A Betaful Disaster

He stood there, the young boy in the aviators, watching a beta. That's what he always did. Stood, watched them progress, watched them live. Watched them die. After a time, he would go back to his own work, in his own timeline. He progressed further and further each day, until it happened. The day the boy in the shades had to make a decision.

Egderp had listened to that evil troll. She had told him he could skip all the gates and go straight to his denizen. But it had killed him. Egderp, John, his best friend, was dead. The knight of time could do something about it though. He knew what he had to do, to preserve humanity and save his friends life. He knew it was the right thing to do, it was what he had to do. But why, why did it hurt so much? Why did doing the right thing, the one that could save everyone, feel so wrong? Maybe, it felt wrong because Dave felt he wasn't a beta, wasn't just a time loop mishap doomed to die. Maybe because he had something to live for.

It was Jade, the beautiful, adorkable girl with the oversized glasses, the one that used to farm pumpkins, among other things, and played the bass like a boss. Dave, the cool kid, the ironic one, had fallen in love with her. Jade, the one out of his league, the one who was so sweet, so kind, and so tough. And he knew that in this timeline, when he was alpha, he knew she would eventually love him back. He had seen her kiss him, seen her crying over his dead body. She had brought him back. She had been the one to save him, the one to see through his irony, his façade of cool kid apathy. The first one to see the real Dave for what he was, and the first one to love him.

So Dave, the cool kid, the untouchable, chose the one thing he could do that would still allow him to see her. He chose to become a sprite. And he saved his best friend. He saved Jade and Rose. He had even saved himself, by becoming Davesprite, the ironic, feathery asshole. He would be the one to protect alpha Dave while he slept, be the one to stay by his side against evil for the remainder of the game. He would be the one to stand by Jadesprite, the one to say goodbye as she disappeared, when alpha Jade became Dog Tier. But before he left, he sent one last message, one last goodbye to the girl he loved.

turntechGodhead began pestering gardenGnostic at 1:53

TG: I love you