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[What was done was done. Besides, after learning that truth, she could understand the lying. It was...a lot for any Elicoorian to take in the fact that they were dealing with beings from a different planet.

She looked between them before nodding and waiting.]

Alright. Whenever you're ready, Fayt.

[He pauses for a moment, gathering his thoughts.] When we left on the Diplo, we managed to find my father again. He gave us directions to a research center on Luna where he used to work, telling us we'd find the answers we needed there.... about Maria and I. [...And Sophia, but that would come later.]

[His lips thin. He's leaving out details, and he probably should feel guilty for it but.... that didn't affect Nel. He didn't want to talk about his father, didn't want to bring that up again.] On the way there, things started to get complicated. Strange beings had started to attack space stations, ships and planets. When we arrived, Moonbase was overrun with them. They were more powerful than anything we'd ever seen.

Not more of the Vendeeni that attacked Elicoor, I'm guessing. [Yes, she can tell that he's leaving things out, but she's okay with that. If it was important, she would know. It more than likely had to do with is father. And considering her own convoluted feelings and dealings with her father, she could understand that.]

It's a bit bigger and a bit more complicated than anything the Vendeeni brought on us.

...Think something along the lines of Existentialism and you might have a better idea.

Sort of, yeah. [For Fayt, the question of their existence was settled, but he wouldn't deny the issue was more complex than that.] The Vendeeni won't ever be a problem for Elicoor again. Last I heard, their planet was wiped out.

[He pauses again to let that sink in, before continuing.] The creatures were called 'Executioners'. But this is where the craziness comes in. We managed to get past them to land on Moonbase and located my dad's old lab, and a video file about his research that they'd left for us to find, passcoded to our genetic material.

[It made him wonder if his dad had already expected he might not be able to tell them himself.] The Executioners attacking our universe were sent by a person in another dimension, one that my father's team made contact with before I was born. It's another plane of existence, what he called the Fourth Dimension, or 4D space.

[She doesn't understand what Existentialism means, but she let's Fayt continue talking. She gathers that the Vendeeni are gone, which is something she'll be glad to share with Clair and Romilda once she gets home. But, the Executioners? Another dimension? 4D space?

It's a bit much and she holds out a hand to get him to stop for a minute so she can process it.]

Alright. So, let me see if I have this correct. Just... don't interrupt me. The Vendeeni are dead and we don't have to worry about them coming to steal the Sacred Orb or anything else again, right?

But they were small potatoes in regards to these Executioners you're talking about and the person in this...4D space? Right?

That sounds about right.

[Cliff crossed his arms, both an indication of his own contemplations and a silent declaration that these 4D people better not mess with his own. Unlike Fayt, he doesn't have the full information yet. While he trusts his friend...he has no idea if the timelines run straight between their own pathways. It was too complicated for his tastes, and why he didn't get into it.]

Yeah, that's right. These creatures were attacking tons of planets.... Even Elicoor, though those were smaller.

The reason my father and his team gave me, Maria and Sophia these powers was so we could get to the source of this problem and stop it. Sophia had been given the symbological power to get us there.

With the damage these things were doing, of course we had to head to Styx to try to stop it as fast as we could. Entire planets were getting wiped out. [As fast as they could, and with the sacrifice of many.....] ...A lot of people died to get us there.

[Commodore Wittcomb and the Aquaelie crew...]

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[Nel has to take another moment to process it.]

So, the power you exhibited during the Vendeeni attack, that was what your father gave you? And Elicoor was attacked again? Did it come out okay?

[DETAILS, FAYT! GIVE HER MORE DETAILS!]

Things came out fine, as far as I know. It was fine, when we visited. Monsters got more violent, but none of the towns were breached. You were fine, too. You helped us during all of this, actually. You just haven't experienced it all yet.

[There were a lot of details to cover, he'd get to them all as he went.]

[She nods, feeling relief at hearing that her planet, her friends and country were fine in Fayt's future. Although, it was strange to hear him speak about it so casually.]

Alright, so what happened after you visited this...Moonbase, I believe you called it?

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[He was speaking so calmly because so much more had happened. Nel needed to know exactly what happened, without dramatics. Especially since things got worse.

He didn't want to make this more crazy sounding for her than it already was.]

...We had to fight through a whole bunch of powerful monsters, but Sophia's power opened a gate to the fourth dimension when we got to the Time Gate on the planet Styx.

[He pauses.] What we found when we stepped out of the gate... it wasn't anything near what we expected.

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[If he expected Nel to interrupt, he would be sadly mistaken. She was just waiting for the next bit of information, something that actually made sense, before she said anything else.]

[Cliff decided to butt in and cut to the details. There was no way to lay this nice and pretty.]

It was another world, Nel. Like this one is...only, it's plenty different too.

Like this one... but a lot more significant to our own. [There was no good way to put this, really.]

We showed up in the middle of a small residential area, stepping out of a display screen showing places in our universe on the video feed. Videos are.... they show images. Live views of people, places, things... and in the fourth dimension, the attacks by the executioners. People freaked out when we came out of it, and for good reason.

[His lips thin. He wasn't sure how to explain without explaining computers. Programming. Elicoor lacked both those things.

It was already crazy enough without explaining more advanced technology, but they'd promised honesty.] Where Cliff and I come from, there is technology designed to write out scenarios and data into a visual format on objects called computers. This technology can build and function on it's own to a point, following specific sets of complex instructions called a 'program'. We're even managed to create computer programs that can logically rationalize and gather data like a human being would, technology that can learn to a very basic point, called artificial intelligence, but it's far from comparable to a living person. We use it for simulations, to guess how situations would go before attempting them, and for games and training exercises. There's a facility here that does something similar, for combat.

[He takes a deep breath. There was no good way to put this, but he meets Nel's eyes with his own; a calm, serious green gaze that leaves no room for mistaking anything he says as a joke.] I know it sounds crazy.... but the reason I'm telling you all that is because people in the fourth dimension created our universe. And they're not gods. Not like Apris, or any of Elicoor's gods. They made us using complex technology like this. We're.... a kind of entertainment.

[She would never had considered Fayt the kind of person to tease or joke around about something as serious as they'd been discussing, but it was preposterous! How was she supposed to digest the fact that he just told her that her life had been modeled to give a distant someone entertainment. That all of the struggles she'd lived through were for nothing.

The thought left a bad taste in her mouth. How could it not?]

And I was with you when you found this out?

Not quite.

[He kept his tone level, even if he held back and listened for any potential confusion. Something like this....needed to be handled with steady hands.]

But we picked you up not long after. It's...kinda crazy, but we could jump in and out like it was nothing thanks to Fayt and Maria and Sophia.

Just. Keep in mind that this doesn't change anything. These guys...they're just people, if you wanna believe that.

They are just people. Actually, plenty of them seemed just as scared of us as we were of the Executioners. Of what they could do to our universe. Well. One of them could do.

[It was kind of bizarre, really. He's keeping his tone as level as Cliff, trying his hardest to be as clear and concise as possible, but knowing there would be things first and foremost he'd better explain.]

And it doesn't change anything. They don't have the power to mess with individual lives. We live independently of them, according to some kid we met and a programmer, Blair. We're exactly the same as them in every way that counts, Otherwise the Executioners wouldn't have been necessary at all.

The person who created our universe wanted to destroy it because he couldn't control us, if that makes sense.

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Actually, that does make sense. [Had Fayt forgotten that she was part of the military? Rumors of commanders giving horrible orders and being ignored turning on their subordinates with fatal anger had reached Aquios many a time. Of course, they were usually about Glyphian commanders, but that wasn't the point.

She could believe it.]

What happened next?

[That wasn't what Fayt meant at all. He hadn't forgotten her work in the military by a long shot, considering that was how they met.

But to compare this to some military command failure was a rather poor comparison. It was on a whole other scale than any military. They didn't even know this guy existed, up until recently, and he certainly didn't pass down orders..... they'd only gained knowledge in a way he hadn't expected.]

Our goals hadn't changed. We needed to stop the executioners, so we made our way to Sphere Corporation, a company that developed the program for our galaxy. [It still felt weird to say, and it probably showed from his thin lipped expression. He didn't like talking about it, for all he'd accepted it and was giving her a calm report of everything.] Blair promised us a program that would eliminate the executioners, because her and a team of programmers we met had accepted that we weren't just a simulation, but an entire other reality they didn't want to see destroyed.

But they seemed like just about the only employees that agreed, and the company owner still wanted us dead. We managed to escape with the uninstaller that would remove the executioners from our world, but...

It didn't work. The Owner had anticipated what we'd do and had made a program that would only activate when the uninstaller was used, creating even more powerful monsters than the Executioners and Enforcers we'd seen before. [Smaller, but far more deadly....] But it did leave us a clue to figure out what to do next. Blair told us the program had left traces to follow it back to the source, where the Owner himself was in the Eternal Sphere. We needed to convince him to uninstall the program himself.

[Not that talking had worked, either.]

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[Perhaps it was a good comparison, but it was one she could understand in an incomprehensible situation.]

So, there were allies there but not enough to really see us safe until we spoke to this owner, am I correct? I doubt he wanted to negotiate with those he deemed inferior.

He didn't. ['You're nothing but data!'

...Yeah, that hadn't gone well.]

Turns out, the route to enter his workspace was on Elicoor II. But we needed a special object, what Blair called an 'intervention device' to access it. They can look like just about anything, but they're all powerful objects if you know how to use them..... The closest one to us was a small, silver orb. [He figures Nel knows what he's talking about.]

...The sacred orb of Aquaria. [He grimaces. They'd already caused Aquaria so much trouble.... By now they probably had more than enough of a troublemaking reputation on Elicoor.] I really hope we got that back to the Queen ok.

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The Sacred Orb? [She gives him a curious stare as something attempts to put itself into place in her mind. And then...] Is that why the Vendeeni were after it when they landed on Elicoor? That...would make sense.

I couldn't say. They could have just been after it's power, they could have been after what it could really do. They seemed to be pretty informed about what my dad's team did though, so who know.

[They wouldn't ever know now, but it likely wasn't going to be an issue ever again, either.]

Sophia used the sacred orb to access the Owner's Workspace for us. When we found him.... [He felt bad for Blair. None of them had known how personally she was involved.] The Owner Luther didn't want to listen to us or his sister Blair. We had to fight. But after we thought he was down for the count, he still managed to input the deletion command... for the whole of the Eternal Sphere. Everything started fading from existence.

[That sinking, black nothing. No sensation, no senses. Not even his body had existed, for a moment. Only his consciousness. It was an undeniable fact that for a moment, Luther had nearly ended them all.

It was one sensation he wouldn't be forgetting for the rest of his life.]

But something happened. Our awareness remained. I can't explain it very well, but.... we all just woke up alive, whole and aware like nothing had happened. Whatever Luther did, it didn't work. He might have created our universe, but there's something about us beyond him now. He couldn't destroy it or us.

[They'd grown past what Luther created. Evolved, maybe. That was the whole reason Luther had wanted to destroy them all, right....?

Maybe they'd created their own reality, one Luther couldn't destroy.

His tone is unshakably certain.] We exist. I know it's hard to explain, but.... I'm sure of it. Absolutely sure of it.

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[Another long silence allows Nel to try to gather her thoughts. Nearly destroyed by a man who'd created everything, everyone, they'd known. Created to be entertainment... It wasn't an easy concept for her to grasp right away.

And it gave her a rip-roaring headache. And that certainly felt real enough.]

I'm not sure what you want me to say to that, Fayt. You say that it happens in my future, as if there's no other way for things to go than the way you've lived through.

[She held up a hand, preemptively, to keep him from saying anything while she spoke her muddled thoughts aloud.]

You're not the type of person to exaggerate or make claims that you can't back up—a detail that I'm grateful for—but you'll have to forgive me when I say that it's going to take a while for all of this to sink in.

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Sorry for the tl;dr

Oh, geez....

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