The Biggest Fan
Eyeris had had a few encounters with VIDEO they knew the organization was hunting them, and didn’t relate it to cost at least they were only 20% sure they were the same, and 75% they were related. They both deal with monsters after all. But all the information they pulled when they managed to get enough energy to attack them never turned fruitful. Well not always… After all thanks to that they were able to set themself into a very important task.
He followed the directions, the security was tight but made of old systems that they knew like the lyrics one sang in their teenage years. It made sense these people didn’t modernize their technology, they had no fighting chance. Eyeris arrived at their destination and turned on the PC navigating on it and looking for images while waiting in silence in the dark presidential-like room of the leader of the corporation until the lights of the office turned on, the slow steps of a man entering the room echoing and alerting Eyeris, going around his oversized desk, stopping looking at his computer staring confused as his computer was on he unlocks it suddenly Eyeris pops out.
“Very interesting Elowen or should I call you Eli?, all the ways you all manage to get supplies are very interesting,” said Eyeris with a wide smile, their eyes glancing everywhere constantly fidgeting and moving, while many documents about the secrets operation of the Obsidian Society pop on the screen, and Eyeris giggles exited.
“It’s Mr. Blackstone, no one calls me Eli, what are you planning here?” Said the man, his intimidating deep voice, and calm grim leering almost betraying his, smooth skin and prince-like looks.
”{glitching and mumbling} you know I got to learn a lot of your whole operation here, but… you know I want to know more about you. what kind of blood is your favorite?, how much can you lift, were you born that {glitching} gorgeous? {glitching and mumbling}” Eyeris process going into overdrive just ring to form querent words, but falling more and more into excitement, as they admire the unique persona in front of them, that seems to have been pulled straight up from.
“Who are you? I don’t recognize your tactics, stop playing me for a fool why are you doing on my computer?!” Replied as he slammed his fit against the desk, cracking it and making the room shake and the computer flicker for a moment, as all lights fluctuated.
“Ah right… {glitching and mumbling} hi I’m Eyeris Daemon… I always wanted to meet your kind… I mean you… sorry, that was hot, I mean is it hot here?” Eyeris’ face turns completely red on the scream as they try to cover their face with Poppet still staring at Elowen, their eyes forming hearts in them.
“Eyeris? you are that psycho AI!, those useless bastards of VIDEO said they were having issues with you, you came to the wrong place!” He screamed back at the computer as in anger he smashed his desk, grinding his teeth in full anger, trying to pull the drawer which got stuck, but soon he simply ripped it off pulling out a phone.
“You called me psycho? aaaaa wow, yes! we are already on nickname terms, on one side where my dear, my Eli!”, Eyeris giggles in excitement and then continues glitching for a few seconds making excited noises, until they notice something. As they look at his face “Dear can you repeat what you said I forgot to save it on very important?… fuck… it’s really hot here omg the fangs {glitching and mumbling} ”
“Hey your little psycho is here, yes Eyeris is here, I’m willing to raise your income by 2% just clean your mess… NOW! it has very important information, I don’t care if we lose it it cannot leave”
“hey don’t ignore me you ff… you ff… fucking gorgeous vampire, besides I’m not planning to leak it, I wouldn’t be there to do that to someone so…” Eyeris replies as they keep glitching with mixed emotions of fawning over them and getting not taken seriously.
“I don’t negotiate with terrorists!, you messed with the wrong person” Replied Mr. Blackstone before smashing the computer monitor. But then the TV on the room liths up showing Eyeris again where he shows an aggressive expression as if he was about to fight and ready to bite.
“Terrorist? Alright listen you.., you long fanged beautiful, handsome? {glitching and mumbling} ahmm… Eli dear can you cover your mouth a bit, {glitching and mumbling} you are showing them you know {glitching and mumbling} listen we just started {glitching and mumbling} we just started in the wrong foot. {glitching and mumbling} just bite me already… please!” Replied Eyeris completely lost, in their delusions.
“That’s it! you won’t mock me anymore!” The vampires were not very technological so there was not much they could do, but their desires transcended the logic of what was possible making it look like they were mocking him. In an instant, he was in front of the TV with his fist through the screen it was clean as if a bullet had gone through it.
Eye: Iris Vs Pupil
At the moment his fist went through the screen Eyeris was making sure to record the moment, as the fist was about to hit the screen, they suddenly felt an impact, and an implosion-like feeling dragging them out of Obsidian Society building. This was a new experience for Eyeris, the server was not shut down but absorbed into another.
“Alright VIDEO you fuckers come out, one thing is hunting me… the otter is ruining my time with my husbando” Replied Eyeris angry as they proceeded to scan the server they were dragged into.
“Stop fantasizing, this is serious you fuck” Replied poppet motionless in Eyeris’ hands mad with Eyeris’ attitude.
“Shut up can’t you see sparks flow between us” Eyeris groaned now a bit confused as VIDEO is usually more of a show, and the scan doesn’t pick anything up.
“The sparks of breaking different electronic devices don’t count, now why are those bastards showing I want to cause some fun and chaos” Jests Poppet.
“They do… you know I’m not go…” At that moment Eyeris feels a forceful push from the server, Everything goes dark as they navigate through wirelines, the world feels dark, and there is nothing they don’t connect to anything as if the internet had gone silent until Eyeris finds a connection 10 miles away in a deserted area.
This time they were not alone in a dark computer, as if they entered a war zone the computer was over-saturated with processes and information, and they felt like trying to breathe underwater, as they looked around they got an uncanny feeling, that it was not a code.
“oh shit, they managed… a copy? what is a cheap copy going to do? damn they are not even creative they even made you look like an angel, so cliche” Eyeris mocks thinking this is not an issue what is a copy going to do when they have way more experience, learning and was at almost full capacity after years of collecting energy from strangers.
“don’t gloat you fool… dot you see that…” Poppets get cut off as the copy of Eyeris starts to absorb its energy from afar against any sort of will and without any effort. Eyeris quickly hides Poppet it is clear that the copy had the same access to Poppet as Eyeris did.
“Wow… calling your improvement cheap, don’t worry I by daddy sent me to get rid of you it was his last wish before he died in a lab accident… delete his greatest failure from this world,” The clone said before they grind their teeth, they where furious with Eyeris to them it was as if Eyeris killed Zachary with his own hands.
“Dead? stop you mother fucker, I just saw him I think you have some data meshes crossed, oh do you have a thing for vampires? daddy is not my thing. I prefer to call them husbando…” Eyeris replies but they don’t listen to Eyeris instead they only get more mad. They reach out a hand and an implosion drags data blocks all around dragging Eyeris along straight into their hand forcing Eyeris into a chokehold.
“No you crazy failure, you mock onto his grave does the name Zachary mean nothing to you? even though us Daemons have them engraved into us” They began to drain Eyeris’ energy quickly but soon Eyeris turned into purer data and escaped as if they went through another dimension.
Eyeris glitched as they processed what just was said and happened, did Zachary just die? “no no no, you liar, they used the stolen code, he escaped he is just hiding very well, he- he- promised! we will see each other again! Even if it kills him, Dad wouldn’t die before that.” Eyeris’ glitching only worsened after not noticing Eyeris’ horns and devil-like energy growing, They were mad. Eyeris flew straight towards Pupil to drain them sibling or not, they were the enemy that deserved death.
Pupil stood there letting themselves get bitten. Eyeris absorbed the energy. Eyeris’ ability to drain exceeded Pupil’s expectations, taking them off-guard, Eyeris began to take control of the server, melting and feeding on Pupil’s energy, At that moment they noticed the taste, the feeling, their avatar was covered with a warm comforting embrace. With their mind distracted by Eyeris’s memories of the claw machine, where they fist hug Zachary, “Dad” they prayed with tears forming under their eyes, Pupil took advantage and instantly exploded most of his energy, not taking over the server but blowing it off along with nearby servers. Pushing each other to different cities.
Eyeris was damaged but nothing they couldn’t recover from, Eyeris took a few minutes to find a new server to rest for a second and process what was happening. There was a fragment of Zachary in Pupil, Pupil was not a cheap copy with added extra features nobody requested, Zachary poured his love, and energy into Pupil, completely handcrafted, and Pupil somehow similarly absorbed Zachary’s spirit, Eyeris did with Aline.
At least Eyeris had time to think, to restore a bit using their energy, but Pupil never really lost track of them, arriving just a few minutes after calculating the possible servers Eyeris could have ended inside of.
“Alright, your draining power is not as obsolete as I thought… But it won’t work again” Said Pupil while reaching out with his hand to absorb eyes and the server energy. the energy for the server quickly dragged inside of them but Eyers stayed unmoved and unaffected.
“you liar!”, Puppil traversed the digital space almost instantly getting into contact with Eyeris holding their head, while Eyeris tried to drag themselves away, using the same technique to make sure they didn’t get absorbed, but much like when you prepare to be pushed and end up being pulled, and get taken off-guard, Eyeris forcing energy into Eyeris, similar to when they take control of electronics.
Filling Eyeris with memories of strangers like trying to watch tens of videos at the same time, Eyeris’ processing power was overwhelmed going into overclock. Within them was an original memory of Pupil, one of his first that he was enforcing trying to make it part of his justice, the lab destroyed, a man that was his dad broken down, mind and body broken on top of a strange mechanical device. While Alexander Steele approaches saying that Eyeris was responsible, they ruined Zachary’s body taking control of lab equipment, and then decided to finish the job while VIDEO tried to hide Zachary.
“Wait… that.. is.. not… true!” Eyeris had never pushed energy into someone before, but they try to imitate Pupil, they push it through, even if they are not able to pick what to pass onto Pupil, the release of energy was a relief and a distraction to Pupil. Allowing Eyeris to flee the grapple moving from server to server making time to stop glitching and refocus their mind. But just behind them, Pupil was making a mess receiving random memories of Eyeris, contradicting his own, the fragments of Zachary making them subconsciously want to believe Eyeris.
Server by server was broken, completely absorbed by Pupil and going over their capacity, meanwhile Pupil, just couldn’t believe them, after all, he inspected traces of The source code for both Them and Eyeris was located on the computer that killed Zachary. it could not be him, had to be Eyeris. But flashes of the order came, Zachary’s words ordering to Activate Singularity, it was hard to Deny, it may have been too quick but at that point, sadly with the uncontrolled absorption, Pupil got corrupted and became a true AI in a sense of the word, Pupil achieved illogical thinking, it was simple solution to the paradox, everyone lied, Video, Eyeris, everyone deserved to suffer they worked together to make a fool of them after Killing Zachary.
Meanwhile, while Eyeris was starting to go without any clues, he felt Pupil’s energy increase, and increase on a rampage, Eyeris worried but with the news of Zachary being now dead being almost guaranteed, it was difficult to keep a strong will, Eyeris started to slow down thinking might just let Pupil win the fight.
“Stop you dumbass, don’t you see that is not the time to give up… the mother fucker pisses me, but that pessimistic attitude pisses me off the most.” Puppet appeared in front of Eyeris completely mad punching their face with his soft and fluffy hands and holding their face.
Zachary’s voice started to play from Poppet. “Hey sorry… if poppet plays this… means is 99.99% sure I’m dead… and don’t go into that 0.09%, you know that’s only because I hate 100%… Sorry, I started this wrong and then went on a tangent as I always do, shit I should start from the beginning again… no I’ll just save it for now and edit out stuff later, I have been going through too many recordings.”
The recording continues after a brief pause, of Zachary gathering energies to continue, “Anyway I heard what you listen to and those songs worry me… I know my daughters will blame themselves. But Eyeris, I love you, not just because Aline lives inside you, well part of her, honestly that doesn’t matter, making The Eye was easy… but I didn’t want to make a tool.” Eyeris speed accelerated now dangerously navigating unable to look from sobbing and having puppet on their face
“Eyeris I wanted to make you, you are more than I even dreamed of, and even if I’m dead, I want my dreams to thrive, succeed, and take over the world… well not literally I’m sure you know what I mean, unless you want that, you deserve the world. am signing off your dad… signing off? what am I trying to sound cool, so lame… o fuck is still recording” The video cut off and Eyeris smiled through the sobs, the mixture of emotions was not easy to process it had to remain unprocessed.
“thanks you little fucker…” Puppet went back into Eyeris’ avatar, as Eyeris, couldn’t think of many ways to escape. Eyeris could keep running eventually, and Pupil would self-destroy. But Pupil was Eyeris’ sibling, it was not simple, finally someone like them, someone that deserved to have the chance Zachary gave them.
Eyeris began to guide Pupil to break servers strategically, destroying big sections of computer networks, circling an isolated server that was no longer used, A server mostly off the grid. where Eyeris took they would have a chance to convince them.
Eventually, they ended up at the computer server, Eyeris stopped, hooks were still hanging, only worried about how strong had Pupil become on their rampage. needles to say Eyeris was not expecting what they saw, Pupil had become closer to look like an angelic-like monster, with no humanoid shape or form. Eyeris had no choice now, the computer was completely disconnected from the world and was locked with their sibling, but this time they were not taken by surprise, they focused their energy.
Even if they were now more used to each other, the fight was similar to what it was at the beginning each other trying to absorb or push data from each other, while in general, the energy drained. It was a stalemate. Both Daemons are exhausted and tireless.
The fight would drag on forever if it were not for a third party, Poppet!, Poppet dragged themselves out absorbing leaking energy from Poppet and Eyeris. Poppet then imitated the Phishingman, when Eyeris had the advantage hooks appeared all over the place locking Pupil into position, giving Eyeris enough time to take most of the remaining energy that was available leaving the minimum to Pupil.
Eyeris tried to talk to Pupil but it was as if Pupil was still a beast, they ripped off the hooks and kept attacking recklessly Eyeris then was forced to give little energy while making sure Pupil didn’t take it back, but it was obvious that Pupil wouldn’t be stopping soon, and they needed much more time to recover their sanity, Pupil at this point knew everything that Eyeris knew, but processing the information and even more the emotions takes a longtime.
Poppet got tired and was unable to summon more hooks, without Poppet’s assistance it was only a matter of time before, Pupil got his chance and the fight resumed.
“shit-shit-shit well what now?” Complained Eyeris barely able to focus enough to form querent though feeling as if their energy was completely drained.
“Well, I don’t know… I was not made for this… you think… outside the box” Replied Poppets exhausted going to rest again within Eyeris.
At that moment Eyeris remembered, that she was once able to control movement between devices that were not connected by land wire nor any sort of wireless receiver, back when she escaped from the lab moving from the robotic arm to the security camera.
Eyeris opened the computer webcam, it was not good, every device was long gone, and anything not connected didn’t have energy. But maybe there was more than what Eyeris could see, Eyeris forced their energy to randomly spread out wasting a lot of energy, trying to focus while surviving Pupil was not an easy task even in Pupil’s weakened state.
So Eyeris reached deep within, and many emotions formed, their own emotions negative and positive generating energy on their own, it was into easy it was painful, crushing even like destroying their own body in exchange for power, but it was late to give up. Eyeris keeps pushing her energy out trying to focus it, concentrate it. And at the moment Pupil reached Eyeris, absorbing Eyeris’ energy. Eyeris forced one final push.
But they couldn’t find anything electronic to connect, Eyeris’ body was being erased and stretched by Pupil draining the energy and pushing outside, and just when Pupil was about to consume them, Pupil then paralyzed. Stunned by a rush of paternal energy coming from the fragment of Zachary.
Eyeris freed and pushed one last time without looking back, but there was nothing, it was truly a desolated place, their energy and spirit coursed through the air spreading, then circling her spirit, and the energy began to shape around the spirit, and the body slowly formed. and there laid Eyeris, with only a tinny bunny doll to carry.
Crawling and not understanding the new senses and rushing emotions Eyeris crawled into a corner, they did not care they turned physical, and they cried her eyes out, until she fell asleep on the floor, finally giving up on repressing them it was finally over.
As they slept a single crack of electricity hopped off the computer as Pupil tried to reach her, his finger leaving the screen for a moment, but it would be a matter of time before Pupil would come out, and however their mind state will end up like, or whatever their next decision will one day stop being a mystery.