The End of an Era: Book

1

In all of this adventure, in all of his life, in all of the lifespan of the universe, Wright I of Mentite never expected anything of this sort to ever take place. As the fourth dimension collapsed in on itself, and every piece of every part of the world flew around in swirling illustrations and molded into one land, Wright knew, then and there. This was the end of the universe. Something snapped in the quantum fabric, revealing what had been held in place for all eternity. This existence, he discovered, did not have three dimensions. It had a fourth. Time. And Time was easily manipulated. Wright kicked Ikoko's face, knocking her into the tree, as the trio appeared in a Sidilxtopian crowd. "Everything will be okay. Nobody will be harmed. This is a small delay - setback, per se - on our way to becoming the biggest empire in Mentite. WE WILL STAND STRONG! WE WILL SURVIVE! THE SIDILXTOPIAN EMPIRE STAYS IN POWER! I WILL BE SURE OF IT! YOU WILL-" A bomb shrouded the mayor in smoke, and his legs flew into the crowd, killing civilians. "AAAAH!" cried a voice in the smoke, as the mayor's body, covered in black chars, rolled off the side of the stage and grabbed onto a tree trunk. "What year is it?" cried Wright into the crazed crowd."2676," replied a man, "but the world is ending in all timelines." Suddenly, a sizzling sound in the core of Mentite bubbled up and got louder. Wright, panicking, turned his head around and searched the atmosphere for a savior. "POKOLL!" he screamed upon seeing the King in a ship. Pokoll was blankly staring at the planet, unwittingly spotted by an ancient warrior. Then, the planet burst into many pieces, with the dying Mayor still holding onto a tree branch. Suddenly, the world went back in time and Ikoko teleported to the shore of Pewlok Republic. "What is my destiny? And will I be defeated?" A girl was standing at the shore, black and red swirls of hair running down. The girl had a cane in her hand, and was waiting for somebody to come up to her. "Hello," said Ikoko to the girl. "My name is Ikoko. Ikoko Glipokee." The girl's cane fell out of her hand as the trees shook. A gust of wind blew through Mentite as the girl turned. "Who are you?" said the girl. "Who are you, because I - I, let's make that clear - am Ikoko Glipokee." Ikoko looked at the withering lady, and shook her head. "Bring down... the power I never had... Took so long, but I'm losing my mind..." Old Ikoko trailed off, picking up the cane and hobbling away. "Wait." Old Ikoko turned on the spot and thought. "In my earliest memories - and they were long ago - I remember a whole series of events taking place - The... awakening... Wright... Xvil... These memories... New times, new times... But still..." Old Ikoko walked away again, but as she was going into the bush, her cane dropped again. "Uuuugggghhhh...." She let out a long, drooping sigh, becoming one with the crumbling timeline. "You... You will survive meeeeeeeeeee!" Her robes flew into the air as her body turned into tiny squares. The pieces flew up into the sky and split, flinging thousands of tiny Ikoko squares into the surrounding land. As Wright and Methionyl teleported to Ikoko, Wright's Sword of Avengeance got its flight power back, sending Wright soaring across Pewlok Republic's stratosphere. Suddenly, Wright saw it. The power in the blue orb, stationed in the exosphere and supported by a latch to the fourth dimension, with the outward-facing tesseract in the center bending backwards in the middle, holding the blue orb in place. Wright flew up, up, up, until finally, the curvature in Sector 82 was revealed and Wright hit the Trooper Zone. "NO!" Wright cried, gasping for air, about to die, as the rest of his oxygen was sucked up, and he grabbed the tesseract. KSSS! The glass shattered and the blue orb fell. "NO!" Wright cried again, as he started to plummet to Mentite. "WAAAAAH!" Wright finally latched onto the escaping blue orb, and he teleported to Mentite. "Where... am I?" asked Wright to the empty world. There was nobody. It was only a dark plain. Wheat stretched for miles, with nothing else in sight. "Where... am I?" asked Wright. "Where... am I?" Birds flew, their wings making flapping sounds in the air, as they said "Wheee... aa I?" to the sky. Wright suddenly was pulled eighty feet under the plain, as the plain exploded.

2

*Darkness. Only darkness.* Wright stood on pitch-black nothingness. Around him, just the blank dark skies of something he didn't know. "Hello..." hissed a voice from the wall of black. SMASH! The wall crumbled into pieces of obsidian, revealing Tydu Okllka. "Do not ask me how I have survived. That is only to be revealed to members of the Sonobar. You, Wright, will die. This was... my awakening... I-" Tydu crumpled as Sidilxdledlx-indoxexe appeared behind him. "You lose this round, Tydu," said the king of Sidilx, holding a sword. "Thank you, Sid!" cried Wright. "You're the-'' A ninja star flew and pinned him to a black wall as he cried. "I am Sidilxdledlx-indoxexe, and you will call me something of Sidilxdledlx." The king walked up to Wright and retrieved the ninja star, leading Wright out of the black room into a giant castle. "What is this?" asked Wright. "The Sonobar Headquarters," said Sidilxdledlx sadly. ***Are we in?*** asked a voice on the intercom. Suddenly, Wright jumped up. "What are they talking about? We're in a building! HOW CAN A BUILDING GET IN-?!" "We are on a ship, Wright." The ship shook as a hole opened in the wall by Wright and Sidilx. Wright grabbed Sidilx's feet and closed his eyes. Sidilx grabbed onto a pole, but it ripped out from the wall. The duo were still inside, but then when Sidilx grabbed onto the wall itself, latching onto the breaking point, Wright was outside. "           !" screamed Wright, for there was no sound. "        ," "What are you saying, Wright?!" "        ." Finally, Sidilxdledlx flew outside, crying "       !" as he let go. "     !" cried Wright, kicking Sidilxdledlx as Pokoll Okllk's godly form came. "We must infiltrate the Sonobar," he said wisely. "     ?!" said Wright. "Yes, my young fighter, gods can be heard in space." The Sword of Avengeance (at least the one from Pokoll's adventures) flew to them and attached onto all of their backs. "YEE-HAW!" screamed Pokoll, as the Sword flew over the Sonobar HQ, found Tydu's special quarters, and dropped the trio into the glass roof. "YES!" yelled Wright when they fell into the oxygenated room. "What is this?!" cried Tydu, as he flew out of the roof, floating through the empty space. "Wait," said Wright, holding onto Tydu's sofa, "I have the blue orb of Time!" Suddenly, the engine exploded in the back of the ship. Sonobar soldiers in brown cloaks ran into Tydu's quarters. "Wait! Before you kill us, let's work together! The engine broke!" "Thaaaaat'sssss whhyyyy we're heeeeere..." One hundred Sonobar soldiers made their way into the room. Ten more appeared, using their bodies to make a lattice form, blocking the hole in the roof. "Finally," said Wright, letting go of the sofa and grabbing Wright's Sword of Avengeance. "DIE!" cried Wright, lunging through the darkness and stabbing three 'Sonoldiers'. A Sonoldier tried to kill Sidilxdledlx, but was thrown into a closet. "No! It's scary!" cried the Sonoldier, but still was locked in there. "WHY?!?!" The Sonoldier was still fighting to get out, when others pounced onto the heroes and were mowed down. Finally, the rest of the Sonoldiers made a pig-pile on the trio and were victorious. Pokoll's spirit seeped, in a ghostly white-yellow light, out of the pile, through the lattice, and into the empty space, turning into a star. Ashes from the fireplace flew into the fighters' eyes, blinding everybody in the room. Except for one. The Sonoldier in the closet busted out, stabbing and beating blinded Sonoldiers, and kicking the flailing Sidilxdledlx, knocking him out. Wright got up as the Sonoldier tried to club him. Wright picked up the soldier and spun it around his body by the head. Finally, after the Sonoldier had vomited twice, he was flung into a long glass window. "NO!" cried the Sonoldier, jumping to his feet. A foot away stood his death. "I will not lose!" He jumped over Wright and kicked him out the window. LATCH! The Sonoldier heard something on the roof. Nobody noticed the huge ship turning and slowly falling towards Mentite. "Wait." A Sonoldier stood behind the fighting Sonoldier. "Don't try to fight," the Sonoldier said sadly. "What has happened?" asked the fighting Sonoldier, as the sad Sonoldier slid behind him and thrust a sword through his chest. "That has happened, disgrace to the Sonobar." The Sonoldier's body crumpled, as the ship turned completely on its side. The dead Sonoldier's body shuffled and flew out the window in a flash. The other Sonoldier held onto an plastic tree, which snapped as the Sonoldier flew out the window and up by Wright, who was on the roof of the plummeting ship. Wright grabbed the Sonoldier by the neck and smashed its skull into the ship several times, finally letting the dead Sonoldier go. Then, other Sonoldiers came. As Wright killed one, the other two grabbed Wright. He was knocked out, and the Sonoldiers grabbed the blue orb. SMASH!

3

Wright jumped to his feet. "NO!" he yelled, but no one could hear. He kicked the Sonoldiers as they all appeared in the deserts of Pewlok Republic. "Ululula?" asked a Sonoldier. "Don't ululate at me!" cried Wright, stabbing the Sonoldier and quickly turning to a sign that said 'Ululula Desert'. "I need to find Yillin," said Wright, looking out at the endless desert. A flaming tesseract fell from the sky, glowing neon green. Wright kicked it open, and inside was one single tesseract. It was red, and with it came a sword's blade and a sword's hilt. The shape of a tesseract was indented in the blade and hilt, showing that the tesseract was the source of power for the sword. Wright set the tesseract in the hilt, placing down the blade and turning. Twist, twist, twist, and the blade erupted into flames. "AAH!" cried Wright, taken aback by the sudden rage of the blade. After the fire died out, a glowing red sword was there. "The Sword of the Fourth Dimension," Wright said, in awe. Suddenly, Wright heard explosions. The Sonobar ship was slowly exploding from the inside. Little by little, rooms set to flames. Then, the ship's speed picked up, and it zoomed toward the small city-state of Ululula. "No," Wright said, mesmerized, as the ship zoomed through the atmosphere and he saw how big it truly was. The ship was a mile wide and ten miles long, holding about a million Sonoldiers at once. Wright didn't even notice Yillin Cephaly looking from a building and soaring away on golden wings. Wright jumped back as the Sonobar ship got within a mile of the ground. He ducked as it finally smashed into the ground. Sand dunes turned into waves, the ground shook and cracked, and the Sonobar ship exploded with the force of a bomb. A sand tsunami started sprawling across the desert toward Wright, who ducked to evade flaming tesseracts. Wright took a gulp of air, prayed for the God of Mentite to save him, and jumped up as the tsunami hit him, sending him flying into solid sand. SWISH! Wright, with no sense of sight, hearing, smell, or taste, dug his way through endless sand and finally popped out. Opening his eyes, he saw the sky, and far below, the sand at the ground level. He was at the very top of the tsunami, flying hastily away from the Sonobar ship, and getting closer to the edge of Ululula. "NO!" he cried, as Pewlok Republic came into view. As the sand on the ground gradually turned into grass, the tsunami started falling apart, but was still huge. Then, the city started to come closer, and Wright started flying on the Sword of Avengeance's wings. "YEEEEAAAH!" he screamed, flying out of the tsunami as pounds of sand fell out of his clothes. Then, the tsunami hit the city. The buildings at the front of the city swayed in the crash, the windows shattered, and the buildings all fell down. A wave of destruction through the city, and Wright was above. Suddenly, Wright was ambushed by Sonobar members. BOOM! Guns set off and flew towards Wright. "NO!" cried Wright, dodging and ducking until a Sonoldier spiraling out of control on a jetpack appeared. "AaAaAaAhHhH!" The winged warriors collided, plummeting towards the ground. Wright passed out and the Sonoldier was sucked into a ship with a little black concealed spot. Rubber flaps opened to clean, and let enter, the Sonoldier, then sending it into the Sonobar ship. Wright hit the ground, but did not die, for he landed in a mound of sand on somebody's roof. "Why..." moaned Wright, rolling off the side of the building, down into the sand that used to be the tightly packed city roads, hitting the floor and watching Sonobar ships form a blockage in the atmosphere. Ship after ship popped into the atmosphere as Wright saw something flying in the air on shining wings. "The Nightforce," Wright said, as the bird screeched. The sand flew up, twirling into the air, then it all formed into a giant block of sand the size of a house. Then, the block flew up towards the ships, hitting ship after ship as they fell towards the Pewlok land. Tydu angrily walked from a surviving building with a stack of papers, dropping them at the sidewalk, which was when he noticed Wright. The Nightforce dipped down and caught sight of the charging Tydu. SCREECH! Tydu was lifted off his feet by the Nightforce's claws. "YOU WILL DIE," it bellowed, flying up, up, up, and into the Trooper Zone. "WAIT! WAIT!         " cried Tydu, as he hit space. Then, the Nightforce dropped him. "            AAAAHHHHHH!" screamed Tydu, plummeting down, looking at Pewlok and Sidilx and Anencephalia and Neod Unity, then he hit the water. "BLUUAHUUH!" he gurgled, decelerating as his body flew down, down, through the water and he smashed into the bottom of the ocean. The water pressure was holding him down, pushing him into the seabed one thousand feet below the surface. "WUUU?!" gurgled Tydu, finally giving up and whistling. A bird smashed into the water at the surface and shortly saved Tydu from the pressure, lifting him up and onto Ululula's surface. "That was hard," moaned Tydu to the bird. "I think my replacement lung broke." The bird, named Quickshot, was circling over Tydu, breathing fire with orange-red feathers. "Good Quickshot," said Tydu, turning at once to hear a wail of pain. Tydu panicked and turned back to see the bird. Its feathers and body were turning silver, and Yillin Cephaly, adorned with golden wings, was shooting an accumulated bolt from his wand.

4

"HE HAS A WAND NOW?!" cried Tydu, looking at the dead bird sprawled out on the ground. "You lose, Tydu," said Yillin, flinging his wand about and hitting Tydu with bolts. Suddenly, a tesseract fell from the sky, breaking into a wand that flew into Tydu's hand. Markings of tesseracts were dotted around the wand. A note was inside. *Save Mentite from these 'saviors'. Bring it justice. Bring it order. Destroy their government. - Mom* "I have no mom," said Tydu, destroying the note. Then, without second thought of the note, he turned, with his wand in his hand, and blasted Yillin with a quick red bolt. Then, Wright burst into the battle, holding a wooden wand from a Pewlok shop, and sent a green bolt of lightning flashing into Tydu's chest. "I am done with this. *Fatanus!*" And a bolt of black light hit Yillin. "NO!" cried Wright. "He just... came back..." Wright turned on the spot, staring Tydu Okllka down. "You killed him. This will be your undoing," cried Wright, pointing out his wand. *Slatonum!* Tydu crumpled to the ground, screaming as red burst through his veins. "NO!" yelled Tydu, getting up and kicking Wright in the face. As Wright flipped back towards Yillin's body, Tydu took his wand out. Wright grabbed Yillin's wand. Tydu and Wright both opened up their mouths. *Fatanus!* they screeched, as two black bolts of light flew and met, sending black flares into the air and exploding. "You... have lost." "NO! I will protect Mentite from you and your Sonobar. Oh, no," said Wright, suddenly remembering. He looked up at the fleet of Sonobar ships, just waiting. As Wright bent the line of black light upwards, Tydu suddenly noticed. "NOO! PLEASE!" Tydu begged, dropping the wand, but it was too late. The black bolt from the Fatanus spell hit the main Sonobar ship, exploding it, and sending the shards of the bolt flying at the other ships. Eventually, thousands of ships in the air were exploding and sending bolts and metal flying into the other ships. Finally, after ten minutes of the explosions, three huge ships remained, housing thousands of Sonoldiers. The ships landed in Ululula, and the Sonoldiers inside went into hiding in the town of Unendulos. "Waaaah..." Tydu was rolling on the floor when Wright grabbed his wand. "N-n-no. No. No. You - cannot - " "I do this in honor of Pokollo Sriiet." Wright cried *Glunotottoon!* and Tydu's skin disappeared, revealing Tydu's skeleton. "I... am still alive," said Tydu, slapping Wright's face. CLICKY-CLOCK! Tydu's arm fell apart. "Wait-" Tydu's body collapsed into a pile of bones, ending his era for now. "YES!" Wright boomed, turning on the spot with a cry of *Antillium!* as Yillin jumped to his feet. "The power within!" cried Yillin as bolts of cyanide hit Yillin. "I am dead. No. I am alive. No. I am... just... there." Xvil Yusia climbed up a building, howling as Yillin and Wright readied their wands. "You will lose. I know of it." Wright ducked as a bolt of cyanide flashed past where his head was. "WOOH!" yelled Wright, dancing, as he flung his wand in the shape of a knife. Blue light erupted from his wand, molding into knife shapes, and the light-knives stabbed into Xvil, one after another, until he grabbed a wand infused with cyanide. Z*hqhwkwsfhjh!* Xvil's body swiveled and slithered, twitching and pivoting, as he spoke in snake. *Ssszzsssjdswwwf! Mncxxcxlflccdlfnbnz!* Snakes appeared from Xvil's wand as it happened. Xvil turned as a neon green light shone from inside the building. Leaving Wright and Yillin to fight the snakes, Xvil charged into the building, trying to find the light. Finally, a green hexagonal gem was found under a table. Xvil picked up the table and threw it out a window onto Wright, Yillin, and the snakes, grabbing the stone. "The stone of the Polyglot..."

5

"SINCE WHEN ARE THERE SIX GEMSTONES!?" boomed Wright, kicking snakes and stomping on the floor by Yillin, as Xvil flaunted the Polyglot's Stone. "I know, I know, I know, that in this wretched planet, somewhere, the other five stones await. I will find them, I will become Mentite's god, and then I will destroy this planet, leaving nothing. Can't you see? I win. You lose. I-" Wright ripped the Polyglot's Stone out of Xvil's hand, then realizing. He pulled the blue orb out of his deepest pocket, looking at it. It was the same shape as the Polyglot's Stone, but was shining a light blue, sometimes flickering to dark blue. Then, Wright was teleported to a random island. He looked around, and there was no land. "Where am I?" he asked to nothing, staring at empty ocean in every direction. "Kundon Island," said a voice. Wright turned. There was a girl, shining red, and a red stone on a pedestal. Five other holes in the pedestal revealed who the girl was. "I am the manifestation of the Evil's Stone. I am not particularly evil, though," she said. Wright looked at the Polyglot's Stone and the blue orb. "Oh! You have the Polyglot's Stone? Perfect! Oh, call me Reddy." Reddy grabbed the Polyglot's Stone and the blue orb, placing the Polyglot's Stone directly across from the Evil's stone. The ground rumbled, and the pedestal turned slightly. "WHAT - IS - THAT?!" Wright cried, looking at the slightly opened pedestal. "Well," said Reddy, "that is the Darkroom. It can only be opened once all six stones are placed. Then, the pedestal turns to pure light, and shrouds Mentite with it, turning everything to beautiful, and sending the evil into the Darkroom. Oh, and if you fall into the Darkroom, you die." Reddy put the blue orb next to the Polyglot's stone, and said "Time's Stone," as the Darkroom's hatch opened slightly more. Wright hid as the manifestation of the Polyglot and Time appeared by him. "WHOA!" Wright yelled, as Time opened a portal in space-time and Polyglot whispered Z*asddsdbcscn*. Wright jumped onto the pedestal, getting on higher ground. "Are you our enemy? ¿*Eres nuestro enemigo?*" The Polyglot turned and thrust out a sword from Time's void. "*Tu vas perdre!*" cried Polyglot, flipping up and hitting his head on the pedestal. "Ow..." The Polyglot dropped the sword. "*Ich bin nicht so gut im Kämpfen,*" the Polyglot muttered, lumbering towards Reddy and Time. "*Dum soldat.*" Then, Wright hit the Polyglot with a sharp blow to the stomach. "*Å, dumme mann! Jeg skal drepe deg!*" the Polyglot cried, teleporting in a flash of green. Reddy looked as green soldiers crashed from the dense forest surrounding the pedestal and covering the rest of the island. "HA! *Stupido ragazzo! Questa è l'ultima volta che ti vedrò una volta che questo sarà inito. ATTENZIONE AL POLIGLOTTA!"* The Polyglot appeared in front of his thousands of waiting soldiers, shouting in many different languages at the soldiers, apparently giving orders. Different sections of the soldiers charged, until eventually, it was just a crowd of the Polyglot's creations, and Wright, Reddy, and Time stood in the middle. Wright's sword was quick, cutting through bodies of the Polyglot's soldiers, as Time brought down the tesseracts. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Soldiers were flying and hitting other soldiers, sending soldiers into the air, when Reddy blasted a perfectly straight line of flames into the crowd of soldiers. Then, the Polyglot muttered in three different languages, shooting a rocket launcher at the middle of the crowd. Reddy was hit, flopping aimlessly over the pedestal and hitting the sand. "Ugh-" she groaned, dying. Her spirit turned into red cubes and flew back into her stone. "The Stones are losing their power!" Wright cried to Time, when Yillin Cephaly flew down on his wings, carrying the screaming Xvil Yusia by the feet. "New fighters!" yelled Wright, beckoning Yillin to go forth. Yillin flew low to the ground over the Polyglot's soldiers, using Xvil Yusia to bludgeon the soldiers to death. The Polyglot's forces quickly died out, and Time ran to heal Reddy's stone. "You have met your match!" Wright screamed, thrusting a sword into the Polyglot himself. "It doesn't hurt," the Polyglot cackled, when green blood poured from his mouth. "*Ça ne fait-*" The Polyglot fell backwards and turned into cubes, flying back into his stone. Wright looked back at Time caressing the Evil's Stone. "I think you Stonesprites are suspicious," Wright said, running towards Time. "Wait! You have the wrong idea-" Wright pulled out the Tesseract's Sword and stabbed it into Time's head. Time jumped up, running and turning into cubes during his escape, flying into his stone. *Why...* Wright heard a voice crying from the forest. He turned, keeping an eye out for enemies. *Dark of the night, Nightforce, keep it alight...* A tune danced around the trees, flying into the clearing and hitting Wright. A sharp note was released as Wright pivoted. *Watching the light go out, it's the end. The end is nigh, so we're in the beginning of the end.* Wright ran into the forest, looking for the source of the voice. *O wretched Mentite, give me my stone back!* Wright saw a purple light inside a tree. He sliced the tree down with his sword, revealing a crying purple Stonesprite.

6

***My stone! No! My stone!*** *The Sprite of Melody was pushed aside, and the Stone was taken. **NO!** The small sprite tried to attack the cloaked man, but could not win. Finally, the Sprite of the Chaos, the Seventh Sprite, flew in front of the cloaked man. Out of my way, he said, whipping out a wand.* Fatanus, *the man said, sending a bolt of black into the Sprite of the Chaos. A yellow-orange stone fell out of the collapsing cubes, and the Sprite of the Chaos dissolved, infused with black, slowly into the dirt. **Why?** the sprite asked, before the cloaked man teleported away.* The Stonesprite was in a trance, singing a song of her creation, while thinking of the theft of her stone. She had the Sprite of Chaos' stone in her hand and was pensive when she turned up to see Wright. She jumped and turned into cubes, which smashed into Wright's body and knocked him to the ground. The sprite formed back and shot very high frequencies into Wright's brain. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! The world went out. Wright's eyes slowly were enveloped in red. He turned to the sprite, crying "I WILL KILL YOU!"before he collapsed to the ground. Wright woke up three days later in the hospital of Pewlok Republic. The high-pitched sound had turned into a bittersweet singing sound, rumbling through his body and peaking in his brain. The bright light was only adding to his pain, so he ran out of the hospital. BEEP! The lasers in the hallway turned on and Wright was caught. "NO!" Wright screamed, as Tydu walked into the room, dressed as a Määli. "Don't ask," Tydu said, as Wright threw swords at Tydu. Suddenly, Tydu turned into four Tydus, which all said in unison, "There is a bigger problem than the stones. I need you to help me save Mentite and the universe. There is a beast called Määli, with a dad called Öëëÿï. We originally, up until a few seconds ago, thought that that was it for the species. But in reality, the species is called *Draconium Vaelelaopon*, and there are thousands on Mentite's moon, in a city called Crymooeelaa, and they will destroy us." "ENOUGH! Enough of your story," Wright cried, hitting Tydu and running out the door to look at the moon. "That was a blur," he muttered, grabbing the Sword of Avengeance and starting to fly. As Tydu got out of the hospital, a nurse pulled him in. "You," the nurse said, "are coming back for your treatment. You have space worms in your bloodstream." "WHY!?!?" Tydu screamed, getting pulled farther into the hospital as Wright flew up into the air. Suddenly, a Draconi ship appeared, the front dotted with bombs ready to fall out. "WAAAH!" Wright said, twisting and flying quicker towards Crymooeelaa as bombs fell on Mentite. The space-time shifted, and Mentite became a tesseract. Tydu suddenly flew at escape velocity into Wright, smashing into him and creating a collision explosion that hit Crymooeelaa. Buildings shattered and Draconi were crushed under the rubble of the bomb. Crymooeelaa was huge, stretching across half the planet. Since the Draconi were gargantuan, they needed a colossal city. Wright and Tydu were on top of a collapsed building, probably sitting on many dead Draconi. They managed to walk across the rubble, just to see a giant hole. The circumference was several miles long, and it didn't look like it was easy to get out of. Wright and Tydu were standing on the edge overlooking the pit. "Which way's smart?" muttered Tydu. "Oh?" Wright perked up. "Getting to be a good guy now? Well, then, here's your smart move!" Wright kicked Tydu off the edge, and he spun quickly as he plummeted into the darkness. "Here goes nothing," Wright drew one big breath, swayed once more toward the overworld, then let his whole body go limp. It collapsed in a heap on the rubble, then flipped downward into the hole. BAM! Wright hit the ground, but it wasn't hard. He flew a couple feet up, then landed back down on his feet like a trampoline. He looked around for Tydu, but he wasn't there. "TYDU?!" Wright cried, when someone kicked him from behind. That was when he noticed he was on a ledge. He rolled along the soft ground, then fell off. He held on for dear life as Tydu swung around that part of the hole on a rope that he found connected to the side. As Wright flipped up, Tydu swung around, held only by his hand's grip on the rope. Tydu smashed into Wright, who grabbed onto Tydu. Tydu was holding on tight as Wright started climbing him. Wright climbed up the rope and grabbed a knife, reaching under himself. He cut the rope in between him and Tydu, sending Tydu plummeting to his death down the pit. "NOOOOOOOO!" he called, his voice getting smaller and smaller until- a Draconi appeared, swimming in air, from a hole under him in the pit. "MY NAME IS DÄÄLI! MÄÄLI BROTHER!" the Draconi screamed, looking down at Tydu. Lights were shining everywhere, so you could see miles down. Tydu was still falling, and the Draconi turned and plummeted, flying as fast as he could downward. He maneuvered underneath Tydu, letting Tydu fall on his body. The speed was too great, though, and Tydu's body broke the poor Draconi in half. Dääli's front half flew down towards the Body Repair Shop, and the bottom half fell, with Tydu holding on, flying into a sucking hole that took you to a different pit. Wright jumped down and landed in the hole behind Tydu, when a Draconi's tail got crushed behind them. "No playing in the human-only transfers, Drrokr!" his apparent dad called, when he fell unconscious and his whole body got sucked in and crushed. Tydu and Wright, along with the crushed Draconi half he was holding onto, popped out and flew across another pit. Wright grabbed the Sword and wings flew out. He flew up and out of the pit, then looking at a completely different part of Crymooeelaa. He flew out of the city, then out of the planet, leaving Tydu in the dust, and soared, remembering the sprite with the Chaos Stone, and hit the floor on Kundon Island. "Uhhhhh..." Wright stumbled to his feet as the purple sprite cried with Reddy, Time, and the Polyglot. "괜찮아, 보라색 녀석. 우리는 당신의 돌을 찾을 것입니다," the Polyglot said, rubbing the purple sprite's head. The Melody sprite was the youngest and weakest of the sprites, and she couldn't understand. "할 수 있어요 돕다!" the Polyglot cried, kicking the sprite across the pedestal. She dropped the Chaos Stone and two more notches appeared in the pedestal, one for Chaos and one for Order. When the Chaos Stone fell in, they had Evil, Chaos, Time, and Polyglot. Melody needed to be found, along with the other four to make 9. Wright got up and Yillin smashed into him. Wright flew up into the air with Yillin, looking at the pedestal. When they got too high, they dipped down to see thousands of the Bom-Bom monsters hobbling towards them. Wright smacked Yillin to make him go down and landed in the middle of the Bom-Boms, clutching the Sword. "Time to die," Wright called, Yillin by his side. Together, as the Sprites watched, the duo fought through the horde until Yillin's flimsy sword shattered. He managed to bash in a Bom-Bom's head with a rock, but then, as Yillin tried to block the metal spikes, the Bom-Bom bludgeoned Yillin, and his body tumbled down onto Wright, knocking him to the floor. CRASH! It was the sounds of shattered swords and broken bones, reverberating through the battlefield and CRASH-CRASH-CRASHing back into Wright, pushing him back. He collapsed at once, his leg limp and throbbing, and rolled over for Yillin. His body, weak and destroyed, was on the hill. He was still alive, and he was holding onto a rock where the hill met the island's only cliff. "Wright," he coughed, blood pouring out of his mouth. "Leave... me..." As his hand slipped, Wright jumped out and managed to grab it. "Let me go... Save Mentite... like you... were destined... to..." Yillin let go, falling, falling, falling, then he hit the spike rocks by the edge of the water. One pierced his heart, and he fell into the sea, his body washing away into the darkness.

7

Wright barely had time to comprehend the death of Yillin before his body flipped and rolled off the edge. He saw Tydu, an evil grin on his face, carrying a Bom-Bom weapon. *THE STONES!* his mind screamed, and he flew back up on the Sword's jetpack. When he reached the top, he kicked Tydu's face from above, which sent Tydu flying off the cliff, like Yillin, except his arms unfolded into wings, and he started flying. "Like my new... surgery?!" he cried. *Oh, yeah, his trip to the doctor. He must have asked for wing surgeries!* Wright thought, flying up to fight him and pulling out the Sword. Tydu swerved and dipped down, smashing into Wright and gaining speed. They spiraled into the cliffside, Tydu falling unconscious and Wright collapsing onto a small stone ledge. Tydu woke up just early enough to grab a ledge, his body hanging inches above the spike rocks. Wright rolled off and fell, still falling when he caught himself and lowered his body down to reach Tydu. "I'm sorry, Tydu, but-" The Polyglot suddenly flew down and kicked Wright in the face. He flipped and tumbled through the air, when his jetpack exploded. The Sword flew through the air and the Polyglot caught it. Wright fell and grabbed onto Tydu's body. Tydu slipped and fell as Wright jumped off of him, climbing onto the ledge. A spike stabbed into Tydu's leg, severing it off. That's when the world went black. *Only the sprites remain... I am giving you a vision... I am here...* Wright was laying on his back in a black void. Polyglot, Evil, Time, and Chaos floated around in the darkness, giving dim light to the void. A memory came, and Wright fell into darkness once more. *The sprites, all nine sprites, floating through the fire. Bombs rained down, Mentitian soldiers fell, and the world cracked. Melody fainted, and the eight remaining formed a circle in the fire. Then, a black and red swirling beast slid through the darkness and knocked out two unknown sprites, and Polyglot. The main five, Evil, Chaos, Time, Order, and an unknown yellow sprite were standing among the bodies. Evil fought with the beast for a second, before disappearing in a haze of red fog. Time and the unknown sprite fought the beast in the dark. Time fell apart and the yellow sprite destroyed the beast. Then, three more came. Order and Chaos were dragged away. As Chaos died, Order cried "HIDE MY STONE AT THE BREAK OF THE SPIKE ROCKS ON THE WATER!" Then, his body fizzled away into black, and his stone rolled across the ground to Chaos. Chaos took Melody's stone and walked away to the spike rocks at the edge of Mentite.* Wright jumped to his feet at the pedestal on the island. He picked up speed, running down the hill until he arrived at the bottom. "WAAAH!" he screamed, tumbling off the edge with no Sword of Avengeance. "Save Mentite," the Polyglot grumbled, handing Wright the Sword. He opened the jetpack and caught himself right before he hit the spike rocks. He hovered there, looking around for any stones. *Have you not died?!* cried a voice in the rocks. Wright flinched and looked for the source of the voice. A shining cube in the darkness. A tentacle reached out and wrapped itself around Wright, plunging him into darkness, trapped by the rocks. He was in a room the size of an Ancient Glipokish jail cell, the worst of them all. He walked around, looking at Yillin's body, Tydu's leg, and many, many bones. He saw tentacles squirming on one side, sometimes pulling out one large tentacle and pulling someone in. Wright saw three tentacles suddenly reaching out to pull something in. At that moment he felt like he should leave. He pressed the fly button on the jetpack, then it exploded. BOOM! The Sword fell to the floor and Wright was thrown to the wall. Then, Tydu smashed onto the floor, screaming in pain. A tentacle was stuck to him, pulling at his body. A metal bar was being used as his leg, which only really made him stronger in the places that remained. He got a blood boost in the hospital, and the hospital ran out of metal bars. "If anything else falls off," the nurse had said, "you're done for!" He went back to the present. "I HATE YOU!" Tydu screamed suddenly, with instinct, rushing Wright. The tentacle on him was still squirming, trying to pull him into the monster's grasp. He had a very quick fight with Wright. He pulled one arm free, grabbing a sword and trying to cut the tentacle. When the sword went down, it bounced back off. Tydu clashed his sword against Wright's, and then the tentacle loosened. Tydu broke free, and the tentacle started reaching everywhere for its prey. Their swords spun and danced through the room, sending flashes of light and sparks flying onto the walls. Then, Wright and Tydu locked swords, and Wright fell to the floor. Tydu looked down with a triumphant smile. Then, Wright's sword slid up and cut off both of Tydu's hands. He started to scream, collapsing to the floor and rolling through the blood and bones. Wright started climbing out through the rocks, then remembered the cube. He dropped down, grabbed the cube, then started climbing back up. Then he saw a tentacle slither across the room and grab Tydu by the foot. He tried to grab the stone, but with no hands, his arms just scraped along the ground. His body was suddenly sucked into the small hole, and Tydu screamed one last time for Wright to hear. Then, Wright exited the room, cube in hand. "Really?!" Time cried. "You found the - the - the Sprite Cube! That's been with the Octosprite for fifteen hundred years!" Wright locked eyes with Time and walked back to the rest of them. "I also found the stone of Melody." Melody heard this and popped out of the tree. She was so excited that she didn't take the time to Spriteclip out of the tree, she just popped out, exploding the tree. "WHAT?!" Polyglot cried, flipping back as Wright threw Melody's stone onto the pedestal. "I also found -" Order's stone was snatched out of his hand and a flying octopus had it in his hands. "You'll never get this, or find us. Give me the cube, I give you the stone. That is the only way." "The Sprite Cube can find missing stones and home in on them with its radar," Polyglot added angrily. "Bye!" yelled the octopus, flying away. Wright took out a grappling hook and shot it right in the center of the octopus's tentacles. It screamed as the grappling hook popped out of its head and its tentacles stuck to the grappling hook. "I don't die," said the octopus, dislodging the hook and crawling down. Then the octopus fell, suddenly dying, dropped the stone and hit the ground in a burst of flames that spread around Wright and the sprites. "I don't intend to die here," said Wright just as the sprites turned on him. "On the full moon where the beams of light align..." Wright started, fighting off a crazed Polyglot, "The end-" Evil and Melody picked Wright up and chucked him off the cliff. They looked out and saw nothing. "The deed is done," said the Polyglot. "The end of an era is here." And they all fell to the floor as the moon sunk below Mentite.

8

Tydu was in the octopus pit. No doubt about that. The octopus king was around him, smaller octopi squirming on the floor. They had sent an octopus soldier to get the stone of Order, and his communicomm broke off in the fight. "Let me out?" the weak Tydu groaned, his arm stumps twitching in the octopus's grasp. He found two robotic hands and a few other prosthetic parts, putting on the hands and replacing his leg. "No-one leaves Tydu to die and gets away with it. I've had enough of that Wright." He felt around with his hands. Good enough. But his leg would take some getting used to. When he turned around, something was moving in the darkness. Tydu jumped and ran, climbing quickly out of the pit and into the room. Tydu seethed as he saw the blood trail leading into the pit. Two hands. Sitting on the floor with no uses. Empty parts. He walked around, looking for an entrance when he heard a SLURP! He turned around and saw a particularly slimy octopus eating his hand. He had a video camera recording him, and his mouth opened into a huge, insane grin. "Today's *mukbang*, LIVE HUMAN!" He laughed evilly before Tydu stepped on him. His slimy body tried escaping, when Tydu squeezed harder. Then he let go and looked at the dead octopus. "Stupid slimy brat!" Tydu cried, just before two octopi grabbed him by the arms and pinned him to the wall. "DIE!" Tydu screamed, biting at the octopuses' heads, until he accidentally slurped an entire octopus into his mouth. He chewed it until he felt it was damaged, then spit it out at the other octopus. They both collapsed to the floor, the first one dying and the other looking angrily at Tydu. Then, Tydu brought a sword down on the second octopus, who instantly split into two pieces and died. Hundreds of octopi poured into the room from beneath, ready to kill. He managed to kill a few more with the spit-and-hit strategy, before one decided to grab him and not let go. He climbed through the spike rocks, when the octopus got caught on a spike rock. He drove the rock farther into the octopus until it exploded, sending puffy light clouds into the air. "Weird octopus," Tydu grumbled, climbing out into fresh air. The island was right there. He was standing on a dull spike rock, only sharp enough to puncture paper-thin objects, when Wright's petrified body collapsed straight onto Tydu's face. "AAH- AAH- AAH- AAAAAH!" Tydu screamed, falling down the pit and into the room with Wright once more. "YOU'RE ALIVE?!" Wright screamed, when they fell on something sharp. The stone of Order. *Wright I! Wright I!* beeped his communicomm. *It's the Draconi! Apparently their planet - it - it just went off the map! It turned black and-* A voice appeared through the communicomm. "Do not mess with the sprites. They are weak. Death is Mentite's destiny. I have seen the future. I have seen the past. Your planet is doomed. Fall before me, my Sonobar, and my puppet Tydu. Tydu jumped up. "Who are you working for?" Wright demanded, holding the Sword to Tydu. "No-one!" Tydu chirped, sweat pouring down his face. And as the Sonobar dropped in, Wright kicked Tydu to the wall, knocking him out. "I have uses for you, 'puppet' Tydu," Wright joked, grabbing Tydu's sword and spinnning around. Sonobar soldiers screamed as holes opened in their bodies and they fell. The Sonobar were still strong, shooting their guns at Wright, when he kicked the last ones to the floor. Many of them were writhing on the floor, looking at Tydu. Tydu got up and attacked Wright. Wright's knife slid out of his sleeve and flew straight into Tydu's neck. "No escaping this time," Wright said as Tydu pulled it out and collapsed to the ground. His breaths were fast and crazed, and he flung the knife straight into Wright's leg. Wright fell to the ground screaming as Tydu fell backwards into the octopus pit. "Ikoko Glipokee will avenge me, you'll see! I will always live on, no matter how many times you!-!-!-!" He quickly squeaked, then fell silent. Wright crawled among the bodies to the edge of the pit. Tydu had fallen into a small opening in the squirming octopi. Wright grabbed a rocket launcher from the wall and shot it into the pit. It fired straight into the hole, exploding where Tydu was. "WAAAAAAAH!" something screamed from the depths. Wright jumped in, ignoring the dying Sonoldiers. Wright landed in a dark hole where octopi drew their last breath on the ground and Tydu's head was stuck to the wall. Wright saw a small fire starting from Tydu's body, where the rocket hit. One last octopus was alive, screaming and squirming on the floor. Wright stepped on it, and its body squirmed up onto his shoe. He abandoned his shoe and flew back up, grabbed Order's stone, and came out of the octopus pit. There, Ikoko Glipokee stood, just having floated down from the sky. "Just a few months ago, I was with my sister in Glipo Glipo. Now, I catch you killing my love Tydu?!" "Love?" Wright chuckled. Ikoko's sword flew out and slashed Wright's arm. He screamed as Ikoko kicked him into the air. He flew up at incredible speeds, hurtling into the air and screaming. He grabbed his rocket launcher, and as he fell he shot it at Ikoko. It bounced off Ikoko and splatted back into the rocket launcher. He screamed and dropped the rocket launcher. It landed on Ikoko and exploded with the force of a bomb, blasting Ikoko off her feet and causing a scream of pain. Then Wright caught himself with his jetpack, flying towards Ikoko's weak body. He punctured Ikoko's chest with a sword, but it only hurt a lot. "I'm immortal. I can be hurt infinitely, but I can't die," Ikoko explained. She then pulled the sword out of her body, winced, then flung him around by the sword. She could not die of blood loss, so she didn't care about the damage her hands took holding the blade. Then, she let go, sending Wright and the sword into the sky. Wright flew up again, grabbing a sniper and shooting Ikoko in the head. She fell backwards, dizzy from pain but not dead. "I'm done with you!" she screamed, kicking herself in the leg. She flew up into the air, screaming but still ready. Ikoko grabbed Wright's jetpack and held on. Wright turned back and punched Ikoko's face. "What the - I'm so - GAAAH!" she screamed, punching Wright in the face. "I can't die from falling, cute Tydu-man murderer," she said. Wright's eyes widened. Ikoko grabbed the jetpack and threw it towards the ground. They both fell, about to splatter on the hill. Ikoko let go of Wright, then Wright grabbed her by the head. He smashed her head into his sniper until she was almost dead, then ripped off her bloodstained jacket, revealing her camo armor. "AHA!" he said, lifting the jacket into the air. It opened like a parachute, slowing his fall. He remembered the slogan of Jjikki Jjikki Jackets: 'if you're in the sky with no parachute, just open a Jjikki Jjikki and you'll be good as new.' He landed safely on the ground, and Ikoko smashed against the ground, bones shattering and breaking. He teleported back to the island. He had the stone of Order with him, and he looked exhausted. "What happened to- THE STONE!" Time screamed, grabbing it and flinging it into place. The Deathroom's door opened slightly more. Wright looked at the remaining holes and laughed. "Yes, yes, yes!" Wright screamed like a crazed baby. "The Darkroom is-" "Time to say goodbye." Something was wrong. The Darkroom was rumbling. A pitch black strand of space-time spiraled out of the pit and stabbed Wright, and he fell back into the Darkroom.

9

He was still falling. He couldn't tell if he was upside down or face up. "HELP!" he called. "HELP...HELP...HELP...HELP..." his echo said to him as he hit light and flew up out of the Darkroom. An evil sprite laughed as he started to smash Melody's stone onto the pedestal. "BWAHAHAHA!" he screamed as Wright kicked him over the pedestal. He saw no other sprites. "He beat them into their cube form!" he whispered to himself, putting Melody back in her slot. "I can control the blääck hole," the sprite hissed, shooting a beam of darkness at Wright. He ducked under a tree, which exploded into infinite pieces and turned to stone. "*Fatanus,*" said the sprite, and a more accumulated bolt flew across the pedestal and exploded into sparks over Reddy's stone. Reddy jumped out screaming, then looked at the sprite. "Time, Chaos, Order, get out here NOW!" Then Reddy was thrown across the island, turning into cubes. "Reddy's on cooldown," Melody explained. "If you get cubed 3 times, you can't uncube for an hour." Then, Chaos, Order, Polyglot, and Time were there. "The Sprite of the Void," Time said. "The only one that can control space." The Blääck Hole began to squirm closer to Mentite. "Oh, no, oh, no, no, no, no," Wright cried, crawling towards the teleporter. Time whipped out the blue Timewand, and the Spacewand in the hands of the Void Sprite. "*Fatanus!* I am done with you!" cried the sprite. Before Time could be cubed, Time made his move. "Deflecto!" Time cried, and the bolt of darkness exploded in a flash of light. Now, the yellow light strand and the darkness bolt were formed together in a small strand of sparks, when Time flung his hand above his head with the wand, sending the light bolt, the middle flash, and the darkness bolt into the air. The Time sprite laughed as the bolt separated from its creator and fizzled away into the light bolt. Then, Time flung his hand down and screamed *Fatanus!* which hit the Void Sprite square in the chest. He flew up into the air, carried by the bolt, and exploded into cubes in the sky, his stone falling to the floor, where a monster popped out of it and carried it away to Mt. Seim. Other monsters walked around, seemingly attracted to the stone. All the monsters in Mentite soon were walking towards the peak of Mt. Seim, screaming and chanting "Uu! Uu! Uu! Uu!" in a monster language. Then, someone began to take shape in front of the monsters. "Pokoll," Wright whispered from behind the horrible scene. Wright and sprites watched as others appeared behind him. "The T-Team," Wright said, getting up to see his great-great-great...great grandson. "Wright!" cried Pokoll. "I'm talking to Wright I! I see you! Watch this!" Wright, Boen, Uggbug, Pokoll, and Amelia rushed the enemies, sending hundreds falling to the floor in seconds. When the monster with the stone only remained, he called "Uui eeui aueoi aueo uoioae!" "Save me, my master," said the interpreter. The floor below the monster opened into a black hole, which the monster slid through, laughing. He disappeared as Wright and the sprites met with the T-Team. "We came when we heard." Suddenly Time flew across the sky and exploded, his cubes forming a weak, slimy version of himself. "I've been shot," Time cried. Many Voidsoldiers and Sonoldiers were behind the hill. Time elaborated. "I've been shot so that now, time travel is impossible." A tesseract in the sky exploded, sending a net-like substance around Mentite, which seeped into the planet and blocked its time travel. Pokoll gasped. "I'm stuck here. We need to stop this sprite!" They ran up at the enemy soldiers. A mix of swirling black entities and Sonobar footsoldiers were running around and shooting at the T-team and the sprites. Melody was the first to go. A shot penetrated her main cube in her head, and she exploded, her cubes flying towards the island. "OH, NO!" Wright screamed, as Polyglot and Order charged the soldiers. Polyglot fought threw a few, and Order plowed through them as Polyglot fell. Order finally was shot by a Sonoldier, collapsing onto a Voidsoldier. "REINFORCEMENTS!" a Sonoldier cried just before Pokoll's Sword pierced his stomach. "WAAAH!" he screamed, his head falling onto the sword as Pokoll dislodged it. Many Sonobar ships popped into view, shooting at the T-Team, Time, Chaos, and Wright. They ducked under a bush when Chaos and Time's eyes turned red. "I'm sorry, Wright. You really were our friend, but, I've only used you," said Time. "You were our pawn to open the Darkroom and let our master free. This was his plan. He will prevai-" Pokoll snapped his neck, turning him into cubes. "Cooldown," Wright said, laughing. Order's eyes bulged. "I want no part of your-" Two Swords of Avengeance went into his skull. He exploded and drenched cubes on Pokoll and Wright. The T-team was still fighting Sonoldiers. Uggbug's gun finally ran out, so he used it for melee. More Sonoldiers fell out of the ships, parachuting into the faces of the T-Team. A Sonoldier tied a rope to the inside of his ship, then jumped, holding onto the rope. He was soon ten feet off the ground on the rope, then he kicked Uggbug and knocked him out. The Sonoldier then grabbed Uggbug, climbing the rope with his body. He then deposited Uggbug in his ship. "WAAAAAAH!" someone screamed in the ship, and then a bloodied body fell from the ship and smashed on the ground. Boen looked around with the two Wrights, when the same thing happened to him. Before they shoved him out of the ship, he grabbed a Sonoldier and snapped its neck. Then he took another, picked it up, and chucked it out of the ship. Then, when he was pushed, he grabbed the soldier who pushed him and fell off with him. He threw a grenade into the ship as he fell, and it exploded above him as he died. "BOEN!" Pokoll-era Wright screamed, as Wright I ran to hold him down. There, while Pokoll-era Wright screamed, his voice piercing through the troopers' brains, and someone coldly went behind them. *Fatanus.* Pokoll-era Wright collapsed to the floor, his body collapsing into Wright I's arms. Wright I dropped the body and sprinted into the troopers. Are you ready to fight me now? Wright heard the Void Sprite's voice in his brain. They can't come back, he said as Wright collapsed to the floor. *Fatanus!* Wright got up and rolled into the crowd. A Voidsoldier was hit by the spell, exploding into strands of darkness. *FATANUS! Deflecto!* The black beam was so close. He raised his hands and surrendered, but then... The light.

10

Blue light spread across Wright's vision. He flung into the air, but he couldn't scream. He was just there. He finally awoke, but he was watching the battle from above. *I'm a ghost. I can only talk in my mind.* Then he was back. "WAAAH!" he screamed, running away from the Void Sprite as Time flung spells at the Sprite. Wright punched the head of a Sonoldier and then - "AMELIA! POKOLL!" His head flew to the side as he saw Amelia and Pokoll fighting many Sonoldiers. A monster suddenly climbed out from a black hole behind them and grabbed them. Pokoll cut the hand off of the monster. It then threw Amelia into the black hole and laughed. It jumped back into the black hole as Pokoll chased him. Pokoll dropped a grenade into the black hole, and he heard a WAAAAAH! and EEEEEEK! as Amelia and the monster exploded through the wormhole and Amelia flew back out. "I'm fine," Amelia coughed, blood flowing from her arm. Pokoll left the scene and ran to Time and Void. "You have lost now, Pokoll!" Void screamed, sending *Fatanus* into Pokoll. He had no wand, just a Sword. His sword flew out of his hand and smashed into Wright's arm, latching into his grip. Pokoll's arms fell to his sides, and his body slowly transcended into the void. "NOOOO!" Amelia screamed, but it was worthless. "*Fatanus!*" Void chuckled, as another beam hit Amelia. "No," Wright said sadly, looking out at Pokoll and Amelia transcending into darkness. "No... *FATANUS!*" Wright's wand flew out instinctively and hit the Void Sprite. He staggered and began to transcend. "No... no... no... SAVE ME! SAVE ME FROM THIS... this... thiiiiiiiuuuuuuu... bweeeeeeEEEE!" He exploded above the clouds, the blääck hole groaning. Wright looked around at the burning soldiers. "Huh, what the-" Many red and black beasts poured from the fire as the soldiers died. A sacrifice I am willing to make. Wright screamed as the beasts attacked him. The two Swords were swift as they chopped up the beasts mercilessly. Wright grabbed a few screaming soldiers and deposited them in the lake. The soldiers gasped for air at the surface, thanking Wright for saving them. "You work for me now," Wright said to the soldiers. As Wright ran away with the soldiers, he was stopped by an army. "Hello," said the leader of the army, with Voidsoldiers, Sonobar, and a Koikian royal platoon were with him. "Wha- wha- wha-" said Wright. He never finished, because his own troops attempted to tie him up. The swords flashed around them, like sparks flying through the night, and they fell. "How-h-h-h-how?" the leader cried. "Yes, I have two. So don't mess with me." White blades flew out of the royal platoon's belts as the platoon readied to battle. First the private came out, swinging the sword randomly. "I do not wish to harm people who wish for the good of Mentite," Wright said, disarming the soldier with a kick to the arm. The soldier fell to the floor in pain, crying for a Koikkfruit. "Waaah, *blikki dinsikki dotsikki Koikkfruit sosokki,*" the soldier said. Wright kicked him down the hill as two more attacked. His blades flew out at them, but were met with the blades of two soldiers. He kicked a soldier in the face, and his light blade stabbed into the other soldier. They were both screaming when Wright pushed them both down the hill with the private. The light blade ended up killing one, but Wright managed to save the other two. More soldiers came and Wright cut off the first one's hands. "I only said I wouldn't kill you. I can almost kill you, though," Wright chuckled, kicking him down the hill. The others ran at Wright. Three of them. Wright was cut in the arm with a light blade. He collapsed to the floor, and when one tried to snap his neck, he flung his head forward and back. The man screamed as his body was flung forward and back, then Wright began to rapid-kick him. "U-u-u-u-u-u-AAAAH!" he screamed, his body flying across the sky into the lake below. The lake exploded, drenching water onto the other soldiers down the hill. The other two took his swords. *Now they each have two,* he thought. He spun and kicked the first one in the stomach. The soldier instantly crumpled, and as he got his sword, the last one jumped on him. "CHARGE!" said the leader. Wright fell flat to the floor, with the soldier still slapping him in anger. Then the stampede came. The soldier's bones were instantly crushed under the rain of feet. "WEEEEEEEYEEEEEAAAAAAAH!" he cried, dying on Wright. He pushed the soldier off and grabbed a robot's neck. He then held on as the robot plowed through the people to the front. Wright snapped the robot's head clean off, kicking the inside wires away so he could get in. He got in and put the robot's head over his. It fit him perfectly, and he used this new exoskeleton to kill other Sonoldiers and Voidsoldiers. When the Void Sprite appeared, Wright got out of it and teleported to the island. When he made it there, the sprites were there. Melody, Polyglot, Time, Order, Chaos, Evil, and Void. Life, the white stone, and Light, the yellow stone, were still far from there. And the last stone was even farther. Then, and there, Wright knew. He would have to go into the blääck hole.

11

"Listen, we only want to save Mentite. Bring it to order." Time whispered into Wright's ear. "We need to let him free to kill him," he said. "I'm still with you. He was going to break free anyway. What I said about you being a pawn was a lie, but CUBING me! NO!" he said, right before Wright kicked him into the Void Sprite's spell. "YEEEEOUCH!" the sprite cried, falling to the floor and turning into cubes. Wright quickly shot a spell into the Void Sprite's face, sending him spiraling into a tree. Voidsoldiers were suddenly everywhere, when Wright grabbed one and jumped off the edge with him, into the spike rocks. Wright opened Ikoko's Jjikki Jjikki, sailing across the spike rocks and into the main ocean. *Spawnboat,* Wright said with his wand. A boat appeared in the ocean in front of him as a tentacle grabbed the Voidsoldier. Wright got in, saying *Enlargify!* as the boat turned into a full ship. He got some Sonoldiers and wild Kundonians as his army, then he set off for the Other Side of Mentite. The Other Side was an area of Mentite beyond the lands explored at this point in the Transcendence series. The Other Side was the other half of Mentite, cast in eternal darkness up until recently in the story by a separate planet. The people living in the Other Side were finally freed of the darkness. Wright had to go and save the people of Pogland, where humanimals, or pogs, lived. He heard that an army of Draconi were approaching. Now, he was in the ocean around Seim'la'Koikk. "*Oh, Glipo Glipo sikki-"* Wright smacked the Kundonian singing *Pewlokikki Odeiekki*, continuing on towards the first stop on the way to Pogland. Soon Wright and his army had made it from Kundon Island to the edges of Seim land. He eventually made it to the first stop after a few days of boating. "Okay, we're at a remote Poglandic island. We're gonna stop here and-" A Kundonian screamed as a baby Draconi smashed into the ship and ate him. Wright cut off the beast's head, sending the body smashing into the crew. Five Kundonians and three Koikians escaped. Nine soldiers. They jumped off the boat and rolled into a cave as the boat exploded. "I put a grenade in there," chuckled the soldier. Wright sat down with three of them in the cave while the other six, the ones wielding axes, started gathering wood. After a few minutes, they had enough wood for a fire. Wright rubbed some sticks together until they sparked, then he dropped them in the rest of the wood. A fire erupted in the cave, the nine-man crew screaming as sparks flew. One Kundonian was killed by the flying bursts of fire, his body falling facefirst in the flames. Sparks wounded two other soldiers, who collapsed to the ground, crying. Wright walked out and built a sort of wall that stood on the front of the cave, blocking the light and monsters from entering. Finally, the crew went to sleep, the fire crackling in the center of the room. When they awoke, they were greeted by a low growling outside. They got their weapons just when the wall exploded. Wright and the crew woke up on a ship. They didn't know where they were, but it felt safe. Then, a sailor walked down. He grunted, but didn't say anything. Finally he spewed out "I was watching you guys and looking at you from the ocean and I saw you build a wall and a fire and then there was a Draconi and it destroyed the wall so I piloted my ship over to there and carried the injured ones away and fed the Draconi a grenade and kicked it away from you guys and got you into the ship as it exploded - oh yeah, one guy didn't make it." Wright looked around. The sailor was not joking. There were only eight men, including Wright and the sailor. A Pog walked into the room with a few Nomanimals, the Pogs' word for pureblood Mentitians. The Pog and the people went to the sailor and followed him to the deck of the ship. "A real Pog," said a Kundonian. The Pog turned back and looked at him. The Kundonian's eyes bulged. "Pogs are pacifists! You can't- you shouldn't- I thought-" The Kundonian's skull was crushed by the Pog, who turned back and followed the sailor's crew, chuckling. "That Pog is dangerous," said Wright, looking at him. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" boomed the Pog. "Nothing," Wright squeaked. They were finally at Pogland. The sailor's crew member Pog seethed. "Those goody-two-shoes pacifists," he said, eyeing the city at the border of Pogland. The sailor shoved Wright and his five remaining soldiers off the boat and onto the sandy beach, jumping down with them. "Welcome," he said in an epic voice, "to the Other Side!"

12

They were in Pogland. Wright was in the Other Side, but it was daytime. The Pogs didn't seem to mind, though. "Hello! Welcome to Pogland! I'm Winter!" cried a Pog, advancing on Wright and crew. "And this is Shapeshift," Winter said, pointing at the Pog next to her. Wright and the sailor turned to Shapeshift, then back to Winter. They walked into the border of the city. "We wish for no fighting to ever occur. We're very scared about the safety of our lands. Now that the planet is gone, people will not be afraid to come, and our safety is compromised," Winter added, walking into a shop. "Do you have the dirt cake and the seasoda? Okay," Winter said to the shopkeeper. She dropped some sand dollars onto the counter. "Here's your mopopos," Winter added. "Those are not mopopos," Wright stated, looking confused at the sand dollars. "Yes, those are mopopos, the currency of Mentite." "Yeah," said the shopkeeper. "Mopopos are coins," the sailor explained. "Not shells." Winter looked at the sailor and said "I know... what a MOPOPO IS! You cannot fool me with your tricks!"  "Fine, it's a mopopo," Wright and the sailor said in unison, grabbing the treats. "Don't you dare enter this city without the uniform, unregistered Nomanimal," a man said on the ceiling, jumping down and killing one of Wright's crew. "HEY!" Wright cried, slicing the man's uniform with the Sword. He kicked Wright in the face, and Wright collided with a stand of Pogland stickers. "I'm the Nomanimal Ambassador of Humanimal Affairs. They call me the No-Am." "Well, hello -UH!- 'the No-Am'." "Don't mess with me, Nomanimal. You've seen what I can do." Wright left the shop and collapsed in the street. He had a vision, sharp and lucid, as his face hit the concrete and he fell unconscious. *Fatanus! The Time Sprite was too slow to block the attack. He spiraled into the spike rocks. "I know he is at Pogland. We have destroyed Yillin Cephaly. Wright got rid of our puppet. All is going according to plan. Now tell me, inferior sprite, where is the stone? FATANUS! "You'll never make me talk," coughed the Time Sprite. "Yes..."* Winter, the sailor, and No-Am were by Wright's side as he staggered up. He put on the uniform, but the sailor would not. Winter looked at him angrily as Shapeshift turned into a roaring beast. "Do not toy with the Pogs," Shapeshift roared, shoving the sailor to the ground. "Okay, okay," said Wright, ordering his soldiers to head back to Kundon Island to check on the sprites. He then followed the No-Am, the sailor, Winter, Shapeshift, and two bodyguards down the street. "Why do you need those bodyguards?" asked Wright. "I'm the princess of Pogland, Nomanimal. And Shapeshift here is my prince. You know," Winter whispered to Shapeshift, "that sailor is being a bit of a poacher." Shapeshift flinched, looking into the princess's eyes. "A poacher?" he whispered back. "A poacher," Winter repeated, eyeing the soldier. "And that offends me? My family has slain many of you." "JAIL HIM!" Winter screeched, hiding behind the No-Am and crying. The bodyguards grabbed him by the arms and carried him away. "PLEASE!" the sailor called, as the bodyguards punched his face."NO!" "WRIGHT! WRIGHT, I SAAAAAVED YOOOOUUU! SAAAAAVE MEEEEEEE!" And then the bodyguards knocked him out. "Serves him right," the No-Am hissed, continuing down the path. Then Wright fell flat on his back. *NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! no! no! The Time Sprite's last words echoed across the island as the Void Sprite smashed his stone. "The stones mean nothing anymore, my cuboid-celled friends," the Void Sprite chuckled, when a few soldiers came. "I know you came from Pogland," the Void Sprite laughed as the soldiers raised their guns. "Shoot me. Shoot me and you will achieve such a bounty on your head that - FATANUS!" The first soldier fell before anyone said anything. The other soldiers quickly communicommed Wright.* "BWAA!" Wright awoke in the hospital, where Winter and Shapeshift waited. "Are you okay?" Winter asked Wright, who responded with a "buuh" as he was communicommed. "Huh?" Wright said, suddenly awake. He answered the communicomm. "It's me, Ikikki. Save me before I -" FATANUS! "Goodbye, Wright. It was an honor to serve you." Then a whooshing sound came through the communicomm, and someone's body crumpled to the ground. Wright, Winter, and Shapeshift were out, late at night, on the roof of a building. "Today was weird," Winter said, half asleep. "Today was creepy," Shapeshift added. It must have gotten a lot creepier when the army of Draconi crossed the horizon.

13

"Get any army, any military, any fighter you can. I'll call in Koikians." Voidsoldiers appeared in the streets, sending soundless spells into buildings. Then the windows shattered and black smoke poured out. "BWAHAHA!" the Void Sprite himself cried, riding the Draconi king. Shapeshift turned into a Draconi and rushed them. "Wait," said Winter, but before she could say anything else, Shapeshift killed a Draconi, and another one. The Void Sprite didn't notice that it was a Pog, and thought it was a crazed Draconi. *Fatanus,* he groaned, letting Shapeshift's body fall to the ground next to him. "You can't beat a Draconi that easy," said Shapeshift, turning into a sprite. He pulled out a wand and cried *Torturous!* The Void Sprite collapsed on the ground, screaming, as Shapeshift turned into a bird and soared away towards Winter. "Oh, Shapeshifty," Winter cooed, when a Fatanus hurtled towards the roof. Wright tackled the Pogs, and the black bolt grazed his hair. The hair withered and fell off as he shot his own bolt of black at the Void Sprite. The Void Sprite took a Voidsoldier and shoved it in front of him, letting the Voidsoldier explode in his face. He turned and ordered the Draconi to advance on the Pogs, who had amassed a small army. Wright, Shapeshift, and Winter jumped down to fight. The sailor was asleep in the Pog prison on a tall mountain peak. He had only been in there for a few hours, but was already starving. "NO FOOD!" boomed the guard, and then a sudden SNAP! echoed through the halls. Black vapor slid in between his bars and snapped them like a twig. "You can come out now," said the Voidsoldier, "if you agree to join our side." "Fine, just let me fight some Pogs." "That's what we do," said the Voidsoldier, smashing the prison window, grabbing the sailor, and flying him to the battle. Wright and Shapeshift led the battle, sending swords into the Voidsoldiers, when Shapeshift turned into an insect. "Pog venom," he hissed, scurrying towards the Voidsoldier. He ran up the Voidsoldier's leg, and added venom to the darkness. Swirls of green flew through the black swirls, and the Voidsoldier exploded, drenching venom over the other soldiers. Shapeshift shifted into a lion, roaring and smacking Voidsoldiers into buildings. The Pogs were winning because of one soldier. Then, the sailor dropped in. He laughed at the cowering Pogs, and Shapeshift. "I am not murdering the Pogs! I am simply colonizing the Other Side- *FATANUS!*" Shapeshift's human body collapsed to the ground, his eyes open and looking at the sailor. "POACHER!" Winter's father, the king, boomed to the crowd. "Get rid of those swirly black MONSTERS and escape Pogland. Can we have a life with the Humanimals? Please?" the king begged to Wright as he cut off a Draconi's head. "If we lose this battle, I bring you a new life," said Wright, as Winter cried by Shapeshift. "It is okay, inferior Pog," the sailor called. "You have only lost one of you - *FATANUS!* oops! Two of you! HAHAHA!" "*Fatanus!*" Winter cried through her tears, sending a bolt of shining black into the sailor. The sailor fell to the ground, his sword sliding across the main road. Winter looked around at the Voidsoldiers and Sonobar reinforcements. "Huh? What are you looking at? Pogs can't fight? They're too weak? *Fatanus!*" A Voidsoldier collapsed to the floor. Winter walked back to the rest of the Pogs to support them in the battle. The Voidsoldiers' eyes bulged as the Pog princess conjured another killing spell behind her back. It hit a Voidsoldier in the face, sending it flying into a house. Winter ordered the Pogs to press forward and remove them from Pog City. "Now, we fight! We are not weakling animals that sit and wait for the humans! We do not need the humans! We can win this ON OUR OWN!" The Pogs charged. Weapons were unsheathed as the Voidsoldiers were taken by storm. The Sonobar reinforcements flew out, but the ships were blown up with hundreds of soldiers still inside. A few hundred Sonoldiers dropped down from the exploding ships, when Winter looked over at Shapeshift and - his body! It was no longer lying dead on the floor. He was alive. Winter knew it. She tried to save her Pog soldiers, but it was too late. The Sonobar were too strong. Winter watched as the other Pogs were smashed in the head with metal bars and stabbed with swords. Winter grabbed a Poglanium knife and stabbed a Sonobar with it. Only Poglanium and the Sword of Avengeance could pierce a Sonobar general's armor. She dug it deep in the armor as the general screamed, then she smashed his head on the concrete and ran into the crowd. She held out her knife and ran. The knife barely grazed the Sonoldiers' armor, but it still sent them tumbling to the floor. Poglanium always has a bit of venom in it from the moment it is mined. In this case, the knife's venom was through the roof. The Sonoldiers slowly died as Winter got to the Void Sprite and his Voidsoldiers. "*Fatanus!* " the Void Sprite screeched, but Winter ducked and rolled under him, kicking him into the wall. More Sonoldiers and Voidsoldiers poured out of ships, and all hope was lost for Winter. She ran to her five remaining supporters and fled the battlefield to the top of the building. Bombs begin to fall. She finally made it to the top to see Shapeshift and other Pogs shooting arrows from the top of buildings. Voidsoldiers screeched as the Poglanium-tipped arrows rained down on them. A voice was heard in the crowd. A normally cold and dark voice, turned fearful. Afraid. "FALL BACK!" the Void Sprite cried, throwing Voidsoldiers in front of him to block the arrows and killing spells. He finally grabbed two Pogs and rocketed into the sky, heading in the direction of Seim Seim. Wright, Winter, and Shapeshift ran out to see each other again. "I thought you were dead," Winter cried to Shapeshift. "Wright, let's meet in the castle," Winter said to Wright. "Sorry," said Wright, "but I have other plans. I need to follow that sprite."

14

Winter, Shapeshift, and three other Pogs came with Wright to Seim Seim. He had seen the battle in Pogland. The Void Sprite was done. He could not run any more. Wright had Koikians, Pogs, Anencephalians, Neodians, Pewlokians, Kundonians, Bleiks, scrappers, aliens, Kopplopi, Klotians, and Draconi on his team. All the Void Sprite had was Voidsoldiers and Sonoldiers. He quickly made it to Kundon Island to see his rotting troops that he sent to defend Seim'la'Koikk. There, he met the rest of the sprites. "He chased us into the fifth dimension-" Reddy was sucked into the Darkroom and screamed. Her stone exploded, and the Darkroom flashed with light. The Void Sprite was there, felling a Bleik with a stab to the face. *Torturous!* the Void Sprite cried to Winter, and it smashed into her. She flew into the air, screaming, as a bolt of darkness flew at her. Wright pushed Winter away and readied for a fight. The Void Sprite flew away to a field in Seim'la'Koikk, with two Voidsoldiers by his side. Wright and Winter killed the two Voidsoldiers with spells, but the Void Sprite quickly escaped. Wright groaned and prepared to be teleported. Then everybody was there. Winter looked around at the commotion happening. Two Pogs were in the viselike grip of two Voidsoldiers. The Voidsoldiers quickly killed the Pogs as Winter ran up. She mercilessly chopped the Voidsoldiers into pieces, who screamed and sent their Voidcommando to defeat Winter. She unsheathed a Poglanium sword. "Don't mess with me," she said. She looked at the Voidsoldier, who unsheathed a sword of darkness. Their blades clashed as they quickly swung over and over, each of them about to shove the other to the floor. Winter's Poglanium sword broke the Voidsoldier's darkness sword, and the Voidsoldier ate her. "WINTER!" Shapeshift screamed, when the Voidcommando started to groan. Its insides rumbled and its flexible darkness skeleton bent. It finally exploded, drenching everyone in a rain of pure darkness, and Winter stood unscathed, clutching a bone, in the middle of the explosion. "Nobody messes with the Pogs," she said to the Voidsoldiers, throwing the bone into one of their faces. Winter looked at Shapeshift and ordered the aliens to hold the front lines. The Voidsoldiers and Sonoldiers, a huge army, were on the southern half of the field, and were stationed in Seim'la'Huyup. The aliens, Pogs, and humans were on the northern side, and were stationed in Kundon Island, their main naval port. The aliens prepared to charge, and so did the Voidsoldiers. Wright was watching. This was the final battle. Wright closed his eyes and saw the future. The Void Sprite fallen before him. Wright walked up to the front line with the aliens, as thousands of Pogs arrived at the beach. In seconds a half million troops were ready to fight with Wright and Winter, and Shapeshift got to the front with them. Then, they charged. It happened in a flash. Voidsoldiers killed hundreds of aliens and Pogs. Koikians were there as Winter and Shapeshift stayed together. Wright felt a slice on his arm in the flashes of black. He saw the Void Sprite in the distance. *Fatanus!* He shot a spell at the Void Sprite. He saw the Void Sprite fly into the air and smash into the ground. Wright got out his Sword of Avengeance and killed charging Voidsoldiers. He gave his other Sword to Winter. She gladly accepted and used it to kill many Voidsoldiers. They blasted through the Voidsoldiers until the sky lit up in a blinding flash. The Voidsoldiers screeched and fell to the ground, twitching. "THE LIGHT!" the Void Sprite screamed, looking up at the light getting brighter and brighter. The Sonoldiers were still charging, and they took the front line by storm. Many aliens died as the Pogs fought on. Then a tesseract fell from the sky and landed on a Voidsoldier. The space-time was visible. A grid of light in outer space. Then it shattered.

15

The Voidsoldiers got back up and charged. The Pogs continued their fight in the front lines. Winter and Shapeshift made it to the enemy base in Seim'la'Huyup. The space-time was now falling onto Mentite, as Sidilxdledlx-indoxexe appeared in the battle. "Wright, my old friend!" he boomed, looking at Wright with a twinkle in his eyes. He pointed the royal scepter at a crowd of Voidsoldiers and they exploded, their bodies flying into the ocean. The battle eventually was down to Wright, Winter, Shapeshift, Sidilxdledlx, the Void Sprite, and a dozen Voidsoldiers. "Do you give up yet, Void Sprite?" asked Wright, flinging a spell at him. The Void Sprite blocked it with his own, as tesseracts continued falling and people continued dying in the battle. "I will not give up until the moment I die," the Void Sprite said. Wright lifted his wand. "Then this is the moment you give up." Winter and Shapeshift were inside a citadel packed with Sonoldiers and Voidsoldiers. They had to steal armor from two Sonoldiers they killed, but Winter still looked like a Pog, so she folded her ears down with a headband. They walked up to the Sonoldiers' leader, King Sonobar, who reigned over the Sonobarese people on the Sono II planet. Sono I and Sono III were unsustainable for life, so Sono II was a packed planet. They looked around for guards, then walked up to King Sonobar. Shapeshift shifted into a lion, then killed the hidden guards as the King Sonobar got up. Shapeshift turned into a human and unsheathed a sword. At the same moment as he pulled out the sword, King Sonobar shot a killing spell into Shapeshift. Shapeshift's eyes widened and his body instantly flew backwards into the wall. Bones snapped as Winter quickly slit the Sword of Avengeance across the King's neck. He fell to his knees, gray blood splattering everywhere, and squeaked "The Void Sprite will be after your head!" before Winter kicked him into the wall. The force ended up killing him. Winter walked out of the room, dragging Shapeshift's body down the stairs. A Voidsoldier sliced her leg as she walked by. She let go of Shapeshift and shoved the Voidsoldier to the wall. "Huh? You're a Pog! You're a pacifist!" the Voidsoldier screeched. Winter kneed him in the stomach. "Pacifist Pog, please forgive me. I have done an unspeakable-" Winter snapped his neck and let him fall. Winter pulled Shapeshift again, getting him out of the base and dragging him into the battlefield. Wright saw Winter heading back, so he called out for her. Winter was crying, Shapeshift's body on her shoulder. "HE'S DEAD!" she screamed, throwing the body at a poor Voidsoldier, who instantly died. She ran to Wright when the first bomb fell. Winter's body flew into the air. Wright looked up and screamed, barely managing to catch Winter. She was knocked out, but alive. Voidsoldiers and Sonoldiers were laughing in the smoke, as Pogs, aliens, and Koikians burned. "NO!" Wright screamed as more Voidsoldiers came. The Void Sprite got up as the blääck hole got nearer. "I will destroy this entire planet!" he cried, flying toward Kundon Island. Wright grabbed Winter and ran into the ocean with the Pog, as the second bomb killed every fighter. They swam through the ocean, Winter occasionally panting, until they reached the island. Wright and the Void Sprite were in an active wand battle. Winter watched as a black bolt from the sprite was met with a blue bolt from Wright. They were circling each other, each wand sounding like they were about to explode. Winter screamed as Voidsoldiers grabbed her. "You give up or she dies," the Void Sprite hissed. But Wright didn't have to make the choice. He threw the Sword with his other hand. It pierced the Sprite's chest. The Void Sprite staggered back as his spell rebounded, and he fell to his knees by Wright. Winter stared at Wright with huge Pog eyes, and Wright sent a Fatanus at the first Voidsoldier. The second one flew away. "Wow, you - you - you did it!" Winter cried. "You actually did it!" Wright was about to speak when the Darkroom's pedestal exploded, and it sucked Wright in.

16

Wright hit solid ground, but it was painless. He was definitely in a room, but it felt tiny and endless at the same time. Wright felt around for something. Nothing was there. "Trying to escape?" asked a voice in the darkness. Wright screamed. "It's impossible. I *had* to visit Crymooeelaa when the blääck hole ate the planet." "What are you talking about? I fell into the Darkroom!" "No, this is the inside of the blääck hole." I am not here as a person. But I will always remain. "IT'S HIM!" the man in the darkness screamed. "I heard his inner thoughts as he died. What he didn't say as the spell rebounded on him." Many Draconi were floating around him, although he didn't know. Then, all the Draconi found sticks, put them in a pile, and breathed on them. The sticks lit up, showing Wright how infinite his prison was. Then, the blääck hole ate a star. Blinding light flashed by them, then it was just hundreds of smaller lights. Wright could see all the way to the edge of the blääck hole as it sucked more asteroids and space junk in. He saw a ship, flying fast to escape the pull, then it exploded. He heard a scream out there, then the man's body fell into the hole and his ship fell on top of him. He was dead. The man in the darkness came into view, standing on top of a skyscraper in the infinite void. "You'll NEVER - never - get out. This is the blääck hole, you know." A Pog was crying, a dead Draconi wrapped around him. A Draconi was breathing fire on skyscrapers and laughing. Wright began to walk through the blääck hole. It was all the same. Shattered glass was on the floor. Draconi circled above him like Koikkeagles looking for prey, and he screamed in pain. Something was stabbing into him. He turned to see assassins. He kicked the assassins, who screamed and fell to the ground, unconscious. Wright suddenly collapsed to the ground and had a vision. *Queen Winter walked to the door of her bedroom and looked around. "Is anyone here?" she asked, turning to the window. The window shattered and she screamed. "GUARDS!" she boomed. She threw a knife at the first one, and heard a scream outside her door. She opened it to see her dead guards. She killed the assassins in the hall, but was too slow to defeat the other two. One stabbed her as she cut off his head, but the second one was faster. He quickly beheaded Winter before anyone could scream. Her head hit the floor and broke, and her body crumpled into the assassin. The assassin grabbed the head and left.* The FUTURE IS NOW! Wright was back in the present. OH, little baby Wright, did you see the vision? Did you see my assassins? When she killed my sailor puppet, I hunted her down. She is dead in the future. My assassins are teenagers now, but when they killed Winter, they were old. Wright was sucked into another vision, screaming and flailing. *"It is okay, inferior Pog,"* Wright said, but he didn't say it. He was in the sailor's mind. *"You have only lost one - FATANUS! oops! Two of you! HAHAHA!"* Then, Wright's eyes widened, but he didn't move his eyes. He couldn't control his body. Then, he saw Winter send a bolt of darkness flying toward his face. He opened his mouth to speak, but he collasped to the ground and fizzled out of the vision before he could see the rest of the battle. He was now having a vision of Ikoko at the very moment. *Ikoko was exploring the Other Side. She was in Clidiiland currently, talking to some people. "Do you have three million mopopos in your bank?" The bank teller responded with a squeak of "no", and Ikoko kicked him into the wall. He screamed as Ikoko opened his cash register and stole the money. "My money!" he cried, as Ikoko pinned him to the wall with a knife on each hand. "Please..." the bank teller cried. Ikoko left him there with bleeding arms and no money. Ikoko laughed and walked to the next bank teller. "Take my money," the next bank teller cried, his money instantly going into Ikoko's pockets. He screamed as Ikoko knocked him out with a punch. The Clidii police were there. "Put your hands up!" the officers boomed, and Ikoko obliged. When they cuffed her hands, she kicked the first one in the face, and he collapsed on his back, his nose bleeding. The other two screamed as Ikoko kneed the other one's chest, and he fell to the floor, wheezing. The last one stared at Ikoko and begged for mercy. Ikoko brought her cuffed arms down on the officer. The officer screamed as her skull shattered and she collapsed. Ikoko laughed and ran out of there with piles of money.* Wright got up and knew what was going to happen. He was going to escape the blääck hole. Wright assembled a team of five people: A Pog, a Koikian, himself, a Bleik, and a Klotian. They started climbing a skyscraper from Crymooeelaa's wreckage. Draconi saw them and breathed fire all over the team. The Klotian screamed and fell into the flames. The Bleik instantly stopped and tried to save his friend, which got him killed in the fire. The Koikian ran up and grabbed the Pog, crying. The Pog screamed and let go, sending them both plummeting into the fire. Wright climbed up to the top of the skyscraper and jumped. A Draconi was under him, and he hopped on its back. With the Draconi giving him a lift, he crossed the event horizon and flew out into the area surrounding Mentite.

17

Wright was in space, riding the Draconi through the void. He eventually landed with the Draconi in Seim'la'Koikk, where Winter and the Mentitians were waiting. Wright hopped off the Draconi and led Winter and Sidilxdledlx behind a tree. "I can't let them be devastated again, but the space-time is still shattered. Anything can happen." Just then, a giant hand reached through the weakened space-time. There was a deafening screech that echoed through the air. Mentitians screamed as the hand grabbed them and the beast roared. It was floating, its feet smashing into Mentite and shaking the planet. The beast let go of the Mentitians, who fell to the ground of the planet, unconscious and dying. The beast laughed as Wright grabbed Winter and Sidilxdledlx and pulled them into three ships. They each set out for the atmosphere to destroy the beast. When they finally made it to the atmosphere, they shot rapidly at the beast. It wailed and kicked Mentite. It spewed lava everywhere and grabbed Sidilxdledlx's ship. Wright and Winter heard a scream and Sidilxdledlx's ship caught on fire. The huge space-time beast wailed, its body catching on fire. Wright shot at it and grappled it with his ship. Winter saw this and began to shoot. Wright eventually ripped skin out of the space-time beast, which screamed and fell forwards onto Mentite. "So, Winter's gone?" asked a Neodian colonist, beating a Pog to the floor. "Your stupid government will fail." Neodians poured into the Pog crowd, killing some with swords and guns. One Pog fought back and snapped the neck of a Neodian, which got him shot. He fell to the ground and crawled across the ground. He grabbed a Neodian and pulled him under the crowd of fighting Pogs and Neodians. The Pog grabbed his knife and cut all the way down the Neodian, leaving him there. The Pog was weak, and he grabbed another Neodian, killed him, and died with the dead Neodian. Winter and Wright, looking at Sidilxdledlx's ship, flew closer to the beast to attack. It finally roared and threw Wright's ship down to the surface. Winter continued shooting at the beast, which was screaming and flailing and kicking like a baby. Wright finally got back up and flew his ship straight into the beast. The beast screamed, wailed, cried, and finally exploded. It flew out in hundreds of tiny pieces, slowly putting the space-time back together. Then, Winter could tell something was wrong with the Pogs. She waved at Wright from her ship, blasting away across the surface of the water, headed for Pogland to save her people. Queen Daisy walked out and smacked a Neodian across the face, kicking him into the crowd. "No harm will come to Pogland under my reign," she boomed, looking at the Neodians. "THEN YOUR REIGN IS OVER!" a Neodian screamed. Winter flew into Pogland just as Queen Daisy collapsed in a heap on the stage. Winter shot furiously at the crowd. Pogs fell, Neodians fell, and Winter cried. She opened the cockpit and jumped out. She landed on a Neodian and broke his bones. She slowly got up as the Neodians gasped. She brought out two swords and swung them at the Neodians. The Pogs all ducked simultaneously as Winter threw knife after knife at head height. The Neodians fell as more Neodians poured in. The Neodians shoved the Pogs into cars and shipped them away. The Pogs screamed as the Pog military entered. "Is there another battle already?" asked the general, when a Neodian shot him to the ground. Winter grabbed an Ultrawand and flung a Fatanus at the Neodian. The Neodian screamed and spiraled back into his friends, dead. The Neodians suddenly charged, taking the Pogs by storm. Tydu Okllka II, the son of Tydu and the killer of Queen Daisy, came out and charged at Winter. As the Neodians fought through the Pog military, two swords clashed. Queen Winter ducked and kicked Tydu II to the floor. Winter's Sword of Avengeance turned on. A blade of darkness opened with an unsheathing sound, and Winter threw it down onto Tydu II. Tydu II rolled out of the way, laughing as he blocked Winter's next attack. He got up, keeping the swords locked, and then with a swift movement of his hand, he shoved both swords onto the wall of a building. He grabbed another sword, unlocking his sword from Winter's. Winter bent back as the sword flew right over her head, then she got up and shattered one of Tydu II's swords. He screamed and clashed his sword with Winter's. Winter quickly cut his arm and punched him. Tydu II kicked Queen Winter and shoved her to the floor. "You will not win!" Queen Winter screamed, her Sword of Avengeance turning off and sliding across the ground… into Wright's hand with the other Sword. Tydu II's eyes bulged as the first Sword cut off his hand. He barely had time to scream before the second one cut him in half. Wright and Winter ran out into the battlefield, and Wright handed her a sword. They both attacked the Neodians, and as the Pogs cheered, the Neodians fell. Their arms and heads and legs and upper halves fell off as the light blades flew through the air. Then, Wright and Winter switched the Swords to jetpack mode, ordered the Pogs to move, and got out rocket launchers. The Neodians began to scream as the Pogs laughed and ran into their houses. Then, the bombs flew out and rained down on the Neodian forces. "Nobody tries to take Pogland... under the reign of Queen Winter."

***THE END***