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As Zachary listed off the things around the beach, Jake looked around and mentally checked them all off a list. "Yep, they're all there" Jake confirmed. He wasn't really sure why this was so important to Zachary. Jake hadn't really paid much attention to the surrounding area until just now but Zachary seemed awfully concerned about it.

"This place...there's something wrong. There might be some sort of ability at work." Zach told Jake, seemingly mirroring the suspicions Jake was having about this place.
"Yeah, either that or we're dead" replied Jake with a chuckle. His expression quickly changed though as he actually thought about that. This place was a literal paradise. It had everything they could ever want or need. A shiver ran down the dogs spine and flashes of a memory ran through his mind. Memories of pain and blood. "Oh god" he said, barely louder than a whisper "Are we dead?"

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Chatterbox

"Neat trick" Nate told Damien as the other man absorbed the energy holding Cer to the tree "Y'know I once knew a guy who could absorb energy just like that. Nice guy that Aleksander...Shame I had to kill him. He made great borscht"
"Hey!" came a bark from the other duplicate nearby, snapping the first from his reverie "Stop talking! Classified, remember?"
The chatterbox duplicate straightened and looked at Cer and Damien awkwardly "Oh, right...Forget I said anything" He paused only for a second before saying to Cer "So about that double date..."
The other duplicate meanwhile had turned his attention away from his motormouth brother just in time to see Kuro blast off of the beach and hurtle towards the sea. As the brat landed with a splash, Nate sighed and turned to the other duplicate "Come on. We better rescue the brat"

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[@Raijinslayer]

The other one

When Mu asked if he could kill him, Nate only laughed and told him "You have issues." He was about to poke the bear some more when there was suddenly a skeleton crash landing at Aya's feet. This was even funnier to him than Mu in a bubble and he laughed some more. Aya clearly didn't feel the same way about it and backed up into him. He instinctively put his hands to her shoulders to reassure her but she obviously didn't need it as she stepped forward again and kicked the skeletons head clean off it's shoulders and into the water. "Damn girl, you should play for the NFL" he told her as something else smashed into the water. Kuro apparently.

It was then that the two duplicates appeared beside him. "Hey" one told him "Kuro's an adult. Physically anyway. Pranked Opie then derped himself into the ocean. Gotta go play hero." It was an abridged version of what had happened but Nate knew not to ask questions. He'd find out whatever he had missed when the duplicates were reabsorbed. Instead he doffed an imaginary hat at Cer before all three ran off towards the ocean to rescue Kuro.
"Keep him there" one of the duplicates told Jackson before shaking Mu's energy bubble prison again then following the other Legions.

Nate fully intended to rescue Kuro but the way he went about it would make it seem like he didn't. Living out his Baywatch fantasy, the California boy ran towards the water in slow motion, his duplicates beside him doing the same. All they needed was some bitching music to accompany it and this would be awesome. They were snapped out of their collective fantasy though when some kid ran past them and dived into the water towards Kuro. "Oh...right" said Nate, suddenly picking up speed. All three dived into water behind the kid but lost track of him. They did however find a very helpful dolphin as it pushed Kuro back to the surface. The Nate's made their way to the unconscious adult Kuro. "Thanks" Nate told the dolphin, not entirely sure if he was imagining it "We'll take him from here." He took hold of Kuro then, wrapping his arms around his chest and kicking off back towards the beach.
"You're a cutie" the chatterbox Nate informed the dolphin as he stroked its nose "Who's a cutie? You're a cutie"
"It's not a dog" the other duplicate yelled over his shoulder as he swam off.
Once again feeling awkward, the chatterbox duplicate said "Oh...right" and then followed after the others.

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[@Raijinslayer] again.
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Only when his suspicions where confirmed did he take a moment to glance around at what he'd described. The pier sat out in the water, colorful jetskies bobbing up and down in the surf. A elaborate sandcastle stood next to a multicolored beachball. Am empty smoothie shack stood next to the huts, the machines spinning the drinks in the back.

These things all existed. These things, [i]of course[/i], has always been there. You just had to notice them. At the same time, however, they had just come into existence right at this moment. He was tinkering with something here, but decided to push his luck. "I don't suppose you noticed that dune buggy abandoned over there before?" He said, pointing behind them at an old, beat up dune bugging whose yellow paint job was either faded or flecking off. "Or that this section of beach is made up of special singing sand that sounds like bells when you walk on it." He jumped up and brought his feet down, a bell like ringing echoing down the beach. "Oh look, a whale!" He shouted, and at that moment a whale breached the surface of the ocean. "A white whale." The whale was indeed white as it splashed down and vanished under the waves.

"That's why I couldn't remember seeing the jungle. It wasn't there yet." He muttered. "Nothing here exists until you establish that it does! Either deliberately or unconsciously, this world is shaped by what we decide it is. The beach is just a foundation, everything else is just building on that!"

He hunched down to think, the sand noisily shifting as he did so. He thought about Jake's theory. "Despite your free pass into Heaven, lets labor under the assumption that this is some sort of power we're stuck in. If we're dead, we're dead and we can't do anything about that." Same for the idea that this was all some insane delusion of his. If he was insane there was nothing he could do about it. "If we're alive that means someone put us here for some reason."