<span style="color: #FFFF00">Walter smiled at Katara's concern for him despite her own injury. “I assure you, I knew full well I was fighting a losing battle the moment I was found by that… creature...” He said, smiling sadly. “The fact that Hellmaster Phibrizzo saved my afterlife is little comfort to me, although I am grateful to him.”<br/><br/>“You know I can ‘un-summon you’ right?” Hellmaster said frowning. Walter smiled, “but you won’t. Not unless I tell you what you are desperately needing to know to fix this mess.” he stated ever the gentleman despite his words being the opposite of his tone.<br/><br/>As Naive spoke, he smirked, but only slightly. “So that either makes you a lesbian or a man in a woman’s body...” He said, once again as if stating that it was raining rather than calling a woman gay. “As for what is happening, we are being held prisoner in the entirety of fiction… and unfortunately no one,including the Overseer, can figure out how to reverse the effects...”<br/><br/>He would have continued, but Masahide interrupted him. “Waitwaitwait… The Overseer is the one KEEPING us here! Why would he be trying to escape?”<br/><br/>“Not here. Too many witnesses.” Rukia said as they were getting strange looks. Once they had converged in a room full of beds and mats and such, they all resumed their prior conversation.<br/>_________________________________________________________________________<br/><br/>JD was livid. “WTF… I can’t believe we were just dancing through GMs little parade of death this whole time! But if he’s the enemy… what is the Overseer doing keeping us here? Archer? Is it magic or are we screwed?”<br/><br/>Doce’s threat made JD smirk. “At least that makes me feel 98% better.” he said.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">SOF closed his eye’s and a magical force swirled around him “We’re screwed… sorry no magic used whatsoever, I could attempt to trace it manually as it probably used radio waves, but that would take a lot longer than just finding the hackerman.”<br/></span><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">“Crap… wait a second” Eve/Rukia smirked. “Doesn’t the Astral Plane function differently than magic?”<br/><br/>JD sighed, “ yeah, but none of us can access i-oh...ooooohh… but where is Phibrizzo right now? And why would he even help us?”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">“I can access the Astral Plane!” Road’s sweet voice rang out from SOF’s shoulder as she just randomly appeared there.<br/><br/>SOF stumbled almost falling over “Jesus, do you have to do that!?”<br/><br/>“Of course, because you have such great reactions.” She giggled with an intimidating edge to it “Now....” She said as she jumped off SOF’s shoulder instantly becoming human. She kept her grey skin, and low cut dress and young appearance though. Suddenly there is a tiny piano in front of her. Her fingers start to dance along it, playing a beautiful version of Moonlight Sonata. It created a semi transparent door which she got up to open causing the Piano to disappear “See? door to the astral plane.” She smiled as if everything she just did was normal.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">“I don’t suppose there’s a safer way to do this?” JD said. He wasn’t sure he wanted to meet Astral Phibrizzo. Eve just walked up to the door and went in. “Guess we’re doing this then...” JD muttered following. Once they were all inside the door, The first thing that they noticed was(you guessed it) The Monster Lord in charge of Hell himself, seemingly having known they were coming. “Look, I have enough of a migraine from seeing you in real life… so to speak. What is it you want?”<br/><br/>“We were deceived, and we want to make sure you don-”<br/><br/>“No shit sherlock! we just got the news. Apparently the Overseer is one of the good guys, and you did GM a favor by trying to kill him. Find us in the dormitories. We should be able to convince the resistance to let us leave if it looks like we are doing so as a scouting mission or something…” The HellMaster ranted.JD and Death were all too happy to leave the Astral plane, but Eve…<br/><br/>Waved goodbye like an idiot. And THEN left. The group headed towards the dormitories and found their pasts waiting for them quite literally. “So what did he say?” Masahide asked his future self. JD frowned.”It’s not what HE said that matters. We need to find a man named Junichiro Kagami. Astral readings should get us a general direction, right?”<br/><br/>Hellmaster exchanged glances with Kamelot. “Do cacti have spines?” he smirked.<br/><br/>JD sighed, “Not all of them, but I get the point… heh… cactuses...point… Right now though, I am exhausted… anyone else tired?”<br/><br/>Receiving various degrees of nods and yawns was all he needed to know, and he fell asleep almost immediately.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">Road Grinned mischievously as she kissed SOF on the cheek forcefully before disappearing. SOF Scowled at this and sighed at JD as he himself was far from tired, it was probably the nap in hindsight. He decided to sit there and watch over him and any others that may have fallen asleep.<br/><br/>Road invaded JD’s dream pulling Eve into it. JD was suddenly standing in the living room of an unfamiliar house. The couch in front of him was ripped up and it seemed to be crawling with spiders, to the point where he could barely see the couch. Cobwebs dotted the walls and ceiling, and above the couch was a chandelier with a web on it almost as big as the room, and a spider that looked Menacingly at JD. though this spider was frozen and colorless as was the half of the room it was on. This did not make its monstrous and impossible size any less terrifying. Then across the room There was Eve, motionless and wearing an expression befitting of someone laying eyes on the spider. The other half of the living room felt like it was both thousands of miles away and right next to him. Eve was seeing the same thing but in reverse, the spider was still frozen but as was JD and his expression was even more Ghastly to her.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">JD didn’t even realize he was asleep, being so horrified at the thought of one of his two worst fears killing his girlfr-where did THAT come from… she’s a friend that just so HAPPENS to be a girl…<br/><br/>AND THERE’S A SPIDER WITHIN EATING DISTANCE OF HER!!!!<br/><br/>“RUKIA! DON’T PANIC!” he wanted to shout, but his mouth felt like it was glued shut. And for some reason he couldn’t move. ~thiscan’tberealthiscan’tberealthiscan’tbereal~ he thought, still unaware of the dreamlike circumstances.<br/><br/>Rukia was seeing the same situation, and tried to draw her sword, only reminded that she was in Eve’s body and that she was weaponless. ~Shit… of all the times to be powerless I have to watch a spider AS BIG AS A HUMAN eat my boyfr-WTF??? Why did I think that?~</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">The spider unfroze for each of them, but kept its lack of color, As it moved towards the frozen person it felt like an old film or game, where it was missing frames. The spider seemed to jolt forward and its legs were never fluid in their movements.  And suddenly it was frozen mid lunge just above the frozen person ready to devour them. A low sound of buzzing started to appear like there were a thousand bees outside, and then a voice in that same buzzing sound, though it spoke different words to each person “How long do you think this can last?” to JD and “Who do you think you actually are?” to Eve.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">JD was only slightly more aware now, but he at least thought it wasn’t real… hopefully… at least he could wake up subconsciously due to some of the dreams he went through as a kid... <br/><br/>“Okay… just open your eye’s and it’ll just… What the Hell? It’s not going away… It’s like I have eyelids under my eyelids… RUKIA!” he shouted. She didn’t seem to hear him.<br/><br/>“How long will it… last?” he repeated confused. “This isn’t a normal dream. Not even Lucid dreams talk to me like they know who I am...” he thought. “Wait… thinking… in a dream. Definitely not normal. So that means… we can either really die, or we’re going to have to endure whatever is going on until we wake up...”</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">The question repeated and the spider seemed to lurch just a little closer to Eve. Before the threat felt distant but now he could see a slight bit of bright red blood on her cheek in the monochromatic world.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">Eve heard the voice ask her the question. “Who… I am? I… I don’t know… I am… according to the laws of reality I am an impossibility.” she said, watching the spider above JD with wide eyes as the same blood effect showed itself to her.<br/><br/>“Please… What do you want with us?” She shouted to the roof not unlike she was speaking to the heavens. She figured it was a deity of some kind toying with her, totally unaware that JD was watching a pool of blood grow underneath her as she lay motionless in his field of view.<br/><br/>She saw that he was in the same aforementioned position, and a tear worked it’s way down her cheek. “STOOOOOOP IIIIIIIIIIIIIT!” she shouted to the ceiling.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">The world in front of her cracked, as if JD and the spider were just a painting, that had been smeared down the middle, the buzzing suddenly became static that sometimes cut out. Eventually she’d she just a bit of movement from both JD and the spider but it was impossible things like each of them were glitches in a game. “Aren’t you just a glitch upon the world how long before it fixes you?”<br/></span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">“It… fixes me?” Eve dropped to her knees and silently one after another, tears stained her face. Unbeknownst to her, in the real world she was also crying in her sleep. “If I cease to exist… would that fix the problem…?” she wondered silently to herself.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">JD Saw the same but the question posed to him was the same repeated, “How long do you think this can last?” The voice this time was Eve’s, but with an inhuman edge to it.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">“It will last until Either I am dead… or… she is?!?!” Jd muttered the last part almost at a whisper. He once again felt like he wasn’t dreaming anymore, as if he had hit his breaking point and nothing was impossible… even this. This HORRID spider… mirror… delusion… thing?</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">They both suddenly felt the house shaking and heard multiple bangs against the walls. The house strained and the walls began to crack. A massive hand broke through, with a red and black sleeve. It seemed to rip the black and white away replacing it with color and crushing the spider. Eve and JD only got a glimpse of each other’s real state in that dream before they woke up, being shaken by SOF “hey are you guys alright? You seemed to be having a nightmare.” He smiled softly at them as he offered a hand to each to pull them up.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #FFFF00">JD was never one to not say exactly what he was thinking, especially when it came to his fears. “Spiders… Huge… Bit Eve… Blood… weird voices...” he mumbled incoherently, taking SOF’s hand and hoisting himself up.<br/><br/>“I… think I saw something… important...” Rukia said, her cheeks stained red with tears. JD noticed this, but since he was pretty shaken up he could only nod to SOF. “You just saved our sanity, man… I NEVER want to see that again… weird, though, I can usually wake up from nightmares with my own willpower subconsciously… but I tried and it didn’t work!”<br/>Rukia sighed and pulled herself up via SOF’s outstretched arm. “I need to ask you all something… when everyone is awake...” she muttered. “I know I am missing some pieces, but this puzzle’s been broken long enough! And… thanks for waking us, Archer...” she forgot his real name and opted to use that body’s appearance to try and not make it awkward.</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #00FFFF">“You’re welcome, Eve and J… Blade, wanna take a bit of a walk, there’s this very odd indoor Greenhouse garden thing? It’s relaxing. I’ve had a lot of time looking around while you guys have been asleep.” He grinned at them.</span>