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''You can buy food. You can buy jewelry. You can buy alchohol. Hell, you can buy happiness. But you cant. And humans, being greedy, want more time.' They want more seconds in their minutes, more minutes in their hours, more hours in their days, more days in their months, more months in their years, more years in their lives (-Ekko)'.

July 7th, 2516

The cage sat there, right in front of my eyes.

I needed to get to it.

It was so close, and I had done everything to gain it. I earned my victory.

Yet the headlights still flashed red - closed.

There's still a contender in this game? I had done eveything right, and now I must enter the cage so I can go back and fix everything. I need to go back, and fix everything. I won't lose focus on my goal.

I looked around, they must be here. We were limited to a new area every day in this game, a game to gain access to time travel.

I suddenly hear footsteps now. I suddenly feel scared. I'm not prepared for this, I have spent this whole game using my wits to survive, avoiding everyone, and letting everybody kill each other. For this person to have survived so far, he must have known someone like me in the past really well.

I suddenly turn around, and meet eyes with a figure. Tall and shaggy, I suddenly recognized him.

My brother.

"W-What?" I whisper.d, "Why?"

My eyes filled up with tears as my brother drove his fist into me, and I fall over in pain.

"I'm sorry," he says "I'll go back, and I'll fix everything. I'll bring mom and dad back, and you'll be happy"

"You're a selfish bastard! I won't even be there... not the real me!"

"We're all selfish and greedy, aren't we?"

I just stare at him, shocked, tears filled my eyes. My brother activated his tazer gauntlet, electrifying me, and I start losing consciousness

No....

I see him enter the cage. I see him dial in a date. The machine starts whirring, and I see his face distorting. He's going back, he's going to fix everything, he says.

Yet he doesn't

I hear him screaming, I see some strange force suck the soul out of him. I see the color drain from his skin, I see his eyes turning colorless, I see him dieing.

I hear voices. "Forgot to nullify the pain, will put that in the machine later. Oh well, I gained however many years of his life he had left"

I fill up with tears. The machine... was fake? All a hoax, to grant one immortality? That was so clever. So... dam.... clever...

Hey, why's everything black?

January 22, 2521

I can't let it happen again. I won't

Not the mistake I made 12 years ago, for being selfish. I won't let any other people to get hurt.

It's ironic, huh? Hurting other people to prevent people in the future from getting hurt.

A checkpoint. One of the few gadgets recovered from the terrorist attacks on the Lab.

Those rich bastards, they deserved it. I set it down now. This was the final bloodbath of the 13th game. The winner, who eliminates all others, will have the ability to travel back to the past. But it's all a lie, the machine only shows illusions, images made from your mind, that you had thought about for hours at night, before you slept. That you wish you could go back, and change what you did wrong. because you regret it, you regret it so much.

Yet I am not a contender, because I was already registered as one, 12 years ago. I was registered dead when I was tased, and I knew my brother wouldn't kill me. 12 years later, here I am, ready to save the world from more killing, more sadness. I am here to destroy the machine.

I start running towards the building where the machine is held. Dead bodies already lay everywhere, I waited for them to die. I will witness the final fight, then kill the last one standing. Then I will destroy the machine.

Yet no one is still standing.

A single dead body lays in the cage.

A girl, about 15 or 16 years old.

My brothers daughter.

I shout out in fustration, and suddenly realize. I have my checkpoint.

And without my checkpoint, I can't lose.

1st rewind

I suddenly stand where I was, outside the building. I start running as fast as I can.

This is when I had to kill someone.

Their guts spill out, and there wasn't many. It was a little kid, about 13 years old. I just killed a 13 year old kid. I stop in terror, my eyes wide in shock. I can't move. I had gotten stronger, let me move!

The boy just whispers, "Sorry, mother. I have failed..."

I cry out, and images of my own mother and father come back to me. I furiously wipe away my tears, and I run as fast as I can. Yet I see the same girl, in the cage, dead. I see my brothers face, in the cage, pale and lifeless. No! It's j-just resemblance, its his daughter, of course I would see these things. I must think clearly again. Ireach down to my built again...

2nd rewind

I'm so stupid. I knew if I killed the last member for her, she would be able to go into the machine. I must destroy it before she enters it. I promised him. I promised him I would take care of her.

Damn it all! I must focus again. It seems like she has killed them all, then waited for the rest to make it to the room, then fall to her trap. I need to be faster, I need to not let anyone in my way.

And its funny how as I say that, I destroy 2 more of peoples dreams. Their dreams to fix everything. This is so stupid, but I can only remember my brother smiling, and saying, "If anything happens to me, take care of Lily for me, please."

23rd rewind

I can barely even walk now. I have no clue why I'm still trying again and again. These images in my head from the past, they're driving me insane. This is torture. This is insanity. Yet, no matter how much it hurts,

37th rewind

I must do it again,

42nd rewind

No matter how much people I kill

56th rewind

I must go back again

77th rewind

I have to kill the least amount of people as possible.

89th rewind

I must save everybody

97th rewind

Before she enters,the machine, and the scientists come with their guns and heavy artillery, remove her body, and hide away the machine.

106th.

I can't wait another 5 years

I must do this again

110th

And again

127th

And again

132nd

"Father, did you forget to bring the bait again?"

136th

''"How silly of you, now we can't even fish!" Mother laughs, "At least we can still have a picnic"''

149th

Dead fish float in the river, the water suddenly turns into an even darker color.

153rd

"Mother, look can't we help them?"

162nd

"Son, get away from the river, they have someone else to save them"

170th

"Quit lying, Mom," my brother says, "they're dead, Alex, you can't save them"

180th

"That's right, Alex," my father agrees, "they're dead.You can't save them"

190th

"You can't save them"

"They're already dead"

200th

"You can't save them"

225th

If only I could save the fish before the river was polluted, I'd be able to save them

250th

If only I knew mother and father had a disease before it was too late

275th

If only I knew the machine would kill my brother before he got in it

300th

If only I could go back,

350th

And change everything.

400th

I hear footsteps

I hear machines

500th

That means I have to turn this gear again

And go back to that place again.

Here's the boy who lost his mother

Here's the man who shot his sister

Here's the woman who lost her job

Here's the little girl who lost my brother

Finally, I made it. I killed them all, I finished the game. I got their before she could, that little bastard. Now I can use this machine, and go back. I can go back and fix everything.

This is my first ever creepy pasta, it was an idea for a book, but I couldn't find the motivation to write everything before the climax(this), So I decided to put it here. I think I messed up a bit, it wasn't exactly what I wanted it to be. When I read it over, I don't want to change anything though, so I would appreciate some feedback c: 