Nextgen Kids: The New Era

The Horrorverse, Part 13: When Fear Is Irrelevant

Cut to after Nolan explains to them!

Chapter 13: When Fear Is Irrelevant

G.U.N. H.Q.

"WHAAAAAAT?!" All of them shared the same reaction, except for Sebastian.

"A Devil Fruit... that makes you act like Revan?!" Carol repeated.

"It's true. And it seems like one of Affright's plans throughout the night was to force Revan's half to take over."

"It all makes sense." Misaka realized. "What you were saying about your other personality."

"Yes. But back then, I wasn't sure what was going on. I even went to Haruka one time to have myself checked. But Revan's half kicked in and attacked her."

"Because he was afraid she could heal you." Dillon deduced.

"But even Haruka's powers can't heal metahumanism." Carol inferred.

"Why take a chance?" Nolan figured. "Speaking of healing, it seems you've made a quick recovery, Dillon. Midna, did you do something?"

"It wasn't her, Dad." Dillon said with a grin. "I had help from a friend. Wanna introduce yourself?"

A girl with brown hair and tired red eyes shyly peeked into the hall. She came in with squeaky red shoes. "...Madotsuki..." Nolan recognized her. She was a girl that had undergone terrible experiences at a young age. Her memory was recently wiped clean, and as her friends tried to help her remember who she is, she was adopted by a kind family in her hometown in Japan.

"She appeared inside my nightmare and used her Bubble Dreaming powers to help me." Dillon explained. "Then I asked Midna to take me to Japan and find her, so we could fix the others. We also picked up Carol on the way."

"Carol also informed my young master of the situation." Sebastian followed. "It was his idea to retrieve all the allies you told me about."

"Of course..." Nolan wondered why he hadn't thought of it before. "You have the Gem of Dreams."

Madotsuki reached in her backpack and retrieved the green gem. Nolan had once been the owner of that gem, but he thought it would be better off in Madotsuki's hands. "This used to belong to you... right?" she asked.

"She's slowly starting to recover her memories." Jack explained. "She must have found the door to Dillon's dreamscape inside her own. Bubble Dreamers can normally access the dreams of people they're close to, and since she was close to you, Nolan, she was able to find Dillon's dream, too."

"Hmm... I'm really glad I met you, Madotsuki." Nolan smiled. "You probably never wanted to get involved with us again... but I need you to do something."

Nolan led them to Haruka's medical room. "I need you to enter Haruka's mind and try to bring her back. We need her to heal all the other KND operatives. It'll be too difficult for you to help them all like you did Dillon, and I'm not sure if defeating Affright will do it either. But I have to warn you... Haruka's been through a traumatic experience recently. If you go inside her mind, you may find some... triggering images."

"I'll do it, York-san. ...If she's your friend, I'll help her."

"Okay. Just be careful."

Madotsuki raised the Gem of Dreams and converted her body into spiritual sand, which swirled into Haruka's mind. "Now begins the hard part: actually defeating Affright." Carol said.

"Heh. You leave that to me." Dillon smirked, reaching a hand to, "Midna: hit me with some Firstborn power and I'll get started."

"Can't do it."