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*Glares and swipes the staff, the streamers causing the keyboard to implode*

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*Looks up and appears taken aback before I grab onto you*
You're going to have to trust me.

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*Thousands of points of light spawn above you, each rapidly shifting through a myriad of colors*

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I don’t suppose waiting to see if this works is too much of a waste of time, should you be fake.

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*Glances upward for a moment, then back to you. A blanket of the red energy barrier forms point blank over the light between it and us, and thrust my hand open-palmed in your direction, sending a swift streak of vibrant green your way*

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I don’t suppose waiting to see if this works is too much of a waste of time, should you be fake.

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*Glances upward for a moment, then back to you. A blanket of the red energy barrier forms point blank over the light between it and us, and thrust my hand open-palmed in your direction, sending a swift streak of vibrant green your way*

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*A prismatic barrier meets it halfway, and repels it toward you, and the thousands of lights shoot downward through you both*

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Almost...
*Connects a wire from the keyboard interface to my wrist*

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*Lashes out at the terminal with one of the bands*

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*A prismatic barrier meets it halfway, and repels it toward you, and the thousands of lights shoot downward through you both*

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*The barrier laid overtop the light reflects the beams directly back into the ceiling, and I simply hold up an arm and nullify the attack reflected back at me effortlessly*

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*A half-dome of the same pellets appear around you, causing reality to fishbowl around them*
This would be a fascinating moment to say goodbye.

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None of us ever had to be here.
*Throws my hand out wide and casts the barrier energy such that it divides the entire room between us as well as the pellets*

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*Explodes violently, the flames consuming everything in sight*

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*Blocks it with my shoulder, the metal denting heavily under the blow*
Just a little longer...

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*Looks back to you momentarily, eyes widened as the flame around me is dispersed the moment it comes within a certain range*

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*Two tendril-like prismatic bands lash out at your neck*

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*Two tendril-like prismatic bands lash out at your neck*

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Done!
*The simulation routine begins, slowing down everything in the room to a crawl as a hypercube floats in its center, glowing with a mystical light that appears black; every moment, the number of facets inside the cube continues to increase and the room becomes less interactable at the same rate*

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*Intercepts them with blinding speed, catching each in one red-aura covered hand and holding them until the interactivity levels no longer allow it*

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That didn't take long at all.

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Fortunately the simulation thought to provide us a virtual interface of itself. Most machines dislike infinitely recursive procedures.
*The image of the room is stretched and pulled into the hypercube like a cloth*

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And here I thought I might have gotten to get the adrenaline pumping.

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I wouldn't jump to that conclusion quite yet.
*Walks toward the void and tears into a wall that doesn't appear to be there, revealing the image of the same central console, framed by ragged edges of darkness*

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*Raises an eyebrow, and I turn to follow you, stopping just behind you*