“Aaaaaaaaaah”
A deep sigh escaped the mouth of a silver-haired old man. He was standing in front of a massive viewport gazing directly at the black hole his space station was orbiting. It was the last black of the hole, and it was finally dying out.
“Is it finally time for me to go now?” spoke the man to himself.
Turning around to the opposite side of the station he looked out the other viewport at the fuzzy edge of the universe as it approached. It was an unfortunate effect of the universe that he had discovered, as the stars and black holes began dying the universe slowly began collapsing back on itself. As soon as the last black hole dies the universe will completely collapse leading to his inevitable end.
“I suppose it is finally time I die, the only other sentient being killed itself a few hundred billion years ago”
The being in question was his Artificial Intelligence that controlled the station. It killed itself because like every long-lived being the weight of the years lived becomes too much leading to self-destruction.
“But… I still don’t want to go. I must be insane, I have lived more than any other being has, yet I am still not satisfied.”
The lights flickered then shut off. The station stopped generating power from the black hole 1000 years ago and it seemed the battery’s finally died. With no more power, he too would die in a hundred years, a natural death. But that would not be the case as it seemed within a few hours the end will come.
Hours passed and the edge seemed so close he felt like he could reach out and touch it.
“Computer, what’s the time till destruction?”
[10 seconds]
The man closed his eyes as the wall approached bracing for the end as his vast sum of memories appeared to rapidly pass through his mind. From his birth as an ordinary human to a poor family on earth in the year 2101.
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[9 seconds]
To his kidnapping and subsequent use as a lab rat.
[8 Seconds]
To the experiment that made him into the first being of pure energy, the only reason he could live this long.
[7 Seconds]
To the first time he left earth.
[6 Seconds]
To his first love.
[5 Seconds]
To his second, third, fourth and so on.
[4 Seconds]
To the wars he fought.
[3 Seconds]
To the lives he saved.
[2 Seconds]
To those who he destroyed.
[1 Second]
To those he lost along the way.
[0 ….]
“…”
As the man opened his eyes he was greeted with a white void.
“Is this the afterlife? I mean I didn’t really believe in religion that much but maybe one of those billions of religions were right.”
[Incorrect, this is merely the space between universes.]
“Oh, wow. So who are you?”
[I am the system of the multiverse]
“umm, right so you’re the creator of the multiverse then?”
[Incorrect again, I am a system created by the creator to maintain the multiverse, and to reward certain beings.]
“Cool. Would it be possible to speak to this creator?”
[No, the creator destroyed its consciousness 3 billion trillion years ago]
“That’s… disappointing. So what happens now?”
[As a reward for being the oldest sentient being in the entire multiverse, and surviving until the destruction of your universe the creator has decided to send you to a universe the creator created just for you]
Just as he was about to ask another question a person appeared a couple of meters in front of him. A person appearing out of nowhere shocked him but it didn’t shock him nearly as much as who the person was. She was the last lover he had ever had. Right as his thoughts reached this point she started speaking in a bubbly tone of voice.
“Hey darling, long time no see, well I can’t really see because this is a recording and I’m most probably dead. And before you ask yes, I am the creator, surprise. *sigh* I thought you might make it to the end, I don’t know how you could do it. Oh, well your willpower was always insane like that, sorry I couldn’t do the same. I want you to know that my time with you was the best I ever had. *cough* *cough* moving along from that stuff, I created an entire universe for you! It’s based on those RPG games you used to talk to me about occasionally. It even has a system based on the multiverse system. I knew that if you managed to make it this far you would be the best candidate for the new creator, so this universe will help transform you into one, just like how I used to be. You’ll be sent over shortly. So I guess this is our final goodbye, see ya, I love you!”
[In 10 Seconds you will be transported from the {Prime} universe 1 to the {Divine} universe 783476]
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