Avid Adopter

4 - Teach

"Hey, come back here!" I ran down a hallway.

"You'll never catch me!" Killer giggled as he ran away from me.

"It's only inevitable! I know these halls better than you do!"

"I've been here for two whole months! I know where I'm going!"

"Right into a wall?"

"No-" Killer grunted as he ran right into a wall. "Okay..ow.."

"I told you not to run in the house." I knelt down beside him on the floor. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah, I'm okay! That was fun!"

"I suppose it was exciting."

"Can we play more?"

"Not at the moment; I've been thinking about something."

"What?"

"Do you know how to cook?"

"Nobody ever taught me.."

"I thought so. If you're ever stuck down here alone, you're going to need to learn how to take care of yourself..in case I'm not here."

"Why?"

"Well, these past two months, I've been lucky; usually, I get captured at least once a month."

"How do you get out?"

"You know how I work for the multiverse?"

"Yeah! You're super cool, like a secret superhero!"

"Well, I don't do all of that on my own."

"What do you mean?"

"If I weren't working for the multiverse, I probably wouldn't be here, right now."

"Why not?"

"I've been captured and restrained in many different ways, and the only reason I've escaped those is because the multiverse doesn't want me to stop working for it."

"So it's like a secret agent?"

"Somewhat..it works like this: if I get captured, the multiverse will force the other side to make some sort of error, such as leaving the door unlocked, and I escape."

"What if you didn't escape?"

"You mean if I didn't want to?"

"Uh-huh."

"In that case, the multiverse would force me to escape."

"Is the multiverse mean?"

"Not intentionally..it's like a computer. You know how beings are made up of code, right?"

"Yep!"

"Well, the multiverse is the computer we link our code to. Just as a computer has antivirus software and firewalls, the multiverse has Guardians. Although, a computer mainly protects itself from outside forces; the multiverse simply desires to keep balance among inside forces. To put it simply, we'll use the balance of Positivity and Negativity. The people of the multiverse are subject to this, and if it is thrown off, everything is messed up. In order to keep the balance, the multiverse needs something - or someone - to keep things straight; that's where I come in. I keep the balance straight in order to protect the multiverse, and if I didn't, it would be very detrimental."