CHAPTER 14: FINAL RESET
The moment Finn whispered "Reboot," the multiverse screamed.
Reality folded like a cheap lawn chair. The Cleaner's form stretched into infinite fractals. Even Zara's glorious toaster-malware stuttered mid-explosion—
Then:
Silence.
Darkness.
A single line of text floating in the void:
[SYSTEM REBOOT INITIATED]
Installing update 1 of 7,892...
THE WAITING ROOMFinn blinked awake in a space that wasn't a space—a white room with a single plastic chair and a vending machine labeled "COSMIC SNACKS (NO REFUNDS)".
Zara sat beside him, flipping through a magazine titled "How to Survive Your Own Apocalypse."
"Took you long enough," she said, not looking up. "Kael bet you'd panic and try to uninstall Windows."
Finn's voice came out staticky. "Are we... dead?"
"Nah." Zara finally glanced at him. "Just buffering."
The vending machine spat out a soda can labeled "DIE-T COKE (NOW WITH 200% MORE AFTERLIFE!)"
THE TRUTHA screen flickered to life above them, showing:
The Original Code - A perfect, orderly universe before the Finn experiments
The First Glitch - Dr. Voss altering reality to save her dying son (Finn #0)
The Council's Birth - Splitting into Order(The Cleaner) and Chaos (Kael)
"So Mom created the Council?" Finn's hands phased through the soda can.
Zara shrugged. "More like became it. You can't cage chaos without becoming the bars."
The screen updated:
[CURRENT OPTIONS]
A) Restore original system (No Finns, no glitches, no free will)
B) Continue current build (Chaos included. Bugs may vary.)
C) Custom firmware (You'll void the warranty.)
Final Line of Ch.14:
Finn hovered his finger over Option C as Zara leaned in. "Do it, glitch. Let's break everything."