Faint memories dance the surface of your mind like skipping stones.
Some, eventually do sink. But most make it across the imaginary river, leaving only a trace of a much bigger picture.
Sometimes... This feeling... It feels familiar.
Like it's happened before and I've forgotten.
I've forgotten what made me myself.
(???)
Today was supposed to be a great day.
It started off as usual, falling out of bed, rushing to get to work on time... You were set to have a lazy day working.
But, all good things must come to an end.
Or do they?
You tap your watch eagerly and sip your tea while looking at the time.
It read 3:50pm.
You have an experiment scheduled today at 4pm. But not just any experiment, from what your superiors have told you it is an experiment that could change society as you know it!
Some people have dubbed it artificial intelligence, but you believe that it could be much more...
...
...Better head over now.
When you arrive at the viewing point you're greeted by some of your colleagues, Dave and Cathy.
Dave greets you with a firm handshake, and Cathy just waves which you do back.
There are no words exchanged, for you already know what was on everyone's minds.
As the time ticks down to 4pm, you all take your respective positions.
As if magic were involved somehow, as soon as the time hits 4pm, everyone tenses.
"Alright, Sally. Take it away." Said one of our superiors over the intercom.
Sally nodded and pushed a lever forwards until it reached its maximum distance.
"He's stable." Announced Cathy. That was her job.
I nodded and pushed a button enabling the power source to trickle into the artificial human.
The room lit up as the body started to glow a light blue
"Still looking good." Cathy informed us.
Dave, who was on Cathy's left, was tapping frantically at a screen, trying to reroute power to other locations.
"What's going on?!" He suddenly announced. "The power's spiking!!"
Cathy glanced at his screen before turning back at hers. "But mine says it's fine..?"
"I-I dunno what's happening, there's too much excess power!" Dave yelled. "TURN IT OFF!"
A loud boom knocked us off of our feet and when we stood up there was a giant growing ball of blue energy where the robot should've been.
"A spirit bomb..?" I said stupidly.
Sally quickly lowered the power down to zero.
"Wait!" I yelled. "When you stop the power flowing into something, it'll combus-!"
KA-DOOM.
Suddenly I had all these memories thrust inside of me.
These aren't my memories?! I thought in disbelief.
Or are they?
(Return to Brown)
My eyes blurred. I slowly blinked the blurriness away and realised I was in the 'secret area' I was in before. Except this time I'm not rushing out thinking I'm sttong.
"What do you want?" I said bitterly to Turbo. "Going to tell me how weak I am again."
He sighed. "Your friend and I talked about how my wording could've been better in that conversation. My apologies."
"Don't guilt trip me." I grumbled.
"I want to help you grow stronger. Is that better?" He stared at me with a hint of annoyance.
"Fine. Whatever." I harrumphed.
I walked away thinking to myself.
If Kyle is my brother, but that human is as well, and possibly even Turbo, then did I have a messed up family or is something else going on?
I need to take a schizophrenia test.
(G-man POV)
Ever since this new interdimensional tech was discovered, we've been making advancements faster than you can say 'Skibidi!'
So far, four different universes have been contacted. Only one has offered to assist. Well, two actually but the second one got out of hand.
The first one is a clown skibidi world where theyhave eliminated all agents. They've been looking for an opportunity to fight.
The second was this weird place where everything was fleshy, red and weird. Upon arrival into our world, the toilets who had this red atuff on them tried to spread it! And it wouldn't listen to anything we said!
I really hope we get lucky and find some universe where there's really advanced tech and we could maybe borrow some to help fight the astros and... Brown.
(??? again lol)
The multiverse is a big place.
But not infinite.
Eventually you will hit a limit. If too many interdimensiona beings are in one universe it can be known to... collapse under pressure.
Sometimes this process will speed up if two beings from different universes meet eachother...
...
...
...How has this universe not collapsed yet?
What's stopping it?
Or rather, who?
(Brown POV)
I grabbed a piece of timber and hoistedd myself up. A mechanism triggered tfhat fired arrows on my eft.
I materialised a shield which provided me cover, and slowly advancd forward, careful not to hit any stray arrows.
Next I came across a jump which you had to perform through a wall of fire.
Normally a normal person would be backind down by now - if the arrows hadn't finished them already.
I manifested a heatproof suit that took the damage for me and came out from the fire relatively unscathed.
Now was the part I was up to.
You had to jump across ten different hurdles, and each time you landed it would fire a random projectile at you.
I had gotten to the seventh. That was my highest.
I vaulted myself over the first one and heard a whizz in the air. Ducking, a bullet comes and barely scrapes over my head. I wheezed a sigh of relief.
I approach the second one with a more cautious approach and clambered over the hurdle. A leg trapper was thrown at my legs and forced me to quickly jump over it and watch it slowly fly past, smacking into the wall next to me.
On the third one I jumped over the hurdle only to get knocked down by a swinging axe.
"That's a new one." I said, a tad bit frustrated.
"Sometimes practice is the best way to learn." Offered Turbo.
"Remind me why I'm doing this again?"
"You wanted to become stronger, so I offered to help."
"And what a blessing that is..."