Chapter 66 - Lawrence's Dream

– Ballroom, Council of the Crows Mansion, Unknown Universe - Time: Unknown –

In the ballroom, every Crow Soldiers and Elites were partying, dancing and chatting with each other with the music blasting from the speakers with drinks and snacks being served.

"Paaaarrrrttyy! Woooooooooo!!" The leader of the council of the Crows was standing on a table and dancing like a true man while holding a Pepsi bottle and wearing his usual crow suit. 

Alex who was in the ballroom could only facepalm at this while Miranda just giggled as they too were wearing their usual suits as well. 

"I'm dealing with children." Alex mutters to himself.

"Come on, at least he's enjoying himself."

"I know Miranda, but still.... when a party starts he just doesn't stop dancing, also messes up his sleep schedules and gets late to work. Every. Damn. Time."

"Alex, I order you to dance!!" Leader drunkenly yelled at him in the distance.

Alex was about to leave but he yelped as he was stopped by the Leader who grabbed him from the back of his collar and dragged him into the dance floor.

About five hours of partying, the party ended and pretty much everybody went back to their posts and did their jobs again. Although the leader was lying on the floor and was snoring quite loudly. Alex, who was forced to dance, was sitting on a chair and looked at the leader.

"I'm starting to think I don't get paid enough for this crap."

But then, one of the ballroom doors open and an Elite Soldier wearing a crow suit, holding a cane on his right hand and a weapon of some sort on his other as he approached Alex.

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"Doyle, you're late."

"I don't party, mate, and also did our leader fall asleep after partying again?" The man named Doyle asked with a British accent while looking at the leader who was sleeping on the floor.

"Yes he did. You want to ask him something?"

"I wanted to say to him that Arc was in the one SCP Universe that the Leader chose."

With those words, the Leader immediately woke up and ran up to Doyle's face.

"Did you just say Arc?!" The Leader exclaimed, shouting like he never went drunk in the first place.

"Yes." Doyle nodded after hearing his leader's question.

"The Overseer himself?!"

"Yes."

"....Is he still there?"

"No."

The Leader breathes out a sigh of relief.

'I could wipe out countless Multiverses, eat these so-called Omni Kings and Celestialsapiens for Dessert while taking a shit and playing Nintendo 69, but that man... shit he is on a whole different level.'

"Ok, did he do anything while I was busy with work?"

"Let me explain."

– One Explanation of What Arc Did Later –

"He doesn't stop with his shenanigans, does he?"

"No he doesn't."

"Well what's happened has happened. We can't stop him, even if we tried. Now back to the point. How are things currently going in the SCP Universe-[REDACTED]?"

"Well Esidisi and Wamuu are on the move, while the Human Stands are doing what they think is right or wrong. Amelia and Green seem to be getting along well with each other more than the canon, and lastly the Stand arrows are still scattered around that universe even though only four have been found."

"Good. More notes for my story."

"Why did you bring the Pillar men and Stand arrows involved in the SCP world, sir?"

"Simple. Higher stakes and more tension, drama, action, adventure, romance and a buttload of other things that make a story great."

"Still, don't you think it will be a bit too much for them to handle especially with SCPs involved."

"Don't worry, they'll be fine. Rodeo is doing like any person in a story would do. Being the protagonist. And combine that with every thing I've thrown into the SCP world..... I can get enough notes to write my story. Doyle, do you have recordings of the events that were happening recently in the SCP world?"

"Yes. I put cameras hidden from reality on every corner of this world. And they are currently still recording and I uploaded the footage to your laptop."

"Good job, my friend. You are dismissed."

Doyle does a salute and leaves the ballroom. 

'Things are getting more and more interesting as time passes.' The Leader thought.

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– Unknown City, Dream World –

(Lawrence's POV)

So.....yeah it's been some time since I showed up. How do I even start? Well ever since I got..... well stabbed by six arms of a pterosaur in six different parts of my body, everything was going black and ending up in the dream world with Dr. Arnold aka the guy who is Death 13, it's mostly been you know helping him in his research on dreams. Yes I'm literally an assistant to him right now. I always try to wake up, even Dr. Arnold tried to wake me up many times..... But nothing worked. 

Dr. Arnold theorized that I might have gone into a coma in the real world, and pretty much I had to agree with him. I mean I got stabbed in some vulnerable areas and lost a lot of blood that day in Greenland. So it did make sense.

Right now we were in someone else's dream since Dr. Arnold wanted to get more notes for his research as usual. Buuuuttt we made a big mistake and we were currently running away from guys wearing construction helmets. I don't know what they are but Dr. Arnold called them.....

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Dancing Engineers. 

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"Keep running!!"

"What do you think I'm doing!!"

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!"

We kept running or should I say I was running since Dr. Arnold had no legs and was just floating in the air. So you could say I was running and he was floating away from the thousands of these engineers that were aftering us.

"You better start praying boy..." One of them as he and the rest kept dancing.

"Because we're gonna blow you up." The other finished with a massive smile that it's impossible for a human to do.

"Seriously! Who even dreams of this kinda stuff?!" Lawrence asked.

Arnold quickly answers, "Engineer mains and Tf2 fans! Who else!?" 

After running through multiple directions, we stopped because there was a wall right in front of us. We looked back, only to see the engineers getting closer with a massive smile on their faces. 

"Hold on!" Arnold said as he quickly slashed the air with his scythe and opened a rift. 

I quickly jumped into it and then he jumped in as well, just in time before a tsunami of dancing Engineers made impact against the wall.

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– Third Person POV –

As the portal closed, the engineers just kept dancing.

"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!"

*BOOM!!*

*BOOOM!!!*

*BOOOOOMMM!!!!!*

One by one, the dancing engineers started making explosions around themselves, destroying the entire city in the process. Luckily no one got hurt in the city since it was a dream regarding dancing engineers only. 

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– Arnold's Amusement Park, Dream World –

In Dr. Arnold's amusement park in the dream world, a white rift opens and out of it comes Lawrence who fell on top of someone. 

"Ow." Lawrence got up from the ground and looked at who he fell on and to his surprise, it was Molly Collingwood. 

"Molly?"

Molly looked up and saw it was Lawrence. 

"Lawrence?" 

Immediately, Molly got up from the ground and hugged him.

"Oh my god, Lawrence! It really is you!" She said with a smile and tears falling from her eyes.

Lawrence hugged her back. It's been quite some time since she saw her due to being in a coma so seeing her here made him happy. 

"You know I missed you.... a lot."

Molly chuckles, "Of course you did."

"Well aren't you two adorable?"

The two looked in the direction where the sound came from and saw Arnold. 

"I'm gonna guess that you know her, Lawrence. Am I right?"

"Yeah."

Arnold then looks at Molly and asks, "Are you from the foundation? Just like Lawrence?"

"Yeah. My name's Dr. Molly Collingwood. It's a pleasure to meet you, Dr. Arnold." 

'Same to you as well. Are you Lawrence's...?"

"Girlfriend? Yes. Yes I am." She answered straight away.

"Lali-ho. You have quite the woman on your side, Lawrence. Straight forward and strong."

"Yeah, can we change the topic please?"

"Fine. So Dr. Collingwood, why are you here?"

"I just fell asleep in the infirmary and.... found myself here." Molly then began to realize that she needed to tell them regarding what's been happening ever since Lawrence went into a coma. "....Also some things happened as well in the real world."

Lawrence and Arnold looked at each other, they then looked at her with questioning looks. 

"Let me explain."

After she explains everything, Molly and Lawrence are sitting on a wooden bench. Arnold was just floating back and forth with his hands behind his back, after listening to Molly's explanation of what was going on up until now.

"So.... Stand users are starting to show up, there are other Human Stands who have.... different desires and now Rodeo's plan is to assemble every Human Stands that are in foundation custody to deal with these so-called Stand factions?" Arnold said, recalling the explanation she said.

"Yes."

Lawrence utters, "I didn't know that things went this bad after I went into a coma. If I were only there.... maybe the outcome would have..."

"Lawrence, even if you did it wouldn't have changed anything."

"But the kid almost got killed!!"

"And he survived and lived. You don't have to worry."

Lawrence let out a deep sigh, "You're right."

"Well since I'm stuck in the dream world, I can't do much. But Dr. Collingwood, if you wake up, tell Rodeo that I wish him a speedy recovery."

"I will."

"Well I'll be heading back to the castle to get some research done. You two lovebirds can discuss whatever you want. Bye." Arnold waved his hand before he snapped his fingers and disappeared. 

"You know Lawrence, I really missed hearing your voice, you know." Molly began to change her tone the time Arnold left.

"And I missed seeing your beautiful face."

They both let out a chuckle, Molly rested her head on Lawrence's right shoulder.

"Did Dr. Arnold, try to wake you up?"

"He did so many times, but couldn't."

"....I really want you to wake up, you know, in the real world rather than just meeting you here by chance." She said with a sad frown.

'Me too, Molly. Me too."

The two just sat there at a bench enjoying each other's company. Not wanting to leave each other anytime soon. But this was the dream world so sooner or later one of them had to wake up. Molly can wake up no problem but it was Lawrence who couldn't wake up due to being in a comatose state in the real world. But it didn't matter. So long as they knew the other was alright they didn't have to worry about each other. For now at least. 

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– In the castle –

In the castle of the Dream World, Arnold was going through his research notes and then thought. 

'I hope you succeed, Rodeo, in stopping these factions.'