Toby is battling the butter ant colony with his incredible strength, blinding speed, and pure ferocity. Multiple Drones try to blast him with their venom, but the young dreamer is moving too fast, avoiding the acidic substance and leaping high into the air, taking them down with a newly summoned dream sword.
The golden Butter Ant Queen stands in motionless silence, watching with her large compound eyes as Toby blitzes through the colony, decimating scores of the butter ants.
In the real world an ant queen would leave the job of defending the colony to her children. But this isn't the real world, this is the dream world, and it plays by very different rules.
The Butter Ant Queen flies towards the young dreamer at top speed, surprising him with how fast she actually is. Toby doesn't have a shield with him in that moment, so the Queen stabs into his stomach with her golden stinger, driving and slamming him into a wall, cracking a couple ribs.
The young dreamer screams in terrible pain, struggling to pull out the stinger in his gut. But the Queen continues to push forward, keeping Toby pinned to the wall, and breaking those ribs.
[-35HP]
[35/100HP]
[You Have Been Greatly Injured]
Toby Robinson: Heal!!! (Toby screams out in agony, quickly heals himself in the process, but the pain doesn't stop)
[-65 Dream Points]
[100/100HP]
[Dream Bank: 1436 Dream Points]
The mild relief from the pain only lasts a few seconds, the stinger still buried deep in his gut. The young dreamer desperately attempts to pull out the stinger once again, but fails yet again.
That's when it happens, that's when he feels something hot flowing into his stomach, and the pain that follows is horrific and maddening. Toby screams, the likes of which he has never screamed before, his insides just being liquefied.
[-80HP]
[20/100HP]
[You Have Been Greatly Injured]
[You Will Lose -10HP Until You Heal From This Injury]
Toby Robinson: H- H - Heal!!!!! (Toby screams at the top of his bloody lungs, blue blood spilling from his mouth as he activated his healing factor)
[-80 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 1356 Dream Points]
[100/100HP]
[-75HP]
[25/100HP]
[You Have Been Greatly Injured]
[You Will Lose -10HP Until You Heal From This Injury]
The Queen is still pumping the young dreamer's insides with her venom, to her his attempt to heal only delays his inevitable demise. Toby begins to cough up a ton of blood, his red eyes becoming fainter with each passing moment.
Toby Robinson: You think you've got what it takes to take me down?! Hah, don't make me laugh insect! Can't you understand that I'm the main character?! I will always... WIN!!!!!!!! (Toby yells as he cuts loose, letting the power of terror to fully take control of his mind and body, amplifying his physical strength tenfold)
[-10HP]
[15/100HP]
Toby Robinson: Maybe what you need is a demonstration of my awesome power! You might want to stay for this one. (Toby smiles as he grabs onto the stinger with both hands, keeping the Queen before his gaze as his red eyes begin to power up)... Dream... Beam!!! (Toby bellows, blasting the Queen in the face with the terror charged beams of energy)
[-19 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 1337 Dream Points]
The Queen is momentarily stunned by the blast, but also hasn't taken much damage from the attack. Her exoskeleton now much harder to break through.
[-10HP]
[5/100HP]
Toby Robinson: Heal! (Toby yells desperately, but manages to heal before he loses anymore health)
[-95 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 1242 Dream Points]
The young dreamer's vision becomes blurry and he feels incredibly ill, an effect caused by his extremely low health, but he still manages to remain conscious. And just in the nick of time his healing kicks in, fixing the damage done to his body and restoring his health.
[100/100HP]
[-70HP]
[30/100HP]
[You Have Been Greatly Injured]
[You Will Slowly Lose -10HP Until You Heal From This Injury]
Toby Robinson: (Groans) I think losing all this blood just gave me an idea, how about you start losing something?! (Toby yells, tightening his grip on the stinger)... System... Activate, Dream Steal! And... Heal Me!!!! (Toby bellows with fierce determination, requesting the aid of his System)
[Condition Met]
[Dream Steal Activated]
[10 Dream Points Stolen]
[10 Dream Points Stolen]
[10 Dream Points Stolen]
[10 Dream Points Stolen]
[10 Dream Points Stolen]
[-70 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 1172 Dream Points]
[100/100HP]
[-65HP]
[35/100HP]
With every second that passes Toby steals more and more dream energy from the Ant Queen, and although she's still injecting him with her venom, the young dreamer has all the points he needs to recover. This is now a war of attrition, who will fall first. The High Grade, or The Dreamer?
[10 Dream Points Stolen]
[10 Dream Points Stolen]
[10 Dream Points Stolen]
[10 Dream Points Stolen]
[10 Dream Points Stolen]
[-65 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 1107 Dream Points]
[100/100HP]
[-60HP]
[40/100HP]
The Queen begins to sway left and right, her body starting to notice the effects of the dream steal skill. She tries to pull away, but the young dreamer doesn't let her go, his hands clutching her stinger with all of his royal strength.
Toby Robinson: Where do you think you're going, Huh?! Party's just getting good! (Toby smiles menacingly, sensing his victory close at hand)... Heal!!! (Toby yells again, healing himself once again)
[-60 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 1047 Dream Points]
[100/100 Dream Points]
[-55HP]
[45/100HP]
At this point pain means nothing to Toby anymore, he has been enduring this venom so much that he's now numb to it. All he has to do is heal and he can just keep going.
Realizing the danger she's in, the Queen releases her pheromones once again, commanding her butter ants to come to her aid, finally allowed to assist. But the young dreamer is far from being defenseless.
Toby Robinson: Release... Prince Charming, Browny and Noble! (Toby yells, quickly releasing his dream beings from his hold)
Prince Charming: My Lord! (Charming gasps, shocked to see Toby in such a precarious position)
Toby Robinson: No time... stop those guys from reaching me! I'm about to take down the queen! (Toby tells them sharply, leaving no room for questions)
Prince Charming: Right! (Charming nods before quickly jumping into battle with the butter ants, backed by Noble and Browny)
Even with all this chaos, the young dreamer is able to notice the sudden stop in the flow of venom, which can only mean the Queen has run out. Which also means Toby doesn't have to heal anymore, and can just focus on attacking.
Toby Robinson: I told you this was going to happen... I WIN! (Toby grins as his eyes burn red with terror energy, ready to finish this fight once and for all)
[Majestic Speed Deactivated]
Toby Robinson: Dream Beam! (Toby yells, blasting into the Queen with his red dream beams, still holding onto her stinger with his royal strength)
[-18 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 1029 Dream Points]
[Royal Strength Deactivated]
With the Royal Strength skill now gone, the young dreamer can now feel his grip slipping, the Queen successfully pulling away from his grasp. If she manages to escape, Toby and his dream beings could be in a lot of trouble.
Toby Robinson: Its only a matter of time before I lose the terror charge, once that happens my dream beams will become weaker, and we're done. Before that happens, I need to figure something out! (Toby thought to himself, thinking of what to do as the dream beams continue to blast from his eyes, the Queen's armour still managing to stay intact)... Dream Beam! (Toby yells out in desperation, trying to see if he can double the power of his beams this way)
Toby has never tried this before, but to his shock and awe it actually works, and even better that he'd hoped. The young dreamer now knows he can multiply the power of his dream beams, by just using them multiple times in quick succession.
The still firing dream beams have intensified in power, blasting harder into the Queen of the Butter Ants. She screeches in discomfort, now knowing what it's like to feel pain.
Toby Robinson: Dream Beam! (Toby yells a third time, tripling the power of his beams)... Dream Beam! (Toby yells a fourth time, quadrupling the power of his beams, and now doing some serious damage to the high grade insect)... Dream Beam!!! (Toby yells with all his might, using the awesome power of the terror beams to blast the Queen into the walls of the anthill)
[Warning: Extended Use Of Augmented Dream Beams Can Be Very Damaging]
The Queen shrieks in agonizing pain and immense distress, the power of these beams breaking down her exoskeleton armour, and burning what's underneath. And the sheer force of the blast continues to push on, punching the Queen deeper and deeper into the wall, before blasting straight through it and sending her flying out of the hill.
[Terror Charge Deactivated]
The beams lose their red glow almost instantly, turning blue as the power of terror energy leaves his body. The dream beams then run out of energy, leaving the young dreamer exhausted in more ways than one.
[-62 Dream Points]
[Dream Bank: 967 Dream Points]
Toby's vision becomes blurry, and he can no longer stay on his feet, lifelessly falling to the ground. Charming and the others begin to rush towards him, but he loses consciousness before they reach him.
[1520 Dream Points Stolen]
[Dream Bank: 2487 Dream Points]
[Quest Completed]
[You Will Now Receive Your Rewards]
[Congratulations]
Next: True Bond