XY slides the knife across Tims throat.
"How does it feel? Metal is quite nice to the touch." -XY
"What do you want to do with the artifact anyway?" -Tim
"You see. You're gifted." -XY
"But you are simply a strand of me." -Tim
"Created in a lab. We both know Tim." -XY
"We can be friends. I'm sure we can conquer the world." -Tim
"Survival of the fittest." -XY
Tim tries to break free again but fails.
"It's really simple to escape Tim." -XY
"Where are we?" -Tim
"We're headed towards the southern portal. Once there, we'll be teleported to a different dimension. Once we enter through the portal, the spirit world will be no more." -XY
"And then we'll lose all of our powers. Everybody that's capable will lose their abilities." -Tim
"Exactly. Everything will be balanced." -XY
Tim struggles to escape.
"You're finished Tim." -XY
XY stabs Tim in the chest.
Tim faints.
***
The team are aboard the airship and are heading towards the southern portal.
"What happens if we go through that portal?" -Dexter
"The entire spirit world gets destroyed." -Nicole
"Great. He's forcing us to move." -Phoenix
"Why though?" -Dexter
"The spirit world is the center of all energy. Once it gets destroyed, there will be no more energy. It will be left to mankind to discover it's energy once more." -Nicole
"Why can't we stay here?" -Sam
"Once XY enters through that portal, that bomb you guys disarmed will be forced to start again and we'll have..." -Nicole
"One minute and thirty-seven seconds." -Dexter
"We better get to the southern portal as soon as possible." -Nicole
The team arrived at the southern portal a few hours later.
"I'm surprised XY hasn't entered yet. I won-" -Nicole
An explosion hits the airship.
"Shit. Everybody, jump out!" -Phoenix
Everybody jumps out from the airship to the ground.
The airship crashes aganist the ground, triggering a massive earthquake.
"Great." -Nicole
Another earthquake followed through with that one.
"Okay, everybody into the portal." -Nicole
They all enter through the portal and went inside of the dimension.
They were spawned on a hill overlooking a massive city. Dexter looks all around them.
"It seems we're on a island." -Dexter
"There's a massive bridge on the opposite side. That is where we go." -Nicole
"Why?" -Dexter
"We have to go back to earth as we know it." -Phoenix
"So we must go where Tim came from?" -Dexter
"That's the plan." -Nicole
"That's crazy..." -Sam
"Yeah isn't it Sam? We get to go back to your shitty life." -Dexter
Sam grunts.
"What about Tim?" -Nicole
"We have to recover him and then we'll leave." -Dexter
"That's great. What's your plan?" -Phoenix
"Well, they are here to extract the rest of the artifact from him." -Nicole
"The local hospital." -Dexter
"We have to be aware. XY is here. And there's no telling what other foes await us." -Phoenix
"You're right." -Dexter
"Alright. We'll be stationed at the house over there." -Nicole
They all head towards the empty house and they get a few hours of sleep with a well needed nap.
***
XY arrives at the hospital with Tim in the backseat. Waiting for XY are two doctors.
XY pulls up and stops the car. He gets out and opens the backdoor. Tim is ordered to get out but refuses.
"You're only making it harder for yourself." -XY
The doctors yank Tim from the backseat and escort Tim inside the hospital. They took him to the elevator and they went to the fourth floor. They gave him a small bag with a gown and a cap.
"Put those on in that room over there. You got two minutes."
Tim enters through the door and shuts the door behind him.
(Two minutes.) -Tim
Tim searches the room for anything, but couldn't find anything useful.
He looks up and notices a air vent. He tries to metalbend the front off but couldn't bend it.
(What the hell...) -Tim
A few seconds pass.
(The spirit world must have been destroyed.) -Tim
"Great..." -Tim
"Hurry up kid! We don't have time for the jerk around."
"Well, looks like I'm going to plan b." -Tim
Tim tells the doctors they are ready.
The doctors come in.
Tim smashes his body against the first doctor. He sees a pistol tucked behind in his back. Tim pulls out the pistol and points it at the second doctor. The second doctor puts his hands up.
"Where the fuck am I?" -Tim
"In the hospital!"
"No! I'm talking about where this hospital is at." -Tim
"Fayport. We're in the city of Fayport in the new dimension."
"A new dimension?!" -Tim
"Yes."
"Okay. You move. OVER THERE!" -Tim
The doctor does as Tim says.
"Good boy." -Tim
Tim runs towards the elevator. He enters the elevator and hits the 5th floor button.
(My plan is simple. Escape through the rooftops.)
The hospital alarm kicks in and the elevator stops in its place. A few moments passed and someone got on the elevator speaker.
"Give up kid. You aren't going to escape." -XY
Tim yells at the speaker.
"Watch me!" -Tim
Tim shoots the speaker and camera. He looks up and sees a hatch. Tim stands on the rail of the elevator and he hits the hatch with the pistol. It took a few good whips to get the elevator hatch open. Tim jumps and grabs the edge of the hatch and climbs up. He stands on the elevator and he searches around.
(Alright...shouldn't be that hard. One mistake and I fall down 5 stories.) -Tim
Tim looks around the elevator shaft and sees the top vent.
(Alright. Let's do this.) -Tim
Tim carefully manuevers through the elevator shaft. The alarm pierces through Tims ears but Tim remains focused.
Tim shoots the screws that held the top vent in place. He throws the pistol in the vent and Tim jumps to it. He barely gets a grip on it. Soldiers get the bottom floor open and start shooting rounds at the elevator. Tim climbs through the vents.
Tim goes through the vents and heads to the stairs. He kicks the vent and pops out and jumps down to the stairs. He heads up to the roof.
Tim shuts the roof door and puts the pistol inbetween the handle to secure it. He turns around and observes the night sky.
"Fucking gorgeous." -Tim
"It is." -???
Tim looks around.
"Who are you!?" -Tim
"Why don't you guess?" -???
"Someone I've never met before." -Tim
"Well, Tim. I guess that doesn't matter." -???
Tim tries to spark a fire ball but fails.
"Your powers will never work again. They are all lost." -???
"What the fuck happened?" -Tim
"The spirit world got wiped away from existence." -???
"Who did it?" -Tim
"XY did. And I'm here to make sure you don't escape the hospital." -???
Tim puts his defense up.
"Come at me. Bitch." -Tim
The mysterious figure launches several shurikens at Tim. Tim dodges all of them and continues to lock on to his target.
"Too bad you don't have your petty powers." -???
The mysterious figures lands on the rooftop and pulls out a katana. She charges.
Tim prepares himself. The cloaked girl jumped over Tim and snucked behind him and hit his four pressure points on his back. Tim gets stunned. Moments later, a katana slides aganist his neck.
"Now. Any last words?" -???
Just then, the katana gets shot outta her hand. The mysterious girl looks up and sees a sniper pointed at her. She throws a smoke bomb and disappears.
"TIM!" -Dexter
(Oh fuck, thank God.) -Tim
Tim waves his hands.
Phoenix goes in and grabs Tim and Dexter and leaves to go back to the house on the hill.
***
"What the fuck happened Tim?" -Dexter
"Everything is...going to shit. We don't have much time. XY will try to find us and eliminate us." -Tim
"What does he want with you?" -Sam
Tim shakes his head.
"Alright...so guys. You remembered how there was no weather, time or people change when we through the United States?" -Tim
"Yeah. What about it?" -Dexter
"Well, that was a "snap shot" of the real world." -Tim
"So you're saying...that wasn't the real world?" -Dexter
"No. And now XYs goal is to eliminate the real world." -Tim
"Is that why we're here?" -Sam
"We're basically in limbo right now." -Tim
Sam and Dexter both nod their heads.
Tim looks at the girl and growls.
"What the fuck is she doing here?" -Tim
"I'm here to save the world thank you very much." -Nicole
"She did help us escape the military base Tim." -Dexter
Tim growls some more.
"What about that other girl that was going to kill you?" -Dexter
"I have no idea who the hell that was..." -Tim
"So what's our goal now?" -Phoenix
"Our objective remains clear. We have to kill XY and finish this." -Tim
"What about this limbo dimension?" -Phoenix
"I don't know. We'll think about that when we get to that point." -Tim
"So where do we start to look for XY?" -Dexter
"I took a look around the city earlier this morning. It seems the casino here is the big attraction here. XY probably has a base of operations there." -Phoenix
"Who runs the casino?" -Tim
"I don't know." -Phoenix
"Alright, you guys stay here and I'll go check out the casino." -Tim
"I'll come with you." -Nicole
"Why?" -Tim
"Two heads are better than one." -Nicole
"I can agree with that..." -Tim
Tim winks.
Sam shakes his head.
"Tim hasn't changed much." -Sam
Tim and Nicole both went outside to observe the city.
"So why didn't you finish the job?" -Tim
"What are yo-" -Nicole
She pauses.
"It was too dangerous. Plus we heard raiders outside." -Nicole
"So that's what attacked me. What about the zombies?" -Tim
"The virus spreaded and got ahold of the military personal." -Nicole
"We didn't wear gas masks. How come we didn't get affected?" -Tim
"The virus must've died..." -Nicole
"Probably." -Tim
They both head down the hill and walk along side the highway.
"Reminds me of Falias." -Nicole
"Yeah?" -Tim
"Before everything went to shit." -Nicole
They continue to walk along and stopped to look at the first check point.
"We're not getting through that checkpoint..." -Nicole
Tim agrees and they both went around the checkpoint through the woods. They came across a electric fence. They were able to disable it temporarily using nearby tree branches.
They walked behind some houses and came to the sidewalk. They looked around the city for a couple hours looking for the casino.
Nicole pokes Tim and they both look up to see this big casino.
"Thirteen floors." -Nicole
"Seems that way." -Tim
Nicole laughs.
"You're so fucking boring Tim." -Nicole
"Whatever. I'm just trying to kill this son of a bitch." -Tim
"How you're going to do that with no powers?" -Nicole
"I'll find a way." -Tim
They went inside the casino and were asked for tickets.
"Oh great." -Nicole
Nicole leans over so the front desk man sees her boobs.
"Do we really need tickets babe?" -Nicole
Tim rolls his eyes.
"Of course not. Here. VIP tickets."
They recieved the tickets and went to the elevator.
"What floor?" -Nicole
"You're nasty." -Tim
"Not as nasty as you." -Nicole
"The final floor." -Tim
She hits the fifteenth floor and the elevator goes up.
They both exit the elevator and enter a hallway that has one door at the very end.
"This must be it." -Nicole
Tim gets a weird feeling inside his stomach.
"You good?" -Nicole
"Something doesn't feel right." -Tim
"Of course not. Let's go." -Nicole
They both head towards the door and they stand on opposite sides of the wall.
"On three." -Nicole
They count down in their heads and bash through the doors.
They look around and see a big around table with several chairs gathered around pushed in nicely. At the opposite side, they see a chair faced the window.
"So it was you you entered my dream!" -Tim
Nicole looks at Tim half-crazy.
The man chuckled.
"Yes. You're correct kid." -???
"Who the fuck are you?" -Tim
"My name is Lance." -Lance
"How did you do that?" -Tim
"I am a dream eater." -Lance
Lance turns around and observes Tim and Nicole. He then shuts the doors behind them and locks it.
"What brings you here kid?" -Lance
"I'm looking for XY." -Tim
"XY?" -Lance
Lance pauses for a moment.
"What do you want with him?" -Lance
"He's done a lot of things and I need him dead." -Tim
"All he merely did was destroy the spirit world and the human world. At least a snap of it." -Lance
"Yeah. And I'm here to destroy him before he destroys reality." -Tim
"Why would that affect you?" -Lance
"Because I live in it!" -Tim
Lance pauses.
"Oh? Is that so?" -Lance
Tim gets angry.
"Did you send that girl to assassinate me?" -Tim
"What girl?" -Lance
"You know." -Tim
"Oh. You mean this one?" -Lance
Tim looks over to his left. He sees ths mysterious girl.
"Grr." -???
Tim smiles.
"That's it." -Tim
Tim rushes for the mysterious girl.
The girls throws a smoke bomb on the floor and disappears. Tim rushes through the smoke to see that the girl is gone.
"Damnit!" -Tim
The smoke disappears and Tim looks at Lance.
"You gotta be quicker than that kid." -Lance
"Oh yeah?" -Tim
Tim rushes towards Lance. Lance gets up rapidly and pulls out control bars. He throws a bunch of wire at Tim and controls Tim.
"AGH!" -Tim
"Never underestimate a puppeteer." -Lance
He throws Tim back at the door and looks at Nicole.
"If you want to face XY, he'll be on the roof of this building tonight along with my...helper. If you wish to kill him, I think tonight will be your last chance to do so." -Lance
Another smoke bomb is thrown at Lance and he disappears.
Nicole picks up Tim.
"I'm sorry...he stunned me somehow." -Nicole
"Daydreaming. What a dream eater." -Tim
"What happened?" -Nicole
"I'll explain later. We gotta go." -Tim
Moments later the alarm goes off.
"Not this shit again." -Tim