I was awoken to Mosquito shaking me vigorously, fear in his eyes.

"What is it?" I asked groggily.

"The dimension's going fast. And we can't find Sharpshoot. He went out looking for food a little while ago and he still hasn't come back."

The mention of the dimension breaking down made my cheeks heat up, and I hated the idea of Sharpshoot's disappearance ultimately being my fault.

I stood up and nodded, putting my jacket back on. "Let's go."

I noticed that all the others were behind Mosquito, up, fully dressed, and ready to go, but they all looked rather desperate and very close to tears.

Arrow nodded. "We'd better be fast."

Then we all ran for our lives, the ground seeming to decay beneath our feet. It was as if the decay was chasing us. As soon as I'd step off of something, it would fade away. We'd run to higher ground, on top of a skyscraper. Well, Wren had carried me, and everyone else had somehow run up the wall.

"Ginger! We need a portal!" Arrow called.

The girl choked back a sob and began doing something similar to what Mac had done earlier. A portal formed... off the side of the building, like the end of it was a diving board and the portal was a cute little kiddie pool to another, not decaying, dimension.

"I'm sorry," she whispered. "I'm still no good at this."

Little Ginger ignored her statement and glanced down, seeming to assess the damage.

"We're gonna have to jump," he confirmed, taking his friend's hand and making them the first to jump. Luckily, they made it. Little Ginger beckoned for the others to follow them as Ginger tried to regain her breath.

Wren set me down and effortlessly flew down to the portal.

Mosquito jumped next, barely making it, catching the end of the flaming ring and hoisting himself up over it.

"You're up," said Arrow from behind me.

"I-I-" I couldn't even stutter out a whole sentence. I'm petrified of heights.

"Oh, why do I even bother?" Arrow huffed. And then he pushed me off the roof.

I could've puked my guts out, especially considering I almost missed it, but two certain stick-carrying kids caught my hands and helped to pull me up into the portal.

Finally, Arrow jumped across, landing effortlessly next to Wren, and Ginger hesitated slightly before closing up the portal with another zipper.

Once we'd arrived at our new destination, we all glanced at Ginger, knowing her hesitation meant something was up.

"I-I guess I just thought that, maybe, he would heroically jump in after us at the last second and he wouldn't really be gone," she explained, head down. "But that's just pathetic, isn't it?"

Though she'd never mentioned a name, we all knew exactly to whom she was referring.

Little Ginger patted her back sympathetically and I bit my lip and looked away.

There was a moment of silence for Sharpshoot, and then Arrow turned to me, placing a hand on my shoulder.

"Still wanna figure out how to regain balance within the dimensions?"

"And how."