by Aditya Kumar
"But I am not going without getting the information that on which Black Hole, your project is going on," Mark said, "Trust me... I will get what I want. I just wanted to make it easier on you."
Cleok stand up in anger and told one of his warriors to kill Mark. Even before that warrior could have moved, he was on the ground bleeding throughout his whole body and they saw the anger in Mark's eye when he moved towards them. Before Mark could have hurt any other, Xoguar and Emily reached there with the help of Xoguar's magic wand. They both were watching all this using their magical powers. They made Mark calm. Emily said pointing towards those leaders, "I believe you wouldn't want to die like this. Just give me your support and we will leave you here... alive."
Their fear forced them to tell every detail that Mark needed.
Then suddenly Emily got a vibe. "They had entered in our universe," Emily said.
"They will make the whole universe like theirs own... and after they will complete their job, everything will reset again to start a new iteration of time loop," Xoguar said.
"So, you are saying that when Crayton entered, he will start to change the basis of space-time itself," Mark said.
"Yeah... this was your speculation. However, I didn't know before, but when you told us... I combined your finding with our data and it turned out that you were right," Xoguar said.
Mark asked, "How do you have all this data? Do you remember your earlier life?"
"I never forgot," Xoguar said, "that was not my earlier life. Unlike Tecton, I can’t incarnate. "
"Then why you didn't tell about Crayton before," Mark asked.
Xoguar replied, "I didn't know anything about Crayton earlier because we never reached to this instance," Xoguar said, "New iteration of time loop is supposed to start either from your death or conversion of the whole multiverse as dark universe... and until now always new iteration of time loop started with your death. I will tell you more later. First we need to win the war."
"They are many," Emily said, "We need an army."
"So, hope that you all will not mind," Mark said to those leaders, "I am taking all your army. But you all need to be here hiding and try to be alive if you can."
"I have to throw some mass into black hole. I need you to come with me with your magical shield, Macoar to keep us away from Black Hole's gravity," Mark said to Xoguar.
"What are you going to throw into black hole after all," Emily asked curiously.
"You will know later," Mark said and went with Xoguar.
Mark and Xoguar came back after a certain time.
Emily got another vision from this universe. She said, "I can hear the scream of people. They are suffering their worst fate. He is reversing the property of space-time for the whole multiverse."
"How..." Mark asked.
"I don't know... they are vibrating at all the frequency and so able to reach in every universe," Emily said, "But this is not important. People are in pain. We need to help them."
"Yeah... You are right. Emily, you go..." Mark was saying his strategy, but Xoguar interrupted, "No one is going anywhere. Universe of this moment is not worth saving anymore. That all will ultimately fade. Even after you win, this multiverse will take rebirth to choose its future independently from the beginning moment of time loop. We need to kill Crayton's force."
"So... okay, if you all are really right, then I should order my force to be ready for this war..." Cleok said.
"They are not your force..." Mark said, "Not anymore..."
"Yes... they are..." Cleok said, "You may take our force, but you don't know how to motivate them... and as you said, this is our place too. So, we will protect our universe, we will protect our home."
"Then all of you... order your force to go where Crayton and his minions are," Mark said, "Xoguar's magic wand will help them to fade from here and reappear in front of Crayton."
"No... don't do this..." Xoguar forbade Mark, "They can't do anything to them until Crayton's force will not come in human form. Mark… you will have to come with us... your energy blast will force Crayton's minion to disorient from their pattern and will force them to come in human form."
"Yeah... but there are so many, I can’t use my energy blast on all of them," Mark said.
"You are right," Xoguar said, "and also your energy blast will not affect everyone... some are too much powerful. That's why we used Black Hole to amplify the energy. But they are far away from here and even we launch any weapon from here, that will slow down until that would reach there."
Mark said, "We have to think some other way to make them come here."
"Don't you still have the Quaiak's technology..." Emily asked.
"Which technology..." Mark asked.
Emily suggested, "The one that could warp the space-time and create worm hole between any two places... the one which you used to trap Acouch before you crushed him into black hole."
"This is a wonderful idea," Mark said, "But even if they would enter in wormhole, it doesn't mean they would exit here only. They can exit back from the same place. We need something to pull them over to reach the other end of wormhole."
"You can use time pool to contract the huge amount of matter at one place to make it highly dense. As all those minions would be sucked by its gravity, you can open the wormhole and they will go through wormhole because of its own inertia and before they could realize, they would be here," Emily's mind is working faster than anything today.
But Cleok interrupted in middle, "Doesn't gravity only affects the thing having mass... and you told that they are just a pattern."
"He is right," Xoguar said pointing towards Cleok, "Seems like a dead end here."
They all were quiet. Suddenly Mark spoke, "They are not mass-less. They look like electro-magnetic radiation, but I had seen them... they have shape, they are a physical object. Crayton told himself that without any shape and mass, he can’t enter in our universe. They are able to hide the mass behind that meaningless pattern. But since they have mass, so I can bind them with real mass."
"How can you do that," Xoguar asked.
"Not me, but time pool can convert moving photon into static mass and can throw that mass on them with sufficient velocity to bind with their hidden mass... and that bound mass will be affected by gravity and they will be forced to come where you will have to do the rest," Mark said.
"I am just hoping that you would be right, otherwise this would be the end," Xoguar said.
"And can you tell me, where do you keep those devices," Clemon asked.
"Don't worry... that is safe with me," Mark said and told Xoguar to come with him.
Xoguar used his wand and they were at the place where Crayton and his minions were. "Seriously... at least you can tell me, where do you keep those devices," Xoguar asked.
"Just watch," Mark said and Xoguar went into complete shock when he saw that Mark destroyed the nearby planets, comets and other rocks... took its energy and threw on those minions as mass at very high velocity. And he told Xoguar to use the Macoar to protect from Black Hole's gravity. He contracted all the object from surrounding and fused together to form a huge density object. Gravity worked on them and then he opened the wormhole to force minions to go where he wants to.
Then he smiled looking towards Xoguar and said, "When I was going to dark universe, I met with Tecton's conscious. He showed me another world and way to go there. I don't remember much as he said, but I could remember the way to enter there. I thought to make myself more secure. I found that I can fully access that world and even use their resources. So, I put all that device there, but I can use it from here."
"Why are you trying to say," Xoguar looked upon him as he understood nothing.
"In simple way, you can understand like that world is a huge server and I can use the instance of its resource on my demand from everywhere (I guess). Now, you need to go there I need to send the remaining of these minions. Go and use Black Hole's energy onto them to make them to appear as human, othe
rwise our force could not fight them. I have bounded mass with everyone except Crayton, but there are many here left to be sent and I also have to face angry Crayton. Just leave the wormhole open and come here again with Emily. She can also use these devices through me and she knows what she has to do."
"Okay..." Xoguar said and he disappeared. Mark continued his job. Yet there are so many left to be sent and Crayton saw him.
Crayton said to Mark, "Oh... well, what could I say. I can never know you. I don't know what should I say to you - brave or stupid. You may have executed your plan very well till now, but we are a lot and you think you can fight us alone."
"I never thought you as my powerful enemy, yet I guess you are. But you are not in your universe and I can't let you make our universe like yours," Mark said.
"When you will understand that you are really stupid," Crayton couldn't believe that Mark would have that much courage to stay in front of him.
"Okay... maybe I am stupid," Mark said smiling, "But I am not alone."
Crayton turned back only to see that Emily and Xoguar had sent the last of their minions to unknown location.
"No..." Crayton realized very late. Mark distracted him perfectly. Crayton screamed in anger, "Until now, I considered you just a stubborn child, but you shouldn't have done this."
Mark saw his anger and told Xoguar and Emily to disappear right now since he knew that he couldn't able to bind the mass with Crayton's imaginary mass. So, his next plan was just to invoke his anger and Mark was very good at it. Crayton tried to attack on him many times, moved towards him faster than anything else... but Mark concentrated on defending himself only. And when next time Crayton moved towards him, he made a wormhole in front of him... used Crayton's own inertia to make him to reach inside the sphere-shaped protective cover which Xoguar has made around the Shalloac. There Crayton found all his minions trapped.
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CHAPTER 32
Beginning of Final Chapter
Their plan succeeded so far. All got trapped in that spherical shaped object. They were ready to remove the Shalloac. Mark screamed telling to hide everyone behind Macoar. Xoguar removed the Shalloac for a moment with his magic, yet the energy came out was enormous. Those creatures of dark universe could not be killed from that explosion. Yet that explosion was powerful enough to break the cover that Xoguar has made around the Shalloac and to break the fixed energized structure of every one of those minions forcing them to come out as their pre-decided shape.
"Seriously... can you tell now what was that? How much mass this Black Hole may have consumed to produce such enormous amount of energy? Can you tell now what you had thrown into that Black Hole," Emily asked curiously.
"Another Black Hole..." Mark said in calm tone.
"What..." it was nice to see Emily's face right now.
Everyone else started looking towards them.
Mark explained, "I just contracted huge mass around to form a point size Black Hole and threw into it."
"So, the explosion, we saw here is..." Emily started to say, but Mark interrupted in middle, "That was due to collision of two Black Hole."
Mark told Cleok, "Now you are thinking that how Shalloac was able to hold that much energy... it's because we removed Shalloac and replaced with something else... with a strong ancient shield that Xoguar had from his own time.
Now it's time for real war. Cleok ordered their force to run for it... and so do Crayton... and then war started figuratively between two different universes. One side they had union of all the powerful civilization of the universe and on the other side the minions of Crayton... an evil force. Definitely Mark had much more force in number, but Crayton's minions were much more deadly. Mark came in between. Aleina were also there and so the whole 'Vast Horcune' organization including Vacrain and Ascab.
Mark came using his energy blast, Emily with her thunderbolt, Xoguar with his strange magic... and there was everyone to show their skill in this war. Suddenly Mark got a huge smash from his back... he flew above and fell then in front of Crayton. When he rose, he saw the real face of Crayton - a burning hell, red eye shining in complete dark... huge size, obviously could destroy any planet just by his weight. Only empty space had the capacity to maintain its own curvature despite of having such a huge mass. But Mark and Xoguar had something else planned. When someone else distracted Crayton, Mark and Xoguar both went away from the war area.
Mark said, "But I have something to ask, before you leave... I am not sure if we will meet again."
"I trust on you... we will meet again," Xoguar said, "Yet if you want to ask anything... you can ask. Also, I want to tell you something, but first you should ask whatever you want to."
"Are you sure that you will survive by going into Black Hole," Mark asked Xoguar.
"I can do this... I have done that before... and you know this answer right...," Xoguar said, "Everything will be okay. I will appear in some other time and hopefully we will meet there to fight together against Ypritte."
"Why then," Mark asked, "Why not now?"
"Because we can't defeat him here," Xoguar said, "We don't have enough warrior. We all will have to be together to even think about winning... me, you, Xena, Trepon, your so-called mother and many more. Right now, what you have done is far more than what we expected from you. Tecton will be proud of you."
"What are you saying... Tecton... Xena... are they alive," Mark asked.
Xoguar said, "No... not in this time... not in this universe, but they are at a somewhere else preserving the incident of that specific moment. You will know all that when you come there."
"Can't you take me with you," Mark asked.
"No," Xoguar said, "You were bound with this iteration of time loop. So, there is no way I can take you with me. But you should know that when time loop will be broken, you all will cease to exist... for you all, everything will start from the moment from when time loop started and so none of you will exist. But I saw your potential and we need you in upcoming war. I want you to be there. I want you to come to us... and there is only one way to do that."
"What..." Mark asked being a little scared.
"When time loop will be broken... many incidents will occur at once. First of all, time will become unstable... also you will get the key that is also called Key of Destruction... and yet unwillingly, you will have to open the gate of wall... to go out there," Xoguar continued, "You will face some huge trouble there, but I believe in you... you will overcome all that and will figure out a way to join us in upcoming invasion."
"What do you mean by Key of Destruction... and don't you think that explosion of this Black Hole will explode this whole universe," Mark asked.
"You will come to know everything out there," Xoguar said, "But you will not have much time to open the wall, so you have to decide right now, either you can choose to have immense trouble and join us in our final war or you can stay here and when loop will break... everything will reset and you will be cease to exist. I know what you are thinking... about Emily... don't worry she is someone special, she will be there because she is not bound to this iteration of time loop. She has much more secrets that what you can think... just she doesn't know. As you are related to Tecton, she is also related to someone else, but not like you. She is not bound to this time loop... as by now you should have known that the story about her parent is a lie. I also realized this very late."
"Yeah... I know," surprisingly Mark knew this.
Xoguar continued, "I know that you want to save this universe, but it doesn't mean anything now. There is no point in saving this world in this moment... or maybe even in the moment at the start of time loop. Ypritte is too much powerful... why do you think we all are running away from him. We couldn't able to face him ever. We lived hidden because of him... always. But I think this is enough for now... I have to go, I will wait for you on other side."
"But... I can access powerful device and use it at my own will. I can face him in one to one fight," Mark
still hoped to save this world.
"You can use those devices," Xoguar smiled a little, "Did you ever try to think who made these kinds of weapon at first."
"No..." Mark said, "I never tried to think about that."
"Me neither," Xoguar said, "But what if these weapons would really belong to Ypritte, who would have given to Acouch, would you still feel that using these weapons on Ypritte himself. Is this risk worth to take? You can be the last hope for survival of this multiverse."
Mark didn't have answer to these. Xoguar may be right.
"Wait... wait... I have one last question... You knew this all along, yet you tried to make us believe like you have forgotten everything... why," Mark asked this when Xoguar got ready to leave.
"Because I can't own this moment. Ypritte could have done anything to us in this time loop... so only way to remain undetected from his observation was not to disclose anything and he still thinks that I followed his order yet. Well, he tried to enslave me... and he thought that he got successful and I just played along and now you will have to do the same. Ypritte wants to open the wall... and you will have to do the same. Because there is no other choice you have today... he will get that key from you in either way and if he would open the wall, the result would be irreversible. That Black Hole is about to explode. Now I will have to go. Hope... I will meet you."
Then Mark created a Black Hole at sufficient distance from himself using time pool to make a passage for Xoguar... and then Xoguar went into Black Hole to make sure that he could reach the place where he really belonged... and to start a new era, where everything would be crystal clear... to start a new war where either all of them knew their real enemy or no one. "Remember... to win this war, today we have to lose it... I believe you will be ready for the final war that would depict the fate of this whole multiverse in every moment… and one more thing… I never told you the truth about where we all live because we also completely don’t know the structure of that place and that moment," Xoguar said this and went straight into Black Hole crossing the event horizon to appear on the other side.