Prism saga Chapter 4: It's all, or nothing

This takes place at an **Unknown time** and **Unknown**

Far away from the perimeter of the Citadel stood the Capital, the beacon of power of the realm of the EdenSphere, however there were of course two sides to this coin, the front half, the castle which faced towards the city and was a beacon of peace and tranquility while the back of it was where the prison and main Ops of all the operations of the entire Citadel and the Edensphere.

The Prison or more know as the High-Security Prison or HSP, was at the bottom of the bottom in terms of imprisonment, every inhabitant of the Citadel knew how bad it was in there, especially for Infecteds, but for 404’s they were drained of all power and broken down to their barest bones only to then be thrown away and never seen again or so that’s what the rumors were going around. Deep inside the facility, deep inside the prison J404!B666 was going under the removal process. The guardsmen who were either Astral Mothers or Omnis, began to start removing his wings and had him cuffed to the wall.

“Oh my isn’t this just the greatest, we haven’t gotten a psycho for a long while now” giggled the Astral Mother dressed in some skimpy officer clothes as she pressed her heel against J404B666’s back.

“This is quite the predicament though, we’ve been hunting down a few rouge 404s now and then, but catching a snack like you is gonna get me promoted for sure,” the Astral Mother officer said

“NOT what we’re here about, by Law #32-34 you have been sentenced to 30 eons in super containment. Do you have anything to say? Or perhaps a memento you want us to grab from your Au?”The officer Omni said as all J404!B666 did was give a wicked smile.

“Bite me Ares you little shit,” he said

“ Wasn’t one of your choices” Officer Omni said as he then ripped off JB404666’s wings causing him to turn back into M! 404 screaming in pain only to get sucker punched to the ground by Officer Astral Mother who then dug her heel into his head and then kicking him to the wall with Omni watching. Soon after some large Delios security guards came in and lifted him and began to walk him down a long pathway going over a large portion of the prison. M! 404 looked down briefly as he could see other 404s being gathered into one place. As the Delios guards lifted him away he passed through the Infected ward which was noisy as hell, he could hear the sounds of screaming moans and groans and of course laughter around every turn. He looked up and saw hundreds upon hundreds of cells filled with Infecteds of all shapes and sizes and each one more spirit than the last. He was then set down on his feet as they began to cuff and restrain him, as they did another prisoner that was highly more restrained than him came floating by as guards escorted him away as well.

“System…system..system..S Y S T E M M A T I C,” said the prisoner as its head slowly turned towards M! 404 who looked at Systematic a bit confused for a moment before he then read the entity's code and fully understood.

“Ah I see, you’re a mixture of those three” M! 404 said with a large smirk only to get socked in the face by one of the Delios guards.

“SILENCE NOW!” the guard said

All the Infecteds then began to laugh hysterically at the show of violence

“HIT HIM AGAIN! HIT HIM AGAIN!” shouted some Infecteds as the others made loud funny sounds and exotic noises much to M! 404 displeasure

“HEY SHUT UP! IF I HAD MY WINGS YOU’D ALL BE-“ but M! 404 was once again punched in the face for speaking out of line.

“Best quiet you stay,” said Systematic as M! 404 looked at him, he then followed the weird things advice and kept quiet as soon they all reached a large auditorium-like room filled with different 404s all over the place. As M! 404 and the rest got there they then saw a pale version of the Astral Mother with short cut hair come onto the stage along with a smaller 404 shorter than most other 404s M! 404 has seen, while he was watching the presentation begin Systematic began to mess around with his shirt out of curiosity.

“Welcome all Williams of the Edensphere, well all of you bad ones that is. All of you Williams have each done something terrible, but not just that have brought said wrongings to this holy place, to this Citadel where we all wish to live in peace where we can’t in our worlds. My name is Farnese D. Gaster, one of the many wonderful byproducts of this place and I have been given today the will to judge and condemn you to whatever hellish punishment I see fit. You’ve all been stripped of power, all have been broken down to your bear traits to what makes you…well you.

Escape for you is impossible at this point, Ground Zero, galactic, Demi-god, Cosmic, and Eden. These words are the threat levels you each possess, each of these defines the level of destruction, level of power, and level of knowledge one being or even a group possess with each one requiring different means of capture or even means of execution in order. Now with that out of the way, let's talk about the BIG 3 laws of the Edensphere, each law has sub-laws to them, but we can go over those another time for now hear these words from G O D themselves that has declared it so.

#### **LAW 1**

One will **NEVER** incite harm upon another Omniverse or the city of the Edensphere otherwise break the ancient creed between this realm and the Nexus.

#### **LAW 2**

One must never search for power that would put themselves higher than our dearest lady, Fearestmorever, For if such a thing is discovered it shall be wiped from this very realm with merely a simple thought.

#### **LAW 3**

Any coups that are formed are to be brought to judgment and any that are indeed found amongst this population are to be brought forward once discovered, any means to hide these traitors or villains will be met with the fullest extent of the punishment similar to that of the villains themselves.

With that all said all high level-“but before Farnesse could finish her speech a large earthquake-like explosion could be felt coming from outside.

“DAMIEAN WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON!!” Farnese shouted as the small 404 with glasses ran to her.

“MA’AM THE ASSET WE’VE BEEN TRACKING HAS INVADED THE CITY AND IS IN COMBAT WITH 404#00018 at the perimeter!” Damien said with worry as he showed her his interface.

“Well, what are we waiting for!? Send down the blue sentinels and let's catch them now!” Farnese shouted as all her men besides the prison guards who kept all the prisoners near them and well secured.

“But mam there is one more problem, the entity is closing in on 404#00018 and the asset,” Damien said

“And from the looks of it, It seems to be fascinated with 404#00018,” said Damien, in the farthest corner of the prison, strung up and suspended in the middle of its glass shield of containment guarded heavily by multiple guards. It was a suspended 404, however different from the rest, this one was completely black with only his eyes being illuminated completely white as it heard the numbers for N! 404.

“404#00018,” said the entity in a deep booming voice.

While on the other side of the Citadel, N! 404 was fighting, hiding, and dodging for his life as Faker continued to hunt him. Tearing apart everything in its path. N! 404 made his way behind some shrubbery while Faker phased through his wall of bones.

“Come out child, don’t be afraid…your not just a normal 404 though are you, No, you are one of those prime and ripe ones,” Faker said as his arms slugged behind him, and with every stomp the ground shook. N! 404 continued to teleport further away gaining as much distance as he possibly could.

“Just how long do you plan to continue to run? Whatever brought you here certainly doesn’t look to be taking you back home anytime soon” Faker said as it looked exactly where N! 404 was hiding, but he kept walking in another direction.

“*This guy, no, thing, isn’t letting up, why the hell did I get mixed up in this shit, but most importantly WHERE THE FUCK IS THE OTHER GUY WHO I WAS WORKING WITH!!?* “ N! 404 thought to himself as he looked around the corner

“WILLIAM HELP ME!!” screamed Chara’s voice in the distance

“C-Chara!” N! 404 shouted out as he came out of his cover

“WILLIAM HELP!!!” shouted Chara’s voice again

“HOLD ON IM COMING!” N! 404 shouted as he began to run in that direction

“*Different version or not, Chara is still Chara, I have to protect him!*” N! 404 said in his head as he then arrived in a clearing only to see Chara was nowhere to be seen.

“C-Chara” N! 404 said as he looked around

“Oh William please save me! William please!” shouted Chara’s voice only for him to see Faker standing right behind.

“ Hehehehe I love you William,” said Faker in Chara’s voice, before N! 404 could react Faker grabbed him nearly crushing his body as he could feel his bones cracking. Faker gave a wide grin as he began to look and study N! 404 and his large smile got wider.

“Now this is interesting, you look nothing like the main timeline’s 404 and yet somehow you feel similar to him. Perhaps you’re a close replica, whatever it is you’ll do good as an addition to my many shapes.” Faker laughed as it then began to suck away N! 404’s very being.

“LET HIM GO!!!” shouted a voice causing the two to look over and see Pink404 standing there exhausted and crying. N! 404 looked in shock which caught Faker’s attention.

“ PUT HIM DOWN NOW YOU…Y…YOU FREAK!!” Pink404 shouted as he then used pink mastery on Faker.

“Pitiful,” He said as he then swiped his arm breaking out of it, Faker then threw reached over to grab Pink, but just as he did N! 404 summoned a large sharp bone cutting off Faker’s arm causing him to let go of N! 404. Faker let out a banshee-like scream as he grabbed at his limb, a weird black ooze emitting from it.

“PINK GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE ITS NOT SAFE YOU IDIOT!!” N! 404 shouted only to see Pink404’s eyes dilated to an ungodly degree as he then began to glitch and twitch uncontrollably.

“HeheHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA” laughed Faker in a demonic tone.

“What so damn funny!?” N! 404 asked in frustration

“ I never would have guessed that you of all people would be the one to let it in, but I guess the wheels of causality have their ways of going about things,” Faker said as he and N! 404 watched as Pink 404 began to spaz out and glitch into a horrid mess

“I’m sorry I didn’t want you to see me like this” Pink404 said as suddenly large black spider-like legs came bursting out of his body, N! 404 watched in horror at the scene, but not before he got doused in Faker’s weird black blood that he threw on him before reattaching his arm and healing the wound.

“ I hope you brought your running shoes, HAHAHAHAHAHA” Faker laughed as he then disappeared into shadows. Pink404’s body began to break down and shift into unimaginable shapes as N! 404 began to get up weakly.

[Scanning for anomalies…anomaly recognized]

[Complete erasure is #1 and only solution]

The disfigured and completely abomination-looking Pink began to make its way to N! 404 as its spider-like appendages dragged him forward.

“ I figured there was something off about you, you…you aren’t a 404, your something else entirely,” N! 404 said as he backed up when then a large searchlight shined on him overhead, he blocked his eyes for a moment before looking up to see some hovercrafts with Farnesse and Damien on them along with another hovercraft with a whole squad of officers and one giant Blue! Sentinel flying overhead. The Blue! Sentinel flew down landing behind N! 404 with a large thud while the rest of the officers got their weapons and artillery ready to fire.

“ Be sure to grab a hold of 404#00018, we can’t take any risk with keeping him down there, and be sure to use EVERYTHING we have on the entity” shouted Farnesse into her intercom, as told the officers on the hovercraft then began to fire their weapons and artillery at the entity until nothing, but the smoke was left. Everyone looked in hesitation and suspense only for the entity to still be there, it looked up at the officers with a cold stare.

[Removing assets 568 -573…deletion complete]

Everyone then looked over to see nothing where the officers once were, the entity then began to shake itself off removing whatever was left of Pink404 and showing its true self, AlphaTale.EXE, Farnesse and everyone looked in complete shock and terror at what was in front of them. AlphaTale.EXE then looked towards N! 404 and began to sprint towards him only for the B! Sentinel to get in front of him and fire everything it had onto AlphaTale.EXE causing a large mushroom-like cloud to emerge and sending nearly everyone in a hundred thousand mile radius to go flying and flatting most buildings in front of it and the forest as well. It took a little over 10 minutes before anyone could see or hear anything, N! 404 opened his eyes to see if he could make out anything but still saw nothing. He then saw that he was stuck in a tree and jumped down only to fall in the mud like mush.

“*The hell?...mud?”*N! 404 thought to himself as the smoke began to clear, he began to walk closer through it only to see that there was nothing but darkness through the smoke, He looked in shock and then turned around only to see where he came from was no complete darkness as well, the very “mud” he was walking through has even turned to a pitch black like color.

“Welcome to Hell,” said a disembodied voice, as large effigies of everyone N! 404 began to emerge from the black sludge these effigies were living, mangled, and screaming as they all burned alive all while a glitchy demonic voice laughed with complete hysteria. He could have sworn everything before was real, what was happening? He didn’t understand any of what was happening, he needed something, no, someone so that he could tell what was real and what wasn’t. As his mind began to fall apart as well N! 404 began to sink lower and lower into the sludge, his eyes getting heavy as he started to get tired and weaker.

“Yes, why fight it, why fight me? You live a life of constant torment where your only escape is your nightmares, nightmares which have shapes and those shapes now form into me.” Said the disembodied voice as the black mush began to wrap itself around N! 404’s body and drag him down into the darkness.

“Let it grip you, let it consume you with its warmth, let It make you bright, let it make you real! L E T I T  M A K E  Y O U F A K E” said the voice as N! 404 was pulled all the way down into the darkness with the only thing for him to hold was his breath.

“It’s futile to resist, you will give up, your will is now stronger than that of a baby seal lost at sea, soon you will just wait for the sharks to eat you, let me DEVOUR YOU,” said the voice as N! 404 then began to lose his breath, his eyes began to close, but at the last minute he saw what looked like Prism above the darkness.

“YOU!” N! 404 shouted taking in the dark liquid as the then began to break free and swim to the top, once he emerged he found himself gasping for air.

“You will, WILL run out eventually, I have eternity to wait to kill you, can YOU wait that long? Let's find out” said the voice as suddenly miles behind N! 404 a large hole appeared in the darkness as Faker began to descend from above with angelic wings with a broken and gray-looking halo.

“Swim,” said Prism in N! 404’s head, without a second thought N! 404 began to swim forward at top speed however the sludge made things difficult as black arms and hands continued to grab at his feet and arms keeping him from swimming, but he continued nonetheless as the angelic Faker continued to hover towards him all while singing scriptures from the bible in his distorted and reversed vocals.

“It’s going to catch you if you continue to swim like that,” said Prism

“ WELL, WHY THE HELL AREN’T YOU HELPING ME THEN?! YOU GOT ME INVOLVED IN THIS!!” N! 404 shouted in a voice filled with annoyance and fear as he turned around to see Faker still covering him. He then saw a large group of hands and arms blocking his path, he turned back and summoned his dark blaster firing at them only for it not to just destroy the blockade, but to shatter the darkness and create an exit.

“THERE IT IS!” N! 404 shouted as he then began to make made sprint towards the exit with Faker’s arms extending forward to try and grab him only to miss him at the last second as N! 404 escaped.

He landed on his back on the familiar ground of the perimeter of the Citadel, N! 404 got up and then looked ahead of him to see Farnesse and her forces were still chasing after AlphaTale.EXE.

“Then it wasn’t real, just an illusion,” N! 404 said with relief

“ Oh no it was real,” said Faker standing tall dwarfing N! 404 from behind. N! 404 only looked at his shadow in hopes of not falling for whatever trick he pulled before.

“ I won’t fall for whatever trick you have up your sleeve creature, You better just pack it up now,” N! 404 said as he was hoping that Faker would fall for the bluff.

“ You creatures never stop amazing me, how gutsy you all are, the level of bravery you must search in yourselves to stand against beings that are infinitely more powerful than you,” Faker said with his usual wide grin as his eyes illuminated N! 404 from behind casting his shadow in front of him.

“ I can smell your lies, your fears, and most importantly I can smell just how desperate you are, you’re out of your depth child, you just don’t realize it,” Faker said as his hands were then shown in the light along with N! 404’s shadow.

“ I could tear your shadow apart and you’d suffer the same fate, can you do something like that? I can rupture your very existence with a simple touch, CAN you do that? I have the power to reconfigure you and that entire cute story you come from, I’ve existed far longer than you, and I will continue to do so long after your story meets its eventual climax and long after who made it dies and rots returning to the very dirt of which their kin was born from.” Faker laughed as N! 404’s hands tightened

“YOU LIE! I know you bluffing, you freaks are all the same, you tell lies, and try to manipulate what you can, however, you can! But you don’t fool me! YOU DON’T SCARE ME!!” N! 404 screamed out throwing away his fear, or so he hoped. Faker only laughed at the statement, he continued to laugh and laugh and laugh.

“ The only one your fooling is yourself, boy, Whatever you can say to not shit your pants, you find yourself lucky this day, that rather you like it or not saved your hide, saved you from a fate that no matter how dark of a journey you go down will never match to what I could have done to you this day, so you better get back to marching,” Faker said as his hand pushed N! 404 ahead while multiple shadow 404s surrounded him.

“No god here to save you? You’d better get to marching. No 666 form or Butterfly to resort to? You’d better get to marching. No plot armor out here to resurrect you and bring you back another day if you were to fall in battle against a mighty threat? You’d better get to marching. This vessel I possess is merely a visual piece, allowing me to achieve greater strength while also allowing others to bear witness for if I was in my real form you’d combust into flames along with the rest of the atoms that define you boy” Faker said as his limbs and arms began to morph and change, growing many arms and his head shape changing extremely with both his eyes becoming one.

“For I am the ONE-EYED GOD!” Faker announced to N! 404 before a large gust of wind burst from N! 404 sending him flying forward, he then looked back to see the shadow 404s and Faker was gone. N! 404 then looked over only to see AlphaTale.EXE sprinting right towards him and just as it was about to ram right into him four of Prism’s floating arms appeared grabbing and throwing it to the side.

AlphaTale.EXE hit a tree on its descent down, it shook itself as it looked over to see Prism floating in front of N! 404 who was still on the ground. Farnese and her forces then stood back as they didn’t want to interfere.

“ Run along now thing, Today has been a tiring one for you no doubt, do you want to add a confrontation with me onto that list?” Prism asked, AlphaTale.EXE stood there for a moment not doing much of anything.

[Processing…AlphaTale Residents nearby….still attack?.....negative]

[Escaping]

AlphaTale.EXE then vanished into thin air.

Prism looked down at N! 404 who seemed pissed, scared, and overall confused.

“ What troubles you?” Prism asked without looking at him

“I DON’T UNDERSTAND! I WENT THROUGH ALL OF THIS, THAT THING, AND WHATEVER THE FUCK THAT WAS! Just to achieve NOTHING!?” N! 404 shouted in frustration

“ Not at all, I got a lot of information and most importantly I was able to figure out how to stop it,” Prism said as he then lowered himself down to N! 404 and used one of his hands to ripe away N! 404’s memories of everything he had witnessed knocking him out in the process. Prism then looked at the orb of memories and at Farnesse that was hovering away above with Damien close by shaking in fear.

“M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-M-Ma’am th-th-that’s him,” Damien said shaking with his clipboard.

“I can see that,” Farnesse said with a cold reply as she stared at Prism and he stared back at her.

“Here I reckon you want to keep this” Prism said as he threw the orb of N! 404’s memories to Farnesse who used an unknown variant of blue mastery to catch it. She looked at it and made sure it was real, she then looked back down at Prism.

“ This doesn’t change anything, I hope you know that,” Farnesse said as Prism merely just picked up N! 404 and vanished.

Back in N!AlphaTale

Prism reappeared in the Anti-Void and dumped N! 404 on the ground and then disappeared again.

## Epilogue

5 months after the events of Chapter 4

In the prison, M! 404 and Systematic were both chilling in the main courtyard, Systematic looked around as M! 404 simply stood and looked around.

“I’M NOT THE SICK ONE YOU UGLY MOTHERFUCKER!!!” shouted a Infected as he began to bash in another Infected's skull over a cinder block while others began to spit and hurl on them. The 404s all looked in disgust while others wanted to even get involved. M! 404 eventually figured out that this prison was a corrupt one, that the rich folk up in the capital of the city enjoyed sticking their noises and messing with the inner workings of this place, and that even other higher places than this worked through and through to make sure this place stayed functional, mostly the **White City** while **the Dark throne** was more set on keeping the darker aspects of this place under lock and key.

After the battle that took place around the perimeter, extra precautions were taken to ensure that nothing like AlphaTale.EXE or Faker would return to the Citadel, M! 404 was moved many times from cell to cell even close to some of the most highly secured prisoners, during one such week during his containment M! 404 was sat in a highly secure cell right next to a deemed near Eden like threat, Dark! 404 or more well-known as Abaddon is said to come from the worst Omniverse imaginable in terms of AlphaTale standards. He was said to have devasted the entirety of the White City and turned all of Eden into a hellscape a being of true and ultimate negative energy, completely feeding on any sign of negative energy, which means that no one was allowed to feel depressed or sad or even annoyed around him otherwise his eventual escape was a 100% guarantee.

Deep down in the Citadel were the Tombs of the Greater beings, a place where the prison would send inmates to go down and plunder the depths to search for perhaps a hidden truth. The Tombs lay deep in Eden, how they got there no one knows, but all they knew was that things got crazy down there. Eventually M! 404 began to earn his keep and soon even Farnesse began to see the worth in this prisoner, so in return M! 404 and with recommendation Systematic soon were given their cell together along with a plethora of perks.

Outside of the Prison, The Capital was in an uproar over the appearance of Faker at the perimeter of the Citadel and many were even more upset with the leftovers that needed fixing while others elsewhere wondered about conditions outside Citadel.

During one of his many walks through the prison M! 404 then noticed he had stumbled over to where Dark! 404 was restrained.

“ *Hmph, always wondered why they had you locked away so tight,*” M!404 thought to himself

“ *You should be known by now,*” said Dark! 404 as he looked down at M! 404

“ *…So you can read my thoughts then, guess they aren’t too good at restraining you after all*” M! 404 thought to himself

“ *So, why the chains, the steel tight blanket, and everything,*” M! 404 Asked

“ *I lived a terrible life in my world would be understating my torment in my home, it was torture every moment of it agonizing and painful. So you can imagine my surprise when I came here*.” Dark! 404 said as he looked around

“ *You came here? So you killed them, all your brothers, alpha and them all…even Sol?*” M! 404 asked as he then looked back and forth for guards.

“ … “ Dark! 404 didn’t answer and more or less just continued to stare

“ *Did you?*” Dark! 404 Asked

“ *Of course* “ M! 404 smirked

“ *Such pride and for what? So you can end up here like me trapped for all eternity.* “ Dark! 404 said as he looked at the chains.

“ *Speak for yourself, I’m breaking out of here,*” M! 404 said as he gripped the chains in his hands.

“*With the Blue! Sentinals all over the place it’ll be impossible, you’ll need to have divine help to escape this place.”* Said Dark! 404

“ *Tch! Don’t think that I’m gonna help you get out if that’s what you're implying fool*!” M! 404 said in an annoyed voice as he then left leaving Dark! 404 all by himself

“ *You already have,*” Dark! 404 thought to himself as he could feel his power rise again, just a little bit of negativity goes a long way.

Credits

N!404/N!AlphaTae belongs to Nytethelad.

Systematic belongs to Kroomer404