Jake English and Aranea Serket floated together in paradox space, their task complete, they had healed and changed to Alpha Timeline, healing it of Lord English's devastation.
"We did it Jake, Lord English has 8een erased from all paradox space!" Aranea told him with glee as she pulled down the hood of her God Tier outfit.
"You...i...*what*" He stares at her in horror. "Youre joking right? HAH Aranea dear time has *definetly* rusted your funnybone that was terrible!"
"I wasn't joking Jake, what did you think I meant 8y 'change the timeline for the 8etter'? Lord English was our 8iggest pro8lem and we solved it!" Aranea told him, she was baffled by the fact that he was upset or even confused by the results of their effort.
"I-i thought you meant defeating him or depowering him or SOMETHING!" Jake's head was reeling. "Wha-..Why didnt you *tell* me any of this do you have any clue what ive DONE?"
"You've contri8uted to many many universes united in harmony and peace! You've undone all the pain and sorrow English caused, why is that a 8ad thing Jake?" Aranea clearly wasn't getting it, she had no idea why Jake was acting like this.
"No! No no you dont understand at all..the cherubs! They were in there and youve killed them. *IVE* killed them.." His face twists up in sorrow. "Oh..oh gosh.. I know you havent done this on purpose..but aranea...this is so terrible.." His voice cracks on the last part and he covers his face to hide the tears.
"Jake, think a8out it, many people died 8ecause of him! Those deaths never happened now, and *we* were the ones to make it this way, we were useful even though everyone dou8ted us, and now we can take it upon ourselves to oversee all of eternity and keep everyone safe!" Aranea explained, describing what to her seemed like the ideal end to the long hard journey through subrb.
"Are you daft?!" He turns back up to glare at her. "You made me KILL TWO OF MY GOOD FRIENDS. You- you tricked me!" He backs up a step, hurt in his eyes.
"They're not really dead Jake, they just don't exist, as of right now they've never existed, and even if they had only a few would remem8er or grieve for them. The important thing is now everyone is safe from the imminent threat! 8esides, how could you even consider the young Lord of Time a friend, didn't you know he'd end up trying to kill everyone and everything?" Aranea tried to reason.
"Its...not that simple. And why on EARTH did you not tell me what you were actually doing? Didnt you think it was important to fill me in before you made me wipe someone off the face of reality?"
"I assumed you wanted to save everyone from Lord English too, and this is certainly the most logical way of doing it" Aranea stated.
"Yes..but..i shouldnt have done this..." He looks lost. "...I need to leave."
"Leave? Leave to where? And why?" Aranea asked, perplexed as to how or why Jake was acting like this.
"I killed them. Me." His voice sounds hollow. "Im...sorry. I dont know where but im...going. Goodbye." He turns, stiffly walking away from her, his shoulders shaking.
Aranea doesn't try to stop him, she simply tries and fails to understand how on earth he could care that the Lord of Time was dead.