Wrong Time, Wrong Place

Robot

Opening the gate, Nick finds multiple containers behind it. He looks around the place and finds a container that held inside the entrance that his friend mentions.

"This looks cool"

He takes a step into the portal and is taken aback at the sight of the place, robots and other sorts of tech are found all around. He quickly notices that the ground has a black substance, possibly oil, he looks at it skeptically.

"I don't think I should step onto that then- other than that, this place looks sick! Are there going to be stars here?"

He walks around platforms and conveyers, figuring out where to find stars, he eventually finds some when he stumbled upon a robot struggling to function.

"Bzzt... out of... batteries.... require... two... bttz.... will give... star.... please..."

"Oh no! Hold on I'll get you some batteries"

He dashes off, looking around for any batteries. He eventually finds them beside a game console of some sort, he takes them and runs back to the robot, giving it the batteries. He watches as the robot powers back on properly, being full of energy. It 'beep boops' in gratitude and gives him the star, he smiles at the robot and continued on. He wanders around, getting a few more stars he was lacking when he glanced back at the game console.

"Wait what if there's a star inside?"

He approached the console and went inside it, he notices that there is a star, except it was in a ball. He looks at it blankly, knowing what he has to do to get it.

"I'm not going to have to roll that all the way down, can't I just lift it up?"

He walks over to it, effortlessly picking up the ball and walking down along the path carefully.

"This works, it's not wrong to do this right?"

He throws the ball down the hole and takes the star from the opened ball, he wanders a little bit more around the place until he was sure he couldn't find any stars left.

"I can go back to Maytown, and there's one more gate, but I have a really bad feeling about that"

He his head and walked back to the entrance of the dimension, returning to Maytown and taking a moment to stand outside the containers.

"Fresh air! The smell of oil does not feel too good. Hopefully that didn't stick to my clothing, or I'm going to have to wash this when I get back 'home'"

He shrugs it off and walk towards what seems to be the final gate in maytown. He notices the darkness surrounding it and stops.

"Is- is Stratosfear going to be there? Can I really fight him? Surely the Star Saviour could- but I'm the Star Saviour- ah whatever, I guess I'll go for it."

He walks closer to the gate, there was a man standing by it.

"Ugh, this is the worst place I could have bought a villa. I bought this place right next to Shadow Hill... And everything has gone downhill from there..."

"What's wrong?"

"Stratosfear descended down from Shadow Hill before I even finished moving in! And now there's this gate here!"

"That kinda sucks"

"Half of my stuff is still packed in boxes in my fourth mansion! I can't live like this!"

"Why would you have four mansions?"

"Oh I have more than that but still! My stuff! How will I live without them?"

"I can- I can unlock the gate and take care of the issue that's Stratosfear, chill. You're not dying"

"Really? You're going to be able to open this?"

"I'm the Star Saviour, I've been unlocking gates all day. This is the last one, but unfortunately I already know what I'll be doing inside. Stratosfear must be mad I took his stars, but then again this was never his"

"Thank you so much! Also, I mean what would you do with stars anyway? They just sit there in the sky, glowing brightly. How could that be of use for Stratosfear"

"Magic, probably"

"True, though I think you should go now, I'll be waiting for you to clear out that problem"

Nick nods and opens the gate, he walks down the path to shadow hill. The area got darker and darker the closer he approached, he halted suddenly, looking back at Maytown.

"I guess this is it, it has been a fun journey, regardless if I die from this or not, isn't it?"

He doesn't say anything else to his comment and turned to climb up higher on the hill.