I do not own DDLC...obviously

Broken world

Chapter 1: Old world, New problems

"Oh come on!" I exclaim leaning back into my gaming chair, groaning and reaching for bottled water. Tiredness clear in my eyes I look over to the small black alarm clock, I scoots my chair closer ,turning on so I can see the time. "This was suppose to be soooo quick, its almost Four, why isnt thing o o ...uhh over !"

I turn back to my PC and galactic background of the game I'm playing, I logged on shortly after showering (around Nine o'clock), aiming to quickly clear up the small war between my own empire 'The Eternal Throne of Greater Albion' and the far weaker Xenophobes of the 'United Clans of Berea'. Things had gone well for about half an hour until a I had a war dec by another, unfortunately Fallen, empire .

From there things had snowballed, half the galaxy had gone to war with each other, several of my puppets had been capitulated and what few had allies had been on the southern side of the galaxy had been overrun by the 'Great Kahn' beyond that the fact that the beginning events for the end game crisis had already begun to trigger was really edging at my remaining enjoyment.

I took a swig of water, briefly wishing instead for cider though such a though was quickly dismissed after a few seconds of play the robotic female voice of the Soldier reported that "Skywatch is tracking a new enemy fleet" shortly followed by "Fleet action under way" and then then finally "Fleet lost with all hands".

I sighed once again "Just wonderful, 23K down the drain." I leaned forward, "Ya know what, screw this."

I brought up the in game menu, not even bothering to save before exiting to desktop, expecting to see the black and white games menu of steam. I was briefly surprised be greeted by the ever friendly intro screen of Doki Doki.

I chuckled lightly remembering why I had even opened it in the first place. I'd been considering a second run for awhile now though I'd been putting it off, fact of the matter was that I'd enjoyed the game more as a concept than a game, like everyone else I had been intrigued by the horror parts though ultimately I was disappointed about its lack of commentary on what dating someone with serious mental health issues would actually be like, having had them myself, though either way i wouldn't exactly call it bad or too enjoyable.

Doubting the game would change much even if i choose a different route though was the main reason, after all for everything to work in the first place Sayori would still be taken by her depression, Yuri would still commit suicide in front of the main character, Natsuki would still be deleted by Monika, though I admittedly never followed her route so maybe she died another way, and Monika would still trap you in the Infinite Classroom and act sentient until you 'delete' her file, or you know move her to your desktop to see if the game notices, and remark about how she 'Always finds a way back to you' as if it isn't a preprogramed response.

Still it could be fun seeing if there are any other choices to be made. I smiled softly as I shut down my computer, "Maybe next time my darlings."

I left the blue of the updating ,a rather large one at brief glance ,windows screen, turning off the monitor and letting the computer turn itself off once it had finished, and crawled under the thin heart covered quilt I'd stolen from the living room over a year ago for when it wasn't cold enough for my normal blanket, and snuggled in for the short night it would be.

Strangely, yet rather normal for someone as forgetful and tired as I, I had forgotten to remove the wireless, silver and blue, headset I usually wore. I barely noticed the soft melody of 'Your Reality', seemingly playing as sleep took me.

I continued to hear it as I began to dream. Dreams for me had, well ,never really been too pleasant, very rarely was I actually in control but rather in my dreams I was more like a voice in my own head as someone else did the driving and decision making.

So you can imagine my shock when i found myself at the forefront. Shortly followed by my disappointment as I realised that the only forefront was that of a mid-view text box highlighted in green and yellow neon text.

The title at the top of the box was, for lack of a better work ,broken. Actually, now that i think about it there is a better word, glitched, heavily glitched. The title itself read as follows; The 01001101 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011 01100001 01010011 01100001 01111001 01101111 01110010 01101001 in waiting: The heart of 01000010 01100101 01101110 01101010 01100001 01101101 01101001 0110111000100000 010011000010000001010011 SynMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm!.

If anyone whats to try and translate that, good luck and you have too much time on your hands.

The text box bellow was very similar and i couldn't help but feel a rush of excitement as I read on one the rarest events in Paradox's Stellaris even if an error-ed one. Almost all references to 'The worm' where either blank or replaced with the word 'They'.

At the bottom was a skewed version of the in-game choice. Usually you would have to decide between two options;

YES. Whatever it requires, we consent.

Or

NO. We have brought it here to learn, and if need be, defeat it.

The first time i went for yes and seemed to awake a time travel space worm god from another dimension, not my best idea but it was my most successful run.

This time, as much as the rest of it was, this choice was also glitched. Only a single choice was presented and i didn't even have time to choose it before it was forcefully chosen for me.

YES, YES, YES. OF COURSE I CONSENT. WHATEVER SHE REQUIRES.

"New world awaits love"

I gasped as i awoke, my head throbbing from some headache that nightmare must had give me. I took slow breaths as I let myself calm down. Once I was I did what I usually would and tired to go back to sleep, I reach forward for my little quilt only to find it missing, i groaned at the blanket i found instead, kicking it to the floor as i felt around for my quilt.

I used my left arm to drag myself closer to the side of the bed that should meet the floor, dropping it over to search for the quilt, my head still buried in pillows. As i felt along the wooden floor i found...i found...wooden floor ...I don't have a wooden floor.

I sat up in my bed, ignoring the dizziness as a result of the speed, "What the hell !"

I looked around the room i was in, a wall to my right was correct but my bed, the bed Id fallen asleep in faced south NOT WEST. My room MY ROOM was suppose to be the size of a small office not much bigger than a hotel room and even then just barely, this room was at least twice that size, maybe even a little more, wait ...I know this room, this was my room back when I still lived in my home town, back when I was still in high school, this was my room five years ago!

I sighed relief as i lay back again thinking, least that meant this was my room even if some sort of freak time travel crap seemed to be going on. 'Well it was the worm in waiting, Oh shut up'.

I looked over to my bedside table, my phone sat there, my only one year old phone, on my old bedside and in my ...reality i guess, long time broken. I tentatively reached forward, if i had my current phone that means its at least last year right ?. I turn it on and look at the date:

March the Tenth, Twenty Fourteen

'I'm sixteen'. I'm sixteen again! Didn't they make a movie about that? Never mind. I chuckle to myself, well even if I am Sixteen that still mean things have gone wrong, we moved in with my stepdad when I was sixteen, in Aberdeen. I frowned, I hope being back in Lossie didn't mean him and my Mum never got married, regardless of my feeling towards him, which are positive, I knew he had helped my Mum in a lot of ways she needed plus there was my youngest brother to think about.

I sat up once again and swung my legs over the bed pleasantly surprised when I looked down, 'hey I'm thin again! Suck it science!' I giggles as a softly climbed out of bed, look at again at my phone, this time the time itself.

Monday, 5:17AM

'Well I'm plenty rested', I though as I place my phone in my pyjamas pocket 'ehhhh Pyjamas! Haven't wore a proper set in years! Man I've missed them!'. I look around my room with a smile, whilst a lot of furniture comes from my old room a lot of the new stuff i bought came from my own current room.

On the walls sat the two poster I bought at this point, one was a the propaganda poster from the Doctor Who episode 'Victory of the Dalek's' was pinned in the dead space between my bedside table and chest of drawers, the other was a little more generic but cool all the same a detailed crescent moon sat in the certain surrounded by star constellations of various ships from all over Sci-fi.

Above my bed, length ways and far large than its equivalents flew the flag of Star Treks 'United Federation of Planets', blue and white in all its glory, and above my headboard stood a Code Geass propaganda poster I was very proud to own.

Facing away from, but about a meter and a half in front of the door stood a piece that was all new and was glad that came with me, my Top notch PC and its desk, i grin as i saw that all my little Star Trek Ship models came with it, both large and small.

I look back to my bed, yep my stepdad is probably still around, he had hand made me a new bed after we found the old one had begun to break. Still this i was glad for at least some ground in this world, whatever it may be. I looked back to my phone and hummed to myself as i unlocked it once again looking though my contacts to see if there where anymore context clue as to what was going. I clutch my head again, my headache persisting as a scroll down.

Mum - Check

Adam - Check

Aunty Bev - Check

Chris - Check

Keiran - Good to know, also Check

Jimmy - same as above

Sayori - ...What. The. Fu-ach

I clutch my head and drop my phone as my brain feels like its been flooded with pain, I fall on my bed, biting a pillow so i don't accidentally scream and wake someone up, illogical thought I know but I do appear to be in so kinda alt-timeline or Reality.

Memories flood my head, to fast to process but Sayori appears to be the main focus, despite the pain i cant help but smile, if these memories where true, or st least true to this world it mean, its means, amongst the tears of sadness came one of joy 'I wasn't alone', That was my last thought as i passed out.

Once again my dreams differed from usual, though this time it made sense, instead of dreams I spent the next few hour watch memories. The first began back in Primary school, I was nine years old, a year after we'd moved up to Scotland, and during what i referred to these days as the beginning of my depression.

I was in Primary sixth year or P6 as everyone called it. It was lunch time but unlike most who pottered about with their friends enjoying their youth, I was hiding under a bench. At that age, at that time that had become a regular thing for me, if I hid Id be left alone, those who bully all happy in there secluded little areas where they couldn't see me.

Sometime someone would come over and kick me for the hell of it, other the teachers would come over and demand I 'get out from under there', but never the less hiding there had become a place of sanctuary and a regular part of my lunch time special.

I presume you can tell where I'm going with this. A little Japanese girl, a transfer student who arrive the year before like i had, though in a different class. She had hair of a very soft coral pink and rather shinning blues. She sat at the table. This being my much younger self scurried as far as i could to the corner furthest away, hugging my legs to my chest. The action seemed to result in the girls foot being tapped a little roughly, she let out a sound of surprised as she looked under the table.

Noticing this I tried to make myself smaller, "I-im sor-sorry ! I wont say-y any-thi-ing, please do-nt hurt me!" I dried my eyes trying to make sure she wouldn't have tears to make fun of but a look of fear still clear.

Her head stayed down as she watch me intently, a cute look across her face, "H-hey, Im not going to hurt you." She spoke softly, "are you hiding from meanies and bullies?"

Instead of replying I hid my face in my knees, "Please go away."

She frowns," but if i go away you'll keep hiding and being sad and if you keep being sad, " she paused and though for a moment,"then you'll get even sadder."

I suppressed a smile at that logic but quickly went back to trying to persuade the coralette to leave, "if they see you making me smile, they hurt me again."

She look left and right, checking to see if anyone had noticed them talking before sliding herself under the bench table and sitting across from me, she puffed out her chest, "Well if they try to hurt you ill yell and them and tell a teacher!"

That time I did giggle, "It wont help, the teachers will just tell me to ignore them," the smile formed by the giggle died, "but that never works, they saying I'm disgusting and ugly and I have Ben germs and that Im weird," once again I hug myself, tear threatening to spill once again, "they hate me and i don't know why!"

At this point I expected her to leave, to laugh in my face and call me a loser but instead i felt her, in her infinite kindness, hug me, this time tears came in waves as I tentatively hugged back, "Please don't hurt me."

"I wont, not ever, and if those meanies try to hurt you again ill...ill," once again the kind girl was at a loss for adjectives, "ill do something back and tell everyone they're mean and tell their parents."

The tears dried as i laughed and began to hiccup, I blushed lightly at what next i was going to ask, "Will you...will you be my friend and do that ?"

"Yeah! "she exclaimed, a little too loudly ,"ill make your rain clouds go away and we'll be best friends, you'll see!"

I giggled at her silliness, "Whats, whats your name ?"

She replied with much the same and a grin, "I'm Sayori !"

I smile back, "Ben."

She instead frowned, "no Sayori," she looked at my confused face, "Sai-or-ee."

I let out another giggle, "No, my name Ben"

"Ohhhhh." I could already she was going to be a handful.

I smile pleasantly as I slept, many of my memories continued on from that, most of them slightly altered version of my real memories, with Sayori's light shinning in my life where ever in could, from my fathers abandonment, to the three year depression, to the simple visits of my grandparents Sayori was a tried and true constant smile to 'chase away rain clouds' as she put it.

It wasn't what really happened, that didn't change in my mind, i simply had two set of memories now, and glad too, life could always use more light. On the other side not all my new memories where good, life still went as it did in the old world and worse, when i had brief made friends with people, friends who in both new and old memories eventually turned their backs on me, I became rather neglectful of Sayori, and as a neglected child she accepted it, hiding those tears that would make younger me realise what a Jerk he's being.

I was different now, I would not let her go unnoticed again. I had begun to piece the world together, I was fairly sure the world of Doki Doki had been superimposed over my memories and childhood, doing its best to write a world that would make sense. Whether game or reality i was now involved.

To that degree I woke with a simple plan, to see how much the world had changed because of this, and to help Sayori however i could, I did not know if thing would play out as they did in game but tomorrow was about finding out. I had to go to high school for this all to work, probably reason i had been de-aged, well that and the fact this was based on a dating game so having a twenty year old date a bunch of high schools was really creepy.

I yawned as i got up once again, my headache finally gone, something I was very glad for ,before dragging myself to my chest of drawers and digging out a school uniform. I reluctantly y put it on, briefly notice, now in the light of morning. My bookcase that had invisible at night due to its tucking in to the wall behind my desk. I wondered into the kitchen and greeted my mother with a usual dry 'good morning' as you can probably tell Im not a morning person.

She reminded me, rather helpfully to eat before I take my pill. That was something I didn't miss from school life, as a result of both my ADHD and Di-George syndrome I had serious trouble concentrating on anything for long periods of time, as I had gotten older i had had to need them less and less but to this day i still took them if i really needed to concentrate. Being back in high school meant taking them everyday!

I groaned as i finished my breakfast and swallowed the aforementioned pill with a gulp of water, then going about my business as I prepared for school. I left earlier than I usually would deciding to start treating Sayori better early. Her place wasn't far from mine luckily, just around the corner and down the street half ways to a small, rather new apartment complex where she lived alone with her ,rarely home mother.

I needent have bother for as I turned to buzz her flat a small gentle had tapped the back of my shoulder. I turned and smiled

And editing done, at almost one Am ...jeez. Since Im not sure if anyone got this but the mistakes made in reference to the game are Deliberate. If you notice something wrong or i need to correct that you think isnt then please tell me, I cant correct it if you done.

Thank you for your time and as always, Tah tah