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I'd prefer it if you didn't.

*We walk forward into a strange looking office flanked with windows that seem to go nowhere. Raising my hands, I clap, causing windows to display what seem to be other parts of the world, though most of them are so strange it's impossible to say for sure*

You wanted to know why?

*I motion to the windows*

That's why. Other reality warpers who are just as powerful as me. We all keep each other in check, which is why the challenge system exists, aside from its Antediluvian roots.

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What happens when an Apex decides to ignore the system? Do some of you band together to thwart them in order to maintain the system?

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*Claps my hands, sending out the lightning in your direction in a horizontal arc, consuming the nanobots and striking you as well*

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*Strikes the tip of the blades with lightning to dull them*

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We did once.

*I turn away from the alien vistas as they return to normal*

And I'm still not sure we made the right choice.

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And why is that?

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Because it was a kid.

*Looks at you, expression sour*

You ever had to kill a kid? Especially one whose motivation was nothing more than a desire for safety?

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Ah, I see now. I have not, because I cannot do harm unto others, but I have watched a scenario like that before. What made the kid believe that the system did not create safety?

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It wasn't the system. It was their mind.

*Sighs, looking away*

You know you only ever see the reality warpers who are of sound mind, for the most part, but what of those who aren't? What of those godlike beings who are afflicted by fears beyond their control? That's what we fought. Not some upstart, but a child that thought the whole world was out to get them, and almost destroyed it as a result.

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*looks out the window*
Hmmm, his fear was controlling him, and in turn developed into paranoia. Desperation makes people do things that they would normally not do. especially of your kind. which is why you must keep control of your emotions, no?

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Exactly. Reality bends to our whim easier than most. One stray thought and...

*Makes a gesture of blowing dust from my palm*

It all comes crumbling down.

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Your abilities are really sensitive, from what I am gathering.

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Only to the untrained.

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Naturally though, if they have to be trained to control them, then they must be sensitive. Even to a master.

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The rip that pulled me here looks awful similar to yours however.
*I kept my eyes solely on him skeptically*

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Not really. It's kind of like lucid dreaming. The more you do it, the better you get.

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Your arsenal never ends, does it?

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This was the aim from the start.
*Punches you with a planet-sized fist*

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*grins as the lighting begins arcing between the blades, I swing the hammer at you, the force of the swing rips through the ground*

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*Vinashy appears in a flash of light*

Are you Graveny?

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*Is slammed into the ground despite blocking it with my hands*
You're gonna hurt your friends with a weapon that big.

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*The special properties of the lightning wither the blade away as the hammer lands directly, due to me blocking Data's blow*

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No.

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*Is slammed into the ground despite blocking it with my hands*
You're gonna hurt your friends with a weapon that big.

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*The special properties of the lightning wither the blade away as the hammer lands directly, due to me blocking Data's blow*

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No.

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Oh, okay. I get it now.