For A Reason

It was darkness one second, and a flash of light the next. You are awake. You have a purpose. you awake in some sort of large structure. the walls are made of metal. you dont know where you are. Your burning ship is nowhere to be seen. The freighter battle is nowhere to be seen. Did you win? Did you save everyone? you dont see Triple one. did he also wake up in a place like you? you look at the orb on your right arm. it is trying to break free. you look around. mirror versions of you all reaching out looking at the orb trying to break free. All these clones move in the exact way, and look around in confusion, the same way you do. All at once the clones merge into each other, including you. you are one being, yet so many at the same time. the orb breaks free. it travels through the ground, lighting up a series of red lines on the ground. it travels up onto a podium, and there it was, the machine. you didnt even need to second guess yourself, that definitely is the machine. it is a large red orb, about 10 times the size of you. you dont know how you knew, but it feels like you have known the machine for an eternity. The machine speaks, "Error" you look confused, what does it mean by error "come close" you walk up to the podium. "ERROR GLITCH BREACH" "You have made it" "ERROR" "R-eSt R-e-e-e-eSS {ERROR} {GLITCH IN PROXIMITY" "You have a reason" "ERROR GLITCH NEARBY $*%#* MINUTES UNTIL WIPE" "REST HAND" you obey, and rest your hand on the podium. all of sudden vision fill your head. you see a series of anomalies, breaking the known universe. you see the machine breaking, slowly, after every event. after every vision you see something. you see exactly what it is but after every vision it becomes more clear. you start to see your life, wait no, your lives. all of your lives. hundreds of deaths and failures, they all lead up to now. the image is clear now. It is you. You are the glitch. you have been lead here. but why. you are killing the machine, bringing glitches everywhere you go, without even realizing it. "you cannot be terminated" says the machine, "you have to terminate yourself" was this a trap. did the machine bring you here just so you can end yourself, you thought you had a purpose, but it was a trick to end the error you are. but maybe the machine is right. you are not supposed to be alive. you a mess-up in the machine. you are a mistake. maybe you need to terminate, but this time you wont wake up. "I am - - - Ev{ERROR"-er-yth-ing" "I - - AM AM A{ERROR}" "DYING" "saVVVVVE YO___OURSELF" "O{ERROR} R SAVe Every-t-h-ing" This is it. Your purpose is to save the universe, or let it die. "TRUST" the machine says, and a panel pops out of the ground, it reads terminate.