<Well, this took a while. Sorry about the inconsistency / complete nonexistence of uploads, schoolwork has really hit the ground running and is taking up a lot of my effort. I will be trying my best to get out the rest of Season 2 and some more chapters of other stories. Thanks for hanging in there, everyone>
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Nate woke up in the streets of Blue Valley. But not the same streets he knew, this place was much darker and much more twisted. He got up and looked around at this new dimension he found himself in.
Nate: Wow, they call this place the Shadowlands for a reason, damn.
Behind him, a dark pathway formed with voices protruding from it.
???: Somebody, help!
Nate: Yeah, sorry about this, demon dimension, but I'm going in the opposite direction of the nightmare fuel. Y'know, like a sane person?
Nate continued walking forward until he reached a bright passageway which he walked into.
He found himself inside a child's bedroom.
Nate: What in the-?
Courtney: Nate?
Nate turned around to see Courtney standing with Cindy.
Nate: Hey. What's up?
Cindy released her blade and pinned Nate against the wall.
Nate: Okay, things have gone south faster than I thought.
Shiv: It's another illusion. This place is made to mess with your mind.
Nate: Not an illusion, I swear.
Courtney: Let him go.
Shiv: Not until he proves it.
Nate: How am I suppose to prove it?
Shiv: Tell us something that neither of us know about you.
Nate: That's stupid.
Cindy tightens her hold.
Nate: Okay, fine! I'm supposed to wear glasses, I just don't because they make me look stupid.
Cindy let go.
Nate: That's what it took?
Shiv: For now.
Courtney: Really? Glasses?
Nate: I wear contacts now. How is it that you're the first thing to attack me here?
Courtney: You haven't been attacked yet?
Nate: No, but I was presented with a hallway of nightmares which I denied by... walking away. This place isn't very fool-proof.
Shiv: Welcome to the Shadowlands, Green.
Nate: It's Tennyson, actually.
Shiv: Oh... as in the "great" Ben Tennyson. I see the resemblance. He's dead and you're about to be.
Nate: (sarcastically) Ha ha, you're so funny.
Nate noticed something in the corner of the bedroom. Some kind of jewel.
Nate: What's this?
He snapped it off the ground.
Shiv: I don't know. It grows all around the Shadowlands. I've never really stopped to enjoy the nature of this demented place.
Courtney: Do you recognize it?
Nate: It's a bio-elemental organism. A silicon-based life form like Diamondhead or Chromastone, but more plant like. It's called Gemma Mortuorum, the Gem of the Dead. It grew exclusively on Anur... Oh.
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Stargirl
FanfictionNate Tennyson is the son of the long deceased Ben Tennyson. After many years, Nate finds his father's Omnitrix and becomes the new user. He befriends other successors of the former JSA.
