YES, SHINING OPAL, THE CHARACTERS BREAK THE FOURTH WALL EVERY TIME THEY SET FOOT IN THE CITY. XD Someone should fix that... But what would the city's new name be?

Chapter Eighteen: Misunderstood-Ty

Time: literally one fourth of a millisecond later

Place: Seto's house

Sky's POV

Bodil laughs. "Kay, whatever. Let's just hurry up and check this house so we can report back to the others."

"Woah. Woah, woah. You're being responsible!?" Bashur asks, his voice reaching a shrill, unbelieving tone.

"Yes. Now, come on, let's get this done."

"What do you think they're checking the house for?" I whisper to Evil-Ty.

He rolls his eyes, but he's smiling. "Us, you qat!"

"Pssh!" I say, waving my hand as if to brush off his comment. "I'm a qat, you're a qat, we're all qats!"

Erm. Might have said that just a tad too loudly.

"Hey! I think I heard Sky!" Bashur squeals. My eyes widen, as do Evil-Ty's.

"I thought that they thought that their Sky was dead... 'cause he is dead, right?" Evil-Ty asks, narrowing his eyes at me.

I nod hastily. "Yeah, but I convinced those idiots that I'm actually the real Sky."

"WHY. WOULD. YOU. DO. THAT."

My eyes widen. "THEY'RE TOTALLY IN THERE!" Bashur screeches, and I can hear him running towards the door. Oh, great.

I grab Evil-Ty's hand and pull him back down the stairs, whispering to him as I do. "It made them think that I was on their team – I thought they wouldn't want to hunt us down as much if they knew I was going to 'stop you.' That doesn't even matter right now, though, because apparently they're checking everywhere for us, anyways, and we have to go."

Evil-Ty glances around Seto's basement. "Um... This way!" Evil-Ty suggests, tugging me toward a small room in the corner of the basement. We burst through the door and see a wall of obsidian. Near the sides of the wall, there are blocks of glowstone, and in the middle are two blocks of netherrack with signs on them.

"TO THE EVIL DIMENSION" they read. There are two wooden buttons beneath them.

"Darn it," Evil-Ty mutters. "I guess this is our only choice right now."

"Don't worry, we'll come back," I say. Why did I say that? I mean, yes, he could come back, but I was sort of planning on not letting him... Then again, this guy is actually pretty cool. I don't wanna condemn him to a life of loneliness in his rotting dimension.

He nods and holds out a hand, letting it hover over the button on the right. "You ready, then?"

I grin. "You bet!" I shout, jabbing the button on the left. I only have time to see him smiling and pushing the other button before the world starts to swirl, and then there's a quiet little pop noise, and then I'm standing in the rubble of what used to be the Evil Dimension. Hey, wait, I just realized something... Those signs said 'To the Evil Dimension.' They called this entire dimension evil. And Ty and I- I mean, Evil-Ty and I just went right along with it. "Hey!"

"What?" E-Ty asks, glancing around despairingly. (MUAHAHAHA DESPAIR... REFERENCE!)

"Seto called this dimension 'evil' on those signs!"

E-Ty frowns even more than he already was. "Yeah... Yeah, he did."

Well. He's not raging, so I guess that's good. "I just... I don't think that's right," I say carefully. And I'm not lying. Not at all.

"Neither do I," E-Ty agrees, his voice shaky. "But we must seem pretty evil. We go on missions to 'remove' and 'replace' people. We torture people to get them to think and act how we want them to. We must look like intense villains to them."

"But... but we aren't, right?" I ask hesitantly.

"No... No, we aren't... I don't think they understand what our dimension was made to do. And yet... I don't really think any of the people who lived in this dimension knew what our dimension was made to do." He pauses. "See, in the beginning... At the start, we were... Our dimension was supposed to be... We were basically the cops of the universe. If anyone had some evil idiot in their dimension whom they couldn't get rid of, they'd call us through an inter-dimensional telephone accessible only through the Night Owl's platform. Then we'd send the version of that person from our dimension to slowly 'remove' the wrong-doer, or possibly replace them for a short amount of time. We kept the universe in order. At some point, though, our people started getting... corrupt.

"We began to enjoy removing people from other dimensions. When our dimension's leader realized this, he tried to stop us. He even warned us about the prophecy, about the budder-loving 'fool' who would eventually destroy our entire dimension if we continued acting the way we were. But we ignored him. Well, okay, no we didn't. Actually, we killed him. Whoops. And then the squids took the empty spot as leader. They led us in a completely different direction – we learned to hate this mysterious 'budder,' and we were taught that enjoying the killing of people from other dimensions was completely acceptable. We stopped asking for reasons to remove people from other dimensions, and we just did it. It didn't matter if they were the lowest of criminals or the highest of heroes, we took 'em out."

Ty- erm, Evil-Ty- or, I dunno, Misunderstood-Ty? Anyways, E-Ty sighs, looking down at his feet in shame. "We forgot who we were, and... I'm sorry to say I was no exception." He looks up at me. "Then again, neither were you, so I guess I'm not that sorry." He smiles. "Why am I giving you a history lesson, anyways? Aren't we supposed to be getting back to that other dimension?"

I shrug. "I dunno. I guess so. It's crazy, though, that your- I mean, our dimension has changed so much since it's creation..."

E-Ty nods sadly. "It is."

"Say, wouldn't it be better if we maybe rebuilt our dimension the way it was supposed to be? We could just leave that other dimension alone and improve our own. I mean, it's not like that Sky guy did anything wrong to get himself 'replaced' and 'removed,'" I point out.

E-Ty's face hardens. "Maybe he was innocent in the beginning, but he certainly isn't anymore. He blew up our entire dimension, Sky! He killed thousands of people! And sure, maybe we were going down the wrong path, but that's no reason to blow us up!" He glares at the rubble around us. "No, we can't just let him be."

"Well, we sort of already killed him, so-"

"No," E-Ty growls. "It's not enough." Aw. I was thinking we might be able to maybe be friends after this is all over. Apparently someone still has some old grudges to get past, though. "I want his entire dimension to suffer, just like ours did."

"Uh-"

"Come on, Sky," he says, grabbing my wrist and dragging me to the place where I had originally made my 'beat the void' hole. "We're going to light their world on fire."

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So. This chapter was sort of boring, I'll admit, but at least you got some insight into why the Evil Dimension is evil.

Kind of.

OH.

*cries* FRANKIE GOT ELIMINATED OFF OF BIG BROTHER ON TUESDAY! *sobs like a broken-hearted fangirl* NUUUUUU! WHY!? STUPID CODY AND ZACH, NOT KEEPING THEIR FINAL FOUR PROMISES AND STUPID CALEB FOR PUTTING HIM ON THE BLOCK IN THE FIRST PLACE AND STUPID VICTORIA FOR NOT BEING ENOUGH OF A TARGET TO TAKE THE HEAT OFF FRANKIE AND ASLDKFAJ SDLKAFJL *sobs more*

Sigh. Okay, I got that off my chest. Thank freaking goodness.

I'm posting this chapter early because I'ma be gone over the weekend. Sowwies. Going to visit great-grandparents. They don't have wifi, but they're freaking awesome, so it'll be fun.

Um... What else...

OH. I will probably have that #FiftyRulersQ&A (Pssh, more like 90!) sometime today. So, yeah, look out for that.

I'm gonna be making a #100RulersEvent soon. -.-

JK I'M NOT ANNOYED IN THE SLIGHTEST PLEASE FOLLOW ME IM DESPERATE FOR FOLLOWS AND ATTENTION AND ASLFJS

Please disregard that entire paragraph.

I'm so sorry, I've made a habit of eating half a bag of chocolate chips late at night and then writing chapters for my stories. Heh, whoops.

Baiii, my Rulers!