He opened his eyes. He is floating in a white space. He is surprised.
This is afterlife? Considering the things I have done shouldn’t there be some sort of fire somewhere here?.....Well it doesn’t matter.
He closed his eyes and let his body drift again. Surprisingly it was very peaceful.
May be this is what happens to every creature after its death. They simply drift without any hindr-
“AHEM!”
He turned around to see the source, when he turned his head up he saw a man in black suit.
Why is he floating up ther… oh right endless space no specific concept of direction.
He closed his eyes again and didn’t care about the man in suit. After what seemed to be like an hour, finally man in the suit lost his patience and tried to talk to him
“Mr.x welcome to the-”
“I am not interested.”
“What?”
“I am not interested.”
“But you don’t even know what I am going say.”
He finally opened his eyes. ”I heard this conversation probably hundreds of times. You will say that you can give me something that I want, in return for my services or you will say a statement something along that line. ”
Man in the suit stared at him for few minutes; he sighed and said, “Boss this is not working. You have to talk to it.”
He looked confusedly at the man in suit, “it?”.
“Oh! I forgot your species has concept of gender, boss come fast and talk to him this is not going anywhere. ”
A small Rumbling sound reverberated in the space. A man appeared out of nowhere near both of them. He was wearing a worn out jeans and comfortable looking green t-shirt. He is smiling and said to man in the suit, “alright, I will take care of this, you can leave”. Man in the suit made a small nod towards his boss and he disappeared.
“Alright Mr.x let’s talk.”
“Still not interested.”
“Before we start, call me z, also I am here just to talk.”
X still closed his eyes. But is paying full attention to what z is saying.
“Your life is really a mess x. your parents were merchants, died during a war. You are their only child. For revenge sake you made an entire country your enemy. From a very young age you started learning how to kill people .After mastering every possible skill you can lay your eyes upon, you faked your death. You waited for many years to start your plan. You introduced yourself as assassin for hire to criminal world and-“
X interrupted him, “Murderer for hire, stop sugar coating what I did.”
Z laughed and continued, ”there was no place you could not infiltrate; there was no one you could not kill. You became so good at killing that no one knew it was your work till you mentioned it. During all this time you were collecting information on your parent’s killers. When you figured out, that the people you have to kill are backed by powerful countries; it did not deter your motivation but it only got stronger. After killing almost all of your enemies you realized what has actual happened. Your parents made most of their money by funding the war going between the countries. After you were born they decided to quit it for good, but when you were 7yrs old they were approached by their old acquaintances. When your parents estimated the money they would be making they couldn’t control their greed and decided to venture one last time, but they never stopped. After 3yrs when their earnings were at it’s highest, they got careless in a transaction and got killed. They were betrayed by none other than your uncle bill. Bill in fact was the old acquaintance that approached them. He wanted to use your parents to financially weaken his competition, but what he least expected was that your parents became too greedy and started encroaching onto his empire. So he sold their safe location to your parent’s enemies. You wanted to rip him to shreds and then his family…… then you remembered they are also your family especially Sid, bill’s son you have seen him grow up from toddler to adult. You knew from beginning that your parents were not exactly saints, but still betrayal from bill; you could not shake it away. So that night you decided to end this game once for all. You met your uncle when he was alone, you revealed who you were what you did for last 20 yrs. He cried and begged for mercy. You gave him a bottle of poison and gave him an option. Next morning they found bill dead in his bedroom. Doctors declared it as a heart-attack. After that you disappeared for good. No matter how your enemies tried they could not find what happened to you. You lived like a recluse on an island for 40yrs. In fear that same fate may fall on upon on your beloved ones you never married and never had any children. Then you died of old age.”
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“Your miserable life may seem as interesting to others but you only experienced dark side of life and not one good part of it”. X is still calmly listening what z was saying. “You had lot of wealth in all forms but you never enjoyed it. You never loved anyone in latter part of your life. More than anything you were always lonely. If this solitude was for sake of peace and knowledge it is understandable. But no, you wanted to be alone because you did not want to get hurt again. X, no Malcolm you were alone because you are afraid to be alone and that is messed up.”
That last statement seems to have hit a nerve; x is irritated and asked, “What do you want?”
Z smiled, “I want give you a chance for happiness. You will be born again in my world, into a good family, good parents, good siblings and more than anything a fresh start.”
X retorted, ”yeah and what is the catch? ”
Z replied, ”there is no catch .”
X laughed, ”at least tell me a believable lie z.”
“Fine” calmly said z. ”How about this, you can live this life for 8yrs and after that if you don't not like it, I will make so that you will die again .”
X did not respond immediately. After a long time, “Before I can give any answer I want to confirm something, From this endless white space and the way you appeared I can at least assume you are some god like entity, right?.”
Z replied “you can say that.”
“Then why are trying to convince me? Why can’t you just will it and let me be born where ever you want me to be? It seems almost as If you need some form of approval from my side to do what you want.”
Z chuckled, “First, all creators are not Omnipotent beings, in fact there maybe only five entities that close to Omnipotent. Second your soul does not belong to my system, I bought from outside. So when I am trying to bring outside beings into a differ-”
X is shocked, “WAIT! You bought me!? What do you mean you bought me?”
Z looked at like he remembered something, “ahh….. Right you are from a techno-verse. Between us creators we can sell and purchase valuable materials and blue prints. Souls with lot fate lines and skills, maps on how to create new creatures and environment and so on.”
X is still not convinced, “fate lines what is that?”
Z smiled at him, “I cannot divulge that information to you right now. If you want to know this information you have to become part of my creation. So as I was saying before for an outside entity to become part of a new creation affirmation from both entity and creator is required.”
“So what do you think? Interested in 8yrs of peaceful life?”
“Give me some time to think”, said x.
“No problem, just call me when you are ready”, said Z and disappeared.
While x was lost in deep thoughts, Z appeared next to his assistant. Though x could not see them, Z and his assistant could see everything he was doing.
“Boss do you think he will accept it? I don’t think we can trick him that easily.”
Z replied while he was staring at x, “This is why you are still only a administrator Sam. Creatures like x don’t know want they want and just because they don’t know what they want doesn’t mean they will not like it, so first we have to let him have taste of it for free, only after they are hooked I can start my bargain. Also I am not tricking him. I am providing him better options than the one he was given in his world.”
Z sighed ,”I hope this really works. I want to stall the 7 iteration as long as possible, any new information Sam?”
“Nothing new, other creators are preparing to start new iteration while our faction is trying to stall it till we collected all the samples. But we at least need another 1000yrs till we collect them all.”
Sam looked at Z and asked, ”boss in worst case scenario do you think this contingency plan will work? ”
“Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.”
After a long time x said, ”I agree.”
Z appeared near him, “alright let’s start procedure, repeat after me x. In the name of creators I accept to be integrated into the new system.” X repeated after him.
After few seconds x started filling sleepy, “You will lose consciousness now after that you will be assimilated into the system. Then you will be born again. Good luck. Have fun.”