Chapter 11 Alt Title: Auric, What The Hell Are You Doing?

After successfully tricking Teridax into thinking that a) I was much weaker than he thought, and b) that he had total command over the actions of my subspace pocket, I found myself drifting through the void, just, y'know, hanging out. Of course, that was before I noticed a temporally unstable Universe in the Equestria Cluster.

Being a SysAdmin, I decided to check it out.

When I got to said Universe, I was immediately surprised at just how badly the Universe was fucked up. Said Universe was also immediately recognizable as the work of my idiot subordinate admin, Tenebrous. Yes, all SysAdmins are shadow manipulators like me, it seems to be the only way to manipulate Universes like we do. Or at least, the one's I've seen are like me...

Whatever...the point is, Tenebrous had a history of creating Universes where the world itself was a game connected to alternate versions of said Universe as different "save files". It was enough to make me want to kick Tenebrous' ass. But I didn't because something else caught my attention.

"Oh no. OH NO HE DID NOT! Teridax did NOT just lock me out of his Universe!"

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"Shit shit shit shitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshitshit....Okay...okay...I can handle this. Later. Simple enough...just...need to recalibrate the root world...retroactively manipulate the time stream...hehe...poor bastard doesn't know that new additions only exist from the moment they're programmed onwards...and Time has no meaning in the Void eternal. You may think me worse than Starscream, asshole, but I Understand things a hell of a lot better than your dinky ass little robo-brain. That stray line was intentional, but I must applaud you for your efforts. I'll leave you alone for now...for now."

Oh, the things I would do to mess with Teridax. Speaking of Teridax, he also tore out my initial shadow programming in the Vahi, the one specifically designed to be noticed, that didn't do anything except act as a remote detonator...the fiftieth redundant detonator, to be exact.

Activate Present Tense

Che, Teridax thinks to play me as a fool, but I'm not Starscream and I'm not Brutus...or rather, I'm a traitor but I'm not stupid. [Jsyrin], I'm counting on you to keep [Ssendam] from Master Control-ing everything to hell. After all, ours is a collision of three different, but in a way exactly the same, Multiverses. Not gonna be able to stop one Master Controller from doing what he will, but I got at least one on my side. All the other crossovers are just links in a chain, and I'm the padlock keeping the two opposing chains together, but apart...weird analogy, that.

And no, dear readers, I am not going to stop punching holes in the Fourth Wall. I may not be able to pass through the dimensional barrier separating me from you, but at least I can send a message.

That aside, I guess I should patrol for stupidly fucked up Universes again...man, without Auric or anyone else contacting me for the War of Understanding, my life is really, really goddamn boring. I mean seriously! Here I am, a SysAdmin, retelling my adventures in present and past tense, all at the whims of a Master Controller, a.k.a. [Jsyrin]...and occasionally [Ssendam] and [Thadius0]. Gods, working for those three has ruined me. What the hell am I supposed to do without Auric or Teridax, or their allies, huh? I got nothing to do except Admin work, and that's easily done in, like, five minutes!

...Y'know what? Since I haven't done anything worthwhile in, well, a while, I'm just gonna end the signal transmission here.

G'night dear readers.

End Chapter 10.5
(11, technically)

Author's Notes:

Gods, that was the shortest goddamn chapter I've written in a long time. I'm sorry, but, I just couldn't think of anything. I'm not like Thadius0 or Ssendam the Masked; I am not a "professional" Fimfiction Writer.

Omake, since I feel you deserve one:

What if Umbra decided to win the War of Understanding all on his own?

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"Umbra?"

"Yes, Auric?"

"Would you mind explaining why we're in Teridax's Universe? What if he finds us? I'm not at full power yet!"

"He won't, he's dead."

"WHAT!?"

"He tried to lock me out of my SysAdmin position, I got pissed, and retroactively coded his soul into a viral pattern in the Universe. Then I set the Universe's AntiVirus codes on him. He should be reborn in a few millennia... as a worm."

"And I say again, WHAT!?"

"Hey, at least you won't have to worry anymore...unless you got Measured pregnant, then gods deliver you to heaven in a few months...she's not pregnant, is she?"

"..."

"...Okay, I'll take that as a no...let's get you home now..."

VWORPLE

"...WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED!?"

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"Finally, I can go find some other Universes to haunt...Fucking Makuta..."

THE END