I stared upon the ground, standing outside of the highest building on the entire planet Earth, wearing a suit to protect against the freezing cold. Below me extended the planet of murky green and dying brown.

I took it all in. I owned this building; I owned the entire planet.

Billions slowly become Ten Billion, Ten Billion into One-Hundred Billion. My fanbase expanded after my retrospective. I played everything, from the worst to the best, my money invested into the preservation of media. I didn’t even own a simple channel anymore.

I owned an empire that expanded an entire planet large, I single handily pulled Earth from an insignificant speck back into the cradle of humanity. The information stored within the internal servers, upon all the libraries, it was more than I could ever hold.

My mind was failing me, it wasn’t dementia, no, I was just forgetting more and more my time as a childhood, my teenage days. I barely remembered that first day where I began this path.

From a life expectancy of 80 to living a century easily, I could live far longer. I had access to the greatest medicine Earth still had available, and maybe even beyond if I tried.

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Where did you go from owning the world? What did I do now? These questions constantly plagued my mind.

“To other worlds” a voice said, my own voice after many years came back. Teenaged again.

“Still no” I say, turning back and looking to myself once more. After so many years, I stepped forward rather than sitting. My body was healthy, more fit than 40 years ago.

“You have to make a choice sometime, and when that time comes, every time you say no you-” The teen stopped as the cold barrel of a gun met his forehead.

The shot rang out over even the winds, the bullet striking against the walls of the building and ringing out. Nothing being there.

I focused on my body, easing my breathing down as I pointed the gun off to my side, firing again.

The bullet impacted a chair upon this balcony, shattering into pieces as the figure quickly moved to the wall.

“The answer was no” I said “It’s still no, all this tells me is you need me. So, you’ll wait” I answered once more, placing down the smoking gun.

“I don't need you, I can always get others” The figure said, glaring.

“Then do so you coward. Just stop bothering me already. See you in a hundred more years” I answered back, turning back to look across the balcony at the world once more.

The presence left once more, and as I leaned forward staring over the edge. I gripped the iron bars, my body was weaker, but my mind was sharp even still, my memories faded by the day, but I would keep going.

There was no limit, there was no end. I owned the world, so what would come next?

I would own it all, the world was merely a planet, across the entire stars there was more to see and hold within my grasp.

Humanity lay splintered within the greater trillions amongst the universe.

This would be a simple task, really.