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I landed on my feet, quickly looking around. "Where are we?" I ask Satoru. "We're in some kind of game show..." He trails off.
"Stopppp...this is too chaotic..." Sebastian groans as he gets up from the fall. Then suddenly, a weird man says, "What do you call a Getderdunwho who got caught in a Got'Darncataract?" He says with his bizarre face. "Excuse me, but what kind of question is that?" I ask, feeling lazy.
"Uhh—...." He says as I noticed that there was a huge crowd in front of us, blankly staring. "Oh fuck..." Randal says with two different eyes. "I'm your host!...the best version I can be of him anyways..." Then he says, "Just ignore the cuts."
"It'll be hard to go to sleep here, I think..." Satoru blinks at Randal. But he was spat some weird shit at Sebastian, "Fucking disgusting..." I say, turning away. The man then speaks again, "Okay, come on now! Spin the wheel!" All three of us looked at Randal, it was obvious he was going to go first. "Okay! Okay, okay..." Randal says, almost feeling pressured. But he still managed to keep his eerie smile.
He puts his gloved hands on the wheel, "Nyeh!" Says he as it span. It landed on something white and knights came out of nowhere and took Sebastian, placing him inside a tube. "What's with literally everything taking Sebastian away..." I look at Randal, hoping he won't fuck up.
"I'll ask you a question and if you get it right, you can move on but if you get it wrong...your teammate's gonna get gunked." The 'host' explains. I did not like that idea. "In what country does skunks don't exist; A) Germany, B) Canada, C) Mexico, D) United Ststss?" The host asks the question. I admit, I also didn't know the answer because I've never been to those places...
But even if I didn't, I go to Randal and held his hand for once, "Hey man, please don't get this wrong I'm begging." I say with a worried tone, hoping I could help him get the answer right. "Don't worry (name), I'll get this right! Have some faith in me..." he says, "I'm almost 99% sure you're gonna get it wrong but I won't get my hopes up too high." I sighed.
I keep my distance as Randal turned back to Sebastian, "Heh, this is your punishment for getting caught...I didn't forget this time." Sebastian puts his hands on the glass of the tube, "You're just...just a stupid Saturday morning cartoon villain!" Where the fuck did that insult come from? Is that even an insult? Randal replies, "—It's a Monday night 1:00am anime anti-hero god!" Where did they even find these...
After taking so fucking long, Randal finally says his answer; of course his ass is wrong. And his answer caused the knights to pour some kind of black substance on him. I have to admit that his face was hilarious.
Satoru and Randal began trolling around with their usual shit, me being the third-wheel. But that stopped when Randal started losing lucidity. "Finally, I was starting to wonder when we're going to get out of here." I knelt down to him, just at the opposite of Satoru.
"(name), please hold me...your still pretty even if I'm about to go fucking blind..." he says, reaching for my face but I dodge. "Tell me something I don't know kid." I grabbed his hand and awkwardly patted it.
"Rise and shine!" Younger Luther finally caught up to us, heading towards the stage. Satoru takes a glance but quickly turns back to both of us. "There's no time now." Randal faces him, looking kind of pathetic. "Sorry kid, 'cant teleport like I used to ya see-" but I quickly interrupted with a stoic face, "That's because you're trying within the dream bitch." Randal still managed to stare in disbelief, "Excuse me?"
Satoru just agrees with me for the first time, "Yes. Why not just exist in dream or reality instead?" Randal's eyes widen, "Ohhh...Right I could try doing that..." The ceiling opens up and Randal falls up, probably about to transform or whatever. He drops his knife, about to stab me but I caught it in time. "I've been pretty useless, so I'll try to fight this time." I turned my feet to Satoru, to which he gave me a stiff nod with a smile.
He finally rolls up his box-cutter, getting in a stance. "Go on ahead Randal, Missy/Mister and I will hold him off...that's all that matters."
I ran to the Luther with a chainsaw, yelling as I jumped and cut his his leg clean off. But it seemed like my efforts were in vain because he managed to cut Satoru's arm. "BASIC-ASS!" I yelled, actually caring for him for a split second. I got him before he hit the ground, his arm bleeding out. I felt that same connection again, but this time it didn't give me a headache—it almost felt like...home...
"Hey you ass, are you fine? I mean, you're arm got fucking cut off but—" " (name), relax I'm a dream entity—I basically can't feel anything." He chuckles as he gave his iconic closed-eyed smile at me. I try smiling back but I noticed that his face was kind of split in half. "Your face got cut, it looks so weird..." I lifted my arm and touched his face gently, close to the visible cracks on his face.
"Hmm...that felt nice, maybe you're not so bad after all, yeah?" Satoru half opens his eyes, giving me a weird look. "H-hey stop that..." I say, clearly blushing. He just gives me a strained laugh and got up, saying, "It's not over." But younger Luther even bothered to say, "Oh it's over-"
"-Campfires, spooky stories, fishing, the sounds of nature...no one around but your loved ones, and hmmm." He lists down. Satoru gave a moment to think, "Y'know, it does sound quite nice...you've convinced me." He moves to Sebastian, who was still in the tube, covered in gunk. "You...Yes you, trade places with me." Sebastian just looked confused.
"Haha, it's okay! This would actually work out better for both of us!" He pauses for a moment then speaks once again, "I'd rather be out there for my best friend, Randal, and...(name), in more...ways." He turned to me for a brief second, giving me a look I recognized. Wait...I know that look, but I've never met him in my life...I stare at him with wide eyes, a sorrowful feeling in my chest.
"You could do whatever you wanted too..." He focused his attention back to Sebastian, getting out his weapon and started getting him out. "I don't know what to make of this...And this place isn't real, it's a dream." Luther then steps in, "It's real but...Dream figures have their place here hmm...yes. And humans can't stay here for long like, duh."
"Don't worry, you and Randal can play the 'Oh-Oh's' some other time." Luther says behind Satoru. The man himself stopped trying to get Sebastian out then he said, "I'd watch your back every time you sleep, and don't worry just letting you know!" He starts melting. "Wait! D-don't go yet!" I held my hand towards him. "We'll talk again (name)." He's gone.
The fight between the huge version of Luther and Randal finally wraps up.
