Chaos of A Broken Cycle

"People who pursue revenge often end up with a self-destructive thought process. They do not even think of what comes after. Revenge is an attempt to regain what you have lost, even if it works out, you're only zeroing out your losses. There is no gain."

This entire idea just popped into my head when I watched a Let's Play of the game. My literal heart was moved by this game. I get that some people like Six and try to defend why she did what she did, but man it cuts deep. Like I understand it's a game, but it's a game that knows how to hit me in the feels.

May get around to covering Six's thoughts either on the second or third chapter, right now I want Mono to be happy. Excuse any mistakes this was literally typed on the spur of the moment.

Chapter 1: Save Yourself

He should have noticed, or better to say that he did but chose to ignore the signs. Endless loops and cycles he never seemed to make any noticeable change whatsoever.

He still remembers that face as he held her hand, hoping that he would be pulled up. Ignorantly unaware of how many times he's looped until he ended up in the same room he always did, sitting in the same chair for years on end.

The fact that he wasn't aware of the loop until she would drop him into the abyss every time would always give him the same feeling in his gut as he could feel the oncoming dread.

The Eyes tortured him by providing a television that only showed his past loops. Some had minor differences where he had tried to warn his past self of future events. From beginning to end, from the moment he met Six till the moment he would see himself sitting in the same room that he was watching his past in. The Eyes seemed to take great pleasure in showing him the futility of his actions. In some loops he tried to communicate with himself by sending messages thru the televisions to warn himself and not alert 6, in other loops he tried to capture himself to get himself out of the Pale City to no avail.

However oddly enough he never once pondered about killing Six or vice versa himself. Perhaps it was due to his long isolation and being manipulated by the Eyes. No matter how many times he looped he just couldn't bring himself to kill Six or himself. He had thought about it on multiple occasions. Yet he still held hope that he could break this cycle himself.

"She didn't mean to. We were friends, we were best friends. Sh-she was just, there's no way, there's just no way." Mono kept muttering to himself.

Time kept moving on.

"AFTER ALL I DID FOR HER, AFTER ALL THE TIMES I SAVED HER! AND SHE JUST DROPS ME! I SHOULD HAVE JUST LEFT HER TO DIE. I'LL MAKE HER PAY, I'LL MAKE THIS WHOLE CITY PAY!" Mono yelled to himself in the room, having aged to a teenager.

Time kept moving on.

"There has to be something I'm missing, was it something I did? Was she scared of me; did she hate me? If she did why didn't she just get rid of me earlier. WHY DID SHE LET ME FALL DOWN HERE! What am I missing, there has to be a reason why she idd what she did?" Mono said to himself rubbing his hands thru his hair that was disheveled, rocking in his chair slowly. He was now a young adult

Time kept moving on.

"Why does no one love me? What did I ever do? I never tried to ever intentionally hurt someone. I-I just wanted someone to care about me. Is that so wrong? I've tried so many ways to stop this but nothing seems to work. It's all pointless isn't it, there's no point in any of this, I'm just not meant to live a happy life. I will be here forever, won't I?" Mono lamented, head in his hands as tears fell from his face onto the chair and his pants, a man in his late 30's who only ever wanted to be accepted.

Time as always kept moving on.

Now Mono simply sat in the room with a calm face. Now as the Thin Man but still not as old, only in his late 40's.

"I suppose that this is my fate. I don't think there's anything else I can do. No one will ever care about me, and nothing will ever change. The world will continue in ruin and I will be stuck here, forever." Mono thought

"Well I wouldn't be so sure about that." A Voice said

Mono's body jerked as he heard a voice and looked around frantically.

"Come on don't look around like that, you got the Eyes on you, …. Well I guess they might think your insane at this point, wouldn't be the first time.

"Who are you!?" Mono called out still searching.

The walls and tiles burst and disappeared as walls of flesh and eyes burst forth from the room now all concentrated on him.

Mono quieted down immediately

"Look what you did you made it angry, please think your questions, speaking physically is not needed." The voice said.

They waited until the walls of flesh and Eyes receded and the room became normal once again

"Who are you?" Mono thought

"I can't answer that yet." It spoke.

"What do you want?" Mono asked another question.

"To help you break free." It spoke.

"Why?" Mono asked in a doubtful and yet hopeful tone.

"It is all I've ever wanted." It replied.

"Then how will you help me." Mono thought desperately

"As you are right now, I cannot do anything for you besides give you a hint, and it is within that hint that you will have your chance, I wish there was more I could do for you but that's all we can do right now. Should you succeed then I promise you that you will be free." The voice said.

Mono did not reply, depressed once again.

"Your stronger than you know, you've only scratched the surface of your powers. If you truly want to be break free, I need you to think outside the box, or to be more precise, think inside the box. Trust me, you'll know when your chance comes." The voice said before going silent.

The conversation was so brief, Mono had so many questions, but like that the voice was gone.

"Am I going crazy? I have to be." Mono sighed defeated

And so yet again, the ticking of a clock kept ticking.

And so things once again continued as they always had. He stayed there, with nothing to do but wait. The previous conversation was almost forgotten by him.

His younger self still let himself free, he still captures Six, still tried to stop himself. He still fought with himself. He still lost to himself.

And yet right when he should have died, right when the beginning of his end should have started. He noticed something, right across the from him and his younger self there was a single television that was on, crackling with nothing but static.

"Think inside the box." The voice echoed.

If only he could touch it, if only. But he didn't give up, he concentrated like never before, desperately collected his power, and hoped. Hoped that this was his chance, hoped that this was the end.

And just like that he disappeared in static particles after falling from being beaten by his younger self. And just like that there was nothing but darkness.

Thin Man Mono suddenly woke up and looked around, there was nothing but a grey world that he was in that showed nothing and seemed to have no end.

Suddenly an all too familiar music box song started to play in the grey void. The next thing he knew giant words started to float out of the ground and float up until they disappeared once more. This went on for 5 minutes before a familiar voice rang out in his head.

"Well I'll be, you did it! You actually did it." The voice boomed while laughing.

"Where am I? And can you finally tell me who you are?" Thin Man Mono asked

"No time, no time, we have to get to work quickly or we'll miss our chance. I need you to listen, very soon all the television in Pale City with turn off, that is, all except one. You'll feel a pulling in your gut that pulls you somewhere, you need to follow it, no matter what, it's when the Eyes will be at its weakest. When the time comes, I will help you and all of this will be over." The voice replied.

All of a sudden Thin Man Mono felt the pull and disappeared.

Pov Younger Mono

There he was, reliving the cycle once again. Reliving the same raw emotions, he felt after every loop. The eyes had already begun to show him his past loops and failures and like many times before he tried to escape thru the television and leave but not matter how hard he tried. The flesh started to jiggle, and the eyes looked at him in glee, no doubt taking pleasure in his misery.

However, to the shock of Mono and the Eyes, two familiar hands suddenly pressed themselves against the TV screen. Out tumbled Thin Man Mono, who quickly stood up fixing his hat. In both the younger Mono and Older Mono, a voice yelled thru their heads.

"Grab the TV and get the kid!" the voice yelled in their minds.

Thin Man Mono quickly lifted the Tv under one arm and the grabbed Young Mono with the other. The flesh and eyes acted a split second later, beginning to close in on them, attempting to swallow the older Mono, the entire Signal Tower shaking in anger.

"Mono Jr your probably have a lot of questions but we don't have a lot of time for answers. Both of you concentrate your power onto the TV like you're trying to teleport quickly." The voice screamed.

And so they both did, and the flesh closed in, already swallowing half of the Thin Man Mono's body, up to his waist. Both held their hands on the TV that flickered desperately as the room grew smaller and darker.

"We can't escape, it doesn't go anywhere, every other TV in Pale City is off." Cried Thin Man Mono and blood started to leak from both his and younger Mono's nose, giving all their power just to keep the TV active.

"That is precisely what I was hoping for." The voice said calmly before the TV suddenly blared a piercing white light and a powerful ring as the flesh seems to finally consume them both, it suddenly began to recede, revealing young and old Mono who took in gulps of air. And they stared and the TV that now seemed to be pulling all the flesh and Eyes within itself. The channels on the screen were rapidly flickering, cycling thru different random shows and with each cycle the flesh was letting out shrill cries of agony.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, looks like sending back loop after loop finally bit you in the ass didn't it." The voice now said, however this time it wasn't in their heads but coming from the television they held.

The flesh hearing the taunts started to thrash harder and harder, desperate to break free.

"You really enjoyed watching me sit there for year on end, loop after loop, now let us see how you like it! Staying in this television FOREVER…. IN…. PIECES HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA." The voice sang out as the last of the flesh was sucked into the television.

When it finally finished the TV then flickered off right when the flesh monster was fully sucked in and the room became dark and both Mono's stood there for a moment of silence.

The light in the room suddenly returned except there was no purple hue, just a regular light along with the hum of electricity.

"Take a step out why don't you?" The voice suddenly rang in their heads again.

Thin Man Mono carrying his younger self and the TV reached for the door handle while younger Mono sat on his shoulder. He almost jumped when he heard a loud click of the door opening. His heart beating rapidly in hope and excitement. Peering down the hall he say a long regular hallway the lights showing the end.

"Go on, both of you!" It spoke.

And so Thin Man Mono walked briskly down the hall. Everything seemed normal, there were some signs of aging on the walls that had cracks and crackling paint, he passed many doors but the one he had eyes on was at the end of the hall. Grabbing yet another handle and twisting, the moment it opened a crack his face was hit with warm, fresh air and a light that his eyes were not used to. Shielding his eyes, he took one tentative step out. And once his eyes adjusted, he looked in wonder and amazement.

The sky was blue! BLUE! Not grey, or orange or any other dull color that he was used to, but a shade of bright light blue with white clouds that he had never seen. The building was no longer distorted. Color seemed to have returned to the once Pale City, it was breath taking. And the ocean, the ocean was also blue but a much darker shade. Trees so green he could even believe it for a second.

Both Young Mono and Thin Man Mono were amazed, the younger one being put down on the roof as he scampered closer to the edge and peered at the scene once more. Thin Man Mono himself felt as if his face was wet and wiped himself only to find out that he was letting tears fall.

"Time for explanations I suppose." The voice said in their heads.

Both Mono's paid attention now still looking around at the colorful scenery.

" To put it simply, I am you, or both of you. As we all understand, we have been stuck in a loop for quite some time. However, I am from a loop, far, far back, and to be honest I lost count of how man loops I've watched. What made my loop particularly interesting was that I had tried to send my consciousness back in time to stop the loop. I ultimately failed and yet in a weird way I succeeded in a totally unexpected way. My consciousness was not sent back in time and the flesh stopped me, and the cycle continued. However unknown to me and the Flesh Eyes, I had accomplished to some extent, leave a imprint of my consciousness in that TV. Not enough to be conscious or thinking but it was a start. As the loop continued there were others that tried the same method of traveling back in time and failing, and with each attempt that imprint left in the television grew and grew with each loop, which eventually grew into me. I guess you could say I am a collective consciousness of all Mono's in the loop after my creation." It explained.

Thin Man Mono hummed in thought, while Younger Mono had a basic understanding of what the voice was.

"If you've been here all this time, why was it only now that you said something to me?" Thin Man Mono said

"With each loop I watched my power and consciousness grew, to be honest I could have attempted this endeavor a few thousand loops ago, but I had to be sure. I had to be sure that I had sufficient power to carry out the plan with no room for error. When I thought I had enough power, I waited still, I needed more. I didn't just want the plan to succeed, I wanted to get rid of that creature in on fell swoop, not even giving it a chance to fight back. Had we failed, the television I resided in would have been destroyed and I would cease to exist. This was all for our freedom, this is all I…no, this is all we've ever wanted." The voice spoke.

"So what happens next? Where do we go from here? Thin Man Mono asked

The voice was silent for a while before speaking.

"I…do not know. I have spent all this time planning for our escape, but I never quite thought of what would become of us, should we succeed. Young Mono would you be so kind as to bring me another television. There must be one somewhere in one of the rooms in the hall." It spoke.

The younger Mono disappeared soon after in search of a TV within the Signal Tower.

After a brief bout of silence, the voice spoke again.

"As you know the Flesh Eyes were distorting time and space here at the Signal Tower. However now that its influence is gone things will return to normal. Whatever that is exactly, you should know that my time, and especially yours is short." The voice lamented.

"So it would be safe to say that we will disappear correct." Thin Man Mono said

"That is correct, I don't believe we will last more than a couple of hours at most." It spoke.

"That…is in all honesty, not a bother. It just means that we are all finally free. Just the fact that I can see this clear blue sky, it is already more than I could have asked for, Thank you." Thin Man Mono said

"We will be able to transfer our power and memories to our younger self before we go but for now let us enjoy this new city while we can." The voice said.

Soon after Young Mono came back pushing a TV that was on a moving cart.

"Ah thank you." The voice hummed in their heads before it spontaneously turned on and the figure of another thin man appeared on the screen. The screen would flicker from time to time and each time it did so, the Thin Man's age would change, starting from young Mono, to teenage, to young adult, and finally the Old Thin Man before repeating yet again.

"Great now we have one more thing to do. Old Man me, put that other TV on the edge of the building pls." Tele-Mono said

Thin Man Mono grumbled while doing so because he was called old. As soon as he did so the other TV flickered to life and a giant screeching eye appeared screeching.

"Little me, can you turn the volume down, the loser is being kinda loud." Tele-Mono said

Younger Mono ran next to the TV and hit the volume lower button and a bar appeared under the EYE that went down until nothing could be heard.

"Now listen here you overgrown tumor, how does it feel to be trapped in a box, I legitimately want to know. You must have really enjoyed messing with me and my boys. Well now me and my boys are sending you on a one-way trip. You'll quickly find yourself floating in a black void, stuck in between transmissions. The only way out is thru the screen your looking thru, that is, if I let you out. But were just here to say goodbye." Tele-Mono said.

"Tip him boys." Tele-Mono said snapping his fingers.

The Flesh Eyes seemed panicked as both Young and Old Mono tipped the TV over and it fell down the Signal Tower before exploding on impact with the ground.

"Let's go to the beach and then to the forest and then the city." Tele-Mono said

From there all three Mono's made their way down the Tower. Thin Man Mono pushed the cart with Tele-Mono's TV and younger Mono sat on top of the TV. Only when they got down to the ground level and outside, they noticed things were far different then they had initially believed. Things looked new, too new, so new in fact they had no idea if this was the same city they were initially in.

All the old timey cars turned into smaller sleeker versions. The food market grew from a small store to a huge building. The schools, the hospital, anything and everything that they knew about the city had changed and they knew not why.

"Everything looks so…. Futuristic. I thought you said everything would return to normal." Thin Man Mono asked

"Well apparently this is normal, we don't exactly have any memories of before the flesh demon came to the city. We all knew it changed the city, but I never thought it looked like this previously." Tele-Mono said. They gawked in wonder, for every few streets they went down there were more things to see.

It was a while later that Young Mono brought up something the other two had been forgetting.

"Adult!?" he asked looking at the two as if posing a question.

"He's right. Where are all the Viewers, we should have seen at least one by now." Thin Man Mono asked

"The extent of my knowledge goes as far as the Signal Tower and us. Were on our own here, this is new ground for all of us." Tele-Mono said

"Voice! Voice!" Young Mono yelled jumping up and down on the television.

And so they listened, and sure enough, they heard what sounded like a voice a ways off coming from the distance. It sounded like it was coming from some sort of speaker but none of the three could make out the words. So they did the only thing they could do at the moment, follow that voice.

For better or worse, they would be shocked to their very core.

Chapter End

Tele-Mono-A conglomeration of consciousness from various Mono's from loops that has the cumulative power of his predecessors yet lacks a body to properly utilize it.

Thin Man Mono-The last Thin Man of the last loop. Perhaps now peace is at hand.

Young Mono-The last Mono, he who will realize the dream and aspiration of his past selves, freedom and happiness is at hand.

Chapter 2: And Then There Was Mono