A mysterious woman sat in the void realm where Steve and Lorraine were being held. She sat there, thinking about her encounter with Funk. An Insectine the chosen one, who could have guessed? A portal opened up, strange it was in the middle of the night. Alice walked through the portal. “Hello there Alice.”

She smiled, “It has been a while. How are things going with Steve and Lorraine?”

“Bad.”

“Just, bad?”

“Yes.”

“Alright, explain to me why things are going bad. You told me they would be perfectly safe while you are digging through his memory, to find Micheal.”

“Yes, they should be safe. But they are not.”

The mysterious woman sighed, “Look, first things first, Lorraine ending up in there was not planned. The idea was to plant you inside there.”

Alice nodded, “Yes, but we could not do that since he literally dragged Lorraine with him.”

The mysterious woman clouded in void mist nodded. “I should be able to protect them, however, the dream world, for some reason, started living a separate life. It started getting altered, without me doing anything.”

Alice sighed, “Why do you think that is?”

“Steve, he has an insane amount of willpower, it is almost like he is fighting my illusion with his own dream weaving powers, which would be, no that is impossible.” The woman shook her head to get rid of some nasty memories, “For some reason, he edited in his own fake memories, he is editing, the dream. It is no longer the dream we had set up, Lorraine tried to block out her past, to keep me from digging, and ended up with amnesia in that dream world. Steve filled in her past with some bogus memories.”

Alice shook her head, “What exactly is going on in the dream world?”

“A lot, somehow Steve has made it into some kind of spy story with a damsel in distress. It makes no sense at all. In this dream world, he is a secret agent, and he is getting married to Lorraine.”

Alice walked over to the void wall and punched it, it made a small hole the size of her small fist. The mysterious woman looked at her, “Does that make you angry? The fact that he chose another woman over you?”

Alice grunted, “What do you think?”

The woman let out a deep sigh, “Then you probably don’t want to know that Lorraine is pregnant.”

Alice screamed loudly as red energy swirled around and the whole space shook. The woman walked over to her, “Calm down. You have not heard the bad news yet.”

Alice calmed down with a few deep breaths, “What is the bad news?”

“Whatever happened to the dream world, it is in danger. If they die in there, then they die in the real world as well. It was not supposed to be like this. They should have a quiet, relaxing live. No trouble at all while we dig up information.”

Alice sighed and tried to remain calm, “If Steve dies, then our chance to dig up Micheal is gone as well, we cannot let that happen.”

The mysterious woman nodded, “You understand the predicament we have found ourselves in.”

Alice shook her head, “Why don't you just use your power to alter the dream and wipe their memories of this whole event, we would have to make something up about his missing left arm.”

The mysterious woman sighed, “I cannot do that. Whatever Steve did to protect Lorraine made some kind of barrier, stopping me from intervening, or even waking him up, he is in full control of my systems now.”

Alice grunted, “I am feeling very frustrated about this. Maybe I should ask Abby if I can kill her.”

The mysterious woman looked up, “Killing his friends is not going to help either of us.”

Alice put her hand on her chin, “Have you not read the latest newspaper? Abby is immortal.”

The woman grunted, “That is impossible, no, we need Micheal for this. No matter what his wishes were, to stay out of the loop, and not get involved anymore. If we want to stop what is coming, we need him, despite what some others think.”

Alice nodded, “Yes, I know. Do you think, it is what we fear?”

The mysterious woman nodded, “Yes, it has begun, just as Lux and Tenebris once told me.”

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Alice walked over to the ball of void mist where Lorraine and Steve were trapped in. “Do you think, we made the wrong move?”

The mysterious woman walked over to Alice, “Perhaps. While we need to find Micheal, our other task is to make sure, Steve must never find out what he is.”

Alice looked at her, “You know there is no way we can have Steve and Micheal around at the same time. They would both lose their minds at the revelation they would both have. If we find Micheal, then Steve dies. If we cannot find Micheal, he will die. It is as simple as that, to find a way to have both of them around, that is simply impossible.”

The mysterious woman sighed, “you are right, but we have observed that Steve likes to make a habit of making the impossible, possible, I also think we have Bella to thank for that, or maybe even the Grand Council. I just wish there was a way I could steer the void better in this reality, but I have been locked up for a long time, thank you for freeing me several hundreds of years ago. My power is still limited. She turned around, I just hope Tenebris and Lux are safe as well.”

Alice slowly nodded, “We need to figure out how to wake Steve up. Is there any way that you can get me in there?”

The mysterious woman turned around to look at Alice, “No, the horrible truth is, it is out of our hands. All we can do, right now, is hope that neither of them get hurt. Steve needs Lorraine. If she dies, we might never see Micheal again. This was a bad idea, we shouldn’t have done this, Alice. The monsters in this world are going rampant, hunting for Steve. Even the wild void element is stirring up and chasing him. We are holding it back, or it would have swept over this land. You need to go back, Alice, and fez up to Funk.”

She looked up, “What do I need to tell him exactly?”

“Just that you found Steve and Lorraine, tell him about the dream world.”

Alice nodded and made a portal, she went through it and ended up in the bunker. As she climbed out, she heard the wood chipper. Alice followed the sound and found Abby staring at the wood chipper. “Abby?”

She turned around, “Yes?”

“What are you doing, shredding wood in the middle of the night?”

“Oh, I am just wondering if I jump in, how long it will take to get back to the land of the living.”

Alice sighed, “Immortality is not something to play around with, Abby.”

She smiled, “I just found out, I cannot be killed.” She jumped into the wood shredder and blood and gore flew everywhere.

Alice screamed as she got covered in blood, a bone embedded itself in her leg, “Fuck, Abby!?”

Funk stormed out of a house and ran over to Alice. “What is going on?”

Alice just stared at the wood chipper, “Abby jumped in.”

Funk sighed, “Just wait for a while.”

After about ten minutes, they heard grunting and Abby slowly got up. “Woah, that fucking hurts! Yeah, baby!”

Funk blinked a couple of times, “Are you alright, Abby?”

“Yes, I am getting the hang of this.”

Alice scratched her head, “Abby?”

“Yes?”

“Why do you come back naked?”

She started to run in circles, “Who cares bitch, I am immortal.”

Alice sighed and went to get some clothes for herself and patch up her wound, she also decided to get clothes for Abby. When she came back, she gave them to Abby, then she looked at Funk. “While Abby starts to get dressed, I managed to locate Steve.”

Abby walked over, “Great, how is he doing?”

Alice sighed, “He has been taken by the void and put into a dream world. All we can do, is wait for him to wake up. Lorraine is with him.”

Abby nodded, “Alright, he should be back soon.”

Alice looked at her, “Are you alright?”

“Yeah, I feel as if I am discovering who I am.”

Alice looked around, “While he is gone, we should rebuild Brickton.”

Funk nodded, “That sounds like a good idea, are you with us, Abby?”

She smiled, “Yes, I might not be the most powerful person around, but I am immortal, no one is getting rid of me, not even these houses.”

Alice sighed, “I fear immortality might be getting to her head.”

Funk nodded, “She needs to be careful, it is not the idea that you are going to abuse your powers. Or it might backfire on you.”

Abby nodded, “I’ll be careful, but why should I not do remarkable things, like jump out of a skyscraper, or maybe even out of a plane, oh, I want to get decapitated.”

Alice facepalmed herself, “While you stew on that, I am going back to sleep.”

Funk nodded, “That sounds like a good plan.”