"Well this is it, we have totally failed," said the Knight to the Seer, “It should have been obvious, We get the big bomb to blow up the sun and bring it here, but the sun wasn’t here. We are supposed to create it, right now, aren’t we?”
“Yeah, but we never got the bomb, this is… situation E,”
“E, for giant fucking EGG!?”
In front of the two seemingly floating in a void with the dim glitter of stars in the distance, a realm with space and time. Light seems to exist in this space emanating from the surface of a titanic construct. A swirl of black and white stretches across the face giving the whole object the feel of a mime’s circus tent or a hypnotic spiral but it other than its general egg shape it seems the center of the spiral moves with the eyes never leaving the center no matter what angle it is viewed at. Below the Egg is a circular platform with a slightly concave surface and the remains of two shattered stone slabs with markings of a Gear and a Sun respectively slowly drift apart in the void.
“Hope we didn’t need these,” the Knight, it would have been cool to be a god, he thought absently. Coming to grips with the fact that somehow even outside of space and time, this version of himself was never meant to survive. Without the thoughts even surfacing, he realizes subconsciously that this is not the alpha timeline, he wonders when their path split. Blurting out suddenly, “I thought you were supposed to know what would lead to the best outcome? Isn’t that what the whole purpose of Light?”
“Yes, that’s what troubles me,” She replied, “I never should have trusted Skaia, how could it know what our goals were? I don’t think it ever intended us to succeed and whatever happened to our session must have caused it to produce the Egg instead of the Tumor and wipe our session, it made us come here for what? It doesn’t look like we are supposed to survive what comes next.”
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“Why are we even here then?”
“I guess all we can do is investigate”
FINALLY, YOU TWO HAVE ARRIVED
A third voice, booms from the Egg, along with a strange feeling as though being instantly enveloped by ice.
I HAD TO REMOVE THE PROTECTIONS GRANTED BY SKAIA,
DO NOT BE AFRAID, IT WILL ALL BE OVER SOON
“WHAT THE FU-” their last thoughts flash through the minds of the Knight and the Seer before sudden blankness
YOU TWO WILL BE THE ADVANTAGE I NEED
The two immobile forms begin to drift toward the platform beneath the Egg, accelerating gently.
I WILL NOT DIE, I HAVE NOT EVEN BEEN BORN YET
The third voice, like a series of cannons continues to fire from all directions at once. But somehow it sounds frightened. Accelerating faster now the two inert forms separate and go towards the opposite ends of the concave dais as it begins to spin. The Egg begins to flash as the spiral covering its surface begins to slow, or move independently of the Egg, As something begins to be born or have been born both from the beginning and end of time and space.