Chapter 1: The Truth

CONTAINS SPOILERS! PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK! takes place after the good ending

Sunny stood before the door to the hospital room where everyone was waiting. He took a deep breath and pushed open the door to the room where his friends were. Kel, Aubrey, and Hero stood by Basil's bedside staring at him with bewilderment. Hero stepped forward and placed a hand on his shoulder. "Sunny? what are you doing out of bed? The Doctor said you shouldn't be up and walking so soon-" Sunny stopped him with a raised palm and opened his mouth to speak…

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WHITE SPACE

{A second chance…}

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Welcome to WHITE SPACE

you have been living here as long as you can remember…

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"I have to tell you something."

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The moment those words were spoken in reality, a great tremor shook throughout all of WHITE SPACE. The invisible foundations that held it together were cracking and crumbling as the Truth was revealed. The floor was giving way to the black abyss below, even the RED HANDS and the cat MEWO were no longer present in this dying world. Soon the only intact parts of the former shelter was the door to the rest of HEADSPACE, the mat in the center and it's contents, a tissue box, a laptop and a sketchbook and a monochrome boy lying asleep.

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"It's about Mari, I…I'm the reason she's dead."

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Another tremor shook WHITE SPACE, stronger this time, enough to cause the sole occupant of the domain to stir. OMORI awoke and sat up taking in the new desolate state of his former home. The light-bulb above where it should have been was missing from it's string, shattered in the confrontation with the Dreamer. The final attempt to protect Sunny from the Truth, OMORI had turned on his creator when it became apparent that no amount of resetting HEADSPACE would fix the problem like it usually did. When he attempted to make Sunny submit to his guilt and trauma in a bid to take control again Sunny fought back. But even after using everything in his power to protect the Dreamer from the Truth and save him from the pain he was heading towards, OMORI failed and was forced to accept his defeat vanishing in the process of Sunny's acceptance of the path he had chosen… or that's what he believed happened. But then why was he still here? if Sunny no longer needed him why was he still alive?

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"…She didn't hang herself…I killed her."

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The remains of the floor that OMORI stood on shuddered as more and more of WHITE SPACE was consumed by the void. ("So this is how it ends...") he thought to himself. Despite the dire situation around him he felt no panic or fear. This world and everything in it would soon cease to exist just as it would eventually and he was fine with that, if it meant that Sunny would be able to accept Mari's death and finally move on then so be it. OMORI closed his eyes and let the void consume him, content that he could finally know peace after four years…

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"On the day of the recital I broke my violin because I was angry..."

"...angry that I couldn't be up to Mari's standards…"

"…angry that I couldn't be with my friends, because of the constant practice…"

"…angry that I just wasn't good enough…I wanted out."

"So I threw it down the stairs in hopes that I would be free."

"But she was upset that I broke the violin that you all put so much effort to get me."

"She was yelling at me, 'Why? why did you break your violin?"

"I just wanted to get away to my room to make the shame go away…but she wouldn't let me go…"

"Why couldn't she see that I was hurting?"

"…So When she got in the way, I…I pushed her down the stairs and she fell on the violin."

"I didn't think she would die from the fall..."

"...I didn't mean to kill my own sister…"

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HEADSPACE

{Friends having a picnic}

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NEIGHBOR'S ROOM was empty by the time the fissures from the white door caused the entirety of the room to collapse in on itself into the darkness below and continued upward until the stump outside cracked in half and fell into nothingness as BLACK SPACE began to flood outward into all of HEADSPACE.

"HERO! KEL'S being mean to me again! tell him to apologize!" AUBREY pouted stomping her foot on the grass. KEL sat on the bench behind them playing with his pet rock HECTOR, the young boy sticking his tongue out at her, AUBREY sniffled and crossed her arms in a huff. "Oh boy, what did you do this time KEL?" HERO chided his younger brother with a friendly but stern expression. KEL snorted and looked away with puffed cheeks "Nothing…" he lied. HERO raised a eyebrow at him. "KEL…" this this was enough to make KEL give in "Alright! alright! I said her bow looked stupid and that it was a gross color...but only because she said I smell!" Sitting nearby on a picnic blanket, MARI chuckled to herself as she watched HERO make his little brother apologize to AUBREY, her friends living their lives like nothing bad would ever happen to them.

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"I didn't know what to do afterwards…it was all a blur…like a bad dream..."

"seeing her just lay there unmoving."

"I dragged her up the stairs to our room to rest on the bed."

"I couldn't think straight, I was so scared."

"It was a bad dream…she'll wake up!"

"But…she never did."

"…And then Basil showed up and saw her body…"

"He was scared too…he saw everything...he knew."

"That he'd lose his best friend if you all found out what happened to her..."

"...What I did to her..."

"..you'd hate me for the rest of your lives."

"But he had a plan…"

"One that would save us from the Truth."

"But at a great price..."

"So we took her body to the tree in the backyard…"

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Suddenly the purple constellation filled sky of HEADSPACE turned pitch black and all the other kids in the PLAYGROUND vanished. The ground began to crumble beneath them, as KEL and AUBREY stopped arguing when they noticed the floor giving way and rushed to the picnic basket with frightened expressions on their faces. "M-MARI? what's going on? why is everything breaking apart?" AUBREY whimpered. MARI hugged her close and looked around just as frightened. "I don't know, just stay close to me!" KEL, normally the fastest one of the group ran back to help HERO make it to the picnic blanket, it didn't help that HERO was the slow one. "C'mon HERO! we're almost there! just a little further…" KEL shouted, Another tremor shook the world around them causing Hero to lose his balance and fall if it weren't for KEL grabbing on to his hand just in time "KEL no! you're just going to fall in too!" KEL held on to his older brother's hand "No! i'm not gonna leave you! I can do this! just let me…just get…up…" Time seemed to slow down for KEL as his grip on HERO's wrist suddenly slipped. "HERO!" everyone screamed as they watched him fall into the nothingness, Before anyone could mourn him, KEL had leapt off the edge after his older brother. AUBREY rushed out of MARI'S arms and grabbed KEL by the back of his shirt before he could. "Lemme go! I have to save HERO! I have to save my brother! please!" KEL screamed, kicking and struggling all the way back to the blanket with tears in his eyes until he crumpled into a ball. AUBREY was also crying as they huddled around the picnic blanket watching the world fall apart around them "And lose you too? we have to wait for OMORI to save us, he'll know what to do! he always does!" Before anyone could do anything else a sudden wave of tiredness swept over them and put them into a deep slumber…

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"…And we hung her to make it look like she killed herself."

"I-I'm so sorry…"

"A-a murderer like me doesn't deserve to be forgiven but…"

"After all we've been through…"

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BLACK SPACE

{Discarded}

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BASIL awoke on a black mat as he felt the tremors from above. Places of familiar landmarks from all around HEADSPACE were falling into the BLACK SPACE all around him. ("W-what's going o-on? where am I?") he thought, what WAS happening? last thing he remembered was OMORI standing in front of him knife in his hand while strange RED HANDS held him in place…a sharp pain, a feeling of betrayal…and then nothing but cold silence. Was he imagining things? he could have sworn he had something important to tell everyone about MARI but he couldn't remember what it was anymore…until it hit him. "Oh right! I was going to see my friends today! but why am I in an abyss? and why is everything falling apart?" Around the black rug, numerous STRANGERS were looking at the sky watching everything fall around them.

"The Dreamer has found the strength to confront Truth at last. "One of them said. "The end of this world is upon us, as it should be." another whispered quietly. "The Dreamer's Vessel has lost his control over us…" a third spoke. "…And soon all of this…this cycle…shall be no more." they all said in unison.

All around him BASIL saw the familiar shapes of the colorful world above him fade and melt into nothing. The shadows grew closer and closer until the darkness felt suffocating, [BASIL became AFRAID] as he tried to run from the darkness. He could feel himself becoming lightheaded and unable to stay awake until he stumbled and lost consciousness once again…

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"Can you forgive me after all I've done?"

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{}Everything is going to be ok...{}

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A week later

It was late at night when they broke into the apartment through Sunny's window, two masked men and a woman silently walked towards Sunny's bed and surrounded it before Sunny could fully wake up, a bag was stuffed over his head and he was injected with some kind of tranquilizer. While the men hauled Sunny's unconscious body out the window, the woman split off from the group to carry in another boy who looked exactly like Sunny and carefully placed him in the bed. The woman left with the others just as the lights came on, Sunny's mother rushing into the room to check on the commotion. "Sunny? what's going on in here? are you having a nightmare again?" Mrs. Suzuki said with concern. Not-Sunny looked at her and nodded silently. "I am fine now mom, just a bad dream." it said in a voice that sounded robotic. Mrs. Suzuki breathed a sigh of relief. "Oh that's good, well good night Sunny, I love you and I'll be here for you if you need me." Sunny's mom turned out the lights and returned to her bedroom, never noticing that the clone had two eyes instead of one...

author's notes

And that was the very first chapter of Noli Mei Oblivisci, which translates to Forget Me Not in latin. The previous versions of the story were deleted in order to create this definitive edition.

My inspiration for this story came completing the Sunny route for the first time, I really loved the Dream Friends and felt bad when they disappeared at the end of the game. Along with seeing all the other great stories regarding 'Headspace merges with Faraway' left unfinished on Ao3 and Fanfiction, I wanted to throw my hat in the ring and give it a go. I may not have the characters 100% accurate but I'll try my best to get as close as I can, If I miss anything please let me know in the reviews and I'll take note.

See you in Faraway!