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From the creators of "Stay for the Party" and " _ The Fazbear Crew: Series" _

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Chapter 1: What We Consider Normal

Episode 1: Routine

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Troy sighed deeply, holding the photograph in his paws, staring deeply into it. Not even his mind could break though to it. It was clearly from Beyond, but who knew? Maybe his conscious was trying to tell him something. He did have all control...right? His train of thought was derailed when a knock came from behind his bedroom door. He walked over to the door and opened it, revealing his raccoon friend, Luke. The raccoon was chocolate brown and had green emerald eyes. Slim physique and nice attitude. He made a good leader for when things went bad. He notified Troy of things that the guard's would catch, or overall something that needs to be alert to the highest leader.

Which was Troy. He still didn't know how to feel about that. After everything that happened to them, just to get them here...forever lost in their detached minds.

Troy, was a fox. Slim physique, healthy, somewhat, and was always happy to have Luke around. He depended on Luke for answers most of the time, as, like I said, he seemed to notice or learn things before Troy ever did. As if he had eyes on the back of his head, or he could predict the future. But that'd take a lot of concentration to do so.

The fox had already set down the photo before approaching his friend, "Hey there. What's up?" he asked casually.

Luke looked over the other's shoulder, "You still puzzled by the photo?"

"Yeah," Troy sighed, moving out of the doorway to let Luke inside, "I just can't find out who the other two guys are. I can't think! I just can't!" he continued to mope, staring at the picture once more. The photo was of Troy and Luke taking a picture in their car, right before the car crash that put them in the mind in the first place. Luke and Troy sat in the front, as two blurred white figures sat in the back. These were called Blank People, or Blank Person. Someone who cannot be identified because of something once cannot remember from Beyond.

"Well," Luke sat beside Troy, looking at it, "who else was with us in the car ride?"

Troy groaned, "If I remembered, you would too." he set it down next to him, "Neither of us are going to remember."

"I'm sure we'll find a way to break Beyond." he pat his friend on the back, "Don't worry. We'll get this solved and worked out. We won't be living without the answers again."

"Thanks, man." Troy smiled, "I appreciate it. I'm not doing this for just my answers," he poked his pal in the chest, "it's for the both of us. Who knows what uncovering these Blank People could lead to? More concentration? Contacting the Beyond? The chance to escape the mind?"

"Well, let's not take the escape." Luke chuckled, "We had that chance, and we stayed and let ourselves die. We aren't going home, for sure, and that's final."

Troy shrugged, "I know. This nightmare is more of a dream come true."

"Actually," Luke stood up, "the real reason I came here was to tell you that another Hoard, Level 4, is approaching. Ready your extermination powers."

"Level 4," Troy walked with Luke outside the bedroom, "easy as pie." and he shut the door, the photograph still remaining on the bed. Where did it come from? Why was this here in the mind? How did it get here from Beyond? Who was in the photograph? What would the prize be?

It was like the closer they got to answers, they needed to ask more questions to get a significantly smaller answer, questions multiplied, and forever more, the prize getting smaller, unless they got lucky.

They kept going though. They weren't going to stop anytime soon.

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BEYOND - "Reality. Where you are now, living and breathing and following the laws of existence and time.

RIFT - "The portal of consciousness between the mind and Beyond. Where people fall into the slumber of mind and objects or beings from Beyond go through the Rift in order to arrive."

MIND - "Where Troy and Luke are, where they can do anything they want using consciousness. Anything is possible here, but in order to do the impossible, one must defeat the Nightmares."

CONSCIOUSNESS - "The power people use to do anything they can conjure with their brains. To gain more one must earn this power by revealing their deeper memories, like Blurred People."

NIGHTMARES - "Dark creatures that live deep in one's mind. They slowly dig themselves out from below, and if a dark secret is revealed from one's past, more Nightmare's will approach. Nightmare's can be contained, but hard to do so."

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Troy and Luke stood in front of the kingdom entrance, waiting only a minute before the Nightmares started to rise from the Core. They concentrated as much as they could, but not too much as they did not require than much Extermination to clear a Level 4 Hoard. As the crowd of monsters, all of them coated in black, inky goo and blood red eyes, they all shrieked and howled at the two as they both pointed their paws towards the running crowd. Troy nodded his head to the Nightmares, "Ready,"

the nightmares began to get closer, "concentrate,"

and eventually they were only a few feet away, "NOW!"

Like that, a large, pounding gust of blazing hot wink attacked the Nightmares. They all suddenly turned to stone before letting out a haunting screech, all mouths gaping open, eyes sinking into their wet, slimy, brainless yet not retarded skulls. They all seemed to be in extreme pain, but it meant none to the two. Troy let out another call, "Ready, concentrate, NOW!"

This time, another gust of wind blasted like a rocket at the statues, all of them crumbling to dust, starting to fade into an almost completely transparent smoke which dissipated with a second. Exterminated, and erased from the mind. Easy and done. This helped Troy realize just how much powerful Extermination was alongside Luke. The two shook hands, "Let's get back in the castle."

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EXTERMINATION - "The power to turn all Nightmares into stone. Easy to destroy using Gust."

GUST - "The power to blast a powerful, humongous gust of wind. Can be experimented with as it calibrates differently with effects from other powers, such as erasing leftover Exterminated Nightmares."