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Henry stood at the front of the building. It was a familiar one, for he had seen it more times than he could remember it. New timeline, same old heist that goes wrong.
He couldn't even reset earlier than the bank anymore thanks to those assholes at the C.C.C. Which was a little annoying but whatever, they couldn't stop him anyway.
The middle of the desert was always a wonder for him, hot and scalding the way it is. And yet, there it was, proudly standing, the 'bank’ in question, it was more of a vault if he was being honest to himself, after all there were very few people here.
There wasn't much to do at the moment other than go ahead and start. But this loop felt. Different. He could feel it somehow.
So, he did the one thing that he could to test it, and approached the side of the building. Waiting to see the 'options’ he had to go with.
And that was when it happened. When he expected to see the disguise or the bombs. There was nothing but completely new things to go on about. No teleporter, no shovel, just new stuff like an option to threaten security.
To say he was shocked was an understatement. This never happened. No matter how many times he traveled all the way back just for the heck of it.
He kinda feels curious on where this will lead him, and so he chooses the first option that feels like it would get him a fail.
> Smash Ball
The moment he spawns this in, a very familiar hedgehog spins in and knocks him out of the picture to try to get the ball, with a narrator loudly announcing GAME as he does so.
Reference, his stand and voice of failure simply tells him “And the winner is ! Blue blur !” before he goes back to the options.
Oh yeah. This is gonna be a fun one. Let's see how much chaos he can cause since the timeline is fucked like this.
A couple of trial and errors in new possibilities are nice. He was starting to get bored of overthrowing Reginald, killing the Right Hand Man, betraying Ellie or Charles, or even working for the government after all.
This. All of this was shaping up to be a new fun playtime to him. So off to the next fail !
> Threaten
Henry jumps in and tries to hold one of the guards hostage to threaten the other by opening the doors for him to steal the cash. But the guard is able to throw him to the ground and aim his gun to Henry's face. 'Should have taken some fighting lessons.’ Reference says mockingly.
> Puffle
He summons a black grumpy furball that seems uninterested in helping in his shenanigans. That is until Henry reaches in his pocket to see what he could use and sees a ring-like treat which seems to make the little guy more excited. He feeds it to the puffball and it explodes into flames, flying around in the air burning whatever it was on its path until it landed in one of the cars. The guards, scrambling around uselessly, try to put out the fire and catch the creature, which gives the opportunity for Henry to sneak by, pickpocket their keys and enter the building while they are distracted.
He didn't see all the fails as of now. But he can always go back for them later.
The Chaos Containment Center, or C.C.C as most who knew of them called it, was not in fact containing chaos at the moment. If anything they were panicking over the new incredibly high amount of chaos that was currently concentrating within an area of the desert. And if the screens were right about this. Henry Stickmin was the source.
Henry Stickmin is not really news in the C.C.C due to the amount of incidents they can trace back to him. A category 9 to 10 tends to do that.
This. However. Was far too different from the expectations of the guy.
Something broke. Horrifically at that. And if they don't fix it, everything that this world knows and understands will break too.
If the source was something like a misplacement or alteration of events as we know it, the multiversal fix-it button would be able to weed out and destroy the anomaly. This never worked in trying to destroy Henry however, to the disappointment of many of the people there.
Not this time tho. Something else is happening and no one has the answers any of the employees working can give.
The directors in every branch are trying to keep the peace and search for what the hell went wrong. Others have currently barricaded themselves in a panic, some were trying to see if this was the first few stages of a possible apocalypse and so on and so forth.
They knew that their biggest concern and life long enemy was at the center of it. The issue is that through some camera feed they have, they were able to conclude Stickmin had no idea why this was happening either. And that was bad.
If it was a deliberate attempt to cause the increase of Entropy again they would be able to make Henry stop by hijacking some of his powers for an endless loop of fails until he stopped it and let the world progress again without incident. Some of the higher members in the facilities shudder at the thought of one of those happening again.
Seriously, how the hell can someone 'accidentally’ split a continent in half ???
But if Henry didn't know why the timeline broke either. Then something or someone else is in play here. This not only means that there could be someone more dangerous than the kleptomaniac messing with everything, and worse, going undetected, but this could also mean some higher being is interfering or Henry's powers might be developing a little Too Much sentience for anyone's liking.
The thought alone puts fear in all of them.
Best case scenario ? They put things the way they were before without too many hiccups.
The Better case scenario ? Henry is gone and the chaos levels of the world decrease exponentially. Killing whatever it is that's currently causing this.
The worst case scenario ? Pray to god that their reality itself ends quickly and not with the borders of their world being slowly consumed by whatever all powerful hungry void might come for them.
Hope is thin, and all they can do is search for a way out of the mess that has been created.
Something happened. They don't know what. But something definitely did.
“So are we just gonna stand in here oooor ?” says Randy Radman.
They all knew instinctively that they somehow could get out of the portraits their souls were trapped in after their deaths today.
That never happened before, not even when Terrence was the leader, which was one of the most chaotic and fearful years to live as a toppat due to how close the clan was to falling had Reginald not overthrown the man.
None of the alive toppats that passed through seemed to be able to see them either. They didn't have enough chaos energy to be able to.
This however wasn't going to stop most of them from helping their clan anyway. They may no longer be the leaders but they still had loyalty to them.
The issue is that Terrence seems terrified to leave his own portrait. His chaos level was always higher than most leaders. Which was both a blessing thanks to the setting of powers he had which had helped in some situations while he was alive, and a curse due to his reckless attitude.
So the fact the man was quiet and afraid of what could be out there that freed them was something to worry.
“We still don't know how it's possible that we can leave now. And with the idiot over there refusing to talk we have no idea what could happen. Hell for all we know, our souls might get sucked out of existence if we get out of the airship !” Jacques had inquired.
Most of them were pondering on what to do. Sir Wilford IV had other plans however.
“Alright. How about we compromise here, fellas ? Some of us can rotate between the divisions to keep an eye out for anything that could be malicious, anything that might give ya some sort of 'this shouldn't be here’ feeling. And on the other hand, I know for a damn fact that some of y'all are curious on what outside looks like nowadays.” He looks at Randy, who has moved closer to the exit now but stops acting like he was just caught in the act.
“So if we can spread out and cover more ground while relaying important information to each other we might be able to find this 'issue’ and either deal with it so it doesn't try anything funny with the clan, or try to make it side with us so the government can't do anything too drastic.” Several nods and murmurs of agreement happen. Right now they know next to nothing on how and why this happens. But they sure as hell are not going to let this opportunity slip away.
As they all leave to experience the wonders of the living world once more. Terrence still remains behind.
The thing is, he was afraid, but not enough to let it stop him from doing whatever he wanted. However, something deep inside him just kept telling him to not say anything, to bide his time with this. Let them think fear is driving him to silence and watch as whatever happens unfold.
With a grin on his face, as no one else was in their personal hell besides him now, he knew that the promises of nothing but destruction would come soon. To simply wait for it.
He wasn't sure what the 'it’ would be, but he had a feeling he would know it when he saw it.
And he was nothing if curious enough to wait.
End of part 1
Hope you guys enjoy this one for now.
We still have some other PoVs to go through in part 2 so be excited teehee.
I cruised my skate today.
I needed its poetry.
32 and yeah, be a kid
again, but always.
It felt like I never
stepped off. I pushed,
and pushed and it held me
to a grip .My big puffy shoes
sailing with the Toy Machine.
I missed this. Nowhere
can get me fast, I’ll get
there first.
