by Aditya Kumar
Xena continued, "Ypritte found that weakness and used its flaw... but he couldn't control the working the nature. Tecton hid the key at this moment with giving his everything... even maybe his life, because he thought that it would save the universe. But he never thought of alternate possibility far worse than destroying the universe. We don't know if Tecton survived that or not, but I believe that he had seen the things that happened... and so he sent you to save the people even by destroying the whole universe in the end. You... and your previous versions were the link between Tecton and us, but I think you are different than others. We feel that you have the complete image of Tecton... you are different and better that your earlier versions."
"But you can't fight with even him alone... and there is more like him. They are a whole species... a species that even existed before big-bang... inside a singularity, when there wasn't any space... not even time. He is not like us. He is angry on us... on all these livings... and he wants to destroy us all, the whole universe. So that he would be able to feel all this like his home where he lived before creation of life," Ernica said with sadness on her face.
"You knew that what you were doing, will destroy everything... then why you did that," Mark asked.
"What you would have done in such cases? What you would have done when after seeing intense suffering again... and again. You have seen this Mark... and you know what suffering is? Still you want to say anything more," Ernica continued after a bit of pause, "It's not like we are proud of what we did. But what we could have done?"
"Then what was your plan all along," Mark asked.
"To make everything gone, he would have to erase the matter in every time and then nothing will be left... then without the presence of anything, this space will begin to fade away and with that, even time will cease to exist," Xena continued, "Since he has access to all the time, so he would destroy the wall in every moment. But in reality, he hadn't the access of all time. The moment in which we are, is fixed... here time doesn't behave as it behaves in other moment. Here it is fixed and protected from both ends. So, until there is past and future, Ypritte can't reach here... and so he couldn't reach here as a time traveler to obtain the key before Tecton hid it. And that's why he set up a time loop and you know the rest. But our plan was only to lure him to come in this moment, because here only we have a chance against him."
Mark listened carefully to Xena, but still he is confused as why Creator send him there, 'By now everything should be gone, but Creator said that this place would exist and it is. Where are we?' But he started to realize everything.
Everyone started listening Mark quietly when Mark said, "All this now makes complete sense. You all know a lot of things... yet you are highly wrong. You are wrong if you really think that you can lure Ypritte here with existing past and future... and trap here. You are completely wrong about your plan. You don't see around yourself. You are already lost. He doesn't have to pass through this time... in fact, he doesn't have to do anything."
"What do you mean," Wanka asked.
Mark said, "Even you can make him come here, we have already lost everything. We have already lost our universe... we are not getting back. You are completely wrong if you think Ypritte have anything left to do now for the merging of matter and antimatter. Those antimatter creatures have taken everything in every moment... and there is nothing left to protect. There was only one instance of wall, to protect matter in every time... and that doesn't exist anymore. Everything is gone now. You should know that outside this moment, nothing exists. Now there isn't any past or future. Ypritte's army will soon come here from past and future both sides. I guess you all know now that we all are screwed."
"How do you know all this," Trepon asked.
"Because... I have already met Creator. He revealed many things to me... but also hid something. Now I know that those two anomalies are not his fault, but part of his intentional creation," Mark said.
"Why didn't you tell me that you have already met Creator," Wanka asked.
"Does anyone asked me... that how I got able to reach here," Mark answered with a question.
"But... this doesn't make any sense," Xoguar asked, "Why would Creator himself want to destroy his own creation?"
Mark answered, "He doesn't want to destroy his own creation. Creator said that this moment is the weakness, but it's not. This is the common place among all the multiverse and that one where we are, is made for our multiverse. That's why, this moment still exists... because this can't be destroyed ever. Ypritte must be knowing this, yet he tried to erase our multiverse... means there must be some way to destroy this place too. We must have to stop him."
"So... what we will do now," Xoguar asked.
"We can't wait for Ypritte and their army to come here," Mark said, "They will soon be on our door... and our trap will never affect them. Our time force can't stop them now and this is the time to take our step forward."
"So... even after we will win, we would get nothing," Trepon doubted.
Mark said, "No... Creator said that there is a way to restore everything. But I have to give them the information about this multiverse which is stored somewhere outside. But Creator will describe me everything only after we will able to kill Ypritte." Then Mark told them everything that Creator had told him.
It gave little bit of tears in Ernica's eye. She said sobbing, "You are doing this much for us and everyone. Yet I thought that even searching Emily here would be wastage of time... or whatever this is, we don't have any word equivalent to time... so we still use the word time."
This gave a smile on Mark's face... yet he said, "Don't worry about it... I am finding her even right now."
"What do you mean," Ernica said with a bit of surprise, "You are here with us."
Before Mark could say anything, another Mark came there with Emily. Then Mark said sarcastically, "So... I found her."
Everyone saw that, but couldn't believe. "Who is he," Trepon asked, "He looks exactly same as you."
Then Mark showed them splitting himself into thousands of Mark.
"So... you can be as many as you want," Ernica asked, "Do you replicate yourself as cellular level."
"No... I don't replicate myself," Mark said, "I divide myself. So, if I would divide myself in two equal parts, then energy of both will be half of me. But since I had to search Emily... so I divided myself into many parts and they all were searching her. But I am central one and they all follows me."
"So... can you divide yourself for this war... You can attack on him from every direction," Xoguar said this as a suggestion.
"No... I don't think that would be a good idea," Mark said, "First I would have less efficiency... and second, I once sensed that Ypritte can disconnect my others from my control. So... unless I would be immune to these powers, I am not going to do this."
"How you could have sensed Ypritte... You haven't met him yet," Wanka said.
"No... he is right," Emily said this time, "Once when I connected my consciousness with Voscein's consciousness, Mark able to get to know a litte bit about Ypritte... I am not sure if Mark is right or not, but he knows Ypritte more than anyone else."
"I think we should be prepared for the war," Xena alarmed everyone.
"But where we can find Ypritte," Emily asked and anyone wasn't had any answer.
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CHAPTER 36
Initiation of War
They all have reached to the moment when there is no turning back... they moved forward and they will continue, because this is only path that can lead them in meaningful way. They dreamed of something and they are nowhere close. All the dream is scattering in front of their eye, but they are not inactive... they haven't left hope. They are ready for the most dangerous war they have fought ever. For Mark, this is first war where he is in reality... and not fighting any virtual creatures. But there is one problem... they don't know where their enemies are. None of them knew where to find Ypritte.
"Can't we combine my
consciousness with Emily's and let my consciousness to roam around and search for Ypritte," Mark asked.
Emily was also there. She said watching towards Mark, "Yeah... we can do that." Then she explained to others, "We have done this once to find that Rogue Space Time. We can do that again."
"You don't understand," Ernica said, "She could able to do that because we don't have any idea that what skills she got there because of you... but in the virtual world. But here... she can't have all those skills. She was given that skills..."
Ernica was saying, but Mark interrupted, "But I saw Ypritte then. I saw his realm then," everybody got quiet and started looking towards Mark in disbelief. Mark continued after a bit of pause pointing towards Ernica, "You made Emily, but perhaps you couldn't able to explore her completely. We all evolved there and did more than what we were supposed to do. That's why I know something about Ypritte that none of you know. I have seen him and I have a little bit of idea that where I could find him. For that I need your help. We will have to trust each-other if we ever want to win this war."
"Okay... if you are right, then we should do think," Xena suggested.
They all sat together. Emily closed her eyes... they all were there. A sudden red glimpse of light ray came out of Emily... Mark saw this and allowed his consciousness to ride on that ray to make it roam around... to explore a place that they couldn't able to find. After a moment, Mark screamed, "I know where he is."
"This is a good thing," Xoguar said... yet on seeing Mark's expression he doubted, "Isn't this?"
"I am not quite sure if this is a good thing," Mark said, "Creator had told me that Ypritte lives in our universe... but there is no space and time. I am not sure if we will be able to survive there. I saw the energy beam that makes that place stable from the danger of space-time continuum."
"So... should we go there or not," Wanka asked.
"I have taken the data from that light beam," Mark said, "We will have to create the light beam and extrapolate it to see the effect on us. If we can sustain the effect of that light beam, we will be ready to go there... otherwise we will have to find out the counter measure."
"What do you mean," Xoguar asked.
"We will have to invent the protective layer and wear it during the moment we would be there," Mark said.
"Don't you have any lab where we can recreate that energy beam," Mark asked.
"Come on Son," Trepon said, "and let me show you our work place."
"We can make clone of all of us to test against that energy beam except you and Emily," Ernica said to Mark, "Because we have no idea how Tecton manifested you and what powers you contain... we can't determine your limit... and about Emily, we cannot create her clone because here also you are her power source."
"Don't worry... I can split myself and can sacrifice a little part of me for this experiment," Mark said... then he turned towards Emily and said, "and you can keep yourself away from this war."
"What..." Emily said, "Why I will have to stay away from the war. You know that I have survived many things."
"I know... and I never doubted your ability. But when I will come back from war... I would like to see you there... waiting for me," Mark said, "I want you to safe there... well again."
"But... you all will be there... I can't live here alone knowing that I can go there," Emily said.
"I can be with you," Ernica suggested.
"And me too..." Trepon said.
"No... but you don't need to stay," Ernica said to Trepon, "Emily will not be alone."
"Listen... I am not afraid of being alone..." Emily said, "I survived far worse situation... and this is not even any kind of scary situation. I just want to go out there."
"No... it's okay... I understand you," Trepon said to Emily, "But we can stay here for in case, if they invade here first."
Then they agreed that Emily, Ernica and Trepon will stay.
Mark could able to recreate that energy beam which he percieved around Ypritte's home. Ernica cloned everybody. Mark split himself and about one percent of his part, he left to use that energy beam onto him. But when they used that energy beam, no one could able to survive not even Mark's split body.
"Well... I am really glad that we did this first before going there," Ernica said with a little bit of humour and more of fear.
"I don't understand," Mark said, "I had survived Crayton's world where Space-time was distorted... I even survived antimatter universe. Then what is wrong with this place?"
"Maybe... this would be part of some other multiverse," Emily doubted.
"No... but Creator said to me... that is the integral part of our multiverse and so they can't destroy that without destroying the whole multiverse completely."
"So... you are saying that Ypritte also lives in our multiverse..." Emily doubted.
"Yes... but there is no space and time," Mark said.
"Did you ever try to think that how can there be anything in our universe without space and time," Emily said, "That thing can never exist."
"How can you say so," Mark asked.
"I have seen something when time was resetting after time-loop got broken... and I analyzed those things, and I can surely say that there is something else that Creator didn't tell you," Emily said.
"So... does this mean that this Energy beam is not the basic properties of Ypritte's reality," Wanka asked.
"I don't think," Emily said, "I think that Ypritte needed something to live where there wouldn't be any Space or Time. So that place was made to behave like that. I mean..."
Emily was saying, but Mark interrupted, "This energy beam makes opposes the effect of Space-time to make Ypritte feel like one that he wanted."
"Exactly..." Emily said.
"So... does this mean that if we somehow disable the effect of this energy beam, then we can transform that place into the one that is similar to other place..." Wanka said.
"I think so..." Mark and Emily said together... and then smiled on seeing each-other.
"We will have to find a way to disable the effect of energy beam," Trepon said.
"How about using the dark energy..." Wanka suggested.
Trepon said, "We can use that... but we need to be careful that it shouldn't affect the space-time at large scale otherwise it could collapse this universe like..." he said to Mark, "like what happened in that time-loop."
"What..." Mark said in disbelief.
"You may not be knowing..." Trepon said to Mark, "But when two black holes collided then, the impact was so huge that it changed the fabric of space-time itself. It consumed the dark energy and made the whole multiverse unstable... and then it collapsed just after a moment."
"But we can control the amount of dark energy that we would consume," Ernica said.
"That's good then," Trepon said, "Let's get back to work. Now we will destroy their place and they all will die then."
"Hate to interrupt..." Mark said, "I have seen Ypritte in our universe where everything works normally... I think he may have made himself resistible to space-time... But we can destroy their home and..."
"And we will make Ypritte more angry," Xoguar interrupted.
Mark said, "You are scared... yet. We have nothing much to lose now. If this works... then we have only Ypritte left as an opponent... and we all will kill him there."
"But..." Xoguar was saying but Mark interrupted, "Let me visualize a picture to you. Which would be tough... going against a complete species or going against Ypritte alone."
"I am with Mark," Xena said.
"Me too..." Ernica said.
After a bit of argument Xoguar agreed too. They all agreed to take this chance. But Wanka didn't say anything. She just walked away from there without being noticed. They all were excited to see the new day. No one noticed Wanka except Mark. He went to see her as she was the leader and her opinion definitely had to matter.
"I don't think going straight against Ypritte would be a good idea," Wanka said when she was alone with Mark.
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"What do you mean," Mark asked.
"I mean... he showed a lot of patience and executed his plan... more importantly he is too much powerful and dangerous," Wanka said, "It's just... that I am worried for you."
"Really..." Mark said, "Should I be happy that you are worried for me... means you never cared earlier, you all just thought of me as a burden and never even planned to save me when whole multiverse collapsed. Why is it different now?"
"I never thought that I will meet you again," Wanka said, "But now since you are in front of me... I can't let you go. There is something important I have to tell you..."
Mark interrupted, "Listen Wanka... I am glad that you are worried for me, but now we have nothing... we lost everything and we have to defeat Ypritte anyhow. This is our only way... we will have to catch him off guard and stop him for once and all. We will have to catch him where he can't predict... and there can't be any place which would be more unpredictable than his own home. Don't you think that we should do this?"
Mark continued, "When I didn't know all this... when I was a child living in fear of tomorrow, my life was simple... tough, but simpler. I didn't have goal then. When I used to wake up in the morning, I just used to pray that make my today safe. Then I hadn't any responsibility and I could have lived in anyway without thinking about others. I was unaware of the future, but destiny had something planned for me... at least from my point of view. Then I wouldn't have thought anything like that, but now... now I have no other choice. Today I don't believe in being saved by someone, but I want to write my own future... in whatever way I want and I know that we have to initiate this war."
