NPG was excitedly teaching Markus how to build rustic houses, with Rodger observing to make sure neither of them destroyed anything, or went overboard. So it made sense that he was the first to see the sky bleed red, and he was given no time to react before a portal forcefully tore itself open before the half done house, the loud crack of it alerting the other two of what was going on.

NPG jumped down, with Markus parkouring down behind him, and walked up to Rodger, eyes never leaving the red rip, "Rodg what is that?" glancing up at the sky his black eyes widened, stepping back a bit in shock, "And what happened to the sky?"

"Who cares!" Cries Markus, getting both of their attention, "It doesn't matter right now, not when we have bigger things to worry about!" Looking in between them his face paled, "Uhm, you two have weapons, right? Or at least know how to use them, right?"

Rodger didn't even tell him anything before he whirled around, sword already in hand. But the robot froze when he was faced with a drawn blade, a dark clawed hand holding to it in a sure grip. Following the hand up a thin bony form of, what could only be described as a demonic bone version of an enderman, appeared, soulless white eyes watching them silently. Behind the being many more of its kind, all different looking but still looking similar, walked out of the red rift.

"Something tells me I'm not going to like you." Rodger snarked, eyes never leaving the blade trained on him.

It chuckled at him, it's spindly tail swishing behind it slowly, "What gave it away?"

"I don't know about you, but having a sword pointed at you tends to tell you that the person isn't really on your side." He said, snark still fully on. "But if you are please do to tell me now, I'd hate for things to go south because of a misunderstanding."

"They literally just ripped a portal into the air and are now holding you at blade tip," Markus deadpanned, "I don't think anything here is a misunderstanding."

Rodger gave a look before looking over his shoulder with narrowed eyes, "Sarcasm kid, sarcasm. Please do learn it, I hate explaining myself." Markus backed up with a sheepish smile, but startled when his back met a bony rib cage. Whirling around he came face to face with the chest of another one of the creatures, this one smaller but bulkier than the first one. This was what made Roger actually look around, only to then promptly curse loudly, they were surrounded on all fronts, there were even some perched on the unfinished rustic house, clawed feet digging into the build and making wood splinters fall. Looking back at the first one he narrowed his eyes, "What do you want with us?"

"I'm glad you asked, because of course I will tell you exactly that." Seems like Rodger wasn't the only one here with snark in him. It lunged out and grabbed the robot by the throat, the action doing nothing but restrain him, "No that is something I will not do. But don't you worry, you'll be seeing why soon enough." Faster than Rodger could even react and an electric disk was brought out and slapped onto his forehead, a blue current of electricity flashed over his body before he went limp. The leader, as that was the only thing they could assume it was, not so gently handed the unconscious droid to another creature, he then dragged him through the portal and out of view for the remaining two.

"Rodger!" Cried NPG, staggering towards the portal with an outstretched arm, but he was stopped by a hard hit to the back of the head, knocking him down to the ground. With a grunt he pulled himself up to his elbows, some of his face scratched up to reveal the metal under his fake skin, he was about to stand up and- well he don't know what, but he'd do something. Only to stop at the sight of one of the creatures resting its massive hands on Markus' shoulders, one push away from painfully restricting him. Seeing, and realizing, what would happen if he attempted to fight back he stayed down, eyes looking at the teen apologetically.

Bonelessly he let himself be picked up but not without giving the stink eye to any creature he saw, standing as tall as he could he met the look of the leader. And to his ire all he was met with was a teeth filled smile just screaming "condescending", "You're going to pay for this!"

It laughed, sound scratchy as if violently ran through a cheese grater, "Oh will I now? How adorable of you to say, as you can see I am quacking in my boots at the thought of your tiny, demon, self coming after me." It leaned down and roughly grabbed him by the chin, forcing the small half demon to look them in the eyes, "But don't you worry, I'll make sure to make it quick. Not that snapping a twig is very hard." And with that he forced NPG through the rift-portal, Markus' shout was the last thing he heard before he was pushed forward before disappearing through the portal.

On the other side it was all red, though NPG could only see so much through the bars he was trapped within. He caught sight of Rodger, awake but not moving very much. Rushing up to the tallers side he got his attention, "Rodger! Thank god you're alright!"

"'Alright' isn't the word I'd use." Came the staticy reply, but he still got a small grin out of him, "But are you alright?"

The dirty blonde shrugged, "Other than a little punch I'm perfectly fine, so is Markus. Speaking of which, he's coming through soon too." As if to prove him right said mahogany haired teen stumbled out of the portal, hair disheveled and eyes wide, "Please remind me to never get captured again. Ever."

"I'll be sure to remind you." Rodger grunted, moving to shakily sit up, hunching over as soon as he was upright, "That'll make me keep it in mind too."

The sound of something big moving above them made all three of them look up, Rodgers eyes narrowing as he searched for what was making the sound. He listened for a few more minutes before scrambling up, eyes wide, "Snake. It's a snake, a keeled scaled one at that."

"A snake?" Markus asked in disbelief, "You seriously can't think that, I mean it has to be massive if so! And why would there even be a massive snake out hare, in a world that's just a red night wasteland!"

The teen froze when a hissy laugh rumbled from above, clawed fingers wrapping around the top of the cage they were in, "Oh I don't know, maybe because it's their world to do with as they please?" A brown reptilian face emerged from the top, red and green eyes glowing as the snake creature smirked down at them, "And maybe because they came for a little talk with their new little friends."

They fully pulled themselves off the edge, falling down onto the ground with a thud, the massive serpentine being turned to face them again, a small smirk on their face as they addressed the trio again, "Oh how rude of me! I haven't even introduced myself." Giving a little half bow they smirked down at them, seeing as their massive 10 feet height standing, even bowed, was towering over them, "I am Fallacy, the deity of lies and deception."

Markus whimpered as their gaze landed on him, and Rodger took a step in front of the shorter as to protect him from the deity's look.

Ignoring the looks they were receiving Fallacy talked on, the light notes in their tone painfully fake, "Do you know where you are? What this place means to all that has happened to you and your allies?"

"No. And I have a feeling I really don't want to know." Rodgers huffed, red eyes following the serpents every move.

They seemed to stop and look him over for a second before smirking and continuing to talk, "Oh you don't, but sadly you are unable to stop me." Fallacy slithered up to the cage, though they didn't reach in or anything like that, instead they motioned outwards, towards some builds barely visible, "Now tell me, little chicks, does that style of building look similar to you?"

At first the three were confused by words, until NPG cautiously stepped closer to get a better look. Fallacy smirked as they saw his face, "Look at the little demon, he gets it."

Markus gently placed his soft hands on the robot's shoulders, "NPG? What are they talking about?"

"Its-its," the dirty blonde took a deep breath in, "Its Grian's. This style, it's his. Grian made these builds."

Fallacy smirked down at him and fully turned their backs on them, spreading an arm out waide they looked back with a smirk, "Welcome, to the world of the Red Moon! Your new, very temporary, home."

As sudden as a viper's strike, and faster than any of the three could react, they whirled around and grabbed ahold of the bars, orange electricity sparking through their hands before traveling through the metal. Markus and NPG, with only a quick look at the other, together lifted up Rodger and took the brunt of it, letting the one of them made fully of metal avoid the strike. Collapsing down as soon as it ended the two thankfully didn't land with the biggest of them on top.

"Markus! NPG!" Finally, for the first time since they got captured, Rodger was well and truly terrified, eyes wide with worry and horror. "No, no nO NO!" He brought the two into his arms, a few sparks lapping at his metallic skin from where he touched the two, "Please you two, give me something! Anything! Goddamn it just do something! Anything - god fucking attack me even- just show me your okay!"

His gaze snapped up as heard scales slithering over the thinly grassed ground of the world, eyes glowing with fury, "You." He bashed up against the bars, gently laying the other two down before doing so, "Who the fuck do you think you are, you ugly-ass motherfuking disgusting specimen of a serpent! What have you done to them? To Grian?" He growled lowly, red eyes never leaving Fallacy, "Who gave you the fucking right hurt my friends? To hurt my family?"

"Me." They replied, not at all bothered by his tone or threatening words, they actually seemed to enjoy it, "But now that you do mention it, you haven't gotten to see Grian for a long time, now have you?" Rodger looked at them with surprise, but gave a cautious nod non the less, "Well then, why don't we have a little reunion? Rook, come here."

There were a few things Rodger had expected to see, a mindless drone, manipulated to blindness loyalty maybe, and maybe even just a straight up dead body, but what he wasn't expecting was a massive dragon to come walking, feet making next to no sound as it walked up to Fallacy. The dragon looked at Fallacy, seemingly waiting for an order of some kind. "Guard these three here, I don't want them escaping." And with that they slithered around the cage until they came to a throne, which looked horribly out of place and was probably just a copy of one from somewhere else, sitting down they leaned to the side and then back into a comfortable resting position. Back front Rook sat down, he shot a growl at the beings in the cage before turning his attention forward.

For a second or two Rodger was just looking up at the dragon with wide eyes, but those eyes then turned thoughtful as he thought back to what Fallacy had said. With a horrified gasp he looked back at the black dragon, "...Grian, no..." but he didn't even so much as look up from where he was resting.

Rodger staggered back to NPG and Markus, gently falling to his knees he took them both into his arms and held onto them tightly, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, god I'm so fucking sorry." He didn't know how long he stayed like that, how long the two of them had been out and unresponsive. He was even sure the snake bastard talked at one point, but he couldn't tell you if he was right or not. So when Fallacy moved he noticed, not that he moved, but he noticed.

Distantly he heard talking, voices familiar yet he couldn't pinpoint any of them. Yells soon came, cries similar to his past ones ringing through his artificial ears, but still he could not tell why they sounded familiar. Soon after the shouting stopped Grian - no, no this was Rook, not Grian - Soon after the shouting stopped Rook moved away, leaving Rodger completely exposed. Gasp, now clearer, echoed around, but he didn't move.

"When I already have him?"

"MARKUS!" Rodgre startled at the voice, processing it for a few seconds before he snapped his head up, "EX." EX was here, and if EX was here then so must the others!

With shaky movements, the metal plating of his body clicking as they readjusted to movement from its still position that it had kept for god knows how long, he turned around, coming face to face with the group of ansmabled people, Hermits, Evolutionists, and a few faces he didn't know, they were all here. His eye caught EX's, the one who had yelled out Markus' name, and sadly shook his head to the silent question. No, Markus wasn't fine.

The Void's eyes flashed, a new revigoured flame burning in the red orbs, as he whirled towards Fallacy, "You'll pay for that, for all you've done."

Fallacy laughed, "Oh you silly little thing, I won't be paying for anything, especially not when I'm using your own credit card."

"What the hell do you mean?" Asked Doc, his hand holding tight to the handle of his trident, and around the group so did everyone else too with their own weapons.

"What I mean, is that I won't have to pay since I won't be doing anything." They backed up, their armor lit up in red by the bright moon over their heads. "It was nice knowing you all, but I'm afraid this is the final act of your little adventure." Looking Mumbo and Iskall dead in the eyes they called out their order, "Rook! Attack them! Let none of them live!"

Rook, from where he was standing, jumped up into action, growling as a deep purple fire built up in the back of his throat. Mumbo let out a sob, hand coming up to cover his mouth, Iskall at his side. They now had one decision to make: to be selfish or not. Or, in simpler terms: To fight Grian, even though he is now Rook, or not do it.

And to speak the truth? They already knew they couldn't, they had made a promise after all, they wouldn't break it now. Not ever.

<Woo, chapter 60 done! Finally! Also, a little nice Markus, NPG, and Rodger chapter ;3 real nice. Also can you tell I'm trying to push writing a fight scene back? Yeah one is enough for me, yet I still have a few more to do, so yay for me, I guess. And that's it! Bed time now.

So stay safe and have a wonderful time everyone! And if you've enjoyed then feel free to comment, its always appreciated!>