Bond Breaker (SI - Multiverse Cross)
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Ryu Gabriev
Angry short person that's good with his hands.
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- Dallas, TX
I'm gonna get flamed for this, but it must be said. You have a 22 year old queen that has affirmed devotion to you despite your 'age'. She has pulled the classic Disney save despite all odds, and more importantly YOU, trying their best to thwart such an outcome. You have saved Arrendale a minimum of three times now...
You may be able to hold out the rest of this story, but at some point you just need to Let it Go and consider Elsa's feelings properly instead of denying them because angst is more comfortable for you.
You may be able to hold out the rest of this story, but at some point you just need to Let it Go and consider Elsa's feelings properly instead of denying them because angst is more comfortable for you.
Well, "miss" for me means many different things. Shade interacting with someone without romantic tones while being annoyed about it,is fun.
Much more so than breaking a character's heart while focusing this much on her. I didn't even watch Frozen and I laugh at unrequited love/angst stories.Especially if they stray a little too far to "woe is me" territory.
But this was not as fun like that time, when Shade dodged marrying a princess. I could probably enjoy the angst more, if RL didn't actually remind me this wasn't fun recently*.
*No, I wasn't talking about myself.
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Dragonskyt
Ashen one, hearest thou my voice, still?
- Location
- Kiln of the First Flame
You know, it feels more and more to me like as if Shade has become The Doctor in his own twisted version.
He even brings girls with him on adventures!
He even brings girls with him on adventures!
I'm not a Whovian, but imagining those two meeting...
INTERFERENCE WILL NOT BE TOLERATED
The Doctor would just sadly shake his head and walk away.
Because some things? You can't fix.
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Chapter Ninety-One
"Genocide~ Wonderful Genocide~ Come on closer and let me murder your soul~"
The fact the music blared louder made me swallow thicker with each passing second.
"Kill the Angel, kill the Monster, kill the Xenos! Death! Burn! Maim! Kill!"
Please don't tell me it's what I think it is.
"Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the skulls' throne! By the will of Angst and Despair!"
Oh yeah, it's really what I think it is.
"Yui, can you please not blare your audio feed out of the Eva?"
"I want them to see me coming~ I want them to hear my voice last~ When I'll be done I'll smash their souls to tiny bits, itsy bitsy tiny bits! And then-oh! Civilian! Hey you with the glowsticks! What the hell are you doing out of the shelter?!"
That had to be Anna.
Her shriek of surprise did not surprise me, as I rounded the corner behind the sparks just in time to find her half-babbling on the ground, Eva Zero One kneeling in front of her, a hand on the ground.
"There's an Angel Attack! Get the fuck away from-"
The Eva's eyes moved towards me.
I raised a hand.
And waved.
Once.
"You're in an Eva!" I yelled next. "Remember that! No Hugging!"
The Eva's frame -first still- now literally froze.
"Ah," it said in the end. "That's something he'd say all right."
"And by your information," I remarked dryly. "I heard that! You'll give me a heart attack. I thought you'd turned Matrix while I wasn't looking."
The Eva's head began to tremble, and then its hands shot down to grab the screaming Anna and myself -gently, of course, and brought them up to the Eva's neck next.
The neck opened up, and the tube of LCL emerged, sizzled and opened to allow us entrance.
"I can't believe this," Misato's voice came through the mic. "You were...I mean...you were dead!"
"Mind-Fuck ending," I retorted calmly as I dropped inside, Anna having to be 'coerced' by my pull. "Worry not, for I live."
"Some people aren't going to be happy about that," Ritsuko's voice shot in.
"You shut it, Yandere," I drawled.
"Is a wonderful ball of sunshine among us?!" another voice added to the Chorus.
"Oh! Hello there Mari! I know thy name and thy identity, batman!" I exclaimed as I found myself hugged by Yui in the middle of the LCL. "How's your LCL addiction going?"
"Better now," Mari giggled back in the mic. "Hey, I like him!"
"Shut it, four-eyed freak," Asuka said. "We're supposed to keep the communication silent until-"
"Bah-gah," Anna said, eyes wide and looking around as the LCL container closed and command was restored.
I turned to look at Anna, and then said. "Keep calm, take deep breaths, and grab hold of something because this is going to get rocky."
I turned my head back to Yui, who seemed to be keen on rubbing herself into my flesh with her face first.
I patted her head, "Oi, Angel in Tokyo. Get a grip and we'll talk later."
"B-But-"
"Come on," I sighed. "Not going anywhere."
Yui nodded and turned to her console.
"We're waiting for confirmation from the Magi on how to defeat it," Ritsuko's voice came through.
"Simple. Aim for the shadow, enter it, and go berserk on its innards," I replied.
Yui nodded. "Understood."
"What? Wait! You've got to follow ord-" Misato's voice was cut off as Yui simply took off in a charge, the battery line behind her extending until it exploded out from the Eva's back.
"Initiating Self-Sufficient Protocol. Connecting with Eva," Yui said as she charged forth.
The buildings broke apart at her passage, and as Anna screamed and clung to my neck, I held on to the seat.
"This isn't happening," Anna whimpered. "This isn't happening."
"ONWARDS!" I howled.
"TO VICTORY!" Yui snarled, taking the jump and slamming fists first within the shadow.
As we passed through, Yui turned around in her Eva and howled.
"Extending AT Field!"
There was a sharp pulse of light. An unholy scream that resounded across us, everywhere around us.
And then, Yui's eyes turned to a specific point in the shadow. "Point of exit found."
And with that, she rushed forward.
The Evangelion howled.
And hen we broke through the Angel's shadow, LCL seeping out of the exit wound, rushing down like a brilliant cascade of crimson blood. The city drenched in the LCL held an unholy crimson hue, like a scenic depiction from hell.
"It's a pleasure having you back, Shade," Misato drawled out.
"What can I say? I missed you lot too," I remarked dryly.
"What's going on, what's going on," Anna bawled. "What's going on?!"
"She's hyperventilating," Yui said calmly, letting go of the controls and turning around, before deciding she wasn't done with hugging me. "Who's she by the way?"
"Yui, this is Anna. Anna, this is Yui."
Anna's eyes were wide as she looked at Yui, and Yui's were narrow as she returned the look.
"Which under-developed world did she come out of?" Yui asked.
"Yui, jealousy is not making you cute at all," I remarked dryly.
"Uff!" Yui said, pouting.
"No, seriously."
Anna screamed a bit more -the screams growing progressively less with time as she tired.
Until finally, she stopped.
The disembark from the Eva turned out to be more problematic on the other hand.
Mainly, because Yui had decided she would not let go of my shirt and Anna had declared my neck her only anchor of safety in the world -that and the two wands, which she gripped to the point of letting splinters in her palms, or so I reckoned.
I managed to get out of the Eva, pulling them along, because their weight in the LCL wasn't that much.
But on land, it became a battle of determination, will, and...
"You can both walk," I hissed as I clutched the railing. "And I'm not going to disappear just because you let go of me."
Yui didn't seem to share my opinion.
"I'll give you my hand, but at least let me walk," I pleaded at last, and Yui relented.
That was how I ended up holding the Battle-Loli's hand, while carrying Anna on my back -she refused to let go- all the way down to the Hangar's Bay lower platform.
I even had a committee waiting for me.
"Don't ask," I said calmly.
Misato raised an eyebrow.
"Tales of my demise have been greatly exaggerated," I continued.
I exhaled. "Can I get a situation report?" I tried.
"Well," Misato said. "If the Commander stops holding your hand.."
I looked down at Yui.
Yui grinned. "Skynet has assumed Direct Control of the World."
I cursed under my breath.
"This doesn't even surprise me."
"Oi, you psychotic bastard!" Asuka exclaimed rushing forward in her plugsuit. "You scared the crap out of us!"
I raised an eyebrow. "Us?"
"I mean Yui," Asuka said, bristling. "And...who's she?"
What was it with people pointing at Anna?
Never seen a...middle ages circa woman?
"Right...vaccinations first," I said calmly, gripping Anna's wrists and pulling her away from the headlock and by my side.
"Uh?" Anna blinked, "What's that?" she asked in a low whisper. "Who are these people? What's going on? Are they spirits too?"
"Spirits?" Yui frowned. "Shade!" she exclaimed, angrily. "You did it again."
"I did what again?" I blinked.
"You..." Yui growled.
"Yes?" I remarked, flatly.
"You!" she exclaimed.
"Yes."
Yui's eyes softened. "Yeah. It's you all right."
"Why am I suspecting this is an insult?"
"Duh, because it is," Asuka said, rolling her eyes.
I exhaled.
"You wound me so much, fraulein," I remarked. "So, so much."
Anna hid half of her body behind me, like a scared child.
"Uh...Shade?" she said softly. "What's going on?"
"Well, the thing is-"
Yui pulled me by the side with a strong tug.
"No flirting!"
"Who the hell is flirting?!" I snarled. "And don't try the spoiled kid method! It doesn't work."
Anna pulled in the opposite way.
"Gah!"
Yui did it too.
"Guh!"
Anna repeated the motion.
"That's fun~" Mari's voice echoed. "Do I get a turn too?"
"No!" Yui, Anna, and Myself yelled at the same time.
Finally, God permitting, I managed to find a seat at a table -my office had been religiously kept clean.
"Why is there a wallpaper of me with the words 'Never Forget - Angst, Despair and Genocide' written on it?"
Yui whistled and calmly proceeded to remove it.
"No, really. Seriously. Answer me, Yui," I said.
Yui hummed and removed something else from within the surface of the desk.
"Is that a photo of me with the words 'Murder first, ask questions later'? I never said that, did I? Did I?"
Yui grinned. "What? There's nothing to see. Nope. Nothing at all."
I exhaled loudly and took a seat on the swiveling chair. "The Yandere doesn't suit you either."
Yui sighed, exhaling precisely as much as I did, and then took a seat in front of me. "It's hard dealing with people."
"Oh?" I raised an eyebrow. "Tell me about it."
"Without you, Seele thought they'd be free to do what they wanted," Yui said softly. "I proved them wrong."
I frowned.
"I went Terminator," Yui said primly. "I mean, they were using digital interfaces and most of them thought it didn't matter who they were to their underlings. The problem with being paranoid enough that no one sees your face is that no one knows who you are, so if someone silences your mic and takes over..." Yui grinned. "They're all dead now. I did as you would have done. Took over their money. Took over their power. Took over everything. I am in control. I can tell the American President to dance the tango with the Russian one, just like I can raise or lower the taxes of the random citizen."
"So...Patriot," I said.
Yui frowned. "I can't believe there is an AI that does precisely this! What is it with you humans?!"
"You humans? You're part of the system too Yui, 'us' humans."
Yui shook her head. "I'm an AI. I can try, I am trying, but being human...is hard."
"Never said it was easy," I pointed out. "I utterly fail at being human most of the time," I said, shaking my head.
"Maybe only humans can be humans," Yui said dryly. "I'll always be AI."
"Bah, that's a pessimistic attitude. Fight-o! Fight-o!"
Yui blinked, and raised an eyebrow. "You scolded me when I said that!"
"Yes," I replied, and nodded firmly. "And?"
Yui looked at me with a small smile. "You're really back, aren't you?"
"I am," I acquiesced. "I don't know why or how, but I think the reason Anna ended up coming with me was due to the wands. They were in my robes' pockets when she took them out."
"Why was she looking in your pockets?"
"She's Anna," I said calmly. "Just like Jane's Jane...which however begs the question of why or even how she came through with the Wands. They don't belong to this reality, so they shouldn't work that way..."
"I theorized it actually," Yui said softly. "It's a decadence."
"Uh?" I blinked.
"It's not...you know, magic and science? This is scientific, not magical. There's Author Fiat, I guess...but there's also science."
I frowned.
"Well, what's making you travel, it has to be something, right? And when we ended up in this world, we remained for months, right?"
"Well, yes," I said softly.
"Well, but why did we?"
"It added to the drama," I said.
"Yes, that's the metaphysical explanation: a God-Writer decides it fuels the drama to first have a period of quiet calm before the storm. But what else happened? What scientific reasoning could there be behind it?"
"I lost my jacket in Mass Effect?" I hazarded.
Yui beamed me a smile. "I reviewed and came to the conclusion that indeed, that was the case. So, when that happened, I still managed to travel with you, but..."
She stood and slowly walked around the desk, before settling in my lap. "Because I did spend most of the time attached to you by the hip for it to happen. Same with your clothes. Right now, you're without your robes, yes? But I saw them appear in a CCTV camera a split-second later. And I had someone get them. Technically, then, it comes to term that you're irradiating energy. Reality-Shifting Energies."
I opened my mouth, and then closed it.
"That's...Sci-Fi."
"Yep!" Yui grinned. "And logical. The wands were in your robes' pocket, and they came with you. Anna held on to them as they shifted reality, and so they transferred her too."
I opened my mouth, and then closed it. "Why didn't it bring you over too? It's not like you didn't hug me out of the blue."
Yui rolled her eyes. "As with all radiations, there are things that can make it decay earlier than usual, or block it."
I frowned. "And?"
"LCL. When you shifted, I was in the Eva. In the LCL. As the LCL connects me to the Eva, it blinds me to the rest. The AT-Field can only be nullified by another AT Field, isn't that a law of this world?"
I closed my eyes, and massaged the bridge of my nose.
"So...I'm a Teleporting Chernobyl. You were in an iron vault, and the end result is that...we separated."
"Yes," Yui said with a grin. "See? Science and logic. Way better than a mere 'God did it'."
I sighed. "I hope so."
Yui gripped my grey shirt, and rubbed her cheek harder against it. "You know," Yui whispered. "I think...I think if this is science, then there's a mean to control it."
"Oh," I said.
"Yeah," Yui remarked. "I mean. If there is, then..."
"Then you could interface with it," I said. "But if you did that, you'd be facing off against an entity, probably, that holds your same processor power. It would no longer be a matter of strength, but skill, and..."
Yui nodded grimly. "And I can't seem to find it, so..."
"Well, obviously if you were making an experiment, you'd put a top-notch equipment inside the lab rat," I muttered. "You wouldn't go at it without at least a..."
I swallowed thickly.
"A?" Yui asked.
"See, one of the mistakes a lot of people make in stories which free monsters, is that they always forget one important thing," I whispered. "They forget the self-termination switch."
Yui's face turned pale.
"Now, I...I can hope they thought that with me being just an experiment, just one in a million as they put it, they didn't think it right to put something like that inside me, but...but if they did, then..." I looked at the ceiling.
I brought a hand to my face and opened it, letting my palm rest over it.
I took a deep breath.
"Everything is false, nothing is permitted."
"What?" Yui mouthed. "What do you mean, 'everything's false'?"
I narrowed my eyes at her. "Are you alive, or are you not? Am I real, or am I not? Do robots dream of electronic sheep?"
"What are you-"
"Yui. It's very, very simple. What if I were an AI thrown into a very complex simulator the likes of which my programming prevents me from realizing is false? What if the dimension change is nothing more than a mere loading screen for more 'gameplay'? Who's to say I'm real? Who's to say I exist?! Come on! Is there any proof? And if that's among the things I may doubt, then why shouldn't I doubt you too? Why shouldn't I just fuel my paranoia to the point where no one can be trusted? Even the chair I sit on could be a lie! All zeroes and ones! All nothing more than bits of data!"
Yui looked down at her hands, and then back up at me.
"That's not possible."
"Why? Does the sheep question the pastor, when the butcher's in sight?" I snarled. "Does the blade of grass question the lawnmower? Does the cloud understand the wind?"
"I'm real," Yui said flatly. "Everything tells me I'm real. My sensory output, input, my programming, my code, my words, my will, my mind, my heart, my soul and myself! I am real!"
"And yet," I whispered, looking at her sadly. "You aren't. Just like I'm not."
Yui shook her head. "No, this is...you're lying. I am real."
"This might be Evangelion speaking," I said softly. "Psychological questioning is something that the Evangelion verse is good at. Mind breaking follows. But..." I took a deep breath. "That can be a weakness, or a strength. Maybe, maybe it's designed so I never question it. And here the Universal Laws force it to obey them, and thus grants me the chance to think about it. Even if I'm not real, even if I'm but bits and pieces of code inside a machine...does that make me any less myself?"
I shook my head. "Probably not. And if I interacted with nothing but illusions...at least I can still cherish the good moments I had with them, and laugh at the-"
Yui gripped my hand and bit down hard on it, making me yelp from the pain as she drew out blood.
"Gah! What are you doing?!"
"There," Yui huffed, holding my fingers with both of her hands. "You're real. I'm real. Your blood is disgusting. And I think we should kiss."
"Keep It Stupid Simple?" I remarked.
Yui pouted. "Meanie! Misunderstanding Trope is a fundamental part of myself!"
"No, it's not," I retorted hotly.
I leaned back on the chair. "I don't think there's any science involved, nothing more than 'A Wizard Did it'."
"I'll analyze the wands," Yui said. "And if nothing turns up, I'll take one."
"Better tell Anna not to throw them away...where is she, by the way?"
"The cameras say she's resting in the infirmary and is under observation. As per your request I have ran her through all the possible vaccines of the most common sicknesses she is likely to contract."
I hummed my agreement. "You know...I haven't slept in a long, long while," I mumbled. "Starting to feel the tiredness in my bones."
"Then sleep," Yui said. "I'll keep an eye open."
"Hey," I whispered... "Did Shinji...wake up in the end?"
"No," Yui said softly. "They declared him brain dead."
I grimaced.
Yeah.
...
Kamina died too, didn't he?
...
Author's notes: Can't you see it is fruitless?! Stop this, right now! I'm not afraid to use force!
TRACE IN PROGRESS. TWENTY-THREE PERCENT.
Author's notes: This is the last warning I give you.
TRACE IN PROGRESS. TWENTY-FOUR PERCENT.
Author's notes: I warned you.
"Genocide~ Wonderful Genocide~ Come on closer and let me murder your soul~"
The fact the music blared louder made me swallow thicker with each passing second.
"Kill the Angel, kill the Monster, kill the Xenos! Death! Burn! Maim! Kill!"
Please don't tell me it's what I think it is.
"Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the skulls' throne! By the will of Angst and Despair!"
Oh yeah, it's really what I think it is.
"Yui, can you please not blare your audio feed out of the Eva?"
"I want them to see me coming~ I want them to hear my voice last~ When I'll be done I'll smash their souls to tiny bits, itsy bitsy tiny bits! And then-oh! Civilian! Hey you with the glowsticks! What the hell are you doing out of the shelter?!"
That had to be Anna.
Her shriek of surprise did not surprise me, as I rounded the corner behind the sparks just in time to find her half-babbling on the ground, Eva Zero One kneeling in front of her, a hand on the ground.
"There's an Angel Attack! Get the fuck away from-"
The Eva's eyes moved towards me.
I raised a hand.
And waved.
Once.
"You're in an Eva!" I yelled next. "Remember that! No Hugging!"
The Eva's frame -first still- now literally froze.
"Ah," it said in the end. "That's something he'd say all right."
"And by your information," I remarked dryly. "I heard that! You'll give me a heart attack. I thought you'd turned Matrix while I wasn't looking."
The Eva's head began to tremble, and then its hands shot down to grab the screaming Anna and myself -gently, of course, and brought them up to the Eva's neck next.
The neck opened up, and the tube of LCL emerged, sizzled and opened to allow us entrance.
"I can't believe this," Misato's voice came through the mic. "You were...I mean...you were dead!"
"Mind-Fuck ending," I retorted calmly as I dropped inside, Anna having to be 'coerced' by my pull. "Worry not, for I live."
"Some people aren't going to be happy about that," Ritsuko's voice shot in.
"You shut it, Yandere," I drawled.
"Is a wonderful ball of sunshine among us?!" another voice added to the Chorus.
"Oh! Hello there Mari! I know thy name and thy identity, batman!" I exclaimed as I found myself hugged by Yui in the middle of the LCL. "How's your LCL addiction going?"
"Better now," Mari giggled back in the mic. "Hey, I like him!"
"Shut it, four-eyed freak," Asuka said. "We're supposed to keep the communication silent until-"
"Bah-gah," Anna said, eyes wide and looking around as the LCL container closed and command was restored.
I turned to look at Anna, and then said. "Keep calm, take deep breaths, and grab hold of something because this is going to get rocky."
I turned my head back to Yui, who seemed to be keen on rubbing herself into my flesh with her face first.
I patted her head, "Oi, Angel in Tokyo. Get a grip and we'll talk later."
"B-But-"
"Come on," I sighed. "Not going anywhere."
Yui nodded and turned to her console.
"We're waiting for confirmation from the Magi on how to defeat it," Ritsuko's voice came through.
"Simple. Aim for the shadow, enter it, and go berserk on its innards," I replied.
Yui nodded. "Understood."
"What? Wait! You've got to follow ord-" Misato's voice was cut off as Yui simply took off in a charge, the battery line behind her extending until it exploded out from the Eva's back.
"Initiating Self-Sufficient Protocol. Connecting with Eva," Yui said as she charged forth.
The buildings broke apart at her passage, and as Anna screamed and clung to my neck, I held on to the seat.
"This isn't happening," Anna whimpered. "This isn't happening."
"ONWARDS!" I howled.
"TO VICTORY!" Yui snarled, taking the jump and slamming fists first within the shadow.
As we passed through, Yui turned around in her Eva and howled.
"Extending AT Field!"
There was a sharp pulse of light. An unholy scream that resounded across us, everywhere around us.
And then, Yui's eyes turned to a specific point in the shadow. "Point of exit found."
And with that, she rushed forward.
The Evangelion howled.
And hen we broke through the Angel's shadow, LCL seeping out of the exit wound, rushing down like a brilliant cascade of crimson blood. The city drenched in the LCL held an unholy crimson hue, like a scenic depiction from hell.
"It's a pleasure having you back, Shade," Misato drawled out.
"What can I say? I missed you lot too," I remarked dryly.
"What's going on, what's going on," Anna bawled. "What's going on?!"
"She's hyperventilating," Yui said calmly, letting go of the controls and turning around, before deciding she wasn't done with hugging me. "Who's she by the way?"
"Yui, this is Anna. Anna, this is Yui."
Anna's eyes were wide as she looked at Yui, and Yui's were narrow as she returned the look.
"Which under-developed world did she come out of?" Yui asked.
"Yui, jealousy is not making you cute at all," I remarked dryly.
"Uff!" Yui said, pouting.
"No, seriously."
Anna screamed a bit more -the screams growing progressively less with time as she tired.
Until finally, she stopped.
The disembark from the Eva turned out to be more problematic on the other hand.
Mainly, because Yui had decided she would not let go of my shirt and Anna had declared my neck her only anchor of safety in the world -that and the two wands, which she gripped to the point of letting splinters in her palms, or so I reckoned.
I managed to get out of the Eva, pulling them along, because their weight in the LCL wasn't that much.
But on land, it became a battle of determination, will, and...
"You can both walk," I hissed as I clutched the railing. "And I'm not going to disappear just because you let go of me."
Yui didn't seem to share my opinion.
"I'll give you my hand, but at least let me walk," I pleaded at last, and Yui relented.
That was how I ended up holding the Battle-Loli's hand, while carrying Anna on my back -she refused to let go- all the way down to the Hangar's Bay lower platform.
I even had a committee waiting for me.
"Don't ask," I said calmly.
Misato raised an eyebrow.
"Tales of my demise have been greatly exaggerated," I continued.
I exhaled. "Can I get a situation report?" I tried.
"Well," Misato said. "If the Commander stops holding your hand.."
I looked down at Yui.
Yui grinned. "Skynet has assumed Direct Control of the World."
I cursed under my breath.
"This doesn't even surprise me."
"Oi, you psychotic bastard!" Asuka exclaimed rushing forward in her plugsuit. "You scared the crap out of us!"
I raised an eyebrow. "Us?"
"I mean Yui," Asuka said, bristling. "And...who's she?"
What was it with people pointing at Anna?
Never seen a...middle ages circa woman?
"Right...vaccinations first," I said calmly, gripping Anna's wrists and pulling her away from the headlock and by my side.
"Uh?" Anna blinked, "What's that?" she asked in a low whisper. "Who are these people? What's going on? Are they spirits too?"
"Spirits?" Yui frowned. "Shade!" she exclaimed, angrily. "You did it again."
"I did what again?" I blinked.
"You..." Yui growled.
"Yes?" I remarked, flatly.
"You!" she exclaimed.
"Yes."
Yui's eyes softened. "Yeah. It's you all right."
"Why am I suspecting this is an insult?"
"Duh, because it is," Asuka said, rolling her eyes.
I exhaled.
"You wound me so much, fraulein," I remarked. "So, so much."
Anna hid half of her body behind me, like a scared child.
"Uh...Shade?" she said softly. "What's going on?"
"Well, the thing is-"
Yui pulled me by the side with a strong tug.
"No flirting!"
"Who the hell is flirting?!" I snarled. "And don't try the spoiled kid method! It doesn't work."
Anna pulled in the opposite way.
"Gah!"
Yui did it too.
"Guh!"
Anna repeated the motion.
"That's fun~" Mari's voice echoed. "Do I get a turn too?"
"No!" Yui, Anna, and Myself yelled at the same time.
Finally, God permitting, I managed to find a seat at a table -my office had been religiously kept clean.
"Why is there a wallpaper of me with the words 'Never Forget - Angst, Despair and Genocide' written on it?"
Yui whistled and calmly proceeded to remove it.
"No, really. Seriously. Answer me, Yui," I said.
Yui hummed and removed something else from within the surface of the desk.
"Is that a photo of me with the words 'Murder first, ask questions later'? I never said that, did I? Did I?"
Yui grinned. "What? There's nothing to see. Nope. Nothing at all."
I exhaled loudly and took a seat on the swiveling chair. "The Yandere doesn't suit you either."
Yui sighed, exhaling precisely as much as I did, and then took a seat in front of me. "It's hard dealing with people."
"Oh?" I raised an eyebrow. "Tell me about it."
"Without you, Seele thought they'd be free to do what they wanted," Yui said softly. "I proved them wrong."
I frowned.
"I went Terminator," Yui said primly. "I mean, they were using digital interfaces and most of them thought it didn't matter who they were to their underlings. The problem with being paranoid enough that no one sees your face is that no one knows who you are, so if someone silences your mic and takes over..." Yui grinned. "They're all dead now. I did as you would have done. Took over their money. Took over their power. Took over everything. I am in control. I can tell the American President to dance the tango with the Russian one, just like I can raise or lower the taxes of the random citizen."
"So...Patriot," I said.
Yui frowned. "I can't believe there is an AI that does precisely this! What is it with you humans?!"
"You humans? You're part of the system too Yui, 'us' humans."
Yui shook her head. "I'm an AI. I can try, I am trying, but being human...is hard."
"Never said it was easy," I pointed out. "I utterly fail at being human most of the time," I said, shaking my head.
"Maybe only humans can be humans," Yui said dryly. "I'll always be AI."
"Bah, that's a pessimistic attitude. Fight-o! Fight-o!"
Yui blinked, and raised an eyebrow. "You scolded me when I said that!"
"Yes," I replied, and nodded firmly. "And?"
Yui looked at me with a small smile. "You're really back, aren't you?"
"I am," I acquiesced. "I don't know why or how, but I think the reason Anna ended up coming with me was due to the wands. They were in my robes' pockets when she took them out."
"Why was she looking in your pockets?"
"She's Anna," I said calmly. "Just like Jane's Jane...which however begs the question of why or even how she came through with the Wands. They don't belong to this reality, so they shouldn't work that way..."
"I theorized it actually," Yui said softly. "It's a decadence."
"Uh?" I blinked.
"It's not...you know, magic and science? This is scientific, not magical. There's Author Fiat, I guess...but there's also science."
I frowned.
"Well, what's making you travel, it has to be something, right? And when we ended up in this world, we remained for months, right?"
"Well, yes," I said softly.
"Well, but why did we?"
"It added to the drama," I said.
"Yes, that's the metaphysical explanation: a God-Writer decides it fuels the drama to first have a period of quiet calm before the storm. But what else happened? What scientific reasoning could there be behind it?"
"I lost my jacket in Mass Effect?" I hazarded.
Yui beamed me a smile. "I reviewed and came to the conclusion that indeed, that was the case. So, when that happened, I still managed to travel with you, but..."
She stood and slowly walked around the desk, before settling in my lap. "Because I did spend most of the time attached to you by the hip for it to happen. Same with your clothes. Right now, you're without your robes, yes? But I saw them appear in a CCTV camera a split-second later. And I had someone get them. Technically, then, it comes to term that you're irradiating energy. Reality-Shifting Energies."
I opened my mouth, and then closed it.
"That's...Sci-Fi."
"Yep!" Yui grinned. "And logical. The wands were in your robes' pocket, and they came with you. Anna held on to them as they shifted reality, and so they transferred her too."
I opened my mouth, and then closed it. "Why didn't it bring you over too? It's not like you didn't hug me out of the blue."
Yui rolled her eyes. "As with all radiations, there are things that can make it decay earlier than usual, or block it."
I frowned. "And?"
"LCL. When you shifted, I was in the Eva. In the LCL. As the LCL connects me to the Eva, it blinds me to the rest. The AT-Field can only be nullified by another AT Field, isn't that a law of this world?"
I closed my eyes, and massaged the bridge of my nose.
"So...I'm a Teleporting Chernobyl. You were in an iron vault, and the end result is that...we separated."
"Yes," Yui said with a grin. "See? Science and logic. Way better than a mere 'God did it'."
I sighed. "I hope so."
Yui gripped my grey shirt, and rubbed her cheek harder against it. "You know," Yui whispered. "I think...I think if this is science, then there's a mean to control it."
"Oh," I said.
"Yeah," Yui remarked. "I mean. If there is, then..."
"Then you could interface with it," I said. "But if you did that, you'd be facing off against an entity, probably, that holds your same processor power. It would no longer be a matter of strength, but skill, and..."
Yui nodded grimly. "And I can't seem to find it, so..."
"Well, obviously if you were making an experiment, you'd put a top-notch equipment inside the lab rat," I muttered. "You wouldn't go at it without at least a..."
I swallowed thickly.
"A?" Yui asked.
"See, one of the mistakes a lot of people make in stories which free monsters, is that they always forget one important thing," I whispered. "They forget the self-termination switch."
Yui's face turned pale.
"Now, I...I can hope they thought that with me being just an experiment, just one in a million as they put it, they didn't think it right to put something like that inside me, but...but if they did, then..." I looked at the ceiling.
I brought a hand to my face and opened it, letting my palm rest over it.
I took a deep breath.
"Everything is false, nothing is permitted."
"What?" Yui mouthed. "What do you mean, 'everything's false'?"
I narrowed my eyes at her. "Are you alive, or are you not? Am I real, or am I not? Do robots dream of electronic sheep?"
"What are you-"
"Yui. It's very, very simple. What if I were an AI thrown into a very complex simulator the likes of which my programming prevents me from realizing is false? What if the dimension change is nothing more than a mere loading screen for more 'gameplay'? Who's to say I'm real? Who's to say I exist?! Come on! Is there any proof? And if that's among the things I may doubt, then why shouldn't I doubt you too? Why shouldn't I just fuel my paranoia to the point where no one can be trusted? Even the chair I sit on could be a lie! All zeroes and ones! All nothing more than bits of data!"
Yui looked down at her hands, and then back up at me.
"That's not possible."
"Why? Does the sheep question the pastor, when the butcher's in sight?" I snarled. "Does the blade of grass question the lawnmower? Does the cloud understand the wind?"
"I'm real," Yui said flatly. "Everything tells me I'm real. My sensory output, input, my programming, my code, my words, my will, my mind, my heart, my soul and myself! I am real!"
"And yet," I whispered, looking at her sadly. "You aren't. Just like I'm not."
Yui shook her head. "No, this is...you're lying. I am real."
"This might be Evangelion speaking," I said softly. "Psychological questioning is something that the Evangelion verse is good at. Mind breaking follows. But..." I took a deep breath. "That can be a weakness, or a strength. Maybe, maybe it's designed so I never question it. And here the Universal Laws force it to obey them, and thus grants me the chance to think about it. Even if I'm not real, even if I'm but bits and pieces of code inside a machine...does that make me any less myself?"
I shook my head. "Probably not. And if I interacted with nothing but illusions...at least I can still cherish the good moments I had with them, and laugh at the-"
Yui gripped my hand and bit down hard on it, making me yelp from the pain as she drew out blood.
"Gah! What are you doing?!"
"There," Yui huffed, holding my fingers with both of her hands. "You're real. I'm real. Your blood is disgusting. And I think we should kiss."
"Keep It Stupid Simple?" I remarked.
Yui pouted. "Meanie! Misunderstanding Trope is a fundamental part of myself!"
"No, it's not," I retorted hotly.
I leaned back on the chair. "I don't think there's any science involved, nothing more than 'A Wizard Did it'."
"I'll analyze the wands," Yui said. "And if nothing turns up, I'll take one."
"Better tell Anna not to throw them away...where is she, by the way?"
"The cameras say she's resting in the infirmary and is under observation. As per your request I have ran her through all the possible vaccines of the most common sicknesses she is likely to contract."
I hummed my agreement. "You know...I haven't slept in a long, long while," I mumbled. "Starting to feel the tiredness in my bones."
"Then sleep," Yui said. "I'll keep an eye open."
"Hey," I whispered... "Did Shinji...wake up in the end?"
"No," Yui said softly. "They declared him brain dead."
I grimaced.
Yeah.
...
Kamina died too, didn't he?
...
Author's notes: Can't you see it is fruitless?! Stop this, right now! I'm not afraid to use force!
TRACE IN PROGRESS. TWENTY-THREE PERCENT.
Author's notes: This is the last warning I give you.
TRACE IN PROGRESS. TWENTY-FOUR PERCENT.
Author's notes: I warned you.
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- Location
- https://discord.gg/z9tBvbh
Stop hugging the story posts! Digital Hugs will not drain my Angst!
And no, you can't buy a plane ticket or stuff to come and hug me in person. My Angst still remains. Viciously burning like a violent inferno.
And no, you can't buy a plane ticket or stuff to come and hug me in person. My Angst still remains. Viciously burning like a violent inferno.
Dragonskyt
Ashen one, hearest thou my voice, still?
- Location
- Kiln of the First Flame
Seeing as Shade's going all Meta. Could it be possible this spreads to the forum itself?
Aww, *hugs the poor angry author.*
Sorry
I was going to do something else, but with a taunt like that how do you expect anyone to resits? Great story though, I wonder what the author is going to do about the trace.
Fluffy
Destroyer of.......most worlds
- Location
- High Earth Orbit
Fallenblades643
Seeker of the Divine Taste
The Shadow is unbound. There is nothing.
Giygas
Cutest Sawk i could find. Lucario is a nice extra.
Luckily i only need to know where you live to hug you, and maybe buy a bit of diesel fuel to actually reach your place.
Dragonskyt
Ashen one, hearest thou my voice, still?
- Location
- Kiln of the First Flame
I am pretty sure the only rules that apply depends on the world your in.
Then again, Shade can be very unpredictable and I wouldn't be surprised if somehow Angels will suddenly burst out in song and dance around Tokyo-3, doing a duet with the Evangelions.
Wade Wilson
GIGA! 4TH WALL! BREAKER!
That would be strange.
- Location
- The Void
Found this on wookieepedia
while a lightsaber can be used by someone without the force The part I bolded seems to imply that a lightsaber can not ignite unless The Force is present.
Could that mean there is a little pocket of The Force in his lightsaber that shade could access to give him use of his Force Powers?
wookieepedia said:
while a lightsaber can be used by someone without the force The part I bolded seems to imply that a lightsaber can not ignite unless The Force is present.
Could that mean there is a little pocket of The Force in his lightsaber that shade could access to give him use of his Force Powers?
Ridiculously Average Guy
I'm you, but stronger
- Location
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I'm mildly curious, if he finds Deadpool, can Deadpool read the thread?
Ars Poetica
ULTIMA RATIO NEMO OBLIGATUR
- Location
- The Kingdom of Fiore
- Pronouns
- He / Him / His
Not necessarily. Archer's explanation that anything hit with the lightsaber becomes Deader Than Dead seems to imply that it is powered by the same energies that let Shade cross between various worlds. This most recent chapter confirms the existence of that energy while it was hinted at as far back as the chapter where Yui's processing power was revealed to be a galaxy of black holes.
Shade's saber is not powered by the Force. It is, instead, powered by absolute nothingness. It is the abyss given shape and form and glowing a horrifying color - pity the foo who pisses him off, for they shall cease to be.
Shade: Okay, looks like I'm stuck in Marvel for a little while...
Deadpool: ...Nope. *teleports out of the multiverse*
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Ryu Gabriev
Angry short person that's good with his hands.
- Location
- Dallas, TX
Well, wade found it... so it isn't like Deadpool isn't talking to himself already...
Arafell
Verified Cephalon
- Location
- Oregon
I wonder what the new universe will be if Frozen is out of the equation? X-Com? Starcraft? My Little Pony, just to annihilate everything?
He should be aware by now that he is in fact writing himself, if only because the franchises he appears in he knows of. So, the question is, what universe would he least want to go to that Shade knows a lot about?
He should be aware by now that he is in fact writing himself, if only because the franchises he appears in he knows of. So, the question is, what universe would he least want to go to that Shade knows a lot about?