The Balancers

Part 17: Fusion and Fire

My eyes slowly adjusted to the bright lights around me. There was a block of glow stone about three blocks above my head. I felt drained. I didn't know what I had done to Second Balance before blacking out, but whatever it was, it was taking its tole. I sat up, propping myself up with my arms. For the most part, my body felt fine. At least I wasn't feeling weak, like I had when I had first showed up here on Rainbow Realm. I looked around the room I was in. It looked like I was on the bottom level of the temple. 'I guess the others must have carried me back.' I thought. 'Alex, you there?' I waited for a response, hoping whatever I had done hadn't affected her.

'I'm here.' She answered. Her voice also sounded tired. 'Wow do I feel drained.' she added. It made sense that both of us felt drained. It took both of us to use the Balancer Energy. Unknown Alex had told me that, even while I couldn't hear her, whenever I used my Balancer Energy, she would feel it. I assumed that whatever I had done to Second, I had used Balancer Energy to do. I noticed I was sitting on a bed, which was positioned near the lock-in machine. That's when I realized that the machine was turned on. All the redstone that had been attaching the two pedestals and the chest to the machine were gone, which meant all the machine would be doing was locking someone in. Suddenly I remembered what had happened before I had blasted Second. He had held Ender Balance in the air, and a strange red energy had gone up his arm, and seemed to latch onto Ender. I stood up, and luckily my legs weren't weak. I went over to the front of the machine and looked inside. Ender was standing inside, with his head dangling to the side. He seemed to be fast asleep, even though he was standing up. He looked like he was physically unharmed. Whatever Second had done must have only been damaging Ender's energy, or he hadn't completed what he had been trying to do. I was just glad Ender seemed ok. 

"Oh good your awake!" someone said from behind. I turned around and found Debalance and Creativity Steve. It sounded like Debalance had been the one who had spoken. "Unbalance, Rebalance, and Goldie are upstairs with," he paused, as if he was trying to think of the best word to explain what was happening. "A guest." He finally said. That didn't sound reassuring,  but I would worry about that in a minute. 

"How long have I been out?" I asked. However long that was would probably be how long Ender had been in the machine as well. 

"Only for a little more then a day." Creativity said. "Me and Goldie were waiting here for you five to come back, but we were surprised to see two of you unconscious." 'So Ender was also out cold.' I thought. Either way, at least we had gotten back here safely.

"What happened to Second Balance?" I asked. I realized I could hear voices up above. After I got my answer, it would probably be best to go see who this guest was.

"Well after you blasted him," Debalnace began. "He looked at us and snarled, then launched into the air and flew away. It seems that even though he's not exactly like us, he had very similar abilities." That was true. He was able to launch upwards, just like us Balancers. He had called himself an Anti Balancer, which being a Balancer myself, didn't give me any good feelings. 

"Alright then." I said. I took another look at Ender. He seemed ok in the machine. I was sure leaving him alone down here would be fine. "Show me who this so called guest is." Debalance nodded, and headed up the stairs, followed by me and Creativity. We walked around the stairs that lead to the upper floors, and that's when he came into view. Unbalance and Rebalance were on either side of him, seeming to make sure he didn't try to run away. Goldie was standing off to the side, probably trying to stay out of the way incase anything happened. The person in question was a steve. He didn't look like any other steve I had ever seen, yet he looked vaguely familiar. He had the same design us Balancers had, except there was no black, and he didn't have an infinity symbol, so I knew he wasn't one of us. Instead of black, he had red. The same shade as a Red Steve. The other parts of him were the color of a Blue Steve. He had normal eyes, the left one seeming to be a Red Steve's eye, and his right a Blue Steve's eye.