Okay I'm definitely straying a crap ton from canon stuff when I'm talking about lore and backstory stuff in this AU, as you can probably tell from Sabre's dream sequences, but just wanted to let you guys know that I'm making this prophecy a bunch different from the actual series. Cool? Cool.
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[Sabre's POV]
I open my eyes once the bright light fades, and I see we're in a forest.
Orange sets me down and I look around, a little confused. Orange said that he was taking me to a friend, right? Where is he?
"Whoops, looks like I teleported us a little too far from where I intended." Orange says. "Come on, it's this way."
Orange leads me out of the forest, and we reach a clearing with a really tall tower with a purple roof.
"Woah! That's one huge tower!" I say.
"Uh... yeah." Orange says. "And, um, we have to get to the top of it."
"...Oh boy." I say, noticing the really long trail of stairs wrapping around the outside of the tower.
"Come on, we gotta go." Orange says, and I notice he looks scared which is fair.
I walk behind him as he goes out of the forest and towards the field the tower is, however I quickly start lagging behind. Orange notices and walks back over to me, picking me up.
"Huh, you're going slower than usual." Orange says. "What's with you being so sluggish today?"
I stay silent, not wanting to out myself.
"...Were you still asleep when I got to the Hub to bring you here? Is that why?" Orange asks. Okay, this one isn't so bad.
"Uh... yes." I answer. Orange sighs and ruffles my hair.
"Well, at least you're actually resting rather than refusing to." Orange says.
At this point, we realized that we both have problems with long sets of stairs. For me, I'm so small compared to everything that I have to literally climb up the stairs in order to get to the top. And I mean I have to jump up, grab onto the next stair, and pull myself up onto it just to repeat the same thing over and over. For Orange, he's terrified of heights, and these stairs don't exactly have railings. He's going to be too scared while hugging the wall to help me climb up.
"This is one of the reasons it takes me so long to get to my friend..." Orange says, setting me down, as he nervously walks up to the start of the staircase. "High place, and everything..."
"Yeah, I get it." I say. "This is probably going to take me a while, too."
We both slowly start making our way up. I climb, Orange inches along the wall. It feels like hours since we first started climbing, but it's probably only been 30 minutes. Orange looks back at me when we're a little bit of the way up, about as high as a large tree. No surprise for me, I'm lagging behind Orange, who's also taking forever to get up the stairs.
"Wow, I'm terrified over here, and you're still going slower." Orange chuckles nervously.
He stops for a second, letting me catch up to him. I lay down on the stair next to him when I get there, trying to catch my breath so I can keep climbing.
"It's not... my fault... the stairs are... a little over... half my size..." I say between breaths.
"You climb trees all the time, this shouldn't be a problem." Orange says.
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Metal and Bone | A Rainbow Quest AU
ActionA world thrown into a mechanical apocalypse, robots created by the now-extinct humans all that's left of the once great technologies and advancements of mankind. However, when a human from a different post-apocalypse is pulled into their world, thin...
