Tw for mentions of suicide 

    Everyone was shouting. Pix was trying to get control of the chaos, both of the FWhips were trying to ask questions over the din, Gem was waving her arms around and yelling something about reincarnations, and Oli was just screaming.

    Scott was quite amazed at the mess his past self (?) had managed to cause.

    Eventually, everything quieted down as everyone got the screaming and panicking out of their systems. Well, except for Oli. Oli was still screaming.

    Joel, who was standing next to Oli, elbowed him, and Oli's yelling went a couple of octaves higher as he almost fell of the raised circle of chairs from the sudden shove. But he did stop screaming, once he regained his balance.

    "Ok, now that everything is back under control, could you please elaborate on your statement, Scott?" Pix asked. The other Scott stepped forward again (he had backed up when the chaos erupted) and began to speak.

    "So, you guys know the Grimland's explosion, right?" Scott of Rivendell began. "Well-"

    "We don't, actually. Could you please explain that?" Scott interrupted. His past self frowned at him, but before he could start talking again, someone else said something.

    "Wait, if you guys are our past selves, does that mean you guys are from the past?" Jimmy asked. FWhip shook his head, and said dryly, "No, Jimmy, they're from the beach. Get it right."

    "Don't blame him for getting confused, FWhip. He is a toy, after all." Joel said. Scott watched as Jimmy's face filled with anger, and he yelled, "I'M NOT A TOY!" Almost everyone in the room immediately chorused, "Yes you are," and Jimmy opened his mouth to say something, but before he could, the other Jimmy asked, with confusion in his voice, "You're a toy?"

    FWhip yelled, "YES HE IS," at the same time Jimmy shouted, "NO I'M NOT," and the fishy Jimmy only looked more confused. It looked like it was about to erupt into another one of FWhip and Jimmy's massive arguments, but before it could, Sausage stepped forward and waved his arms to catch everyone's attention.

    "GUYS!" He yelled, and once everyone was looking at him, he said, "Jimmy is a toy, argument over. Let's talk about why there are copies of us now?" FWhip smiled at Sausage, and Scott watched with growing amusement as Sausage smiled back, apparently completely unaware that his cheeks were a bright red.

    "Simp," Joey muttered, and Scott had to keep himself from bursting out laughing as Sausage blushed harder and stammered indignantly, before falling silent and staring at the ground, evidently unable to find any words to defend himself. Scott also noticed that FWhip was blushing as well, although it was harder to tell on FWhip since he was green.

    Maybe this is a good time to test out my theory, Scott thought, and he winked at Jimmy as he said, "It's ok, Jimmy. I don't care that you're a toy, I like you anyways." Scott was not disappointed; Jimmy's eyes widened slightly, and he turned bright red. Scott had to suppress a snicker at the panicked look on his face.

    Jimmy had mentioned before that he was straight, so the fact that he was blushing at Scott's attention must have absolutely thrown him for a loop, which was exactly what Scott was intending.

    Several people exchanged amused glances at the drama currently happening, before Gem stepped forward and said, "Can we get back on topic? I, for one, would like to know what is going on." 

    Icy Boy Scott nodded, and said, "As I was saying, the Grimlands explosion was something that happened right before we got here. FWhip and Jimmy were messing around, and they somehow made the Grimlands reactor blow up, destroying the Grimlands and the Lost Empire, which was their neighbor. All of the rulers -us- met up outside the crater that used to be the Grimlands, and then we all went to our empires to see what the damage was.

"I don't know about you guys, but when I got to my empire, there was corruption everywhere. I found out that Xornoth had escaped, and he was going to destroy everything, but before he could, I used the Rune Blade, a magic sword that could send the soul of whoever it killed into the afterlife irrevocably, to kill myself, and Xornoth, in the process. But when I stabbed myself, something happened. 

"Instead of, well, dying, everything went white, and the next thing I knew, I woke up here. I think what happened was that instead of killing me and Xornoth, the sword mixed with the magic in my blood and flung us all here, into the future. Without us there to stop Xornoth, he must have destroyed everything."

    There was silence in the room while everyone absorbed the information Scott's past self had dumped on them. Eventually, Joey said, "So... you guys are us, but 1,000 years ago. That I kind of get. How did trying to commit suicide with a magic sword send you to the future is what I'm trying to understand."

    Gem's past self frowned, and said, "You said the sword mixed with the magic in your blood, Scott. What exactly did you mean by that?" Scott of Rivendell said, "You know the magic library where we found the spell to contain Xornoth?" Wizard Gem nodded, and Elf Scott continued.

    "Well, that's where I found the Rune Blade. The instructions on how to use it were written in Ancient Elvish, and I had to translate it to understand what it was and how to use it. The thing is, the words for future and afterlife are very similar in Elvish, and I thought it said that the sword would send the person it killed to the afterlife. I think it was supposed to, anyways. But when the sword touched my blood, it began to glow, and then everything went white, so I'm assuming magic blood had something to do with it."

    "Why did it teleport all of us and not just you, though?" The other Sausage asked. Ice Scott shrugged, a look on his face that clearly said, your guess is as good as mine.

    Joey's past self frowned as he thought to himself, and he said, "Maybe... you all met up before he," Joey gestured to Elfy Scott, "did the stabby thing, so it could have teleported the last people he was with?"

    Scott took a closer look at the other Joey, and while he may not be Scott's type, he had to admit that his style of clothing did a lot for him in the looks department.

    Past Joey was dressed sparingly in brown leather pants and a short red cape with leopard fur on the shoulders. Parrot wings sprouted from his back, folded neatly. That's it. Nothing else. It did give Scott something to look at, though, so it wasn't as if he was complaining.

    "It looks like that's all we're going to get for now, then." Pix says, and it took Scott (and the readers) a moment to realize that Pix wasn't talking about the second Joey's lack of shirt.

    "So what do we do now?" Joel's past self asked. FWhip's past self replied, "We could stay in our reincarnations' empires, I guess? And hang out while we try to figure out how to get back home?"

    Scott immediately saw an opportunity for chaos, and jumped on it. "That's too boring," he announced, catching everyone's attention. "We should switch everyone up; that way we can all get to know each other better. I call dibs on Jimmy's past self!"

    There was silence for a few moments, and then, 

    "If that's what we're doing, I guess I should take Joey's past self. He'll be most likely to survive a fall from Upper Stratos since he has wings." Joel said, much to Scott's surprise. He hadn't expected them to actually go with it.

     I must have more influence than I thought. Either that or it was just a really good idea. Hmm...

    Scott of Rivendell had a mischievous glint in his eyes. "I think FWhip's past self should go with Sausage, and Sausage's past self should go with FWhip." he said. Sausage opened his mouth to say something, but Gem got to it first.

    "That's a great idea!" Gem said with a grin. Scott didn't miss the look she sent his way, and he happily assisted with the mission. "Ok, so Joey 2 is with Joel, Jimmy 2 is with me, FWhip and Sausage switched, who else is going with someone else?"

    Gem's past self said to Shelby, "You're a witch, right?" Shelby nodded, and Gem continued, "We should try to combine our magics to see if we can figure something out." Shelby nodded again, and Shrub said, "I want to go with the bard. He seems like a nice guy."

    Oli dramatically put a hand on his heart, spreading the other one out, and said, in an exaggerated tone of voice, "I would love to share my home with you, fair gnome!" Putting his hands down and switching to a more normal voice, "The Olipeligo is pretty small anyways, so you should be able to get around fairly easily."

    Pix rolled his eyes, but pulled a small notepad and pencil out of his pocket. Beginning to write, he spoke as he wrote. "Joey with Joel, Jimmy with Scott, Gem with Shelby, FWhip with Sausage, Sausage with FWhip," Scott noticed Sausage and FWhip go red at that, "Does anyone else want to switch around?"

    Several minutes later, Pix had a complete list of who was going with who. Everyone had switched around; Pix was the only one keeping his past self. With the meeting more or less concluded, everyone began to trickle out and head to their empires.

    Scott walked over to Jimmy's past self, a cod hybrid wearing a green skinsuit and a cod head/hat thing on his head. Smiling brightly, he grabbed his hand and began to pull him towards the nether portal, telling him, "Come on, Chromia's not far, we can go through the nether portal."

    Together the two walked into the nether portal, and as the portal began to pull them into the other dimension, Scott though he felt something brush across his mind, but it was quickly forgotten as the portal swooshed and pulled them into the Nether.