31 July 2013
He stood back and dropped the knife.
"I can't believe I had to do this." He thought "I can't believe that I ever would."
A voice spoke to him.
"Run. Just run!"
He nodded and made it out of the room and as far away from that place on Earth as he could. He didn't know where on Earth he was, he didn't care. He just prayed that nobody would ever find out.
While Skewb was running, the memories came flooding back to him. They tried to convince him that the voice that was speaking to him didn't exist. They reached out for the area he had his eyes on and that's when everything went horribly wrong. They poked his Espurr with their hand. The Espurr he had found in his human universe that he made invisible to avoid controversy. They found out that the voice that spoke to them was real. They took the Espurr to have tests done on it. There was nothing else he could do. He couldn't let the news spread.
"Oh god…" He said "What am I gonna do? What am I gonna do?"
"There's nothing you can do." Espurr said "The damage is done."
The damage is done… There were no four words Skewb hated more than those four. That's exactly what he was told the day he learned his parents were dead… As a result of Skewb, then known as Super Rike's ignorant refusal to fight in the God war.
"Oh god…" Skewb repeated "I am in so much trouble. I have nowhere to go and soon everyone is gonna start looking for me."
"Well look, you've been in more stressful situations before, haven't you?"
"Not really."
"Of course you have. Now think about it, what can you do? Don't you usually have some kind of teleport ready? You're brilliant with teleports."
"If I had a teleport, don't you think I would use it? No. Portable teleports that work anywhere is just science fiction, the only teleports I have are portals, and those points are fixed."
"No they're not. The Earth moves doesn't it?"
"It's not that simple. Nature does not have a preference on what's moving and what isn't. The point of the portals is that they geometrically have a fixed vantage point, something portable technology can't have."
"Allright, scratch that. How about other technology?"
"Anything I had with me was confiscated when I was committed. I come prepared yeah, my stuff only works with me. I'm not stupid. The problem is I don't know where it is."
"Well what else do you have?"
"What, my immortality?"
"Well it's a start. Maybe you could hide somewhere that would kill a normal person, like underwater."
"You have no idea how uncomfortable that is, do you? That doesn't change when you're immortal you know. I still need to breathe, I just don't die if I don't, but the pain gets worse and worse."
"Hey, you can bring people back from the dead can't you? Maybe you could at least do that with them."
Skewb stopped for a few seconds before continuing.
"Yeah, but without their memories. They become zombies. What's the point of that?"
"Does it matter? People will just say they got amnesia or something."
"But it's too late. I'm far from that place now, people will have found them by now."
"Allright, lemme think…"
Skewb continued walking.
He really didn't know how he was gonna get out of this one.
2 days later.
Skewb went to sit down on a park bench. His hair now covered his entire face, so that nobody knew it was him.
"I know you're too tired and thirsty to speak right now, and you don't have to… But I'm sorry I had to bring you into this."
No response, not even for Skewb.
"I'll find a way out. I always do."
Skewb sighed and took Espurr of his back. He was pretty heavy for something to have hanging on you all the time, but Skewb managed. He put him on his lap, he didn't care how daft he looked, holding air in front of him. He was so stressed out that he couldn't be bothered to worry about that at the moment.
"Excuse me sir…" He heard behind him.
"Oh for god sake." Skewb thought.
He turned around to ask him what he wanted.
It was Prince Skew.
He pushed Espurr off his lap and stood up "How did you get here!?"
"Not bad huh, for someone from the 17th century?"
"But, but how!?"
"I think you're forgetting that you're still connected to your base. Wherever it is, it can find you."
"But you still shouldn't have been able to get here. Everything I own there only responds to me."
"I think you're forgetting that technically we count as the same person. Didn't you say I merged with Super Rike to make you?"
"Well yeah, but how did you get here? There's no teleport I made that does that is there?"
"I did have to reprogram your inter-multiversal portal a little for it to make a new portal in your vicinity."
"Dude, that's extremely dangerous."
"Best come quickly then, so I can turn it off before something happens."
Skewb sighed, looked around. One kid with hair in front of his face and mittens on in the middle of summer and a semi-medieval guy next to eachother. They were going on someones twitter that night.
"Let's just go." Skewb said.
The three of them approached the portal. It didn't have a frame, it was just a huge wall of electricity, nobody in their right mind would go through it.
"Thanks for saving me." Skewb said.
"Anytimes." Skew said.
"It's Anytime, not Anytimes."
"Ah yes, of course, I'm still getting used to 2013 talk."
They jumped into the wall of electricity. Shortly afterwards, it shrunk until it was out of existence.
