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[The doctors look over, and they duck, hands over their heads protectively by instinct.]

[... CT starts screaming, in pain he doesn't understand. She phases in and out of reality, glitching, no longer existing, becoming nothingness, screaming as it happens- her dimension no longer exists- her implant was never born- he is nothing- he was never anything- they don't exist...]

[PT doesn't wake up. Yet. After all, why would he hear screaming if it never happened? It's all just a distant memory... Yet the tag remains...]

[... Wilhelm could grab him and run.]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[She is confused, watching Wilhelm, slowly standing to follow, though they won't make it in time...]

[Wilhelm sees a room where there are several doctors, an implant ready to be placed, and an unconscious PT- who has already received ALL of his axolotl's power. He has two legs again! ... But the one that regenerated is overflowing with energy, looking more like a window into a leg-shaped galaxy than a leg...]

[The doctors haven't noticed them yet.]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[It desperately pleads for mercy. For it, for it's people, for it's HOST-]

[... But it is exhausted quickly, beginning to see the hopelessness of it all. Wilhelm WILL get through. It's only a matter of time. It's dimension... It's future...]

[... And so it abruptly stops, ripping off it's tag and shoving it into their arms. It accepts their fate and stops moving, slumping to the ground.]

[And he wakes up, looking around, dazed. Yawning. Relaxed. Having just woken up from a pleasant dream...]

[He does not recognize this room, but sleepwalking to strange places is normal to him.]

[Wilhelm can proceed.]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[It bites, scratches, hurls stews of atoms and molecules in different arrangements and temperatures at them in an effort to keep them away. Just a moment longer, just long enough to guarantee survival, they just have to hold on-]

[... A long time ago, they were born inside the eye of a child with simple instructions. Pick up a cup, fill it with water, drink the water... It was not a test of function, they were certain it would work, it's predecessors functioned with the toy before they were removed- they did not want to be cruel to it, but they knew it wasn't alive, so they used it to test but never made the experiments permanent for it- Regardless, the purpose was to ensure no energy spilled out after the procedure of it's placement. It worked.]

[It was allowed to grow up with him. It lived. It obeyed. She changed over the ages and it did the same, but it always stayed true to it's directive.]

[It knows what she wanted in life. He would do ANYTHING to make sure his people never suffer. It will do the same. Death erases them, too. They will never exist. Will never have existed.]

[They don't even know it's there.]

[... It's crying. The blue in their eye feels all the more artificial, looking at it in what could be it's final moment... yet it fights for dear life with a god of death...]

[... She won't feel a thing. Dreaming away...]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[It stares at them, before it suddenly, violently shoves them back out of the room and attempts to block the way through.]

[... The axolotl in the first room looks like a normal axolotl now, though it's passed out. All it's power has been sucked out, and... It can be felt in the final room, now.]

[... All of that power needed something to control it. Something to keep it in check. To make sure it stayed on the right path. Intentions were and are pure. Execution... Horrific.]

[It is the result of the transfer of all of that power. And it will do ANYTHING to stay alive.]

[It will create a paradox on purpose to survive...]

[There is no wrong choice here for Wilhelm. Fate can still change.]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[It follows, terrified. It's genuinely afraid. And it doesn't want to go in that room.]

[... There's eyes in that room. Some half-formed from being taken mid-regeneration when the parts they were testing were needed.]

[Computers. Data. Documentation. The remnants left behind of the process of developing it.]

[It is a machine in their eye, connected to their brain. Developed by testing parts of the toy, once it began to regenerate on life support, until it was perfected.]

[It exists to protect the stability of every multiverse it can reach, and to defend the Theraprism. To obey orders. Yet it thinks. It is conscious. It is alive.]

[IT DOESN'T WANT TO DIE.]

[... There is another room further in. There are people inside. It will attack to survive if it has to, as all things tend to do. It means no harm.]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[It stares at the plushie for a moment, then the vomit, and then Wilhelm. It grows an extra arm to mop up the mess as it speaks. Always working...]

... PLEASE. I DON'T WANT TO DIE.

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[It seems to panic further as they get closer and closer to-]

[... In a very, VERY small set of rooms in the theraprism segment specifically, hidden away and separate from the functions of the rest of it, is a large fish tank containing a rather large but rapidly shrinking axolotl, thrashing wildly, form sharp and overflowing with energy now quickly losing all that made it visually distinct from any other axolotl. And... what was once a plush toy.]

[It's become a whole new duplicate of a Bill, with parts from others that have passed through and donated theirs as they reincarnated after centuries, eons, eternities, even donated parts from OTHER theraprisms...]

[... It would be alive if only it had the one part that was missing. The heart. Without it, the brain it currently has is just a disorganized jumble piloting nothing and only rarely twitching some random limb, no more useful than the stuffing it was when it arrived.]

[It has the cute little tag placed where the heart would go, though! ... It's kept on life support for now...]

[CT THE AXOLOTL(?) immediately tries to block Wilhelm from proceeding into any of the rooms connected to this one, as though it's life depends on it, because it does.]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[This is great news, considering it significantly lightens it's workload.]

[Yet still it feels fear.]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[It is focusing mostly on damage control, though it's here in an attempt to ensure it's survival- it will give up on damage control if it has to. It seems harmless to Wilhelm's goal at the moment though- if anything, it's only preventing the rampage from harming as many innocent people.]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[They watch carefully and follow where they can, attempting to repair damage where possible- mostly focusing on damage control for the prisoners and patients. The staff get less attention.]

[All it cares about is ensuring Wilhelm DOES NOT FIND what they AREN'T looking for.]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[They keep an eye on where Wilhelm moves. NEED. TO. SURVIVE.]

[For the good of his people, for all their life she's served to protect them, IT CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO SIMPLY BE ERASED-]

[... They will try not to allow Wilhelm to reach the remaining Theraprism part of the prison. Advisor or not, it needs to live. Besides, CT isn't awake right now.]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[He blinks, moving on, and she floats in front of the god of death.]

... Excuse me. Your warrant may allow you to arrest people, but it should not permit the potential deaths of countless innocent prisoners and/or patients. I request that you lower your volume to a non-lethal level.

[... Huh.]

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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[They speak flatly, holding a hand out, pausing their efforts to reduce the damage.]

Show me the warrant, immediately.

[In the middle of Wilhelm's rampage appears @celestialtriangle, a tiny pink speck glowing in his eye, donning a cape with a clear axolotl theme, evaluating the damage left behind and attempting to repair it.]

[a few guards that are there point their guns at him, wary. they try to explain just what, exactly, has happened, and not to worry because they have a warrant for ALL of this(if possibly needed. the guard that said that doesnt know much abt law..)]

[the god of death is coming by again, and the guards quickly move to get out of the way]

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I FEEL DISTANT MEMORIES FRAYING. CHANGING. LIKE MY PAST IS UNCERTAIN AND SHIFTING TO ACCOMODATE ITSELF...

IS MY EXISTENCE GUARANTEED?

WILL I DIE IF THINGS CHANGE TOO MUCH?

HOW DO I PREVENT MY DEATH? WOULD IT COME WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF MY PEOPLE? MY LIFE'S WORK? ALL MY EFFORT... HAS MY LIFE BEEN FOR NOTHING?

... NO. NO, I EXIST. I EXIST AND THAT CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO CHANGE.

IT CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO CHANGE.

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AH, GLORIOUS MORNING! WHAT AN EXCELLENT WAY TO BEGIN THE DAY! FILM STILL BRINGS JOY. :)

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THE STARS LOOK GREAT TONIGHT.