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Several seconds of silence passed. Rex stood there, fully expecting to have been Back-to-the-Future’d by that point so, when he was still just stood there in-front of a slightly confused Emmet and Lucy, he groans and just kicks at the air. “Oh, come ON!” he complains “I should have been all Back-to-the-Future’d by now! Why am I still here?”
“Well, maybe...” Emmet starts, still not really having much clue about what Back to the Future even was (Lucy swore she’d need to get him to watch the Films at some point) “… The world wants to give you a chance to redeem yourself! So you can show everyone that you really are nice, and not mean. You already know how to be nice, as you ARE technically still me, after all”
“Screw the what the World wants! I should have Back-to-the-Future’d by now! Lucy came back, and she changed how the timeline went, and now you’re not going to become me, so I should. Not. Exist” Rex seemed… Very insistent on this. Like he didn’t realise the plot holes that would have happened if he actually DID Back-to-the-Future as soon as the timeline changed. Aka, when he went back and actually saved Emmet in the first place. Lucy groans, this conversation was getting nowhere.
“Emmet, Rex, we might as well stop wasting our time here and actually head back to… Syspokalypseberg. I’m pretty sure that’s what it’s called now” she then turns around and starts walking off.
“Oh, yeah, let’s go! We can avoid mentioning that you’re my evil future-self who wanted to doom everyone, but I’m sure my friends will all want to finally meet you! You’re not the first Villain I’ve befriended, after all!” Emmet grabs Rex’s wrist and starts dragging him off, running out from the Undar the Dr’yar System. “We can go and get coffee the way we like it, with a touch of cream and 25 sugars. And everyone can be friends, and nothing bad will happen again. Ever”
“… Whatever” it seemed that Rex was getting sick of being dragged around by himself. Had he really been this obnoxious in the past? How ANYONE could stand being around the Construction Worker was beyond even him. And he USED to be Emmet, he should be the one who KNEW why he acted like this.
They reached Syspokalypseberg pretty quickly, surprisingly enough, and Emmet’s friends were quick to welcome him back, while also questioning this stranger that he dragged along with him. “Hey, everyone, this is Rex” he introduces for him “Rex, I’m sure you know everyone already. Batman, Metalbeard, Unikitty and Benny… Oh, are you guys the only ones out here?”
Unikitty nods “Yep! Everyone else is busy sorting stuff out still! Sweet Mayhem is off with the Queen to talk about some more boring plan things that I don’t care about. I’m shocked that Batman isn’t there with them, actually” she glances over to him. Batman looks around, nervously, before saying,
“All that planning isn’t what Batman cares about. Though, I did let Alfred stay because he’s the one that plans stuff for me, so I’m technically there anyway” Batman crosses his arms and looks very proud of himself.
“I just wanted to be here to see you return!” Benny rushes, floating over to the three at high speeds to spin around them, stopping in-front of the pair (who he did not know were the same person yet). “Because my interest really only includes Spaceships, I have nothing else to do while here!” Rex had nearly forgotten that Benny had a metal arm. He then wondered exactly WHY the Spaceman decided to do that… Wasn’t having two regular arms fine as it is? There really wasn’t much need to replace one of them with a metal arm.
“OH, yes!” Emmet suddenly says, to remind everyone that he was there “Rex has done some stuff in the past, and I was going to send him to visit someone. I’ll give him the directions, and then we can hold a celebration party because everything worked out in the end!”
“Yay!” Unikitty cheers “I LOVE celebration parties! I’ll get to planning right away!” the others then clamour over what should be included, leaving Emmet and Rex to talk… Again.
“I’m shocked they didn’t get instantly suspicious about me” Rex comments “And, you don’t have to try and help me. I can just go, and leave, and you’ll never have to see me or worry about me again”
“Aww, but I can’t leave anyone behind, especially not myself!” Emmet protests “And, besides, I’m sure you’ll like the two people I’m sending you to talk to! You already know them, of course, but I’m sure they’ll be happy to spend time helping you out! Well, one of them will, anyway. The other never seems to be happy about anything” Rex sighs, knowing that there was no way that he could ever get out of this, so he just accepts his fate. Emmet tells him the directions, before leaving the totally radical version of himself alone and, well, Rex considered just turning and leaving. He really did. And yet, he also somehow didn’t want to disappoint himself by just leaving, so… He lets out and breath and thinks about the directions. How Emmet knew where ANYONE lived in this place, despite only being there for several seconds, was beyond him, but he just looks around.
… He should have known that he was terrible at giving directions. Following directions, Emmet was perfectly fine at. Giving directions, he apparently didn’t know right from left. Quite literally, in this case, as he had given Rex the wrong way to go at several points. Somehow, he had no clue about how he finally made it to the right building. He just… Did. Like he sorta knew where the place was already, despite having never been here before as it was impossible for anyone to have been here before. Maybe that’s how Emmet could give him directions, no matter how bad they actually were? “Alright, I’m here… I’m just going to knock… And tell whoever it is why I’m here right away, and if they laugh… I can just leave, and never show my face here ever again… Not like it would matter, anyway. I’m sure nobody really cares about me...” so much for giving yourself a pep talk before-hand, Rex. Urgh. Why did his internal thoughts always have to argue with each other? He was meant to be cool and epic and totally radical, not some weak emotion-filled child who was nervous of TALKING to someone he apparently knew. Finally, after just standing there doing nothing, he takes several steps over and knocks on the door…
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Emmet looks around at everyone who was at the party that had been very quickly set up. He looked a little worried. “I just realised that I told him to go right when I meant left” the Construction Worker comments “Hopefully he can find his way there, despite the fact that I accidentally mixed one thing up”
“… I’m sure it’ll be fine” Lucy tells him “After all, he is you. He should already know that you accidentally mixed up one of the directions”