Chapter 1: A new reality

  He did it, he had become the supreme being. His power was second to none and he could do almost anything he wished. But it was all for nothing, other than him, only unintelligent beings remained. Everyone he loved or cared about had already perished.

  Now he was left all alone. With his power he could start anew, he could create new life forms and lead them to civilization. He could create a version of humanity in his image, but even that wouldn't last. Glancing at the vast emptiness of space he could see spatial cracks form. From them a being made of pure darkness invaded, slowly spreading to nearby areas.

  This realm was being consumed and a thousand or so years from now, the darkness would devour everything. And although he was the strongest, he didn't have a way to stop it. He had absolute control over this universe but the darkness was an entity that came from 'outside'. A space between universes so the darkness was out of his control.

  However he had one last resort, a hail mary he thought of because of the darkness. He could enter the outside and search for a universe exactly the same as his but in a time where the incursion was just about to begin.

  He'd leave everything behind and travel to a new reality. He'd lose his power but in that reality he could make better choices that hopefully led to his loved ones surviving. He wasn't sure if this would work, he wasn't even sure that other universes existed, but at this point he was willing to try anything.

  Zion readied himself, he took a deep breath and moved to a sprinting start position. "We might die, but if we stay, we'll definitely die, this way we at least have a chance of giving a version of us a better life. So let's do this shit." He pushed himself off the ground, the force sent him flying through space.

  Due to the recoil, huge cracks formed on the ground and it spread throughout the entire planet. The impact reached the planet's core and made it explode. An entire planet exploding was quite the sight, at first it broke into pieces, some huge, some small. Then the inertia from the blast sent the pieces hurling through space.

  Travelling through space, Zion sped himself up by releasing plasma beams out of his hand. His surroundings blurred as he reached extreme speeds. He crashed through meteorites, planets, and even stars. Undeterred Zion kept speeding up.

  The darkness realized what he wanted to do, it tore a rift in space and blocked his way. But it was too late, Zion disappeared in a flash of light before he could hit the darkness.

  ******

  In a college apartment, a young man at the age of twenty woke up. He had black hair, brown eyes, and average facial features. He slammed the alarm clock next to him, only to realize that it didn't ring.

  "Sorry alarm clock, force of habit, but if you didn't ring why did I wake up?" The moment he asked that he felt his head explode as huge amounts of information entered his head.

  Gillian Gomez

  Eva Larson

  Incursion

  Florence Sky

  Lottery Numbers

  Cool Catchphrases

  West Vern

  Family

  Losing Virginity

  A Way To Stop The Darkness

  ……………………

  When the flow of information stopped, he was left with a huge headache. Then he felt a warm liquid trickle down his eyes, ears, and nose. He touched the liquid with his index finger and it spread through the surface of his skin.

  He retracted his hand and looked at his finger. The peak of it was covered with red, he was bleeding. "Oh shit, that's not good." Zion rushed out of bed but two droplets of blood fell to his bed sheets, dyeing the white fabric red. He turned on the lights and went to the bathroom, leaving a small trail of blood on the floor.

  Zion breathed through his mouth because the flowing blood blocked the airways of his nose. *Zion looks at the mirror above the sink and sees himself bleeding from his eyes, nose, and ears. His eyes are bloodshot and blood slowly comes out of the corner of his eyes. Blood mixed with earwax comes out of his ears. A huge amount of blood flows down his nose, going down his mouth and chin, the blood covers most of his lips and a bit of it enters his mouth, the blood is warm and tastes metallic.

  The blood trickled down his face, landing on the sink below. It splattered, soon most of the sink was red. A few minutes later the bleeding stopped. If it kept on going he would have called emergency services.

  He would have done it earlier but realized he was in America so he decided to wait a bit. He took a paper towel, turned on the sink, and put the towel under the running water. Then he carefully rubbed it on his face to remove the dried blood. Zion dried himself off by using another paper towel. To ease the headache he took a tylenol and rubbed vicks all over his head.

  He went back to his bed and laid down, what the hell was that? That was me downloading myself into your brain.

  What the? Who said that? I did, think of me as your assistant. Since your brain would literally meltdown if you had access to four hundred million years of memory, I was made to help you manage and slowly absorb them.

  Damn, am I going crazy? It is fair to assume that but you're not. I'll unzip the basic things you need to know.

  Info once again appeared inside his mind but this time in a more gentle manner. A head with similar but better facial features as him showed up. The biggest difference between them being the person's white hair and blue eyes. The head started to speak.

  "This will be hard to process but I'm you from another reality. Only my reality is four hundred thousand years ahead of yours. I transferred my memories to you but in a compact format. When the time is right those memories will unpack giving you direct access to them. I also made an AI based off of ourselves to help you. During my travel here, I found a way to create energy from nothing, which sadly puts all of my cool and smart plans to waste. Now all you have to do is raise some animals. Honestly I can't believe how lucky you are, you won't have to face any of the troubles I've encountered and …."

  After that was a long rant about how good the current Zion had it. Much like how asian parents tell their kids the difficulties they had to face to go school. Crossing mountains, killing tigers, and swimming through shark and crocodile infested waters. Now kids get driven or walk to school.

  Also, portals to other dimensions would start opening up, and the situation would be similar to hunter novels. Monsters would come out of the portals and people would start awakening powers. Except this time he had to experience the beginning of it.

  At the start only small portals would open which could be dealt with using simple firearms. The rate of portal openings would rapidly rise then suddenly stop. Just as the people in the know thought they were safe, the Incursion occurred.

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  Portals all over the world opened up at the same time. The ensuing events were pure chaos and destruction. Governments tried to warn the public but it was too late, the monsters that came out of the portals killed, raped, and pillaged.

  When the dust settled 60% of the global population was eliminated. Entire cities, states, and even countries were destroyed. Out of the thousands of portals that opened it was estimated that half of the damage was dealt by ten major portals.

  When the info dump stopped, Zion still had a hard time believing it. That much death and destruction was surreal to him. Everything might still be in my head, can you prove this is actually real? Sure, the lottery numbers for tomorrow's lottery is 696969. You can put your bet online.

  Zion took out his phone and went all in. It was a dumb idea to go all in considering he could have just put in a small amount to test the waters or just not bet at all. Don't worry though this isn't a plot hole, Zion's just a bit stupid.

  Are you sure it's 696969? I am 100% sure it is 696969. So while you were downloading, I noticed a memory named Losing Virginity so can you give me access to it? When you experience it yourself, I'll give you access.

  So never? Not never, at most 232 years from now. Well we'll see the lottery results tomorrow, I'm going to go back to sleep. What do you mean? It's time for you to get ready, no?

  The alarm clock rang. Dammit, Zion grabbed the alarm clock and chucked it towards the wall. It hit the wall with a *thud* then fell to the ground but it was still ringing. Zion sighed, got out of bed, and pressed a small square button on top of the clock which stopped the ringing.

  This was college and the professors didn't care if he came to class or not so he could take some time off. This headache was killing him too so he went to his bed and prepared to sleep.

  I'm afraid I can't let you do that, there's something we have to do first. What? Since this is the last day you'll attend college we need to get her number to have a way of communication.

  Last day? Yes, attending college won't bring any benefits. So it's better to spend our time elsewhere. Wait, you said her, so I'll have to talk to a woman? Yes.

  Nah, I can't do that. Why not? Because women are scary and I don't know how to talk to them, other than my family members, I have no experience with women.

  Dude, you're twenty years old, how did this happen? Well during kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school, freshman and sophomore year of college, and daily life, I made sure to avoid women.

  Now why would you do that? Because women are scary and why am I explaining this, you should know this already. I do, I'm just teasing you. Come on, let's go and try get some, it'll be good for you.

  I'm not doing that. It'll be fine, I'll help you out and things should go smoothly. I'm still not sure you're real so I think I'm just going to take a nap and wait for the lottery results. I didn't want to do this but you leave me no choice.

  Zion's body started moving on its own. What's going on? I can take temporary control of your body in case of emergencies. Is this really an emergency? No, but it'll save time.

  Ai took a shower and put on nice clothes and cologne. He went outside and started to walk to class. He passed by a fair bit of people until he saw his target. She has black hair and her haircut is a face-framing short bob with thin bangs.

  She also has brown eyes, a plump round face, and enticing lips. She wore an all black outfit. A black t-shirt that draped over her melons, for design it had a white skull in the middle. A loose black jean and a belt to keep it from slipping.

  By her side was a blonde woman with a multi layered haircut. She had blue eyes, a smooth nose bridge, and wore a fair bit of makeup. She wore a pink sweater and skirt.

  The first woman is Rosa and the person she's talking to is her friend Jasmine. Hey, guess which one we're going for. Come on man, please don't make me do this. Trust me this is for your own good. Zion went up to the two. "Hello ladies, isn't this a fine Monday morning." This is as far as I'll help, I'll leave the rest to you. What? If you're gonna do this, at least do it all the way and what the hell is that introductory line.

  Rosa glances at Jasmine signalling for her to respond. "I guess it is nice, it's a bit cloudy but it'll clear up soon." Jasmine said.

  Zion had no idea how to engage in small talk and he wanted to end this as soon as possible so he got straight to the point. He turned to Rosa and asked. "Can I have your number?"

  "You don't want hers?" Rosa pointed to Jasmine.

  "No, I'm pretty sure I want yours." She's the one we want right? Yeah she’s the one, but you should've said I want hers too but I want yours more.

  Rosa looks at the ground, "Ummm, I'm not looking for a relationship so I don't think-"

  Zion interrupts her, "That's fine we can just be friends."

  "In that case…..sure."

  "Cool." Zion grabs his phone and reaches it out to Rosa but because of his shaky ass hands, he drops it.

  "Oh." Rosa crouched to grab the phone but so did Zion. Their faces got really close to each other and their gaze interlocked.

  Zion grabbed the phone and handed it to Rosa. "Here." Rosa grabs the phone and the two of them slowly get up at the same time, still maintaining eye contact. Zion's thoughts right now: Why is this happening? This is so awkward and feels straight out of a cringe romance movie.

  When they fully stood up they both took a step back to create distance. Rosa types in her number and Jasmine snatches the phone afterwards. "If you're gonna be friends with her, you're gonna be friends with me." Jasmine said. She also typed in her number and then gave the phone back to Zion.

  "That's cool, so I'mma go now." Zion said, since he got their number it was time for him to make his escape.

  "Ok, bye." Rosa said.

  "Bye." Jasmine followed.

  "Yeah, goodbye." Zion said. Rosa and Jasmine turned right and continued walking.

  "Couldn't we have gone together since we're going to the same class?" Rosa asked Jasmine.

  "Yeah, he's most likely just shy, you guys have some affinity, he might be the one, I mean you both crouch to pick things off the ground instead of bending down. Unlike me, I always bend down."

  "That's because you have a big ass and you want everyone to see it. And I meant what I said, I don't want to be in a relationship."

  "Come on, you'll have to open up someday."

  "Yeah but not right now." Rosa replied.

  Back to Zion cause he's the main character. Nice move dropping the phone, even I didn't think of that. That was unintentional but thank you. Now I just need to find a hole and stay there for the rest of my life. What do you mean? That went pretty well.

  That was one of the most painful moments of my life, the first was getting caught masturbating by my parents, there was a lot of yelling involved. Now that I got her number, I'm going to go to sleep, this headache's getting pretty bad. Not quite, we still have to meet someone else. What? I can't take anymore of this today, let's just do it tomorrow.

  Relax, it's just Steve. If it's Steve I can just text or call him. No, this you'll have to do in person. Fine but after this I'm going back to sleep.

  Zion entered the classroom and sat down. On the other side Rosa and Jasmine were talking to each other, when they noticed him they waved hello. He awkwardly waved back to them. You know I didn't know that a person could wave awkwardly.

  What do you mean that was a perfectly normal wave. Nah, it definitely wasn't.

  "Hey how's it going Z man." Steve said as he sat down next to Zion. Steve was average, he was as average as his name. Average height, facial features, and average taste in music and entertainment. The only thing unique about him was his addiction to conspiracy theories.

  "Weird, it's going weird." Zion said.

  "How so?" Steve asked.

  Ok now put your hand on his shoulders and repeat what I say. What? Just do it. Zion put his hand on Steve's shoulder and said the following. "This is exactly what it seems like. The moment you've been preparing for your whole life. The code is episode 2 season 4 of Lazarus Monkeys mixed with chili peppers and vodka. The vodka is from Lenard Vissovich and has been aged for negative 100 years by travelling to the past. Due to special circumstances I am the egg in the short film SEHG."

  As he said this, Zion could see Steve's pupils expand and his face light up. Once he finished, Steve hugged him and whispered to his ear. "I'll do everything I can to help."

  Zion pushed Steve off of him. "Did what I just said somehow make sense to you?"

  "You don't even know you just said you don't know, I want to know so bad but I shouldn't, everything will be revealed in due time. But yes everything you just said makes perfect sense."

  "Ok, I guess." So does this mean I can go sleep? Yeah that's everything we need to do today. Zion stood up and walked towards the door.

  "That student over there, why are you leaving? The lecture just started." Professor Milker said.

  "So I can sleep." Zion replied.

  "In that case I hope you get good sleep." Milker responded and then continued on with the lecture. He was a very cool and chill professor.