It's been years since Emma's accident during her tribulations, and I've tried every method to heal her, but nothing seems to work. The lightning from the tribulations is death, not metaphorically, it is literally death, once a person reach a point when he can't support it anymore, he is supposed to die, it is a law of the universe, and if someone tries to go against it, he will suffer the same fate, right now the only reason why I am not death too is because I am too powerful for the laws to heart me, but I am also not powerful enough to heart the law and in Emma's case her body is frozen in time, preventing her from passing on.

As time passes, my desperation grows. I can't keep my word to her, and it pains me deeply.

One day, I was standing on the sky, trying to gather my energy to do something when I felt myself summoned by the god once again.

"What are you doing?" the god asked.

"I am trying to regress time so that I can protect Emma the day she was going to pass her tribulation," I replied.

"No, you're not doing that. If you regress time, you will put Earth in danger," the god warned me.

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"How so?" I asked, not convinced.

"How do you think regressing time works?Can you regress the time of the whole universe?" the god asked.

I didn't answer, knowing that it was impossible.

"If not the universe, then what about just this galaxy?" the god asked.

Again, I didn't answer.

"I thought so. If you regress time on Earth to a period where humans just recovered from the war, but the aliens on their own planet already recovered from the war and progressed, what do you think will happen?"the god explained.

I realized the implications of what the god was saying. If I regress time, the aliens would have progressed far beyond humans, and Earth would be in grave danger.

"I want to heal her, can't you do anything?"

Steve pleaded with the god.

"You already know the answer to that, Steve. I won't interfere in the human world," the god responded firmly.

Steve's frustration grew as he tried to hold back his anger. "But she's dying, and I can't save her!"

The god remained unmoved. "I cannot change the natural course of life and death."

Steve took a deep breath, trying to calm himself. "Okay, I understand. I won't do anything then."

"Good," the god replied.

As the god disappeared, Steve couldn't help but feel defeated. "Sorry, Emma, but I have to break my promise to you." With those words, he closed his eyes and a burst of energy came out of his body.

He was regressing time.