Wrong Time, Wrong Place

Red

The entire area was black and white, stripped from colors. The only thing that stood out is the sky, the Saviour and the figure that's a big red x. He stares at the red x blankly, shock clear in his eyes

"Oh, confused? Apologies. I'm the one who granted Stratosfear his powers. He has not been defeated, not by a longshot"

"What?!"

"Well, you are technically Stratosfear. The Stratosfear you defeated was a future version of you who had travelled back in time, corrupt and confused."

"Huh?? What?? No way, that's not possible... Is it? Then that means what he said wasn't just something he overheard..."

"Oh yes, Stratosfear had always lived deep inside of you. You both have a very strong sense of adventure, and the courage to conquer any challenge. Too bad you caused him his demise, perhaps you could change that?"

"And cause trouble to Maytown? I can't do that!"

"Can you really live like this? Being someone you think you are but isn't, and never will be? I'm not giving you any choices, Stratosfear. Your fate will follow wherever you go, wouldn't you want your old life back?"

"I want it but- not in that way! And now that I think of it, this life seems a lot better than my old one..."

"I'm afraid that continuing to live this life will end in their demise."

"No! I'm not going to be Stratosfear, I refuse!"

Nick ran off to a direction opposite from Maytown, running towards the back of the tutorial center, he runs into an opening without any hesitation. The entity glances at the direction he ran to.

""Oh. Well you will change your mind, and come running back to me. Take your sweet time, Stratosfear."

He kept running and running, he didn't know where he was going, he halts to a stop and takes a moment to breath and look at his surroundings. It was open and foreign to him, there was a robloxian near him, who quickly takes notice and approaches him.

"Hey you!"

"Me?"

"Who else is there for me to call?"

"You have a point"

"You're a new face around here... An UGLY face. In our PRETTY town"

"Is this how you'd greet newcomers? That's rude. Have you ever thought of wearing a wig?"

"Ouch, okay sorry"

"Well, what town is this?"

"Trap Town! Only the best town around"

"I'll be the judge of that. Where do I go?"

"Just follow this path and it'll take you straight to our town!"

He nodded and went to walk along the path as told. Trap Town eventually comes into view, it was a really big town, bigger than his own hometown.

'Such a big town, who's running this place anyway?'

He enters town and sees a man, he had a blue shirt with a little red x on it, and a cyan tophat that sports a yellow band on it. He assumed this was the town's mayor and locked eyes with him, the man's eyes lit up and smiled, approaching the saviour.

"Weeeell, lookie what we have here! Welcome, welcome, welcome! I'm Blueband. Mayor Blueband."

"It's nice to meet you Mayor Blueband."

"Nice to meet you too, welcome to Trap Town. Pretty cool, right? Heck, sometimes bigger really is better. No hard feelings, Maytown. So you must be this "Star Savior" I've been hearing about!"

"Well it's clear that people's gossiping spread like wildfire didn't it?"

"Oh, haha yeah I know, people like to talk about the littlest of things that piqued their interest. They're quite nosy sometimes"

"I guess so"

"Well, perhaps a hero like you is in no need for a rest! How about it, "Star Savior"? Up for another adventure?"

"No. Anything but another adventure, I'm tired"

"You don't sound like it! Come on, it'll be fun"

"Fine. I'll accept another adventure..."

"Great! I would like you to gather a lot of stars. Not just any stars that you've collected, but red stars, I want lots and lots of red stars. Is this fine with you?"

"... How the hell am I supposed to find red stars, do those even exist"

"Of course they exist! I mean look up there"

He points to the roof of a building.

"See? That's a red star"

"Oh..."

"You can find red stars in Maytown while in here, there's exactly three red stars, bit unfortunately I'm unable to reach them, well one of them is in the sewer but I don't want to risk getting myself stabbed from spikes."

"Why are there spikes anyway? Have you considered getting them removed???"

"I don't have the funds for it, I only have the funds to make archways"

Star Saviour raised an eyebrow at Blueband.

"Hey- I like archways okay? It's expensive to remove spikes"

"Sure."

"Anyways, go on. I'll be here when you get those stars"

"Okay, I know I'm not getting a reward out of this but I don't think it's a good idea to see red stars in the sky anyway"

"And you're willing to do my task? What for?"

"I trust you that you wouldn't do anything bad with red stars, you seem nice sir"

"Oh! Oh- alright, but please... You can call me Blueband"

"Alright Blueband, I'll be off to get those stars"

He turned around immediately and left to gather stars, Blueband watched as he disappears off into the distance, searching for the red stars. He couldn't help but to feel a little guilty.

"He knows what he's doing, I can't- He's doing this out of kindness and sees me as a friendly guy? No, this can't be who he's throwing in the loop"

Blueband was lost in his thoughts. Star Saviour gathered stars from trap town before taking a walk back to Maytown, everything seemed normal again and carefully and silently went through parts of Maytown where he originally found normal stars in.

"I didn't know there were red stars here? Maybe I wasn't paying attention"

He is able to gather all the stars but stops at just the entrance of Maytown.

"I should go see Mason first, he could be looking for me-"

"Nick! Where had you been? I was looking for you"

Nick turned around, facing the worried gaze of Mason.