after the two reconciled earlier last week. They were having fun at the playground we used to go to all the time. Then her husband showed up."
"That prick said that owns this whole place." Natsuki interrupted, "He said that Erica was his product and that he could do as he pleases since he owns the county and could end his life whenever. Rich prick..."
"Her husband..." Lucy thought for a second, "Her husband is the man that basically controls the mayor and his council. Robert Arias. A crude business who does get what he wants."
"He's divorced multiple times already." Tiffany added, "I don't know if Tridon knows this and might be trying to do something."
"Wait." Monika intervened, "How do you two know so much?"
"I am his sister." Lucy turned to Tiffany and sighed, "And she is an FBI agent."
"Huh?!" They all yelled.
"Quite the normal, vanilla story we have here writer." Monika commented.
Hey. I'm trying to keep interesting. Plus, this'll lead to something cool.
"Whatever." Lucy scoffed, "This is kinda why I didn't want him to leave. To keep him away from stuff like this."
"I don't understand." Sayori started, "If you two know so much about him, how come he hasn't come to me about this?"
"He wanted to keep you out of the loop." Lucy answered, "He cares about you too much to drag you into something like this."
"But I'm his best, childhood friend..."
"Sayori..."
Sayori buried her face into her arms while leaning on the car, "That idiot..." She murmured.
Meanwhile in Erica's neighborhood, Tridon walked around aimlessly while his left his hand remained on his revolver. He stopped when a car behind him pulled up. Two men dressed in black suits stepped out and held their hands in their coats.
"Excuse me young man." One of them started, "You look a little young to be holding a gun like that."
"I'm sorry sir." Tridon responded, "But I carry this around for safety."
"In a neighborhood like this?" The other man questioned, "This is a wonderful neighborhood. Why would you need to carry a firearm?"
"I gave you my reason. You never know what dangers could lurk around every corner." He turned his head and snapped his fingers. Their car started to smoke profusely. The two men dove away just as it exploded. He turned around completely and saw them take out unique-looking guns.
He scoffed and walked towards them. They fired at Tridon, but he moved from side to side with inhuman speed. It looked as if he was teleporting. Tridon snapped again and the two men were gone. He smirked before turning around once again and continuing his walk.
Sayori kicked the car and shook her head, "We have to find him!" She shouted, "I have a feeling as to where he could be." She hopped into the driver seat of the car and pointed at Monika, Yuri, and Natsuki, "You 3 are with me. You two, meet us by his tree spot. You'll know where it is."
The girls quickly hopped in car. One they were situated, Sayori floored it out of the schoolyard. She gripped the steering wheel fiercely and gritted her teeth, "Don't worry Tridon..." She mumbled, "We're on the way..."
Lucy looked over at Tiffany who sighed, "We probably should've done something when she was set up to marry him."
"Probably." Lucy crossed her arms and shook her head, "This just makes no sense. They were having a good time and something like this happens."
"I wonder if my brother knows that he can reverse time with his power."
"Maybe not, but knowing that boy he probably does."
"Aren't that kinda contradicting yourself by saying that?"
"Yup."
Back at the neighborhood, Tridon stood in the middle of the street again while staring at another person. The person was Erica's husband, Robert. They stared each other down while Robert stood with a group of heavily-armed soldiers behind him.
"Tridon, you're a very interesting person you know." Tridon remained silent while Robert spoke, "Being able to alter reality to your choosing. From what Erica told me, she said that you could bring them to an alternate reality. But the more I observed you, the more I realized there was more to your little power."
"Was it really from your observations or is it this?" Tridon asked, "Because I think this has more evidence than what's happened over time or even from what Erica told you."
"Man," Robert groaned, "I had a speech prepared and you're ruining it."
"Dude, your speech is too generic." Tridon scoffed and slowly drew his revolver, "I don't like you." He spun the cylinder and shook his head, "But I can't do anything to hurt you or kill you. I care about Erica, but I also don't want her to be angry. Have you ever been suplexed by her before?"
"Yes..." Robert solemnly answered, "My neck hasn't been the same since we married..."
"You get used to it." Tridon continued to roll the cylinder and laughed, "This is fun."
"Look," Robert interrupted, "give your power to me right now."
"I don't know if you have a low IQ or something, but I can't just give my power up. That's not how it works."
"Oh really? Not even with a little bit of a incentive." He nodded to the soldiers who proceeded to walk forward and Tridon stepped back while readying his gun.
Meanwhile, Sayori and the girls arrived to the neighborhood while hearing loud pops in the distance.
"Those are gunshots." Sayori commented.
"How do you know?" Monika asked.
"Well, apart from that one time we were in the SWAT-like scenario, when he fired at that intruder that night, it sounded like a firework was fired, but there wasn't an echo. Gunshots don't echo."
"So that means he's either shooting at Robert or getting fired at himself." Yuri added, "It's more than likely the second scenario."
"That means we gotta go." Natsuki interrupted, "If we wait any longer he's probably gonna die!"
"We can't keep going in the car." Sayori commented, "Let's get out on foot and see if we can sneak up on whoever is trying to kill our friend!"
On the other side of the neighborhood, Tridon hid behind a tiny brick wall while being fired at. He had a shocked, straight face while his glasses hung off his eyes. He looked at his gun and sighed.
"Probably wasn't very smart to leave my gun empty." He looked around and then to his hands, "I guess I can use our past adventures in this." He snapped his fingers and they were now in their first adventure. Tridon's zombie scenario.
Tridon peaked over and saw that Robert and his soldiers were too busy fighting off the zombies advancing towards them. One of the zombies took down one of the soldiers and tore him apart. Tridon sighed in relief and ran off.
Robert noticed this and shot at Tridon. However, he had missed and groaned, "Damn it! Forget him!" Robert shouted, "Chase after that boy!"
Meanwhile the girls were screaming and sprinting down the street while zombies chased after them.
"Why did he send us here too?!" Sayori yelled.
"Do you think he knows we're here too?!" Monika questioned, "He's been able to tell when we're near."
"Just keep running!" Yuri shouted.
"We have to find him and have him fix this whole thing!" Natsuki added, "We'll need to dodge these zombies and get to him."
"Unless he changes the scenario again!" Sayori retorted, "Either way, keep running!"
Robert and his remaining soldiers chased Tridon through the neighborhood and tried to catch him. Tridon dodged bullets shot at him while dodging obstacles in front of him at the same time.
"I need to change the scenario." Tridon mumbled, "But to what." Tridon thought back to past scenarios and nodded. He snapped his fingers and they were teleported to their asylum adventure.
He stood in the lion's den area and saw Robert with his soldiers. They were confused as well but noticed him.
"Ah! There you are!" Robert shouted, "Get him!"
His soldiers ran forward, but one of them was tackled down by a lion. One of the other soldiers, "Don't worry! I'll shoot it off!" However before he could do so, he was taken down by another lion.
Robert stumbled back while Tridon knocked him over. Tridon punched him a few times before Robert kicked Tridon off of him and ran off. Tridon sighed in relief and looked at the lions snacking on the soldiers. He shook his head while he snapped his fingers.
He looked around his area and saw that he was now by a cliff side. He stared down the cliff and quickly backed up. He took a deep breath and lightly slapped his face.
"Alright, don't do that again Tridon." He sighed and turned around to stare down the barrel of a gun. On the other side, Robert stood with a heavy glare, "Oh damn..."
"Stop messing with me boy."
"You know. Saying 'boy' like that is very derogatory."
"Shut up!" Robert shouted.
"Sorry..."
"You think you're so cool huh? Having 5 girls at your fingertips suddenly makes you cool huh?"
"5?"
"Holy hell you are dense. I oughtta put a bullet in your head right now."
"You know," Tridon started, "aiming right at my forehead won't necessarily kill me right away or even kill me at all." Tridon quickly disarmed him. He placed the barrel right under his chin, "Placing the gun right in between your chin and adamsappel allows for a quick death."
"Oh yeah?" Robert held his hand up behind him as it started to glow green, "You remember that incentive?" From behind a rock, the girls were being pulled from behind it by some sort of green force.
"Pfft what?!" Tridon looked on in confusion and walked around, "Wait a second. You have some sort of stupid power too?"
"Yes! And I was waiting for this very moment!"
"Wait. This doesn't make sense!" Tridon shouted, "Why did you wait so long to use your power? You literally could've used it earlier when I was hiding behind that brick wall."
"Why would I reveal it so early? I needed something to endanger for you to cave into my demand!"
"Still, you could've finished this a long time ago."
"Hey!" Natsuki shouted, "Can you two stop bickering and get to fighting or something!"
"I'm still trying to wrap my head around this." Tridon shook his head and turned around, "You want my power right?"
"Yeah. I need it!"
"Now answer me this." Tridon turned back around and asked, "If I wanted to give you my power, and I don't, how would I do that?!"
"Good point..." While Robert was distracted for this one moment, Tridon tackled Robert to the ground and delivered one straight punch to Robert, effectively knocking him out.
Tridon cracked his knuckles and scoffed, "Idiot." He looked up to be met with a hug from the club members, "Whoa!"
"We were so worried!" Sayori yelled, "We thought you were gonna kill him or something."
"I don't wanna go to jail." Tridon commented, "Knocking him out was enough."
"But what about his powers?" Monika questioned.
"Well," Tridon walked over to him after the girls let him go and he nudged him with his foot, "I don't know. It's probably how he got so powerful in this county." Tridon looked over in the distance and noticed a few people, "Come on out!" He called out.
Almost instantly, Lucy hopped out and tried to tackle him down, but he side-stepped her. He looked down as she fell into the ground, "Ow..."
"Come on sis..." Tridon helped Lucy up and once he did, she hugged him, "I'm fine sis..."
"I know. I knew you were gonna be safe. I just want this..." Tridon slowly pushed Lucy off her and turned to Tiffany and Erica, "They came with me when you all ran off."
"I think Erica needs to say something." Tiffany pushed Erica ahead and backed up.
Erica took a deep breath and stared at her engagement ring, "I should've done this years ago." She took her ring off and dropped it next to Robert, "I made the wrong choice then." She looked at Tridon and smiled, "I can't believe I ruined such a perfect relationship because my parents forced me into something I didn't even want to do."
"But Erica..."
"I know you might not hold those same feelings again, but I want to earn that trust again." She turned to the girls and winked, "Even if I have some competition."
"Hold on a sec." Tridon snapped his fingers again and they were now at Tridon's chill-out spot. He stood in the middle of everyone and sighed, "It's been a helluva few days. I think we all just need to relax and have fun."
"Yeah." They all agreed.
"So how do we do that?" Tridon asked.
"We tackle the stupid boy!" Erica tackled Tridon along with the rest of the girls except Tiffany. They all tackled him into the lake near him and they fell into it. Everyone swam up and laughed.
Tiffany walked to the edge of the lake and asked, "What do we do about the global panic over your tirade?"
"Uh." Tridon looked at his hands and nodded, "I have the ability to reverse time by creating a scenario of the past. I did the same thing when I help Natsuki study last week. I'm sure I can do the same thing before all of this happened."
"So you're gonna bring everything back to the day at the playground?" Erica questioned.
"Yup. I can even take him out of your life." Tridon added as he looked at Robert, "So he won't bother or remember anything that happened today."
"Yes!" Natsuki cheered, "Then we can continue our club activities!"
"Give me a moment." Tridon snapped his fingers and everyone was now near the same jungle gym from before, but they were still soaking wet, "I guess I could've dried us off too..."
"Well," Erica started, "I'm just glad I'm not that idiot man's wife anymore. All he ever talked about was himself. Narcissistic prick..."
"What are you gonna do now?" Monika questioned, "If you need a place to stay, you can live with me."
"I might do that. Now that I'm not married to him, I don't have a place to live." Erica looked at everyone and smiled, "I think I might enjoy this now." Erica hugged Tridon and thanked him, "Thank you so much."
"You're very welcome." Tridon returned her embraced and looked over to Tiffany, "So Tiff, what are you gonna do? These girls know you work for the FBI. What are you gonna do?"
"I guess I can work from the outside." Tiffany sighed and leaned on the jungle gym, "I still need to monitor your power and make sure you don't do anything stupid. Unless the rest of you would do that for me."
"You know we will." The girls respond in unison.
"Well," Lucy started, "I see it that he has a group of girls he cares enough to make sure he doesn't do anything dumb, so I'll take my leave. But Erica, I'm watching you." Lucy slowly backed away before running off.
"Your sister has always been an interesting person." Sayori commented.
"I'll take my leave too." Tiffany added, "I'll keep monitoring Robert in case he tries something. He knows about your powers. He might not know Erica now, but he knows about your power. He wants it for his own selfish desire."
"We'll protect him." The girls say in unison.
"Good. I'll see all of you later." Tiffany waved them off leaving the 5 of them alone.
"So what now?" Yuri questioned, "Technically it's still the weekend. What do we do?"
"Well," Sayori started, "we could always play princess..."
"Who's gonna be the princess?" Natsuki asked.
They all turned to Tridon who sighed, "Do I need to make a scenario or are we just gonna use the jungle gym?"
Just a few moments later, Tridon sat inside the jungle gym while the dokis stood away from it. On top of the gym was Erica who had her projectiles ready.
"Unhand our handsome friend you fiend!" Sayori shouted with an accent.
"Never you bilge rats!"
"When did you become a pirate?" Tridon questioned from inside.
"Oh just shout for help." Erica responded.
"Uh. Ah. Help." Tridon lacked enthusiasm which earned him a glare from the girls, "Right. Ah! Save me brave warriors!"
"Let's go girls!" Sayori shouted, "Let's save our friend!"
"Yeah!"
