On his desktop, the folder was gone. In its place was a single new text file, titled: SURVIVOR_01.txt . He opened it. It was just one line: “See you in the next loop.”
The warped Goku leaned in, the screen zooming in uncomfortably close to its faceless head. The audio peaked into a screeching distortion. The game crashed. DRABALL-TBREAKRS-(USA)-NSwTcH-NSP-[3DLCPack]-Zi...
A shadow descended from the static sky. It wasn’t a Raider Elias recognized. It wasn’t the perfection of Cell or the malice of Buu. It was a glitching, shifting mass of orange and blue—a "Goku" model, but warped. Its limbs were too long, its eyes were hollow sockets of white light, and its aura didn’t glow—it bled black pixels onto the ground. On his desktop, the folder was gone
Elias sat in the dark of his room, the reflection of his own pale face staring back from the black monitor. He reached for the mouse to delete the file, but his hand stopped. It was just one line: “See you in the next loop