by Aditya Kumar
"Yeah... you are right. We should totally do this," and then she moved away hiding her tears... to get ready for the war.
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CHAPTER 37
A Moment to be Forgotten
Scene: From some hidden place:
"My dear friend. I was in the universe where we never belonged... we all were. But now we got the way to make everything right. We will take all the thing that was taken from us. We will have everything as same as it was. We will win today. We do not belong to life, but he forced us to be among them. But now we will be free from them. There will be no life. Only we would be there like we were before the thing that they call The Big Bang," Ypritte said.
Everybody woke up to see that they could attain the dream they always wanted.
But then Mark reached there.
"Your game is over," Mark said screaming, "Now... I am here. You threatened my world... my existence, but now everything will be reverted to you."
Ypritte said with a little smile trying to talk through him, "Don't you see the spark huddling through space-time to reach you... to destroy your world and you... and yet you are here, even after knowing that you have nothing to offer... also nothing to resist. But whatever you did, definitely surprised me. I never thought of this, but you are here. You didn't understand that you are not even the part of this reality, but you are definitely the most stubborn person I have ever met. Should I say you stupid or what... doesn't matter, I think you are able to choose yourself. Why are you torturing yourself... don't you ever want to die, don't you want to have your own peace. I am here to fulfil your wishes... just come with me and your future will be dissolved into nothingness providing all of you an ultimate peace."
"Mark replied, "Your offer looks really kind and genuine... and I may even have thought to accept this when I really wanted to had peace... when I was tired from fear and meaningless life, but I am not the same anymore. Now, this is not only about me... and I can't decide for everyone. Moreover, I believed in survival hoping that my survival instincts will give hope to every living to see a new sunshine on top of the world. I took this job, so that everything would work out and I think I am on the right track. My presence here is threatening you... and now you want to lure me with you by showing meaningless dream. Your world will end now... and so your terror. I will undo everything that you have done. You will never be able to win. You don't understand the meaning of death... yet you will have to face it."
Ypritte said, "You never understood the nature of creation... weaker one has to get destroyed."
"I know everything about creation now," Mark said, "and I know that you are right. But the thing is that you are weak and this is the start of your end."
"You are dead now," Ypritte couldn't have any more patience.
He moved towards Mark with all his force. Mark signaled everyone and they all were there... ready with their weapon to make their own contribution. Ypritte saw them, but couldn't understood. Fire in his eye he moved his step to kill everyone, but it was too late for him. They all fired their weapon simultaneously and energy beam present there couldn't withstand this huge attack. Ypritte understood now that what he missed, but until then the fabric of space-time has already changed and it killed every one of those. Ypritte remained as a lone survivor.
He saw towards them disheartening... anger and tears in his eyes. For a moment, he lost all his patience... well now there was nothing more to lose for him. His dream shattered. He had thought that he will make his home beautiful where they all will live like they used to. But now that all became a distant fantasy... to see all his beloved dead in a moment and there was no way to recover from this because now that place linked with a place in that fixed time and they can't travel in time there to undo the previous things because there time isn't mean anything.
"You destroyed everything, but you can't destroy me... you don't know what I am feeling right now. I haven't shown you your worst day, but today you left me no choice," Ypritte moved towards Mark.
Mark used his energy blast, heat ray from his eyes... and everything that he could have done. They all fired the dark energy weapon, but all this was passed through Ypritte like he didn't even exist there. They all have done their job and now Ypritte has to do his own.
"Come back... Mark," Wanka cried, but Mark was there to end this war. He moved towards Ypritte. They both were there in front of each-other to make everything sorted. Mark tried to give a smash, but his fist passed through Ypritte's body. Just after that Ypritte disappeared... and appeared before Mark. Ypritte just touched Mark... and he fell far away.
"You want to kill me," Ypritte said with anger making his eyes red, "I am not one of you. I don't have soul like you all have."
Mark was far away... yet Ypritte made his final attack to end Mark's life. Those yellow beam came closer to Mark, but he couldn't move. As that beam was about to collide with Mark, Wanka pushed him away and took that beam on her own. That beam was too powerful... however it hit on her leg, yet she injured badly... bad enough to die in next few moment.
"Why... why you did that," Mark asked.
"I had to...," Wanka said, but Mark asked again, "Why?"
Wanka replied, "Because I am your mother... in the same way as Trepon is your father."
"What..." Mark felt like falling from sky. In the preparation of this war and thinking about Emily, he had totally forgotten Xoguar's word that he will also meet his mother there. He asked, "Why didn't you tell me yet?"
"Well... you never asked," this answer of Wanka made him cry. She consoled him... she said, "This is not the time... I can create the wormhole..." Then they saw Xoguar dying during facing Ypritte... and then Xena. "Just go right now. Just go away... we will stop Ypritte here," Wanka screamed with all her energy.
Mark said, "But..."
"No but now..." Wanka said, "Your life is more important than any other."
Mark asked, "Why didn't you tell me before that you have device to create wormhole."
"Because... because I didn't know," Wanka said and then she made the wormhole... and only Mark could able to leave that place alive. He understood that because of his stubborn nature, they all died.
Scene: Glacor
"So, this place is linked with that fixed time... and because of that only our universe exists yet and we have chance to restore everything. Ypritte is not allowed to come here... at least he was not allowed to come here until this whole multiverse exist. But now after destruction of everything... he got a way," Emily guessed, but with a confidence.
"I think you are right, but that all had happened... and we can't revert back everything that we did," Trepon said, "We had lost the war, but we yet have the hope."
"But don't you think that when they will change the Ypritte's home and if Ypritte will remain alive, then he will get an easier way to reach here," Emily doubted.
"Why," Trepon asked.
"Because then his place will be linked with that particular moment. Their arrival to Ypritte's world will open this path as two-way," Emily said, "And with all our aim and goal, we ultimately would provide Ypritte a way to reach here."
"Maybe... you are right," Trepon said being a little worried, "But maybe we are too late to think of this. We will have to handle whatever will happen."
"I guess... you are right," Emily said, "Let's just wait for them to return."
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CHAPTER 38
Something more
Mark came back alone... trying to believe himself that this is just a dream... he lost his mother in a moment, just after knowing about her. He was always curious and deep down he knew about this, but he never tried to know... and he will definitely regret. But he has more guilt because he became responsible to the death of everybody. He came back there and told Trepon and Ernica that what happened there.
"Can you tell me again that what Wanka did to save you," Trepon asked Mark.
Mark really surprised on Trepon's question that he has more importance to
the answer of this question than the life of everybody else. Then also he said, "She made a wormhole and..." Mark was saying, but Trepon interrupted, "She didn't have anything like this. I knew her very well. I even looked into her mind before going to war."
"I don't know... but maybe you are right because even she told me that she didn't know about this device earlier," Mark said.
Then Trepon said to Ernica, "You first said that you will stay with Emily. Did you know what would happen there?"
Ernica said, "And after me, you told that you will stay. Should I doubt you? I know that you never believed me, but you can't suspect me on this."
"I know..." Trepon said, "But I can suspect you on the basis of what happened there. You will have to come with me."
"Where..." Ernica asked.
"You will know that," Trepon said and he took Ernica in their holy chamber. There was complete darkness. Only thing that was visible there was a green flame.
"Go near that flame and prove that you are one of us," Trepon said.
"I don't have to..." Ernica said in anger like she was feeling humiliated, but Trepon pushed her close to that flame.
They saw her color changing into red... complete red like blood as she was like... sucking on blood and that blood is coming out of her now.
"How could you be... how can you turn into red," Trepon remain shocked, "You aren't supposed to be turn into red color. What are you..."
"Well... I think you wanted to know this side of me... and now you know. Yes... I gave that devices to Wanka and also put that information into her mind when there was no other option," Ernica said.
"If your aim was to save us... then why didn't you try to save any other," Mark asked.
Ernica said, "For me, only you are important... Mark. I care about only your life."
"Why..." Mark asked.
Ernica said, "Because only you can defeat Ypritte."
"No... I know you are lying," Mark asked, "Just tell me who are you and what do you want from me?"
"I can't tell you right now, but you will be able to know everything," Ernica said, "Now I have to go. We will meet soon."
As Ernica tried to go away, Mark stopped her. He said, "First you have to tell me what do you want."
She ignored Mark and tried to go away, but Mark used his energy blast on her. It didn't affect her, but she turned back. She said, "I am from the place which is beyond your imagination... and you all are nothing for me. I can kill all of you in a moment... but I don't want to kill you, Mark. Yet I have many other weapons."
Then she fired a red energy beam towards Mark, but Mark moved with a very high speed. Ernica smiled... she said, "You are getting better... and I need you to be better, I need your powers. Only your powers can fulfil my desire."
"You are not going to survive anymore," Mark said. Then Mark, Emily and Trepon all three attacked together on her. Even that didn't affect her. Emily threw another lightning bolt onto her... and then Mark used his energy blast knowing that it wouldn't do anything to her. But this time Mark aimed his beam of energy blast onto Emily's lightning bolt. Mark aimed correctly... and then a small part his energy beam got deflected towards Ernica. She wasn't ready for this. A ray of his energy blast passed through her eye and entered into her brain making the neurons unstable. It made her mind a little weak. Ernica realized this later.
"No... What you did..." She screamed, "You made your greatest mistake. I will kill you now."
And then calmness in her eye turned into fear... but after this it turned into anger for Mark. She thought Mark responsible for this and said angrily, "If I can't able to fulfil my wish, then I don't care for your life." And then she threw her powerful energy beam towards Mark to end his life in an instant. Mark saw that beam coming towards him with light-speed and he hadn't any chance to run away. But before that beam could struck Mark, a thunderstorm appeared there... so powerful that it deflected the energy beam... Mark was perhaps ready to die, but he survived and he saw fear in Ernica's eye.
And then they all shocked when they saw a girl coming with that thunderstorm. When she turned, her face and everything was same as Ernica, but her color was green instead of red. They both started fighting. Both were almost equally powerful. Trepon had his shield to protect himself, Mark and Emily from the radiation coming out from the fight of those two energy creature. They saw both Ernica changing their shape on her will. This war went long... long enough. In the end, green Ernica burnt the energy of red Ernica, but before dying red Ernica scattered the energy of green Ernica with her huge magnetic field.
As red Ernica died, they all came to scattered energy of green Ernica. Mark asked, "Is there any way, we can help you?"
"No... this is all. This is the only thing I wanted. I would like to thank you because you freed me from prison," green Ernica said.
"What prison... and what just happened? Can you tell me who are you... and who was that red energy creature," Mark asked.
"Yes... we didn't understand anything. She was a friend of us, but she hid her reality for so long... this is too much to take in at once but who are you? Why do you both look alike," Emily asked.
"Let me tell you the whole thing. It may look just a made up stories to you, but it's true," green Ernica said and started telling everything that she knew, "We (I and that red Ernica) are not from your multiverse. We are from some other realm. There are some realms whose creature had special ability to go and explore other realm. Some creatures use their abilities just to explore, but some are dangerous. As you can see what would be the effect if those powerful creatures from other realms try to harm weaker creature like you. But this freedom of exploring other realm didn't work out as Creators had expected. Destruction of many multiverse caused due to this freedom. This forced Creators to ban inter-multiverse traversal. But then also many advanced creatures didn't follow this order. So then Creators did a meeting together and they restructured the existing multiverse and they made a place common to all the realm. That place was common, but they were separated from each-other by vibrational frequency of atoms. The place where you are... the place which you call Glacor is one of them and dedicated to your multiverse... and only creature present in your multiverse can access it. For other multiverse, there is other vibrational frequency. I don't know how this restructuring helped in their purpose, but it did. It made inter-multiverse traversal impossible and those creatures who were violating the law and were in other realms... they got trapped there. Creators searched for those rogue creatures and killed them. Creators thought that they killed all of them, but some survived... and we are one of them."
"Now let me tell you about my realm," green Ernica continued, "Our realm is a special one. Well... as you know that every creature has their two aspect - good and evil, but they decide within their own mind that what they will become. But in our case, it happens outside mind. At a particular age(which varies with galaxy), good one and evil one both encounters each-other in a dual and one who survives gets chance to live. However, it is almost general thing that good one always won... perhaps Ernica was the only exception. However, I defeated red Ernica... and I thought that I killed her, but she survived... and she escaped as a refugee. When our leader came to know about her being alive, they ordered their force to search and kill her. But she escaped beyond our realm violating the ban on inter-multiverse traversal and came into your multiverse. Since we were connected, one day she dragged me and overpowered on me. She put me into prison within her mind. She didn't kill me because she thought that one day, she would return home and she would be able to live as me. And when she overpowered me, then she thought that to return to her realm, but she found that Creators had restructured the design of multiverse and she trapped here. She lived here in fear to be found by Creators and get killed, but she got able to hide herself properly. One day, she met someone who was also trapped here. I don't know his name or anything, but I am sure that he is in your universe. Red Ernica found the only way of survival to be with him... and he
taught her many evil things. She also fell in love with him. Now her only aim was to return to her own realm."
"How she could be able to return to her own realm? What was her plan," Emily asked.
"I don't know about that. In prison, I hadn't the access of her mind. But it was not a simple way... and I am quite sure that she was not alone," green Ernica said.
"So can the Ypritte be another one," Trepon doubted.
Mark said, "No... Ypritte is someone else. He is creature from beyond any realm... as Creator told me."
Green Ernica said to Mark, "I saw Ypritte through your mind, Mark. I saw his powers as well as abilities... and I am quite sure that he is not the another one. I don't think if Ypritte would be able to sustain even for a moment even against Ernica... and I have heard that the other one is much more powerful than Ernica. I don't know what he wants, but I believe that you will definitely encounter him one day. Now... since my job is done, I am ready to die."
"Okay... but one last question," Trepon asked this time, "How did Ernica made Emily... I mean what does it mean that she made Emily. Was she able to make a living creature?"
"It is a little tough to explain, but the thing is that I have lived for so many times in your universe and I am familiar with your way. So, I will try to explain in your words," Green Ernica continued, "You call us (or anyone who is able to travel through different realms) bulk beings because we have higher dimension than you have. You only have three dimensions of space, but we have four... and like your shadow appears to be as 2-dimensional, our shadow would appear as 3-dimensional. Just there is a little bit difference as she could be able to extract her shadow and made Emily independent and free. She was able to do this because she was in your universe whose spatial dimension is less than her own."
"And what about me," Mark asked.
