A small Obsidian stone lay on the ground, in a dingy puddle its only company was an empty beer can, crushed by some wayward youth bound to ruin his or her liver as quick as they could, and the only other inhabitant was a wet and rather filthy looking sock. Socks always look worse than anything else when it is in a puddle on the street. First you wonder, WHY? Why! Why?....is it on the street. Did someone find a new better sock, or decided that the other foot had behaved better than the now bare foot and deserved the sock more than the other and then there is the fact that no sock should be anything but warm and clean. Dirty is one thing, bet drenched as well….disgusting! So between the crumpled can and the unmentionable unmentionable sat an obsidian rock. Now this rock was not any simple, plain, run of the mill rock. It was a rock that could be considered a part of a mutant phenomenon. You see this itsy bitsy rock is what happens when you jump into your own mind….but then perhaps we are concentrating too much on the rock and not the seven content ghosts above it.

Euphoria, bliss, dreamland, ecstasy, elation, exaltation, exhilaration, exultation, frenzy, glee, high spirits, intoxication, joy, joyousness, jubilation, madness, rapture, relaxation….Addictive. Years of hate and pain and hunger hadn’t prepared any of them for what would happen when Abyss entered his own void. It was warm and fuzzy nothing was wrong every thing was right. Nothing mattered. It was something they tucked away as an “if all else fails” plan. If there is nothing but death on the out side of the void for Abyss, He was to jump into his own void.

Now typically the void only housed his clones neatly tucked away to become voices in his head, there was organization and a way to go in an out. But something unexpected occurred when Abyss entered his own void. It was such a nothing existence somehow the seven of them could still sense each other tightly anchored to the little rock in the puddle, at first there was panic, Chaos, arguments. What had they been doing when it cam to this…what could have forced them into a void that they couln’t defeat..it was all so foggy.

They couldn’t figure out how to open a portal… it was Abyss to do besides who would want too? The world was so busy… look at all the cars go by….how long had it been since they came here…days? Weeks? Months? And right there as they watch enraptured in the light bliss that surrounded them while they weren’t connected to the world they slowly begin to love their existence of nothing. They stopped trying that was until the day a black van speed by with someone oddly familiar hanging on the back of it….what was his name? Shadow? Shady? Darkness…He had a name. And he looked as if he needed help. And with that something stirred in them a single mind to go back to the physical realm.

It still took them quite some time but they had managed it. On the median of a high way to busy to bother with picking up trash on, A portal of pure blackness opened on the road and seven red behemoths showed themselves to the earth once more.

The seven stretched and got used to their bulky red shells once more. One knelt and crumpled the can and wrapped the nasty sock around it and threw it into the air and possibly off of the planet. Before the Euphoria set in it bothered Saturn to no end that they had been planted next to such filth.

Abyss leaned back against the concrete that came up out of the road, it had been too long....It was time to hitch a ride. It wasn't winter when they went in... It was fall... He hoped over to the other side of the road the part going toward the sanctuary. He then stepped into the road and grabbed the side of a car and lifted as it tried to escape. HE then lightly tossed the vehicle into the middle of the four lane highway. Instant destruction.... breaks screeched and piled up with in moments. Jupiter was already proceeding with the next step of this little project.

Pluto shook his head and let a small smile lift the corners of his mouth. “You know guys; we haven’t even been back for more than a minute and already…kaboom.”

Jupiter made his way to the very back where cars were beginning to simply stop instead of plow into the car in front of them. He found a vehicle big enough for the seven of them. (Without kids, not that he would admit it) he ended up with a large Truck and picked up and shook it lightly until the passengers made a run for it. He then carried the acquired ride back to in front of the pile up of cars and set it down. Two got in the cab and the rest of the group piled in the back, and they were off toward the sanctuary.

The Truck Speed relentlessly with Mars at the Mercury at the wheel, it was rare for there to be no traffic comic from this particular highway and mercury was taking advantage of the space. When They finally hit the typical traffic of New York City and Mercury wasn’t filling patient. He aligned the car just over the dotted yellow lines and speed between cars scraping several and leaving streams of obscenities in their wake. The truck skidded to a halt on the side walk in front of the sanctuary and before they could even exit the truck they noticed the missing doors. Mars ran inside the lounge. The others didn’t even bother getting out…whoever was responsible for taking those doors down would pay, and pay dearly….how long had they been gone?

“ Abyss!” A bit of excitement from Sebistia, Who was in Lisa's typical spot.

A glance at the desk showed that it was still indeed lisa's.

“Mars.” Mars replied dryly. “ We saw Shade being dragged from a van. Where are the doors?”

“Everyone just went to the school for…”Sebby began.

Mars was out the entrance before the unicorn could finish.

Continued at the party part III