Shiro heaved a sigh of relief as his father typed away furiously, perhaps in an attempt in hack into the police records or break into station security or perhaps to induce mass panic by uploading compromising pictures into the police network of scantily clad, two dimensional teenagers, flailing in pool of water, 50 metres by 20 metres, in the most suggestive fashion!
Shiro was not sure what his father was doing nonetheless. However, he found himself heaving a sigh of relief even though he was in custody and barely in the happiest of situations. His subconscious seemed to tell him, "Finally, some normalcy! No more dreams within dreams within another cesspool of dreams, no more spatial shifts from school infirmaries to actual hospital infirmaries, no more mad women who have disproportionately sized bodies and things sticking out of places where nothing ought to stick out of!"
Did he however, consider that his father is either a liar or have very, very strange expectations on what is considered normal?
"Now son! Your record is erased! Things are happening outside! In short, we can scram from this place. Now, let us escape to another dimension just in case they sense something fishy!"
Shiro stared at his father much alike a genetically engineered goldfish with its eyes enlarged a hundred times its normal size staring out of its fish bowl. A second of silence passed before Shiro uttered something rather incorrect grammatically,
"WUT?"
"I will explain later, son. Let me get rid of this laptop and th..."
As soon as he closed his laptop, space appeared to bend and the hands of the clock that was in the interrogation room begun to reverse. His father suddenly grabbed onto him in a way that made him feel uncomfortable. Or was it the fact that his field of vision is getting smaller and smaller as blackness begun to crush whatever he could see into a small ball. Too long didn't read or TLDR: It was as if both father and son were sucked into a black hole!
Surely enough, Shiro blacked out for a split second before being jolted back into existence, literally! He felt as if sprang out of nothingness following a big bang! There was no reason to celebrate though. His father was clinging on to his privates as they arrived into what his father called "another dimension".
"I thought you said that time travel has yet to be invented!" snarled Shiro.
"Yes, son. But, inter-dimensional travel was! Time travel was at the planning stages at the patch of space-time continuum that we escaped from." replied his father nonchalantly.
"Now, I would like you to meet these guys." Shiro's father gestured towards one or two persons. Shiro realised that they were in a dimly lit room, with a lot of desks joined together to form what seems to be a large table. "What a waste of space," he thought.
One of the persons came up to him and introduced himself,
"Hello, sir! It is most kind of you and your father to grace us with your presence despite the most trying of circumstances. Please call me Mr 'L'. I am a member of a writing team and we are in the midst of gathering persons from different backgrounds and much more different expressions of creativity!"
Shiro almost rolled his eyes. He did not fancy writers much. To him, writers indulge in fantasies, even those who write non-fiction. Put them on an online forum and they would badger people to read their work without end and get extremely annoyed at even the mildest of criticism!
He was about to raise his hand to smack Mr. L hard on his face when he said,
"We are now working on a story called 'The Boring Boy'. The lead is a chap about your age called Shiro and my team had a lot of creative differences on what he should go through. Indeed, I thought that all of the silly things that happened ought to be a dream, another writer thought that it is a good idea to make light of fatal diseases and incest and yet another writer thinks it is a good idea to be economical on the details and call a school infirmary a hospital,
"I am personally at a loss on what to do with poor Shiro and feel guilty being the one who guides him from one misfortune to another, greater misfortune, if only he came to me and tell me how he... Oh, wait.
Another writer tapped Mr. L on the shoulder and said this,
leonard267 wrote...
A second of silence passed before Shiro uttered something rather incorrect grammatically,
"WUT?"
A second of silence passed before Shiro uttered something rather
grammatically incorrect,
"WHAT?"
"Oh, thank you so much! I didn't spot this mistake. How silly of me. Where was I? Oh, yes! We would like to hear your opinion on what sort of adventure Shiro has to go through next. I am sure he is a bit exasperated having to be a fugitive, seeing his future self killed and learning that his childhood friend isn't really what she appears to be at first glance!
Mr. L continued to ramble,
"Of course, if you can't help us, we might be swamped by the competition from better groups of writers that we are competing with!
Look at the Story of Kierre that centres on murderous corporations called guilds! Look at the Age of Anarchy about sexually deprived and poorly renumerated agents of a crumbling state falling into anarchy.
Look at the Toaru Spittoon, Shogun and Shotgun Japanese nonsense the other blokes in the other thread!
They are obviously into writing coherent and easily understood stories. We decided to stand out from these stories by doing neither of these! "
All of this is of course nonsense in Shiro's ears. Who has ever heard of the Story of Kierre or the Age of Anarchy or the Toaru Wapanese Shooting At Each Other With Railguns, Shotguns and Shoguns or the Scenery of Tranquil Places or Leonard267's Cesspit?! What he was more concerned about was of course, that crazy, self-proclaimed writer who was actually responsible for what he has been through. To make things worse,
"Perhaps Shiro could fancy being a part of these adventures the competition is coming up with? It would be a source of endless frustration!"
Facing the prospect of being sentenced to doom by the god-like Mr. L and his supposed team of writers, Shiro turned to his father and said,
"Is this story gonna finally develop something approaching a coherent plot?"
To that his father growled,
"Don't go all meta with me. You are the one who is being meta'd."