Chapter Text
“Holy sh*t.” Zooble stood for a moment, touching their mouth in shock.
Everyone just stood there.
“We can cuss?… Does that mean…?” Pomni looked around at the land scape. Everything was dark.
Jax stood still. “The filter’s broken. Caine’s… gone.”
Ragatha walked to Kinger, hand raising slightly. “What happened? Did… what… something? I don’t know anymore.”
Kinger shook his head, bucket shaking slightly, “Something took over the processors. I could only stop it by… just deleting the code. I didn’t know Caine would completely disappear. I-I’m sorry.”
The atmosphere was tense. Everything was glitching faintly. Pomni looked at her hands, trying to distract herself, “What do we do now? Is there anything we can do?…”
“I’m sure there’s something. We just have to figure out what that something is…?” Ragatha tried to smile, failing miserably while the grimace crossed her face. She winced, “sorry…”
“I want to…. Leave. Go somewhere else other than this.” Jax spoke up quietly., “I’m going to that hall. With the rooms. Nothing seems to matter anymore. It’s not like we can do anything.”
“I’m going with you.” Pomni walked over to him, feet padding on the decomposing floor.
“Whatever. Come or don’t come.” He turned, starting the way to the halls. Pomni followed close behind.
The others stood, basically huddled together. Gangle spoke, “I don’t want to stay here either. Can we go somewhere else?” She sniffled, a deep frown forming in her face.
Zooble seemed to still be in shock. “O-ok. I gu-uess.”
“Can we go with you guys? I don’t want to be alone…” Ragatha leaned her head down, her voice a decrescendo as she spoke.
“It’s good that we stay together. That’s fine.”
“Where do we go? Kinger, you should come with us, by the way.”
“Mhm”
“Let’s just go to one of our rooms or something…”
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