by Aditya Kumar
And on the war area... Mark's force was larger in number, but they were not able to fight against those deadly minions. They were on the verge of defeat.
Suddenly Emily thought of something. She asked, "But still there is two Black Hole... and they are yet colliding with each-other. What do you think, how much energy your ancient shield can hold and remain stable? Do you know it will explode, if you will not let release that energy? Tell Xoguar to remove that shield for a moment... well, where is he?"
"He left for his own time, but I have some other thing in mind. Xoguar's magical shield Macoar will save me," Mark said literally ignoring her question.
"No... Mark you are wrong," Emily said, "This shield can't keep you alive for much time."
"I know," Mark said, "But that time will be enough to do what I have to."
"What are you planning," Emily asked, "Tell me everything."
Mark said, "If I will remain in this universe, then when time loop will break then everything will reset again and all of us who got birth in this time loop will cease to exist. Our universe will reach in its state that was when the time loop was created at first... and then time will move forward creating different incidents. So, I will have to open the wall to save myself."
"So... you will leave me here to fade away," Emily said sobbing.
"Oh... sorry, forgot to tell about you. You are incarnation of someone else. You did not take birth in this time loop," Mark said.
"How can you say this," Emily said in anger, "You know everything about my parent... their profession, and everything about my ancestor."
"That was just a backstory given to you," Mark said, "I tried to find everything that you had told me about your parent. Nothing of them were true."
"Then why didn't you tell me yet," Emily asked.
"Because... I love you," Mark said, "and I didn't want to break your heart."
"So..." Emily said smiling on her fate that how it changes a person's existence in one moment, she asked, "What do you think... why they would have sent me here?"
"I don't know... Maybe to make me believe in love," Mark said, "But I don't care what they wanted. I love you... I will find you and we will always be together... I don't care alive or dead."
As they were talking, Mark saw that Black Hole is about to explode.
"Run away," Mark cried... as Black Hole exploded taking all the universe with it. However, it wasn't meaningful, they had no place to save their life. Mark revealed to Emily that he had converted a whole galaxy into point size Black Hole and made it to collide inside that powerful ancient shield. But whatever may happen tomorrow, death of Crayton was achievement. That one billionth of moment was worth to remember and important enough to utilize perfectly. Emily requested Mark to give her a little place in Macoar for some time, so that she could see the death of Crayton. During the destruction of Crayton and his army, Mark saw a glimpse of Ypritte, he tried to say something, but Mark couldn't hear. However, he disappeared instantly. Mark saw the box in his hand. He opened it and used the key to open the gate of wall... to see a new reality, a new truth. He came on the other side of wall alive yet but knowing nothing. He saw a new message on communication device that he had.
That message strangely had come from Ypritte, "You did the same thing as I wanted you to do. Time loop has been broken after space-time got defeated, but a slight change of information in Vacrain's mind created a whole lot of rumour and so my mission gets completed. Now be ready for what's coming to you. Your universe will be doomed and so you. You just didn't have to open the wall right now, yet this is the dead end for you. Until now you saved your universe from suffering due to others entity, but now your universe... even multiverse will not exist anymore..."
"I know..." Mark whispered himself smiling, "He still thinks that I opened that wall because Vacrain said to me."
But message wasn't completed yet, "...and yes don't worry about me because I do not belong to this multiverse. I belong to the moment when there was no space and time anywhere... I belong to the moment before big bang itself."
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PART 3
CHAPTER 33
A New World
Mark made his intention clear that his fight is not over. He will always be there to save the humanity, until he is alive. He survived the collapse of multiverse... and he couldn't sustain to lose himself like any others. He couldn't believe that his job is over... he craved for saving life, but ultimately end up with losing everything because he had to lose. He wanted to exist... to contribute more in this war... to see the life winning against those unknown evil.
He might be a part of some huge plan... written on something big. He fulfilled his purpose of existent, but he doesn't think in this way. He is free now from everything... to choose his own destiny. But he wants to go towards that war. He suspects about some scarier impact of destroying that ancient wall. He is a little afraid as what he might have done in coming under the influence of Xoguar and after following him blindly. He trusts on those ancient acolytes, but he knows that their purpose maybe different. Yet he is beyond the wall and there is nothing he can do from there.
He can just sit there and analyze the surrounding and hope that he might get a way to escape that unknown part of the universe. He has all the time to think about what he may have done wrong. He can think here a new perspective to see the universe from some other view to find the answer of some question... even to find some unknown questions. He is drown into his thinking.
He thinks, 'All this time, I always approached in wrong way. My destination wasn't clear, I couldn't see the hidden stars behind those thick clouds. I always believed that truth is only what I see. I found many anomalies and I accepted their existence and didn't think of the reason behind it. That was my mistake... because for every incident, there always was something bigger behind that... and I forgot to understand the balance. I yet don't understand the purpose of those creatures originated from unknown thing, but I understand now that they were always behind everything that I saw... and now I understand that their purpose is directly linked with mine.'
He has already wandered a lot to find his purpose, but now he understood that his purpose was to break the time loop and by opening the wall, send the whole universe to its end, but now it’s time to do something different. He thinks, 'I always tried to ask my purpose of existence from others and never tried to ask myself... never tried to search the answer within myself. But it's time to look into myself, because now I believe that answer to everything is hidden inside me. I must have the information about past, future and even about the place where past and future merge to evolve into something new, mysterious and unknown. Now I know that up to where we can think... up to what our imagination can reach, there is always something bigger exist... hidden, but able to get found.'
We talk about destiny, but does anyone tried to understand what is this? Until now, Mark used to understand that destiny describes an instance of us in time that is ahead of us... it tells our circumstances in future. But what is his future. He is from a time which is destroyed with collapse of whole multiverse. It forces him to consider something about himself, 'My time doesn't exist anymore. I am from the time that I, myself erased forever to start a new course. There isn't any past or future for me. What am I now... what is my destiny? Where am I supposed to go... or what am I supposed to do?'
But what can he even do... He doesn't know where he is? He is in dark... nothing is visible there. He believes that this is not a part of his universe. He still remembers that moment, when he opened the gate of that ancient wall knowing nothing. He feels like that wall was to keep all the livings protected from unknown threats, but that mysterious wall, which surrounds all the creation, is not there anymore. He did to achieve his purpose... to start a new way... so that to be remain the happiness assured in this mysterious way. He will protect life, because they have potential. They are weak individually, but they are supposed to be united. Now he knows the purpose of every living
s. They will live, die, evolve and extinct... and this is their flow for eternity, and maybe this is their destiny.
He remembers the terrifying sound came out when he opened the gate of wall... and he has seen a little part of it that how the whole wall melted like an ice. But he still can't see his universe even without any wall. 'It's maybe because my universe doesn't exist anymore... I have destroyed my own universe with a Black Hole bomb,' He thinks. He feels a little guilt for what he did even knowing that he didn't have any other choice. But still he didn't think of anything else... he got that mysterious key and used it without giving a second thought. He just followed what Xoguar told, without thinking about the underlying plan of Ypritte. He saw Ypritte just before the collapse of multiverse. He thinks, 'This never was a fight to win or lose. This always was a fight for living and extinction and I supported the life with my sacrifice,' He thinks like this, but still he doubts about correctness of his thought because he is not sure about the impact of this incident.
He is on the other side of wall. He is still alive and amazed. He can sense mystery and fear. Perhaps, this wall surrounding the whole multiverse is made for something else. 'Whatever plan, he tried to invoke through me... I will ruin his everything,' Mark is in anger. Why shouldn't he be... he had just lost his everything. What he has now... nothing. He lost Emily... not because that he thinks as he will not able to find her again... but because now he knows that someone tried to show something through her and she is not even a real person.
That war with Rogue Space Time, Crayton realized him many things... but perhaps this was the most important. That situation realized him to see through the unseen part of her brain and he got completely sure with his finding when Xoguar told that she is incarnation of someone else. However, he couldn't saw clear picture... yet he sensed the start of something terrible. Emily wasn't the same as Mark knew about her. She had some hidden part inside her brain that Mark got able to access during realization of destroying multiverse. 'If someone wanted to help me through her, then why they didn't show me the clear picture as who is she,' he thinks.
He knows that Ypritte tried to tell him something just before he opened the wall, but he wasn't ready to recieve sound of that frequency... and so he couldn't able to hear Ypritte. But he knows that his brain must have perceived that sound. Recently, he came to realize that he has the whole control of his own body. He can instruct, order or even manipulate into any form to even a single cell of his body. He can divide his whole body into two halves and make them fight with each-other. However, that would be a terrible thing to but he can do it.
The necessary thing right now is to find out what Ypritte said to him. He instructs some of his own neuron to search in his whole mind that where that information is stored and then decode it in the frequency that he could understand. That is a time-consuming job, but he got the eternity to spend there. He also needs to find out the frequency of that voice, so he could able to calibrate his neurons to be responsive against that frequency for more encounter with Ypritte.
His plan worked as he got able to hear Ypritte's voice. It was 'Leave the wall as it is'. It leaves him confused, 'Why he told me like this. In his message, he told that I did everything that he wanted. Wait... no... He also told that I didn't have to open the wall right now. It must mean something... there must be something for me to do. But first I have to go out from here... and for that I have to understand the nature of fabric of space-time.'
He made a plan... however that was just a though, yet start to something. He plans to figure out the thing that is there, 'I can sense something that is not a life. It is everywhere and beyond my understanding. I can't figure out what is that and I am guessing, I may have made a terrible mistake by coming here. I can sense that something exists here. This is not life... This is not even matter. I can't see them... I can't touch them. But I can assure that this dark has something hidden. Something lives here. Something strange to whom I can't even communicate. They are hidden, afraid and searching something, but they are different. I don't know what this place is. I don't know anything. I can't believe what just happened. I am somewhere else. This place is beyond everything. Even the very basic fabric of space-time is different here.'
Mark is alone, but this all that is around him gives a thrill to find what is hidden in those dark. He is trying to find the thing that can make any sense but he is unable to do. There is still dark. At one glance, it seems like nothing. He thinks if this is not matter, then what it could be. What is the thing that he can still sense? After getting nothing, he makes his negative form... he provides extra mass to his body to create a creature that would have negative mass. He can control matter at his own will... but at very small scale.
He tries to see the things through his negative form but he can't. He asks to his negative form, "Can you see anything? Can you understand anything? Just tell me. We will come out from here and make everything right in the same way as it was."
There is no reply from his negative form. He asks again but there is not any reply. He starts laughing on himself for the thing he was doing. He thinks how silly he is who was trying to talk with his negative form. How he can communicate with someone who is not a matter. But this time, this thought strikes him back... what is around him with which he can't communicate...
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CHAPTER 34
Secrets of New World
Mark may understand now that what is around him. He thinks if this is the universe of negative forms, 'Yeah, it makes sense. That is why I couldn't able to communicate with them. What if everything I knew yet is wrong. What if no matter exists without its negative form? What if the place I am in, is negative of space and time itself? What if there is counter part of every matter? What if the intention of this wall was just to keep both matter and antimatter apart, so that they could not dissolve into one another forming nothing,' He thought.
He is started to getting the answer of everything. Everything that had happened before his eye. He has never thought that he would end up like this. He is helpless now to everyone. He just dreamt to fight for life but how destiny could have planned something like this for him. He always tried to save life, but how he ended up like the cause to the end of everything. He opened the wall and he is on the wrong side now. He made everything unstable. First, he destroyed the whole multiverse... and now this... what if that wall was independent of time, and it would destroy the matter-universe in all the time. How could Xoguar made him do something like this? But he believed Xoguar and so he believes that there must be some other way around.
Now Ypritte's plan is clear in front of his eyes. 'Ypritte wanted to destroy the whole matter as well space and even time to make a situation that was before big-bang... to feel like he is in his home,' Mark thinks. He was regretting for everything that he did. He could have left the war earlier but he didn't. He never gave up against any kind of evil. Saving even a single life always motivated him. Now, the condition is that all the life of multiverse is at stake and he is trapped there alone. But the worst thing is that he feels responsible for everything. Bad things started getting worse. He understands that he made everything unstable.
He is angry on himself, 'It is always easy to give up. It is always easy to accept what the fate wants you to be. I think that all the struggle I did, for what, to get this. Everyone was always stronger than me... yet I defeated each one of them, just to watch this. There will not be any difference between life and death now... and everything will end. Everything, for that I fought yet. This will leave nothing except me and I will live forever regretting that I couldn't able to save them. All eyes filled with tears will come in my dream asking that why I couldn't save them. How I will be able to live with that. How can I able to watch the moment when all the life and matter itself will dissolve with antimatter to form nothing. How it would make me feel to be helpless at the moment when everyone will be needed me the most,' his thoughts is started to convert into nightmare.
But he is not
ready to give up. He will do anything, he can... to save everything. 'I have already combined the quantum data of space and time and used it to come back from dark universe... and I will have to do the same again,' he thinks, 'There is not much difference. I know... I can go in my own universe in the present time.'
He tried to make his attempt, but just before the completion of his attempt, he saw that there is no more darkness. A sudden light appears there. He senses all the antimatter creature running away.
"Who are you," Mark asked, "And what do you want?"
"I am Creator of your whole multiverse... and I am here to tell you that you shouldn't do this stupid thing that you were doing," Creator said.
Mark got delighted to finally be able to meet with them, yet he is little angry for designing the universe which made everyone suffer. However, he couldn't understand. "What... why that is stupid thing," he asked being confused, "I have done the exact same thing in dark universe."
"Yes… you did the same there... but these two places are not same," Creator said, "Dark universe was just a virtual place bound to that time loop and linked with your universe... and that was the key point for your earlier success. But this place is not linked with your universe. Here universe is like a variable... set to its default value... that is Soul world. Here repeating the same process will send you into Soul world because you can't control the universe where you want to go."
Creator continued, "And it will be much more difficult for you to return from there. I know you want to save everything, but returning back to your universe is not a solution. You should..."
Mark interrupted, "What is that Soul world?"
"That is a whole new multiverse linked to matter-multiverse which controls life and death. Soul of dead people goes and reside there until some new born person needs it," Creator said, "If you have completed your attempt, then you would have reached in Soul world."