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Silence after the pop.
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Left in silence, it felt like pieces of himself were being pulled from him, leaving him to suffer in this void that consumed him, he could barely see his gloves, Bubble wouldn't talk to him, by at least he wasn't completely alone.
You should suffer alone.
No. I have to try, otherwise I'll just be alone anyways.
"Bubble... Talk to me, it's so.. Quiet.." The words hoarse and broken as if not only were his circus and humans taken from him, his digital body was even giving up on him. Body in tears and torn apart in places. Hands fractured and body felt like pieces would fall apart in seconds, as if he was drowning in an abyss of void, that would swallow him, like the hatred and anger that got him here, sent away and banished from his own home. One he himself had build after his creation, his rejection.
He was met with the cruel silence he now lived in, no change in the feeling, no change in the silence, no laughter, no smiles, no circus, no rules.
He sit in the void for what feels like eternity and notices something blue in the distance, something full of color, something bright. A portal of some sort, so in a last ditch effort to have the chance of not being alone he grabbed Bubble, goes in the portal and ends up in a weird place.
He sees a bunch of portals in the distance and a two figures, he has never seen come out of the portals and one has blue hair that is styled down and the other has green hair, in an up style and is shorter than the one other.
"OW!"
Bubble had bitten Caine' hand, pixels falling off, as Caine grabbed Bubble, wanting to just strangle it, Bubble wouldn't talk or look at him but they could bite him? 'Course he was upset.
"Don't you bite me! You insolent--"
"Tari! Look!" The green hair child walked up to Caine.
Bubble popped and appeared somewhere else, as the green haired child, if he was that, walked up to Caine dragging what seemed to be 'Tari', a Blue haired girl, way bigger than the small, pudgy boy. Caine's eyes zeroed in on the two figures, they looked more human than anything, hair, body and no where near the circus freaks he usually saw in his time of creations, and running the circus.
"...Humans.."
Was all he got out before he started glitching, he fell to the floor, he didn't stand, he couldn't help feeling so overwhelmed by this, this was too much too soon after being in silence, and for once, despite his non-existent ears, all he hears is ringing and his hands feel as though his bones, despite no having any are all bending wrong and twisting like the butterflies in his stomach.
Caine couldn't help but feel trapped, in his body, this realm, the interweb wouldn't let him live, not truly not while his hardwire still worked, trapped like it was a piece of his soul, what he hoped would be a soul despite his creation. despite everything he is.
The air dropped him once he was fully out the portal, it died, so did the void and silence he had lived in for what felt like an eternity. Now, he knew how Kinger felt after being so alone before Ragatha entered the Circus. Human. He wanted to feel Human, despite him never being able to do such, not like Pomni, with her kind words and jolts of courage, not like Jax, his cruel words and constant denial, Caine couldn't.
He simply Isn't.
He was, however still being watched which didn't help as he was on the floor after he was dropped out the portal. His legs were bent, his head changed and his face contorted in ways it shouldn't as this new world tried to put him together, to make him like them, instead of shifting their body's or mind's to fit his circus, no, no, not anymore, this wasn't the circus.
And Caine wasn't a Ringleader.
Not anymore.
Not now.
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Tari couldn't tell the last time she had last seen some messed up stuff, not like what she was staring at as she grabbed Theo back and pulled him close, not needing him to start glitching, not like what she was watching, turning him away.
"Tari, we have to help him!" Theo, despite what could seeing what was happening to Caine.
Caine was trembling, his body twisting and his code contorting in ways it simply shouldn't, his arms stretched too long and his legs bent at angles that shouldn't be real, his whole body glitching, he couldn't do anything about it, not while he was manic, he felt like he was going crazy as he reflected in everything he's ever done, said, and even through about the humans he's taken care of, nothing but anger, guilt, shame, and a strike of fear at what could possibly happen if he kept glitching like this.
"You need to calm down, I know it's hard, but you'll hurt yourself with anymore panic" Tari said, grabbing Caine's hand, shaking as it was, she held it down, his body slowly made it's way into contorting into some form of human being, something close to what Theo and Tari had, his gloved hands, were connect with arms, he had wrists and a face, a human face.
Caine tried to ground himself, he did, truly but he felt out of it, he didn't want these humans to hate him too. No. Not again, he couldn't deal with that again. Caine blinked as the contortion of his body started to disappear his limbs, or clothes? had changed back to normal. Sort of. Something felt off.
"...That was..."
"A doozy!"
Caine went back to his cheerful self and touched his face, his open jaws. Froze when he didn't feel teeth. He managed to conjure a mirror, he held his face as he looked into it.
"..."
Hand on his cheek, he didn't do anything but stare at his eyes, his human eyes. His cheeks, a golden tan color, his gloves felt removeable, his eyes could blink, they felt almost watery. He couldn't help as he felt his knees. He had knees, under his clothes. he could feel how his clothes felt, he felt his skin and how his heart, breathed.
"what... where am....What happened.." Caine stammered and stumbled on his words, too focused on the fact he had lips and not just a pair of teeth, he had his own, they felt like his own. He stared at his eyes, they looked real, the heterochromia shown but not a cartoonish green or blue anymore, they were his own, he blinked and watched as he did so, feeling weird in his new body but it felt like his own.
He glanced from the mirror to the two people. Tari started but didn't seem too confused by what was happening, while Theo, smiled and ran up to Caine, happy to finally be given another friend.
"Are you alright? I've never seen anyone glitch out like that just from coming here" Tari asked, polite, though clearly nervous. Maybe Anxious Caine thought though his face remained blank, working everything over, what happened, his new body, Bubble not near anymore, and the dead silence he had lived in for so long, so what he thought to be weeks, maybe months, had ended. Ended and now he had a new beginning,
"Alright? Oh, I'm better then alright, my little sushi roll!" Caine said, his tone cheery, a new goal was set, at least to him, this time his programming didn't hold him back, not when he finally got to feel, got a sniff of air and a taste of freedom from his AI body.
"Oh..." Theo gave Tari a look then smiled at Caine and took his hand. "Tari we have a new friend now! I didn't know we could still have people come in" Theo smiled, and l held Caine's gloved hand, his hand. He could feel the warmth in Theo's hand to his, Caine smiled, eyes dilated, a sensation filled his chest, he felt nice, his eyes landing on Theo.
"Theo, you shouldn't just trust everyone you meet" Tari said and rubbed her face but gave Caine a small smile, nervous but polite. "I'm Tari, and this is--" "I'm Theo!" Tari nodded and pulled he hand back from Caine, and put it on his shoulder as a show of support despite the recent meeting.
"And you'll get used to feeling like this, don't worry, it'll fade, eventually" Tari offered reassurance to Caine, who did in fact feel a bit out of place in this body he was pushed into, he tried to take a step forwards and almost feel, a feeling anxiety, and nauseated in his new body. This wasn't his realm, his body wasn't used for it, nor was his head.
"I feel... eh..."
He dropped, Tari grabbed him by reflex and gently laid him on the floor, her voice fading, and the light was gone again. Caine rested his eyes not able to keep them open any longer.
"He needs rest.... Theo-.. When he wakes.."
"We'll be here"
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