Chương 21: 21-Revelelation of Malevolence

[00: 02: 46: 22. 49] CHRISTOPHER: Hmm… > HANDS SCRATCH CHIN OF FACE WHILE STARING AT {me?} Little Robert has changed quite a bit… JOHN: > ANNOYED WHILE BEING RELEASED FROM ONARIUS exasperated I had years to live with the memory of you and that incident. I'm not the same kid you knew 15 years ago! CHRISTOPHER: > LOOKS AT JOHN WITH INTENSE ANALYSIS slowly That is true… > GRINS AT {me} WHILE COMING CLOSER TO {me} Ah, but what about the girl, hmm? > EYES INSPECT {me} You "daughter" Onarius? She seems so loyal to you?

Even when Robert here decided to just let out a little slip of your "activities"… > SINISTER LAUGHTER ONARIUS: > GLARES AT CHRISTOPHER WHILE PLACING SHIELD IN FRONT OF {me} bellowing She is not within your reach, vermin! CHRISTOPHER: > SMIRKS Oh, I know that. Besides, I wouldn't want to dwell on all of those memories you helped delete with Ned. > SHIT-EATING GRINS ONARIUS: > FREEZES IN FEAR JOHN: > ANGRILY TURNS TO ONARIUS slowly Did you actually do this?

CHRISTOPHER: > MOCKING LAUGHTER boisterous What's the matter, Onarius? Afraid to tell your own kid the truth? ELNA: > SHAKES HEAD PROFUSELY Onarius would never do that to me! That's only Ned! JOHN: > QUICKLY GOES BY {my} SIDE AND SHAKES ME panicked Do not engage with him! CHRISTOPHER: Oh, it's rude to interrupt a conversation, Robert. Besides, you're done with me, right? JOHN: > GLARES AT CHRISTOPHER exasperated Don't you dare do anything with Ellie, you sack of-! CHRISTOPHER: > ANNOYED mumbling So annoying…

> SNAPS FINGERS [VIDEO FEED SHOWS JOHN FROZEN IN PLACE {Onarius is still moving though}] CHRISTOPHER: boisterous Ah, much better! So glad to have quality reception when you remove such a burden on your back. > SINISTER LAUGHTER ELNA: > SHOCKED exasperated How-?! CHRISTOPHER: > SMILES GRIN Oh, poor little Ellie, you seem to forget that while this place contains my magnificence, it can really contain things I can do easily. The projectors? Have you forgotten about that?

ELNA: > SLOWLY BACKS AWAY CHRISTOPHER: > MOCKING LAUGHTER Still naïve after 250 years, can't even see the fine print; much like how you accepted his "offer" to escape your terrible life… > EYES PROJECT A HOUSE BURNING DOWN *very slowly*… At the exchange of your parents. ELNA: > FREEZES AND STARES AT ABOMINATION WITH WIDENED EYES panicked I-I don't remember that! CHRISTOPHER: > SIGHS DISAPPOINTEDLY Much like your memories, behind lock and key for the mad king.

A darling princess, who so happens to be in a tower with no visible bottom. > POINTS TO ONARIUS And his favorite dog, unleashed to those who know far too much. A janitor of those who question the king. ELNA: > TURNS TO ONARIUS, VERY CONFUSED What does he mean by this? CHRISTOPHER: > MOCKING LAUGHTER Yes, Onarius, tell her about the prisoners you feed to the prized lion. ELNA: > EYES WIDEN ONARIUS: > DEFEATED mopingly The prisoners since 2020, they are being fed to him to sustain him.

ELNA: > SHAKES HEAD yelling BULLSHIT! > ANGRILY TURNS TO CHRISTOPHER yelling You're lying, just like how you did to John! CHRISTOPHER: exasperated Lying?! > SHIT-EATING GRINS slowly Are you sure…? > MOUTHS PROJECT NUMEROUS SCENES OF {Onarius feeding him...} [VIDEO FEED SHOWS {… I don't want to say it, other than I want to puke… Jesus…)] ELNA: > WATCHES IN DISTRAUGHT CHRISTOPHER: > SINISTER LAUGHTER Yes… Robert was right; those disappearances were for a reason…

> EYES PROJECT SEVERAL IMAGES OF PEOPLE BEGGING TO BE SPARED *very slowly*… Especially those who knew too much. ELNA: > LOOKS AT ONARIUS WITH SADNESS exasperated Why would you do that?! ONARIUS: slowly I had no choice… CHRISTOPHER: Yes, you had no choice, as if you didn't bring me food, Ned of course would notice, and he would have so easily destroyed Robert's world. ELNA: > INSPECTS ONARIUS FRANTICALLY CHRISTOPHER: > MOCKING LAUGHTER boisterous Ah! Perhaps you want to see such a fine, three-course meal!

> SHOWS SCENES OF ONARIUS TALKING TO AN OBSCURED FIGURE WHILE DRAGGING CHRISTOPHER TO HIS CELL boisterous Remember this, Onarius? When he, of course, had you lock me up down here as I looked into something that he did not want humans to know about? > SHOWS MORE FOOTAGE OF AN OBSCURED FIGURE VISITING ONARIUS AT SEVERAL POINTS THROUGHOUT HIS INCARCERATION boisterous He and I, of course, became best pals and gave me this cell so I could grow and be even better than everyone else…

ELNA: > SLOWLY WALKS UP TO ONARIUS, CAREFULLY EYEING CHRISTOPHER meekly Onarius… This isn't real, right? > HEAVY BREATHING WHILE SHAKING exasperated You didn't do this, right?! Christopher is a lying and- ONARIUS: > DEFEATED SIGH mumbling … He isn't… > GUILTY WHILE LOOKING AWAY ELNA: > HORRIFIED WHILE TURNING BACK TO CHRISTOPHER CHRISTOPHER: > SINISTER LAUGHTER boisterous That's right, kiddo! Your "father", your best pal… is a murderer. > SNEERS yelling AND PATHETICALLY WEAK!

> SLITHERS UP TO ELNA But of course, you did see everything you did. After all, you were a bit too curious. But Ned, oh you are his little darling: the little neet from a bygone era more powerful than people can comprehend… > MOCKING LAUGHTER No, your instructions were all Onarius's fault. He would never hurt you. His precious princess, who always forgets so much… > SINISTER SNORT It's true he took away a lot of your memories, but Onarius did most of the heavy lifting.

After all, Ned doesn't want to get his hands dirty when he's busy dealing with a "competitor". ELNA: > HEAVY BREATHING panicked T-Then Onarius took away my memories?! > GRUNTS ANGRILY panicked I don't believe you! Onarius has been taking care of me for a long time and makes sure I'm not harmed by Ned! CHRISTOPHER: > SNEERS Like how he took away a woman who treated you like her own daughter, loved and cherished you so much that she tried to break you out?

> SHOWS A PROJECTION OF A YELLOW-HAIRED KITSUNE WOMAN PLAYING WITH {me} IN A MEADOW Or perhaps that alien race who named one of their suns after you? > PROJECTS AN IMAGE OF AN EARTH-LIKE WORLD WITH TWO SUNS Or perhaps… > SINISTER LAUGHTER bellowing … How he murdered your own parents! > SHOWS PROJECTION OF ONARIUS {… I can't. The fire… those people. I hear the screams as they-} ELNA: > BREAKS DOWN IN TEARS CHRISTOPHER: > GLARES AT ONARIUS Your guardian at every point destroyed your own happiness.

A loving mother-like figure, friends who loved and cherished you, a family that protected you-gone. His doing, because he was afraid of "him". ONARIUS: > TURNS AWAY DEVASTATED CHRISTOPHER: boisterous Oh! And let's not forget the reason why you were dragged here, why of all people a 15-year-old girl that was constantly bullied for her interests and often had absent parents would say- > EYES FORM PROJECTION OF {me} mouths move with the projection mockingly -"Why does everyone hate me?

I don't want to deal with this anymore…" > EYES FORM PROJECTION OF ONARIUS mouths move with the projection mockingly "I will bring you to a place where you will be happy, with no more suffering. All you have to do is pledge your allegiance to this "man". > EYES SHOW PROJECTION OF A VAGUE, HUMANOID FIGURE WITH AN INCAN-STYLED SILVER MASK WITH A GLOWING, RED GEMSTONE ON THE FOREHEAD And of course, you accepted the offer… Unauthorized duplication: this narrative has been taken without consent. Report sightings.

ELNA: > DROPS TO KNEES AND EMPTILY STARES AT GROUND, CRYING CHRISTOPHER: That's right, kiddo, he's the reason you're here. It's all his fault… >SLITHERS TO ONARIUS Oh Onarius… You really shouldn't keep quiet about the thing to make Ned's little paradise a reality… After all, you had lied to her for 250 years… > EYES PROJECT MULTIPLE SCENES OF ONARIUS APPREHENDING MULTIPLE INMATES boisterous You see all these little shit-for-brains? These interlopers to Ned's ambitions…

> MULTIPLE SCENES SHOW PRISONERS BEING BROUGHT TO CHRISTOPHER'S CELL Ned doesn't want me to go hungry, you see. He likes me. Me and him think alike, and boy, that guy is a blast to talk to. He's the only one who gets me, the only one who understands something that I scratched the surface of… > SINISTER LAUGH ONARIUS: > SHAKING ELNA: > EMPTILY STARES AT THE PROJECTIONS CHRISTOPHER: > MOCKING SCOFF Do my projections lie…? The stuff that are recordings of events that happened, Ellie?!

ELNA: > BLANK STARE CHRISTOPHER: > GLARES AT JOHN boisterous For such an annoyance, he did bring his recording equipment, just to see the so-called "stoic" Warden act like the coward he is! > MOCKING LAUGHTER That's right your pal here is the one who feeds me a three-course meal so that I become something truly perfect to make a paradise that Ned gave me a sneak peek. And lately, I've grown quite the appetite… > SHIT-EATING GRINS But you know what will make this better? To see Mr.

Hero over there sees you in such a state, knowing all of this, along with that idiot over there. > FINGER SNAPS [VIDEO FEED SHOWS JOHN MOVING] JOHN: -Shit! > FREEZES WHILE STARING AT {me}, CONCERNED, RUNNING UP TO {me} panicked KID?! CHRISTOPHER: > SINISTER LAUGHTER JOHN: > EYES GLARE AT CHRISTOPHER panicked What did you do to her?! CHRISTOPHER: Nothing. I only showed her the truth, including what Onarius did… > EYES PROJECT ONARIUS'S ACTIVITIES {including what he did to me} JOHN: > HORRIFIED mumbling Sweet Jesus…

CHRISTOPHER: > MOCKING LAUGHTER You had every right to distrust him, Robert. And what he did to that kid is beyond forgiveness… JOHN: > GLARES AT ONARIUS CHRISTOPHER: boisterous Oops?! Did I show ol' Robert here a bit too much? Well, Onarius should kill you, of course. But he can't, as he can't stomach killing someone he feels deep regrets over… JOHN: > ANGRILY STARES AT CHRISTOPHER WHILE PROTECTING {me} What about Ned then?

CHRISTOPHER: > MOUTHS SMIRK boisterous To answer any remaining questions, Robert, Ned wanted to destroy you because you were a witness; he told me this himself as we're pals-chums actually! But of course, Onarius, loving the pathetic race known as humanity, offered a deal that was the best thing for Ned: I'll be kept alive, the humans he doesn't like are fed to me, and as long as he continues doing this, Ned won't let me out for the grand buffet! > SCRATCHES CHIN And the time of release…?

> FINGERS SNAP boisterous Oh! Only after you either leave or die here! > HUNGRILY EYES {me} boisterous But I do, of course, want the appetizer. The blood she has, oh so delicious! > SINISTER LAUGHTER WHILE EYES TURN TO ONARIUS He told you to do this, you know? You lied to them; I know you did.

JOHN: > BLANKLY OBSERVES ONARIUS FROZEN IN SHAME WITH JAW SLOWLY GOING AGAPE ELNA: > HEAD RAISES UP SLOWLY CHRISTOPHER: > EYES STARE AT JOHN Well, since you distrust him, maybe you can give a reason why he dragged you all this way here, to know everything, before I eat you and everyone else… > EYES GLARE AT JOHN slowly Go on, give your answer… JOHN: > TREMBLES WHILE CLENCHING FISTS > ATTEMPTS TO SPEAK ELNA: > EYES WIDEN exasperated Because he knew we would come here to see you destroyed!

CHRISTOPHER: > FREEZES What? > EYES OBSERVE {me} Funny how the little cheerleader so naively defends this shit stain of a digital entity. > SNORTS Way to stick up for your "savior" kiddo. ELNA: > STANDS UP AND ANGRILY STARES AT HIM No, this has nothing to do with Onarius, but rather the whole ecosystem that Ned has kept a secret, and is weaponizing it like you said. > LOOKS AT ONARIUS, SADDENED This place…

I get why Onarius did all of this now; it was to delay Ned as long as possible from ruining where I- > SEES JOHN TAPPING ON {my} SHOULDER -We all came from. CHRISTOPHER: > SCOFFS exasperated Did you forget the fact that your little jailor friend has been feeding me for 150 years at Ned's own instructions?! > GROWLS AT {me} Way to defend someone who has murdered a lot more people than me and has kept you as that man's SERVANT! JOHN: > STARES AT {me}, SMILING whispering Go ahead.

ELNA: > CLEARS THROAT I can't forgive what Onarius has done, and I know the ones he sent to you were innocent. > SIGHS softly He did take away my memories, he took away people who loved and cherished me, all to appease a maniac I had to obey for so long… > LOOKS AT ONARIUS, WHO HAS PERKED UP I can, however, defend someone who did want to keep me safe. Who wanted to give me a life where I would be happy. CHRISTOPHER: > SNEERS bellowing He is the result of your misfortune!

> SNICKERS But me and my good old pal Ned have something better waiting. > SHOWS PROJECTION OF {something more terrifying than the Dream Layer} Look at it; pure perfection. No strife, no sickness, no annoying assholes like you… ELNA: > LOOKS AT CHRISTOPHER STERNLY What you show me is a hell fit for something like you and Ned, not for any of us. CHRISTOPHER: > GLARING SNARL exasperated And what would you have then? A world that will decay from the ongoing rot like your own tower?!

> NERVOUS LAUGHTER You have no idea about the hell about to be unleashed on the realities I can perceive. What will happen will be something so truly heinous that it'll make the years I raised you look so happy and nostalgic. Something a lot more powerful than Ned is stirring, and it will awaken soon. > EYES LIGHT UP bellowing … And I'm the insurance policy against imbeciles like you! ELNA: > ROLLS EYES And what do you think Ned will do once his paradise becomes a reality? When is this threat you speak of resolved?

You think he'll let a human and someone as scummy as you around when everyone else here that is fed to you has done things as irredeemable as you?! > GLARES AT CHRISTOPHER exasperated You said yourself Ned planned on getting rid of me and John, what isn't to say he had the same thing in mind for you?! CHRISTOPHER: > SNARLS bellowing Watch your mouth, kiddo! > SMIRKS WHILE POINTING UPWARDS whispering … He's listening. ELNA: > SMIRKS He isn't.

He has turned the other cheek because the one who keeps him fed told him, as you told us, that I was his next meal. An easy job, as he thinks… > SLOWLY TURNS TO ONARIUS SADDENED softly I know Onarius fed quite a few inmates to keep Ned pleased, but he made a fatal mistake letting John here, recording all of this, letting me understand everything, including a simple truth about what Ned sees you as… CHRISTOPHER: > HASTENED BREATHING ELNA: I never grew up as your child, and thank God I wasn't raised by a monster.

However, I do know you were nothing more than an animal when you were in the Physical Layer from what I've seen, read, and heard from all of John's descriptions of you; you're no different here. Ned sees you as that, and given the fact that you were once human, he sees you as nothing more than a tool for his own ends, like me! > GLARES ARE CHRISTOPHER Like how you used everyone around you to get what you wanted. > POINTS TO JOHN AND ONARIUS Like those two, you used them for your own desires.

You never remembered any of those whom you took advantage of. You never bothered to understand who they were on the inside, or the families that lost them. CHRISTOPHER: > SHAKING ELNA: > CLENCHES FISTS WHILE TEARS ROLL DOWN: You only care about how you are perceived, how much power and prestige people will envy you for, which you think will be forever. > POINTS TO ONARIUS Onarius here may have let many inmates here suffer a fate worse than fragmentation, but I know him!

He still loves humanity and makes sure those unfortunate are given a life with the least amount of suffering… ONARIUS: > RAISES HEAD, ALERT ELNA: > SOFT SMILE softly … Even if he does do horrible deeds, the good he has done will not be forgotten, and so will his name; I will ensure that > ANGRILY TURNS TO CHRISTOPHER You, what you have done, will be remembered as a warning to those who do not want to end up like you. Your face, your name, and your employment history will be forgotten.

All that will be remembered is how someone stooped so low and became a monster so vile that telling stories of you will make those consider their own actions. CHRISTOPHER: > SHAKING EXTREMELY panicked Y-You'll remember me disphit! > POINTS TO JOHN FRANTICALLY exasperated Without him, you wouldn't even be here! JOHN: > CALMS AND STANDS IN FRONT OF {me} And without you, I would've become a monster worse than you, and Ned's own little plan would have gone off without a hitch.

> SMIRKS And also, your own kid isn't who you think he is. You made a very big mistake. CHRISTOPHER: exasperated You little-! JOHN: I'll make sure only your actions are remembered, so that no one will remember you, other than the monstrous deeds you have done, and your betrayal to humanity. I don't know about myself, but I have people waiting for me: my fans who I've come to respect, my neighbors who I am always glad to see, the love of my life… > GENTLE SMILE WHILE PLACING A SHOULDER ON {me} softly …

And of course the kid here, who I'm going to make sure she has a better life; something you never gave me… CHRISTOPHER: > GLITCHING SPORADICALLY, TERRIFIED panicked You'll still record this for your ego! Don't lie to yourself! JOHN: > SHAKING HEAD No… This isn't about me, this is about everyone back home. Mankind doesn't know about this place, the horrors that lie beneath this digital plane. If monsters like you can exist, then I'm making sure that everyone knows about it.

So be it if Ned gets pissy over the fact I decided to release a video showing the truth behind all those I covered and I get Ellie out, I'm not afraid of him anymore. > SNEERS AT CHRISTOPHER And you… I'll make sure everyone knows of the monsters this place can produce. But you yourself will be nothing more than a footnote, easily forgotten… CHRISTOPHER: > VIOLENT GLITCHING JOHN: You were once like me, but you chose your own cruelty instead of the warmth of others. I chose that warmth… You chose your own ego.

So, I'll tell you something, Christopher-you can get lost; I'm done with you. CHRISTOPHER: > FREEZES > GLITCHING STOPS > MANIACAL LAUGHTER Big words from a little man… and a little girl… > VIOLENT GLITCHING JOHN: > TAKES {me} AWAY FROM THE WINDOW, FRIGHTENED CHRISTOPHER: booming ME?! FORGOTTEN?! I WAS WORTH BILLIONS BEFORE MY INCARCERATION HERE! EVERYONE KNEW ME AND WILL REMEMBER ME YEARS AFTER!!! > GLITCHING GROWS MORE VIOLENT ONARIUS: > TAPS JOHN'S AND {my} SHOULDERS whispering Stand near the hallway…

> INTENSELY STARES AT {us} whispering You know what happens when an entity like him fragments. JOHN: > NODS AND DOES AS TOLD ALONG WITH {me} CHRISTOPHER: > GLITCHING BECOMES MORE VIOLENT very glitched How could I, Christopher Vespermann, be forgotten? Do you know how much power I wielded?! How much fame I had! JOHN: > EYES WIDEN WHILE SHIVERING frantically Ellie, I want you to kneel.

ELNA: > DOES AS TOLD CHRISTOPHER: > INDESCRIBABLY GLITCHING OUT horrifically glitched Why-If you haven't-You idiotic-You stupid piece of-I AM CHR-I-I-I-STOPHER VES-I AM NED'S PARTNER-PERFECTION MUST- ONARIUS: > HORRIFIED > RUNS AND PULLS OUT SHIELD > DRAGS {me} AND JOHN TO THE FLOOR DON'T LOOK! ELNA: > FRANTICALLY COVERS EYES WITH JOHN CHRISTOPHER: incoherent glitching I AM PER-ABSOLU-THE PINNA-I-A-I-AM-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-AAAAAAAAAA-!

ONARIUS: > BLOCKS SHIELD IN FRONT OF CHRISTOPHER [VIDEO FEEDS A MASSIVE SURGE OF LIGHT ENGULFING THE ROOM ALONG WITH A LOUD EXPLOSION] [VIDEO FEED SHOWS {corruptive static}] {EMERGENCY OVERRIDE REQUESTED… DONE} {OVERRIDE ACCEPTED} {PAUSING "descent. mp4"… DONE} {REMOTE CONNECTION TERMINATED}