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Chapter 12: Branch 0

I was the last one up, with a scent of lobster in the house, and a lot of noise outside. I opened my eyes to see Engraver and Ducky looking out the windows. As I watched, I started to get up from the corner. Ducky saw me first, and pushed me back down. "If they see you, they'll do anything to get in here." I had a confused look on my face, then he said, "News makers." I'm guessing the people he spoke of were related to the Paparazzi of my year. It has only been a month in this new world, and I felt like a member of an entire new family. The News makers had been outside since the brink of dawn, and a few had tried to get inside the house. We soon heard a car pull up, and Ghost appeared in front of me. "Move." she said, and I did. I got up, and was immediately shoved over. She opened the ground using a crowbar, and then pulled open a hatch. "Go in, and take your first right hall. It will lead to Branch Zero.'' The other two looked at her as though she were crazy, but didn't say anything. I did as I was told, and crawled in. as soon as I was in the tiny space, I noticed signs. Most were written in some sort of unusual writing, but I found that all of them had a number. There looked to be nine signs, though the at the very end had collapsed. I went to the first one on the right, which read an encrypted message, followed by the number zero. As I followed it, unlit lanterns at my sides, there was a sudden realization, as I entered a room. "Holy... this is an underground line to all the Branches!'' There was a sudden blast behind me, and as if on cue, Blast was holding a lantern that was lit. He started coming towards me, then past, yelling, "C'mon, we need to get to Branch zero!" I hadn't a clue there was such a thing still, though. Blast led me from corridor to corridor, until we hit a dead end, in which he wasn't moving. I was confused, then he said the most random word ever. "Sesame." and a ladder was dropped. He looked back at me, then gestured to go up. As I was ascending the ladder, he yelled, "Congratulations!" then ran back, most likely to stop everyone from trying to break into the house. I was almost at the top, when JawBreaker showed up at the top. "Hi! Ready to begin?" I was so surprised that I didn't have second thoughts before she pulled me up with way more strength than she should have had. As I was brought up, I met with Dune to my right, looking like he was in a trance, with his eyes in pure white. I wondered why, then saw JawBreaker pull out a device. It had a large, circular diamond on the end, looking like it was being used to channel some sort of ray. I was confused, but as soon as the ray was pointed at me, I started to move. "Woah, WOAH! What is that gonna do?" Jawbreaker stopped pointing at me, then said, "This is the Brainwave Dimensional Transmitter to Dimension Two. But we just call it ''To Body Two." She then pointed it at me when I was trying to figure out what it was, and before I had time to think, she said, "This won't hurt a bit!" and a ray went through my mind.

It was the oddest thing I had ever felt. My body seemed to leave me, and Ifelt as light as a feather, just as I did when I went through the shift storm. But when I could see again, my body was unlike what I had before. My arms were made of pure wood, as though I were a puppet. My body looked to be made of clay, and my legs were just springs. And as I kept searching my body, I had no feet, and my waist looked to have been poorly connecting my body to my legs.
As I watched myself float from the eternal blue room, I came across another being. It had a sandstone head, with a body made of bricks. His arms were built from unbarked logs, and his legs were from rocks, piled on top of each other. It took me a second, but I soon saw him as who he really was.