Ben was back in the Rustbucket. The laptop screen read:
Suddenly, the Omnitrix on his wrist began to pulse with a jagged, violet light—not the usual emerald glow. A surge of feedback slammed through the laptop. The screen tore open, not with light, but with a vacuum-like pressure. "Gwen! Grandpa!" Ben shouted, but his voice was swallowed. Ben was back in the Rustbucket
"You’re just a mirror," the glitch-Ben hissed, his voice a distorted electronic rasp. The screen tore open, not with light, but
Should we explore a for Ben to "get lost" in, or perhaps try a story about a different character altogether? "You’re just a mirror," the glitch-Ben hissed, his
With a final surge of willpower, Ben initiated a "Force Delete." The world around him fractured into glowing shards of data. Blink.
Ben reached for the Omnitrix, but the interface was scrambled. "If this is S04E04," Ben muttered, his eyes narrowing, "then I know how this episode ends."
In this world, the audio was "dual." He could hear his own thoughts echoing in a language he didn’t speak, a haunting overlap of two realities. Before him stood a pixelated version of himself, a glitching doppelgänger that moved with the stutter of a low frame rate.