Authors notes: From now on, expect a lot of references from an Anime called Corpse Party. My friend got me into it, and now I can't stop screaming "SEEEIIIKOOOOO".

Alclimius was a wreck. The fires were out, but the houses were still charred and blackened. A few imps ran here or there, and valuables were strewn all over the street.

"I did not expect it to be this ruined." Nova admitted.

"If they're this far north, then everywhere is unsafe." Jaina said.

They wandered through the destroyed town, occasionally glancing at a few broken vendor stalls and destroyed town homes.

"These poor people are going to have a lot of explaining to do to their landlords." Nova muttered, looking at a completely wrecked house.

"Guys? I think I found something!" Li-Ming yelled. They all ran towards her. It was a cellar door, surrounded by broken pieces of wood.

"Friends! We should open it!" Brightwing suggested

Someone opened the door before Brightwing, and just quick enough for Kael'thas to screech like a woman in surprise.

"Oi, loves!" The bubbly voice of Tracer called.

"Tracer? Who is it?" Chromie yelled from down below.

"You'll never guess who I just found, Chomie!"

"I just asked you who it was."

Tracer squinted, and counted the group.

"Sniper lady, Ice Girl, Fairy Thing, Omega Orb, Corpse Party, Fire Guy, and Hatsune's Blonde Cousin."

"So Nova, Jaina, Brightwing, Li-Ming, Sylvanas, Kael'thas, and somebody else?"

"Yep."

"Okay, let them down."

"Follow me, loves!"

"Your base is, like, 50 times better than ours." Nova said, examining the room. There were 10 soft-looking, fluffy beds in one corner, a flat-screen with every video game and DVD imaginable, a computer lab, a library, and best of all…

"IS THAT A SECTION COMPLETELY DEVOTED TO MAGIC?!" Li-Ming shouted. Jaina, Kael'thas, and Li-Ming ran over immediately and all began to fight over the same book, the tussle eventually ending with Jaina getting the book because she jabbed Kael'thas and Li-Ming in the eyes with her staff.

"I agree with November. This absolutely puts our base to shame." Sylvanas said.

Nova coughed for a second. "We forgot about Li Li." She said to the rest of her team.

Jaina sighed. "I'll go get her." She muttered, before opening a portal into the base. She looked in.

"Strange," she muttered. "She's not in there. Hey, guys, i'll be right back!"

"Wait! Jaina! Toss me and Li-Ming the- Damn it, she's already gone with the book." Kael'thas' face took on an annoyed appearance.

"Eh. There's many more books here. I call dibs on '101 Curses and Hexes'!"

"NOT IF I GET IT FIRST!"

"Li Li!" Jaina yelled, scanning the area. The girl was nowhere to be found.

"Li Li, I know you've been here, I see soda cans everywhere. Honestly, we should've never let a kid alone by herself." She said, picking up an empty two-liter.

"Jaina!" Whispered a voice from behind the couch.

"There you are, Li Li! What are you doing behind-"

"No time to explain, just get behind here!" She hissed.

Jaina squeezed behind the couch with Li Li.

"What's going on?"

"It's almost 5, right?"

"Um, yeah?"

"Then he's almost here."

"Who's he?"

Just then, the door upstairs was clicking. It opened with a loud THUD! And something very large stepped in.

"That's him." Li Li whispered.

The thing stepped down the stairs, making a noise as loud as a T.V falling with every step. When he got to the bottom, the full horror of his appearance became visible. His skin was a deep red, and looked like it had more cuts and infections than countable. His hair was a scrambled brown mess, and his hair was covered in twigs and leaves. He held a meat cleaver soaked with red blood, and he held a dead rabbit in one hand. On top of all that, he was almost 10 feet tall, and had to crouch to get in the doorway.

"How long has this thing been bothering you?" Jaina whispered.

"Since you left, every hour on the hour."

"Little panda, where you?" he growled, his stupidity visible with his bad grammar.

"Does he want to eat you?" Jaina whispered.

"I think so. Either that, or make me it's personal slave or something."

"Little panda, me hear you." He stepped towards the couch, and grabbed it with one hand.

"Little panda brought friend for me to eat!" he exclaimed happily.

Jaina flung a spell at his face, his ugly mug frozen in happiness beneath the ice.

"Li Li, we don't have a lot of time! Get in the portal and GO!" Jaina shouted before grabbing Li Li by the neck of her shirt and throwing her through the portal. Jaina lept in herself, and closed it just as the creature unfroze and let out a screech of anger.

"What just happened?" Chromie said as she walked up to the two.

"Long story short, a monster wanted to eat my face." Jaina replied.

"It's just as I feared. The Minions are ripping the Nexus apart as they're harvesting it for magic, and it's letting horrible demons and monsters in." Chromie explained.

"They're tearing apart the Nexus… for magic?" Jaina asked.

"I know, it seems far-fetched, and who knows what they're doing with it. All I know is that it's hurting the foundations of the Nexus itself, and if this continues, the Nexus might implode on itself!"

The entire room soaked up the severity of the situation, and the atmosphere became heavy. That was, until shouts came from the other room.

"Who's-" Kael'thas began, before he was cut off by Chromie.

"Who's in there?" She said, in an almost perfect imitation of Kael'thas. She snickered. "Diablo, Lt. Morales, and Sgt. Hammer are in there. I forgot to tell you they were here. Go in and greet them."

As they stepped into the room, the Heroes sitting on the couch stood up and turned.

"MY GOOD FRIEND, KAEL'THAS!" Diablo shouted, before picking Kael'thas up and giving him a hug that nearly squeezed all the air out of the Elf's lungs.

"H-hello. Nice to...see you...too…." Kael'thas said, as he began to suffocate.

Sgt. Hammer nudged Diablo. "Let the guy go. His face is turnin' purple for a reason."

Diablo let go of Kael'thas, and Kael fell to the floor, gasping for air.

"I didn't know you were friends with Diablo." Sylvanas whispered to Kael.

"I didn't know, either. But the more you know, eh?" He whispered back.

"So is this little gaggle all the Heroes in Alclimius?" Nova asked.

"Oh not even close," Chromie said. "There are a ton more that we haven't found yet, we see them sometimes raiding the vendors or mugging people."

"So we're going to stay here for a bit more until we're absolutely sure we've found everyone." Nova announced.

"So what do we do for now?"

"I don't know. Sleep, play video games, read, sleep, sleep, sleep."

"You're tired again, aren't you?" Li-Ming chuckled.

"You better believe it."

"Well the beds here are for extra people if we run out of room. The actual bedrooms are down that hall, go pick out one you like." Chromie said, before letting out a little cough.

Skull: Yeah, he is pretty smart, and yeah, he does care a lot about Sylvanas, and that might not be very good for his track record of 'not dying.' *Cough* FORESHADOWING *Cough* And you can get fudge brownies at your local Shop-Rite, I believe. And/or Giant, depending on where you live.