I must apologize, Rulers, for my lack of updates with this story. Trust me, the readers of "Slowly Changing" have it way worse. SO SORRY ABOUT THAT! Anyway, I've been working on this super long chapter for quite a bit now, mostly because I realized there was this wonderful book series called Divergent which is just begging to have fanfictions written about it, and also because I got this burst of inspiration for "I Blame My Evil Clone". (Which is actually finished by the way, I just have to type it up.)

But seriously, I will vow to you right here and now that I WILL NEVER EVER discontinue this story or put it on hiatus. I hate it when writers do that. Then I have to finish their story myself in my head...

Hehheh...

Okay, anyway, I'm almost done with the longest author's note ever, I promise. Just wanted to ask you guys to go check out my "BrineCraft" (I think that's what it's called?) story. It's a total failure, and it may be the ONLY story I ever ever ever discontinue. But, if even one person says they'd like to continue it, I will. Now then, put #intenseloyalty in the reviews/comments if you actually read this far. I love you Rulers so so so so much! (No homo!) Now then, sorry again for the author's note, HERE IS THE STORY!

Remind Me Chapter Nine

Sky's POV

I spring up into a standing position, ignoring the throbbing in my head. Argh, why is it so dark in here? "Ah, he's awake. Good," a deep voice grumbles.

"Excuse me? Could you please repeat yourself? I can't hear you over the chorus of 'heys' that is currently assaulting my ears," I fume. Stupid squids.

"It's not assaulting your ears, it's rewarding them."

Is this guy serious? "What is wrong with you? Show yourself?"

A bright light suddenly cuts through the darkness. It's so bright, I have to shield my eyes with my arms; my sunglasses aren't helping at all. "Well, here I am, showing myself, and you won't even look at me," the deep voice says.

I put my arm down and gape up at the jumbo squid before me. "EEK!" I scream, scrambling backwards.

He laughs and makes a weird motion with one of his tentacles. Two more gigantic squids step into view. "Hello, Sky," one of them says in a rather high-pitched voice. "Wanna know a secret?" I nod slowly, not seeing any other option. The squid zooms up to me, getting close enough for me to feel her hot breath on my face. "YOU KILLED MY BROTHER!" she screeches.

I clap my hands over my ears and sink to my knees, groaning in pain. My ears are ringing. It's a very loud ringing. So loud, I can't hear anything else. I guess the squids realize I can't hear them, because they stop talking and write on a dry-erase board instead. And this is what they write:

"You Will Pay."

Deadlox's POV

I yawn and jump off my bed, but since I'm still half-asleep, I fail epicly and bang my head on my dresser. Groaning, I stand up and glance around my room. "Deadlox!" someone shouts. I turn my attention to my locked bedroom door and glare at it, willing whoever's outside it to go away. They don't, though; they continuously pound on the door. I huff and let them in. "Deadlox! Sky is gone!" Mitch yells, just barely managing to avoid knocking on my face instead of the door. My eyes widen.

Sky is... Sky is what?

I shake my head as I push past him and Jerome, making my way to Sky's bedroom. "He's... gone?" I ask.

"We can't find him anywhere," Jerome replies.

I glance around Sky's room. His blue bed is a mess. The walls of his room are dented and crumbly. All except for the wall with the picture of the squid on it. "Oh no," I mumble. I walk up to the squid painting and gently run my fingers over the squid's derpy eyes. "ACK!"

"What's wrong?" Mitch asks, jogging over to me.

"They eyes!" I gasp. "There are cameras in the eyes!"

Jerome joins us, running his paws over the glass in the painting's eyes. He frowns. "Mitch, assemble an army or two. Deadlox, find Seto and the rest of TC (A/N: That's right. Seto AND SKY AND TY AND QUENTIN AND JAMES are all in Team Crafted, guys.). I'll try to get Sky's scent so we can track him."

I nod, turning to leave. Before I do, though, I punch out the eye-cameras.

Stupid squids.

Sky's POV

I slowly sit up. My ears aren't ringing as loudly anymore, and I can just barely hear the sound of my foot hitting the iron floor as I walk aimlessly around the room I'm trapped in. Those squids haven't come back since writing those creepy words in the dry-erase board. I hate squids.

SO. SO. MUCH.

I sigh loudly as I walk around the room for the fifth time since I woke up. Sigh. Epic Sigh. Epic-er Sigh.

Stupid squids. I throw my head back dramatically and them facepalm even more dramatically as I spot a trapdoor on the ceiling. I push the dry-erase board underneath it, and erase the "You Will Pay" message, replacing it with "In Your Derpy Faces!" I climb up until I'm balanced precariously on top of the dry-erase board.

Oh boy. Let's hope this works.

I jump-

And then I fall.

I groan and try the whole thing again. This time I manage to grab the latch on the trapdoor, and it falls open. I shakily pull myself up into a small, brown room. There are three doors in this room, not including the trap door. I walk through a door on my left.

Something inside me screams happily, but I don't get what's so special about the thing I'm staring at. The what's-so-special part of me goes, "Well, at least I can take down the squids now." And the other, weirder part of me goes, "BUDDER!"

Right. So there's a whole bunch of gold in this room. I shovel some of the ingots from a chest to my backpack. Then I go back to the brown room and go to the door on the right.

Wow. Just three large chests, filled to the brim with sticks.

What luck.

And the middle room...

A crafting table, an enchantment table, and a chest filled with xp bottles.

Which idiot squid designed this place?

xXx

A half-hour later, I've got full enchanted gold armor and three enchanted gold swords. My favorite sword (which I for some reason felt the need to call my 'Majestic Budder Sword') has Fire Aspect I (not that it needs it), Sharpness IV, Smite III, and Knockback V. This should be fun. I also enchanted my fists, which I didn't even know was possible, with Fire Aspect I. Seriously, this is going to be so much fun.

I stroll into the brown room and glance around. Okay, now that I'm totally decked out, where are the squids? I search over all of the brown room and in all three of the other rooms. There aren't any more doors, so how are people/squids supposed to get in and out? Maybe I can just break the brown wool in the brown room...

No way. It can't be that easy.

Oh.

It is that easy.

I shrug and crawl through the hole I've made in the wall. Once I'm out, I take off running towards a forest biome in complete awe of the squids' immense stupidity. After a few chunks of travelling, I hear a single voice, which quickly changes into two voices, then four...

"Hey. Sky. Where ya going?"

Deadlox's POV

"Where to now?" Jason asks Jerome and Seto, who are leading the group. We have Jason, Quentin, Mitch, Jerome, Ian, Dakota, Bodil (I wanted to use Bashur, Bodil, and Seto's usernames because their real names just don't fit in this... I DUNNO. I think I was using usernames for everyone in the beginning, but now it's only half of them... so yeah. Deal with it), Bashur, Seto, the Sky Army, the Dead Army, and a couple of Stars that were bored and wanted to help. Maybe we went a bit overboard with the rescue party.

Maybe not.

"This way," the bacca says, sniffing the ground.

"No..," Seto says quietly. Then he raises his voice so we can hear him more clearly. "No. He went that way before, but... Well, my magic is telling me that he's just a little to the north of us. Maybe he escaped from the squids and he's trying to make his way back home?"

"So we gathered two and a half armies for nothing?" I grumble.

A screech and a loud suctiony noise comes from the north. "Well, I wouldn't say that," one of Sky's recruits mutters.

"Let's go!"

Sky's POV

I swing my sword wildly. Squids come at me from all directions, and I try to stay calm even as a jumbo squid approaches and the problem escalates out of my control. I cry out in pain as a regular squid latches on to my arm. When I finally pull it off, there's a loud suctiony noise. I notice three red circles on my arm. The outlines of the circles are bleeding profusely. Okay, so maybe that wasn't a regular squid.

As I spin to jab another squid, I hear a voice call out, "Let's go!" Then I hear feet pounding against the ground. I try to ignore the sounds and continue fighting, but the sounds distracted me too much and now my sword is on the ground a few feet away and I can barely feel my arm and a few squids have me pinned to the ground. I take a deep breath and punch one in the face; it immediately catches on fire. The other squids holding me down shriek and back away from my fiery fists (of fury),

I smile and yanks sword #2 out of my backpack. I have to use my left arm, though, because my right arm, the one that squid bit/suctioned, is now completely numb. The amount of blood gushing out of the tiny wounds is really scaring me. But it doesn't matter that I have to be left-handed or that I'm feeling really light-headed or that I think I might pass out soon, because I can't give up.

Hmm. Does blacking out count as giving up?

Deadlox's POV

We run over a small hill. In a valley between the forest hills and the mountain is Sky. Sky is covered in budder armor, but there are three red marks on his arm with blood pouring from them. Squids are attacking Sky from all sides – how are they walking on land?

Sky sways a little, right himself, and then continues fighting. "Hang on, Sky!" someone shouts. HE glances up at us, but even that small distraction is enough to let a squid get the upper hand, and Sky falls to the ground, unconscious. My eyes widen and I sprint forward with the rest of TC. We take care of most of the squids, but one squid is ten times my size, and we're having trouble with that one. I creep away from the jumbo squid to help Seto with Sky.

"How's it going?" I ask quietly.

Seto has a worried look on his face. "Earlier, we just didn't want Sky to die and then respawn in some jail cell guarded by squids, but now... Well, Brice contacted me, and apparently... Apparently, the respawn machine has been tampered with again. It's broken. So now, if Sky dies, he won't ever respawn."

Sky could die? Like, actually die? Oh, anyone could die! "GUYS!" I yell. "Retreat! The respawn machine is broken, you won't respawn!" The armies fall back, and Mitch and Jerome land a few more hits on the jumbo squid before joining them. The squid glares at us, then runs away. "Anyone with intense injuries should come see Seto for help!" I shout. A few people come forward.

One, a recruit from the Sky army, has a large gash on her left leg. "Will Sky be OK?" she asks.

Seto sighs. "I hope so..."

xXx

Two hours later, Seto is working on fixing the respawn mechanism (with help from Seth), and Sky still hasn't woken up. Team Crafted and Friends are waiting in Sky's hospital room. I sigh loudly. Someone else sighs even more loudly. Soon it turns into a contest on who can sigh the loudest.

Suddenly, Sky springs out of his bed to stand in the middle of the room. I try to push him back toward the bed, thinking he might have hurt himself with that quick motion. He brushes me off as he examines everyone in the room, most of whom are staring at him wide-eyed. "Wait..," he mumbles. "WAIT."

"What?" Jordan asks.

"FRIENDSHIP!"

I cover my ears, along with several other people. Then Quentin says slowly, "You remember that?"

Sky grins and starts bouncing around the room, which is probably not good for his injuries. "I REMEMBER ALL OF IT, FISH!" A smile creeps onto my face. A few people cheer. Sky starts spinning around and pointing to us excitedly. "I remember you! And you!" He points to Dawn. "And you." He walks up to her and pulls her into a kiss. She's shocked at first, but then she relaxes and kisses back. Someone in the group gags, and Sky pulls away, blushing.

"I'm glad you remembered!" I say, putting a hand on Sky's shoulder.

His smile falls, and mine does too. Oh no.

"Actually... I don't remember you."