Latorfix summoned her weapon before using it to create a flash of yellow light. The intensity of it blinded Mally momentarily. Once Mally regained her senses, she found out that she was no longer in the room. She was now on a dark bridge that went on endlessly in both directions. The bridge was made of transparent glass tiles. Surrounding her from all sides was a void of darkness.
Latorfix: “Welcome Mally to your nightmare. Now you will get the firsthand experience of what it's like to be trapped in a Dream Box. I hope you enjoy it because this is where you will spend eternity in...”
Latorfix ran to Mally as she done the same. They both clashed with their weapons. Latorfix then went in to kick her in the stomach. Latorfix then shove her blade through Mally’s chest. Mally’s body went stiff that she couldn't move her body. With an evil laugh, Latorfix released her blade then kicked Mally off the bridge. Mally fell into the void bleeding purple energies. She closed her eyes to unconsciousness.
When Mally woke up, she found herself back on the bridge. Frightened, she observed her surroundings to wonder what had happened.
Mally: She expressed panic. “Am I alive...? I thought I’ve died... How am I here again? Was it all an illusion?”
Mally felt her body to discover the wounds Latorfix had inflicted on her had disappeared. What hadn't disappeared was the pain she felt from the attacks. She held her chest where Latorfix shoved her blade into before. To a distance, she saw Latorfix laughing at her.
Latorfix used her powers to summon many versions of herself. They surrounded Mally on both sides on the bridge. Mally looked on with disturbance to discover that she was now facing 60 Latorfixs. Each started to move to Mally from both sides. At a given point, they stopped where they were to summon their weapons. They directed their arrows towards her ready to shoot. Mally looked on helplessly not knowing what to do.
Latorfix: “Finish her off now...”
Mally expressed great fear as looked at a laughing Latorfix.
They started firing to her with their arrows. Mally tried to counter their attack but that was impossible. She was hit by thousands of arrows which were all direct hits. Purple energies moved out of her in the process. She staggered for a bit before tripping off the bridge falling deep into the abyss.
In a few moments later, Mally awakened to find herself back on the bridge. She held her body as if she was in a state of pain. Despite her body appearing well and fine, she still felt the pain of the thousands of shots that hit her body.
Mally: “This is really getting annoying... I just have to get close to her to attack.”
Mally decided to run on the bridge to where Latorfix was. Latorfix shot many yellow spheres to random areas in the void. They soon transformed into many suns. They were the size of basketballs. Mally stopped to see all the stars around her. With a look of concern, she decided to cover herself in 5 universe shields.
Latorfix laughed evilly a bit before influencing all the stars to explode. It caused a lot of explosions which shook the bridge fiercely. The heat from the exploding stars was causing parts of the bridge to melt and catch on fire.
Mally tried in her best attempts to safeguard her shields. Unfortunately, all of her shields shattered from the exploding suns. It led to her being exposed to the chaos. She soon faded off into the light.
When she woke up, she found herself back on the bridge. She went to her knees unable to move. What she felt was the sensation of burning in fire. She was holding herself out of pain. Frightened and paranoid, she started questioning her reality.
Latorfix: “You are so confused, are you? You're wondering why you are having nightmares of yourself being destroyed. It’s simple. I control your fate now.”
Mally: She had eyes of shock. “What do you mean by that...?”
Latorfix: “I placed you in an existence where you can experience the many possibilities of how this battle will end... With you losing of course... I could attack you in ways you can’t avoid or counter. No matter what you do, you can't avoid your destruction or even conversion...”
Mally: She expressed fear. “You can’t do this... It’s impossible...”
Latorfix: “Well... I can... You can try to free yourself from my power if you want. In the end, your future is inevitable... Accept that you have no free will... This is the end... Accept your future as a slave to the Impure Order.”
Mally thought to herself about the situation.
Mally: “She seems to have control over me... If there was some way I could break free from her powers, I will be able to stop this...”
Mally continued to reflect on her situation not knowing what to do. She laid her eyes off of Latorfix to focus on the Dream Box she was trapped in. Using her powers, she coated the Dream Box under a universe blanket. From it, she started to learn what the Dream Box was and how it functioned. Through it, she discovered a solution. She reflected on how she escaped from the Hallway of Dreams earlier.
Mally: “Let’s hope this works a second time... I have to wait until it is the right moment to attack...”
Latorfix: “If you aren’t going to attack, then allow me the do the honors...”
Latorfix summoned more versions of herself. The difference was that each Latorfix were outfitted with bombs. She influenced them to Mally. They were approaching Mally's position. Mally appeared scared for a moment but soon washed up some courage.
She used her powers to understand the matter that made up Latorfix’s creations. Once she gained enough intelligence, she used her powers to form out of nowhere 1000 microchips in the size of bees. She infused 10 microchips onto the bombs that each Latorfix was carrying. When all the Latorfixs’ bombs had microchips on them, Mally used her powers to activate the microchips.
The bombs each Latorfix was carrying started to go wild and crazy. Soon, electricity bolts started to pour out from the bombs and surrounded the Latorfixs. The electricity bolts soon reached the real Latorfix herself. Soon, all of Latorfix’s creations started to be electrocuted. The electricity bolts electrocuting Latorifx’s creations fused together to form a sphere of electricity. It soon consumed Latorfix’s creations then started to expand outwards growing bigger every second. Latorfix expressed shock on her face when she noticed the sphere of electricity approaching her.
Latorfix: “NO!! NO!! NO!!”
Latorfix resisting the electricity bolts around her, she used her powers to try to control the sphere of electricity. She struggled to push back and overcome the attack.
With that window of opportunity, Mally used the ropes of the bridge to form into a suit. She placed it onto a helpless Latorfix. Latorfix who was too busy countering the attack noticed a suit being placed on her body. The suit Latorfix now was wearing caused three pulses of purple light to emerge out of her body. It caused her body to go unresponsive making her unable to move.
Latorfix: “What is this suit you put on me!?! What have you done here!?!”
Mally: “It’s time Latorfix for us to wake up from the nightmare you had created… Now, this won’t take too long or hurt as bad…”
Latorfix: “What?!?!”
Mally charged up her powers before summoning a universe shield again. She expanded the size of that shield to reach where the electricity sphere was going. Latorfix was in between the sphere of electricity and the universe sphere. All she could do was look on helplessly as the two spheres made contact with her.
The contact caused an explosion that consumed the entire environment. Mally closed her eyes thinking happy thoughts. Latorfix yelled out of anger and pain while she was slowly being consumed into blinding light.
Once the explosion died down, it revealed through the smoke Latorfix on her knees injured. She appeared roughed up while having severe wounds on her body. White sparks were moving around her body. She got up to discover that Mally was gone. Shocked by Mally's move, she immediately went out of the Dream Box. Standing in front of her to a distance was Mally.
Latorfix: “So... You have figured it out... The only way you could have escaped the Dream Box was to wake up... You are still helpless against me... Accept that no part of you is safe from me… I’ll make you suffer for this…”
Mally: “Perhaps but you too are vulnerable now.”
Latorfix: “What do you mean?”
Latorfix noticed a tug on her body. Turning around, she discovered in worry to see herself being pulled back into the Dream Box. She tried to wrestle her way out from the pull but it was no use.
Latorfix: She expressed anger in her voice. “What is this!?! What have you done!?!”
Mally: “When I awakened more of my powers, I was able to understand the intelligence behind this Dream Box. It is connected to another machine called the Dream Machine. I was able to create a link to attach your body to this box. Now your body is a part of it. It is there where you will continue to experience your nightmares… This time, alone…”
Latorfix: “I will return and make you suffer endlessly for this...”
Mally: “Not if I destroy the Dream Machine...”
Latorfix: “Good luck destroying the Dream Machine... It is impossible... Even for you... Accept that it is simply too late for Humanity and the Earth...”
She got sucked into the Dream Box. From that moment, Mally felt great relief. She then walked over to the Dream Box to look at it.
Mally: “These Dream Boxes are technologies that download information from peoples’ dreams... It also downloads the information of their sleeping area in the physical world... The Hallway of Dreams I’ve experienced were really dreams from other people these boxes downloaded... These Dream Boxes must have been responsible for kidnapping people in their dreams... These Dream Boxes are part of the Dream Machine... I think I know where it is...”
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Mally left the Dream Box containing Latorfix to move off to where the Dream Machine was. She used the wires that were connected into each Dream Box as her guide to get there. All of the wires joined together at cylindrical wall column. They all ended up traveling upwards.
Mally went to the stairs then traveled upwards to the fifth floor. She was on a floor that was halfway in building height. Running to the center of that room, she saw all the wires from each Dream Box led to Dream Machine. Of all the Dream Boxes that she saw, six stood out from the rest. Unlike the rest of the Dream Boxes that were grey, the six Dream Boxes were golden. They surrounded the Dream Machine in a circle.
She went over to one of the golden Dream Boxes to see Theodore unconscious in the bed. When she looked at the room Theodore occupied, she discovered that it was the same hospital room she and her friends had visited before.
Mally: “This box is showing an unconscious Theodore in his room.”
She journeyed to the next Dream Box to see herself sleeping on her bed in her bedroom.
Mally: “My own self asleep... This is getting really disturbing...”
Mally was trying to wrap her head around what she was seeing. She looked at the other four boxes to reveal Penelope, Kathleen, and Shawn sleeping in their bedrooms. Martin was sleeping in a fast food restaurant.
Mally: “So, they were spying on my friends as well... I’m assuming the Impure Order must have spied on us this entire time through these technologies... Whatever the case, I have to destroy this machine or more people will suffer...”
She summoned back her weapon into its book pendant form. She tapped it once for her eyes to glow purple. Using her hands, she felt the Dream Machine with her eyes closed.
Mally: “This Dream Machine is created by gathering dream information from other peoples’ dreams. It targets people when they are sleeping… It uses categories within it to search out for the right victims… Those categories are evilness, hatred, depression, selfishness and any other form of darkness… Anyone who embodies darkness, evilness and corruption within them would fall prey to this machine… Only those who are pure of heart and nature could be spared…
Once the Dream Machine finds people that best match up with its categories, it gains every form of intelligence it could off of their dreams. The information is sorted and organized before being placed into the Dream Boxes around me… The machine also traps people in their dreams to prevent them from waking up from their dreams… The only time the Dream Machine would wake them back up to the physical world is when they are fully corrupted in nature…”
The information she discovered gave a chilling sensation down her spine. She studied the machine some more.
Mally: “I suspect that people experiencing comas in the physical world are victims of this machine… They must either be very bad people or people who embraced the darkness within themselves… Theodore couldn’t be one of them… Could he? No… I know him as a cheerful and outgoing guy… He is a very good person… If this machine is the reason why Theodore can’t wake up, I have to destroy it… But first…”
Mally summoned out her Awakening Book. In the process, the purple glow in her eyes faded away.
Mally: “Awakening Book, can you download the information of the Dream Machine?”
Awakening Book: “Certainly.”
Her Awakening Book sent out a white beam that consumed the entire machine. Afterwards, the beam returned back into her book.
Awakening Book: “The information of the Dream Machine is downloaded into me.”
Mally: “This information might prove useful... Now to destroy this machine...”
Mally charged her weapon before firing a shot to the machine. Her weapon simply bounced off it. Every shot she gave to the machine didn’t affect it.
Mally with her sword form tried to stab the machine. She tried to dig through it to ruin its circuitry. Unfortunately, the way the machine was made allowed it to be resilient to her attacks.
Mally: She looked on with concern. “This machine is difficult to destroy...”
She tried to alter its shape to ruin the circuitry of the machine. No matter what she did, the machine remained unaffected. She looked at the machine worried.
Mally: “My powers aren’t affecting this machine... I can’t let other people go through this... I must try to find a way...”
She stood over the machine while thinking what else she could do. Looking at one of the Dream Boxes showing Penelope sleeping gave her an idea.
Mally: “I must read what types of materials this machine is made up. Maybe, I could find a weak point in its design.”
She summoned back her book pendant. With it, she touched the machine to read what type of materials made it up. Through her observations, she discovered a clue. She turned her attention to the Dream Boxes.
Mally: “I feel that the Dream Boxes are the source to its existence... Hmm...”
She summoned back her weapon again to make another attempt to destroy the machine. Her attention was focused on the Dream Boxes showing her friends and herself. One by one, she destroyed the boxes into pieces. A smile was on her face. Unexpectedly, she witnessed the Dream Boxes slowly restoring themselves back to normal. Soon, they were good as brand new.
Mally: “This is really starting to annoy me... Why can’t I just destroy this annoying machine!! Unless...”
She once again destroyed the boxes. That time, she charged up enough power before firing energy spheres to the Dream Machine. The machine altered in shape a bit before she saw sparks. A narrow beam of light emerged out of a side of the machine. It hit a part of the ceiling. At some point, her energies gradually couldn’t damage it any further. The beam of light disappeared and the machine started to return back to its normal shape. When she glanced at the Dream Boxes, she noticed they were regenerating.
Mally became more frustrated than before. She rubbed her head with her hand to show how stressed she was. An answer soon came to her awareness.
Mally: “So... This machine could only be damaged once a Dream Box is destroyed. The Dream Boxes gives this machine its immunity. This machine fuels these Dream Boxes with Impure Energies... I have to destroy all the Dream Boxes in this room. Then I have to destroy this Dream Machine quickly before the Dream Boxes could rebuild themselves.”
Mally charged her powers up to the point that her weapon was shaking. She then consumed the entire environment in purple energy. It caused mostly everything in the room to form into 1000 purple colored robots. She paired each robot with a Dream Box in the room. For the Dream Machine, she paired 10 robots near it. Quickly, she ran downstairs out of the Dream Machine Room to position herself near a wall. She summoned 6 universe shields around herself for protection.
She paused for a moment before emitting a purple energy pulse from her weapon. The robots immediately shot universe lasers to each Dream Box in the room. Each Dream Box that was exposed to the lasers began to liquefy. The boxes tried to restore themselves at first. At some point, the boxes couldn't that they ended up as puddles of energy matter.
Once she heard no more boxes being destroyed, she emitted another pulse to influence the robots near the Dream Machine to blast their universe lasers to it. Their attack on the machine started to give the machine severe damage. Dark energies, sparks and beams of light were emerging out from the machine. The Dream Machine went wild and crazy while glowing red and shaking at some moments.
A red-orange light emitted out of the machine. It was followed by a force that fiercely shook a portion of the building. The force of energy destroyed all of her robots in the process. The destructive energy rushed out of the room in fire and flying debris. Mally had to cover herself in three more universe shields as a precaution. She hoped that her shields could resist the force of the explosion.
Once the explosion settled, she saw heavy smoke and pieces of building materials flying everywhere. When the smoke cleared, she turned around inside the Dream Machine Room to witness the damage. Smoke and pockets of flames were at certain areas of the room. Pools of energy matter that were once Dream Boxes were everywhere. She went upstairs to meet up with the Dream Machine which was a pile of dust.
Mally: She had happiness on her face. “Finally... That machine is destroyed... Hopefully all the victims here will be free... Hopefully Theodore would be able to wake up back to the physical world. It’s only the Conversion Device as I call it that needs to be dealt with... Maybe the materials in this building could assist me in this.”
Mally ran out of the Dream Machine Room to venture down the hallway. She kept her eyes open for any threats. The path soon led her to a room which was closed shut. She took a deep breath before opening the door. On the other side, her eyes were filled with wonder.
What she saw was a circular room that was 50 feet in radius and 10 feet high. Inside the room, she saw a lot of alien-looking technologies.
Mally: “There is so many advanced technologies here... It would take me a while to explore all of them.”
She walked to one of the technologies. The first technology she saw was a creation in the size of a small room. It had the outlines of a cube but the cube itself was invisible. Inside of that cube, there were a variety of material things. There was a sofa, a stuffed toy dog and a fancy purse. On a side of the object, she saw two buttons. One of the buttons had a plus sign on it while the other button had a minus sign on it.
She pressed the minus button. As the invisible cube shrank, the stuff inside it became smaller. With curiosity, she pressed the plus button. When the invisible cube stretched, the stuff inside it became larger. She learned that technology was meant to minimize or maximize objects’ sizes.
She walked over to another technological creation. It was a spinning wheel that was spinning by itself. It was the size of a truck’s tire.
Inside it was a thin piece of tube that looked like a test tube. It had dark liquid flowing inside it. When the wheel went faster, she noticed the dark liquid inside the tube filling up. Eventually, the tube was full. At that moment, the wheel stopped spinning.
Mally took the tube out from the wheel to carefully observe it. What she saw were energies that were associated with Impurity. Out of disapproval, she placed it back into the wheel.
She walked over to another technological creation. It had the appearance of a lamp. With curiosity, she turned on the lamp for the light bulb to turn on. It caused tiny orbs to emerge from nowhere from the air. They got sucked into the lamp causing the light bulb to increase in luminosity. Soon, a beam of darkness shot off from the head of the lamp to the ceiling. From the ceiling, the darkness was gradually spreading outwards. Mally with a look of concern decided to turn the lamp off. It caused the beam of darkness to disappear and for the darkness on the ceiling to stop expanding outwards. They soon faded off into the air.
Mally: “That was a close one... I better be careful of activating these technologies. They are after all created by the Impure Order... If I could find a way to alter these technologies, I might have the resources needed to stop the Impure Order.”
Mally continued her exploration in the chamber of technologies.
Back in the dark forest, Penelope was engaged in a fight against the gang members. Looking at her, she appeared ruffled up with ripped up clothes. She was injured and gradually becoming tired. At the tree house, Bastructour was smiling out of amusement while relaxing in her chair. Kathleen looked on with a sense of fear on her face. Eventually, she couldn’t bear to see her friend struggle anymore.
Kathleen: “Stop this… She can’t fight anymore…”
Bastructour: “Why stop it? It is fun to me and my troops… Tell me to stop again and you will be joining her…”
Kathleen looked down to the ground feeling helpless.
One of the gang members started to run to Penelope. She moved back then chopped him to the side of the head. He ended up staggered for a bit before moving back into the mob.
Two gang members from both sides moved in towards her. Penelope responded by moving back for both of the gang members to punch each other in their faces. She used that to her advantage by kicking one in the stomach. She spun around to kick the other gang member in the stomach.
Both fell to the ground hurt. The crowd of gang members looked at them for a while. They then turned to Penelope seriously. Their evil laughing soon broke through their seriousness. They summoned out their weapons from within the mob. Their weapons were in the form of bats, wooden clubs, metal chains and other forms of weaponry. Penelope stepped back seeing them armed.
Penelope: “Hey! Why not face me with your fists! You’re cowards for using your weapons!”
Bastructour: “Or... Are you hiding the fact that you’re weak...?”
Penelope: “I’m not weak!!!”
Penelope stood her ground while the gang members continued to laugh at her. She soon started to reflect on Shawn’s dream experience involving the Impure Troops. She recalled on how the Impure Troops were able to summon out their weapons from their book pendants. She went from anger to expressing a smile on her face. Some of the gang members looked at her with confused looks while others kept laughing at her.
She started to summon out her sword forcing the gang members to stop where they were. They appeared to be no longer laughing but were now serious. She looked at her weapon with great interest.
Kathleen looked on with amazement on her face.
Kathleen: “This must be the weapon form that Shawn was telling us about…”
Bastructour looked on with amusement as if not really that interested in Penelope’s ability to summon her weapon.
The gang members held their weapons while being in attacking positions. They appeared ready to charge to her at once. Penelope looked at them with a determined smile on her face.
Penelope: “Come on!! Let’s do this right now!!”