Chapter 16: Lunarside

Chapter 16:
	Kyle and Allison turned around to see a person who's features were hidden by a large costume, hiding every part of his body. The costume was grey, and akin to a rabbit. The chest of the costume was mainly grey, with small, grey circles on it. It also seemed that if he were to be pushed, he'd be unable to get up.
	"I'm sorry, we've never met before, so you can't know our names." Allison (who was now reunited with the head) tried to leave, but the strange man blocked their way
	"Hey, did you notice that I'm Totoro?" the man attempted to dance, but fell down. Strangely, he disappeared for a second, then reappeared standing up.
	"Ah yes, that's cool, but we need to go." Athena seemed concerned for the man's ability. She then just dismissed it as her hallucinating.
	"Are you going to the convention too-" the man was interrupted by Bethany, he previously wore a smile, but it immediately disappeared as Bethany interrupted him.
	"Oh my god, can you see that we don't care? Now get your fat butt out of this aisle or I'm gonna bite it off!" Bethany ran towards the man, she attempted to bite him, but he disappeared, he reappeared behind the group, the color of the eyes now black and red, the costume's head started slowly spinning.
	"How can you leave when you are stuck forever?" the man started talking slower, eventually taking a few seconds to pronounce each syllable "Stuck in Lunarside..." the lights dimmed, eventually no one could see. There was what sounded like a violent explosion. Then neon lights started lighting up the signs in the store that advertise new deals in the store. Besides the new lighting, the group was unaffected.
	"Well, I don't have good eyesight, so these lights aren't going to do." Hyde pulled out a flashlight and turned it on, however, it didn't seem to work, until he flashed it onto a neon sign, and cancelled out the light. Hyde heard what sounded like the man's voice echo around the building.
	"Yeah, you're not gonna see well with a flashdark!" the man chuckled, and stopped talking. Hyde followed his advice and put away the flashlight.
	"So, I guess light is dark now, let's just try to find the others." Athena led the group through the store. After about ten or so minutes of running in complete darkness, the clan sees a sign flashing neon purple and blue, which said "Bingo L" and nothing else. Athena walked closer to the sign, but didn't see a dog, she instead saw a tall, purple haired human. The human wore a purple shirt and black jeans, what would normally be white in his eyes were black, and had red eyes. He was standing by the mini taco stand, which was operated by a painting, not yet dried, so blue and yellow paint streaked down the otherwise beautiful sunset. The human walked up to the group to greet them.
	"Hello, I am Bingo, as you can see by the sign, but not exactly like Bingo, I'm known as Bingo L. This is Earth, but not exactly Earth, this is Lunarside." Bingo L didn't seem to notice that he wasn't a dog, but a human.
	"So, uh, Bingo L, how do we escape this place?" Bethany seemed kind of jealous of Bingo L.
	"Good to know you're being calm in this situation-" Hyde (who was surprised about Bethany's ability to keep calm) smiled, but it quickly faded hearing Bethany's next statement.
	"Bingo L, why are you hot and human now, but I'm still ugly and dog?" Bethany kept a calm tone, but seemed to be boiling with rage.
	"Well, I was born here, so I'm permanently affected by Lunarside, so if I were to go to your world, I won't be what you call 'ugly and dog'" Bingo L started adjusting his hair "Also, you asked about escaping, but since you're from another world, you are, spoiler alert, trapped here forever, in Lunarside!" Bingo walked into seemingly an invisible wall and fell. Kyle started looking around, trying to find a way out.
	"Wait, if that strange man got us in here, maybe he can get us out?" Kyle looked up, expecting the man to say something. After a few minutes of silence (the group already losing hope) the man spoke again.
	"Okay, you got me, I can get you out, but, Kyle, I have to reveal something." the man appeared again, in the large Totoro suit "I am actually one of your friends, Uraccountcrashed!" Ura started laughing.
	"But, Ura, why?" Kyle felt that there was going to be a fight, so he prepared himself.
	"I'm not Ura! Jeez, I was lying. I am really one of the last Figures guarding the capsule, I knew Adrian told you that if you came here, you'd learn something. So, I'll tell you the capsule's location, it is in, Salem, Oregon, Earth, Milky Way." he started taking progressively slower.
	"Thanks, I didn't get your name, what was it?" Kyle held out to shake his hand.
	You may have noticed the low class Figures are named after Gods, that's because they are known as 'Gemini Rank Figures' well, I'm named after the font 'Aster' because I am the mighty Aquarius Rank Figure! Also, you know too much, hello, and goodbye." Aster started floating in the air, laughing maniacally.
	"Oh, I've heard of Aster, he's quite, what's the word, oh yeah, discriminating, he's tried to run for chief before, in all of his campaigns, he refers to half-Figures as 'tumors to society' and it's a little obvious to see why that's hurtful." Aster started vibrating, and despite being airborne, he made the ground shake, shocking everyone but Kyle and Athena (Athena seemed disoriented, but Kyle was unharmed), those who were shocked fell unconscious.
	"Oh, I call that attack 'Heartache,' mainly because it sounds cool, but also because it incapacitates every non-Figure entity it comes into contact, I don't know why it's not hurting Kyle, but maybe another one will do." Aster fell from the air at a high speed, slamming into the ground at the speed of a bullet train. Holes opened up from the seemingly invisible ground, shooting bolts of electricity from the holes. Athena and Kyle tried landing a hit on Aster, but all Athena could do was slap him with her ghostly hand. Aster flinched, and a piece of paper and a pencil dropped from him. Filled with curiosity, Athena grabs the pencil and paper from a distance, she stared at it, but couldn't understand it.
	"I think this paper is important, but there's just random letters and punctuation on it!" Athena gave Kyle the paper and pencil, and dashed towards Aster. Aster casted another "Heartache" and somehow harmed Athena (possibly from her human side of her family) and fell unconscious.
	"Just you and me Kyle, but I surrender, you can go back- Heartache!" Aster slammed the ground again, sending electricity through the ground.
	Kyle successfully dodged the attack, and observed the paper.
	"Hmm, this looks like coding, but, why?" Kyle looked at a command written on the paper [attack:electric:"Heartbreak":non-figures]" and decided to change "non-figures" to "self." Aster seemed unstable after the code change.
	"ooooooo---Kay'/! y--you cans-s--s-s stop ...meow- uh. now.." Aster's speech was also unstable, the words he was attempting to say appeared in text, above him, and like what his name suggests, in the Aster font. Kyle wrote a few new commands on the paper, "[world:lunarside:off]" and "[command:hyde:bethany:allison:athena:revive]" like what the commands suggested, the dark, endless mass known as "Lunarside" turned back to the aisle they were at before Aster sent them to Lunarside. The other members woke up, too.
	"Kyle, was it a dream?" Athena stood up, and helped up the others stand up.
	"The paper seems to be like coding, but for Aster, it's strange." Kyle pointed to Aster, who has shaking violently, parts of his body disappearing and reappearing against his will. His speech seemed a little more stable.
 "I'll. Leave. Now. But. I'll. Return." Aster attempted to fly away, but before he reached the ceiling, he disappeared, leaving an explosion. A small garnet stone fell to the ground, with a message in the Aster font.
	"If you're reading this message, "Aster" has been broken"