Wrong Time, Wrong Place

Workshop

He noticed the birdhouse looking entrance as he entered the room, he looks at it with interest.

"Who could be living in there?"

He climbs up the birdhouse and went into the hole, landing in a wooden house in the Wooden Workshop.

"Oh this is what Compale was talking about? This is... A lot of saws" He shook his head and quickly traversed through the spinning saws, and got up to the area where the point was.

"Hello-?"

"Huh? Oh! Hey there, welcome to Wooden Workshop! I'm Ploque. I heard a bunch of other Points were forcing you through some challenge courses, so I decided to make my own! However, if you like to explore my world for a bit, then go ahead, come back when you're done exploring. Though I know it's a lot to take in that there's saws here left and right, just be careful!- Don't worry I can always heal you if you ever get wounded by the blades"

"Sounds reassuring but also not, what if I lose a limb?"

"Oh you'll be fine! There won't be anything like that happening in here"

He looked at her for a moment, before going to gather stars. The saws felt scary for him to get around, but quickly got used to the fast pacing of everything, getting stars as he runs around. He stops by an area with a dash pepper near it.

"That's a dash pepper isn't it?"

He walks towards the dash pepper, holding it in his hands.

"They say that this is really spicy that it makes you faster, and there's a star over there and I don't think going through normally will work... Okay let's go"

He ate the dash pepper and everything went wild, the pepper felt like fire in his mouth, it was painful but he shook it off and ran through the platforms, grabbing the star at the end, but the effects of the pepper wear off.

"How do I get back-"

He noticed a teleporter nearby and steps onto it, sending him back to the start where the dash pepper was. He headed back to where Ploque was and sat nearby, confusing the point.

"What are you doing there?"

"Sorry, I got tired. Still not fully rested after Compale's fight, sort of beaten me up because I was struggling how to use the shooting star"

"Ah I see, have you gotten all the stars here yet?"

"Not yet, there's still a place I haven't wandered into"

"Okay, just rest there, I'm not going to rush you"

"Thank you Ploque"

The Saviour smiled at Ploque and went back to drift into his thoughts.

'what even happened to Maytown? Who was the Star Saviour? Did Mason ever missed me...' A tear rolls down his cheek, he may never know the answers to his questions.

'I hope things came out to be okay for him in the end, I miss him dearly. But there's nothing I can do about things now, I'm the Second Star Saviour. I have to at least save this world! They're all counting on me to take down Celesteal... How did the first Star Saviour defeat Stratosfear? Wasn't he just a human like me? Surely I wasn't chosen without a reason... If they can do it, then I can take do it too'

"Saviour? Saviour are you alright? You were sort of crying there for a moment"

"Oh- I'm fine, I was just thinking"

"About what?"

"It's personal, I'll be fine Ploque, I promise"

"Right, I'll trust your words. But if it really bothers you, don't be afraid to approach me about it. I may not be able to do much, but it helps to get things off your mind by telling me it"

"Thank you Ploque, I'll keep that in mind. But it's quite a lot and you might not understand much"

"It's okay, at least you could free yourself from the stress it gives you even if I won't exactly understand"

"Why are you so nice to me even for this?"

"Star Saviour or not, you're a human, with feelings and struggles that I assume to be really heavy for you. You're a friend to me, so I will be concerned if the one that's saving us from Celesteal isn't feeling their best"

The Saviour got up to hug Ploque, she was taken aback by the sudden hug but hugged him back.

"It's going to be alright, Saviour."

"Please, call me Stefan"

"Alright, are you ready to get those other stars?"

"Yes"

"You may go now, I'll be waiting here"

The Saviour nodded and ran to the other direction, getting the last stars he needed, running back to Ploque.

"You've done it! I must warn you though, the challenge course is quite difficult, do you think you're up for it?"

"I'm up for it, I can't promise I come out of it unscathed"

"That's what I'm here for! To heal you"

"Of course, you can teleport me now"

Ploque nodded and brought the Saviour into her challenge course, he was surprised to see that the amount of saws has increased and it made him more prone to getting hit by them. He was able to reach the end of the challenge course, but with a few cuts that even got to his clothes. He limped towards Ploque, which concerned her.

"Oh dear- let me heal those" Ploque ran over to the Saviour and healed his wounds, possibly also fixing his clothes in the process.

"There, now does that feel better?"

"It does"

Ploque gave the Saviour her symbol, teleporting him back towards the entrance of her world.

"There, you don't have to get back through the saws again"

"I appreciate that, thank you Ploque"

"No problem, now get out there and head over to Anshine's world- you might be surprised of what it's going to be like, don't worry it's not as bad as this place"

The Saviour smiled at Ploque before heading back to Sky Emporium, walking towards the next world.