Status of specimen
Transmission successful The creature had moved into their world. This was certainly a very worrying prospect, but many safeguards were in place.
Finally now, perhaps they could have some answers. What were these strange creatures that had started to glimpse at them in their actions? What is it that made this world so special? What were the young, that seemed able to protect it?
Lilly stood motionless, in the nothingness. There was nothing here, not even time. her body was essentially, frozen. Lights flickered around her, as they examined and reworked their equations to identify how everything worked.
Unknown template. They said. Everything seemed just so 'odd'.
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Finally they had some concepts to work with. Pulmonary system, Nervous system, reproductive system...This was a biological specimen. An evolved creature, starting from a single cell as it adapted, succumbing to the pressures of an incredibly harsh environment called Earth. They had no concept for 'pressured' evolution, they simply evolved as what they thought was needed. There was no need for a physical form, so such thing existed. There was little need for anything beyond survival. Yet... there was a... similarity... something so close to them, it was bordering on disturbing.
Hybridised thought matter One said, struggling to understand the concept. It should not be, yet it was. These creatures had started to go towards becoming similar to themselves. The creature had a biological form, yet it was also made up of a thought pattern. Still the question came of where the thought came from. Possibly in the neurological structure? Or a higher dimensional attribute? Maybe both? This required further analysis.
Examine neurological matter
As soon as they had though, the beings shrieked. They actually screamed. The huge vastness of energy in the subject's mind was overwhelming. It burned their simple wave patterns, as they stumbled trying to understand just what this structure was.
ERROR! ERROR! ERROR! ERROR! ERROR!
Panic etched into them as everything in their realm was starting to find definition. To become single, discreet, individualistic. No! This was their worst fear!
There is an entire world inside the creatures mind!
It was too much! Not just one world, several worlds! Those called 'young' had worlds inside their heads! The creature was perceiving a world through the eyes of others, of imagined worlds, and of creatures within imagined worlds. Worlds within worlds within worlds within worl-
The teen-boy stood unsure where he was. Dreaming obviously, but... this place was so familiar. It was a vast green forest. He had never been here before, yet he knew this place. He could feel trees, and flowers... touch the moss, everything here was so fresh and alive. The trees reached up so high, that they blocked out the sunlight, though allowed just enough to filter through. Oddly enough though he couldn't quite remember his name... he did have one right? But what was it..
He looked down at himself, at his male human form. This was unbelievable! He... he was himself. He hugged his body, feeling sheer relief at it. Though he couldn't help but feel that it felt 'wrong' to not have his tails- and actually having his male parts back also seemed just a bit weird. Maybe he had spent too much time as that- weird thing. Still, what was he doing in this forest? With some uncertainty he walked, though didn't see any path.
He was surprised to hear something. Someone crying? The teenager frowned a bit, and followed the sound. The crying sounded so loud to his ears, despite the distance. It was all around him, yet somehow he was able to find it. There under a tree, he found...
... Lilly?
The young boy blinked, even as the girl looked at him. "I-It- I-t cant be..." Billy said approaching. He was her! She was him. They can't 'both' be here!
Lilly looked at Billy very angry. "What d' you want!"
"H-How... I..." Billy was at a loss for words. This can't possibly happen! Then he noticed how angry Lilly seemed to be at him. The young girl looked so mad that her twin tails were twirling and her ears were slightly flattened. "Why are you so mad at me?" The human asked in the end.
"Cause everythin's your fault!" The girl said getting up staring at her taller counterpart.
"My fault? I didn't ask to be a-" he paused. He couldn't say it. Not in front of Lilly.
"Why do you hate me so much!" The child said crying. She was so upset and distraught that Billy felt a pang of horrible guilt welling inside him. He approached the young child, touching her head. She certainly felt real... but it was impossible. Lilly winced and pulled away from him. "J-Jus' tell me why you hate me!"
"I..." Billy looked down. How could he explain? The shame he felt about it, being so small and weak... when he always wanted to be someone. Someone special and strong. "I don't hate you," he said.
"Liar!" Lilly said staring at him.
This was starting to get really weird for Billy. He just wanted to wake up now, and forget about this very strange dream. But it didn't look like he was being allowed to wake up yet. "I- I'm just scared Lilly," he said in the end. "I don't want to be a..." he trailed away again. Why couldn't she understand?
"You are the one holdin' me back. Makin' me not do stuff." Lilly pointed out. "It isn't me that's the problem it's you! I want to do all the stuff that makes me happy! I want to play with dolls an' I want to have fun an' when I grow up I want to be a mummy someday too just like my mummy! An' I know you were always curious 'bout it too so I wanna do it!"
Billy swallowed his eyes widening. It was kind of true. When her- his mother became pregnant, he was curious. It was something he could never experience, and that was just the way it was. And playing with dolls with Melanie...pretending... it was nice. but it was wrong! It didn't mean- The boy stared at the squirrel girl ashamed and not sure what to say.
"An' you know what? I can actually fix this. I can actually do somethin' to fix it all" The squirrel girl jumped up on the tree, at the lowest branch staring at him.
"What do you mean you can fix it?" Billy asked starting to get really worried. He stared up at his counterpart, and that strange feral wildness she possessed at the moment. Damn it she could be scary when angry!
"I can make it so you was gone!" Lilly screamed it at him, enough for the poor teenager to feel himself pushed away.
"W-what?!"
"I don't haf'ta remember you at all. Then I can be me, an' I can learn magic myself, an' I can be just a little girl and be friends with my new friends without you messin' it up all the time! Then I'll be as girly as I want to be without you!"
The teenager looked aghast. "N-No you can't do that!"
"Yes I can!" Lilly said.
Somehow Billy knew... he just knew she wasn't kidding. Also when this girl (him? argh!) has made up her mind about something its very hard to change her mind. Damn it this was really bad!
