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As usual in the morning, jefecito gave me a list of inventions that higher ranking villains suggested, at the top was a thought infiltrator. The boss added a note to not have it work on him since our brains would melt out of our ears from all the hidden knowledge of the cosmos. Demencia, who snuck into my lab to watch as usual, was whining about that information, she wants to be the only thing on his mind.
We tried the infiltrator out before planning the commercial, first on 505. Lord Black Hat and I showed up in his thoughts, which consisted of him making me a flower crown then all four of us going on a walk. Black Hat looked grossed out and yanked the remote, spamming the button so we could leave. Neither of us were thrilled to go into Demencia’s mind since we both knew she was daydreaming about marrying the boss, so we went into mine. There were a lot of holograms of me doing different tasks around the lab, they were all stressed out. Lord Black Hat looked a hint impressed, but in the way that you can only tell if you squint really hard , then we both noticed one of me in my BH Institute uniform, sitting in the corner doing nothing. As we approached the figure I realized Demencia joined us in my mind and was trying to livestream, it wasn’t working since we were only visually in my thoughts, not physically so she was still just recording Black Hat’s office. The boss started yelling at her though so we left the clone in the corner alone.
His clouded fearful thoughts are hidden behind those of exhaustion. My own calamitous shadow has been looming over him for years, the only thing he’s as afraid to confront as that is his own trauma. It continues to heat up, sooner or later it will boil him alive.
The nerd made a new gadget thingy and was testing it with my dearest Lord Black Hat!! Of course I couldn’t miss an opportunity to see his viciousness in action. I said hey when I got there but neither of them were paying attention, they were looking at 505 as he napped. BOOOORING. After a bit they turned away from the dumb baby bear. I thought I'd finally get some attention but Flug fell asleep while standing. He’s done that before when he's REALLY exhausted but his eyes were still open this time so it was kinda weird. Suddenly the three of us were in the lab but with a ton of copies of Flug, the last thing this place needs is more dorkiness. Lord Black Hat was there though!!! So I started an instagrim live. Next thing I knew he was talking to me, I’m so glad I was recording so I can rewatch it later!! What a dreamy voice.