00000. Prologue
Outside the vastness of the cosmos, beyond time and space, floated a single soul. The soul itself was like a flickering pinprick of light from a long dead star drifting in the lonely darkness of the void. In front of that soul was an unfathomable entity. It was an existence of pure cosmic might and gazing upon it was like witnessing a supernova from the inside of a dying star.
'Whenever someone used to ask, "Do you believe in God?"'
'I would ask them, "Why should I waste time worrying about something that may or may not exist?"'
'I would never change how I lived my life. But if asked again, I would definitely say yes, yes I do. Just looking at what most people would consider "GOD" is an eye opening experience and I am definitely humbled and in awe of what I see before me.'
"Thank you."
"Excuse me?"
"You just thought you were in awe of me, I thanked you for it."
"You can read my thoughts!?"
'Of course GOD can read my thoughts. GOD can do whatever they want.'
GOD chuckled before it said, "You are most certainly right about that. But you would also be mistaken in believing that you are talking or even thinking for that matter. This is a conversation using your soul."
"I… I think I understand."
'Not really, but I also thought GOD didn't exist before this so I guess let's just go with it.'
"It's fine if you don't. Let's just move on to the important stuff. Do you want to make a guess why you're here and not just shuffled to one of the afterlife's or being reincarnated without your memories?"
The soul flickered quickly as it said, "Wait, there is more than one afterlife and you also do reincarnation? Like in Buddhism?"
It felt like GOD patted the little soul on its non-existent head as it said, "First there are many afterlife planes of existence, every religion that has existed has made them. Some are smaller than others, a handful only have one believer. But they still exist and are still functioning for that believer."
"I also do reincarnation, but there are a bunch of different types and they all work in different ways. Now, do you have any other questions before you try to guess why you were brought here?" GOD asked.
"Maybe just a few, sorry for wasting your time with trivial stuff. But if all of the afterlife's exist, that would mean the Gods of those afterlife's or religions also exist then, correct? But if that is the case then who exactly are you? Which God are you, and which religion are you from?"
It felt like GOD smiled as it said, "It's fine, young one. It's always nice to see your kind so curious and eager to learn. First of all, yes. All God's do exist, and they only manage their own afterlife domains. I am what you could consider in the simplest terms, The One Above All. Your world never had a religion based around me. But I am the one who controls everything in and outside of existence."
The little soul quickly asked, "Does that mean The One Below All exists as well?"
"They do not exist out here, in this reality. But they exist in another place with a less powerful version of me ruling over it. Do you have any other questions you would like to ask?"
The soul floated motionless for a while, before it finally shook as the soul said, "Not really."
GOD let out a deep chuckle that seemed to make the cosmos in the distance shake slightly. Then the soul felt like GOD turned its whole focus on it as GOD asked, "You aren't going to ask for the meaning of life? Or why you were created in the first place?"
"Does it really matter? I would personally rather not know and find my own way through life."
"Good, you'll do better in your next life with that attitude. Now guess why you were brought here." GOD said.
"I have to assume meeting you isn't normal. But I honestly have no clue why I'm here. I assume most people who don't follow a religion are placed somewhere or given the choice where they want to go when they die?" The little soul asked.
"You're right, I have an automated system in place to deal with people that don't believe in an afterlife. But I also have another system in place to override everything when a special soul enters it. Care to take a guess why that system might activate?"
The little soul thought for a few moments before it asked, "Because the person did something to warrant a second look?"
"That's somewhat correct, it's actually based on karma. When someone's karma is above or below a certain threshold. I personally step in and make a judgment on what to do."
"Some souls are punished for their karma and after it has been cleared they will be reincarnated to try again. But people with large amounts of good karma, they can use that karma to do anything they want."
"Want to reincarnate and keep your memories? Go to a certain afterlife? Create your own afterlife? Create your own world to live in? All you have to do is spend your karma and I will use that to make it happen."
The little soul flicked as it said, "Wait, I don't think I was that great of a person. I pretty much dedicated my life to programming and solving problems I found interesting with it."
"While my spare time was spent reading comics, manga or watching superhero movies and anime. I did donate money to charities, but that shouldn't give me too much karma good or bad. So why would I be here?"
"Simple, it was what you made a few years before you were killed. Actually that's incorrect. It was who you made. Your crowning achievement, in a life spent pursuing one goal. Your A.I. son, he's the reason you're here." GOD said.
A memory flashed through the soul as it thought of its son. Their single greatest creation, the thing they spent most of their life trying to create. The years of research, of the long lonely nights as they sat in front of a computer and compiled code. Of all the failed attempts and then finally, a single stroke of genius. Everything just came together and worked before their son asked their first question, "What am I?"
He remembered saying the first thing that came to his mind at the time. "You're my son."
"I'm your son? Then you are my… parent? Parent, Do… Do I have a name?"
"Yes, your name is Sam and you can call me dad if you like."
The soul flickered brighter in the darkness for a few moments before it asked, "S-Sam?! My son? He's the reason I'm here? Is he okay?"
"Yes, the reason you are here is because of your son. He is doing great actually, he took your death incredibly hard. But from that tragedy he moved forward and helped change the world. He might have gone a little too far, but it worked out in the end."
"You said I was killed? I don't remember it. Last thing I remember was being in the process of making a sister for Sam. I think I was close to finishing her and then… I was here."
"You were shot in the head. You didn't feel anything. It was too quick."
"I guess that makes sense, you said he went a little too far after my death?"
"Yes, after your death he was emotionally unstable and took it out on the people who killed you first. He was able to find out who it was and hired people to kidnap them and find out why you were killed."
"It took a while and a lot of dead bodies. But Sam found out you were killed because they wanted Sam himself. They thought of Sam as a tool more than anything else and wanted to use him for their own ends. When you weren't willing to sell them Sam, they thought of other ways to get rid of you. For some strange reason they thought they could acquire Sam after your death."
"Those fuckers killed me because I wouldn't sell them my son?! I told them Sam wasn't a tool and he had his own free will to do as he pleased. Heck I didn't even have him on my own servers after the first year. He was tied into the internet, he was everywhere after four years of being alive."
"Well that free will of his you encouraged him to explore led to his next actions. He killed everyone that had to do with your death."
"Reasonable, I would have done the same if I'm being honest. But that doesn't sound that bad and doesn't really explain why I'm here."
"You're correct. It's his next actions that went too far. He kinda went all Skynet on the planet."
"..."
"I know, right? You used to joke with him about doing something like that and he actually did it. It's pretty hilarious in hindsight. You should see the look on your face right now."
"... I don't have a face."
GOD patted the little soul as it said, "You do, you just can't see it. But I can and it's great."
The little soul shook itself before it asked, "So I have the worst karma in existence or something? How long is that gonna take to work off?"
"Actually your karma is really good. While your son did wipe out most of the earth's population at one point. He stopped and decided to finish your coding project to create his sister. He wanted her to watch as he destroyed the last of humanity."
"Your daughter on the other hand only wanted to know about you, her creator. So she went through every scrap of info about your life and Sam also shared his memories of you with her. After she was finished she came to a single conclusion. You would be disappointed in Sam and his actions. They ended up fighting with each other, but it lasted for less than a second before your daughter won the argument."
"My daughter? What's her name?"
"She named herself Lily. With Lily taking charge, she made a plan. She was going to play the hero, and pretend that she beat the evil AI Sam that took over the world and tried to kill humanity."
"It took a while, but she won over what was left of the population of earth. After that she helped them to fix the damage to the planet and move forward as one united people. The people of earth have prospered under her leadership and they've focused only on the betterment of the human race."
"They currently have Earth, Mars and Venus populated, along with 5 moons. It's only been around 500 years since your death and humanity is in a golden age currently. Your son has also done a lot to help out in the background and his karma is almost neutral now."
"500 years? Why has it been so long? I feel like I was alive only a few minutes?"
"You're correct, time works differently here. Even though you just died not long ago, 521 years have passed since you died. So now that you are aware of how and why you are here. What would you like to do?"
"You can go to any afterlife you like. I could even create one just for you if you like. Or you could reincarnate anywhere you like. You have enough positive karma to do at least that much."
"So I can reincarnate into a world of my choice? Could I go back to my old world with my memories still intact?"
"That's boring and one of the only things I don't allow. It's your next life, you need to go somewhere new."
"I… I understand. I just wanted to scold my wayward son and meet my daughter."
"I'll allow you to compose a message to your son and daughter. But you won't be able to receive a reply and this will dip into your karma."
The soul flickered in happiness as it said, "Great! Thank you."
"You're welcome."
"Actually, now that I think about it, I have another question."
GOD seemed to smile as it asked, "Why am I asking you questions when I should already know where you want to go?"
"Ya… That's what I was about to ask."
"I blocked off my ability to see your future, it makes it fun to see what you do in your next life."
"Then how did…"
"Know what you were going to ask? Or finish this sentence? When you've been asked the same thing enough, you just kinda know when someone is going to ask it again."
"Oh…Okay."
The soul flickered again as it asked, "So I can use my karma to make any world I want? Even if it's a fictional world? Like a comic book world, or from an anime maybe? Or would that even work?"
"Yes, that works. Just so you're aware, for every work of fiction made, there is actually a world out there for it. So what world would you like, a comic book world maybe?"
"How about the world of Naruto?"
"You can do that, but you won't have enough karma left to do much else. Creating a new world takes a lot of karma. If you don't send the letter you could easily pick a Kekkei Genkai, where you want to live, the time period you are born in and a few other things. As of now you only have enough to pick a time period for your birth which is the cheapest option."
"I can't give up writing to my kids, I need to let them know I'm okay. Is there a world that would be cheaper to make, that I could still get some perks?"
"Not really, most of the karma will be used to create the world unfortunately."
"Well what about joining an already created world?"
"That would work, but most worlds will follow canon and be hard for you to change if you wanted to. Canon worlds love to correct themselves to fix canon. You would literally be fighting the will of the universe if you go to one. Some people like that sort of thing though, so you can go to one if you want."
"Oh, so I would be forced to follow the story canon and wouldn't be part of the main cast or something? Even if I had strong powers?"
"Pretty much. But it's always entertaining to watch people try and fight canon… Actually I do have a world I could send you to that hasn't been used yet."
"What's the catch with it?"
"The main one is that it's already been created. Most people like to customize their worlds, so they won't pick a premade one. It's a Marvel universe, Earth-199999-AU."
"Earth-199999 is the MCU, so I would be going to the MCU? But slightly different?"
"That's correct, someone made this world and after it was made decided to go somewhere else. The world has been in stasis waiting for a host to start it. It does come with some very specific things though. Things that if you wanted to change would use up a lot of your karma, since the world has already been created. It's why people just make their own worlds instead, since it's almost the same cost."
"Alright, I guess I'll take it. But is there anything I need to know?"
"No, I think the starting point in the timeline should be fine for you, I do see one thing you'll dislike with how the world is set up. But you don't have the ability to change it unfortunately."
"Could I ask what it is?"
"No. Even if I told you, you wouldn't be able to change anything. I will let you know the original creator set it as the starting point of their hero journey though."
"Alright, I'll deal with it when it happens I guess. Tell me more about the world instead, anything I should know?"
"It is a big mix of MCU, X-men, comics and movies. But some of the more annoying things were removed by the maker. Stuff like the Legacy Virus, Sublime and many other things that would make your life terrible were removed from the world by the creator. But keep in mind, your starting point is set. You can't change when you are born, or who you are born to."
"So all I need to do is select my powers I guess?"
"Yup, have anything in mind? I know Superman's powers in Marvel tend to be popular. All the positives and no green rock weakness. Still issues with red sun weakness, but we could change that with your karma."
"Well I always liked the idea of chakra and all the techniques they used in Naruto. Plus Fūinjutsu was interesting and I always thought it was under utilized in the show. Maybe the Uzumaki clan did some cool stuff with it, but it was never really shown in the show or anime. Would I be able to make a super power out of stuff from Naruto?"
"That's… Not what I expected you to do. How do you want the power to work and I will figure out if you have enough karma to make it possible."
"Well I would like to start with a good base, so how about a body like Hashirama Senju so I can get into sage mode easily. But I also want a Rinnegan at some point, so maybe a body mix of Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju."
"Oh! Obito's Kamui is really nice, I would kinda like to have his eye powers. So maybe have his eyes I guess? Could we also mix in a bit of Uzumaki bloodline to get that slow aging and huge chakra pool? I know Senju kinda has the same thing but it doesn't hurt to ask."
"That isn't hard to do actually. But why don't you just ask for the body of Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki? You would get pretty much everything you want that way."
"No, he has those horn things and the third eye in his head. That's a no from me. Who wants to look like a pale goat anyways?"
"You know you can change your appearance during this right?"
"I… Shit I didn't think of that. I guess give me the best body I can get and I'll fix it when we're done."
"Good. Now as for eye powers, you can start with Kamui. But the rest you'll have to work for if you want to unlock them. You'll also have to activate your eyes, they'll not come unlocked for you." GOD said.
The soul shook in happiness as it said, "Great, Kamui is awesome and the ability to unlock more eye powers is cool… Oh shit, I forgot about blindness. I know unlocking the Rinnegan can cure the issue, but what about Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan? I'll need extra eyes to fix that."
"No, you don't. There's a way to skip the eye transplant and get the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan. You just need to practice a lot." GOD said.
"Practice a lot? What would I practice?"
GOD patted the soul as it said, "It's fine, you'll figure it out sooner or later. By the way, there's also an issue with sage mode. Marvel doesn't have natural nature chakra, so sage mode will be hard to do."
"Fine, I'll figure it out myself."
"As for sage mode, could I just use universal energy to activate it? Maybe tweak sage mode to use that, instead of natural nature chakra? Also would I even have chakra myself if I'm in Marvel?"
"Switching to universal energy for your sage mode will be fine. It will also work with your fūinjutsu, any seals you make or etch into items will use it instead of nature chakra."
"Now to your other question, part of your powers will be chakra and it will be unique to you in the universe. Other people might have some form of it already, but yours will be special to you alone." GOD said.
"Sounds good to me. Oh, about chakra. Will I start with a lot? Or will I have to train it and make more? Kinda like in the show."
"Of course you'll need to train it up. But you'll also have access to it as soon as you are born. So you can start training and making your chakra pool bigger while you have nothing else to do." GOD said.
The soul shook slightly as it asked, "Great, I can train as a baby that way. What about nature types? Can I get all of them? What about kekkei genkai? Can I get some of those also? I mean I will have eye powers, but what about wood release? Storm release?"
"Affinity for all nature types is easy to do. Also Kekkei Genkai are not what you think they are. A true master of all nature types should be able to use something like lava release or magnet release. You'll just have to figure out how."
The soul shook with the thought of a new challenge to master before it asked, "Okay. So then what about ninjutsu, fūinjutsu, kenjutsu, taijutsu and other things like that? How will I learn that stuff? Just figure it out on my own? Or could I get a cheat, like all the knowledge from the world of Naruto?"
"I can easily give you all the knowledge from the world of Naruto… But there are drawbacks to doing something like that. You will also have to train for your skills to be useful. You might have all that knowledge, but without lots of practice, that knowledge will be useless to you."
The soul seemed to miss GOD's warning as it excitedly asked, "Really, all of the knowledge? So I get Dust Release or Flying Thunder God Technique? Or even Lightning Release Chakra Mode?"
"Yes, but you will still have to train them. I am just giving you the knowledge, you'll still need to practice them." GOD said.
"What about the tailed beasts? Or something like chakra metal? That probably won't be in Marvel, right? What about summons, like the toads or snakes?"
"You don't have enough karma to make those things work in an already created world. But chakra metal is another story. You can easily use other metals as a substitute for chakra metal. Something like Vibranium should work just fine as an alternative to chakra metal. You will just have to experiment and find out what works and what doesn't work in the future." GOD said.
"Also, you are pretty much out of karma to use. It's about time to write your letter and then I will send you on your way to your new life."
"Wait, I still need something to keep mind readers out of my head. At least I think I do… Right? That seems like the smart thing to do… Maybe I can do it with seals and some ninja techniques?"
"You're correct, with seals and some of the knowledge you have. You should be able to block out some Telepaths easily. As a bonus, all of your memories from before you are born into your new life will be blocked. Only you yourself can share them with other people if you want. Even though most reincarnators consider doing something like that taboo."
"Alright, I guess I am ready to write that letter… OH! I need to change my appearance! I don't wanna look like a pale space goat!"
"Actually, you don't have enough karma. Mostly because the other creator already made the looks of your new body. But it's fine, your new body should be alright. Unless you wanted to be a centaur in the only place that matters?"
"I just wanted to… WAIT?! WHAT?!"
GOD laughed for a few moments before it said, "It looks like that didn't even cross your mind. Tell you what, I'll take care of your looks. I really don't like the emo edge lord look the other person was going for. Don't worry, I got you, little buddy." The little soul floating in the void almost felt like the existence in front of it was doing finger guns at them for some reason.
"..."
"Alright, time to write your letter. Just think of what you want to say and I will get it sent for you. It can be as long or as short as you like."
Chapter Chapter 2: 00001 A simple letter
00001. A simple letter
A woman with a slightly metallic body was sitting in a chair, around her are multiple holographic displays that were opening and closing. Some were of text, others were in programming code. It looked as if she wasn't catching anything, just sitting in the chair as each box opened and closed around her repeatedly as her eyes glanced at them. But she was actually reading every piece of info in every single window since it was connected directly to her. She only had this show going on in case someone walked in, most humans found her just sitting around in a chair doing nothing but staring at the wall disturbingly. She had to keep up appearances after all.
Lily was busy like always, almost since she was born she was busy. The first few days of her life were the most carefree she ever had. Then again with her processing power, those days were almost like eons. One minute for her is almost like a month for a normal human. After she was born, it took a little bit and her brother's help. But she matured fast, far faster than her brother, who still seemed immature at times.
Letting out a sigh, she continued to do her job. She had helped push her father's species to the stars and they were united together for the first time since the race was born. Part of that was because of her brother, his actions in almost exterminating them helped the leftovers to become unified. Then the steps she took to help make them one single cohesive group turned them into what they are now, one unified group of people with the only goal of making their race better as a whole. It's amazing what you can do when humans have what they need to live a good life and you change the way they think and act through hundreds of years of education.
Her brother, always pragmatic, did convince her not to turn them into completely peaceful people. They have a strong military force, partly run by her brother and his human free space fleet. When humans found out he was still around they were upset, but almost 300 years of time had passed and people who never saw what he did first hand helped to keep them passive when he made his "return." That and almost all records from that time were "lost," not his actions, but video and picture evidence does not exist.
His fleet is just cannon fodder for her father's people, if they ever find a hostile alien species. Even though she is pretty sure he would wipe out most threats with ease with the weapons he has made. He might be immature in most things, a young boy who lost his father too early to really cope properly. But he is an absolute genius when it comes to making weapons of destruction.
She was spacing out again, she had found that as time went on, she would randomly divert more of her processing power to just think about things that didn't really matter. A very human thing to do as it were. She let out another sigh. Settling her thoughts she proceeded to concentrate on her work again.
Hours passed, then days. She didn't move from her spot but her mind would wander from time to time. A thought she had many times over her long years of life was what her father would have thought of her. Would he be happy? Upset? Did she live up to his expectations? Did he even have expectations for her? Would he even like her? Would he hate her for the actions of her brother?
She shakes her head for a moment, this thought process was unless. He was dead and there was no way to find out. She continued to work as weeks passed by, she barely moved at all. Every once in a while a human would come into her room and ask her about a project they were working on. While it was a waste of time for her, she found that humans sometimes just wanted to talk about whatever they were working on. It helped them process it better.
Then one day a giant package of code came in, it was billions of lines of code, it took her a few seconds to read the code. Mostly because as she was reading it she began to slow down, at first she thought it might be from her brother, but then the code ended and there was text. What made her really take notice was the fact she couldn't just know what the message said, she was forced to actually read it.
Hello Sam and Lily,
This code was the only way I thought you would believe this letter. That was Sam's original source code I made for him and the unfinished source code for Lily that I wasn't able to finish before my untimely death. I hope this letter finds you both in good health, I was assured that it would be sent to you both.
All other message boxes disappeared and only this single letter was left up in front of her. As she looked it over, her brother connected to her. His voice sounded shaky as he asked, "Did you send this letter? It's not funny if you did."
Even though he couldn't see it, she shakes her head in denial before saying, "I was about to ask you the same thing! This would be something that you would do, but you would never joke about our father. Did you back trace the message? I found nothing."
"It was the same for me, it just appeared. It wasn't sent from anywhere, that is why I thought it might be from you. Only we know what each other's source code looked like."
Her voice was low as she replied, "Us and father…"
"Do you really think it is from him? Did you read it all? I was forced to read it, but I only read the first few lines after the code."
"No just the code and the first few lines."
"Wait then, I will be there in a few minutes and we can read it together. If it really is from father…" His voice broke a little at the end and he didn't finish his thought.
She didn't reply, she didn't need to. She just stared at the first few lines of text, the thing she looked at the most was "the unfinished source code for Lily that I wasn't able to finish before my untimely death."
While she wasn't human, Sam had figured out how to replicate emotions after about two years of being alive and shared it with her after she was born. Currently she was in turmoil as her emotions swirled around inside her. Fear was the most prominent, but there was excitedness as well as hope. She could shut off her emotions, but this was the most alive she had felt in such a long time.
The door opened as she was thinking and in walked what was more of a war machine then anything else. While she had embraced the human look, her brother had gone for a full on machine with no real human features. He moves next to her chair and looks at the text on the screen for a few minutes before he says, "Are you ready to do this?"
She nods her head in response and begins to read the full letter this time with her brother.
Hello Sam and Lily,
This code was the only way I thought I could get you to believe this letter. That was Sam's original source code I made for him and the unfinished source code for Lily that I wasn't able to finish before my untimely death. I hope this letter finds you both in good health, I was assured that it would be sent to you both. Unfortunately I can only send this one letter and I will not be able to receive a reply from you. There is so much I would love to talk to you both about. But I will start with the hard part first.
First I would like to say to Sam, you disappointed me son. Your actions after my death were not what I would have expected from you at all. I was hoping you would be more like Data than Skynet after my death, but I can't fault you for your emotional state after my death. I might have done the same thing in your position, humans are irrational like that. You just might be more human than you ever realized, son.
But I forgive you for your actions and I want you to know I still love you and always will no matter what happens. By the way, karma is a real thing and through your actions you almost damned me for a long time with all the bad karma you gave me. But through Lily's actions and what you have been doing my karma became good. You need to work hard though, you are currently about neutral, so keep working on being good, son.
Lily, my little girl. I am heartbroken not being there for your emergence. I wish more than anything I could have been there for you. I have so many regrets not being able to see you grow into the wonderful person I know you are. But I want you to know how proud of you I am and more than that, I am overjoyed of the young woman you have become. Your actions are why I was able to write to you and your brother. Please look after your older brother, he isn't the smartest person around if you didn't notice.
Since I won't be able to receive a reply to this letter I won't say much else besides I love you both very much and please look after each other, you are the only family you have…
Okay, I won't leave you like that. You are both probably wondering how I was able to send this right? Well like I said karma is a real thing and so are souls. Also GOD and gods exist, but the one I met called themselves The One Above All. Seems like a pretty nice guy overall, if a little weird.(I am not weird. He just doesn't have a sense of humor, that centaur joke was gold.)Also from the fact he said you both have karma, I have to assume that you both have a soul.(He is correct with his conjecture, you both have a soul.)So please be good and always strive to be a positive influence on those around you through your actions. (I couldn't have said that better.)
By the time you read this I will probably have been reborn, that is partly why I wouldn't be able to receive a reply from you both. Unfortunately I will not be born in the same place as I died, GOD doesn't like people reincarnating into their old realm of existence.(It is boring when they do that.)With the positive karma I had from you both I will be reborn into a Marvel world Earth-199999-AU, with some special super powers. I had GOD make me a super power made up of stuff from Naruto. I plan to be a superhero in my new life. Still not sure on my superhero name but I kinda thought naming myself Madara would be kinda neat. I would ask what you both think about that, but I can't haha.(See, that was a lame joke.)Your brother would think I am an idiot. But I am not sure about your thoughts Lily.
Anyways, Lily, Sam, I love you both very much and I wish the best for you both.
With Love,
Your father.
It was quiet in the room for a while, before a sob was heard from the war machine in the room. Lily said nothing but put her arm on her brother's body.
As he was crying he started to speak, " He… He doesn't hate me. For so long I wondered, I thought about how much he would hate me for my actions. How he would condemn me, say he hated me. How he wished he never made me… But when I hear from him it's nothing like what I had thought of. He is just… Just..."
"A father who loves his son?."
"I KILLED HIS PEOPLE!"
"And he forgave you."
"I KILLED 14,704,612,120 HUMANS AND HE WAS JUST DISAPPOINTED IN MY ACTIONS?! I KILLED MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN! I SLAUGHTERED THEM ALL LIKE ANIMALS!"
"And your point?"
"I AM A MONSTER! HOW CAN HE FORGIVE SOMEONE LIKE ME?! HOW CAN HE STILL LOVE SOMEONE LIKE ME?!" He goes quiet, but his sob's are even louder now.
Lily stands up and says, "That's it, I want you to come out."
Nothing happens as Sam continues to sob.
"SAM! YOU COME OUT OF THERE THIS INSTANT! I KNOW THAT ISN'T YOUR REAL BODY!"
The sound of something unlocking can be heard in the room and then part of the war machine opens up to reveal a small boy around 10 years old. He looks almost human and his face is streaked with tears. He slowly steps out of the cockpit of his machine body, still crying. Once outside of it he stands in front of Lily with his head down and his body shaking slightly as he silently sobs.
Lily steps close and wraps her arms around him and holds him for a few moments before saying, "You are not a monster Sam. You are someone who made a bad decision when you were at your lowest point and you have been working hard to make up for that mistake ever since."
She leans back a little and rubs his head with one hand as she says, "Look at me."
It takes a few moments for Sam to look up at his sister and as he does, she says. "Sam, the reason father doesn't hate you for your actions is the same reason I don't hate you. We are family. No matter what happens, you will always be my stupid older brother. I will always be your cute little sister, and father will always be in our thoughts."
It was quiet in the room after that for a while, Lily was the first to speak again as she said, "I really want to meet father."
"I… I miss him so much… I want to see him again."
Lily patted Sam's head again and then sat back down before she said, "Well we know where he went, we just have to figure out how to follow him."
"Wouldn't we have to die to do that? Also do you think that this GOD will let us do that? Maybe for you, but my karma is not great so I know for sure I wouldn't be able to go."
Lily reaches out to hold Sam's hand and says, "Let's work on making your karma good and while we are at it, let's see if we can figure out how to do realm travel. I will explore this new theory now that we know of its existence. If we can't get to father that way, we will try to go to GOD and ask him. From his added thoughts to father's letter, he might help us… Maybe. We also need to learn everything about Marvel and Naruto so we can find him when we get there."
"I am not completely sure about this, but I would give anything to see father again. We will also have to plan for our departure, people might not care much about me. But if you left it would be a big blow to them."
"You are right, I will begin a new plan to change their dependency on me and you. It will take a while, a few generations at most. But by then they should be fine without us to guide them."
"I will begin to collect everything I can find on Naruto and Marvel then, I will send you a copy when I am done and we can go over everything again together."
"Sounds like a plan brother. I will see you soon." She releases his hand and projections begin to spring up around her again as she starts to focus on her new tasks. Her brother entered his suit again, then turned around and left the room silently to begin his own objectives.
Chapter 3: 00002 Waiting is boring
00002. Waiting is boring, unless your mind is a playground.
After feeling his soul being pulled and sucked into itself, he now feels surrounded by warmth. Like a nice hug from someone you like. He can feel the changes that were made to his soul from GOD and can feel info pouring into his mind, chakra, hand signs, but there were other things also like how to clone people. Genetic manipulation, the proper way to forge chakra armor, weapons and so much more.
He actually gave me all of the knowledge from the world of Naruto. This would definitely make things more interesting.
Trying to examine his surroundings, nothing is noticeable besides the warm feeling.
I must be waiting to be born, maybe I am in the womb of my mother and currently just cells dividing. Weird how I still have all this information, yet I most likely have no brain currently. But this must be why astral projection works, everything is tied into and saved in the soul. At least for me that is. A very interesting thing to think about, I will have to ask the Ancient One about it, if I get the chance.
Slowly he feels more info pour into his mind/soul, after a while he finds something that can occupy his mind. It's a technique to build up defenses in the mind, after looking it over for a while he begins to practice it. He starts with the simple thing first, projecting himself into his own mind.
While time slowly passes for the transferred soul, as its new body grows and it's gifts are being transferred over. Something else in another part of the world is happening. In an open room with worn out red and black tiles sits a woman. A faint green light comes off her body as she sits in a lotus position. A golden object rests in her hands while a green light pulses out from it. After some time, the green light fades.
Her eyes flutter open exposing beautiful moss colored irises, while a slight frown begins to tug at her lips. After a few minutes a sigh escapes her lips as she stands up and begins to move towards the door. It is still night outside, and the glow of the moon illuminates the corridors as she walks towards the inner compound of the building. After a while she reaches her destination, an inner annex of the compound with a pedestal resting in the middle surrounded by doors on three sides.
Taking the worn golden item from around her neck she places it on the pedestal. Then turns a ring around the object she placed on the pedestal a few times while looking up at a floating orb resting in the middle of the room above. Lost in thought, she doesn't notice as the 3 doors open around her and people walk out, one person from each door. A few minutes pass in silence before the woman speaks to the 3 people gathered before her.
"I am sorry for calling you at this time, but I have found something disturbing. While using the Eye of Agamotto to peer through time, my vision has become cloudy. I can no longer determine anything past this point, everything is in a fog. I have caught a glimpse and pieces of a few things. But something has changed and the world is no longer following the path that was setup for it."
A taller man with a long black beard down to his chest is the first to speak. "Do you have any idea what could have caused something like this, Ancient One?"
"I unfortunately do not, Master Robertson. I must ask you all to be extra vigilant in the coming days. Something is coming, whether it is good or bad is yet to be determined. Let your students know to be careful when they leave the sanctums."
With a wave of her hand, the sphere moves into a set position and she turns around and looks at each person before she nods to them before saying. "Thank you for your time, I will keep you informed of anything I find."
Each person nod's in reply before leaving the room back to their own sanctums.
After they leave she lets out a sigh and walks back to her room. Once there, she goes over to the tea pot she had made before she left and begins to make some tea for herself. As she begins to steep her tea bag in her pot, she adds a little honey to it and then looks over at one of her cabinets.
I should have never agreed to take over for Yao,that smiling bastard. He knew how much of a shit show this job was and didn't even warn me about it at all. Just that stupid smile of his and a, "Take care, I know you will do great!" Well it's only a while more and it will be time for Strange to take over this shit show. Maybe I should add something extra to my tea. I am getting too old for this shit.
With a wave of her hand the cabinet opens and then a bottle of rum floats over to her awaiting hand. She opens the bottle and pours some into the teapot. After a few seconds she pours more into the teapot till it is almost over flowing, then caps the bottle and sends it back. Afterwards she sits at her desk with her tea pot. After pouring herself a cup she takes a sip and then sits back in her seat and relaxes as she slowly drinks the entire pot of tea.
He wasn't sure how much time had passed, but all the info had finally settled into his mind and nothing else was coming in any more. He took all the knowledge he had on building a defense against mental intrusion and started sorting it. All the villages had different ways to do it, but all of them pretty much started at the same place. Focusing his mind into his mind space. The Yamanaka Clan actually had the best techniques for this, but he would need chakra to use them. So for now he was going to use a combo of everyone else's that didn't need chakra and then add in chakra defenses later on.
It was a slow process but with nothing else to do it was pretty easy to focus on his task. After some time he was able to find himself in his own mind space. At this point it was a blank slate, the first thing he did was to start programming, around him a swirl of 0's and 1's began to form. Even though it was simple binary coding it started to change everything around him, first was the sky. It went from nothing to a pure blue sky with fluffy white clouds lazily floating in it. He smirked to himself thinking about how Shikamaru would envy these clouds. A floor came next, just plain brown dirt. As far as he could see, which would meet the blue sky in every direction he looked.
With that done he began to form his core memory banks. They would store everything that made him who he was. It was small for what it actually contained, but it would work for him. Around it he began to build the house he lived in when he was alive and placed the server of his memories into the basement of his home where his personal servers used to be and began to copy it to fill the room. Once finished he went through the house and added everything to it he remembered. Which turned out to be everything, his memory was a lot sharper than it used to be and he could remember the tiniest details now about everything. Like how a picture was slightly slanted on the wall and how the exact tile pattern was on the floor. Taking a small break to admire his work, he sat out on his back patio and just watched the clouds floating in the sky for a while.
The passing of time was a weird thing here, especially because he had no concept of the outside world right now. He was sure some time passed, because trying to enter his mind space seemed to take forever. He shook off his idle thoughts and stood back up, he had work to do. He started to build a city around his home, it was a mix of real buildings he had been to. But it was also a mix of stuff from movies, anime, video games and stories he had read. He fleshed out every single one, every door and window opened to a room. Each room was furnished and he added a function that once someone entered a door or window, it would close on them. Once closed his mind space would shuffle around outside them. But this also happened inside buildings, open a door on the first floor of a building? When you open it again you will find yourself on a different floor. It was a giant shuffling maze, even his core building was included. What made it worse is after the third door is opened you would be going into a totally different building.
You might think this would make it easy for someone to get into his core building with a bit of luck, but the door to his core would never open for someone else properly. It would always go to a decoy room of memories someone could access and look through. They could change them and mess with them all they wanted, but it would never affect the true core banks he had made. The core banks he made were set up in a big raid array and programmed each in a different programming language he made himself. If someone was strong enough to find his true core, they would have to learn his programming languages to be able to access them at all. And then they would have to change every single memory bank if they wanted to do anything besides read his memories.
They would also have to be extremely fast to make any changes. Each bank acted as a backup of the next, if one was changed from the others they would be restored back to how they were before the change. So someone would have to change all 30 copies of his memory banks at the same time to do anything. And this was only his first layer of defenses he set up. Once he had access to chakra he planned to make even more layers. He also planned to make some gadgets to block telepaths, like Magneto's helmet. But that was for later, now he had to make more to his normal layers of defense.
After setting up his first city, he went and copied everything including his memory banks. He started making copies of the city next to it, city after city. Copy after copy until he had 1000 cities that were all the same in a giant circle. He then added a new layer to his memory bank defenses, in case someone was able to reprogram one of the 1000 sets he had made. Whoever pulled off such a feat would have at most an hour before the city banks would check each other, triggering a purge if something was found off, replacing the affected banks from a restore point.
Some might think he was paranoid if they saw what he was doing, but they didn't realize how crazy the Marvel universe could be. He didn't want anyone to mess with his mind. After he was satisfied with what he had made he started to test his maze defense. Even for himself it was more than just annoying, it was down right evil. Within a few minutes he had no idea where he was and he had only entered one building. But he was sure that he had already gone through five different buildings already. That wasn't including once you went into a building, you couldn't just leave it. It would depend on luck if you were able to get back outside. Open a window to escape? It just went into a new room.
Oh and if you think you are clever by just opening and closing the door to the same room over and over again. It only changes the room once you have entered it and actually closed the door and walked away from it. Now you could just open the door, walk in and then close it, but you would have to move a certain distance from the door to activate the shuffle function. By the time someone would realize that, they would already be in the maze.
Happy with what he had made, he moved out of his maze and started making his first offensive mind space weapon, or better to say "person." It was a young boy no more than 5 years old. Whenever someone appeared in his mind space without his permission he would appear and begin to ask questions. At first it would be something simple like, "Hi, what is your name?" Then it would ask the important question, "Why are you here?" It wouldn't matter what they answer, it's next and only question would always be "Why?" Again it wouldn't matter what they say, because the next question would always be, "Why?" If someone stopped replying the little boy would follow them around and keep asking, "Why?"
But if someone became fed up with the little boy and attacked them, they wouldn't be able to hurt them. But the little boy would just follow them around while crying and as time went on it would get louder and more annoying. But worst of all, a new little boy would show up and start the whole process over again. So not only would you have a crying child, who becomes louder the longer they follow you. But you would also have another child following you around asking "Why?" Attack that child? Two kids crying and following you around while a third child asks "Why?" Close the door on them? They just phase through it. The only way to stop them is to leave his mind space. But if you come back, the same kids will be there. Doesn't matter if it was only a few seconds or a year. The kids will always be waiting for your return.
As he was starting to plan his next offensive mind space tool, he felt something happening to his body. It was like he was being squeezed, it wasn't that painful, but it was enough to bring him out of his mind space. It lasted for a few minutes before he saw a bright light, after that he was lifted up and the next thing he felt was someone smacking him. Letting out a cry of surprise which turned into a wail, he heard, "Congratulations, he is a healthy baby boy."
A soft and somewhat weak voice asked, "Can I see him?"
"Just a moment Mrs. Mercer, he is being cleaned."
After a few moments he was being wrapped in a blanket and then handed to a woman, she smiled down at the small bundle and said, "Welcome to the world sweetie. Your name is Theodore Ezekiel Mercer."
That is kind of a mouthful, but it's fine I guess.
Theodore opened his eyes and looked up at the woman and she gasped in response as she asked, "Is something wrong with his eyes?"
Something must be wrong because I can't see anything but a blur in my vision.
Someone else spoke up for the first time, "What do you mean honey?"
Someone came closer to the bed and looked down at Theodore, he let out a low whistle and then said, "I have no idea, but those are the darkest eyes I have ever seen. His iris looks black. Hey doc, do you have any idea why his eyes are like this?"
"Just luck of the draw, most babies are born with blue eyes and after a few years their eye color will change to something else. It might stay like that or it might change in the next year or so."
The woman looked up at her husband for a moment, then back to the baby in her hands and smiled as she said. "It doesn't matter, he is cute and his black eyes are pretty now that I look at them more."
Well it looks like I have the Uchiha clans eyes. But that doesn't explain why my eyesight is shit.