"i'm back." you walk over to your friends with your hands in your pockets and find that tyler and aiden were already back. aiden looked at you confused. "what took you so long?" "had to take a shit."

you harshly push tyler's head, "scoot over." he growls but complies, scooting over towards his ben to give you space as you hum and sit down with one of your legs outside of the couch.

ashlyn looks to see that everyone was here before starting the conversation, "so, you think healing is tied with how fast we emotionally recover from the injury?"

taylor slowly nods while fiddling with her waffles. "...i guess that would make sense. it might explain why we felt a lot better after sleeping and eating in the phantom dimension as well. mental recovery and all that."

"how long have you guys been having those dreams?" logan asks all of a sudden, catching you off-guard since you didn't tell anyone??

"after i died." tyler replied so you visibly let out a sigh after realizing that logan didn't have any weird psychic abilities and that tyler had told him.

taylor turnd to look at tyler conerned, "and you didn't think to tell anyone?" "not really." tyler replied while resting his cheek on his palm while you side-eyed him.

"i mean, isn't it normal to have nightmares after something like that?" aiden says all of a sudden which made your eyes widen. "you've been having these dreams too?" you ask and he looks at you slightly shocked.

"you're having them too?" "well obviously?? the real question is why you're having them."

he stayed silent for a moment before answering, "about when you died when it was actually me who was supposed to die." you look at him concerned, "yeah yeah but still, how come you're having them when you didn't die?"

"it's different when it comes to me and tyler since we both died, but you?" you tilt your head confused while ashlyn stared at you intently. and after a while she spoke, "if you three are having them, and i'm also-" 'WOOP'.

you snap your eyes outside of the window and see three police cars standing outside.

"wonder what happened out there?" and instead of being worried, everyone started stating their opinions about what happened. "maybe someone was speeding?" taylor raised one of her eyebrows.

aiden giggled, "if we're doing bets on it, i call dibs on drugs." tyler side-eyed him, "i say they rear-ended someone."

"i say someone called the opps on us." everyone turned to look at you when you said that, which made you confused. "what? there's always a possibility."

then all of a sudden ben tapped the table and signed, 'where employees?' at that, everyone started looking around for any customers or employees but saw nobody around.

'maybe i jinxed us?' you sign back and was hit in the head by the cup that ashlyn was holding. "DON'T jinx it. we better get going." she stood up and put on her backpack, making everyone follow her and do the same.

when you put on your backpack, you tugged on it a little and then adjusted the beanie you were wearing, making sure that only a tiny bit of your hair showed since both you and ashlyn went for the "look like a dude" type of outfit.

'WHAM' you all snap your heads towards the entrance when a bunch of policemen start storming in. "don't move! everyone, hands up!" he yells while holding up his tazer as a warning.

you hesitated but was forced to hold up your hands when ben had gently used his own hand to put yours up.

"...what's this about?" ashlyn asked cautiously, eyes darting around.

the policeman didn't answer and instead decided to list your names, "ashlyn banner, y/n l/n, aiden clark, ben clark, taylor hernandez, tyler hernandez, logan fields, all of you kids are to be detained and are classified as dangerous."

"we will use physical force if you do not comply, and if necessary, lethal force." ashlyn glances at ben and he nods, making you look at them confused. 'what the what?? OH WAIT-'

the policeman first approached ben and just when he was about to cuff him, ben had snatched a fork and stabbed his shoulder. another police raised his tazer but taylor had grabbed his face and slammed it against the window.

then the third police looked at his two colleagues and raised his gun to taze you since he panicked but you simply side-stepped and grabbed the back of his neck, slamming him onto the floor.

you hear aiden yell out something to ashlyn about the exits but you weren't listening that well due to the grown man you were holding down.

then all of a sudden you felt yourself get tazed.

everyone snapped their heads towards you concerned but you simply shook your head and slowly looked at the cop that had tazed you, "what the hell was that?"

y/n no longer has a reaction to being tazed, due to her being forced to wear a shock collar.

the cop fumbled and accidentally hit ashlyn with the tazer, making her clutch her chest and fall down onto the floor while the lights flickered.

and everyone in your group felt it, the shift of surroundings.

then all of a sudden, all of the cops outside fell down while the others took this opportunity to absolutely bully the shit out of the cops that had hurt 'you' and ashlyn while you scooted over to her.

"are you okay, ash?" "urghhh...." "alright."

you look at the wire thingies that were attatched to her arm and not so gently pull them off. "sorry." you apologize and use your teeth to snap the wires apart, even though it would probably do nothing.

"i got their weapons." logan exclaimed, catching everyones attention (even the cops) but the cops' attention was stolen away when phantom-like monsters started appearing before them.

"HELP!" you snap your head towards the cops and see them shooting at a bunch of phantoms.

your eyes widen, "what the hell?" you look at the sky and see that it was blood red, how it was in the phantom dimension. ashlyn trembles, "are we in the phantom dimension..?"

taylor and logan run over to the glass to yell at them to use their flashlights but it was no use, they couldn't hear them, or they were just ignoring them.

you stand up (since you were crouching next to ashlyn) and take off your oversized shirt, leaving you in just your black turtleneck as you roll up the sleeves and start making your way towards the door.

it was easy, just bring a damn light and use your shirt to suffocate the damn phantoms. that was your 'plan' but in reality you just reacted out of pure instinct when you saw the phantoms.

you couldn't care less about those cops, but you always put yourself in danger first to potentionally save a life.

"y/n stop! we need to grab our lights and-" taylor was about to reach out to you but stopped, staring out the window in pure terror while you did the same, dropping the shirt you were holding.

'CRUNCH'

"after extensive trail and error, we've deduced the method that these creatures use to take over a host's body. thanks to the success of mixing ashlyn banner's blood with that of a normal person with no connection to the entity's dimension."

"the subject seems to have opened a rift inside itself. while these entities appear to not be able to exist on our plane on their own, they are able to do so, with a host."

"the subject was successfully able to transfer an extra entity into the host."

maverick looks at the blood tube that was hid far away in the corner, it was your blood. speculations that you could also bring people into the phantom realm, was a possibility.

however, when they tested out your blood....

you stare in horror at the policeman that was currently getting his mouth ripped open by the phantom, and said phantom shoved his head into his mouth until it was fully inside.

his body then started to melt, he was spasming on the floor until he fully became a phantom and then into some gooey shit (i literally cannot explain scary things because what the fuck is this).

'what the hell? is that how the coma patients turned into infected? are the cops infected in the human dimension now?' then all of a sudden, a bunch of phantoms had broken the windows and rushed in.

"GO! out the back!" tyler yells, rushing to run out the back while ben held out his (muscular) arm by your waist to pick you up (WITH ONE ARM BOOMSHAKALAKA) and force you to come. 

why? because you had actually tried to regain the shirt you dropped but it was taking so long a phantom almost got to you.

you didn't even manage to pick up the shirt so now you're just wearing your turtleneck.

────✧˚.⋆

"where are we going??" "i don't know, but there has to be a more secure place than a waffle home around here." tyler replied, since he was basically guiding everyone into a weird alleyway.

logan was at the back (of the pack🐺), "all our weapons and stuff should be at the motel right?" nobody had answered him.

aiden on the other hand, chuckled. "ah- it feels a little like deja-vu huh?" he was implying to the first time the seven of you were sent to the phantom dimension, how you had to run into the boys' motel room.

"you shut up!" you yell, bumping into a street light in the process so you had almost fell onto taylor if it wasn't for her catching you last second.

then all of a sudden, ashlyn stumbled. and it was in her moment of weakness when a phantom thought it would be funny to attack her if it wasn't for ben picking her up and throwing her over his shoulder.

logan gulped and whipped out his gun (NOT THAT ONE), succesfully shooting down the phantom before quickly running back to you six who had gotten a bit further away from him.

"ash! what happened?!" you yell, not even looking back at her since you had to watch out for phantoms that could possibly jump out in front of you. "...i don't know... i'm dizzy..." she replied.

taylor groaned, "isn't it daytime right now?! how are we here?!" you scoffed. 'how the hell would we know stupid girl! taylor! god sometimes she's so stupid!' you mentally slap yourself, 'calm down!'

aiden seemed to notice that you were getting angrier by the moment considering that he could see veins visibly throbbing on your temple and (lowkey muscular) forearms. "calm down n/n!" "I AM CALM."

he quickly snapped his head forwards when he saw logan laying on the ground, so he took out his flashlight and aimed it at the nearing phantom before grabbing him by the arm. "logan you good??"

he looked down at the boy who was now crouching. "huh?... how'd you get your glasses back?" you narrow your eyes at the two and then gasp, "get away from him, aiden!"

"whoa! help!!" he yelped when a the other logan grabbed him and ran into one of the alleyways. your eyes widen as you snap your head around, looking for the 'original' logan that was nowhere in sight.

but when you looked back at the others, they were gone.

'so much is going on right now! i can't keep up!' you screech when you see a phantom approaching you so you hastily look around and then jump onto a balcony, holding onto the bars for dear life as you slowly lever yourself up.

you let out a little noise when you succesfully got onto the balcony. "kiss my ass!" you yell at the phantom and then look around. 'should i continue climbing up? maybe i should go inside the apartment-'

you look through the glass doors of the balcony and sweatdrop when you see nothing but darkness inside the apartment. 'nope, scratch that.'

────✧˚.⋆

'the sky is normal again... did we shift back?' taylor thought silently to herself while looking up at the sky, but then all of a sudden someone ran into her and bodyslammed her onto the ground.

"logan??" "taylor!" taylor gently held logans face in her hands but said boy couldn't help himself and went in for a hug. "ben grabbed me!" he exclaimed inbetween sobs.

"when i shot down the phantom, ben came out and grabbed me even though he was just in front of me! then i saw aidens approaching someone who looked just like me!" he explained.

"he then dragged me away so i shot him!.." he cleared his throat and wiped away his tears before letting go of taylor, who stood up and held out a hand to him. "are they clones?" she asked.

he nods, "yeah... they were wearing our combat outfits... where are the others?" he looked around nervously despite the sky being normal, while taylor sweatdropped at the question.

"...i don't know." she admitted, "aiden got grabbed too so we all split up trying to find you both." "split up? isn't that the first rule to not do in horror movies?" "i panicked, okay? we should probably go and find them."

then all of a sudden, they heard a crunch behind them. logan slowly looked behind him, "what was that noise?" taylor gulped, "...maybe it was a cat?"

────✧˚.⋆
w tyler

"tactical nuke? glasses? psycho? guys?!" he groaned, continuing to run ahead despite not knowing where he was or where he was going. 'i haven't found anyone yet... should i turn around?'

"halfwit? over here!" aiden yelled while waving excitedly. tyler narrowed his eyes at him and started bombarding him with questions, "where have you been? are you hurt?? where are the others???"

aiden only giggled in response, "i for real thought i was a goner this-" he froze up and did a karate pose, "how do i know you're the real tyler? get away, ugly."

"dude the sky is back to normal. we aren't in the dimension anymore. and don't call me ugly, snotface." tyler rolled his eyes while aiden flinched and looked up at the sky. "oh, it is."

he then hugged himself. "that was freaky, i'm gonna have nightmares about logan for weeks." tyler ignored him and looked at how he was holding up, and that was when he noticed he lost his bag. "where's your bag?"

"well i slipped out of his hold for a second, but then he grabbed the bag. so i let him have it and ran." "FREEZE! raise your hands! now!" they snapped their heads towards the left and saw a policeman.

they both raised their hands but then sent eachother a look- before storming off.

────✧˚.⋆

"what the HELL MAN!" you scream, running right into aiden who fell down and slammed his head onto the concrete. "what the hell do you- aiden??" your eyes widen and you stand up, holding out a hand for him to take.

"i thought you died or sum." you comment while helping him up, making him sweatdrop.

"so annoying!" tyler yelled all of a sudden, making you look into the alleyway and see him running towards you both. his eyes widened when they met yours, "y/n?!"

you frowned and kicked his stomach when he got close enough. "'y/n'?! yeah nice try, who are you?!" "AGHH what the hell you tactical nuke?!" you deadpanned, "oh it is you, my bad."

aiden seemed to be in a trance as he stared at the nearby bus, where an old man was packing traveling bags into the luggage compartment.

"...i've got an idea." he says after a while of silence, making you and tyler share a concerned glance.

aiden quickly made his way over to the bus with you and tyler following him and when he got close enough he tapped the old man's shoulder. "we were passing by and saw that your rear tire over there was flat. thought we should let you know."

the old man glared up and him and then moved to check the perfectly fine tire. and while he did that, aiden quickly grabbed you and tyler and PUSHED you into the luggage compartment on the bus.

you grunt when you slammed your head against a bag and almost died when aiden flew into the compartment as well, squishing you and tyler against a bunch of bags and pipes of some sort.

the old man outside let out a huff, mumbling something about teenagers while he closed the door (?) to the compartment.

"son of a.." you mumble and adjust your position so you'd be more comfortable in the tiny space. tyler clicked his tounge and did the same, "you better be glad we don't have claustrophobia."

aiden chuckles, "no. but you two should probably get diagnosed for cherophobia. seems to be a serious case in my opinion. listen we just gotta stay in here until the next bus stop."

"then we can look for the others after losing the police." "we don't know when the next stop will be, idiot." "then we can just jump out after a few minutes when it stops at a red light or something."

"you two were getting chased by the police??"

'CLICK'

at the sound, you three immediately went silent and stared at the tiny door. tyler was the first one to speak, "...did he just..." "...lock the door?" "...haha."

the old man on the other hand, was spinning the keys on his finger. not realizing that the entire bus was rocking side to side because of the beating-up-aiden happening in the luggage department.

"what now, genius?!" "i'm brainstorming alright- give me a minute!" "ash, please give me the strength to be able to deal with these two."

...but we didn't realize, that we wouldn't be able to reunite.

⋆.˚✧────────✧˚.⋆

a/n: UHM SO YEAH ive chosen ty and aiden to follow not jus because they're a bomb ass trio but because tyler and y/n have both died so i want them to be w eachother in case sum important happens

ALSO THIS IS THE LAST CHAPTER OF THIS BOOK (for now) CUS SEASON 3 ISN'T HERE YETTT

chapter published. march 5, 2025