Lily rested on top of a lamppost as she scanned the surrounding area, hoping that doing this would somehow help her find Girl Jordan and Mrs. Johnson. But instead, all she found was a bunch of scenery that, despite the obvious effort in making it look real, seemed fake all the same.

"It's rather telling, isn't it?"

Lily turned around, and she narrowed her eyes upon seeing it was the holographic apparition of Stella, floating in mid-air.

"Tetherby was one of the richest men in Royal Woods, and yet, despite all the resources in his possession," the apparition turned to Lily, flashing a cocky grin. "He couldn't manage to make something seem real."

Lily narrowed her eyes. "Why don't you come out of hiding and face me like you mean it?"

"I would," the apparition generated a mirror, and showed it to Lily. "But you're too dangerous in your current state."

Lily saw her reflection... and immediately saw she had the same monochromatic eyes as before, which left once she closed her eyes and shook her head.

"What do you mean I'm too dangerous?! Do you know something about those eyes?!"

The apparition lowered the mirror, and scowled, "Keep looking, Lily. Don't get distracted with frivolous things."

The apparition disappeared, and Lily, frustrated but still determined, stood up and continued her search.

Luna and Luan were the first to be teleported elsewhere, more specifically, though, they were teleported into a perfect replica... of the laboratory from which Lincoln and Lisa started the project.

"Okay, this is kinda freaky, dude," Luna remarked, scanning her surroundings. "But why would we be sent here?"

"Well, we did have a bit of a role in uncovering what happened to Lincoln and Lisa, or at least, I got the idea to watch the videos," Luan remarked, scratching her chin. "How would Stella know about that, though?"

"Interesting question."

The duo turned around, and saw Stella standing nearby, right next to a tube... containing copies of the bodies of Gemini and Divisu.

"Truth be told, I just wanted you to see how easy you had it," Stella said, pressing a couple buttons as she added, "After all, everybody knows Leni's the dumb one."

Then, she flashed the most threatening smirk she could muster.

"Can you imagine what would've happened if she messed up?"

The apparition pushed one last button before dissipating, just in time for the tube to surge with electricity and explode, Luna and Luan managing to stand their ground against the explosion.

Not that they had much time to relax, since four glowing eyes emerged from the smoke, followed by an unholy, grotesque combination of the plushies, who lunged at the sisters as they summoned their weapons.

Lucy and Lynn were teleported in the middle of some type of library, filled with a load of books that looked rather ancient.

"Hmm, for some reason, we were teleported inside some kind of library, though whether we're still on the floating island is another issue," Lynn sighed, letting out an amused chuckle as she added, "You know, if we got sent here when we were younger, I bet you'd be all over-"

But then Lynn turned around and saw Lucy was nowhere to be found. She scanned the area, and she quickly found her gothic sister giggling as she looked through the collection of archaic books...

And then she found one signed by none other than-

"Great Grandma Harriet? Lynn, come take a look at this!"

Lynn shushed her sister as she walked to her. "We're in a library, remember?"

"Lynn, we're the only living things in this place, I don't think matters if we start shouting," Lucy pointed out, before showing the book to Lynn. "Besides, this is a little more important right now."

"As much as I agree, I have to question what's a book signed by Great Grandma Harriet doing here," Lynn remarked.

"There's only one way to find out."

Lucy opened the book, and the duo promptly began reading out loud:

I've made a great mistake. All I wanted to do was discover new worlds, and now, I may have just gotten this reality stuck in a cycle of being threatened and being at peace. I found this world, purely monochromatic, inhabitted by strange, quadrupedal creatures. But my mistake was not sealing it when I could. I'm writing this book just in case The Twilight World tries to merge with our world again. Because for whatever reason, as soon as it gets the chance to try merge with our world, it will take it. And it won't stop until it and the Earth have become one.

"This book," Lynn said in realization. "It must be a copy of the book Leni used to create Gemini and Divisu!"

Lucy, however, said nothing, closing the book with a troubled expression.

"Lucy, what's wrong?"

"The way Great Grandma Harriet worded it... Lynn, do you think..." Lucy turned to Lynn, her eyes widening in shock. "The Twilight World could be sentient?"

Lincoln and Lori, finally, were teleported... right on the same office that housed Leni and Stella, the latter leisurely drinking a cup of tea.

"Leni!" Lori exclaimed.

"Stella!" Lincoln shouted.

"Me!" Stella shouted back. "Okay, now that we're done screaming at each other, how about we talk business?"

"Valravn!"

The inner demon sprouted from Lori's back and lunged towards Stella, who simply snapped her fingers, causing Leni to stand in the way and take Valravn's attack head on.

Of course, Leni was still standing, only minorly bruised from the attack.

"Sorry, Leni!"

"Stella, this has gone long enough!" Lincoln stated. "Release Leni right now before things get worse for you!"

"Things are gonna get worse for everybody no matter what happens, Lincoln," Stella smirked. "And you can thank your sweet, dear Great Grandma Harriet for it!"

Lincoln and Lori gritted their teeth.

"But regardless, I already got everything I wanted from Leni. You can take her back now."

Stella snapped her fingers again, and Leni flinched as her eyes and body turned back to normal, Lori and Lincoln running to her side as Stella ran to an elevator, and left the area unopposed.

"Leni, are you okay?!" Lori said as she shook the woman. "For the love Aunt Ruth's hygiene, tell us you're okay!"

Leni opened her eyes... and she could barely stand still for a moment before she stood up and searched her person.

"Dang it, she totes took them!"

"What?" Lincoln asked.

"Stella! She must've, like, taken the swords she created before freeing me!" Leni clenched her fist. "We need to take them back from her!"

"Why? What's going on?'

Realizing her siblings probably weren't on the loop, Leni took a deep breath and answered:

"It's a long story, but... Dawning Dusk is still alive, and she's been transformed into a weapon."