Chapter 5: BEING X
𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟕: 𝐁𝐄𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐗
....𝟏𝟏:𝟑𝟎𝐏𝐌....
Delete was now on his way to finish Eric Brander with the use of his assassin's avatar. There were many times, he would use his assassin as a proxy to deal with errors for him, but that wasn't the case this time.
As Delete made his way to Eric Brander, at that same point in time, Eric Brander had just received a call from a certain unknown caller to help save him from his impending doom. But alas, Eric was acting stubborn at the time.
This portion of the story was Delete's side of the story when Eric was on a call with the unknown caller...
"*Sighs* I don't get it, I mean I know it's my job to get rid of those f#cking errors and anomalies, but why though? It's not like it changes the fact that there's going to be another reset after the next apocalypse." Delete sighed and contemplated his thoughts.
At that very moment, a voice emerged from behind Delete and startled him...
"You do know that you're under parole right now, right? Not only that but that you must fulfill your tasks or at least beat the Revivers at the game, right?"
"Huh!? Who's there!? Show yourself, you motherf#cker!" The experience more than startled Delete. He started swinging his gun out in panic but that would be unnecessary as the entity that spoke to him wasn't one to be hurt by guns.
The entity was a being Delete was all too familiar with...
"Being X?"
"That is my name, well, what you mortals decided to call me as you cannot pronounce my divine name." Being X was an incomprehensible, and unknown being that had been in existence since the dawn of time, maybe even longer.
Being X is actually well known in Prime Reality–The reality in which all realities converge into one, where all living beings have one life, all future scenarios cannot be predicted or changed, and the only timeline without branches as well as the true present is one.
Being X was what every human would call... A deity. Well, not a god exactly, more like a god's angel or messenger of some kind. At least, that was how it described itself to humans. It was neither male nor female but was preferably referred to as male due to its demeanor. And so it adopted that identity, calling itself a 'He'.
But to be honest, no Hacker, Watcher, Admin, or Proxy knew what Being X actually was.
Being X was also the head of the Watchers as well as the first of the only two Admins. Its form would always change to whatever the viewer was comfortable with, be it a human, an animal, or even an item as small as a watch or pencil.
But it's true appearance was of which no human could ever fathom or last long enough to really understand.
In Delete's eyes, Being X appeared to be a shiny Mechanical ball of energy with a voice of a male-voiced Artificial Intelligence(AI). Or at least, that's what Delete was the most comfortable seeing him as.
"Oh, it's just you. Can you not appear out of nowhere and scare me like that!? Geez..." Delete had calmed down but was still upset.
"Also, if you hadn't noticed, I AM on my way to do my job!" Delete retorted Being X's first statement.
"Right... Well, don't ever forget who gave you the tasks, and a second chance at life, alright?" Being X reminded him.
"I know, I know! You've given me another chance, especially when I had lost it all, you saved me. And I guess that I am grateful for all that but... These tasks just seem so unnecessary!" Delete walked as he spoke, paying attention to his path as Being X hovered next to him and continued their conversation along the way to Eric Brander's office building complex.
"Hmm... Explain." Being X was intrigued by where the conversation was going.
"I mean, I'm not questioning your methods but why do we have to delete every single strand of Eric Brander from his twenty-five timelines? Also, if we just wanted to get rid of him straight away, why don't we just find him in Prime Reality and get it all over with?" Delete had a compelling and reasonable debate.
".... Because he has a 5% chance of destroying time and space as we know it." Being X tried to simplify it.
"But why? Listen, I've read all the reports on this guy, he's completely harmless, and a loser to boot. He has no friends, no family, nobody to even call a colleague." Delete wasn't convinced yet and he had even more reasons not to be.
"That's simple, he doesn't exist in Prime Reality, that's exactly why he's an error, even with all the things you just mentioned, it just cements the idea that he's an error."
"What do you mean?" Delete got very confused. After all, if he didn't exist in the Prime Reality, then that just meant he would have probably died before that time.
"I know you know that the Prime Reality is just a decade away from this timeline but that's just it. He's still alive or should I say, he exists somehow but isn't part of Prime Reality." Being X tried to explain.
"But that doesn't make any sense. Did he not die before then or something like that?"
"Unfortunately, no. It's almost like he turned into some kind of ghost that hunts time and space, even right now I can feel his existence thriving without being in Prime Reality. So to be on the safe side we're going to deal with the issue by its root and origin." Being X's word started to make even more sense to Delete.
"But what about the fact that he has no one related to him?" Delete asked.
"I can't say, maybe it's as a result of his existence which is detrimental to the integrity of time and space. But it does make me wonder..."
"What?"
"Nothing, just a thought, that's all." All that talk from Being X put Delete's mind at ease somewhat, he thought that maybe in some way, he wasn't just killing innocent people.
"Plus, all this talk about his past being unknown and his isolation from people. Doesn't it remind you of a certain someone?" Being X reminded Delete of a rival of his, someone that was part of an opposing group of Hackers to his group of Hackers in the Unknown Callers organization.
"Yeah, and just thinking about him, p#sses me off! Let's get this over with and go home and possibly rub it on that nerd's face." Delete was now in a haste to finish his task.
"Well yes, but about that rival, the similarities between him and this target... What if...?" Being X pondered out.
"What if, what?" Delete asked.
"Mmm... Never mind, it just doesn't compute." Being X concluded.
Delete had understood the 'why' they were after Eric Brander but not the 'how' he was an error in the first place...
"...Ok then, I understand. But at least tell me one thing. How does Eric Brander, a common man of no special attributes or contribution to society have some sort of hold against time and space? Just tell me, how? How is a man like that an anomaly!? Does he become some kind of god or find a way to control time or... What!?"
To Delete's surprise, Being X said something an all-knowing being like himself had never said before...
"I... I don't know."
𝐓𝐨 𝐁𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐞𝐝...
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