"Alright kid, here's the breakdown on my plan, Rex's Extreme Victory over Everyone that Never Got Emmet, o E," He stated, spreading out his arms and pausing for dramatic effect, "Check it out," He motioned towards several large pieces of paper stuck to the cliffside behind him filled entirely with a crudely drawn plot, "Step one: Rename myself Rex Dangervest and get a cool new look. Check," Emphasis was placed on his own name; a check mark appeared on the paper with a quick strike of a red pen. "Step two: Gain everybody's trust and become super popular, easy," Rex pointed out a picture of himself surrounded by people cheering, "Step three: Be introduced to Queen Whateverherface and get her to like me," That part he seemed the most disinterested with; the drawing of The Queen was just a humanoid scribble, " Step four, the best step: Get her alone, lock her up, take her crown, and obtain whatever power she had to make everyone feel like I did!" Rex let out a prolonged diabolical laugh, then sighed with relief, "You getting all this?"

The fern, which he had quickly dubbed Planty II, gave no response.

"And I'm talking to a plant," Rex realized that his time in isolation may have had a bit more of an effect on him then he thought. He grabbed the sheets of paper behind him, crumpled them up, and stuffed them into his pockets, then briskly stormed to the city with a sense of purpose that he hadn't felt since he first left.

The thumping beat of pop music grew ever louder as he approached; Rex couldn't help but grumble. It only reminded him how much his so-called friends were having fun without him. He could see the bright colors of one of the streets scream out at him in stark contrast to the mostly green forest and, after passing through a set of bushes, was through to the bustling area filled with hues of pink and purple. Blissful denizens flitted to and fro, building to their heart's content, Rex almost wished he could enjoy it, but this was a world that had left him behind.

"Excuse me?" Rex tapped a nearby Stairgate-inhabitant, he really needed to come up with a name for wherever they were from, on the shoulder, "Do you know Lucy? Wears a hoodie, black hair, got blue and pink streaks in it?"

"Sorry! No idea~!" The other replied in a high-pitched voice that almost hurt Rex's ears more than the booming rhythm desperately trying to worm it's way into his brain. He was only partially surprised about the fact his first reaction with another being was so harsh and grating.

Okay, of course they probably wouldn't know some random person named Lucy, "Alright, what about Metalbeard? Know him?" That pirate was unique enough to be recognized by anybody.

"Let's see-oh! Yeah! Metalbeard! I know him! Well not like know him know him but I know of him!"

Did they honestly need a second to think about whether or not they had seen a giant robot pirate with a pair of cannons for a hand? Either way that wasn't too helpful.

"Do you know where he is?" He was already fed up with this.

"Nope!"

Great. That conversation just wasted his time then, in that case he would have to go looking for any one of them himself as asking around such a large city would be completely pointless, besides, it wasn't like someone he knew was just going to conveniently pop up-

"HEYA!"

The former construction worker jumped and turned to face a cheerful pink cat with a baby blue horn sticking out of it's head. "I haven't seen you around here before, and I know pretty much everybody, nice to meet you! I'm Unikitty!" She extended one of her hooves in friendship.

The other blinked, even with how much Apocalypseburg had changed, he was still surprised to see Unikitty as her old self again and not as her fearsome Ultrakatty persona, "It's E-" Rex coughed, "Rex. Rex Dangervest." He smirked while disregarding Unikitty's proposed handshake, trying his best to seem like this reunion was actually something he enjoyed, he was going to have to get used to that. "I've heard a lot of awesome things about you and your friends. You know, I'd love to finally meet them." Rex wasn't sure if his smile came off as genuine.

"I could introduce you! Although, Benny and Metalbeard are usually on their planets, of course-"

They were given their own planets?

"And Batman would probably be with the queen!"

"Waitwaitwait hold on. What did you say? Why would Batman be with her?"

"Uh, because he's married to her, duh! How could you not know that?"

Okay something was definitely wrong then, Batman was the last person that Rex expected to get married, and yet something happened to him that made him want to be with an alien queen, this was worse than Rex thought.

"I guess It's because I'm so busy." He half-heartedly chuckled.

"Hm, oh!" Little stars appeared over the cat's head, "What if we threw a party and invited everyone- so then you could meet them!"

"Great idea, but doesn't it… already feel like a party?" Rex tensed up slightly; He disliked the idea of being engulfed by music that was any louder then it already was.

"No silly! There's not nearly enough streamers. Come on, let's get planning!" Unikitty giddily bounced down the street, stopping at the corner to see if Rex would follow, he did so, although without as much fervor.