Zoostuck 3

ruin the alignment so you're always drifting way off to the left

You attempt to mess with your internal mechanisms. This is harder than it sounds, because your internal mechanisms are much simpler than they should be and once again it's Edgebert's fault. The problem is, all your knowledge of your own parts is inherited from the previous universe somehow, so you can't tell what anything is.

So you just kind of move things around and hope that messes something up. Which is probably a safe assumption in Edgebert-world.


It seems your self-sabotage is a success, because as soon as your human operator gets in, you flip around. You don't even know how that works. Or how it is that you're managing to drive upside-down.

Still, this should get you scratched and... hey, where's your operator taking you? Is that the mechanic? Dang it, he'll ruin everything by fixing it!

On the bright side, you have a big scratch on your hood, which should help you break out of this time loop. Somehow.

the scratch has always been there

Except, you overhear your operator ask the mechanic if he can do something about "that scratch that's been on there since I got the car".

It's been there this entire time. Possibly even in the previous universe. You just never noticed it until you flipped yourself upside-down.

What could this possibly mean?