PUT “♪” IN MY ASK BOX AND I WILL SHUFFLE MY PLAYLIST, TAKE THE SONG I GET, USE MY FAVORITE LINE FROM IT, AND CONSTRUCT A STARTER FOR US WITH IT! “Welcome one and all to the Theater of the Absurd,” Demencia teased.
She opened the door to show Shimmer around the BHO lab. She knew the demon had never been inside the mansion and technically visitors were a no-no but she’d take the flack if something went wrong. Nobody was home but them.
“This is where the Doctor does his stuff. I was made here…” she gestured to all the equipment and experiment tables.
“Wow… I must admit, this is quite impressive.” Shimmer said with a nod of her head. “But… what do you mean, made?” Shimmer said with a raised brow. “Were you not born normally?”
“Well, it’s sort of complicated,” Demencia explained to the best of her ability. Which wasn’t the most eloquent. “I’m a super being but I wasn’t always. I was reprogrammed from a normal human chick,” she gestured to a bolted door in the back of the lab which her eyes seemed to keep roving to. Perhaps a place of importance.
“My brain, my biological functions, everything. Totally rewired. I’m considered a one-hundred percent success!” she told her. “So I say I was made here because I sort of was. Just like 5.0.5. He the maid here. Big blue bear with a flower on his head. You’d know him when you…” she stopped short as she dug in her purse to pull out a picture of 5.0.5. for Shimmer to look at. Most photos of the personnel at BHO were restricted from being kept on her person when she left headquarters but she managed to keep that one because most people thought it was just a mascot of some place or fake.
“This is him!” she told her. “Sort of like a brother. He was made here too.”
“Huh… he doesn’t look like a villain.” Shimmer said quietly. “He looks more like a giant teddy bear."
She grinned, and looked back at the table, absentmindedly running her hand over it. "You said you were a normal girl once. What happened? Did you volunteer for this or something?”
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