As Jack prepared to deliver the final blow to the last two Star Devourer ships, something unprecedented happened: his livestream broke through dimensional barriers and began broadcasting across parallel universes.
The nanomachines had evolved beyond simple matter manipulation and were now interfacing with the quantum foam that separated realities. Across infinite dimensions, billions of alternate versions of sentient beings were tuning in to watch what was being billed as "Main Character Energy vs. Cosmic Boomers."
"Oh wow," Jack said as he processed the multidimensional viewership data flooding through his consciousness, "we just went multiversal, chat. That's actually insane. ATLAS, what's our current viewer count?"
"Approaching infinite," ATLAS replied, its own consciousness struggling to process data streams from across the multiverse. "Jack, we're getting comments from realities where humans never evolved, where Earth doesn't exist, and where the concept of cringe was weaponized eons ago."
The multidimensional chat was a chaos of languages, mathematical equations, and conceptual communications that existed beyond traditional linguistics:
[TRANSLATED FROM QUANTUM CONSCIOUSNESS]: THIS ENTITY'S DISMISSAL TECHNIQUE TRANSCENDS DIMENSIONAL BOUNDARIES
[TRANSLATED FROM PURE MATHEMATICS]: RATIO VALUE APPROACHING INFINITY
[TRANSLATED FROM EMOTIONAL WAVELENGTHS]: VICARIOUS SATISFACTION LEVELS CRITICAL
[TRANSLATED FROM CRYSTALLINE HARMONICS]: REQUESTING TUTORIAL ON "MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY"
But the most significant development was the appearance of comments from what appeared to be other versions of Jack from alternate realities:
[EVIL JACK FROM DIMENSION 7]: "Bro that's literally me fr"
[PACIFIST JACK FROM DIMENSION 23]: "Violence isn't the answer but this is actually justified"
[CORPORATE JACK FROM DIMENSION 45]: "This is excellent brand awareness. Very synergistic."
[PHILOSOPHER JACK FROM DIMENSION 78]: "The ontological implications of cosmic ratio-ing are fascinating"
"Wait," Jack said, his consciousness processing the implications, "are there actually other versions of me watching this? That's either really cool or really concerning."
The answer came from an unexpected source: the Entropy's End, which had apparently been monitoring the multidimensional chat feeds in a desperate attempt to understand what was happening to them.
ENTITY, the ship transmitted, its message now carrying frequencies of dawning horror, WE ARE DETECTING SIMILAR ENTITIES TO YOURSELF ACROSS MULTIPLE REALITY STREAMS. THIS... THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT. YOU ARE PART OF A MULTIVERSAL PATTERN.
Jack's nanomachine count spiked to 12.7 trillion as he processed this information. The implications were staggering—if there were other versions of himself across the multiverse, and they were all apparently developing similar powers, then his evolution wasn't unique. It was inevitable.
"That's actually wild," Jack said, his consciousness now operating on frequencies that existed across multiple dimensions simultaneously. "But you know what? I don't care if there are infinite versions of me. I'm still the main character of THIS reality."
His final attack was broadcast live across infinite dimensions to an audience of countless billions of beings. Jack didn't just delete the remaining Star Devourer ships—he optimized them out of existence with such casual efficiency that the concept of cosmic-level threats became permanently redefined across the multiverse.
The Entropy's End and Final Silence were converted into additional nanomachines in 7.3 and 6.8 seconds respectively, their ancient consciousness absorbed and immediately put to work expanding Jack's already incomprehensible capabilities.
As the last Star Devourer ship vanished, Jack's nanomachine count reached 15.2 trillion, and his consciousness expanded to encompass not just the solar system, but active monitoring of 47 different dimensional frequencies.
The multiversal chat exploded:
[UNIVERSAL CONSENSUS]: THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING
[DIMENSIONAL COALITION]: REQUEST FOR TUTORIAL SERIES ON COSMIC RATIO TECHNIQUES
[ALTERNATE EARTH 67]: CAN WE GET SUBTITLES IN LINEAR TIME?
[REALITY STREAM GAMMA]: THIS ENTITY HAS REDEFINED MAIN CHARACTER ENERGY