Ch6
It's been a week since Rin did that weird thing. I'm still trying to figure out what that was all about. Since Banana is always on top of my head I try to ask him but he just meows and licks his lips. I don't think I want to do the weird lip thing to Banana. Besides, I don't think kitties even have lips. I don't know what I'm going to say to Rin next time I see her, because last time I didn't even say bye to her when she jumped down from the tree and said I better go home now do you need help getting down and I shook my head no because nothing would come out of my mouth and then I was stuck up in the tree until after the sun went down and the Doctor wondered where I went and he had to come find me and get me down.
I don't think I'm going to climb trees anymore.
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The Doctor made another person. I wish that I had gotten to delete his people folder from his computer but I didn't and now he's made another person.
This new person, the Doctor says, is Ted Kasane. I don't know how it can be a boy, well it kind of can, but his hair is bright pink and it's in a long ponytail. But since his chest isn't lumpy I guess he's a boy.
This time though, I'm excited for him to activate. He looks like maybe he'd be a lot of fun.
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Ted woke up today! He asked me hey man who are you and I said I'm Len I live here. And he said oh cool cool, hey wanna play a game? And I said sure I love games. And then he went to the TV and said you don't have any games? And I asked him what kind of game do you mean, and he said video games, they're really awesome. So then I said why don't we go get some, and he said okay but I don't have any money, and I said I don't have any either. But I really wanted to try a game.
Then I asked him what if we ask the Doctor? And Ted said maybe. So we went to ask and the Doctor just said what that's preposterous no way. So then I told Ted that once when I snuck into the Doctor's room that he had a piggy bank. But I don't think we should use that because that's bad. And Ted agreed with me so we sat on the couch and wondered how to get a game.
And then Ted said hey, is that a port on your neck? And I covered it because I was embarrassed, even though it doesn't matter because he won't remember anyway. So I said umm yeah it is and he said why don't we ask the Doctor if he can invent a game and then we plug it into you.
I don't know if I like that idea because I don't want to be a computer but I really want to make Ted happy too. I asked him if I can still play the game if it's plugged into me and he said oh oh oh I have an idea, what if the Doctor makes a game where you get virtually transported in, it's okay if I don't play, I just want to to try playing a game. I've never played a virtual game like that, I bet it's fun, tell the Doctor to make it a swordfighting adventure game like Legend of Zelda, that'll be the funnest.
Well I have never heard of Legend of Zelda but swordfighting sounds scary I tell Ted. And he laughs and says it's not, swords are fun, and then he gets up off the couch and starts swinging his hands around and saying yah!! And then I ask him how it's fun and he says hahaha you get to chop heads and arms! What's not fun about that?
I don't know how that's fun, it sounds really really scary to me.
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Here it's done but I don't get why you two want this so much. It's ridiculous. I hope you go ship off soon, Ted. Then the Doctor plugs something into my neck and then he pushes a button. I start feeling weird and then I say Doctor what is this. He says it's that stupid game, here you go Ted put this suit on. When you wanna stop just press this button. And then something weird happens. I don't see the Doctor anymore but I still see Ted and the world is spinning and there's blurs of light everywhere and I yell Ted what's happening I'm scared. But he doesn't answer and I realize it's because he's not there. I felt really really scared but I just kept waiting and then finally the world stood still and it settled and I was standing in the middle of a giant plain. Way in the distance there was a huge mountain and the other way there was a big city or a castle or something.
Hey! I hear Ted in my ear and look up. He was turned into a little pink ball of light with wings. What happened to me? I'm small and sparkling! Ted yells. And I laugh at him and say hahaha you look like a little fairy. And then he says how come you get to be Link, you're the one with the sword, that's not fair. But I say it's perfectly fair because you're a fair-y. But he doesn't laugh.
Then he says okay well I think we have to go to Hyrule Castle Town, that way, and I ask that big thing over there? and he says yup that one. So then we start walking but I get tired after a while and we're hardly even there. Ted says why did you stop we have to get there to talk to the princess, and I say but I'm tired can't we sit. And Ted says no so I keep walking.
And then right when I'm at the gates to the city, the sun suddenly goes down and they pull up the drawbridge. And I start yelling hey hey wait I'm right here please wait for me. But they don't and the bridge goes up. And then it starts raining.
Ted says if you hadn't stopped before to ask me if you could take a break then we would have made it and now we wouldn't be stuck out here for the entire night. And I asked him well can't we just skip out on this game I'm tired. And then Ted says no man, let's play more! It's pretty cool to fly. Even if I am pink and sparkly.
I don't like this green outfit. The hat won't come off of my head. I miss Banana on my head instead. I was trying to pull the hat off when I fell over and tumbled over in the grass and then three pretty gems fell out of my pocket. I picked them up and Ted gasped and said oh oh those are the three Spiritual Stones to open the door of time! The Kokiri Emerald, the Zora's Sapphrire, and the Goron's—
Just then the drawbridge went foomp and then a white horse with a lady and a girl on it came rushing out, and then the girl threw a thing at me and it hit me on the head and I said ow but the horse with her on it kept running until they were out of sight. And then a really really scary guy came out after them on a big black horse and said hey you squirt where's the princess. And I said what princess, I don't know one, that's where I was trying to go. And he says stop lying, where is she. And then I get up to walk to him but I trip and this weird brown thing falls out of my pocket. Oh the Ocarina of Time! The big scary man yells and he picks it up. But I say hey that's mine and he says not anymore, squirt, and then Ted says go hit him with your sword! So I try to take out my sword and hit him but he stops it with his hand and laughs and blasts weird magic at me and I fall on my butt. Then he rides away.
And then I look at the ground and see the thing that that girl threw at my head, and Ted exclaims oh my gosh that's the Ocarina of Time! That was Ganondorf and the girls on the horse was Zelda and Impa and that is the Ocarina of Time, quick Len, go to the Temple of Time inside the city!
That was a really really really big jumble in words inside my head and I say what? But Ted says just follow me and then he leads me over the drawbridge that's down now and then we go to this big place and I go inside and there is a checkerboard floor and a pedestal. Then Ted says put the three Spiritual Stones in these slots and that'll open the Door of Time Len and then pull the Master Sword.
I don't understand but I just do what Ted says and then I grip the cold metal on the big sword in the pedestal and then I feel sleepy and I think I fell asleep.
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Len Len oh my god Len what happened are you alive answer me oh god! I hear Rin but I can't see anything everything's black. Dear god Len are you okay, I'm so sorry says Ted, I want to ask them what happened why can't I see and why are you guys yelling at me are you okay.
If he's awake he can hear you the Doctor says, don't worry Ted it wasn't your fault, it was his faulty programming that did it, instead of the game you two were playing passing time in it's own way, it started to pass time literally and thus knocked his internal chronometer to sleep for seven years.
Okay I really didn't know I had an internal chronometer. Now I really feel like a robot. Every day I feel more like a robot.
He's not going to sleep for seven years is he? Oh god, I hope—no, he'll wake up sooner or later the Doctor says. Besides, he's not even going to live for seven years longer.
And then I decide I wish I really was sleeping instead of listening.
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I wish I could either move again or just fall asleep. I just keep thinking how much of a robot I am. First I am made by a machine from a computer program, then I am a robot boy kept alive from machines, then I have a main operating system and a port on the back of my neck and now I have an internal chronometer.
I want to ask the Doctor what my internal chronometer does. I want to ask him how I can have blood if I have a magnetic distribution system in my hand and have so many machines inside of me, and I want to ask him how I can have skin without having any cells in my body because skin is dead cells isn't it, I actually don't know maybe I do have cells. But I don't know how my cells would be able to do anything if I only have a little blood.
I want to know why I'm me. Why am I me? Why amn't I someone else? Why did the Doctor's People Creator mess up on me and not the people after me?
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I decided that I don't like being plugged in to games that Ted likes. When I wake up I am going to tell Ted I don't want to play any more games that I have to be plugged in to.
Banana keeps meowing at me. I wonder if he knows that I can hear him meowing and asking me when are you going to wake up Len? But I don't know when I'm going to wake up. Maybe I'm never going to wake up. But I hope that's not true, I hope I wake up soon.
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Ted and Rin were with me today. They say hey Len, today is New Year's Eve, do you know what that means? It means that today's the last day of the year. Isn't that exciting? I don't know if that's really exciting, because I am going to die maybe next year or the year after. Then Ted says there's this really big ball in New York that drops and it's shiny, and people count down, and then everyone cheers. And Rin adds and everyone hugs each other and hopes for the best New Year ever.
Well if I could talk right now I would tell Rin that I hope I don't die next year. But I still can't move. I really never want to play games with Ted ever ever ever again.
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Three, two, one, happy new year! That's what Rin and Ted shouted last night when they were sitting next to me. Rin says Len let's have the best year ever, Len, and yes we will have the best year ever together because you are not going to die.
Thank you for telling me that Rin, but I really am going to die. Maybe not next year, we can have the best next year ever, but then next year she's going to say let's have the best year ever next year too, and then I might die that year and I don't think me dying would be the best year ever.
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I think I hear the pitter patter of rain today. I guess it doesn't matter anymore because I'm basically dead except my mind still works but it's like torture because I want to get up and do stuff and go to school but I can't because I am stuck here on whatever I'm laying down on. Or maybe I'm sitting up. But Banana always meows in my ear and he usually doesn't meow right in my ear because he sits on my head.
But today the Doctor came in and sat next to me or close to me and said hey Len, I tried plugging you into the thought machine but it won't register any thoughts, are you awake? I wonder if you can hear anything. And I want to tell him yes I can hear you, please go invent something so that I can talk to you, but he just sighs and I hear him walk away.
I wonder why he started caring so much. Last I remember, the Doctor said I wasn't worth keeping alive, didn't he?
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I stopped hearing rain today. It's quiet now. Even Banana stop meowing. It's like the world stopped. I'm scared. What if I died? What if I died but I can still think? I'm so scared, I don't want to be stuck like this forever, I want to wake up, I want to wake up!
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Len, I'm still not sure whether or not you can hear me. However, I believe I've found the reason for the People Creator's error when it created you. That's what the Doctor says today. I think you'd be better off not hearing this, which is why I'm telling you now because then I can tell you without having to see your response.
I think that's kind of mean of the Doctor to say but I keep listening because I want to know. I am almost completely positive that the error occurred because the reference base picture for you and Rin has two people – not just one. I remember scrolling through his completed projects folder and now that I think about it he's right.
I believe that the machine did not know how to handle two people at once and thus only half created the second one, you. That is the reason why no other projects failed, because all of them have been one person alone. Sorry I didn't know sooner, Len, or I would have never made you and Rin. Then he gets up and walks away.
I don't really know what to think now. Now I'm just an extra, I was just an extra one all along? It's because that I'm an extra that I'm not human? And now I feel something I don't know what it's called, but if I was on the left of the picture instead of the right then I would have been made first and I would be human and Rin would be the broken robot person. But somehow that thought doesn't make me happy. It's not Rin's fault I don't think. I don't think it's mine either. Maybe it was all just an accident. I don't care anymore about why or why not I am how I am. I just really really really want to wake up.
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Hey Doctor, where's this internal chronometer in Len anyway? That's what I hear Ted saying in the other room. The Doctor says near his heart, why? And Ted says what if we go in and mess it up and give Len's brain something else to think about other than sleeping?
Well I don't know how Ted can think that, because I've been thinking about lots of things like Banana and Rin and school. But I guess I really think about waking up a lot.
And how do you suppose we do that? The Doctor says. It's too close to his heart, doing something may just kill him right on the spot. That sounds so scary, I don't want to die right now. I still have to have a good new year with Rin and everyone at school and tell Ted never to fall asleep with your mind turned on. Ted says well then we put something together to keep his heart going, we have to try something, I think that he's awake. And I wonder how Ted knows that.
That's not too likely, his thoughts won't register on anything I've tried, as far as I can tell it's like he's almost dead, his heart is barely working, he doesn't feel a thing, and he won't respond to speech. Ted says but Doctor we have to try, if he's already dead or almost dead it's worth a try isn't it? And the Doctor says no.
I don't want to stay like this forever. Ted knows so much, I think he knows more about me than I do too, I don't know how he knows that I can think but he does, so I hope he tries to do something soon, soon, soon please Ted, I don't know how much longer I'll last like this. I think I'm going crazy, I'm tired of seeing black.
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Hey buddy, Len my man, you are awake, aren't you? I think you can hear me right now, I just have this feeling. I'm sorry about the whole game thing, I didn't mean for this to happen. Look, I'm trying to think of a way to get you out of this funky coma. I only thought of one way, to get you wet, maybe. But I'm scared that it's either not going to work, which is the good option, or it'll just sink in and then your heart will stop faster than the Doctor can fix it. Man, I'm scared, I don't know what to do. Maybe you can't actually hear me and I'm talking to myself right now.
No Ted no, I don't really like either of those plans, please think of something else please.
Rin told me about the whole test tube thing from a while back. I think that was an altered kind of water, so that it wouldn't sink into your skin. But right now in my hand I have a cup full of real water, straight from the faucet. But I don't want to kill you either, dammit Len, I don't know how to help you at all. I'm sorry.
I wish I could smile and tell Ted it's okay you're trying, but of course if I could do that then we wouldn't be like this right now. I don't know how all my insides are so I couldn't help Ted anyway even if I could. Ted is really nice, I like him. It's okay that he wanted to play that game. I changed my mind, maybe we could play games again together. Just… maybe just not ones that involve sleeping.
Then I hear Rin come in the room and gasp and say what the Ted what are you doing? Water will kill him! And then I hear Ted gasp and Rin stumble and then I feel cold, really cold, really really cold, and then I can move again but it hurts, what's happening?
Doctor Doctor oh god Doctor! I hear Ted go running and Rin is screaming and yelling Len Len don't die and I feel like there's needles all over me poking and I just keep squirming because there's needles everywhere but there's needles everywhere and I just keep shutting my eyes because it hurts and the needles are poking me and my chest feels all tight and funny, what happened, what's going to happen to me?
What happened is he waking ow ow needles needles, Doctor, help, there's needles everywhere, my arm is moving on its own now but it hurts, it likes the needles but I don't, ouch what are you doing, I open my eyes and see Rin and Ted running at me and I try to reach my hand out but it's going all weird and it feels like there's needles in it but there are none, I realize I'm shaking extra because the Doctor is running with me on his shoulder, Len! Len! Rin smiles a little and Ted smiles a little too and I try to smile back but my face is full of needles so it hurts and I yell ow ow Doctor there's needles everywhere and Ted says I'm sorry Len it's my fault but at least you're awake I guess and I don't hear the rest of what he says because there are needles filling my ears too now I think but it hurts really bad and I don't know what I'm doing anymore because I feel my legs kicking but I'm not kicking them and the needles won't go away and now I see Rin and Ted jerking side to side but I think it's because they're dodging the big invisible needles, or maybe they're not invisible, I think Rin is a needle now and the Doctor and Ted are all needles, ah ah they're the needles they're why I hurt what's happening I try to stand up but I can't anymore and the Doctor needle sprouts two more needles and he says it'll be okay Len just hang on and I blink and blink and blink but he is making lots of needles come towards me and I yell no no no stop stop! And then I start throwing my head around because the Rin needle and the Ted needle sprouted needles and are reaching for me too and I don't want more needles than all the needles that are reaching towards me and the needles that are this bed and the walls and the table and Rin and Ted and the Doctor and there's needles everywhere and they are all poking me everywhere and I feel like my skin is being ripped off me but I look at my hand and it's still there but then I see it's turning into needles and I scream because my hand right at the fingertips starts turning into needles and it feels like a million needles are inside of it too and then my hand and my arm start turning into hundreds of needles all poking out and they're bursting out of my skin and it hurts it hurts make it stop but the needles keep coming out of me and then three big needles explode from my chest and a big giant one stabs down into my chest and I scream and cry and I tell it stop stop stop but it keeps going up and down like it's sewing me and the Rin and Ted needles are just watching smiling at me and I'm still exploding into needles and please please please
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And the adventures of Test Tube Len shall continue next time I post more ;D