The void was vast. No light, no shadow — just nothingness. No time dared to move here. No space existed here, a place where only the truly eternal could exist.
Alex floated, not in a body, but as a thought. A soul caught between what was and what would be. The One Above All stood beside him — calm, unshaken, and always present.
I've been thinking, Alex began, his tone more casual than the setting suggested. When the First Firmament is born, I don't want to just appear out of nowhere.
OAA turned to him, curious. You want a beginning?
More than that, Alex said. I want to be part of that beginning. A natural part of it. Something the cosmos itself created. I've decided... I want the First Firmament to create me — as the Concept of Energy.
The words lingered for a moment in the nothingness, then slowly settled like dust.
Interesting, OAA replied. You don't want to stand apart from others so .You want to be born of it.
Yes, Alex nodded. Because if I just show up later — as some powerful outsider — the early beings, especially the first Celestials and Aspirants, will never trust me. But if I come into existence with the cosmos, as part of its very structure, I can grow with it. Evolve alongside it. Be accepted.
OAA looked forward, beyond the horizon where the first sparks of reality still slumbered and where the reality will be born soon. The First Firmament will be the beginning of everything — a living embodiment of the universe itself. To be born from it... is to be very hard plus you will grow weaker and you would have to train back to reach your current level like now you are at peak almighty universe level but when you are born from the First Firmament you will fall back to early almighty universe level the same level as those first generation celestials and aspirants.
That's what I want to feel the thrill of training and growing stronger, Alex said firmly. Just.. belonging. I want to understand creation from the inside out, not as an observer. If I'm created as the Concept of Energy, I'll be there from the first movement, the first pulse, the first shift ,the first being in creation after first firmament.
And you want me to make this happen?
I can't do it alone, Alex admitted. But if you tell the Firmament that it must create me as one of its first conscious concepts — not a god or a being, but as a concept that exists as a fundamental foundation of creation like If I am not there all the energy in creation will cease to exist and every being in creation will be normal as without energy for their use they can't do anything after doing this then I'll have my place.
OAA considered this. The Concept of Energy, he said aloud. An idea that binds all things. Not life, not matter, but a idea a concept that will and must exist otherwise the reality will destabilize.
That's exactly it, Alex nodded. I won't interfere with the Firmament's creation. I'll just be part of its design. Quiet, patient, and ever-present. And when the First Generation of Celestials appear later, they'll just think I've always been there as the first creation of first firmament and they will also know about mu importance and won't even dare attack me.
Which you have already planned right, OAA agreed. In a way that even they won't question.
Alex gave a small, satisfied smile. Exactly.
For a while, the two of them watched the quiet of the nothingness void realm. Far in the distance, thinking a subtle shimmer will begin — as the early tremor of existence. The cosmos was not born yet, but it was beginning to want to be born.
The Firmament will awaken soon in few more eons, OAA said softly. It will feel alone. It will believe itself perfect. But it will still dream of something more.
Then let that dream include me, Alex said. Let it think: 'I need energy. I need motion. And then... let me be the answer and let me be born and plus even a peak almighty universe level like first firmament cannot create a concept of energy so Old Man OAA you must lend your helping hand to it otherwise I will be born at a multiversal level which is too low if you lend a helping hand at least I will be born at early stages of almighty universe level.
OAA nodded slowly. You are willing to tie your existence to its heartbeat. To rise and fall with the flow of the universe itself.
That's the only way I'll ever truly understand it, Alex replied. And one day, when new beings rise and the multiverse expands and the cycle of cosmos continue, I won't be a stranger to them. I'll be history. I'll be legend. I'll be part of the foundation and at the highest level of hierarchy in the cosmos so that they must also respect and fear me.
There was silence again. The kind that spoke louder than words. Finally, OAA extended a hand — not physically, but symbolically — and placed it near where Alex's core essence and his existence pulsed.
Very well, he said. When the First Firmament is born, it will feel a need. A drive. It will not know why. But from that need, it will shape the first concept — not matter, not thought, but energy. Flow. Spark. You.
Alex closed his eyes, feeling the resonance of that promise settle deep within him.
Thank you, he whispered.
OAA smiled. You will be the quiet rhythm behind every star, every explosion, every transformation. No matter what comes, they will all owe their energy to you as any energy they use belongs to you.
Alex laughed softly. Sounds poetic when you say it.
As the lightless void around them began to hum ever so faintly — a whisper of inevitability — Alex turned once more towards the void and nothingness realm to look at yet-unborn Firmament.
How long do you think it'll take before it wakes?
A few more eons, OAA answered. But from your perspective... it won't feel long after all you have been born for so many eons before him.
Then I'll wait, Alex said. After all, I've got all the time in existence and plus before his birth I have already experienced more than 300 billion years alone already and even time is not born yet so the calculation of it is quite crazy and different my head hurts whenever I try to calculate how much time has passed.
OAA said well you can try to use the energy you have to lessen your mental fatigue after all even if you have transformed from a normal human to a energy concept you still have mind and a soul of a ordinary human child so it will be quite tiring for you to exist for so many eons without anything to do except practice and train. Well Alex then I have to ask how do you manage to convince those first generation celestials to not interfere in your saiyans and kryptonian plan.