In the morning Ryan woke up to the sound of Alex being dragged into her cell again by two girls. Alex was laughing as they chained her arms and legs to the walls. As she sat on her butt laughing, Ryan stands up and walks up to the bars of his cell.

“Morning sunshine.” Alex replied still laughing.

“Good morning.” Ryan said while trying to remembering what happened last.

“Wow, I didn’t know you blew those assholes off the map last night.” Alex said in a proud yet hyper voice.

“Ya, but it’s not fair I ended up here for doing it.” Ryan replied to her while looking around the room.

“I heard your trial is in a few hours. I’m willing to vouch for you if you need a character witness.” Alex told Ryan seeming relaxed in her cell.

“Wait hang on, how can you vouch for me as a character witness if you’re locked in here?” Ryan asked confused.

“Haha I just told told you last night, I’m innocent!” Alex replied with a big smile on her face.

“That makes no sense!” Ryan told her as the door to the dungeon flies open again.

In comes four guards and Evelyn who walk in formation to Ryan’s cell. One guard opens it and they pull Ryan out and walk him out of the dungeon. They all walk him up through a long corridor and through his mother’s castle. There they hand him off to a Teleportation Mage and he gets teleported over to the Kingdom of Eyefore. Ryan who was confused about what was going on, just follows everyone into a massive courthouse. He was then led inside, and he can see a counsel of people representing the nations here talking amongst each other. Ryan takes a seat and the doors to the courtroom close.

Dark Master Oz comes walking over to Ryan with a big smile on his face.

“We were able to get your trial pushed up to today. Hopefully, everything goes good for you.” Oz told Ryan while he took a seat next to him.

In walks King Joe and Queen Lake walking together. Ryan spots Citra sitting in the audience of 80 people in the courtroom. King Joe walks up to the bench and starts discussing his case with everyone else.

“Joe, what in the hell was going through your mind when you gave the order to destroy one of your own cities?” One of the council members asked him.

“Oh, that’s an easy answer. I wanted all the surprise attacks on my kingdom to stop.” King Joe replied to them.

“But your choice to kill those anarchists resulted in noncombatants getting killed.” one of the council members stated.

“Let’s cut out this whole civilian crap out right now. We all know what those anarchists have done in the past. We know the sick twisted games they play and all that. I don’t care if my city had non-combatants in it. They raided that town after they failed to bring down Miseryland. They killed everyone in that town and took refuge in it. Destroying every single one of them was revenge for what they did to my own citizens. Now go ahead and pass your judgment. Am I guilty or am I innocent? Tick Toc assholes.” King Joe said while crossing his arms.

Everyone on the council smiles at King Joe and then look over at Scott who sat annoyed.

“Alright, all in favor for Joe being guilty raise your hand.” A female council member says.

As soon as she said that Scott’s hand flies into the air.

“Okay? All in favor of Joe being innocent?” The woman asked.

Everyone in the room including the audiences hands fly up.

“Hmm, okay then.” The woman said seeming satisfied.

“Am I free to go?” King Joe asked while pointing to the audience.

“Yes, sorry about that. You know how Scott is.” The woman said smiling at him.

“Okay now up next we have Ryan Glasser.” The woman said while Ryan stands up and walks up to the bench still handcuffed.

“Ryan, you are here by accused of carrying out an act of terrorism on civilians. How do you plead?” The woman asked him while playing with her hair appearing bored.

“Not guilty.” Ryan said appearing annoyed.

“Please explain yourself to the court.” A man in the back of the council asked him.

“Look, I was just approached by King Joe and Queen Lake to wipe them off the map. I did just that. I was a soldier who was blindly following orders for world peace. Don’t punish me for stuff I didn’t know at the time.” Ryan told them

The Council members look at each other and smile.

“Ryan, you did the world a good favor by wiping them off the map. Scott is the one who brought forth charges on you. We all find these charges a total waste of time.” The woman said while smiling at him.

“Thank you for what you did last night son, you’re free to go.” A man told him.

Scott then stands up and starts screaming.

“Hold up! This is preposterous!” Scott screamed at the others.

“No, Scott. What is preposterous is the timing of all this. Whose payroll are you on?” The woman asked him appearing suspicious.

“I’m on no one’s payroll. That bastard killed a whole bunch of civilians! I want justice for them!” Scott screams at them.

“That’s not what our intell says from a certain someone working undercover for the anarchy.” The woman tells him.

“Wait what?” Scott said appearing a little nervous.

Alex then comes walking all geared up into the courtroom up to the bench.

“Oh, hello asshole. You have been found out. Why not explain yourself to them?” Alex said while walking up to Ryan.

“Wait, the dark one! I knew you were trouble when I first met you!” Scott screamed in anger.

“Yep. I been playing both sides on behalf of the council. You’ve been getting kickback from the Anarchy to throw investigators the wrong way. The jig is up. Why not tell them everything you know? It will make it easier for everyone.” She told him.

“No! Never!” Scott screams getting ready to dart for the door.

Evelyn gets up and stops him. Pushing the Dwarf to the ground and restraining him.

The Dwarf tries to escape from his restrains but the council members walk over to him and pick him up taking him into a private room.

Ryan, who was still in handcuffs, smiles at this, but gets a surprise. Evelyn comes walking out of the room and grabs him and starts walking him outside the building. Ryan fully resists her, but she drags him outside and to an awaiting teleportation mage.

“Hey, I’m free to go! Whats the big idea?!” Ryan screams at her.

Without even responding to him the teleportation mage taps her staff on the ground and they all teleport back to Athens, Sivika.

Three other female guards grab Ryan and then drag him downstairs back into the dungeon. Ryan then gets forcibly chained back to the wall by his arms.

“What the hell! Let me go! I’ve been deemed innocent bitch!” Ryan screams in anger.

“You been deemed innocent by the International Diplomacy Counsel for terrorism, but you have NOT been deemed innocent by your mother for destroying Her town of Butts!” Evelyn screamed at him.

“Chill the hell out bitch. This is no way to treat a hero that put his life on the line for world peace.” Ryan told her with an angry tone.

“Oh, boo hoo dog fucker. I’ll see you tommorow for your trial.” Evelyn said while spitting on him. She then walks out the door of the dungeon and locks it.

Ryan balls his fists up in anger and just falls to his knees. He then rotates the shackles on his wrists and attempts to brings his hands from behind his back to the front of him by slipping them around his legs. He struggles to do this for eight minutes but after being stuck in an awkward position he manages to bring them in front of him. Now with his hands in front of him he sits down and crosses his legs and begins to meditate. He had so much anger and rage built up inside him he wanted to get rid of it via meditation. He meditates for forty-five minutes and then he hears screaming and yelling coming from the other side of the dungeon door. The door flew open and seven girls are seen dragging Alex who had a giant smile on her face inside the dungeon. Alex who was resisting and draining these girls of all their energy finally push her into her cells and slam the door. All the girls who were panting and leaning on each other then walk out the door and shoot Alex the finger. They all then lock the door behind them, and Alex starts bursting out in laughter.

Ryan just looks at her and grins.

“Ok, like seriously. What the hell did you do wrong?” Ryan asked seeming extreamly curious.

“Ryan, dude. Like I said last night. I didn’t do anything wrong. I’m innocent.” She said still laughing.

“That makes no sense to me. Just tell me what you did wrong.” Ryan asked her seeming very agitated and really wanting to know the answer.

“Dude, like I said I’m innocent.” Alex told him while sitting down in her cell with no restraints on her arms.

“This is really hard to believe. Your are always coming in and out. Like are you picking fights or something?” Ryan inquired.

“Nope.” Alex said with malicious smile.

“Okay I give up. Just tell me I’m not going to judge you.” Ryan told her.

“Dude, I’m legit innocent. Just change the subject please” Alex told him.

“Fine.” Ryan said while glaring at her.

Ryan then takes a deep breath and thinks of a topic to talk to her about.

“So, you were playing both sides on the anarchy ehh?” Ryan asked her.

“Yep. I’m trying to grind reputation by completing quests for all these countries. This double agent quest was an S-Class quest I started when I first met you over in Tourterra. I been slowly killing commanders and acting like a trainee and getting info for the International Council.” Alex told him.

“Really? Wow I didn’t know that. That explains why every time I see you; you’re usually nearby kicking the anarchy’s ass.” Ryan said to her.

“Yes, I pretty much had to get as much info as I could for them, so I had to pretty much hang out in the anarchy zone for as long as possible. Scott was on their payroll and they immediately dispatched him out to you when you brought down Butts. He thought he could be sneaky and remain in the shadows, but I kept a huge eye on him. He responded with the charges of terrorism so damn quick, that it puzzled the others. I mean, you killed off 98% of the anarchy when you destroyed Melonie. They really thought they could get revenge for their brothers that little troll act of yours by having you hung. But we all saw through his bullshit.” Alex told him while she put her hands behind her head and laid down on the cool brick floor while looking up at the ceiling.

“So, I guess this means I owe you one?” Ryan said while laughing.

“Nah, we’re even at this point. You saved me from that giant crab remember?” Alex reminded him.

“Oh ya, I forgot about that.” Ryan replied.

“Yep so don’t worry about it. But here is something that you might want to know. Scott represents Deland, and it was his sneaky actions that allowed the anarchy to break into that naval port and steal all those ships that attacked Staug City. He’s got hell to pay for that. Not just that, but right now as we speak all the Anarchy hideouts and recruitment areas, I reported to them are being raided by The Council’s Elite guards. We are purging this world from the Disturbia Anarchy and this operation should be done by tommorow.” She said.

“Ahh, nice!” Ryan replied feeling happy and reassured that he did in fact play a big part in bringing peace to this world.

“Alex, with all that reputation you are grinding, I still really want to know why the hell you are locked in here.” Ryan asked her.

“Dude, like I said I’m inno-“ Alex said while being interrupted by the door flying open to the dungeon.

Three new girls then come marching up to her cell and grab her, dragging her out by her arms. Alex starts laughing again and resisting these girls and they all get irritated and slam her down on her face. They then pick her up by her arms and the girl in the back picks her up by her legs, carrying her out of the room.

The door slams behind them and Ryan was left alone again. Ryan slams his head back mildly at the wall behind him and starts meditating again.

He meditates in peace for four hours. Those four hours go by quick like a dream and he then wakes up to the sound of Alex being dragged in by eight new guards. Alex this time was resisting fully and pushing everyone who was grabbing her back and away from her and trying to get away from the girls while she maintained her giant smile and laughter. A girl grabs Alex’s Leg and trips her before she ran away, and they all regroup on her. Hopping on top of her to get control of all of her arms and legs. They then throw her into her cell and slam the cell door on her and the girls all smile at her and start laughing.

“Okay, what the hell! ALEX TELL ME WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE! I’m dying to know! What did you fucking do!?” Ryan screamed at her with an extreamly painful feeling of anticipation.

“Dude chill out. Like I said. I’M INNOCENT. Its my birthday this week and I have nothing else better to do, and I’m choosing to spend my seventeenth birthday in here voluntarily. Don’t ask me why, I’m simply weird like that.” Alex said while laughing at him and giving him two thumbs up.

Ryan’s eyes shoot open with surprise and disappointment and facepalms.

“Seriously? You’re pulling a “Breakfast Club” right now?” Ryan asked feeling disappointed that he didn’t pick up on this from the start.

“Shhh! Don’t judge me. Its quiet, its cool, and depending on how weird you are it’s kind of relaxing down here.” Alex told him in a gothic like tone.

“Alex. This is basically a jail. This isn’t normal. Plus, how did you get the guards to agree to let you do this?” Ryan said to her.

“I don’t think of this dungeon as a jail. I kind of like the dark to be honest. There aren’t really a lot of places you can go to where you can get a cool dark room free of mosquitoes where you can relax and let your mind wonder free.” Alex told him while placing her feet under the bars of her cell and starts doing sit-ups.

“Also, they let me do this because as you may have noticed, I give the new guards a run for their money. I resist and provide those bitches on the job training. They all love me for that!” Alex said smiling at Ryan.

“Did not realize that.” Ryan said while he watches her doing sit ups in this low light environment.

“I’m about to take a nap dude. I’ll speak at your trial in the morning if you want me to.” Alex told him while pushing herself away from the bars with her legs.

“Sure, I’d like that. I’m going to keep meditating. I’ll probably take a nap in a few hours as well.” Ryan replied to her.

“Okay dude. Let me know if you need anything.” Alex replied to him.

Ryan doesn’t say anything and just closes his eyes and starts meditating again. He goes over everything he’s been through and a movie of his last day at school starts playing. He rolls over all the events he’s experienced since coming to this world and flash backs start hitting him hard. Fourteen hours later he awakens from his meditation like state to a tray of cold food that was laying by his feet.

He looks around and doesn’t see Alex in her cell. He looks down at his tray and sees some cold biscuits and a piece of birthday cake on a wooden board. He reaches over and eats the biscuits and some of the birthday cake that Alex left him while he was meditating.

“Ugh what time is it?” Ryan asks himself while looking around him. He then tries to summon his phone in his hand. The phone pops through the magic inhibiting handcuffs he had on him and he looks at the time. The time read 12:22 a.m.

“Wait, I’ve been meditating for fourteen hours straight? What the hell?” Ryan said out loud quietly in disbelief. He then pushes the tray away from him and pulls his blanket and pillow to him. He lays on the thick blanket and attempts to go to sleep.

The Next Morning

Ryan hears the door to the dungeon fly open and he gets another surprise from Evelyn. She unlocks his cell door and unchains him from the wall. He then gets lead upstairs into the royal courtroom in the castle. Evelyn removes the handcuffs from him, and he stands before his mother who looked really irritated at him in a court room that was nearly empty.

“Ryan, my son. You stand here charged with destroying one of my cities without my permission. What do you have to say for yourself?” His mom asked in a bored tone.

“Mom. Come on, it’s just a city. You know the full story. Why do I have to explain my actions to you? I was just following orders.” He replies to his mother.

His mom who was in a bored mood then rolls his eyes at him and stands up from her chair.

“It’s JUST a city? Ryan THAT CITY had irreplaceable tablets inside of it locked in a vault. They were inhibitors for somone I really don’t like. I can’t remake those tablets. Plus, that town also had really expensive equipment locked underneath it for manufacturing armor and machinery.” She screams at him in anger.

“Oh boo-hoo mom. Just sue me. I can’t turn back time and un-destroy the city.” Ryan said while rolling his eyes at her in disgust.

Right after Ryan said that Alex comes walking into the courtroom in a cheerful mood. She then stands right beside Ryan with a smile on her face.

“Umm, excuse me, but who are you, and what are you doing here?” Bunnell asked Alex.

“Oh, I’m Alex. I’m just here to provide a character witness to Ryan.” Alex told her while giving her a cheery thumbs up.

“Wait a minute…. Are you one of my Followers?” Bunnell asked Alex.

“No Ma’am. I don’t follow anyone at the moment. I do my own little thing.” Alex replied to her.

“You’re not the same black girl with a black and white striped armor, a pink trimmed sword who happened to cause an avalanche on a military camp of mine a few months ago, just to finish a quest are you?” Bunnell asked curiously with an aggressive tone.

Alex freezes in her tracks and gets scared twitching in regret.

“Umm, no ma’am. That was not me.” Alex said with a distraught smile.

“Are you sure? You are the only black girl I know of in this world.” Bunnell replied while crossing her arms.

“Umm ma’am I don’t identify myself as a black girl. When I look in the mirror, I see a quirky, weird cute white girl staring back at me.” Alex said with a cute innocent distracting tone to her voice.

“Uh-huh… Sure you do…” Bunnell replied sarcastically.

“You know what. I’m kind of short on time. I just want to say Ryan is a good friend, and he puts others first. Sure, he destroyed your city of Butts, but he was just following orders. Please have mercy and go easy on him.” Alex said hastily while tip toing back toward the courtroom doors.

“Anyway, good luck Ryan!” Alex said while walking out the door in a hurry. As the door closes Alex is filled with regret and fear that Bunnell hasn’t forgotten about the incident she was involved in with her dropping that mountain top of snow on that military camp. Alex darts out the castle and toward the mage hall for a quick teleport home back to Faterra.

“Shit I need to get out of here before I get chained up by the ankles like Ryan did without the opportunity to leave when I want to.” Alex thought to herself while she jogged away from the castle.

Inside the courtroom Bunnell had her hand on her forehead just thinking of what she wants to do to punish her son.

“Look I’m not going to execute you, or anything like that son. But you don’t know how pissed I am at you.” His mother said while taking a seat in her chair while crossing her legs. She then takes out a few pieces of paper and starts writing down some numbers.

“Look, I know your are going to receive a two million gold bounty from the International Council for bringing down that anarchy. Tell you what. I’m going to take that bounty from you and just let you go. Unless of course you want to renounce your faith to that loss cause of you know who and convert to my side.” His mother told him.

“Haha your funny. But No thanks. I will never join your side. I still kind of hate you for not being in my life. You’re not forcing me to join your side with that tactic. You can either lock me up, take my reward bounty of whatever but I’m not giving you any additional respect.” Ryan tells his mother while crossing his arms.

His moms eyes glow with rage and she stands up.

“Look here you little ungrateful asshole. I’m trying to be nice to you. Give me a chance to make things right to you.” His mom screams at him.

“No thanks. Just take my bounty. I don’t have time for anymore bullshit. I don’t have a party anymore and I really want to go on a solo adventure. Just do what you have to do.” Ryan said while leaning back in his chair. Evelyn comes from behind him and pushes him forward and grabs his neck and slams his face against the table in front of him.

“You will show Respect for Lady Bunnell you little asshole you got it!” Evelyn screams at him.

Ryan pulls his head up off the table and smirks at her.

“Kiss ass.” Ryan thinks to himself.

“You know what fuck it I tried. I cured your little STD you had, and gave you shelter for the night. You are really an ungrateful asshole Ryan. Hey Lilly, did you get conformation on what Ryan just requested? He said you can give me his reward in turn for the damages he caused.” Bunnell said while looking at a Female council member who was at the trial yesterday morning.

“Yes, Lady Bunnell. I received confirmation. I’ll give the bounty to you instead” Lilly replied.

Ryan rolls his eyes at his mom.

“Ok, can I go now? Or do you have plans to marry me to Evelyn while I’m here?” Ryan questioned his mother.

“Do you really want to marry her?” His mom said while quickly sitting upright and uncrossing her legs.

“No mom. I’m being sarcastic. I will NEVER get married to anyone. EVER. Especially a stuck-up religious bitch like her. ” He replied to his mother while pointing at Evelyn.

When he said that Evelyn balls up her fists and grits her teeth in anger.

“You know what. I really should make you marry Evelyn as a punishment. I know damn well she will straighten your ass out. But I’m not that much of a bitch. Just get your stuff and go.” His mother said while getting up out of her chair and walking away. Evelyn screams in rage and punches Ryan in the face.

“Stop fucking with my heart asshole!” Evelyn screams in rage and disappointment. She then bumps into the table in front of her and storms off pissed.

Ryan stands up and walks out of the courtroom and out of the castle.

He walks out of the city and the clergy that harassed him and Zephyr started following him. When he leaves the city, he sees Citra with blonde hair sitting in the shade under a tree reading a book.

“Glad everything worked out for you.” Citra said while marking the page on her book. She then grabs his backpack that had his landboard she was using as a pillow that Dark Master Oz acquired for him while he was locked up and throws it to him.

“So, where are you headed?” Citra asked while walking up to him and giving him a hug.

“Anywhere far from here. I need an adventure.” Ryan replied.

“I just talked to Liz yesterday after your first court trial. She asked if I can get you to come home and talk to Zephyr.” She informed him.

“Not yet. I’ve been bogged down by a party ever since I came here. I want to go adventuring solo for a while. Can you tell her I’ll be back home in like three months? I really want to explore this wonderful world on my own for a little bit.” He told her.

“Are you sure?” Citra asked him detecting some uncertainty to his response.

“Yes, Citra I am sure” He said while unclipping his landboard from his backpack.

“Okay? I guess I’ll head over there and tell them. But they REALLY REALLY miss their hot water heater.” Citra said humorously

“Tell them I’m still mad at myself for getting Noodle killed. I’ll be home in three months” He tells her.

“Alright Ryan. I’ll fly over there and tell her. If you need me, you know what to do.” Citra told him while walking away.

“I’ll summon you if I get in a situation I can’t get out of.” He tells her.

Citra smiles at him and reaches into her bra, pulling out a small pouch with 100 gold in it. She then throws it to him.

“I know you’re broke, so take this. I took the liberty of fixing your kite line while you were clacked. Go forth and have some fun.” She said.

Ryan nods at her and puts the gold in his backpack and pulls out his kite. He lays it out across the ground and notices the new line she put on it. He then unravels his lines and hooks up to the kite and launches it.

Ryan looks around him and hops on his board while summoning forth his phone into his hand. He can see his mother on top of her city’s defensive walls looking down at him. He looks at her and smirks at her and shoots her the bird. He then puts on a song that Noodle last played when he was alive while they were in that dungeon. He plays “Right Now” from Falling In Reverse and plays the song on Global mode. He then leans his kite and takes off going Northwest.

His mom just stood on the wall watching him move away from the city annoyed by this song that he was blasting and annoying the citizens here. She just stands there listening to this song he intentionally wanted her to hear and just glares as him while Evelyn stood faithfully beside her. They both watch him jam out to the song and ride out into the distance away from the town.