Reality itself had a bone to pick. Continuous attacks on its suspension of disbelief had been done over and over again. This would be fine if they were they stayed the same attacks - repetition merely forms Reality, but novelty-forces above the suspension of disbelief limit will destroy Reality instead of forming it. This can be witnessed at the border between music and noise - a certain randomness, a factor of new things, turns art into rubbish.

The currently largest offender of Reality destruction is Karol in her ever changing powerset.

Reality doesn't have anything against the change of power, as it has been proven that the power could change, but the newest of her powers, here abbreviated to TrillionBillion, had no connection to previously established things - it was an innovation.

Reality never directly intervenes as that would be something new, the body of Reality itself would tear itself. It is already healing from the injury that is the great rebranding.

How does Reality heal? It begins referring to old things, that have been established.

And it does so over and over again. Does that sound familiar?

Yes, the healing of Reality is Time itself - and as we all know Time is the mansion, a large house. Several bricks of Time have been been stolen and were never mentioned again - until now. The bricks themselves are not exerting force on Reality, the damaging of the bricks is what exerts force on Reality. The gain of the new power TrillionBillion had turned Time into a state of ruin, the house was still healing, but it was doing so very very slowly.

It was being outpaced by the events happening. Every new mention of previously unheard of powers cracking the facade of Reality (this is not a metaphor) had been faster than the repeating of old powers. Eventually the suspension of disbelief would fail - and the entire building would come down crashing - this would be the end of the world.

Someone had to do something, Reality had read the book and knew that staying passive would be worse than injuring itself by moving. It would adapt to that anyway thanks to Time, but it would take a while.

And thus Reality walked up to Karol and said "As previously established you can gain new powers, but the TrillionBillion is a bit too unhinged. You have been a thorn in my eyes for long enough - this ends now." Reality made a fist and punched in the direction of Karol, before she could answer. As previously established, punching hurts - if it hits.

Karol was super hard due to her quantum AlloyTitaniumSteelCarbonTungstenLowDensityDurabilityEnergetic, but in the last moment Reality managed to dodge and did not hit Karol with the punch, preventing a lot of pain for itself. "Ha! And that was supposed to be an attack? I easily dodged - Idiot.", Reality taunted.

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"Are you .... -KATCHUNK- challenging me?", Karol presumed in her toastery voice.

"As previously established, You have been a thorn in my eyes for long enough - this ends now.", Reality explains, healing itself from the repetition - it just was not that much healing compared to all the novelty that happened within Reality.

Karols Trillion Billion Billion Million Trillion machine started up, its sheer mention tore a hole into the fabric of Reality, which covered itself embarrassedly.

"You can't raid me, I am Reality - and you are just an amalgation of smart toasters inexpertly cobbled together.", Reality reiterated.

"You forgot the patriarchy adapter that wasn't mentioned previously.", Karols previously unmentioned patriarchy adapter showed, and Reality was hurt.

"P-Patriarchy is a long established concept - you can't overcome MY suspension of disbelief!", Reality punched several times, dodging Karols body with its fists every time in an expertly manner "Again, again, again, again, again!", it chanted monotonously, becoming more solid and established with every passing punch.

Karol began gathering quantum, becoming more quantum, which tangled the fists.

"Aaarrgh!", the muscles of Reality bulged as it tried to untangle its fists from each other, but it continued to worsen due to the increasing quantum in the air.

In its desperation, Reality cast a spell, hurting itself from the novelty "If my fists get tangled from the quantum, as established the quantum tangles, so it tangles your wires too, which is not good for machines.", Karol stopped gathering quantum as her wires started to tangle.

"This as far as I will let you - prison warden, force Hungry to rebrand THE WORLD!", Karol ordered through telephone. "I can not let you do this!", Reality said and stopped the healing of Time. Everything froze in place as Time stopped healing.

Reality knew that if it moved now, spiting its own regeneration, it would cause a non-healing wound within itself. The next move was calculated perfectly as to maximize damage to Karol. When Time began healing again, a giant bathtub with black ocean water was emptied over Karol.

The convenient stone embedded on her head was suddenly conveniently also a giant bathtub, catching the water, but Reality was already on the move, dumping more water onto Karol, chanting "Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat!".

The weight began affecting the AlloyTitaniumSteelCarbonTungstenLowDensityDurabilityEnergetic, but it was too strong to budge - but the ground was not. If it broke, Karol would fall into the hollow insides of the foursided world - and who knew what was in there? Maybe something big and dangerous.

- To be continued ->