Legend Of Sunset (Updated)

Chapter 13: Without Hope

 Steve set his backpack on Mine's bouncy chair and sat down next to it, digging into it while waiting for Mine to do something. He pulled out items for different potions and shoved the sign into the bottom of the bag right as Mine turned towards him grinning.

"So it turns out you fell right into the black hole in the planet you called Vanilla and you ended up falling into here except you're not the Steve from... uh.. here." Steve nodded in an attempt to understand what was going on. Mine paced the floor in deep thought.

"So from what I understand is right after you left, your universe or galaxy collapsed on itself because you being pulled out of that shattered your universe which lead you directly into the Carbonizor in the place of the Steve in this universe and now you're stuck here." Steve looked at him wide eyed and confused. Mine continued to flip some levers and opened something on the monitor in front of him.

"So you're telling me that the Sunset invasion isn't happening and Snowy is safe?" Mine shook his head quietly.

"No one is dying or in the process of being killed or kidnapped? Nothing is happening in Sunset?" Mine sighed and moved the monitor to Steve's eye level. Fires sprang from the town and the dark smog filled cloud still hovered over Sunset.

"We need to go back. Now..." Steve said getting up and throwing everything back in his backpack. Mine grabbed onto his t-shirt sleeve pulling Steve away from the door.

"Are you crazy? We just got out of there! Why would we go back and get captured again to "Save" a planet that doesn't exist once Sunrise is founded." Steve pulled himself away from Mine and fell to the floor.

"Where is Sunrise?" He said, staring right up at him. Mine walked over to the control panel again brushing off his question.

"If we go back to Sunset there's a very high chance we won't live to tell the tale. If we die then anything could happen to the universe and I wouldn't be able to save it. I feel as if that's my responsibility." Steve turned his head slightly to the side in deep thought. What could he do to convince Mine to allow him to save his home. Then it hit him.

"Make this your responsibility." Mine slowly turned towards him, dropping his remote on the console with a cold dark expression on his face.

"What did you say?" Steve shuddered a little seeing the new look in his eyes. A look that could kill if he wasn't so nice.

"I-i said make Sunset your responsibility." Steve repeated quietly in an attempt to stand for his statement. Mine looked at him dead in the eyes with a dead stare. The room became frigid and dark. The room around Steve felt as if it were collapsing on itself. The expression on Mine's face was noticeably uncomfortable and unlike him.

"I've saved the Universe time and time again... I've almost DIED for so many people. I was thinking about retiring to some planet in NGC 5866 or maybe the rest of my life in the Andromeda galaxy somewhere. You don't get to tell me where I go, only I do..." The expression began to turn into a slow depressed one. Thought about getting up to comfort him but stayed put. Mine slowly turned towards the console and set his hands down on it with all of his weight on his palms.

"I've lost so many people during my time traveling." He said quietly he pulled out a drawer that was at waist height and took out a small picture frame.

"During the first collapse of Sunset I lost my friend David as he was on his way to Sunrise but was taken out by a meteorite." Steve stood up and looked at the photo over his shoulder. Mine stood next to someone that looked as if he was in his 30's wearing a blue t-shirt, tan pants, brown shoes and blond hair with a bunch of different shades of blue on the top.