Once the sun had set, the gang decided to rest. After all, having a gigantic worm chasing you and all your friends is really tiring.
Jacquie went to sleep, hoping for a dreamless night.
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Hello, Jacquelynn.
A voice resonated throughout the black void Jacquie found herself floating in.
Hello, Jacquelynn, it said again.
Jacquie tried to speak, but it felt like her mouth was wired shut. She thought, Who is this guy?
I'm Kyle, he said.
Why is it so dark in here? Jacquie thought.
Oh, the voice said, I believe I should, lighten up the situation, eh?
The dark void was lifted into, well, a white void. and Jacquie was now sitting in a soft, white chair. In the chair in front of her, was a tall, blonde man in a bright, neon tuxedo. He wore a three-pointed bowtie with stripes and polka dots. Fuchsia pants lead down to his orange shoes. He looked at Jacquie and she saw that he had blue-green cat eyes.
"How are you?" he asked.
Jacquie was now able to speak. "What is this place?" she asked. "And why do you look like something the eighty's puked on?"
"Ignoring the insult," Kyle said, "This is the mindscape. We're inside your little head. Weird, isn't it?"
The void broke away and revealed tons of Jacquie's memories. They floated like picture frames in a dark abyss. Jacquie remembered some of them.
Jacquie found a memory from a few years back during her first year at her new school. Her teacher had just realized the class rabbit, Oliver, was actually a girl, and so the class renamed her Ollie. Jacquie and one other girl insisted that her name should be Olive instead. Jacquie noticed the memory glowed brightly as she remembered it.
"Now that you know that," Kyle said as the white void returned, "It's time for your choice." The walls turned a soothing shade of blue.
"My choice in what?" Jacquie asked.
"You have two options," he said.
That's kind of how choices work, Jacquie thought.
"Hey," Kyle shouted, "I don't need to take that kind of jazz from you or your boyfriend!"
"Jazz?" Jacquie questioned. "And what do you mean, boyfriend? Are you talking about Kyran?"
Kyle shook his head and said, "No, no. It's not this you. It's hard existing as an interuniversal being, because whenever you decide to travel to a different universe for a month and you spend it with your friends whom all looked like they stepped out of a 50's film, you get really confused when you see them all again in your prime dimension wearing their usual garments and having their normal names."
Jacquie stared at Kyle blankly.
"Sorry," he said, more to himself than Jacquie. "Forgot my intimidating public image."
He turned to Jacquie and said, "You are going to be shown someone's ultimate fear. Your choice is to either be shown your own ultimate fear, or one of your friends' ultimate fear."
He started to float to the ceiling and said, "Take as much time as you—"
"I choose the second one," Jacquie said.
"Woah," Kyle muttered as he floated down. "She took much longer the first time…"
"What do you mean, ‘first time'?" Jacquie said.
Kyle didn't pay any attention to her. He said, "Great. I hope you're ready to see Sunset's ultimate fear!"
"Who's Sunset?" Jacquie asked. "And why are you so confusing?"
"Hey, ask me again when Spark's arc is, okay?" Kyle said.
"What?!"
Kyle shook his head, snapped his fingers, and everything became black once more.
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