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1 | Strangers

"Woah, man! Calm down, Reality Steve, calm down!" Sabre said. Reality Steve looked at Sabre and Alex through panes of glass. They were in an altered illusion of the Rainbow Town cast by Reality Steve. The Rainbow Tree of Life towered over them like a giant off to the left. They were surrounded by grass and walls in the distance. A redstone contraption stood in front of Sabre and Alex. The Rainbow house, along with the rest of the buildings, were gone, replaced with flat ground. Only the tree remained in the small section that Reality Steve brought back. Said Steve was glaring down at Alex and Sabre from a glass tube connected to another identical tube.

"Calm down?! You want me to calm down after all of this?! You-you know what?" Reality Steve exclaimed angrily. Sabre stared at Reality, waiting for him to finish his sentence. He took a deep breath, his gray-and-galaxy-themed hair blowing away from his face.

"Ok, I'm calm." Reality Steve finished. Alex and Sabre turned to each other and exchanged confused glances.

"There's no way," Alex said.

"That- I-I- Alex listen, Communications 101. I told you, it's uh..." Sabre trailed off.

"Ye-yeah..." Alex stammered.

"In no way am I shocked. I knew that was gonna happen, so..."

"Yeah, uh-huh," Alex said.

"Lesson learned, am I right? Up top!"

"....yeah..."

"Yeah..."

"Can we, uh, get Galaxy Steve back, please?"

"Yeah. Reality Steve, you ready?" Sabre asked.

"I've bEeN ready, you two. Know this: I will do this right now. Just stand back or- you know what, as a matter of fact, don't even stand back. Go ahead and stand near this machine and take all the damage you want. I really don't care." Reality Steve said, emphasizing his sentences in his strange, deep, slightly demonic voice. Sabre and Alex stepped away from the colorful redstone contraption and watched Reality as he continued to ramble. "I'm just going to get going on with this now, so hErE wE gO, wE'Re dOiNg iT! I'm just going to- yeah, oKaY..." Reality Steve droned. Suddenly, lightning began to strike the machine. Sabre turned to Alex again.

"Should I have actually explained how-? Oh, I guess he didn't really need to figure it out--ah, woah...wWwOoOaaAaAHHaaah...!"

§˜FavreMySabre's Point Of View˜§

My screen instantly flashed white as the sound of lightning booming quickly became high-pitched ringing in my ears. In fact, the ringing was so loud that I couldn't hear anything but. I sank to the ground onto my knees, squeezing my fists to try and help with the pain. I heard a scream, but I couldn't tell if it was me or Alex. At some point, I lost consciousness.

☆~Galaxy Steve's P.O.V.~☆

I could see my surroundings again. I think that Reality Steve finally had enough with me and decided to separate himself. I was surrounded by glass on all sides, the huge Rainbow Tree of Life standing in the middle of closed-off plains. I raised a hand to my face, slightly reassured by the sight and solidity of my own chocolate-colored skin.

Suddenly, I was aware of a choked cry sounding somewhere in front of me. Sabre was on the floor, passed out. "Sabre!" I yelled, my voice muffled by the glass surrounding my body. "Someone let me out here, I can't break this thing!" I pounded on the glass wall in an attempt to break it. Alex ran over to me and punched the glass, shattering it into tiny shards onto the ground. Alex and I rushed towards Sabre. Alex scooped his head into her hands, tilting his head slightly up and checking his pulse with shaky fingers. She let out a sigh of relief, but her eyes were still full of worry. I shook Sabre's shoulders. "Sabre, wake up!" I exclaimed.

Sabre gasped and jolted up, breathing heavily like he just woke from a bad dream. "What happened?" Sabre asked.

"You passed out right after Reality Steve separated. You seem okay, though, thank god." Alex explained, still trembling.

"Speaking of Reality Steve, where is he?" I asked, changing the subject before Sabre could say anything. We simultaneously turned our heads toward the tube where Reality Steve stood. In his place was a tall girl, her blond hair sitting on her shoulder blades. Another glass tube flanked on either side by the other two glass cylinders held another girl. She had waist-length rainbow hair that looked mussed up. And Reality Steve? Well, he seemed to be long gone.

"Did he just like...disappear...?" Sabre asked slowly. I nodded, staring at the blond girl in the right tube. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go free those people," Sabre said as he slowly lifted himself off of the ground. We all ran to the tubes. I took the girl on the right and Alex helped Sabre break open the tube in the middle. When I shattered the glass of the strange container, the girl fell forward and I noticed that she's unconscious. Both of them were. I caught her and yelled to Sabre and Alex,

"They're passed out! Be careful!" Just as I do, the rainbow girl fell into Alex's arms. After setting them on the grass, Sabre and I tried to pull the girls out of their sleep.

"It's no use. They won't wake up." Sabre sighed as he stood up.

"We're going to have to carry them, aren't we?" I questioned, dreading the thought of walking somewhere far with a stranger in my arms.

"Yeah," Alex responded. I sighed and picked up the surprisingly lightweight blond. Sabre did the same with Rainbow Girl.

"This way," Alex nodded her head to the right, suggesting that we go in that direction. "I think there's an open plain over there. We can set up camp there until we figure out what to do."