Chapter 4
"John! Wake up!" he heard Jade yell.
John quickly opened his eyes, only to meet a face orange tinted glasses hovering a few inches over him.
"Aah!"
The sprite snickered by this reaction and drew back, giving John a chance to see where they were. Right next to him sat Jade in all her dog-eared glory, smiling relieved at him. When he looked around, and saw the place they were at, his mouth fell open. This was definitely not the meteor. They were in a dark alleyway and from where he was sitting he could see the relatively busy street.
"What…?" he was too shocked to even formulate a question, but that didn't stop Jade from answering.
"We're on earth!" she whispered, eyes glistering in excitement.
John stared at her for a long moment.
"How?" he was able to wring out of his mouth. This was probably the best thing that happened to them since the Game started, he thought.
"I don't know! But I think it's an alternate universe, so it's not like a different timeline 'cause that can't bring earth back. Our own earth is gone forever, but this is an entirely different version of it in an entirely different universe!" jade started rambling in excitement.
John's face lit up with hope.
"Do you think my dad…"
"No," answered Aradia, who just appeared out of nowhere, "in this universe you or your families never existed. These are completely different people."
John sunk down in disappointment. Jade sighed and trew her arm over her ecto-brother in a comforting manner.
"How about we go explore the place, trying to find the others?" Jade proposed.
John shot her a grateful glance and nodded.
"One problem," Davesprite interrupted, right before the bucktoothed siblings could run off, "me and Aradia are gonna draw way too much attention."
He was immediately sorry he opened his mouth when the two humans pouted in disappointment, Jade's dog-ears even drooped a little.
"We can fly over the city so we won't be seen, while you guys look around down here." Aradia said cheerfully.
Everyone seemed to agree with this plan, so after a couple more minutes, they split up. John and Jade darted out of the alley excited to be once again among other humans than their own little group of survivors. Hell, for three years they had thought they were the last humans in existence, but now they were on a planet full of humans! They looked around in awe, everything looked so much like they remembered it and yet everything was different.
After they walked a few blocks, they were run over by a man in a ski mask. Before the siblings could react, the man had grabbed Jade by the hood of her god tier dress and pointed a gun at her. At the same time, a guy in a red and blue spider themed costume came swinging overhead and landed right in front of Jade and the man with the ski mask. John's eyes grew wide when he the outfit out of some of his comic books.
"Step back, spidey!" the man growled, desperation sounding through his voice.
Everyone around them was too focused on the two men and the captivated girl to notice a red and an orange figure rushing towards them from the sky, except John.
"Why don't you just let the girl go and give up, 'cause there is no way you're gonna escape." 'Spidey' said calmly.
The man just held the gun closer to Jade. This was the last drop for said girl, who transported right out of his grasp and reappeared next to her ecto-twin. John was the first to react to what happened and used his windy thing to send the man flying through the air. The criminal landed hard on a car at the other side of the street.
'Spidey' stared in shock at the two kids, when suddenly Aradia appeared next to them. He tensed immediately, ready to attack again, but a katana at his throat refrained him from doing so. He turned his head slightly to catch a glimpse of the orange boy holding the sword. When he turned back to face the kids again, john smiled sheepishly at the young hero and waved.
"Hi."