The CANONICALS

The Power of The Glitch.

The silhouetted boy groaned quietly as he shifted to the side on his bed. A red outline surrounded him, as if he were nothing but a placeholder for something that didn't exist. He flung to the side again, objects around his room floating, all also with a red outline as nothing but black voids began to spread out from the center of each object.

"No...!"

He wasn't awake, yet was trembling in fear as he tossed and turned on his bed.

"Don't do this—!"

The objects in his room began to shift around, each swapping places as the boy began to float upwards from his bed. Not once had he had a night like this. He was usually able to sleep through the whole night, no problems. Ever since he had become this thing, and even before, he would just cruise through the night, his body firm on his bed, not moving even once.

There was something different about this night. Ben felt nothing but dread as he groaned quietly, tossing and turning over and over on his bed.

"No...! NO!"

Ben sprung up from the bed, all of his memories of the dream leaving in a flash as all the bulbs in the room shattered around him. Ben squinted, the single, outlined red eye above his forehead squinting as he glanced around. All the objects in the room clattered to the ground, now replaced with something completely different than what they originally were as Ben shuffled on his bed, laying back down.

He stared at the brown brick ceiling above him as he thought about everything. His mind raced, hundreds of memories and thoughts rushing to the front of his mind, nothing at all coherent, yet Ben was able to understand it all.

Jade and Zee called Ben's condition "Interdimensional ADHD," and the others stuck with it, not quite having any other ideas of what could be up with him. Zee and Jade's idea worked well enough.

Ben shook his head as he tried falling back asleep. But the thoughts wouldn't stop right now.

"Danger," "Run," "It's not safe," and "Soon," were all things that repeated over and over in his mind, but Ben couldn't understand what any of it meant. He didn't know what his mind was trying to tell him.

He closed his eye once more.

He would always hear about the adventures that the others went on while he was asleep. Like the evil version of the other version of Jade (sure, that sentence was confusing, but it made total sense to Ben), or when they got trapped inside of the Walmart. Or was it Target?

Ben couldn't remember.

He reopened his eye before stirring and eventually getting up from the bed, now headed towards the door. He slowly pushed the metal door open, which creaked loudly.

He entered the hallway and yawned, glancing back out the window to see that it was just becoming morning. He glanced around, before seeing Aster trotting back up the hallway towards his room. He glanced at Ben and the two stared at each other.

"You're up early," Aster stated.

"So are you," Ben replied.

Aster shook his head, "I'm just about to go to sleep."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"Well..."

"I'm gonna go do that now. Bye!"

Aster trotted back to his room as Ben began his walk up to the cafeteria. He rounded the corner through the cafeteria into the kitchen, where Jack was standing, waiting for his coffee as he talked to a decrepit looking version of himself. Ben recognized him to be Shneiik.