CHAPTER 13: THE GREAT GLITCH WAR
The countdown hit zero—and Finn laughed.
"You forgot one thing," he spat through the pain of a thousand realities shredding his mind. "I'm not the only glitch here."
With a scream that echoed across dimensions, he grabbed the Omega tattooon his arm and tore it free—not as flesh, but as raw, pulsing code.
The Cleaner recoiled. "That's impossible—"
"Nah." Finn grinned, holding the writhing code like a live wire. "Turns out when you're Version 404, you don't follow anyone'sprotocols."
He slammed the code into the ground.
THE TOASTER REVOLUTIONThe explosion wasn't light or sound—it was pure nonsense.
The walls melted into pixelated soup
Gravity inverted, then folded into origami
A battalion of Vroomba clones wheelie'd into existence, each blasting a different terrible remix
And at the center of it all?
Zara.
Standing atop a floating toaster that crackled with divine energy, her hair sparking like a live wire. "Hey, assholes!" she bellowed at the dissolving sky. "Eat malware!"
The toaster launched two slices of bread straight upward. They combusted mid-air, forming a flaming middle finger that burned across every reality.
[SYSTEM ALERT: COUNCIL BROADCAST HIJACKED]
Kael's face flickered onto every surface, his grin manic. "PSYCH! Those chains were decoy code, baby!" Behind him, the Council's throne room burned. "Also, Finn? Your mom SUCKS at coding."
THE CLEANER'S SECRETDr. Voss staggered as her form destabilized. "You don't understand—I had to containyou. All of you!" Her voice fractured into whispers:
"You kept breaking the rules—"
"The Council demanded order—"
"I just wanted my son back—"
Finn froze. The other versions in his head screamed in unison.
Finn the King: "Liar."
Finn the Broken: "She chose them."
Finn the Ghost: "She erased us first."
The Cleaner's face flickered—for just a second—into the tired, human face of Dr. Elaine Voss. "I'm sorry, Finn. But a system can't run on chaos."