"Oh, here we go again," Jason sighed. "Well, Tim, you think you handle doing the orientation for one of them, while I take the other?"
"Sure, Jason," Timothy told him. "Now that you've shown me where everything is, I think I'm up to it."
"Good, just don't screw it up." Jason then turned to the guy that appeared closest to him and began telling him the basics of the world where he had just landed and how normal it was for people to suddenly appear here from some other world.
Meanwhile, Tim took a good look at the guy that was now his charge. An unimpressive looking blonde man wearing just a pair of briefs and a strange belt, while holding several strange looking devices. It was Sean, traveling here from episode 316000. The belt was the anti-remote belt from the world of Francis, and the strange devices were the BE-gun that he had picked up some time ago as well as the stripperizer and whoriffier that he had picked up at the last minute before leaving the world of Jim's whorehouse.
"Hi, my name's Timothy," Timothy said.
"Oh, I'm Sean. Hi."
"You're probably wondering what's going on, like is this a dream or what."
"No, not really. For some reason, I've just appeared in another reality. Eh, it happens," Sean told him, shrugging.
"Oh. Most people are a little more perplexed when they first arrive."
"Yeah, well, I've been doing this for a while. So, what's interesting about this place?"
"Oh, uh, well, there's the forest of temptation..."
"Forest of Temptation? Where's that?"
"Here, I'll show you," Timothy replied, leading Sean down the trail away from town (the opposite direction from the one that Jason was leading his newly-arrived stranger).
A few moments later, Timothy pointed past some trees. "That's the place. Jason was telling me that the trees grow all sorts of things."
"Really? Let's go check it out," Sean replied. Timothy was a little reluctant since Jason had warned him that it might be dangerous. But he had wanted to investigate it as well... and Jason wasn't around right now, so...
The two of them wandered off the trail, deep into a strange forest. The trees were of many strange varieties. Sean first noticed the pie trees: cherry pies, blueberry pies, even lemon meringue all grew on their branches. Next to the pie trees were the money trees: coins and bills of all varieties could be found. Near the money trees could be seen the clothing trees, and next to them were the canned drink trees: sodas, beers, and other canned drinks could be found growing here.
Also, one could find all varieties of fruit trees: apple, lemon, grapefruit, coconut, grapes (wait a minute, grapes don't grow on trees! Oh, like pies do? Okay, fine, I'll shut up), and even fruits not known on Earth, including a variety shaped like rude parts of the human anatomy.
Sean's first interest was a clothing tree that seemed to have just what he needed. He found some black pants, black socks, a black silk button-down shirt, black shoes, and a black trenchcoat. Strangely, as he put them on, they all seemed to fit perfectly. He wore his anti-remote belt over his pants now, and put the guns in the pockets of the trenchcoat.
"There," Sean announced. "I feel much better now." And then he and Timothy started to investigate the other trees. They were both a bit hungry and were salivating as they stared at some of the fruits growing from the trees.
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