True 0r1g1ns/C0re Mem0ry

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Alone in the void, without your guardian, or any adult for that matter, you stand, waiting for Expunged to appear to scold you for messing up his task. Instead, a much younger version of him appears, a version that's small with pitch black skin and only one eye that almost looks painted on. He's luminous and hazy, and you can't seem to interact with him. He's a memory, a window into the past. He sits alone, until a creature with white fur and a green tail stumbles upon him.
"Y'know I keep seeing you around here. Do you have a family or something?" The furred creature asks.
Expunged shakes his head.
"Well, I'm pretty bored. Wanna hang out?"
Expunged nods.
The two walk throughout the void, talking on and on about nothing and giggling over silly things. They end up walking in a circle, leading them back to the place they began.
"You're so much more fun than the Conbis. They're all so boring and orderly," The furred creature crashes on the ground. "You're not like them. You're pretty fun."
Expunged smiles.
"Hey, y'know what would be fun," The furry sits up. "How about we screw with the code a lil bit, just for funzies."
Expunged stares at them, a bit confused.
"Oh, you don't know about the code, do you? Here, lemme show you."
The furry sits up. A wall of glowing ones and zeros appear before them. Expunged's eyes widen in amazement.

"Pretty cool, huh? These numbers make up our entire world

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"Pretty cool, huh? These numbers make up our entire world. But they're a bit difficult t0 fiddle with."
The wall of numbers turns into a wall of words.
"This code is a bit more...comprehensive. Using this code, we can do anything we want to whoever we want," The furry turns to Expunged. "So, what'cha wanna do?"
Expunged thinks for a second.
"We should make them small and powerless." He says with a psychotic grin. A grin that feels much like the one he wears in the present.
"That's an easy one! Lemme type it in real quick." The furry types in some gibberish with real words mixed in; Code that your young mind can't comprehend.
"Alright! Let's go to the palace and check our results."
The two walk to a palace that has apparently been standing in the distance the entire time. It's entirely made of cylinders and cones, and in front of it stands a doll-sized Conbi. Conbi complains and protests in his tiny voice. Expunged and the furry guy do nothing but laugh. They laugh and laugh until-
BAM!
The palace falls apart and Conbi's code begins to shift. He becomes his regular size and grabs the two kids by the neck.
"You know, I should delete you two. Especially that glitch..." Conbi growls.
Expunged laughs. "I am much more than a glitch. I could easily dethrone you if I wanted to."
"Ha! Not if I do it first." The furred creature interjects.
"Is that a challenge?" Expunged asks eagerly.
"Yeah!"
The two give each other a look of determination. Then the scene seems to fade, leaving the void empty. And Expunged sits in the empty void. His face is a black hole phasing in and out of existence. He cries, his voice too low-quality to be understood. Yet he manages to get one sentence out.
"F-F-Fi-npuɐᙠ puıℲ, 𝕕𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕖 C̴̢̨͚̤͕̱̒͘ͅö̸̬̖͕̣́͋͊͐̈́n̴̨̳̖̹̞̜͊̎̄̓b̸̡̨̹̤̗͙̬̱̞́̈́͊̚͝į̶̨̯̪͆̍͊̉̅͒̔̎̀."

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