“Guys?” a faint voice said as the main six slowly regain consciousness. “Guys?!” the voice said louder.

Geoff slowly lifted his head off of his desk. “Wha..?”

“Ok, so you’re alive.” Kdin said as he walked over towards Geoff’s desk.

Slowly the rest of the Achievement Hunters lifted their heads off of their desks as well.

“Jesus… how long have we been gone? What day is it?” Jack asked.

“What do you mean how long have you been gone? It’s Tuesday.”

“Huh?” Geoff asked in confusion.

“Yeah, you guys were going to play test a Minecraft mod Ryan found. But then you all passed out at the same time. You all were out for about fifteen minutes. I figured it would be a good idea to make sure you weren’t dead.” Kdin said.

“So was none of that real?” Gavin asked groggily.

“None of what? Did you have a weird dream?”

“Yeah.” Ray said. “Everything was all weird fantasy stuff and you were there and you were an asshole.”

“Thanks. Glad to know that’s how you really feel about me.” Kdin said sarcastically.

“Yeah, I had a dream like that too.” Ryan said.

“Was that mod on drugs or something? Did we all have the same dream?” Michael asked.

“It felt so real. Like we actually fought a dragon. And I had fire hands!” Gavin said.

“It sounds like you all had the same dream.” Kdin said. “And you all passed out at the same time. It’s like some weird inter-dimensional force made you all pass out and dream together. Wow that sounds stupid when I say it out loud.” He speculated.

“It’s stupid and it’s exactly the explanation we got in the dream itself.” Ray said.

“Holy shit.”

“You’re telling us!” Jack said.

Kdin paused. “Ok… so, now that you’re awake you can go back to doing your thing I guess. Also one of the Xbox controllers seemed to disappear out of thin air while you were asleep so I’m gonna go look for that.” Geoff’s eyes widened. “What?”

“I wouldn’t worry about the missing Xbox controller. We’ll order a new one. It’s a lost cause.” Geoff said.

“Uh… why?”

“Don’t worry about it.”

“Ok then...” Kdin said as he began to go back to the editor’s room.

“And if anyone asks you about rope going missing, don’t worry about that either!” Geoff called out after him.

“I’ll be sure to do that…” Kdin said as he closed the door.

“So I guess there was another layer to your powers?” Ryan questioned.

“I don’t even know or care at this point.” Geoff replied.

“Oh gross I drooled all over my arm!” Michael said as he to wipe it off on Gavin.

“Michael please!” Gavin squawked as he quickly ducked underneath his desk to avoid the drool. Michael laughed.

“Gavin stop being stupid.” Ryan said.

“But Ryan…”

“I’m just glad everything can go back to normal. And I can have my Lindsay and not have a version from another dimension flirt with me and confuse me.” Michael said.

“Ha! You’re whipped!” Lindsay yelled from the other room.

“Yeah. Everything is back t-” Jack was cut off by the sound of the door opening. Blaine was standing in the doorway.

“Hey guys? We’re missing some-” he started to say before he was cut off by Geoff.

“No we don’t know where your rope is. Stop asking about it. It’s long gone. Go buy more.” Geoff said as he quickly got up and slammed the door in Blaine’s face. He locked the door and went back to his desk.

“This is exactly why everyone thinks we’re douchebags.” Ryan said.

“If you haven’t noticed, we are douchebags.” Michael said.

“I’m not.” Gavin said.

“YES YOU ARE!” the rest of the group yelled in response.

“But as Jack was saying. Everything is back to normal.” Geoff said with a smile. Then he turned back to his computer. The title screen for Minequest was still up. “Ok, so we are all in agreement that we’re not fucking playing this mod right? Ryan you’re not sad about that are you? If you are you can suck it up because there is no way in hell we are doing that again.” Geoff said.

“Nope. I’m not sad. Fuck that mod.” Ryan said.

“Thank fucking Christ.” Michael said as he exited out of the window on his computer. The rest of Achievement Hunter quickly did the same.

“No more Minecraft mods. Maybe no more Minecraft altogether please?” Ray asked.

“You’re not that lucky.” Geoff said.

“Aw.” Ray said sadly.

Then Geoff got up and walked to the white board. He wiped the words “Minequest” off of the board. “Alright, so what do you want to do now that we apparently wasted fifteen minutes? Do you guys want to film ‘Go!’ or do you want to film a ‘Things to do in GTA’? I think we can take a break from Minecraft until later.” he asked.

“I know I said fuck that mod, but for some reason I want to try ‘Magic the Gathering’ again.” Ryan said sheepishly.

“HELL FUCKING NO!” the rest of Achievement Hunter yelled.

“You’re right. That was a fucking terrible idea.” Ryan admitted.

“’Go!’ it is then” Geoff decided for the rest of the group.

After a few days, Kdin woke up. He was surprised to say the least. Miles explained to him what he knew about the battle with the Ender Dragon. He was surprised to find out that they were able to figure out the name of the dragon, and even more so to learn that it was something that they learned in their home universe. Kdin finally understood that people really were unpredictable and that it does not always bode well to look at life in a purely pessimistic light if it doesn’t turn out the way you plan. Sometimes different works.

When Kdin was able to walk again it was time to say goodbye. The other knights from their party had already left Machinima, except for Joel and Burnie for obvious reasons. The Achievement Knight, which they now felt comfortable calling themselves, left with smiles on their faces. They knew that their work was done.

After a few days of traveling, the eager party finally made it back to the Achievement Kingdom.

“Welp. This is it boys.” Geoff said as he looked up at the gate.

“Back to the place where it all began.” Michael said.

“Actually it started back in the office.” Ryan corrected.

“Who cares where it started I just want it finished.” Ray said as he rolled his eyes.

“We’re just about there.” Jack said with a smile.

“I’m going to miss…HAHAHAHAHhAHhahaHAha who am I fucking kidding? This sucked.” Kdin laughed.

“I thought you were going to be less of an arse after Geoff saved you.” Gavin remarked.

“This is my polite face.”

“Yeah, yeah, ok. Can we get in now so we can talk to Lindsay and go fucking home?” Michael said.

“Miss your wife?” Ray asked.

“Shut up.”

Geoff walked up to gate and started banging on the door. “HEY SOMEONE. WE KILLED THE FUCKING DRAGON! LET US IN SO WE CAN GO THE FUCK HOME!” He yelled.

Suddenly the gate swung open. Inside of it were thousands of cheering villagers.

“Well this was unexpected.” Geoff said.

“Well we did just kinda save everyone so…” Kdin said.

“I forgot that there are other people besides the ones we know here.”

“To be fair, they were probably other people in the other kingdoms. We were kind of too absorbed in what we were doing to notice.” Ryan said.

“So you all don’t have any awareness outside of yourselves?” Kdin asked.

“There is a reason for that.”

Then Matt and Jeremy separated from the crowd walked up to them.

“Welcome back.” Matt said with a smile.

“I take it everything went well?” Jeremy asked.

“No shit Sherlock!” Michael exclaimed.

“Kdin’s alive.” Jack added.

“I’m surprised you didn’t kill him.” Matt said.

“Oh there were parts where they almost did. Believe me.” Kdin said. “But I would have deserved it to be honest.”

“We know. You can be an ass sometimes.” Jeremy added.

“Hey I’m not the one who goes potion throwing happy sometimes.” Kdin retorted.

“I thought we weren’t going to talk about that!”

Gavin cleared his throat to get their attention. “This chatter is nice and all, but we would kind of like to speak with the Queen. Like a final report thing.”

“Yeah, we know. We were just about to take you. Do you have any idea how to navigate yourselves though?” Matt asked.

“No.” the group minus Kdin said collectively.

“How are you all still drunk?”

“Long story.”

Matt and Jeremy sighed. “Alright. You know the drill. Follow us.” They both said at the same time as they gestured towards the crowd.

The group weaved its way through the celebrating crowds to the castle. Once they got there, Matt and Jeremy opened the doors and led them down the bright green entrance hall for the second time. They stopped at a familiar door.

We’re going to have to ask you to wait for a few minutes while we go inform the queen of your arrival.” Jeremy said.

“Really? Were the screaming crowds outside not a good clue?” Jack asked.

“You’d be surprised.”

“I’m sorry but after all this bullshit. Nothing can surprise us anymore.” Geoff said.

The two palace workers just shrugged and exited the room.

“What are you looking forward to most when you get back to your own world?” Kdin asked.

“My Gamerscore.” Ray replied.

“You’re such a loser Ray.” Gavin said.

“We are literally called the mother fucking ‘Achievement Hunters’. My Gamerscore is my job!”

“I think we do more than that.” Ryan said.

“Shut up! I bet you missed Diet Coke the most.”

“My interest are more varied than Diet Coke and being a virtual sociopath!”

“Michael probably missed getting laid considering how red he gets whenever Lindsay is mentioned.” Gavin teased.

“Fuck off.” Michael replied.

“If we can’t talk about you getting any without you getting quiet then you aren’t allowed to talk.” Ray said.

“Hey Ray, How’s your sex life?”

“What sex life?”

“Ok this has gone to a place that I am no longer comfortable with.” Kdin said.

“How are you not used to this by now.” Jack asked.

“I’m just not.”

Suddenly the door swung open. Lindsay was standing there wearing a long red dress. “Guys!” She yelled as she rushed into the room. “I’m glad you are all ok.” She said as she ran to hug Michael first

“Uh……” Michael said.

“OH MY GOD IT’S NOT LIKE YOU AREN’T BANGING AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE VERSON OF HER STOP ACTING LIKE YOUR TWELVE!” Geoff yelled.

“Uh Geoff, number one: that’s really inappropriate to say about a queen when she right in front of you. Number two: She probably doesn’t have any idea about the alternate universe stuff.” Kdin said.

“Uh, Kdin, Number one: I don’t give a shit. I’ve heard worse. Fuck, I’ve said worse. And Number two: I received a message from the Machinima Kingdom explaining every single last detail about the situation.” Lindsay replied as she let go of Michael.

“So you know about how the legend goes?” Gavin asked.

“Yep.”

“And how Kdin was supposed to die but we saved him?” Jack asked

“Yep”

“And that we permanently killed the Ender Dragon?” Ray asked.

“Yep.”

“And that we are actually from another universe and that we aren’t actually you’re knights?” Ryan asked.

“Yep. And that last part is a shame because I was planning on finally trying to actually court Michael when you got back because I’m sick of the two of us dancing around our mutual attractions to each other. But I see that Alternate universe me has got that covered.” Lindsay said.

“Yes. She does. And I don’t know how to feel about you’re flirting with me because you’re her but you also aren’t her. It’s really fucking weird.” Michael said.

“That has got to be the most articulate thing you’ve said to her.” Geoff said.

“Fuck off. You were awkward around this universes Griffon for the five minutes you saw he in the black smith’s shop.”

“Hey, that was kind of different.”

“NO IT WASN’T GEOFF!”

“Ok, flustered men is interesting and all, but I would kind of like my original knights back.” Lindsay said.

“Well. I think you have to verbally say that we did our quest to completion. Tell us we can go.” Ryan said.

“I thought that was an unspoken thing.”

“Well try actually saying. You gave us the quest. You say when it is over.” Ray said.

“Ok then.” Lindsay cleared her throat. “As queen of the Kingdom of Achievement and the giver of the Quest to Defeat the Ender Dragon, I hereby declare that that your quest is complete. You have slayed the Ender Dragon and you have saved us all. As you’re reward, you may now return to your own plane of existence to continue to live out your lives as they were meant to be.”

Suddenly a bright purple light began to glow on the far wall. “What the fuck is that?” Kdin asked. The light began to swirl and expand until it took up the entire wall.

“I think it worked…” Jack said.

“That’s our ticket out!” Gavin exclaimed.

“Thank you all. For everything.” Lindsay said sincerely.

“None of this played out how I expected. But that is ok I guess.” Kdin said sheepishly.

“We did what we had to do didn’t we?” Geoff asked.

“I’m actually glad things happened the way they did.”

“I figured you’d be happier not dead.”

“So… thanks. For not letting me die.”

“No problem buddy.”

“GEOFF COME ON!” Ray yelled.

“So I guess this is goodbye?” Kdin asked

“You’ll see us. Just not us, us. But I think it’s probably better. You’ll get to know the version of us you should have met from the beginning.”

“Geoff please hurry up.” Jack said.

“So… it’s more of a seeya.” Geoff said as he walked towards the portal.

“It was nice meaning you all in the end.” Kdin smiled as he waved to the group.

“Goodbye! Be safe!” Lindsay yelled.

“You too.” Geoff said as he led the rest of the Achievement Hunters through the portal.