BASIL

## History

### Another Day of Fun

It was seemingly just another normal and lovely day within the vast forest for BASIL. He went to the playground where Mari was and waited for everyone else to come. Him and Mari chatted for a bit about good times and lovely memories, though the specifics weren't revealed. After a few minutes passed, that's when the gang showed up, OMORI, AUBREY, KEL, and HERO. The flower boy politely bowed to them and had something exciting to tell them.

"Hey guys, I've got exciting news!"

HERO smirked, "What is it BASIL?"

BASIL smiled, "I'm growing a new type of plant at my house. Wanna come see?"

The gang all nodded in agreement with BASIL and walked down the usual path where BASIL was growing flowers that represented each of his friends. That's when they finally made it back to his house, where he showed them the new type of plant he was cooking up. "Ta-da!" he said, pointing to the cherry blossom tree. "It's a Sakura Blossom, guys, heheh! Isn't it pretty?" Each of them nodded.

OMORI tilted his head. The word Sakura reminded him of something he knew about...or more specifically, what SUNNY knew about.

BASIL went on, "Also known as a cherry blossom, they're very famous in Japan as they represent love and uhhh...eheheh, fertility."

KEL butted in, "Man, that's ho-" He was beaten down by AUBREY before he could finish his sentence. Everyone smirked in different ways except for, of course, OMORI.

BASIL rolled his eyes, "Oh KEL, you are always a prick, heheh." He turned to his photo album and got it out, "Hey! Who wants to see my photo album again? Always nice to reminisce over the good old times that we...always seem to be making and just can't ever stop for some reason...Oh nevermind! Guys, look, I got a new photo of you guys that I don't think I showed you.~"

OMORI raised an eyebrow of alarm at what BASIL said. He seemed...aware of the neverending nature of the dream world.

BASIL went on about the photo album, "-And this one I got of KEL gambling at the Last Resort and losing all of OMORI's Clams! Hahah..." A few more moments of this until...it happened. The part of the cycle that OMORI could never seem to escape no matter what. BASIL was looking through the photo album on his own before noticing a strange photo.

"Hmm? When did I take this...this doesn't look right..." His eyes shot wide open with panic, "Wait, this is..." He turned back, "MARI, SHE'S-" Before he could finish the sentence, OMORI turned across the room at incredible speeds. As he did so, he caught glimpse of the Sakura Blossom again and remembered what it reminded him of. Naruto! Of course, there was a character named Sakura in there. But with this thought in his head, he used a Red Hand and banished BASIL into Black Space.

...Or so he thought.

### The Staruto Incident

In actuality, what happened was this was a little after the time The Last Stand event happened, where the multiverse was shattered and shaking and connecting in incredibly bizarre and surreal ways. Since OMORI was thinking of Naruto the moment he banished BASIL, he actually accidentally banished the flower boy to the Naruto verse, though from his perspective, he just sent him to Black Space again. Time Dilated as BASIL travel across the multiverse and landed in the middle of a large canyon where a massive war was going on. He fell on a large pointy rock which jabbed his left eye. He was in immense pain as this happened and screamed while trying to cover up the wound.

That's when someone landed next to him. A man wearing a bizarre swirly orange mask, who was missing his legs and had a large firey stab wound through his body. The man took his mask off, coughing up blood and looked at BASIL, who was terrified and walking backwards. The man reached out to BASIL, "Hey...kid...I see you lost an eye..." He coughs up blood. "I...I don't have much time left in this world...W-will you take mine?" BASIL was startled, "WHAT?! Take your eye? W-what happened to you, anyway?"

The Man coughed up more blood, "Th-there isn't enough time to explain. Let me just say...the men piloting those strange flying ships are trying to conquer this world." BASIL looked up to see starships and strange mystical ninja people fighting and attempting to bring them down. "W-what the? THIS IS LIKE OTHERWORLD ON STEROIDS!!" He said in a panicked state. As he was looking up in awe and terror, Obito took his eye out and gave it to BASIL. "It's yours now...use it wisely..." He used some Jutsu to open up Basil's eye and then shoved his own eye in the hole it now was. It fit nicely and immediately stopped the pain. "Go...save this world, kid...that eye...it let's...let's you...you..." The man fell over and lost consciousness. BASIL looked in terror. Somehow, he hadn't seen something so gruesome for as long as he lived...well...almost, anyway.

He got up and tried to get to safety in this absolutely insane and convoluted war zone. He walked into a forest. When he turned back to see a man wearing strange black armor jumping to the area the man landed in, with an ignited red sword of some variety. Basil hid behind a rock as the black cloaked man inspected. He scoffed, "All too easy." and then noticed that the man's eye was missing. This was very suspicious for him, and so he decided to scout around the area to see if anyone else was around that might've taken the man's eye. Basil started to walk away slowly to try and avoid the man's detection. However, he tripped and fell, which Vader's force powers could pick up on. Darth Vader rushed towards BASIL as the boy had a horrified look on his face.

BASIL tried his best to get back up, but he was so stricken with fear at Darth Vader that all he did was stumble around. Darth Vader saw him and rushed at him with his Lightsaber, knowing this what be easy as shit as he's had experience killing a fuck load of Younglings before. BASIL closed his eyes and started to cry in terror, ready to accept his fate...

...However, Darth Vader's rush was stopped as a large tree pummeled into him and shot him to BASIL's right. Basil looked up in surprise and to the left where the tree came from to see a man with strange samurai looking gear and long black hair rushing towards the dark clad evil sith lord. BASIL blinked several times in confusion, but he was panting, relieved he was saved by anyone at all. Then his gaze turned to the large tree that just sprouted from nowhere. He was fascinated by it's creation and complex structure. Though he didn't have time to think of it much, as the Black Haired man started rushing towards Vader at speeds exceeding light. BASIL took this chance to finally get up and run away deeper into the forest, where it didn't seem like anyone else was in here...

...That's where he was wrong! He was then ambushed by a group of Ninjas. One with a mask covering his whole , another with bushy brows, and one more with sakura blossom hair. The one with the mask and white hair glanced at BASIL, saying, "Oh, it's just a kid...Are you lost?" BASIL nodded, trembling with fear. The Ninja nodded back to him and commanded those around him to go out and scout whatever the enemy is doing. They obliged and did so. The White haired ninja with a mask said, "Alright kid, my name is Kakashi, and I'll help you get out of here." And so he picked BASIL up and asked, "Which way is your home?" BASIL looked down solemnly, "Well...I don't really know how I got here. I know this will sound insane but...this isn't my world. I'm not at all from around here. I'm lost and alone and scared..." Kakashi raised his eyebrows. Given the strange starships from another universe coming in, he could believe this. He nodded to BASIL, "I believe you kid. Are you from wherever those starships are?" He pointed to the sky at them. BASIL shook his head, "No, I have no idea what those are all about...I'm sorry."

Kakashi nodded, "It's okay, kid. I'll at least get you to shelter." Kakashi started dashing through the large forest. He went passed mountains, lakes rivers, beautiful scenery overall, until he reached a small hut far away. Safe from the conflict...safe from even any battleships...Just safe from it all. He went inside. It was a humble little house. In the house sat a man with the same Ninja gear as Kakashi. He also had long white hair and a red headband. KAkashi said, "BASIL, this is Maguto. He will take care of you...I have to fight in this war...and hopefully win." BASIL turned away solemnly, and looked down, letting out a solemn, "It's okay." In response. BASIL was really liking Kakashi already because of how nice he was to him. Kakashi nodded and left of. The Long haired man smiled at BASIL, "Oh young one. It's okay. I treat kids nicely. Want a cookie?"

The mention of cookies made BASIL feel even more down, as cookies reminded him of MARI. He wanted to get home so bad and now he was in the middle of this absolute insanity. Meguto took notice of this and sighed, "I get it. The world is in even more disarray than thought previously conceivable. Like...literally, we could've never predicted starships from other worlds would come here but now look at this place! Haha...oh well. If you need anything, I'll be here to help you." BASIL nodded and laid on the carpet. He sighed, remembering how the passed day went. He's tryng to piece together exactly how he got here again...so he was looking through his photo album back on his home world and...and...and...

"Huh..." He thought to himself, "It just all went black...I can't remember how that happened...Really, what DID happen? Hmmm..." He tried to reach into the depths of his memories as best as he could but he just couldn't find it. It just became black and then he was here. How odd...

As he thought about the day, he remembered the giant tree that was created from seemingly nothing. He perked up, thinking to himself, "Hey...I wonder if I..." Then he called out, "Hey Meguto!" The man came into the room with him, tilting his head. "What is it, young one?"

BASIL smirked, "I think I know what I want to do."

BASIL explained the giant tree he saw and his desire to learn that technique.

"Wood Release Jutsu?!" The man said in shock, "My that's a pretty complex technique, especially for someone who doesn't seem to be combat able in the slightest...oh, sorry. Hahah.."

BASIL chuckled in response, "No it's fine! It just...looked so beautiful. I'll do whatever it takes to learn it so that once we find a way to get me back home, I can use it to defend my friends and actually go on adventures with them properly! Finally..." The man smirked, "You've got a good heart, kid." He stroked his chin, thinking for a few moments, "Alright then! I'll teach you!" He said. BASIL jumped up with glee, and said, "That's great! but wait...Are there any conditions needed to be met? There's always a but before something like this..." He said suspiciously. The main shook his head, "Nope! It's all for free! I love teaching you lovely young folk, haha." BASIL jumped with joy. This was it, now he could learn. And the training began almost immediately.

First of all, BASIL was taught the basics of Chakra and how all living things had it. He learned that somehow even he got the abilitiy after spending enough time in this world. Secondly, he learned the fundamentals of Jutsus, hand signs, and how to cast earth and water release jutsus, which he needed to combine in order to create wood release. And finally, it was practicing these techniques for the next two days. BASIL was extraordinary at learning these Jutsus, as he applied his own knowledge on flowers and plants to help him create the would release Jutsus. He was the quickest learner Meguto had ever seen, surpassing literally anything before him.

In only two days, BASIL had learned and nearly mastered the basics of the wood release Jutsu, and could do it professionally in the middle of Meguto's yard. Now Meguto was essentially living in a forest. He looked around with glee, "Marvelous..." He said, "Absolutely marvelous! You're a prodigy among prodigies, young BASIL! You could potentially even fight in the war, ahahah!" BASIL nervously chuckled, "Aheheheh...I'm...still a bit afriad of doing that. Maybe later!" Meguto patted the flower boy on the head, "I know, I was just teasing you!" BASIL rolled his eyes. This was wonderful. He got new powers and made a new friend, but he was still worried about his other friends. He was growing impatient, and really wanted to see them as soon as possible. Meguto took notice of BASIL's pensive expressions as he was thinking this and sighed again, "Yeah, you deserve to go see your friends again. Don't worry, we*ll figure something out eventually." BASIL nodded, "Yeah..."*

Almost as if on queue, Kakashi came rushing back to him, saying, "KID! WE FOUND CROSS-DIMENSIONAL TECHNOLOGY!" BASIL shot up and ran toward Kakashi at insanely fast speeds. His ninja powers were clearly coursing through his entire body. He questioned in delight, "R-REALLY?!" Kakashi nodded, "Yeah, you're gonna be going home soon!" A few ninjas behind him were carrying a large pod gizmo with the words, "Multifinder-9000" written on them. Kakashi explained, "See, this pod takes anyone or anything and immediately detects which universe they hail from. Meaning it's as simple as that! You'll be home in no time." BASIL jumped with glee, "Awesome, oh I can't wait to show my friends everything I did and learned!" He ran up to and hugged Kakashi tightly. The Ninja let out a soft chuckle and patted the kids head. He then realized what he said and replied, "Wait...you...learned techniques?" BASIL nodded. Kakashi looked surprised and glared at Meguto, who just shrugged, "Well whatever. Do you want any of us to accompany you on the trip? We've tested it multiple times and it 100% works." BASIL chuckled, "Maybe another time. Y-you have a war to fight here and I just wanna go home and help my friends...I will come back though, I promise!" Kakashi nodded, "Alright kid, get strapped in and you'll be off in no time."

BASIL gleefully jumped into the pod and put his seatbelts on. He waved goodbye to Meguto and Kakashi, and breathed a sigh of relief, "Finally...home free...Wait, how do I work this thing?" He asked Kakashi, head tilted, Kakashi replied, "Oh, you just turn the red lever to your left, think about wherever you wanna go, and it'll take you there. Again, good luck!" BASIL nodded, "Alright, I want to go to...The Playground in the Vast Forest..." The machine rose up and spun around at ludicrous speeds. BASIL looked out the window and saw everyone waving goodbye around him. He smiled and sighed, closing his eyes...

After multiple rotations, the machine stopped and hit the ground. Basil looked to his right and saw out the window...MARI's picnic basket! Along with MARI herself. He looked out the other windows to see everyone else looking at the contraption in confusion. BASIL couldn't wait a second, so he unbuckled and jumped out, smiling at everyone.

"I'm...home..." He said, looking around. He just caught a glimpse of MARI's smile. He smiled back, running up to hug her.

### Finding Out the Truth

Ultimately, while his return to the world of Sunny's headspace had seemed tiumphant, it was a lot more complicated than that. You see, OMORI and all of his friends were out escapading in a fruitless search to find BASIL all this time, unbeknowst to all of them except for OMORI that this task was an impossibility...But BASIL returning was something even OMORI wasn't expecting. Of course, at the moment, he didn't know, but what was happening with OMORI and his friends was that they were all exploring the depths of the Deeper Well and AUBREY, KEL, and HERO slowly started forgetting the very existence of the Flower Boy bit by bit. But now with BASIL back in Headspace proper, things became...interesting. as they entered the mouth of the whale, BASIL, OMORI's friends all started to talk about BASIL in massive detail. This caused...OMORI to raise an eyebrow. This wasn't supposed to happen. They were supposed to be forgetting the one who knew...

...the one who knew of MARI's true fate.

OMORI actually...became panicked for once. Of course, being such a stoic entity, he hardly showed it outside of some mild shaking. Though his friends...took notice of this? "What?" OMORI thought, being unable to comprehend what was happening. "This wasn't part of the journey...they're supposed to be listening to ME. They're supposed to be keeping HIM happy..." This was in the laboratory room with all the massive button tests. Where MARI was...She looked at him, confused as well...

This brings us back to BASIL who was hugging the seemingly nigh-omnipresent MARI. He asked her, "Hey, do you know where all my friends are?" MARI chuckled and booped his snoot, "You mean OUR friends, silly! Haha!" BASIL smiled awkwardly, "Oh yeah, of course. Gotta be more communist around here, heheh." He rubbed the back of his head with his right hand. He "Ahem"ed, before saying, "But anyway! Yeah. You know where they are?" MARI nodded, "Of course I do! I know practically anything around here."

This did raise BASIL's interest, and his right eyebrow. "Really...so do you know about that weird photo I found of you lying on the floor?"

MARI chuckled nervously, "Aheheh...what?"

"Y-yeah, just before i got somehow seemingly transported out of my house and into a wacky adventure that I'll go into detail about another time, I noticed this strange photo of you lying on the floor and thought it looked...well...strange."

MARI only started to look more concerned, "And...could you describe this photo in more detail?"

BASIL nodded, really thinking back to the glimpse of it he saw, "Yeah, it was you lying there and it was all...weird and blurry and grayscale, kinda like OMORI himself, hahah...but I knew it was you. The dress you were wearing and the hair was indistinguishable."

MARI gulped, "And, I was just...lying there on the ground?"

BASIL Put his right hand to his chin, "Well yeah...it was very strange and...unlike any of the other photos in there."

"And what happened the instant after you saw this is just...disappear into an alternate reality?"

BASIL nodded again, "Yup..."

MARI looks more concerned than ever before. Cut back to OMORI looking confusingly at his friends and MARI. Since MARI was this sort of...omnipresent entity here, she was looking more and more worried as another version of herself really took in her expressions. His friends now looked worried as well. AUBREY asked, "W-what's wrong guys? You're...staring at each other funny a-and I don't like that!"

KEL said, "Yeah! I've never seen you two act like this before! Sorry OMORI, did me hitting you on the head with my basketballs a little while back finally catch up to you?"

AUBREY pushed him aside, "KEL, this is serious!"

KEL got all flustered and shrugged, "What?! I am being serious!"

HERO intervened, "Alright guys. Let's settle down and focus on the matter at hand. SUNNY, MARI, what's going on?"

OMORI was taken aback. But shockingly enough...so were KEL, AUBREY, and MARI. They just stared blankly at HERO.

HERO smirked nervously, "W-what?"

AUBREY tilted her head, "You said..."

KEL intervened, "SUNNY?! Who the hell's SUNNY? Look, I know OMORI should try to express himself more but I don't think just casually saying he's a SUNNY person will help!"

OMORI was just stunned at this. The narrative that he built in his head to help protect SUNNY has been slightly broken through and altered before, but never to this ludicrous extreme. No...his Headspace friends weren't even supposed to comment on occurrences like this. It didn't happen with the likes of the somethings they found in the LOST LIBRARY or...anywhere else they appeared for that matter, and not even in previous recursions when they fought ABBI, the potentially literal mother of all SOMETHINGs besides well...the main SOMETHING that's been stalking him for years now.

"N-no, this shouldn't be happening." Said...OMORI.

All of his friends and MARI turned to him. KEL's Jaw was about to break through Black Space itself.

KEL said, "W-what?!?!?!?!? You're not supposed to speak, SUNNY! Ah dang it, HERO, now you got me saying it!"

OMORI was mortified. This couldn't be happening to him. The world was crumbling down around him. For some reason, he was in too much shock to try o banish them to BLACK SPACE. Maybe it's because...this has literally never happened before. He took deep breaths to cool down, before waving his hand at all of them, attempting to send them all away.

It did nothing. His friends did not succumb.

KEL squinted, "Huh, SUN---I mean OMORI darn it! That was a really sloppy magic trick."

AUBREY bapped KEL's head and OMORI looked on in fear and downright terror. His control over Head Space was...fading? What? He had never experienced anything like this before, and them constantly calling him SUNNY, his hosts name.

That's when it happened. MARI grabbed him, saying in a very familiar tone, "Sunny....Or OMORI. Apologies, the former feels more...truthful for some reason...what's the matter?"

OMORI's eyes started to shake. No...this couldn't be...this couldn't be happening.

As all of this was happening, the MARI back in the playground was informing BASIL of all that was going on.

"He WHAT?!"

MARI said, panicked, "He just tried to wave his arm at his friends for some reason. It didn't do anything to them. and now they're all calling him-"

"Sunny." BASIL finished MARI's sentence.

MARI's eyes widen, "Yeah, exactly."

BASIL was panicked, "W-we have to go back to my photo album. There was clearly something in theer SUUUUUU--MORI might've not wanted me or the others to see...that must be why he tried waving his hands at the others. Maybe he was..."

"...Trying to hide them from something."

BASIL looked terrified, again taking the expression of being scared shitless when Darth Vader was Closing in on him. He quickly shouted to MARI, "Let's go! T-Tell me if anything new happens!" He says, running as MARI ran behind him at blistering speeds towards his house.

Back to OMORI, who was now being confronted by MARI with KEL and AUBREY arguing in the background and HERO trying to stop the scuffle.

MARI tilted her head, noting SUN, I mean, OMORI's expression. "Brother. I'm here for you, heheh! Just tell me the truth!"

The truth...no, given the circumstances, that was the last thing he wanted to do. He knew what he had to do. Even if he didn't like it, he had to...

...stab himself in order to wake up.

He runs off away from the group but HERO and MARI are able to keep up with him. Too bad for OMORI, in his panicked state, he accidentally found a dead end. And he was unable to control the world around him anymore. HERO and MARI closed in on him, looking terrified. He just went for a hail Mary (Heh) and tried to stab himself right then and there, but HERO could stop him from doing so right before the knife gouged him straight through the chest.

"SUNNY, NO!" He yelled at OMORI while MARI looked shocked. Sunny tried to pinch his cheeks or do other methods but to no avail.

"HE DID FUCKING WHAT NOW?!" BASIL yelled in terror., as they neared his house

MARI would normally be shocked at the use of language, but under THESE circumstances...she allowed it. She said, "Yeah! He tried to kill himself!"

BASIL looked down in terror, "What's happening SU--AH, whatever! Whatever it is, it's causing us to call OMORI SUNNY for some reason."

They made it to BASIL's house, where the flower boy gulped. MARI grimly stated, "I think we're about to find out."

They went inside...

Cut back to the scene, where now AUBREY and KEL tried to join the fray with a terrified look on their faces. In fact, all of them looked terrified. OMORI panted heavily as MARI and HERO tried to hold him down.

They didn't know what to say. What their closest friend was about to do to himself was horrific. KEL didn't have anything silly to say, nor did any of them really. They were just...stunned and panting heavily.

Cut back to BASIL...MARI told him that OMORI was being completely held back. He couldn't do anything. BASIL nodded, "Alright..." As they went back into the house, they found the photo album...

Cut back to OMORI. HERO and MARI stared at him, with HERO saying, "Ok, SUNNY...OMORI. Whatever's going on, you have to tell us now. We don't want you getting hurt. Just please. Why? Why would you..." HERO started to shed tears. For some reason, this felt familiar to him. Despite never experiencing it before, the idea of losing someone so close to him was...terrifyingly familiar. He didn't understand it, but it was becoming a reality. KEL and AUBREY were also crying and MARI just stared, confused, worried, sad, but also somewhat...threatening, as if OMORI did something. Well...she and BASIL would soon find out...

The flower boy flipped through the pages of the old photo album. The happy memories, the good times they had together. The love and support, all culminating into one, neat little package...

...but then there was the final page.

OMORI audibly yelled, if it could even be called that. It was more like a howl of pure, unadulterated pain and horror.

BASIL and MARI gasped.

HERO, AUBREY, and KEL's eyes widen.

After so long of trying to escape it.

His friends knew the truth.

And for the first time in his entire existence.

He was helpless to stop it.

### The Five Fatal Florists

George, BASIL, Flowey, Cagney Carnation, and Petey Piranha joined together to create the Five Fatal Florists.