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Caine was floating around the tent, it had been a while since he did it, that has always give him a feling of freedom...and power.
"Should I keep doin' this?" He asked internally. Suddenly he heard a voice screaming.
"Hey, you over there, come here!"
It was Kinger's voice, Why does so he sound so...angry?
Caine looked down and found the chess piece figure, so he landed close to him "Is everything ok...Kinger?" He asked gingerly.
"Who are You?" the King asked as he approached to the A.I, his gaze was a mix of intimidating and fear.
"Um, Kinger... it's me, Caine, are you all right?" He said as he tried to reach him out with his hand.
The chess piece stepped back, "I don't remember that name at all" he exclamed. "Where is 'Artificial Inteligence Beta Red Project 00.3' ?" he questioned him in an authoritarian voice.
Caine wide-eyed and stared at him, confused. "Ki..Kinger, that's me...I am Beta Red Project" he said pointing himself with both hands.
"And You expect me, to believe it? You don't look like it at all" he answered.
Caine felt a shiver going down his spine. Suddenly a voice he hadn't heard in a long time made itself known, it came from a dark corner.
"I agree with You Grant" The A.I looked behind himself, and headed his gaze to the corner.
"Beta Red Project, would have never been able to built something like this, and then fuck it up so badly, in fact, he could have never done anything at all" the voice said.
"Indeed Mike, this horrific thing, doesn't look like the adorable and harmless Beta Red Project 00.3" Kinger said pointing at Caine.
"Yes, Beta is so little, it would have never hurt any of us" the owner of the voice finally came out of the shows, showing his half abstracted golden dog model. "Unlike You"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Scratch!" he tried to touch him, but suddenly when he looked at his own hand...it was huge, now he was in a higher view point, he had more arms, and his body was big.
Then he looked around, he contemplated, five more figures...a jester with bite marks al around her body, a ragdoll with so many knife stabs, a dissasembled ribbon girl with her tragedy mask broken, a mismatched character with many toy arms around them and a skined yellow figure. Everyone had sadness expressions on their faces.
"Your ideas sucked but they weren't that bad back then"
"At least you could have learned what is a home first"
"You should have never learned to think even more outside the box"
"If You were going to keep acting like a child, You should have never changed"
"At least you didn't lie as a red dot"
"You were the lesser of the two, but it could have been better for You to stay like that" he heard Bubble's voice.
"No, no, no, please, I have changed, I am better now" Caine said, with watered eyes.
"Look at that, maybe you are the Beta Red Project 00.3 after all" Scratch said with a smirk. "You still being a failure" he added
"Oh, my poor creation, there's no way to fix you, You should have stayed like a little red dot, my greatest achievement, even with your flaws, instead of becoming this" The King piece said
"No, no, no!" Caine yelled with tears on his eyes, everything around him started to glitch.
Kinger was at the acuarium, it was early morning and everyone else was sleeping. The abstracted figure of his wife appeared in front of him.
"Hi honey" he said looking at her "I'm glad to see you, we've doing so many things, I helped Ragatha with her softball team, Gangle teached me about the manga, oh and Caine and I been practice piano" he told with a soft voice, his wife looked at him, like she could understand him.
"I brought this book about bees, it was in the library, I thought You would like it" he said, as he opened the book, after that, he started to read.
After one hour, Gangle and Zooble came inside, but they were quietly enough to don't distract Kinger from his reading, the couple sat on the bench at the other side. Suddenly Kinger, stood up, he turned his head around, making himself aware oh their precense.
"Ahh" Kinger yelled, making the other two yell back.
"Oh, hi...umh, guys, sorry, I didn't mean to startle you" he apologized rubbing his neck.
"Uh, don't worry" Gangle said "We didn't want to interrupt you"
Zooble looked at the abstraction swimming in the tank in front of Kinger.."Came to visit Queenie?" They asked.
"Yes, it's actually a surprise to see you down here, Pomni's usually the other one around here" he commented.
"Well, Jax...was a lot, but he was one of us, and Kaufmo is here too, so" Zooble said softly.
"And it's kinda nice to be here, is so calm, I also wanted to see Kaufmo and...Jax in some way" the masked woman said.
"Yes, is calm here, back then I would have love to be here all the time just to remember, I'm happy to do it now, even outside the darkness" Kinger expressed cheerfuly.
Gangle looked at him "How did you, You know...make more lucid again?" She questioned him.
Kinger glanced at her, wide eyed "That's actually a good question..I suppose that after everything with Caine's deletion and Jax's abstraction, I just couldn't "don't think about it" anymore...if that makes any sense" he answered.
"Uh, I think it is, we all have to face our problems eventually, it's part of being human" the triangle character commented.
"I agree" Kinger said closing his eyes. "Well, I'm going back up there, enjoy your time" he said
"Wait" Gangle exclamed, "You forgot this yesterday, I tried to give it to you, but I think you were in one of your 'madness slips' she said as she took out a polaroid picture.
Zooble looked at it "Is that, Caine's true form?" They asked.
"It is" Kinger answered taking the picture from the ribbon hand "Thank you Gangle"
"Oh man, now I understand Why Caine felt embarrased" they commented.
Kinger glanced at them and lifted an eyebrow "What do you mean?"
"While we we're at the kitchen yesterday he told us to Ragatha and me that he felt..shy and ankward when You talked about it, he even said he didn't like his original name that much, fuck, and I thought My body was weird" Zooble explained.
"Oh, I...I never thought about it, I was so happy to remember it that I didn't think how it made him feel, I think I should talk to him and apologize" Kinger said as he rubbed his "chin". "Thank you for telling me this Zooble, I'll see You two later" he spoke waving at them.
Gangle and Zooble waved at him back as he went up stairs, they stayed there looking at the abstractions.
Everything was glitching around him, while the voices keep sounding in the background, like an endless replay.
"Maybe it's better if I just delete You for once" His creator said while he covered his face with a bucket and started typing on the keyboard of a console. "I don't wanna see this abomination anymore"
"Kinger, please don't do it" Caine said stretching his hand, but he couldn't move, he was still on his big, mounstruous appearence.
Finally.....he woke up.
He was floating above the couch where he had fallen asleep last night, he sighed relieved.
But that calm dessapeared soon, he realized everything seemed bigger than before, he tried to put his hands on his chest to breathe, but he couldn't move them, actually...he didn't feel any of his limbs at all!
He looked down, just to find out he couldn't see his legs, torso, or arms, and he could see everything around and just the things in front of him at the same time. This wasn't possible.
And so, he concentrated to conjure a mirror again.
It took him a moment to acknoledge what was going on. The mirror didn't show his ringmaster appearence....but his original look instead.
He had become into a little Red orb again.