2050 [REWRITTEN]

Part 7: Return

SpringTrap sat on his bed with his legs crossed and his hands clasped together in his lap. His eyes were closed and his breath was steady as the only noise in the room was the ceiling fan that he kept on; his concentration had resulted in him bursting into his Crimson form that caused him to overheat. In his mind, SpringTrap was visualizing a battle between himself and his brother, trying to see what it would be like if they fought. And in every single scenario, SpringTrap was killed in only a few shots. He had only seen two of Ethan's abilities and a single show of his strength by that punch he had hit him with. SpringTrap tried again, and again, and again. His rage and frustration intensified, making his intervals in between spontaneously bursting into Crimson shorter and shorter before opening his eyes and lighting parts of his room on fire as he let out an enraged scream in his Crimson form. SpringTrap let out heavy breaths and began to calm himself, making the fires go out. "What- are you?" he said as he looked up at the ceiling at his scorched fan that was falling apart. "No matter what I do, it always seems to end up this way." SpringTrap sat back down on his bed and sighed as Jordan climbed in through the window, "You look like you've been going through some shit." she said as she sat on his desk across from his bed and looked around at the mess he had made of his usually neat room. SpringTrap pinched the bridge of his nose, "I just- I don't know what to do about this Ethan problem." he said as his hair went back to normal. "His strength is something that's plaguing me even more than what happened to my mother- and that- illusion? Memory? I don't even know what that was, or who that was." Jordan spin her katana blade on her finger while she stared at the ceiling, "Try not to think about it too much, stupid." she said before dropping her blade and catching it by the handle. "I tend to not care about much, and you never think regardless." SpringTrap sighed and closed his eyes and smiled, "Your pep talks are garbage, but I understand what you're trying to say. Thanks, Jordan." Jordan jumped into the window and stared out into the distance of the trees behind SpringTrap's house. "I never said this to you, alright?" she looked at him with her piercing red eyes only to see his smile directed at her. "Yeah Jordan, sure." Jordan scoffed and jumped out of the window, "You're going to be late, hurry it up, Grasspatch."
After getting ready at inhuman speeds, SpringTrap jumped out of the window to meet Jordan who had fallen asleep while leaning on the side of his house. SpringTrap raised his finger to poke her face, but Jordan grabbed his wrist, stopping him and running a katana through his gloved hand. Jordan partially opened one eye as she felt SpringTrap flinch, "Don't touch-" she opened both both eyes when she saw that SpringTrap's left hand was surrounded by a crimson red aura that had bent and warped her katana, "I don't have mastery over it, but I'm still pissed off and frustrated Jordan, so for now-" SpringTrap turned his hand over and grabbed the bent blade in his palm. When he grabbed the handle, the katana felt heavier than his own body weight, causing him to struggle with it. He managed to get a grip as he turned it sideways, surrounding his other hand in a crimson red aura just like his left that he ran over the side of Jordan's ruined blade. Jordan's katana suddenly began to warp back as the heat of SpringTrap's hand began to repair it until it looked better than before. "Don't piss me off." He said as Jordan snatched it away from him and de-summoned it, making it disappear in a bunch of sparkling blue particles. "Cocky bastard." she said as her and SpringTrap began walking towards the school. As they were walking, SpringTrap and Jordan pondered to themselves: how would they go about dealing with Ryobl and Ethan? They were two completely new and strong Phoenixes that had been giving them trouble ever since they met, and there was not even the slightest hint of their existence besides Creeper's constant pained and regretful look for Ethan. But Ryobl on the other hand, he was a completely different case. There was absolutely no clue that he had existed at all, SpringTrap had the ability to detect Phoenixes, but aside from Ethan and a different mysterious signal that was clouded, SpringTrap didn't feel Ryobl at all. As if he was made rather than through reincarnation like all the others. He assumed Ethan was the came case. Jordan pushed SpringTrap to try his ability again, but no matter how much he did it, he could only detect Ethan's presence, but not his location. SpringTrap's nose scrunched up in frustration, so he decided to jump onto the fence to his left and start running. Jordan tripped as she jumped onto the fence and followed behind him. When she caught up, SpringTrap grabbed Jordan's hand and jumped high above the clouds, high enough that he could see all of his town. "Jordan, help me out here." he asked, looking out above the skyline. "Mm" she nodded and closed her eyes, focusing her energy toward SpringTrap who also shut his eyes. SpringTrap's hair started glowing and his ears twitched as his ability to locate Phoenixes was amplified by Jordan's power. SpringTrap's eyes suddenly flew open and his pupils were white, "What- Kind of monster-'' SpringTrap's eyes started closing again but stopped halfway and he began to fall to the ground, startling Jordan who was losing her hold on his now sweaty hand as they fell. Jordan's hair was in her face as the wind rushed past her ears, 'Shit-!' she thought, 'What did that dumbass see that made him pass out like that!? I can't fly, much less survive this fall in one piece! And thanks to that damn Ryobl, my arm is broken- but it's still usable.' Jordan ripped off the bandages on her left arm and summoned her katana in it. She used her other arm to hold SpringTrap close to her as the ground loomed closer to them. "I hate using flashy moves like this-" Jordan exhaled and her katana began to glow blue and started emanating blue particles that flew behind her, the katana trailed a blue streak behind it as well. She took another deep breath and raised her katana above her head, "You're stupid moves might actually be useful, Creeper." Jordan brought her katana down, 'I don't usually have moves, but this one is modified to fit me. And has a better name.' Jordan inhaled, "Say Your Prayers: Burning Serene Slash." Jordan slashed the ground as the tip of the blue streak her katana created turned a burning orange. SpringTrap jolted awake, just as they were launched forward on account of Jordan's lack of power, leaving her katana stuck in the sidewalk. SpringTrap twisted out of Jordan's arm and grabbed her instead, summoning his sword that he threw in front of them, embedding it in the ground in front of Alex who was walking to the school. "WHAT THE-" Alex stumbled backwards and had her back against a fence as SpringTrap yelled, "COMIN' THROUGH!!" SpringTrap twisted forwards, landing on his sword with one foot and immediately jumping off by accident, sending both him and Jordan into a tree just outside of the school building. Alex ran over to the trunk of the tree and looked up, cupping her hands around her mouth before yelling to SpringTrap and Jordan who were strung up by the branches in the tree, "Y'ALL DEAD!?" SpringTrap groaned, "Partially-" Jordan limply fell out of the tree with leaves in her long blue hair and landed face first into the hard dirt beneath it, "I would prefer it." Alex heard the sound of a branch snapping before seeing SpringTrap's sword fall right in front of her and SpringTrap himself following shortly after. Alex grabbed his forearm and heaved him to his feet, "What had you guys go flying like that anyway?" she asked. SpringTrap ran his hand through his hair and attempted to recall what he had seen. "It was all black, like the normal Phoenix radar." he said, "Aside from 3 dots, yellow, blue, and purple. Freddy, Bonnie, and Foxy of course." SpringTrap lowered his hand to rest over his eyepatch, "But the thing that terrified me wasn't the fact that I couldn't sense Ethan and Ryobl, it was this- thing that I could sense. It was half white, half black. It was formed just like the three other signals I recieved, but it then began to move." he said, catching Jordan's attention and making her lift her head up. "Like how?" SpringTrap turned around to her, "The black and white spiraled around each other, getting bigger and closer to the other signals. Which indicates that whatever this thing is, it's way more powerful than us, and could be a lot more hostile."
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SpringTrap and Foxy clashed forearms at high speeds, blowing a gust of wind that kicked up dirt. The two both jumped into backflips, landing on their feet farther away from each other. Foxy closed his eye and outstretched his left arm to his side, putting SpringTrap on his guard by summoning his giant silver sword. Foxy exhaled and the palm of his outstretched hand began emitting blue sparkles just like Jordan. SpringTrap bent his knees and gripped his sword as in the center of Foxy's hand, the particles condensed, forming a brown wooden handle. The particles began making the handle longer and hit the floor. At the same time, the particles formed a shining blue scythe blade at the top, reaching over a foot above Foxy's head. SpringTrap dug his feet into the ground and Foxy spun his giant blue scythe in front of him and brought it behind his back. He bent his knees and started pulsating with blue electricity. "Say hello, SpringTrap, to The Grim Reaper's Scythe of Judgment: Penalty." Foxy's eye started to glow blue, and SpringTrap's eyes widened as Foxy disappeared and a streak of blue lightning was left in his path. SpringTrap looked down with his eyes and saw the reflection of the morning sun on Foxy's scythe blade for a brief second before dodging the slice at his chin by doing a backflip. SpringTrap wiped the bottom of his chin and looked up to not see Foxy anywhere. SpringTrap took a sharp inhale before the front of his black t-shirt was shredded at his chest. To his right, SpringTrap saw Foxy crouched with his scythe over his shoulder. 'He's fast! I didn't even see him!' SpringTrap jumped sideways to his left and slid on the hard dirt until he was facing Foxy who now stood up straight a hundred feet away. SpringTrap crossed his arms in front of him at his forearms and took a deep breath, closing his eyes. Foxy readied his scythe and disappeared again as a streak of lightning heading towards him. Foxy jumped and brought his scythe down on SpringTrap's arms who reacted so fast that before he knew it, his own blue scythe had flown past his face and cut his cheek like paper. Foxy narrowly dodged a punch and jumped away from SpringTrap with sweat on his brow. "Say hello to my new form, Foxy: Burning Crimson Sun," he disappeared in a flash, "but you can call it Crimson for short." Foxy heard the voice of SpringTrap from under him and received an uppercut that felt like he had been hit by a train, making him bite his tongue. SpringTrap's hair and eyes had turned a burning crimson and he emitted the heat of an oven on full blast. Foxy's eyes rolled up from the pain but quickly rolled back as he brought both of his fists down on SpringTrap's head, sending him into the floor and stunning him. Foxy jumped up and kicked SpringTrap in the back, knocking him out of his form and making him gasp for air. He flipped forward and punched SpringTrap so hard it cracked the ground further. "Your 'abilities' are just for show. I thought that transformation of yours would be at least some level of a challenge, like you showed with Ryobl." SpringTrap climbed out of the small crater Foxy had created using his own body, "A little restraint, would you? Physically and mentally." he rubbed his back and head and Foxy crossed his arms, letting out a huff. "You rely way too much on your abilities, SC." he said as he brushed him off, "Well yeah!" SpringTrap said with a smile, "That's the point! I'm not as fast as you are, and I'm not agile and flexible like Jordan. My only chance to ever keep up with you guys is to develop and evolve the abilities I have." SpringTrap patted the top of Foxy's head and walked away. Foxy rubbed away the red on his cheeks and turned to notice Jordan sitting on the ground behind him. "When did you get here?" he asked her as he walked over to her. "I've been watching. Our break times get boring, and I'm still thinking about the note Ms Rose left this morning."
Foxy thought back to this morning, remembering how the entrance to his normal class which was a fake wall had been blocked up. A note to the left of the normal way in had said that there was a meeting she had to attend, and for any students of her class, 151.5, to practice with each other for the rest of the day. "Strange," SpringTrap had said, "Aunt Rose has never missed a class! Much less does she ever have to attend meetings." Alex looked up at him, "Maybe it was really important?" she said. "Maybe it involved Ryobl." Jordan said before she turned away and began walking towards the main exit/entrance. "Hey!" Alex jumped on top of the lockers to Jordan's right and sat down on top of them, catching her attention. "Huh" Jordan said as she stared at Alex out of the corner of her eye, "Maybe it could, but we won't know! How about we find out for ourselves?" Jordan scoffed and kept walking, prompting Alex to huff and jump off of the lockers. "Where do you think you're going, bitch!?" SpringTrap winced and Foxy exhaled and turned away. "Why are you just walking awa-" everyone suddenly heard a thunk noise as the handle of Jordan's katana went sailing right into Alex's forehead, knocking her over. Jordan picked her up and slung her over her shoulder and continued walking out the door. SpringTrap and Foxy shrugged and followed her outside and started sparring.
"Even recounting events doesn't make sense." Foxy said while sitting down next to her. "I wish it did," Jordan groaned, "but this whole situation is coming out of nowhere and is really stressing me out. Wish it was a lot easier than my entire life." Foxy rested his hand on Jordan's shoulder and exhaled, "I wish it was easier too Jordan, I wish it was too." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Atop the school building, a very tall figure stood ominously, completely covered by a brown cloak that steadily blew with the fall wind. The figure jumped behind the building and ran into the nearby forest. They ran extremely fast until they reached a clearing in the forest where another figure in the same brown cloak who was slightly shorter than them stood. "Are you sure this is it? Your sense of direction is worse than mine." the female voice said, as they took off their hood. The woman underneath the cloak was surprisingly attractive, with blue eyes and brown hair that complemented her smart looking and clear peach colored face. The other figure turned to her and he took his hood off, letting his short, dark green hair blow at the same pace of the trees, making him look as if he blended in with his surroundings. "I'm sure of it, this is where we'll make our return and find him." The man's green eyes glowed and his face lit up with anticipation, "SpringTrap Crystal Creeper."