was she going crazy? absolutely not. did she get to this stupid event with her own two feet? hell no. did she know why she was in this high tech expo? not a single clue. but she was getting straight up bad vibes and with knowledge pulling her aside, the feeling worsened.
kat already grunted and rolled her eyes at the nickname, but nonetheless, listened to what he had to say. with each word that left his lips, her eyebrows seemed to inched a little closer each time. she had always known that he was an odd ball out of all the cards, but everything he was saying was starting to confuse her.
she blinked probably way too many times in the last two seconds as she absorbed this information, and as she did, she realized what he was going to do to her.
before she could even further herself even the slightest bit to get her own input in, knowledge was faster and bestowed his lips upon her forehead. perhaps he knew that she could handle all this, who knows, but way too much was all happening at the same time. kat could feel her head getting heavy while her legs getting weak, but she remembered knowledge’s words and forced herself to focus.
her heart pounded faster than it had ever did before and her emotions were unable to be contained. kat’s fist wrapped around his collar and shouted at him, “what the hell was that!” but she took a few more breathes and the headache started to go away. “okay,” she muttered, “okay… i—how am i supposed to use this? i mean, your knowledge is great, but… i don’t know much right now.”
“There are powers behind, that I did withhold from you. The lesser you know about it, the safer you are. However, I will not be able to be everywhere to aid the others. What I need you to do, if you can, dig into my knowledge and help them out.”
It was not just certain knowledge that he had taken back from her, but there was also a developing void in his mind, which mean it would be the same for her. All signs point to things happening soon, and his gut knew it’d be here.
“Treat it like google.” Knowledge chuckled as he explained. “You have to actively remember to ground your own consciousness in your current reality, so you do not get lost in your own head. When you do need information however, ask yourself in your head. Then, you’d know.”
“Quite simple really.” He grinned. “Instant learning is part of my powers.”
Examining the next arm to deliver to the operation unit, she found a defect. The patient was probably already in pain since he was undergoing a surgery for his legs. He could wait a bit. They needed a lot of time to plug the legs and the nerves together anyway. She stared at the arm and sighed as she thought to herself. “Note to self, this alloy is horrendous and borderline incompatible. In the future, add more chrome.” It was good that she witnessed that defect before the customer would complain not that she would care, because that was not exactly her model. Then she thought to herself that she made a new discovery today.
Speaking of discovery, she snickered. Every time she did, there was this mangy mutt who would come around a bit moody, because she just added to his database more knowledge. It was not her fault if she just loved to create, to make, to research and to discover. It was what she did. It was her nature. She was the Inventor Card and the hobo – she could not think of anything else to define, wait, an alley cat or a stray whatever – was the Knowledge Card. In her opinion, she thought that his power was cool, but supposedly it was bothersome when she created anything that was not already existent. Last time she checked, she had made an alternative to katana adding a new sibling to the number of these kinds of swords.
“I wonder what would happened if I can just find a way to prevent bronze to rust so quickly…it would make automail lot more…what’s the word…” she pondered. It was in moment like these that she wished that she had the aforementioned’s power. “ah, fashionable,” she said out loud when she bumped into someone familiar. Her eyes narrowed a bit, because she was not expecting him around at all. How did he even pass security? “I would recognize your stench anywhere…” she said jokingly as she stuck her tongue to great him. Call it immature, she was still a kid even if she was among the leading scientists in automail development Chobotics – she was proud of that title.
Knowledge blinked, looking at one of the bane of his existence. With the amount of information already flooding into his mind on a constant basis, she was the exclusively one of the few that constantly bombarded him with weird thoughts. “Firstly, it is not stench, I maybe a hobo living on the streets, but this scent is chanel.”
“Secondly, I came to look for you. Not for that katana thing, I’m going to get revenge on you another time on that for you...” He threw her a dirty look before he continued “There is a nagging feeling based on current information that something is going to go really wrong soon. So... Stay safe.”
Knowledge looked at the inventor, while she has been consistently creating and thinking of thoughts that gave him a headache, he still looked favorably on her. “Invent something on the go, or something, but if shit hits the fan. I want you to stay safe.”
He had barely finished his sentence, when shit literally hit the fan...
His usual relaxed expression vanished, his gaze hardening as he noticed a black void in his mind. The realization that no matter how he attempted to circumvent the horrors that would arrived, ultimately the hanged man would counter it. He gritted his teeth in bitterness. He thought he would be a prime target, thus he found the copycat to give her his abilities. He was a step ahead, the hanged man was three.
The portal had taken several other within, many of those that he cared about as well. As he stood outside, knowledge of a giant familiar floods his mind. Thus, as the portal seals, the nightmare begins.
“Run!” He shouted, the familiar’s ability was part of the void within his mind. So used to dealing with certainty, the unknown so foreign, he felt fear creep into his heart. It would make more sense, to retreat, regroup to take on the giant.
He rounded a corner, managing to escape. His relief was short-lived, a blob of wax landing on the ground in front of him and...
Her.
He looked on in silence, not believing his eyes. No matter how much he looked, knowledge of the being in front of him was in the void.
“I... killed you.” His expression cracked, tears welling in his eyes.
He stood motionless, even as she walked towards him, looking as beautiful as the day they met. He subconsciously leaned into her hand when she moved to cup his cheek. She smelled the same, looked at him the same loving way, even when he knew her blood was in his hands.
“I’m sorry...” Knowledge whispered, tears long streaming down his face. “I’m sorry...” He repeated.
It was a time of chaos and darkness, they were on polar opposites. He believed mankind was not ready for all knowledge, she believed that the truth should be set free, and believe in mankind. They disagreed, as much as they loved each other.
In a moment of defiance, she shared the truth with a civilization. The result was close to a million lives lost, an event that was the basis of several stories of the doomsday. “Human deserves the truth.” She whispered, having fought against him in defense of the civilization, but ultimately lost.
“Humans are destructive in nature. They are greedy. They have planned to use the knowledge you’ve given to them to conquer the world.” Knowledge explained. “More lives than today would be lost.”
“I disagree.” She replied, challenging him with her gaze. “How can you withhold knowledge from mankind? Are you the only one worthy?”
It was then, he knew. Rather he had always knew, but chose to ignore it. Her nature would compel her, and history would repeat itself. He acted. One for millions, it felt worth it to him then.
His thoughts returned, back to the present, where she was cupping his face. Strong hand held the wrist that was just about to stab a menacing looking black shard into him.
“I still love you.” He whispered, knowledge of sayoc kali took over and the shard was directed back towards her. He was merciless, the battle within himself taking longer than the said act.
He knelt, his chest hurting, almost as if he was drowning. To repeat the act, even if a part of him told him it is a lie, it felt real in the current moment.
It took him sometime to get to higher ground, looking at many others facing their own weaknesses or demons. There was a numbness within him.
He may have won the battle, but the war had already been lost.
“yeah, it’s like,” he paused, looking for chopsticks to be able to eat his cup noodles with, “the boss is an ugly-ass baby birthed by jabba the hut, but redder. eugh.”
he feigned a small shiver, and looked up, hand paused as he held up the half-covered cup full of noodles when the glow caught his eye. it had never ceased to amaze him. or maybe that look on jin’s face was because of the smell of the noodles wafting up to him.
slowly, his arm outstretched, finger ready to touch knowledge’s. “E.T…teach me…” but before they could touch, he retracted his hand and waved it dismissively, laughing a little. “i’m kidding. i’ll figure it out. anyway, don’t you have anywhere else to be, man?”
“Are you sure?” Knowledge chuckled, the glow dying off his finger. “Well... It is your choice then. I’m quite sure you’d be able to clear it nevertheless.”
Knowledge tucked his knees in, resting his chin. “You know... If I were to tell you your human is going to be attacked by monsters soon... How would you react?”
An light appeared between his index fingers as he split the glow, a glow on each of his index finger. “Would you rather choose the knowledge of when? or where?”
Knowledge grabbed onto her hand, tugging her close to him. “Wait. It’s not safe yet.” He whispered. Turning around to shield their gaze with his back, he pinned her to the wall. “I apologise.”
Swooping in, he gently touched his lips with hers.
Finally, as they hunters moved on. He pulled away. Giving her a grin, he chuckled. “Well... I’d be seeing you. Thanks for the help!”
His arm was around her as the cool night air tickled against her already pink face. She had forgotten a jacket, so she sat curled against his body for warmth as they watched people pass from a park bench. The stars twinkled down on them from overhead, but the real light was from street lamps, which through the passing faces into sharp relief under their unflattering yellow light. There were few people out at this hour, but that was beneficial in a way. They were able to go relatively unnoticed, since their bench was only partially illuminated by the street lights.
“Are you going to tell me anything, babe?” she asked, adding in a pet name just to act endearing. She assumed he would see through it and know she used it rather insincerely, but that wasn’t all that important. Her intentions were less of seduction and more of amusement, for once. It was rather a rare twist actually, considering that Electra loved to toy with emotions. He was a bit harder to do this with though, she knew that already. No point, really. He was fun in other ways though.
She smiled up at him coyly before dropping her voice as a woman not much older than her came nearer. “Okay, tell me something about her?” she asked hopefully, nudging him in the side so he would look at the woman she was looking at rather hopefully. The smile on her face was more devilish than it should have been, and it was clear that Electra hadn’t had the chance to prank the unsuspecting in a while.
He closed his eyes, enjoying the chill in the air. In a previous life, he would have loved to spend a lifetime in her company. Enjoying the joys of pranks and watching humans. However, in his previous life, he was ended civilizations, the bringer of fire for warmth, yet also the one who burnt them to the ground.
“Babe...” Knowledge replied with a soft chuckle. “You know most ask more than things to use to prank others from me...”
He opened his eyes, following her question. He gazed at the woman, searching for her face in the raging ocean of his mind. “Her memory consists of her consistently looking for signs of her husband cheating. I believe this is a park that her husband usually uses at night for a run. She may be looking for signs.”
Knowledge paused, blinking as he processed. “Her husband is cheating however, just not tonight. Tonight, he is just running.” He pressed his lips to her temple, and with it, the image of the woman’s husband and her husband’s lover sank into her mind.
He laughed, her kiss on his nose amusing him. “Well...” He sneaked a quick peck on her lips. “Whoops. I thought I had aimed for your nose.” He lied, leaning back to chuckle. Crossing his arms, he closed his eyes and enjoyed the scent of the flowers in spring. “You should head back to the university, and not hang around weird hobos who’d take advantage of you, dear flower.”
Knowledge laughed, his laughter echoing within the majestic structure they were within. Judgement sat beside him, drinking in the alcohol meant as offerings to the gods.
Thousands of bodies lay scattered beneath their feet, a civilization vanished, erased off the world.
Chuckling drunkenly, Knowledge place a big sloppy kiss on Judgement’s cheeks.
Tired. The word echoed within Knowledge’s mind constantly. The expo had pulled cards everywhere around, and there are many cards that do not behave well around technology. He sighed, if he was not a living walking database of the world, he would have been probably the same.
A crash came to his right, an exhibit had fallen. The security was looking around for the culprit who almost seemed to have vanished almost instantly. Almost as if she recalled herself back. Knowledge jaw clenched, as he closed his eyes, telling himself to count to ten.
Unlike most of the cards here, there was one particular card that he had to pay attention to. Not because they had been close in the past, but because in the human world, he was her registered guardian.
Standing, he rounded a corner and his hand immediately found her arm, tugging her out of her hiding place. “You’re staying with me. You far too interested in everything for them to be safe. Fight me, and I’d spill all your embarrassing things out to the world faster than you can say ‘Calvary’s here.’”
The sound of steaming milk echoed in the quiet cafe, the cafe was relatively empty save for the barista, a female seated facing the window, and a male hobo who almost looked homeless.
Receiving his coffee from the barista with thanks, Knowledge whistled Canon in D as he sat just behind the female. She seemed to be busy writing, paying him no attention.
He was in a playful mood today, and sadly, the lone female would have to be his unwilling victim. Knowledge is not able to read thoughts immediately, only for long term memories, that came to him whenever someone sleeps. However, as long as something is written, it would instantly be in his head.
“I wonder if that princess you’re writing about would ultimately choose between her prince or ruling her kingdom?” He laughed, speaking audibly enough for her to hear.
silence. that’s all hyelim can give as soon as she steps into the apartment complex. her bag slips from her fingers and lands on the smooth hardwood floor, nearly spilling her storyboards that she had neatly placed into it after concluding her meeting with her editor– that she had just come home from.
her eyes stray to the painting on her wall, and all she can think about is– security deposit, security deposit, security deposit, security deposit, that’s a pretty beautiful painting of me though, security deposit.
she doesn’t hesitate on tugging the ribbons off of her hair and transforming into her magical form, sending her whip blades towards siwon’s neck until they’re just a centimeter away from piercing into his skin.
“you have thirty seconds to clean this mess up– before i stab you in your manly privates and capture you so i can get the right to tie your fucking wrists together.”
Knowledge’s eyes widened as he leaned away from the blades close to her neck. “Hyelim... That’s heartbreaking. You want an artist to destroy his own work? Especially... Look it’s you as sailor moon! Like what you wanted for your childhood.”
Taking a few steps back, he smirked and nodded to her, completely unapologetic. Lowering his body, while moving towards her, he took her bag from the floor and moved it to her studio.
“Just admire it for a bit, we could take a wefie together, I’d make some food for us.” He said, moving through her apartment almost as if she was the guest and he the resident.
“Once we’re done with food, I’d clean it up.” He chuckled, giving her a cheesy brow wiggle.
Things are going to happen, Knowledge is sure. However, there are forces as usual, that are disrupting his ability to understand the current situation. It is probably wise to have some form of backup.
So it is with oven mitts over his hands, that he grabbed the one person he knew would be able to help him. He brought her to an unused room, away from the crowd “Listen copycat, remember how I told you I may need your help? Well... This is it. We need you for all the cards out there.”
Knowledge gazed at her, his hands on her shoulder. “This expo is not what it seems, hence that pull we feel. I’m going to give you my power.” He explained, hoping to convey the importance of her role in this event.
“The moment you take my power. You will be overwhelmed. You may live a thousand different lives, you may be lost in the great big beyond... I need you to remember who you are, where you are at now, and come back. Do not let your mind wander too far.”
With the warning given, Knowledge leaned forward and placed a kiss on her forehead, eyes closed, his arms pulling her into his embrace.
Imagine information like a speeding bullet train, an unstopping train that never ends. That train just crashed full speed into her mind.
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