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(!Warning! I’ll be putting a Trigger warning at the start of every chapter! Please do read them so we can all enjoy this fic! For this chapter, child death, Character death, gore / injury, OOC, uh… idk man there’s not much it’s the prologue bitch. OH YEAH cursing! :D)
The Spectre failed, dying in a blaze of glorious pain. Even if it’s just his own pain, he manages to take away things from those who were under his control, scattering them to the stars.
Some lost something that meant much to them.
Others lost people close to them.
Some even lost memories.
In the end they all survived though. They were alive. Scattered across worlds.
Shedletsky groans, slowly standing up. The pain in his arm and leg is crazy.
Thanks to the fact he’s not in Forsaken anymore he has to actually carry his sword along with him. And he also can’t heal from chicken cause he doesn’t have any.
(He thinks)
It’s not like Shedletsky could even use the sword seeing as his swinging arm was currently broken. So he decides to put it into his inventory for now, seeing as he can do that now that he’s out. Remembering they do have that.
He then starts limping away from the tree he’d landed beside. It’s not like he’s even tried to use his abilities because he’s smarter than that.
And totally isn’t craving chicken right now.
“I just wish I had some chicken, or even one of Elliot’s slices of pizza.” He says to himself with a longful sigh. Stomach growling and leg pulsing with pain.
Suddenly Shedletsky hears the unmistakable sound of a walkspeed override. Something hits his side and all goes dark.
Man all he wanted was some chicken. This sucks.
Shedletsky wakes up to find his arm and leg bandaged, hearing some yelling and looking up to see 1x yelling at Bluudude (who’s significantly smaller, the actual size of a child and without his head injuries.) and Slasher.
Both looking ashamed of themselves while an entity of pure hatred yells at them like a disappointed parent.
Shedletsky felt worried, after all he’s now stuck, powerless, against three killers and one has a special grudge against him for something he didn’t even do. It was all Telamon, someone who Shedletsky is not, he may be a part of him just like 1x but he’s not him.
He does not carry Telamon’s memories fully. It’s like when you read a story and remember the plot.
This rigorous thinking stops when he realizes 1x stopped yelling. Shedletsky looks up to see all three at the edge of his current bed.
“Uh… hey guys…” Shedletsky says with a nervous grin.
“Don’t look at us like we’re going to hurt you. Even if I’d love to, after what happened I’ve realized my… ughhh! SCREW IT! I don’t hate you anymore I know what happened now shut up!” 1x yells and looks even more angry when Shedletsky flinches.
“I-I LITERALLY JUST SAID I'M NOT GOING TO HURT YOU!”
Slasher puts his arm in front of 1x and shakes his head with his usual “Kiki mama” sound.
1x growls and leaves the room followed by crashing sounds that showed he was obviously breaking things.
“Sorry for like, setting you on fire and all that. And for killing you a lot… and for….” Bluudud says while progressively lowering his head.
“It’s alright bud. It wasn’t your fault, though I’d like it if you don’t use that one move on me again, it hurts more when I’m already injured.” Shedletsky said this in a friendly tone with a smile and laugh that only made the child feel worse.
Unlike C00lkidd, Bluudud knew what he was doing. His head injury just made his sense of right and wrong worse.. The Spectre used that to make him a devilish killer.
A kid who once wanted to be a soldier who fights to help everyone, a boy who idolized heroes and wanted to be a hero. Dies and becomes something he wanted to protect people against…
Shedletsky sees tears start to well up in the kids' eyes. He can’t really grab the kid well with him being on the broken arm side but he uses his free arm to pull Bluudud into a small hug.
“It’s alright, that wasn’t you. Not really, now cheer up! You saved me today didn’t you? If you guys didn’t find me I’d probably have just bled to death. And if you didn’t walkspeed me I’d probably have hurt myself more trying to fight back.” Shedletsky says while rubbing the crying Bluudud’s back.
He’s mumbling while crying, about his mom, and how sorry he is. Shedletsky just coos and says it’s okay trying to soothe the child.
Slasher seems to be staring for a while so Shedletsky raises his broken arm in an inviting gesture. 1x returns to find Bluudud passed out next to Shedletsky and Slasher looking very proud of himself as he draws on Shedletsky’s cast.
“Are you feeling better 1x?” Shedletsky asks while looking up to meet 1x’s eyes before looking down when 1x makes a confused face.
1x mumbles something grumpily before moving to lay across Shedletsky’s legs.
“I don’t hate you but I can’t like you. Or even anything else. I feel nothing other than regret and anger.” 1x hisses.
“I mean you can’t feel happiness, love, and like positive emotions at all right?” Shedletsky wonders.
“Yep, I had those taken from me, not even by Telamon. But by the Spectre, and for some reason it’s permanent. I may be the personification of hatred but I still held other emotions just less strong.” 1x admits.
“Makes sense. He took something from everyone if I remember his last words correctly.” Shedletsky commented while trying to remember what the Spectre had taken from him.
“I think he took my memories, I can’t remember much from before Forsaken… aside from who I am. Y'know. Also some random new stuff being added in its place… huh.” Shedletsky humms.
“What, remember something, fucking idiot.” 1x curses.
“I think I know where my memories went, your ability to feel positive emotions, as well as a boost to them. Bluudud’s mom. Oh and Slasher’s mom too!” This got both adults to look at him.
“Are you like a fucking guide or something? Like are you supposed to know that!?” 1x questions.
“I guess, I mean I think it’s something Telamon could do so you should be able to do it too. Unless it’s one of the few things that was left with me.” Shedletsky huffs.
…
“Why are you laying on my lap?” Shedletsky asks in confusion.
“Comfort, you are in MY bed. Besides, it's not weird, we’re practically siblings. Both being made by you as Telamon.” 1x plainly huffs.
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Later in the day Slasher was carrying Shedletsky around like a child carrying a dog. Seeing as 1x insists that if they leave Shedletsky alone for 5 minutes he’ll find a way to hurt himself.
Obviously Shedletsky’s not actually that stupid.
Slasher sat Shedletsky down in a chair before sitting next to him.
1x then brings a salad and places it in front of Shedletsky.
“Eat.” 1x demands while setting down a fork.
Bluudud sat on his own chair and was served the same thing, complaining about it like any normal child who was handed vegetables.
Slasher stared at his own bowl of salad.
“I want chicken.” Shedletsky sighs while attempting to pick up some salad. But with his non-dominant arm it’s not going very well.
“If you want CHICKEN, you can get up and FUCKING MAKE IT YOURSELF!!” 1x yells while throwing Shedletsky’s bowl.
“Uh, 1x. He can’t. He physically can’t. Even if he could, you won’t let him.” Bluudud states plainly.
1x screamed and ripped his eye open before walking out of the room in a huff.
“I still wish I had chicken.” Shedletsky sighs.
He does the same hand movement that usually activated his ability to summon chicken but with his arm broken it was hard.
Even then a chicken fell from his hand onto the table.
He does it again and finds he can summon MORE. Thanks to this he and Bluudud were able to eat their fill.
Unfortunately though it didn’t heal Shedletsky’s broken arm. But his leg healed.
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Later the group gathered in the living room where Bluudud and Shedletsky had a plan.
“You two want me to rip a hole in reality so SHEDLETSKY! Can fucking jump in it. Because SOMEHOW he has the ability to find the others AND EVERYTHING WE LOST!? AM I HEARING THAT RIGHT!” 1x yells, only calming down when Slasher physically holds him back, zipping up his mouth to stop him from yelling more.
Thankfully Shedletsky wasn’t affected by the yelling that much after his leg was fixed. Being able to run properly definitely made him feel more confident in himself. Though he still kept his distance from the other two, Bluudud being small again definitely made him less intimidating.
“We can use the holes in reality to go to other universes and find others. We already know where a few of them are and how far we’d need to fall to be able to get there.” Shedletsky explains while equipping glasses pushing them up comically.
“Where in the heck did you get glasses from?” Bluudud asks.
Shedletsky looks at him for a second before answering. “Oh- these are my reading glasses.”
“You use reading glasses?”
“Yeah… anyway!” Shedletsky and Bluudud finished their back and forth moving onto the plan.
“So you found out where Guest and Noob went alongside 666. And it’s somewhere nearby?” 1x questions.
“All we’d need to do is use your ability to open a hole in reality, fall through and open another one at the right timing before we fall too far!” Shedletsky says while drawing a diagram on a piece of paper with his non-dominant hand.
“How do we know we can even do this?” 1x huffs.
Shedletsky gives 1x a shit eating grin. “Aren’t you the mighty personification of hatred? The big bad 1x1x1x1 can’t slash his sword at the right time~” Shedletsky teases.
1x is now determined to prove himself.
The group starts packing with Slasher asking the real question.
“How are we going to make sure we don’t get separated?” Shedletsky says as he’s translating what the mute killer is saying.
“We can’t, not fully at least. Unless 1x is willing to hold one of us’ hand. That aside with one of mine out of commission I’m also liable to be the end of the chain.” Shedletsky replies.
“I got the essentials, let's get going.” 1x huffs with Bluudude following him.
Shedletsky ended up holding Slasher’s hand while Slasher held onto 1x’s arm. Bluudude attached himself to Shedletsky’s leg, holding it as tight as he could.
“So how long until I make the second slash?” 1x asks.
“Should be around five seconds with .15 seconds to make the cut.” Shedletsky states.
1x rips his eye and makes a circular slash on the floor.
They fall, all of them holding on for dear life until Shedletsky shouts. “NOW!”
1x immediately slashed and Bluudude screams “WERE GOING TOO FAST!”
They come flying out with 1x getting knocked over with Slasher practically crushing him. Shedletsky was next out and while he was able to land correctly on his feet Bluudude came crashing into his back sending them both flying.
(Endnote: this is the start of our secondary series!!! Part of the same universe as “TWOTIME’s Crazy Freak Circus adventure!”
If you’ve enjoyed that series, think of it as a slightly longer form where the characters find others in the same situation as them!
When traveling universes you sometimes lose track of time seeing as most universes have a different speed that time passes! So the people in the universes could have been there from 1 hour to a couple months, even a year. From the start point. And sometimes you can get lost no matter how exact you are.)