Note: I have been getting multiple requests from people for me to write more on Doxia and Meadolax, so I decided to have a little fun with that before I went back to Summer and Lyric in the Stallion Empire. Enjoy!

Flashbacks: Young Love

Dimension: The Castle in the Attic

Planet: Space

Specific Location: A parsec into the Pinwheel Galaxy

Time: Over 500 Billion years before the death of the Paradox, a year before William receives the model castle

It was the multiverse date 500601256041.891. The Dukarse Empire had declared war on the Sapphire Empire, and had been using its vast armies of suicidal robots and slaves to wreak havoc in the multiverse. Until a couple of years ago, the Amethyst Empire had stayed neutral, simply watching from the sidelines. However, when word got out that the Dukarse Empire could possibly be arming itself with secret technology for a whole new level of warfare, the Special One of the Amethyst Empire finally dispatched a specialized team of agents to assist the Sapphire Empire with the takedown of the radical nation. This team consisted of Mattimeo, the leader; Meadolax, the pilot; Doxia, the agent; and Allison, the rookie.

"This is Fox Tango Alpha One, reaching optimal orbit, over?" crackled a voice over the coms.

Mattimeo activated his personal interface to the coms telepathically and replied, "This is Lord Mattimeo. We will HSPF-drop directly to the ATS Scorpion the moment we receive our reinforcements."

Allison snorted loudly in the background. "I don't see why we even NEED Sapphire to send us people," she said, "All we need is you, me, and Doxia."

"I understand your confusion," said Mattimeo calmly, "But this is standard procedure. The Dukarse Empire is mainly a threat against the Sapphire Empire, and this mission we are carrying out is supposed to be a joint effort between the Amethyst and the Sapphire Empire. Thus, in order to make it seem even remotely like that, we need to use a couple Sapphire Lords in our mission."

"They will only slow us down," snapped Allison.

"Perhaps, or perhaps not," said Mattimeo, "Magnacron, Vaporis, Vaporix, Wilbur, and Ronald are all more than capable of holding their own. I would even argue that some of them are far better than you."

Allison rolled her eyes inside her helmet. "Maybe some of them. But something is telling me we don't get Sapphire's cream-of-the-crop for this one."

Mattimeo regarded Allison with interest. She was a head shorter than him. She was also slim and shaped almost like an hourglass like most females. Her armor was jet black, and her shoulder plates, breastplate, and shin guards were close-cut and tight-fitting. Her helmet resembled a something of a Halo's Mark VI helmet, except the visor was a lot thinner, with a sharp dip in the middle that made it look more like a T-visor. She had been recruited by the Special One of Amethyst just after Irinus, one of the greatest of the female dimensional lords, got filled with holes and blown to smithereens during the final Amethyst-Emerald Multiverse-Wide war. At first most of the other dimensional lords had steered clear of her because of her feisty attitude and know-it-all disposition, but not Doxia. Doxia had made it his life's work to break her in… and annoy the heck out of her while he was doing it.

Mattimeo realized there had been a lull in the conversation while he was staring, and quickly pulled himself out of it. He then said, "You are wrong. We are getting Sapphire's Dimensional Lord Libra."

Allison cocked her head to one side, "Libra? I thought she was in reserve."

"She was," said Mattimeo, "But I suppose the Sapphire Empire's Special One has deemed the alert level high enough to activate the Cobalt-Class and the Lithium-Class Dimensional Lord reserves."

Allison nodded her head slowly. "Oh… okay."

Suddenly Doxia leapt on Allison from behind and wrapped his arms around her neck in a tight hug.

"Alli!" he exclaimed, "How is my favorite Grumpy-Cat-Impressionist today?"

"Doxia… get… off of me!" she exclaimed, struggling to break loose of Doxia's vice-like grip.

Doxia let go and strolled over to where Mattimeo was standing. "Grumpy Alli is grumpy," he stated in a matter-of-fact tone of voice.

"Grumpy Alli is going to start hurling fireballs as well," said Allison in a voice tight with anger, "How many times have I told you to stop doing that?!"

Doxia slowly turned around and strolled up to Allison. He leaned in close… and then gently bopped the place on her masked helmet where her nose would have been.

Allison went rigid. And then she began to chuckle a bit. That was all she really could do in this situation anyway.

At this point Meadolax strolled into the room. Seeing Doxia and Allison chuckling, he began to laugh.

"Hahahahaha – I don't get it, why are we laughing? – hahahaha…" guffawed Meadolax.

Allison quickly tried to straighten up. "Nothing," she said in a gruff voice, "We were just talking."

"Rrrriiiggghhhtttt…" said Meadolax. He quickly sent a PM to Doxia via their telepathic helmet link that said: "Score Bro."

Mattimeo, who had been patiently waiting for the silliness to stop, saw the PM, shook his head, and loudly said, "The Sapphire DL Universe-to-Universe transport capsule should be exiting sub-Imagination slipstream soon. It will be docking in T-minus twenty seconds."

Twenty seconds later, a small, one-man sized capsule exited out of a portal in a flash and immediately docked on the cloaked Amethyst Vessel slowly hovering a couple of lightyears away from the targeted Dukarse solar system.

Doxia strolled to the docking bay and waited for the entrance to slid open. It a second, it did so with a loud hissing noise and Libra strolled out.

She was about the same size as Doxia, but was also slimmer, and her armor was colored gold and white. Her shoulder pads were very large and cumbersome, and resembled eagle wings, and her gauntlets had sweeping attachments like backward-facing scythes. Like Allison, the rest of her armor was close-cut and fitting to allow free movement. Her masked helmet had a visor that looked something like the Norse Assassin's Creed insignia. To top it all off, she had large glowing wings of energy sprouting from her back.

Nevertheless, Doxia was less than impressed by her appearance.

He strolled up to her and said, "Wowzers. Look at you Libra! The spittin' image of… something. Ummm… just a note, lose the wings. They are too shiny and bright, and you won't be needing them for what you are doing."

Libra gave Doxia a sharp glance, but then nodded. The energy wings dissolved and folded into her body.

"Very well, Doxia," said Libra in a no-nonsense tone of voice, "What am I doing on this mission?"

"I am assuming that since you were one of the few from the Cobalt-Class Reserve team, you are expecting some great death-defying mission," chortled Doxia, "But… sorry. You're not. Here… let me explain it all in a debriefing room."

Doxia motioned for Libra, Allison, Meadolax, and Mattimeo to follow him.

As he walked to the debriefing room, he glanced back at them and called, "I think we have it all good now, Mattimeo. You can go back to Coranstant and prepare for the next stages."

Mattimeo nodded. He shook hands with Meadolax and then opened a portal. Then he was gone.

While this was happening, Doxia activated a holographic projection. The next thing they knew, they were in super-realistic, immersive holographic representation of the Dukarse arms factory that they were about to disable.

"Here is our mission, if you choose to accept it," said Doxia dramatically, "But, of course, you're not Tom Cruise, so you are going to have to accept it whether you want to or not. Anyway, we are going to break into the Dukarse factory and hack their database. Recent intelligence reports state that Dukarse has gotten some unusual weapons from unknown benefactors. Sapphire is worried, so we have been put on this case to figure out what these weapons are, and how to neutralize them. They have Phantom projectors set up everywhere over the planet, so we will have to use a stealth ATS Scorpion for landing and extraction. We will perform a high-velocity, short-deceleration orbit-to-ground entry approach. Vaporis is already undercover there, so he will mark our approach. When we have all landed in our respective positions, we will execute the rest of the mission. What is that 'rest of the mission,' you say? Well, Libra, you are in charge of keeping the bad dudes off my back. Just run time-matter-energy infrared scans continuously and send them to my data feed. You will be armed with a high-powered sniper rifle to eliminate any needed targets. The Dukarse have energy spike scanner arrays everywhere, so we cannot risk triggering them with our powers."

"Well? What about me?" interrupted Allison impatiently.

"You? Well, my dearie… you get to watch," said Doxia almost apologetically, "You are a rookie. Like, literally, a rookie. In fact, it took a lot of string-pulling to convince the Coranstant Council to even let me bring you along."

Allison crossed her arms belligerently and turned her back on him pointedly. This almost caused Doxia to begin to chuckle. She was amazingly cute when she was angry.

Libra just shook her head. "I understand what I am doing. What will Lord Meadolax be achieving while we are away, though?"

"Oh… he will be doing many things," said Doxia mysteriously, "He will be scrambling the Dukarse scanners, forging false information to feed to their main database, and getting ready for our spectacular extraction. We will be meeting on the east docking bay. Thanks to some choice information that Meadolax will be preparing, everyone will think that that specific bay needs to be left unguarded because rampant unicorns have gone into a feeding frenzy in that zone. Now… for what I will be doing. I will be the one doing all the awesome stuff, since I am older, more experienced, and have a cooler helmet visor. I will be infiltrating the main base to hack into their database. Once we have the information we need, we leave."

Libra nodded her head. "I understand."

Doxia leaned over and gently tapped Allison's shoulder. "Ohhhhh Alli? You there? Earth to Alli? What are the magic words in this situation?"

Allison sighed and said, "I understand."

Doxia clapped his hands together loudly. "RIGHT! Now, Autobots, lets ROOOOOOLLLL OUT!"

Doxia strolled out of the debriefing room. As he walked, he went into full swing. "This is Lord Doxia contacting Fox Tango Alpha One, team sigma is ready for drop-off. We will be entering relocation pods now. ETA in fifty seconds."

Doxia motioned for Allison and Libra to enter the high-speed relocation space pod with him. As he did so, he said, "Meadolax is already on the Scorpion. Come on girls! Where is this 'flower-power' that is supposedly supposed to be totally-honey-badger-awesome? Step to it! Hup hup hup hup!"

Doxia got into the cockpit with Libra and activated the systems. The pod rocketed out the cloaked frigate and shot towards the Scorpion that was orbiting the targeted planet at high speeds.

As they shot through space, Doxia said, "You know… I think we should have code names. Like Project Freelancer! Oh! I know! I can be Agent California – but you can call me Cali for short – and Libra can be Agent Utah because no one knows who the heck they are, and Alli can be Agent Texas because she is super grumpy all the time!"

Meadolax's voice resonated from the coms as he said, "I can be Four Seven Niner! Oh… wait… she was a woman. Hey, if I raise the pitch of my voice a bit, do you think I could fool headquarters to think that I'm a girl?"

"Not a chance, old buddy," laughed Doxia, "Hey, tell you what, you can be Five Seven Niner."

Libra facepalmed. She then said to Allison, "Are they ALWAYS this way?"

Allison could not help but smile. "They are. Don't tell Doxia this, but I love them for it."

Fortunately for Allison, Doxia was too busy trying to figure out if "Five Seven Niner" was better than "Four Seven Tenner" to notice.

In a second or two more, they arrived on the Scorpion.

"We're reached the Pelican!" exclaimed Doxia, "The UNSC have given us a special mission to infiltrate the Covenant forces. Agent Utah… on me!"

"Doxia… stop it," said Allison with a sigh of resignation.

Doxia threw an arm around Allison. "Oh… Okie Dokie Lokie."

Meadolax motioned for the group to exit the pod and sit down in the drop-ship bay. "Right-o folk! Please keep your arms, hands, and feet inside at all times. Photography is prohibited. Now, please hold on tight, and enjoy the rest of the flight. We will be descending at three times the terminal velocity, so if you feel an irresistible urge to vomit… don't. Just… don't. Now… HERE WE GO!"

The Scorpion gunned its engines and cloaked with energy-reflecting shielding. It silently sliced through the atmosphere without even a single spark of fire, and silently hurtled towards the large oil-rig-looking Dukarse base. In a second the Scorpion sharply veered over the base and launched Doxia, Allison, and Libra out of the ship.

As they flew through the air, Varpois's voice crackled over the coms. "This is Vaporis to sigma team. I have marked your approach and have rigged the power systems. Lights out in T-minus sixty seconds. Get into position. Remember: these soldiers are armed with Anti-Dimensional-Lord weapons, so be careful."

"Please, careful is my third middle name… if I had a third middle name… or second middle name for that matter," chortled Doxia over the speakers.

In twelve seconds Doxia landed silently just outside the entrance of the enemy HQ, while Allison and Libra landed on the fringes of two enormous scanner arrays. Vaporis was there waiting for them.

"Ladies," he said calmly, "So nice to see you both."

"Likewise, Vaporis," replied Libra briskly. She whipped out a sniper rifle and scoped out the HQ. With that, Vaporis shut down the power.

"Okay Doxia… you are a go," he said over the coms, "The 'accidental' black-out will only distract them for a bit."

Doxia nodded at the sound of Vaporis's voice and strolled right into the HQ. Then… Doxia went into a dive. Leaping over groups of guards, diving under cloaked energy-scanners, and flipping over giant cargo bay canyons, Doxia flipped, jumped, and dove his way through the base, managing to avoid every single scanner and trap with ease.

As he did so, he talked, just like he was prone to do. "This is boring. Hey… Alli, do you want to go out on a date with me later? We could hang out in the Chronus Nebulae! I hear it is beautiful! Then we could go and play some tennis or something!"

"No," said Allison flatly.

There was a pause. "Welp… couldn't blame me for trying. Right… I know! We could sing a song! Here we go: R-E-S-C-U-E! Rescue Aid Society! Hat's Held High! Touch the sky! You mean everything to me! In a fix, in a bind! Call on us, anytime! We'll appear – Meadolax you're not singing! – from nowhere! Mighty are we! R-E-S-C-U-E! Rescue Aid Society…!"

Meadolax joined in, and the two began to belt out the Rescuer's anthem loudly over the coms. Vaporis glanced apologetically towards Allison and Libra and shrugged. "They are two of the greatest Dimensional Lords of all time… ever. They can afford to do whatever they want."

Libra pointedly muted her coms. Allison, on the other hand, was so pissed off that she turned off her coms AND her HUD.

Vaporis simply sat there, listening to Meadolax and Doxia singing away like they hadn't a care in the world.

As he and Meadolax finished the song, Doxia had made it to the central computer core without detection, which was a miracle since Dukarse had some of the greatest security systems of the empires. Doxia chuckled and placed a hand gently over the main computer's terminal. He immediately began to download anything and everything pertaining to weapons.

Back outside on the overlooking scanner arrays, Allison sat on a ledge, overlooking the HQ's courtyard. She still had her HUD and coms turned off, and she was fuming. However, her grumblings stopped when she saw a massive group of Dukarse troopers marching through the courtyard on their way to a giant glass-covered complex.

Curious, she began to stealthily work her way over the rooftops towards that complex. Activating her adapting cameo device, she gently pressed her face to the glass dome of the giant building and peered through to see what was transpiring below. Her eyes widened. Down below it looked like a nightmare come true: the Dukarse had Amethyst and Sapphire Soldiers cornered in the field below, and laser blasts were flying everywhere. The Dukarse somehow had gotten these soldiers into the building, and now they were slaughtering them. Allison quickly contacted Libra with a PM.

Back at the array, Libra received the PM. She blinked in surprise as she read it. At first she thought of ignoring it and sticking to the plan… but she could not ignore it. She was a slave to justice, and she could not let such blatant evil pass by. She needed to help her allies.

She glanced at Vaporis and shook her head. Vaporis was too cool-headed. He would let a friend die in the worst way possible if it meant achieving his mission's goals. But she would not let people who could be saved die like this. She handed Vaporis the sniper rifle and said, quietly, "I will be back in a moment. I need to check something out."

Vaporis unquestioningly took the sniper rifle and began to scope out the surroundings once more.

Libra quickly leapt across the many rooftops until she was with Allison.

Allison quickly motioned Libra to join her. Libra cloaked herself in invisibility as well, and went to her.

"What is this all about, Allison?" said Libra quietly.

Allison motioned Libra to look down. Libra saw the slaughter that was going on as well. Her eyes widened and she drew in a sharp breath. "Those… monsters. No prisoners… no mercy… We have to stop them!"

Allison nodded. "My thoughts exactly. You willing to do this?"

Libra slowly reached for her back and detached a small object that looked like scales. She quickly toyed with the base, and the scales transformed into a massive sword. She then nodded to Allison. Allison too detached a pair of gun/sword hybrids from her hips. Then… she smashed the glass dome in. The two dimensional lords fell upon the Dukarse enemies with ease, taking them out as if they were chaff before the scythe. However, the moment they began to kill the enemies, the alarm was raised. Troops began pour in from every entrance, and automated turrets unfolded and activated from many different vantage-points in the wall. Red lights flashed, and alarms blared.

Back inside the main HQ building, Doxia was eavesdropping on a couple of soldiers as they discussed their girl problems.

"I mean, like, seriously," sighed one of the soldiers, "I thought we really had something. But then I saw that one facebook post, and that one dude called her 'dynamite.' What the hell is 'dynamite' supposed to mean, anyway? Then she LIKED the post. She literally LIKED it. That is the last straw for me, I tell you."

"I think you're overreacting, dude," said the other soldier, "I mean, look at how… wait… what's this?"

He quickly tapped the side of his helmet as he brought up his HUD. Then he stood up quickly, accidentally knocking the table over and spilling coffee onto the ground.

"We're under attack!" he exclaimed in a high-pitched voice, "Quick! Grab the weapons! Go!"

The other solider tripped over his own feet as he reached for his shotgun. Scrambling to his feet, he primed his weapon and motioned for the other guy to follow them. Then, like two frightened mice, they scampered from the room.

The invisible Doxia blinked. Then he facepalmed. "Allison screwed up, didn't she?" he said over the coms to Meadolax.

There was a pause. Then Meadolax said, "Weeelllllll… It depends on what you mean by 'screwed up.' Do we get paid for overtime? Oh, yeah, I forgot, we don't get paid."

Doxia glanced at the main computer's terminal. The download was now complete. He removed his hand from the surface and extended a fist. His powerful Dimensional Lord sword materialized and he readied it.

"Well… whatever it is… the plan has changed. Meadolax, I need you to land right now. Forget about being inconspicuous. Vaporis? Ah, glad YOU are at least still on the coms. I need you to cover Meadolax's ATS Scorpion. I will go find Allison and Libra."

Doxia uncloaked and dashed through the base, causing quite an uproar, which was exactly what he wanted. Troops and proximity mechs rushed out to obstruct his path, but ended up dead as doornails.

Inside the glass complex, Libra and Allison were fighting with great skill, despite being outnumbered five hundred to one, not counting the turrets. They were Dimensional Lords, they were power… nothing could stop them. Libra extended her energy wings once more and she rose above the heads of her enemies. She conjured up an energy-spewing quad-Gatling-gun, and began to turn all of the hostile turrets into trash as Allison continued to hold her ground against the enemy soldiers. However, the two had already sustained minor wounds, and there seemed no end to the onrush of enemies.

Allison bit her bottom lip as a lucky laser bolt cut a small gash on her thigh. She glanced up to see Libra faring no better. There seemed to be no end to the attackers.

Then… Doxia arrived. The whole east wall of the complex turned to dust as Doxia smashed through, his sword raised high.

"I've got the data!" he yelled over the sound of battle, "You two! Get the orange juice out of here! This planet is going bye-bye!"

Allison glanced at Libra sheepishly, and then motioned her to follow. The two quickly dashed out to meet Vaporis at the extraction point. A couple hundred troopers tried to stop them, but were immediately turned to ash by Doxia.

Giant hovering discus with manned Gatling guns suddenly rose up from docking bays around Allison and Libra as they ran and began to accost them.

Allison sharply changed direction. Using her momentum, she leapt at a building and rebounded off the wall, flying high into the air. She seized the platform of the hovering Gatling gun's base and flipped up, kneeing the soldier manning the Gatling gun in the face and sending him spiraling to the ground below. She then quickly opened up on two other guard turrets as Libra gutted a couple other Gatling gun troops. Libra then flew off to the extraction point as Allison attacked several drones that had now risen up to kill her. As she took out the last one, Allison leapt down (spearing four soldiers in the throat as she landed) and dashed off to follow Libra again just as yet another cloud of drones rose up.

Back inside the complex, Doxia was trying to figure out if he should simply blow up the planet, or if he should take out the galaxy for good measure. However, before he could make up his mind, Meadolax contacted him. "Yo! Buddy! Time to hit the road!"

Doxia quickly ducked under a hail of shots, flipped over a missile with perfect timing (causing it to inadvertently smash into a cloud of drones and explode), and then slid under a tank causing it to flip over and detonate as its ammo rack went off, crippling a couple of adjacent tanks nicely. Doxia then snapped a finger (causing that whole section of the base to spontaneously combust and sink into the sea) as he raced off at supersonic speeds towards the extraction point. He reached it in no time and dove into the ship. As he did so, he conjured up a grenade with a super-dense quadlithium bomb inside and tossed it behind him.

"GO GO GO GO GO GO!" he yelled.

Meadolax gunned the silent engines of the Scorpion, and the whole thing blasted off. They were less than a dozen kilometers away when the primed grenade went off… blowing the whole oil-rig-like base (and the entire planet) sky-high. Meadolax gunned the engines again and put them on full capacity. The Scorpion screamed through the air at incredible speeds and barely avoided the shockwave.

Doxia sighed and sat down next to Vaporis. There was a moment of silence. Mission accomplished.

Allison looked at her feet.

"I screwed up… didn't I?" she asked quietly.

Doxia nodded sadly. "Yeah, kid… you did."

In less than an hour, Doxia, Mattimeo, Meadolax, and Allison were before the Amethyst Empire's Special One for the post-mission meeting.

The Special One finished watching the video recordings of the mission before slowly turning to the team.

"Tell me… what went wrong in this mission?" he said quietly.

"Ummmm… I forgot to bring my shades?" offered Meadolax helpfully, "It was really bright, being overcast and all."

The Special One shook his head. He knew Meadolax well (Meadolax had a 99.9999% chance of completing every mission with flying colors) and so he did not get angry with the blatantly silly answer.

"No. It was Allison. Allison… what did you do wrong?" said the Special One quietly.

Allison straightened up like a solider at attention and said, "Sir! I ignored orders and attempted to save the Amethyst Soldiers inside that one glass complex, sir!"

The Special One blinked. "What soldiers…? Oh no. Doxia… did you not tell her?"

Doxia shook his head. "Sorry kiddo… I didn't. I didn't expect Miss Grumpy-Cat-Reincarnation to run off like that after Meadolax and I started singing."

Allison shook her head. "I-I-I don't understand. Tell me what?"

The Special One sighed. "The glass complex was a training facility. Those Amethyst and Sapphire soldiers were life-like holograms. The glass was made of protosteel fibers with nano-scramblers smeared over it like a film. Thus, you and Agent Libra's HUDs were fooled into thinking what you were seeing was actually real."

Allison groaned audibly, but continued to stand straight to attention (like everyone should have been doing, but Doxia had decided that leaning against the nearest touch-panel terminal like Cool Joe was the best thing to do in the current situation).

"Not too much damage was done… right?" she asked quietly, "This was a hit and run, and the Dukarse Empire cannot fight back easily."

The Special One shook his head. "There might have been more damage than you know. The Dukarse Empire has innocents that it is willing to corrupt using its mind-virus. The more soldiers we kill, the more innocents become forced to follow those others to their deaths. We must approach this delicate situation with tact, something you have shown that you are incapable of doing."

The Special One then straightened up and said, "Allison, I hereby demote you. You are going back into training until another cycle is complete. You will no longer be required for action."

Allison let out a little gasp, but continued to stand at attention. The Special One then turned around and began to walk away. However, as he did so, Doxia, too, straightened up and said, "Joseph! I have a request!"

At the sound of his real named being called, the Special One, Joseph, slowly turned around again. He looked at Doxia curiously.

Doxia then said, "I would like to initiate Program Dual Blade, please. I'm begging you."

The Special One cocked his head to one side. "You were the one to disband Program Dual Blade… why do you want it back?"

Allison looked at Meadolax as Doxia and the Special on conversed. "What is Program Dual Blade?"

"Oh, that thing? It is a program that closely pairs Dimensional Lords with trainees. It's pretty deep. You two will work together, eat together, sleep together, and fight together. You two will also be bound by a semi-molecular telepathic unit that binds you together mentally, allowing the most streamlined and flawless collaboration between two beings ever know to the multiverse. It was disbanded because most trainees were deemed unsuitable for the time of a veteran Dimensional Lord. I guess Doxia has seen otherwise."

"B-but... Lords don't sleep," stuttered Allison, still unable to really comprehend what was going on, "W-we don't eat either..."

Meadolax shook his head. "Okay, I took a little creative licence. You really cannot understand how closely you two will be tied together. This is really deep physiological intimacy we are talking about here... You better hope you know yourself, because if you go through this, both of you will know the other more than you know yourself. But this is probably the only way you will ever see action again as a Dimensional Lord."

Allison's throat caught. Doxia was willing to be stuck with her self-absorbed and arrogant self… just because he cared for her dreams as an Amethyst Agent?

At this point, the Special One sighed. "Very well, Doxia. I will let you initiate Program Dual Blade for this one instance. I doubt we would ever find two well-suited candidates ever again, anyway."

Doxia chuckled. "Hey, I think you should pair Lynx and Mattimeo together. It would be HILARIOUS."

Mattimeo rolled his eyes. "Yeah? For Who? Last time I checked, Lynx was never into my brilliant knock-knock jokes. Anyway, we should be getting a move-on then, yes?"

Doxia clapped his hands. "And there you have it folks! Mattimeo FINALLY admits that he was ONCE good at knock-knock jokes! On the same note, who are you and what have you done with the REAL Mattimeo?"

Mattimeo shook his head and teleported out of the room to attend other business. With that, the rest of the DLs began to leave. As the room began to clear, Allison approached Doxia. She grasped one of his hands.

"I've always dreamt of being a Dimensional Lord," she said quietly, "And I almost had that dream stripped away forever… almost. How can I ever thank you?"

"You can start by going out on a date with me!" said Doxia, chuckling, "I mean, seriously, you are going to be doing EVERYTHING with me soon. I hope you don't have any sensitive secrets either, because in two days' time, I will know everything about everything about you."

Allison blinked. A couple of hours ago, she would have been repulsed by the idea… but now… she saw something in Doxia that touched her heart. Love, maybe? She couldn't tell.

Doxia slapped her heartily on the back and said, "Well, enough of this chit-chat! I say we unicycle out of this turkey-joint and go scan those Dukarse databases! I am sure there is something useful there that we can find for Joseph!"

Note: If anyone is curious, no, my first (or middle, or last) name is not Joseph. However, I have been writing a long-term story-arc surrounding the multiple Joseph Torrus beings in the multiverse. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter! I most certainly enjoyed writing it. I would appreciate it if you would leave me a review, and perhaps let me know if you want more of these Flashbacks, or if you want something different. If you give me a review, I will give you an incredibly life-like (yet invisible) figurine of Doxia in combat-mode.