*Flashback*
... Graveyards are not exactly conducive to cheerful thoughts, the atmosphere that these places emanate seems to suck out any trace of life, joy, energy, and peace from anyone who happens to pass by, ironic, since that is exactly their sole purpose
:1%...
'Too slow...'
The rest of the dead is just a plus, this damn place is just a reminder of how little THEY live, how weak THEY are, And how careless THEY were...
Why they didn't wait for me, was it so difficult? Am I not reliable enough? Was it my attitude that affected them? Was it my arrogance that pushed them away? Was it my DAMN insecurity that pushed ME away?
"No..." It was my inability to coexist with humans that drove us apart, I simply couldn't even look at them without a surge of hatred rising from my core.
'Maria... Would I be able to look you in the eyes and tell you that I couldn't keep our promise? That I didn't help humanity enough? That I let my traumas take over my being?'
My promise to her... I never managed to keep it. I tried, and tried, and tried, but it was never enough, Not until recently.
That deep hatred, that overwhelmed my senses, logic, and instincts completely, leaving space only for the Red, That thing that made them not completely trust me, has calmed down. In the last 2000 years my situation with them has improved quite a bit,'I wish we were like that back then.'
But fate is treacherous, always playing tricks; It was that damned hatred I felt towards humans that prevented THEM from accepting me into their lives, at least not completely.
Knowing this, it should be easier to deal with the loss, so why? Why does it hurt so much? Is it rejection? The pain of not being wanted, loved, and cared for? They didn't care about me, why should I care about them...?
"..." The silence is deafening, the buzzing is agonizing, the air is heavy...
"I fell sick..." Rejection hurts, it hurts a lot, was nothing we experienced real to them?
"..." Shit... They weren't like that; After so long, you still think like that, their deaths are on YOUR shoulders YES, But DO NOT taint their memories with YOUR disgusting reasoning, pull yourself together, the blame was YOURS, YOU who didn't want connections for fear of more and more losses, but it's impossible, everyone has to go someday, even if that day never comes for ME.
"I thought that by distancing myself all the problems would go away, but it seems that by leaving home, I left the doors open for the monsters to come in." There's no use in lamenting.
Turning my gaze away from their tombstones towards the starry sky, the moon looks so beautiful tonight, the stars so bright, but like everything good, it doesn't last long. Dark clouds, like the eternal void of the universe, quickly obscure such cosmic beauty.
Letting out a bitter laugh, I say, "Are you trying to cheer me up now?" I hate the stillness, the rain fills the air, its drops washing the soul of those who accept them, like a hug from someone we love, the acceptance that changes are inevitable, It's Truly Beautiful, Truly pure.
Old dreams, false hopes, past friendships... Unique passions, they shaped who I am, I will never forget the emotions you made me feel, both the good and the bad, you shaped today, what tomorrow doesn't expect, a completely different being from yesterday.
*End of Flashback*
"Truly a... Blessing... In the form of a curse." How these words hurt, God knows they do, but I can't just discard them because they hurt, I hate taking losses as gains, but nothing goes as we expect them to.
4 years, 7 months, 2 days, 22 hours, 52 minutes and 19 seconds. That's the total time I've been here, the first time in 16.517 years after their death. I didn't have the courage to visit them, but now I... "I must move on."
:The Creator - Upon letting go of beliefs previously held as absolute truths, has received a sudden increase in energy regeneration speed. View percentage for travel?
[YES] [NO]
Clicking yes, a familiar screen appears before my eyes; I've spent the last 12.632 years perfecting this system, my skills constantly amplifying, my arsenal expanding ever greater.
This system was created by myself, as a way to guide myself. Years of study, trial and error, and experiments with emeralds have led me to this point.
It is divided into: General Knowledge, Skills, Research, Theories, Experiments, and Essentials.
:79%...
'It was a very big leap,' I thought. There's nothing left in this world; The Cemetery I am in now was built by me with the help of the Chaos Emeralds. The Sanctuary itself is a Singularity, a hollow cube, with another cube white in color floating in the center, the second cube serves as a counter-pressure to the pressure coming from the Black Hole outside, A "White Hole".
If a Black Hole sucks everything in until nothing remains, then a White Hole expels "Nothing" until "Everything" comes into existence A Positive Singularity. The same one that caused the Big Bang.
When It appeared, it did not have the counter pressure of the negative Singularity, so as it appeared, the world came into existence, Instantly.
The fact that everything I built were not erased from literal existence, is that one cancels out the other, a balance between "Everything Turned Into Nothing" and "Nothing Turned Into Everything." A Neutral Singularity.
I created this miniature world by expanding the Negative Singularity, so instead of it being just an atom with infinite mass, it became a space similar to a country with barriers of infinite mass.
Of course this fact/theory may or may not be implemented in other worlds. "Multiverse" It's not exactly a strange concept, it's actually quite easy to access. As for "omniverse," it's another matter, the amount of energy needed to travel between universes outside my own is almost impossible to have. 15,000 years, I travel through the universe, gathering energy from the dead variants of my world, preventing the birth of others, stealing their Positive Singularities, Negative Singularities, and neutral singularities.
Planets, stars, constellations, galaxies. The number of dead universes, in the process of being born, or in which life cannot be sustained is infinite, but Those energies never went into the system (at least most of them didn't). They were always absorbed by me. The answer was in me all this time, I am the supreme life form, the energy production capacity that I can generate and stock is not small, the increase in energy produced by me only increased after I confronted my past, breaking those damn chains that kept me stagnant.
I just need a thin piece. consume infinite energy to produce infinite energy...
Facing the graveyardI started to speak, "It's time to say goodbye, you were the best of the best, I will always carry you with me in my memories, my heart and my soul!"
With these words I begin to recite, "I bring forth Light, Reality, Strength, Speed, Agility, Electricity, Control, Balance and Supremacy, one becomes nine, then nine will become one"
With these words spoken, the barriers that previously prevented the implosion of this utopia project, they didn't even crack, they just disappeared, I didn't even need to blink, of course, if it was the vision of a normal person, for me it was as if hours stretched out in a Planck time.
Taking one last look at the Graveyard, I begin the absorption of the Positive Singularity, and the emeralds.
By absorbing PS first, I create the Forces, primordial Energies of the DC Universe; the Speed force intrigued me. There, the speed of the speedsters comes from the force of acceleration, not from the hedgehogs' genetic makeup. Absorbing the emeralds next, I have an idea...
By recreating these forces of nature, Strength Force, Sage Force, Speed Force, ...and one of my own creation, the Null Force, capable of nullifying all previous forces for a short period of time. I combine them with a fraction of my own essence, And another little surprise. So that the Concept of Creation understands what I am trying to create, my body and blood remember the sensation. But my essence has another role to fulfill: to find one of the worlds corrupted by "HIM"
"Speaking of the Devil, no, better said, his bitch." I speak when I see the equivalent of misery before me, "Mephiles."
The state he's in is... To say the least, laughable, "It's funny... You only managed to visit me when I decided to go out and renovate my house, why didn't you come sooner? I had tea."
"..."
Okay, now I understand Sonic. Making fun of the guys who are more powerful is actually Very funny. I can literally hear and see the veins on his forehead pulsing. I'm holding back a lot so as not to laugh.
"You know, I don't have the patience for games right now, so tell me, where are the emeralds?" He asks, clearly annoyed, Well, I would be too, centuries have passed... but i don't Care!
Smiling menacingly, I sadistically and slowly point to my chest; instantly, he materializes in front of me, I don't dodge the attack, I want to see the anguish.
His face changing color, emotions crossing his face, The shiver that ran through his whole body. 'I feel everything... And it's delicious.'
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?" The sweet smell of fear. I know what happens when HE doesn't get what he wants.
His subordinates are like bananas... The fruit is the only part he wants; he throws the peel away... crappy analogy, but you get the idea.
"I became your owner's nightmare, but I won't do anything against your boyband. I'm preparing a surprise, hold on until then, someone else will be the one to fulfill my wish, after all... He is my Image And Likeness"
*3'RD PERSON POV*
Elsewhere, far away from our hedgehog, lie His desires, His desire to protect, seeking someone with the same genuine desires, a certain blue hedgehog taught us that the strong must protect the weak, And these are the traits that Shadow instills in his champion.
And these qualities were found in a rather... Dark Universe.
*Atlas POV*
Two years have passed since the tragedy in Brightburn (Kansas). The world has entered a state of war; agreements have been made between countries to stop this abomination, and underground facilities and labs have been established to find something in it's biology that indicates some vulnerability.
Of course, not all research and experiments were for the good of the human race. With the fall of world leaders, and of any other forms of authority and order, experiments on humans are being conducted in countries such as America, Russia, France, China, and Japan.
With humanity on the brink of extinction, a massive operation was planned, Searching the Breyer residence, They found the spacecraft, and they also found biological material, blood, in It.
Tests indicate that the element in the material does not match any element on Earth's periodic table, With this discovery, hope began to be cultivated in the hearts of the scientists: 'That being is mortal, it bleeds, it can die!'
As every cloud has its silver lining, the DNA provided has proven to cure several previously incurable diseases, such as cancer, for example; however, Methods for replicating the spacecraft's material have proven unsatisfactory.
"Atlas, what did I tell you about entering my office? These documents are confidential." I hear my father speak from the doorway, his voice tired but not reproachful, 'he really doesn't care...'
"If I don't tear it, it's no problem..."
"Touché"
"How was the work?" Charles Black, chief scientist of the "Armageddon" project, is in charge of the research and experiments with regard to the blood of that hellish being.
"Nothing much..." he says, already taking another document from his briefcase and handing it to me. I take it, raising an eyebrow, and as I read the name on the document, my heart begins to race, Fear, excitement, and anticipation wash over me.
'Project Eden'