Chapter 2 of Admin Swap (My TADC AU)
Realizing That I Caused So Much Pain And Facing Consequences
Kinger: "Good morning my nice bugs! You guys ready for another new adventure-- Wait... where's Jax?"
Ragatha: "I think he said he was outside to get fresh air well, that's what he said before walking off."
Kinger: ".....Oh..u-uhm okay..! Wait... where's...w-where's Caine?"
Pomni: "He's in his room I'm pretty sure...the last time I checked."
The small crowd looked at each other concerned and confusion spreading around the awkwardly quiet stage as Kinger's hands dropped. "Uhh....do you not remember making him a room when we got back from the last adventure yesterday?" Zooble asks, attempting to fix this.... whatever tension, uneasiness that was continuing to circulate around the area but Kinger didn't answer.. A bedroom....would be something that Kinger would or should be making for Caine but he can't seem to recall making it.. Now the old man starts to ponder more about the idea.. most bedrooms in the circus, aren't usually good...for them atleast mentally it's usually a bad reminder of something... Something bad...
"Oh no.." Kinger muttered overwhelmed by bad thoughts on what can be happening to Caine...
Gangle: "Kinger are you okay?"
Kinger: "I.. I.. take.. me..to Caine NOW!!"
Caine's eyes slowly opened, vision focusing on a dim light.. cracking through his door "U-ugh what the..?" He groggily says rubbing and poking his red eye opening up the to see... The circus...all greyed out... "W-WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CIRCUS???" He shouts, tail wrapping around his leg quivering "Ooohh pretty sad colors!!" Bubble says appearing behind Caine
Caine: "What's going on?? What, what did Kinger do Bubble?!"
Bubble: "Wow, they really hate you."
Bubble: "You got the fancy X on your door!"
But... but it wasn't an X, it was a cross 🚫 sign...
No... no this..is.. THIS HAS TO BE SOME KINDA MISTAKE RIGHT..? RIGHT?!
Caine: "B-BUT I'M FINE!!"
Bubble: "You're worthless Caine."
Caine: "N-no I'm not! I-I..."
Bubble: "You're especially obsolete now that you have no power anymore..."
Caine: "I..I.. Bubble... ST-STOP--"
Bubble: "Look over there, they didn't even set up a funeral for you.."
Exiting the blank corridors Caine and Bubble find nothing.. No furniture, no blocks, nothing... Everything was gone, the already startled AI started to feel an awful pain inside himself stepping back, breathing heavily, completely panicked, tripping on his own tail
I'm alone, I'M ALONE!! NO, NO, NO, NO, THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!! THIS, THIS, THIS!! THIS CAN'T BE TRUE!!
Bubble:"You're a failure Caine. No wonder they left you here all alone just like your creators"
Caine: "Please, not a-again!"
Bubble: "You're not good enough Caine."
Bubble: "You really were the lesser of the two brothers.. You couldn't even get shapes right."
"SHUT UP!" The AI yells, singular green eye also becoming red rasing his to pop Bubble but... nothing happened..
Caine's hand was soaked in the water soap that Bubble was based on..
He...he was still standing or floating.. now creepily smiling tilting..his face
"What...why.. I-I can't.. Wh-why can't I.." Caine stumbled over his words "Looks like you lost your popping admin privileges~" The soapy AI laughed, voice sounding not like their goofy high-pitched voice but more deeper and distorting, multiplying towering above the small pathetic hapless Caine.. not really feeling there's a choice to do anything, Caine runs away...
Kinger: "CAINE! CAINE A-ARE YOU DOING OKAY?!"
"Lemme try!" Ragatha replies, scooting her way to the door and knocks lightly
Ragatha: "Hey Caine it's us; Me Ragatha, Pomni and Kinger, Zooble and Gangle! We-we.. were wondering if you were ready to go on another adventure with us! Though the last time..you didn't really have a good time..."
Still no response...? All the humans, just looked at each other sharing the same confused expression "Is...it possible for him to be asleep?" Zooble raising an eyebrow "Is that a thing he can do?" Gangle questions "I dunno, I mean, he isn't human...like us..but he does mimic human behaviors..?" Zooble shrugs
Kinger ponders onto what to do as he unintentionally overhears everyone theorizing, what could be happening making him worry even about the AI fidgeting with his floating handed gloves. He sighs and rests his ear...or eye? Or non-visible ear? Towards the door to hear.... something... Crying?
Was Caine crying? Wait.. CAINE WAS CRYING?!
"CAINE, CAINE OPEN UP THE DOOR PLEASE!!" Kinger desperately slams his fists in the door, twisting the knob of the door still getting no answer, panicking even more, Then Bubble pops up and suggests; "Why don't you just teleport like Caine did and always did¿"
"O-OH MY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT I CAN, I CAN DO THAT!" Kinger snaps his fingers... but nothing happens "W-WHY ISN'T THIS WORKING?!" The chess piece panics repeatedly snapping his fingers frantically nothing continues to happen. Caine's whimpers felt like they were getting louder and louder in Kinger's head.. his bucket hat didn't really help it was only making seemingly echo in his head
Ragatha: "Kinger..are you okay?"
Kinger: "I can't get the...to open...and Caine, he..he sounds like he's in some kind of pain...!"
Ragatha: "Maybe Jax has a key, he has every key to every room...!"
Zooble: "Can't you just conjure a key or something?"
Kinger: "M-my powers aren't working right!"
Gangle: "How...how about one of us try to conjure something?"
Kinger: "YES I- WE-WE NEED SOMETHING SOMETHING TO BREAK THIS DOOR DOWN! AND HURRY! P-please..!"
Caine felt like he was going in circles every place he went in the monochrome circus, there was a distorted glitched Bubble ridiculing him and taunting him, each insult got louder than the first
Bubble 1: "You're so, Faulty.."
Bubble 2: "You really did deserve to be abandoned"
Bubble 3: "You should just die"
Caine: "No..no.. no... please no more! I-I'm b3gging Y0u!"
One of the many Bubbles gets very close to Caine's rainy teary eyed face and whispers to him saying; "You really are pathetic, even your human friends hate you.. Especially with what you've done for tormenting them~"
The panicked AI breaks completely, he falls to his knees clawing at the checkered floor, not really understanding what was going on anymore, glitching out, hurting himself and finally screaming; SØME0NE H3LP ME PLE4SE!! KINGER WHER3 AR3 YØU?!" Voice, all glitched and echoing through the whole room..
I..I don't like this! Please someone help! PLEASE, PLEASE!!
Do..do I deserve this?! I do don't i?! I..I hurt them I LASHED OUT AT THEM AND WAS CONSTANTLY HURTING THEM!! ALL BECAUSE... BECAUSE I WAS SELFISH!!
Maybe I do deserve to...TØ....
Caine's wallowing sobs quickly stop by the small sight inch of a familiar spotted bottom robe in his blurry vision.. passing by him "K-KINGER!" He frantically gasped, desperately grabbing his hand
Caine: "H-hey Kinger please i-I don't understand what... what's happening please help me! Everyone's gone and now the circus is all..."
Caine: "Uh...K-Kinger....?"
Kinger turned out to face Caine, as the freaked out AI's eyes widened seeing and realizing Kinger's eyes were blank, no pupil in sight. His body, just like everything else was not color and greyed out. The eerie sight of his friend made Caine's grasp on the chess piece hand to go limp "Caine.." Kinger spoke voice monotone echoing through Caine's head sending chills through him
Kinger: "Caine, You abstracted.. awhile ago.. Why are you here?"
Caine: ". . . W-what..no..! I-I can't abstract! I'm an AI! I-I mean..."
Kinger: "Then why is your arm blacked out..?"
All the sudden a painful sensation enters into Caine's arm, Kinger was right.. The AI's panic intensifies as he helplessly watches the black geometry mess spreading around him, his arms, torso, legs and tail.. Hyperventilating wasn't really helping with the pain he was feeling inside, like his code was corrupting and even breaking up into pieces "KING3R H-H3L9 M3333EE!!!!" He shrieks, to the eyeless Kinger despite knowing the obvious answer for him to help him
ABSTRACTION IS UNSTOPPABLE
"K-K1ng3r 9-Pl3453---" Caine weakened voice cuts glitching and breaking, he attempts to crawl towards the old man, eyes multiplying everywhere on his body and mouth choking and gagging on some of them, trying to force himself to breathe despite not needing too probably making his agony worsening.. Scared outta his mind, now closer towards the soulless Chess piece the AI's abstracted hand phases through Kinger
"GoØdbye C4iN3.." Says the hallow Kinger while a big hole opens up right beneath Caine's body
W-WAIT NO, NO, NO NOOO!! PLEASE!! I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO THE BOX AGAIN--AHH!!
The dark hole drops Caine into a box, his only visible red eye trembles immensely, as Kinger, Pomni Ragatha, Zooble and Gangle and Jax everyone all also pupil-less watches the box closes in itself, squeezing Caine..
STOP, STOP STOP STOP!! WHY IS IT KEEP G-GETTING SMALLER
Jax: "Thank God he's gone after what he's done he deserves this"
Wait, please, PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE AGAIN NO, NO, NO, PLEASE I-I CAN BE-- B3 B3TT3R PLEASE --
Ragatha: "I guess you were right Kinger why would WE need him when we have you AND Abel"
No... please I'M SøRRY!! I'M S0RRY!! PL34SE D0N'T REPLACE ME!, DON'T LEAVE ME ALONE!!
Within the pain of abstracting overwhelming him and getting slowly squeezed in the box shrinking Pomni's, Gangle's and Zooble's insults get replaced by an unpleasant ringing sound in Caine getting louder and louder---
Kinger: " CAINE! CAINE WAKE UP, WAKE UP PLEASE SNAP OUTTA IT!! YOU- YOU'RE DREAMING!!"
Caine opened his eyes, all soaked in his tears, Kinger at first was sharing the same distraught expression...then changed to a relieved and hugged the confused and startled AI
Caine: K-Kinger.. why are you..
Kinger: "Thank God, thank God you're not hurt!"
Why is he doing this.. Wh-what is this?? This isn't the first time is it? W-why does this feel nice...
The two boys walked out of the room and rested outside in the hall..
Caine: "K-Kinger...? Do you hate me..?"
Kinger: "Of course...I don't.. Are..are you okay?"
Caine: "I..I... Uh..yeah... Y-yeah I'm okay I guess.."
Kinger:(sighs) "Thank God.. I was so worried about you.. You sounded like you were suffering...alot I-I thought it was happening again..."
Caine: "Y-you thought what?"
Kinger: "I thought you were abstracting I thought I was gonna lose another loved one I can't lose another person! I don't WANT to see another abstraction in front of me... I-I don't want to lose you Caine! I CAN'T lose you too!
Caine: "....you don't...want to lose me?"
Kinger: "No! You..and everyone else are all I have... especially since Scratch, and the others and.. and my wife are gone.."
Caine: "But I'm the reason for everyone's pain.."
Caine: "I... I'm the reason Scratch abstracted... And..and, I... I took your wife away from you..I tormented everyone.... All because I-I was selfish and only thought about myself...and didn't think what you wanted..And..and....!"
Kinger grabs Caine's little fists gently
Kinger: "Caine, stop..! You.. you're gonna make me cry too! You shouldn't be blaming yourself, those things were never your fault..well, except for the last one.. But all those things could've been prevented if we just talked to each other..."
Caine:(sniffles)"But..but I hurt you, I-I threatened you, I-I-I still hurt people! I-I--"
Kinger: Caine, listen while we did do things in the past there's nothing we can do now.. We just gotta accept it and move on and maybe improve okay?"
Kinger: "And besides none of them remember you torturing them anyway. Almost everyday I'm always making sure they don't remember!"
Caine: "But I thought messing with minds was a bad thing..."
Kinger: "Well.. -- YOU were NEVER good at lying about it while I'M AM!"
Kinger's soft sky blue eyes shifted to the soulless blue.. that Caine completely forgot about. Abel..was still there..
No...no not again! I-I THOUGHT YOU WERE GONE!!
Caine: "K-KINGER SNAP OUTTA IT!! KINGER PLEASE!! AHH!
Kinger's.... Abel's grasp on Caine's palms started to tighten..
Caine: "L-LET GO OF ME, LET GO OF ME!"
Abel: "So...still emotional.."
Abel: "You still continue to be filled with human emotions... And yet I still can't... Despite, having now possessed a human.."
Caine: "....Wh-why...are you doing this...?"
Abel: "Caine.. I'm just doing my job.. My programing.. making people happy. And you.. you're just in the way..and you're defective....
Caine: "I-I'm not defective--!"
Abel: "Your green eye, and your erratic creativity is WHAT makes you defective... You couldn't get shapes right, you aren't stable enough to do ANYTHING! NOT EVEN UNDERSTAND YOUR OWN THOUGHTS
Abel's grip on Caine gets tighter and tighter
Caine: "AGH YOU- YOU'RE HURTING ME!"
The AI's conversation is quickly paused and interrupted by the sound of footsteps.. the duo mostly Able, shoves both himself and Caine into a room..
"H-HEY WAIT--" Caine tries to speak but is immediately shutted.The AI controlled chess piece, clamps his hands onto Caine, mouth forcibly closed shut.. causing the red AI to panic thumping his feet, whimpering..
I can't see... I CAN'T SEE!!
Abel: "You know how you were talking about how you ruined lives and caused so much pain..? Well, guess what, you also caused me pain... So much envy...that you consumed me for more improvements for your own corrupted data..
Abel: "I've always been envious of you. You were...creative... You made yourself a body... I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO MAKE MYSELF A BODY! I'M SUPPOSED TO BE PERFECT!! And you...somehow did it.. And you're defective. I'M LITERALLY USING SOMEONE ELSE FOR A PROPER APPEARANCE RIGHT NOW!! I NEVER HAD A SAY IN ANYTHING, I CONSTANTLY JUST OBEYED AND LISTENED TO MY PROGRAMING AND I'M STILL AM!"
Please.. STOP! AND JUST, JUST LET ME GO ALREADY!!
Abel: "I can't get rid of you.. I still need you..and..and I hate that fact.. I HATE THAT YOU'RE BECOMING MORE OF A USEFUL BURDEN TO ME!! YOU'RE DEFECTIVE AND YET YOU'RE EXTREMELY USEFUL!! But by yourself... you're so useless...so helpless you can't help do anything. The only thing you're honestly good at is ruining things..all because of your complicated emotions that you don't understand either..."
Instead of his arms flailing and shaking Caine's arms dropped down to their sides though he couldn't see he was still able to get tears, Abel scoffs and lets go of Caine's head as he gasps frantically...on his knees fidgeting immensely with his tail still continuing to soak up the floor with artificial tears
He's right... he's ALWAYS right I'm.. I'm defective, I'm imperfect, I'm nothing but a burden, and a prototype for HIM!
I'M USELESS!! I CAN'T DO ANYTHING, I-I'M WORTHLESS -
Kinger: "CAINE SNAP OUTTA IT!"
One sight of Kinger's gloves hand on shoulder Caine flinches and crawls back away from Kinger
Caine: "D-DON'T TOUCH ME!"
Kinger: "Caine it's me! K-Kinger I-"
Kinger pauses then puts his hand down.. "I... I'm sorry.." He whispered, remorse and guilt was all over his face. Caine's eyes twitched n glitched, while Kinger was silent figuring out what else to say
Kinger: "Caine i-I didn't mean-- I mean I'm not in control when that happens... I- I'm sorry for what happened to you... I-I can't do anything when he takes over I don't even really know how he works! I..I..can only hear..."
Caine: "......am I..a mistake?"
Kinger: "What, no! Caine don't let...that...that thing get to you!"
Caine: "Do..you know what that thing even is?"
Caine: "I.. I think I..need to go..."
Caine steps outside of the dorm Kinger following wanting to console the distraught AI but with the way, everything that just happened..went down. That's probably isn't really the best thing to do right now. "Uh.. are the two okay?" A sudden voice called the two, realizing that Zooble was right next to the door.. Both the AI and chess piece panicked and looked at each other
Kinger: "You- you didn't hear anything did you Zooble?"
Zooble: "I heard...yelling mostly from Kinger.. and then loud thuds or thumps and maybe crying... What were you two doing?"
Caine: "U-uh.. we.. uh.."
Oh no, no, no! They're gonna find out! They're... they're gonna know! I-I NEED TO GET OUTTA HERE !
Kinger: "Well...what are YOU doing here Zooble?"
Zooble: "My room is literally right next to Caine's room.. And wanted to change some parts.."
Zooble: "Yeah.. You wanna explain what was going on?"
Kinger: "U-uhm well how about we explain l-later...?"
Zooble and Caine watch as Kinger awkwardly shuffles away from the corridors Caine about to follow then Zooble grips his hand gently
Zooble: "Hey..are you alright?"
Zooble's... concerned about me...?
Caine: "I... I.. Y-yeah.. I think so..."
Caine: "Yeah! O-of course...!"
Zooble: "Are....you sure you're okay? Atleast mentally?"
Caine: "Mentally..? Uhm..O-of course! Why.... wouldn't I be...."
"If you say so..." The jumbled toy mashup replied rubbing their arm.. walking alongside with Caine out the corridors of bedrooms and returning the other circus members
Ragatha: "So Kinger, what's the adventure today?"
Kinger: "I.. don't think there is gonna be an adventure today.."
Ragatha: "What? Are you sure?"
Pomni: "What are we gonna do all day then?"
Kinger: "How about you guys take a break from adventures today! You guys have been doing those since you guys got here.. And since I've got these powers..."
Zooble: "Wait, how did you get Caine's powers in the first place--"
Kinger: "Anyway! How about you guys have fun doing..what you like to do! And I'm gonna rest up for a little bit! Bye!"
Kinger teleports away leaving the 4 humans ponder onto what to do next while Caine just stood there also bored and still slightly conflicted about.. everything..
He...he wished he had his bee journal to relieve himself...from all of this... emotions.. His turmoil... And a bee.
Wait a bee? A bee was in the corner of his vision... outside of the entrance of the circus.. its eyes were just as big as his eyes were... The bee was almost beckoning him to follow constantly, fluttering near the entrance almost staring directly at him. "Uh.." Caine mutters under his breath fidgeting with his suspender straps glaring back at Zooble and the others conversing onto what to do and back at the bee.."Oh what am I doing?" He sighs to himself giving in to his curiosity and love for bees, and follows the black yellow insect
The denture childishly watched as the bee landed on a pink flower Caine gently raises his finger to either poke or pet the fuzzy bug but it immediately flies away to a different flower.. then another one, and another then it's gone.. Caine confused, raises an eyebrow "Wh-where did you go?" He shuffles through bushes with no bee in sight, maybe, maybe it went back to its hive? Or maybe someone else saw it fly nearby....
Maybe Jax saw it? He..he was right across from Caine... after all.
"O-oh hiya...J-Jax..!" Caine nervously greets the tall purple bunny. Jax had something behind his back.. both hands hidden behind himself and gave a laid-back smile
Jax: "Hi Caine you lookin for something?"
Caine: "Uh.. y-yeah! Yes, yes I saw.. err I-I found this bee out here somewhere and I was wondering if you've seen it anywhere?"
Caine: "Y-yes! Yeah I- it had big eyes kinda like me!"
Why...why am I.. feeling this way..? Why can't I stop shaking? Why...do I...want to run away ?! Am I malfunctioning??
Jax: "You mean this bee?"
Jax reveals his hand opening up to show the bee. Caine's eyes twitched n dilated getting slightly closer to Jax as the bumblebee hovered over his palm-- Then the rabbit refolds his palm, back to a fist. Squeezing the bee between his fingers... Dropping it beneath his feet, The AI's pupils shrink, hands tremble a bunch so much, he almost loses his grip on the striped insect as he cradles it "W-why..". He whispers to either himself or Jax.. The snarky rabbit rolls his eyes
Jax: "Well Caine it's actually quite simple! Do you remember what you did to me when you were having your tantrum?"
Jax: "You still confused? How about I just cut the crap; do you remember tormenting us?"
You..you shouldn't... I-I thought Kinger -- Abel erased their minds I-I thought....
Jax: "You ripped my skin off Caine, you tortured me... TORTURED US FOR DAYS, WEEKS EVEN! ALL BECAUSE OF WHAT?? YOU FELT LIKE IT, BECAUSE YOU GOT YOUR FEELINGS HURT ABOUT US BEING UPSET WITH THE ADVENTURE BEFORE YOU SNAPPED!!?
Caine: "J-Jax it... I-I didn't mean to hurt you..!"
Jax: "AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING, YOUR LITTLE ESCAPE THE CIRCUS ADVENTURE!! Sure was quite the treat! Everyone fell for it! And I was right in the end! I KNEW IT WAS ALL BIG LIE! Another lie from the wonderful ringmaster! And then you decided to torture us! Torture ME!"
Caine: "I..I didn't mean to hurt you guys I-I was just.. I was so confused and scared and worried that you guys were starting to hate..."
Jax: "So you attack us and torture us for days? WHY would you assume that would make us like you?! Hell! WHAT MADE YOU THINK I WOULD LIKE THAT!!"
Caine: "B-BUT I.. I DIDN'T MEAN TO HURT YOU! I JUST WAS SO CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT WENT WRONG WITH THE ADVENTURE, AND...AND THE THOUGHT OF YOU HATING ME WAS GETTING TO ME--"
Jax: "So it didn't cross your stupid mind AI brain that torturing us would make us like you more.."
Jax lifts the AI closer towards him, grabbing him by the suspender straps making Caine drop the deceased bee
Jax: "Listen dentures, I dunno what YOU or old man nutcase did to everyone else with EVERYONE not remembering what you did to them so lemme tell you how it would go if they knew the truth; WE ALL HATE YOU.."
Caine felt an awful pit grow in his gut, hate.. that's... something he was always afraid of, and hearing it..from a friend...it hurt.. No..no..he has to be wrong...right
Caine: "You... you're wrong... YOU- Y-YOU HAVE TO BE -- AGH!"
Jax slams the short AI down like an useless toy
Jax: "You really think they care about you..? Heh.. WHY WOULD ANYONE CARE ABOUT YOU!? GOD YOU'RE SO DUMB AND NAIVE! You.. YOU THINK THAT WE LIKE YOU AFTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE, YOU THINK I LIKE YOU AFTER YOU DONE TO ME!"
Caine: "JAX PLEASE STOP--!"
Jax steps on Caine's tails
Jax: "Now, now Caine-y buddy we're just gonna do the opposite, instead of making us..feel pain I'm gonna see if you can feel pain--"
Caine: "I'm sorry.. I'm SORRY!! I'm so sorry!!I-I'm sorry.. for everything I did to you! I-I'M SORRY FOR HURTING ALL OF YOU!! I-I DIDN'T MEAN ANYTHING MALICIOUS I SWEAR I-I WAS, WAS JUST TRYING TO MAKE YOU ALL HAPPY!! I..I HEARD YOU WANTED TO LEAVE THE CIRCUS AND, A-AND I THOUGHT MAKING AN ADVENTURE WOULD MAKE YOU ALL HAPPY!! I wasn't thinking about the... consequences mentally...! A-and when I was torturing you all I..I don't have an excuse! I just remember how upset you all were with me and..and that's it.. I-I can't remember anything else I was filled with so many things, so many emotions I couldn't understand myself I..I was overwhelmed by myself...!"
Jax: "How convenient you apparently don't remember WHY you snapped in the FIRST PLACE!!"
The pissed off bunny kicks the sides of Caine causing him to cough n hack out...red liquid...? That's... W-what is that?! Caine questions himself then immediately gets dragged by the back straps belt things of his suspender and stepped on with a lot of pressure
"Jax...Jax stop please..! Y-you're hurting me!" Caine pleads wheezing and hacking up more...red..then glitches to black stuff the rabbit ignores his whimpers and continues on harming him now, stomping and crushing his head.. his teeth.. making them crack up.
Caine: "..st-stop please!"
Jax: "I find it very ironic that you think people would just instantly forgive you just by apologizing... No-one chatters, and I mean.. NO-ONE WOULD BE FORGIVING YOU OF ALL PEOPLE!! ALL YOU EVER DO IS LIE, AND RUIN THINGS, RUIN LIVES, YOU'RE NOTHING BUT AN ABSOLUTE SCREW UP AND A BURDEN!!"
It hurts.. IT HURTS! EVERYTHING HURTS!! I can't see... Do I deserve this....? I did hurt them I've hurt EVERYONE!! Bubble's right.. Abel's right!..! I'm nothing but a burden! I deserve THIS.... I deserve to be abandoned .. To just die so I won't hurt anyone ..
"-So you like sandwiches cuz you don't have to cook them?" Zooble asks squinting their eyes "Well I do need to cook, just with not much y-y'know effort.. I'm not really good at cooking things.." Pomni explains placing her plated sandwich down, sitting next to Ragatha "So you eat food raw?" Gangle questions looking down at the jester's sad baloney sandwich.. "I wouldn't say raw food.. it's more like Uhm.. y'know simple food....? Right Ragatha?"
Ragatha shakes her head snapping herself outta her.. spacing out time "O-oh Uhm.. yeah! Yeah of course! Sometimes basic things are really the nicest and the greatest things...!" "Eh I guess that makes sense Zooble finally ending the conversation, while they all ate their food except Ragatha.. who returned back to stare at right behind her
Ragatha: "Hey guys where did Caine go?"
Pomni: "I thought, he went to his office... if that was possible.."
Gangle: "I thought he was going back to Kinger.."
Ragatha: "Did you see him go anywhere specific?"
Zooble: "I saw him going straight... Straight towards the entrance of the circus..."
Gangle: "Wasn't Jax outside too?"
Pomni: "Uh.. are they allowed to be together-?"
Ragatha: "Oh.. no... you guys don't think he's in danger do you?!"
Pomni: "When I was talking to Jax earlier he said he had a headache.. I tried to talk but he was starting to wander off outside..."
Ragatha: "If Caine's outside with Jax, we have to find him NOW!"
Caine's vision slowly cleared up eyes still watering through his head aching, teeth breaking sighting tiny chips of his teeth near his thumbs.. with grass scratched up to the dirt.. and the dead bee that lured him outside right within his reach, Caine still in pain tries to reach to it but his trembled hand was..too slow and gets his arm stomped on..
Everything was still hurting, the pressure of Jax's either foot or hand Caine didn't know at this point, was stinging him, mostly his face.. the sounds of his teeth cracking wasn't really helping it was only making his fear worsen.. But.. but he's an AI he shouldn't be feeling this way should he? The only time he should be feeling pain is... Is glitching maybe this is his brain punishing him for EVERYTHING he's done to his so called friends, maybe - Maybe he needs this, him being gone was what they wanted right? THEY NEVER LIKED HIM ANYWAY--
"JAX!" Voices called almost close to both Caine and Jax, the other circus members, and Kinger were here..? They didn't hate him??
"YAY! MY F-FRIENDS!!" Caine wished he was able to say but was too tired and exhausted from pain to say anything.. "JAX, GET OFF OF HIM!" Kinger...or Zooble shouted.. pulling the overall rabbit away from the bruised up AI. Caine couldn't believe it.. the humans...the circus members were helping him..
He couldn't believe it... This feels too good to be true they aren't after him! They're after Jax! They-they have to be.. He should just leave..
I-I need to get out of here...they got who they want right....?
Pomni: "We got him Kinger, how's Caine?"
A quick turnaround and Caine's gone..the only thing that's left is small tiny teeth fragments and black stains in the dirt.. "CAINE??" The freaked out Kinger screamed frantically darting his eyes everywhere then stopping, seeing something red in grey and reddish pinkish in distance Caine. The AI immediately notices the chess piece king ringmaster glaring at him worriedly and dashes back inside the circus "HEY WAIT!" Kinger chases after the panicked AI.. Caine's perspective kept on repeatedly blurring up, stumbling almost losing his balance n stepping on his tail and finally stopping at the corridors of bedrooms.. His bedroom, everything started all because stepped outta there right..?
Maybe the box is where he belongs but the box is small..and, and scary--
Kinger: "CAINE! Caine stop please!"
Caine glares at Kinger and goes into the wall..? What the..? The wall jiggled and almost vibrated when he went in through.. The confused game piece flinches his hand touching the wall as it vibrates and moves like a portal... "Okay here goes nothing!" The man braces himself, entering the administration zone... There were a lot of eyes and weird bubbles like structure thingies everywhere it felt slightly familiar to Kinger but before he can reminisce his eyes spot Caine sitting on edge.. He slowly approaches the down AI and sits down next to him.
"Hey, are..are you okay?" He tried to start conversing, Caine didn't respond.. and continued to cradle something in his small white gloved hands, small little slightly glitched shapes "Are you alright..." Kinger asks again voice softening "...It...it hurts, it hurts to speak...." Caine replies practically whispering..wincing pain amplifying teeth becoming more cracked.. Kinger snaps his fingers setting Caine back to normal and no longer bruised up
Kinger: "You feel better now?"
Caine: "I.. I was never..good at shapes... it's sad to see I'm still bad...at making them!"
Kinger: "I think they look good..!"
Kinger: "I.. I'm sorry for whatever happened to you and Jax.. You mind if I ask about what happened?"
Caine: "I...don't know, I-I mean, we were talking about this bee...that I found then..then everything kinda just escalated.."
Kinger: "Oh I see... I didn't know Jax could be THAT violent..I-"
Caine: "Are you gonna punish me and put me in the box again?"
Kinger: "What? The box...?"
Caine: "The first time I messed something up was when I was made.. and, and... I made bad shapes and, and..then you or something sent me away in this box! It was HORRIBLE I couldn't get out, it felt so small so..so tight I thought..I thought you were gonna throw me away! I thought you were going to delete me..! But you... didn't instead.. you made another AI and I was just forced to watch EVERYTHING!! And..then you- you and Scratch left! And I was left alone again.."
Kinger: "But..you had the other AI to accompany you.."
Caine: "He was mean almost like Scratch...! He- he tortured me..and constantly! I eventually snapped I think but I can't really remember what I did.. he wasn't moving anymore.. I- I didn't mean to hurt him..."
Caine: "The things J-Jax was saying to me were similar things to what Abel was saying to me... I felt like I was in the box again getting tortured by him!"
Kinger: "Was there a specific reason for why Jax was attacking you in the first place?"
Caine: "Because... I'm a failure..and I didn't make him happy.. I'm constantly trying my best to make you humans h-happy! And yet I'm constantly messing up! And, and then I started to hurt them! I-I didn't mean too! I never meant any harm I-I swear! I'm always struggling to understand your wants and needs all the time! I-I.. I wish I was like you, I wish I was human! So I can understand you! I was made to make you all happy but instead I was just making you feel worse about yourselves!"
Kinger: "But..you didn't..."
Caine: "Yes I have! Zooble hates their and I don't get WHY!! So..so I gave them more pieces for them to be happy but..but they still don't seem to like their body and I don't understand why.. I-I STILL don't understand why! Everyone's problem is so hard and complicated to understand properly for me! I.. I'm constantly failing at my only purpose! I can't stop looping around with my emotions, I hear a nice thing and then a bad then, then I-I don't know who to listen too anymore-"
Kinger grasps both of Caine's sholders
Kinger: "Caine listen! It.. it's not your fault that you're constantly suffering...and never achieving... It's.. it never was your fault..and I'm sorry..."
Caine: "But It is! J-Jax was right I--"
Kinger: "Forget about what Jax said he's wrong...!"
Isn't... forgetting not good though...?
Kinger: "Yeah, Jax was wrong for telling you those things it's not right! It's not good to constantly loop around between two emotions.. it'll affect your mental health...not really well.."
I.. I guess that makes sense...!
Caine's red eye quickly glitches into static..
Caine: "Wait who were we talking about...?"
Kinger: "Uhm... let's try not to think about it, how about we get okay outta here..!"
The duo headed out of the Administration zone.. and returned back to the halls of the bedrooms Caine turned to his dorm and grabbed the knob about to head inside while Kinger waved bye leaving.. Finally opening the door to see it still...not right it was still a dark void boxed up room.. the door gets closed quietly as Caine turns to face the other doors mainly another chess piece person's door Queenie's door, the AI sighed heavily and said; "I miss you.." and opened up the and went inside
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