-Meanwhile in the Rift-

Pho and Vyx were standing on front of the entrance of the Storage. With the lights now on, they could see the greyscale walls illuminated by the quiet humming lights. There were also walls of glass and some doors on the walls, with some signs nearby to tell what it's for.

Pho: "Hey..."

Vyx: "Yeah?"

Pho: "Why does it feel like I've been standing here for 2 weeks?"

Vyx: "I dunno..."

Vyx presses a button on a remote he was holding behind his back. Everything goes quiet. Vyx swipes their hand on front of Pho, no reaction from them.

Vyx inhales then looks at the... 4th wall?

Vyx: "Hey guys! This 4th wall break was brought to you by... Me! Basically I just stopped time in this entire rift so I could write chapters without Pho interrupting or noticing. Pretty neat huh? Don't use it much cuz it gets boring in here when it's too quiet. Anyways, Back to now!"

Vyx goes back to their position and presses the button again, resuming the time.

Vyx: "We were here to look at stuff right?"

Pho: "Oh what about that door?"

Pho heads over to a door with a sign that says "Lost and Taken / Junk" Pho turned to Vyx confused.

Vyx: "Oh! uh, I kinda made an entity that takes lost stuff and hoards it there, don't worry they're fine with us taking a few things."

Pho opens the door and was greeted by a huge pile of random things. They pick up a small pouch that was lying next to their feet.

Vyx: "Ah so that's where it went!"

Pho: "What is this?"

Vyx: "It's a pouch that gives you not what you need, but what it thinks you need!"

Pho: "Like for example, I need a fork and what the pouch thinks I need is a spoon then it gives me that?"

Vyx: "Pretty much."

Pho: "H-How the heck does that even work?!"

Vyx: "I dunno, just does."

Pho: "Alright. I need protection because I don't know what the heck you have in this Storage. A sword should do."

Pho reaches in the pouch, for a small pouch it was surprising spacious in the inside. Pho grabs something and pulls it out.

Pho: "Yes! A sword."

Vyx: "Ooh good choice. The Parry-Blade."

Pho: "Oh cool, does that mean this sword can parry every attack? Block it? Protect me from everything?"

Vyx: "Haha... No, it's just a sword with a shield strapped on it."

Pho: "Wait what?"

Pho takes a better look at the sword. It really was just a shield strapped to a sword.

Pho: "Can I remove the shield?"

Vyx: "No."

Pho: *sigh* "This is stupid."

Pho raises the sword in front of them but the shield keeps sliding down, annoying Pho. Vyx chuckled at this.

Pho: "Ngh why won't this stop sliding!... Remember those roars earlier? How big is this entity?"

Vyx: "Not that big to be honest."

Pho: "You said that like you're being sarcastic."

Vyx: "Ah Pho, always so paranoid."

The piles of junk start moving again and the roars get closer. Pho was shaking in fear but still kept their guard up while Vyx was checking a fridge he found nearby.

Vyx: "Eh, nothing good to eat in here. Probably should restock this or somethin'."

Vyx closes the door and it echoes loudly until it fades away.

Pho: "How big is this room!? Gosh I'm starting to regret coming in here."

The beast let out one last roar before the pile infront of them moves. Something comes out of the pile and tackles Pho making them drop on the floor and drop their weapon.

Pho: "AHHH GET IT OFF GET IT OFF!!!"

???: "Shiny!"

Vyx: "Relax it's just the entity I was talking about. Coal, please get off of Pho."

Coal: "Okay. I like shiny robot fluffy. Do I get to keep them?"

Vyx: "I dunno..."

Coal: "Aww pweeaaasse?"

Vyx just shrugs at the question. Pho gets up and gets a better look at the beast who tackled them. It was a dark grey Kobold. They were known for hoarding things just like dragons, except they're way smaller than dragons.

Pho: "So this is the entity you were talking about?"

Vyx: "Yup, Also they want to keep you. Well have fun you two, gonna go back and do absolutely nothing but stare at the ceiling."

Pho: "What!? Wait no no no... I haven't even agreed yet! I have things to do and manage!"

Vyx: "Relax, besides I do very fine without your paranoid supervision."

Pho: "The last time I left you for groceries EVERYTHING WAS ON FIRE!"

Vyx: "Oh that? I was testing the Flame Flamethrower. Apparently it works a little... Too well."

Pho: "The flamethrower made of literal flames? How the heck do you even make things like that?"

Vyx: "I dunno, just happens."

Another loud roar can be heard again which got the two's attention. It was just Coal holding a megaphone.

Coal: "Me no like arguements, me like shiny fluffy!"

Coal clings onto Pho, hugging them. Pho tries to get Coal off of them but somehow their grip is pretty tight.

Vyx: "Aww, to be honest you look cute together. So what do you wanna do?"

Pho: "Leave."

Coal: "No! Stay!"

Pho: "Fine!"

Vyx: "Alright, stay it is. Now wanna look through all these stuff? Probably sort them too."

The room really was a mess. Piles of random things, furniture, weapons. You could find almost everything in the room. All you have to do is painfully search for it, though.

Pho: "This is gonna take forever-"

Vyx: "Two seconds!"

Pho: "Wha-"

-Timeskip-

Pho was exhausted, lying on the cold ground, tired. Vyx however, was just sitting on a couch writing on the book he's holding.

Pho: "Two seconds for you... All you did was just find the nearest couch and sit on it!"

Vyx: "Well atleast I found whatever this thing is."

He pulls out an object that looks like a gun. There was a crystal-like prism on the front end of the gun, and a flashlight at the back end.

Vyx: "Don't remember making something like this. Coal, did you make this?"

Coal: "mhm. Shiny glass make more!"

Pho: "I'm probably gonna teach them grammar soon. Hard to understand what they mean."

Vyx aims the makeshift ray gun at a can and turns on the flashlight. The prism on the ray gun turns the light from the flashlight into a rainbow colored beam and hits the can. The can was duplicated creating a few more cans, except they were different colored.

Vyx: "Oh nice, a cloning ray. Now how do we remove the clones?"

Coal: "Don't know. Me never use that."

Coal finishes moving some things around, creating a small living room out of the things found in the room.

Vyx: "Good job Coal!"

Vyx gently pats Coal's scaly head. They seemed to like it a lot. Pho looks around the room, looking at pile to piles of things. It's almost endless.

Pho: "You know. This room alone feels like the Storage itself."

Vyx: "It might but its not. This is just one room of the Storage."

Coal sits down on the couch and turns on an old-fashioned television. A cartoon starts playing and Coal seems to be entertained.

Vyx: "In a couple of days of creation, I'm pretty impressed how Coal managed to get all these stuff. Don't you think?"

Pho: "They were created a few days ago?"

Vyx walks away from the mini living room and looks at the ray gun again while walking. Suddenly it slips off their paws and falls on the floor. It turns on by itself and shoots Vyx, creating an explosion sending them flying on one ot the piles of junk. Pho runs to the pile to check if Vyx is doing fine.

Pho: "Vyx are you there!?"

Vyx: "Yes I'm here. I'm fine, just a little hurt that's all."

He sounded more neutral than he used to be. One detail that caught Pho's eye was that the lights on his visor was gray.

Pho: "Hey what's wrong with your visor?"

Vyx: "Nothing. Just saw myself get flinged across the room along with my other selves."

Pho: "Wait what does that... No. You don't mean?"

Coal: "Me found him!"

Coal was dragging the paw of another Vyx. Except their visor was yellow.

Vyx: "AAAH I'M BEING KIDNAPPED BY A KID!"

Pho: "Oh great there's two of them now."

Vyx: "You know you should have something to tell us apart. Something tells me that's not all of them."

Pho thinks about what Vyx said. They got an idea on how to tell them apart.

Pho: "Since you and the other one have different colored visors. Maybe color coding works... You're Gray that one's Yellow."

Gray: "Oh just calling us by our colors... That's not bad."

Yellow: "HELP I'M BEING TICKLED!"

Yellow was laughing uncontrollably on the couch while Coal was tickling them with no signs of stopping.

Pho: "You two seem very different despite looking almost exactly the same. You're his depressing side and Yellow must be his playful side."

Gray: "I prefer neutral side. And I don't know myself that much but I'm pretty sure that's his fearful side."

Pho: "Huh. Well there might be more so wanna look for them?"

Gray: "Well. They already found us."

A Purple Vyx comes out from behind and taps Pho's shoulder making them turn around and look at him.

Pho: "Oh! And who might you be?"

Purple: "I LIKE MUSIC!"

Everyone covers their ears from the loud reply, which also echoed around the entire room.

Pho: "You must be his loud side, which I rarely see. How high is your speaker volume!?"

Purple checks something in their visor. Possibly their volume or just something else completely.

Purple: "100%!"

Pho: "Ow my artificial ears... Could you please turn it down to like... 12%?"

Purple: "Is this good!?"

Pho: "Still loud. 2%?"

Purple: "yeah i sound like the other dude over here now. so what's poppin?"

Gray: "Oh we just got split into several different pieces of personalities. That's all, you didn't miss much."

A Teal one came out of the piles. They see Purple and waved, Purple waved back.

Teal: "Hey other me!... And another me. What's up?"

Gray: "This is going to get old."

Teal: "Chill bro. It's not like we're gonna stay like this forever."

Teal moves closer to Pho and whispers to their ears.

Teal [Whispering]: "We ARE not staying this way forever. Right bud?"

Pho: "Yeah hope so. One Vyx is hard to take care of alone. And several with different personalities, likes, and such? It's like I'm running a one employee daycare."

Gray: "I can take care of myself. Yellow here however,  can get scared by a single pixel."

Teal: "Heh. Watch this."

Teal takes out a laser pointer from the pile and aims it near Yellow. Yellow looks at the laser in fear and and stands on the couch.

Yellow: "ERADICATION LASER AAAAAAA!"

They fall down behind the couch and tried to hide.

???: "Oh stop being such a coward."

A Red one comes out followed by an Orange one.

Red: "You're pathetic. Get up its just a dumb laser."

Teal: "Woah rude much?"

Orange: "GIVE ME SOMETHING TO TEAR IN SHREDS I'M FEELING AGITATED!"

Red walks towards Teal and takes away the laser pointer and throws it to Orange. Orange easily snaps it in half then calms down.

Orange: "All good now. I'm gonna find something to destroy next."

Pho: "That must be his mean and destructive side."

Gray: "Alright before anything bad happens-"

Teal: "Which will be in a few minutes!"

Gray: "...We have to find a way to reverse the ray's effects. Coal, can you find something useful or whatever?"

Coal: "Yessir!"

Coal runs off, looking for something useful. They come back holding a tube of glue.

Red: "And how's that going to help?"

Coal: "Stick back together!"

Red: "Like that's gonna work..."

Teal takes the glue and and sneakily applies it on the couch. The next person who sits on it would be very unlucky.

Teal [W]: "Don't tell anyone, heh."

Coal chuckles a little which Red noticed. Red sits down on the couch, Teal starts laughing while Red seemed confused.

Red: "What are you laughing at huh?"

Red tries to stand up but they were stuck on the couch.

Teal: "Looks like you got in a... Sticky situation!"

Red: "Oh when I get my paws on you!"

Purple: "yup. something's goin bad alright."

Purple was behind a DJ booth. They were browsing through the piles until they found a disc. They put the disc in which started blasting very loud music, loud enough to send vibrations strong enough to shake the ground.

Gray: "Things are going bad indeed."

To be continued...

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A/N:

Something something, yeah that wraps it up for this one. Also I'm gonna be publishing self inserts every 2 to 3 normal story chapters. This will affect the real story though. By pretty small but powerful details.

If you scroll up you should see the title image which looks different from normal chapters