Adventures in the silver forest

Our heroes had just made it back to Alex’s home, his mother didn’t question Lucy’s stay and thought Alex finally got a girlfriend, she thought he would be single forever! They sat down at the dinner table, “hey mom, when’s your next fight?” he asked, his mother was a top fighter in the Leagues and was fighting to become Champion, “I’m gonna win championship tomorrow, nothing’s gonna stop me!” she was very enthusiastic and excited to beat that jerk Janice who currently held championship, she was actually a really nice lady, but Alex’s mom couldn’t stand her for some reason. The heroes decided it was best to get some rest before they set out for the next artifact, they wondered what was next,when in bed, the device went off on Alex, “Attention my most favorite fans! My shows must be put on hold tomorrow night! I’ve been sent on an important mission by yours truly Lord Icarus, I also have a date, maybe I’ll finally have that dreamy lab assistant I’ve been aching for!~ your favoritest Doctor X!” Apparently Doctor X only gave Alex an angel brand phone, still pretty nice.

In the morning the heroes snuck off with the mom being left very suspicious, and jealous of her son’s beautiful earrings! The heroes went on to the seal, Alex remembered that there was something else in that trash can with the knife that the doctor pointed out, it was a locked case, he kept it in his phone because he wanted to open it somehow, there was no keyhole so it couldn’t be picked, but an electronic lock was on it instead, it screamed something to do with the abnormal scientist, they then both proceeded down to the seal through the dark path, it was now lit with torches, down onto the stage Alex walked, his earrings glowed a bright teal color, and on the seal a teardrop symbol appeared on a circle, the map once again exploded with light and revealed a colorless forest, they would be able to get to it by taking a bus oddly enough, so they got onto the bus and stopped at a fancy town just before the forest, a great big pale tree was the most noticeable feature, and probably where they had to go, the heroes decided to look around town for a little bit before heading off “ooh let’s go to this restaurant I’m starving!” said Lucy, Alex agreed, they went in and noticed that it was quite an average restaurant, they were guided to an empty table, the room was very empty, only a few other people were here, the heroes ordered their food and gazed around the room, after a few minutes of listening and talking, they noticed a familiar voice chatting, they looked over to the women in the sparkly pink dress, her hair was a dark chocolate brown, much like the... Doctor X? What was she doing here? Lucy then said “that announcement on your phone! She’s on a date!” she began to laugh and then said,” let’s mess it up for her!” “what! No don’t do that!” it was too late, Lucy was already over at their table “Hey Doctor! How’s your date going?” the man sitting across from her was very confused, she blushed and said “Uh... Who are you?” she said, “oh right! We haven’t met, but that’s my buddy Alex over there and I’m Lucy!” the doctor looked at her and then at Alex, she cleared her throat and said “I’m on a date, now please leave us alone” Lucy then mocked her by saying “aww you wanna make him your lovely lab assistant so you can smooch it up?” in a high pitched voice, the man looked very shocked and said “I’m gonna go...” “no please, stay!” as he ran out of the doors, the heroes stared at the doctor’s back, everyone was staring at her, she began to shake and turned around with a very angry look “you... You took away... My last chance- at happiness” her eyes began to tear up before she wiped them away, she jumped onto the table and ripped her dress off, revealing her usual attire, she shot Lucy with a beam of focused electricity, which knocked her out instantly, the doctor looked at Alex and said “it’s on” before she lept out of the ceiling.

~A few minutes later~ “Why did you do that Lucy?!” Alex asked, “she’s an evil doctor man, she deserves it” his phone rang and an announcement came up “those ‘heroes’ ruined my date, and any chance I had at love! This... This is just a reminder of why I fight for our cause! To erase all pain in the perfect world we’ll create, I’ll do everything I can to make sure that we win tonight!” the heroes stared at the phone “ooh I’m so scared of miss lab coat, what’s she gonna do? Post another announcement while she cries in her lab?” Lucy was right, as the narrator, I can confirm she is in fact crying right now, yeesh that’s an ugly cry face. On their way out due to the disruption in the restaurant, they headed for the forest that they were supposed to go to, before that old guy came to nag at them for doing a side quest or something, what? Can’t I break the 4th wall every now and then, I don’t get paid enough to stick to the script, Alex looked at me and said “dude! Shut up and read already!” They wonder why us narrators want to quit. Anyway, as they walked through the forest they noticed a very colorless surrounding, leaves were pure white, the bark was black, the light that shone through the leaves was white as well, they both jumped because out of nowhere along the trail, a dog with sunglasses popped out towards the heroes, it seemed to be tame, “hey dudes” it said, the heroes looked in shock at the dog, “did you just talk?!” they asked, “I don’t know man, did you just talk? I’m here to tell you that you need a key to get in that big tree, and I just happen to know how to get that key” the cool dog said, “alright then... How do we get the key?” the dog laughed, “well like it’s super easy to tell you’re on a quest, so like let me go with you and I’ll like... give it to you... Like” the dog said, “ok sure whatever” Alex said, Lucy shrugged as she was still confused as to what was happening, “great, by the way, my name’s Dawg, not dog, there’s a big difference you know” He said, Lucy responded with, “you just said the same thing” Lucy said, “no, I said Dawg, not dog, we literally just went over this” they both shrugged again, Dawg stuck his tongue out and a key came with it, then a tape to go with it, we could probably listen to it later, it was labeled “Data log A-1” that was peculiar, the last one was X-1, there might be a lot more than we had anticipated...

Approaching the big tree, a weird door was in the trunk, Dawg levitated off the ground and somehow had the key again, he punched the lock with it and it opened, nobody questioned his levitation, because we all know that dogs levitate, upon entering the tree it barely looked like they expected, when walking in they were approached by a flower, “Hiya! Welcome to the forest of Flora! Here we have... IT’S THE DOG AGAIN!” many small flowers rushed around the group and we’re mumbling a lot of gossip about Dawg, “what do *you* people want here?” the flower said, Dawg replied “come on dude, we’re all on a quest or something and I won’t pee in the gardens again...” the flower stared at the group for a moment and said “alright welcome to the tree blah blah blah, do my side quest, blah blah blah, get out, never come back” that was very kind of her to say, Alex asked her about her side quest that she mentioned “oh I’m glad you asked, can you take these extremely heavy bags of fertilizer to Penny?” “what’s the reward?” Lucy asked, “another side quest” the flower said, Alex promptly said, “How about no” the flower grumbled “your loss man...” this wasn’t the time for sidequests, the heroes needed to get the artifact and get out before any trouble showed up, they walked through the tree on a convenient path, this tree was much smaller on the outside, the gang was jumped by a bunch of spiders, they shot silky spitballs at them because they were just plain rude, Dawg caught one by barking a powerful sound wave at it, which redirected its force back at the spider, Dawg then floated over and buried the others alive, “uh, good job?” They said, “oh I should probably mention that when I bury them they go to Hawt Dawg paradise, my own reality” they all sat there in silence, and continued without another word, as if nothing was even said, they ran into a shop ran by another flower, “want to buy something?” There was nothing but fertilizer on the shelves, and a ‘super top secret mystery box!’ “What’s in the box?” Alex asked, the flower sat there and stared at Alex, Dawg said “uh... it’s a secret, it literally says it on the box, you guys are really stupid you know?” Nobody cared about what Dawg said, because it was true, and they respected that he wasn’t a liar, they bought the box and opened it up, it was another... another box? Is this some kind of joke? They opened this box, inside was another box... they continued to open box after box, and they even looked in the previous ones to find even more boxes, Alex turned one of them upside down to open it, revealing a grand treasure! Another box! He said “last one...” with the opening there were many golden bars!

He reached in to take it, but alas, the golden bars were fakes, they were just fancier boxes, Alex took the time to throw all 3,739 boxes at the flower and said “that’s the worst thing you could ever do to somebody” and stormed away in anger, “what are we even looking for dudes?” Said Dawg, “you know that old guy didn’t really show up randomly to tell us, I guess we’ll find out” Dawg joked, “what if it was that box and the power was to make more boxes?” Alex turned around to give a furious shake, “no,” he said, Lucy said “shut up guys look!” She pointed up at the opening in the top, and the very dry plants below them, “Alex, make it rain!” He did as told and the plants greatly appreciated it, but a giant root shot up and out of the ground, many others followed, and a disgustingly hideous plant crawled out and screeched at the heroes, but it didn’t last long because out of nowhere a gigantic robot dropped on top of it and then blasted it with a giant kitten grenade, it ticked very quickly, the heroes jumped away to avoid the explosion, a loud “meowch” played with the explosion, the monstrous plant was blown to pieces, and down Doctor X, her face was staring at the ground with a much darker look than usual, she definitely wasn’t filled the joy and enthusiasm as she always was, it was worrying, Lucy said “what do you want freak?” Alex hit Lucy lightly signaling her to back off, Doctor X looked up and she began to laugh very creepily, she raised her arm which had a blaster attached to it, before anyone could react she shot a light blue beam at Lucy, the beam surrounded her as it made contact, she fell over onto the ground, the Doctor rushed forward and punched Alex back, she then picked up Lucy’s body that was completely unresponsive, “this little brat is gonna pay for what she did tonight, then I’ll be back!” Dawg tried to bark a powerful sound wave to save Lucy but the Doctor protected herself with a reflective barrier, she waved goodbye and jumped away with Lucy. What would she do to her the heroes wondered? She surely wouldn’t really hurt her, Alex never witnessed the Doctor truly hurt someone.