Chapter XX: 500

I've been here for so long. I just know it. I know that the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs has already probably hit.

I can't stand it here anymore. I could still feel every shift on the earth even though I couldn't see them happening.

There was only lightning. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get out. It's like I was in a jail cell. I didn't know what to do, I've tried everything.

I tried to absorb it, overload it, and all other kinds of things. I didn't care about anything else, I just wanted to see Aggamoto.

I was in the Void of Divinity. My own practical creation. There was no Hellfire, Anti-Magic, or Demon Magic. Just lightning.

The lightning has been absorbing my powers for who knows how long. I know I had nothing left, but my system, Blaze, and Bashenga.

I didn't summon them at all during this whole time. I didn't know what the lightning could do to them.

I've had thousands of breakdowns, thousands of tantrums, thousands of talking to's, and today, would be the first time I've had determination.

I decided right now, that I would not spend another day in this fucking hell. I've been trying so hard to forcefully absorb or control the lightning. I've been avoiding the storm.

I need to become one with it. I need to enter the storm.

I stood up from where I sat, and made my way through the storm. The lightning was striking everywhere in rage. It ironically resembled the inside of the speed force that I don't have.

I continued to walk into the storm, and I found a small lightning bolt in its own little clearing, dancing around as it wished. This lightning was odd. It wasn't nearly as ferocious and furious like the other bolts, this one seemed happy, but very lonely.

It noticed my presence and happily scurried over to me. I stretched out my hand and it jumped on it, bouncing in between my fingers.

I could sense that this lightning had a purpose. I couldn't use any powers because the lightning took it from me. All the power was in the lightning. All I needed to do, was find this little guy to help. What I didn't know, was that this little bolt was actually Little Dino.

The bolt jumped off of my hand and turned into him.

"Little Dino." I was happy to see someone familiar after years of being here. I rubbed and scratched all over his body. He licked my face before turning back into lightning.

That reminded me that I had a job to do. I raised my hand and focused on communicating with the sentient lightning.

All this time, I've been ignoring them. All I thought I knew is that they wanted power, but now I knew something else, what they wanted even more than power. They wanted a home.

All of the lightning got less louder and angrier. It seemed to calm down. In one swift moment, it all came back and slammed into me. Every bolt and every stray of electricity hit me and entered my body. This was the absolute best feeling I could ever receive in this new life and I knew it. Nothing would ever, and can't ever top this.

I knew today marked the day I finally become something new. Something better.

The lightning stopped crashing into me after probably ten minutes, and I was left standing by myself in nothingness.

I glowed many colors and electricity crackled all over my body. I slowly contained all of the power and moved it into my mind, body, and soul. I felt the energy flow peacefully through my body, I even felt in tingling in my skin. The lightning was now everywhere in my body.

I only needed to do one thing now. Run. I did just that, I ran. I kept running, and I didn't know how fast I was going. A blue portal opened in front of me and I had nothing else to do but jump into it.

My vision turned black, as I waited for my arrival to the new earth I would see

When I opened my eyes, I was still in the water. I almost could barely remember it. I swam to the top of the water and poked my head through the top. I could see that there was nothing around me, but water.

I climbed onto the surface of the ocean and tried something I haven't done before. I started vibrating at a high frequency and watched as a three other me's appeared next to me. These were time remnants.

Of course, they didn't just pop into existence from me vibrating, there was a lot more to it, but now was not the time to get into explaining it.

I made three more so we could all go in four different directions. North, South, East, and West. I decided to give them names based off of my favorite horror movie slashers.

Freddy will go North, Jason will go East, Michael will go South, and I myself, Billy Loomis, will go to the direction of Wes (West).

We all ran off towards our assigned destinations to look for any land. The only person who found something was Freddy. He communicated with us through the lightning and sent us a signal, so we all dashed towards him.

What stood in front of us, a large piece of land that could rival that of Australia. We all ran onto it and searched the whole land. We did so, and we found a large castle that looked like it operated as a base of operations.

There was a gate in front of the castle that was clearly coated in magic. The only kinds of people who couldn't sense all this damn magic would be a regular human. Which doesn't exist on this planet yet.

Freddy, Jason, and Michael all started vibrating before merging back with me. I knocked on the gate and waited for something.

Whoever owned this base clearly had great response time. The gate opened in about 30 seconds and five people who all were wearing the same outfits were on the other side.

I noticed that outfit in a heartbeat. These were sorcerers.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?" They seemed vigilant at the appearance of this random man with a smile who just knocked on their "secret base."

"My name, is Billy Loomis, and I-"

"Wait, you're Billy Loomis? We've been searching for you for 500 years! Come in, we must discuss things with the Sorcerer Supreme!" Before I could finish my grand introduction, I was cut off and immediately ushered into the base.

The interior was pretty nice. Marble walls coated in magic, nice carpets, statues of me, Agamotto, and Oshtur slaying Dormammu.

I sighed as I realized the propaganda being spread around these days, because that is not what happened.

We made to a room in which strongly resembled one for meetings.

It was like a Justice League kind of base. A long table with a specific number of chairs around it, a hologram of the Earth in the middle of the table, and an oracle to watch over places.

At the end of the table, was a man, dressed just like all these other sorcerers, except that he had some kind of medallion around his neck. On this inside of it, was a glowing green stone.

The man sat at the end of the table and seemed to be meditating. He opened his eyes once he felt the energy from the time stone start reacting strongly to this new presence.

Of course, this was Agamotto, my son. He stood up and slowly walked towards me. He reached out his hand, which confused me. Was he nervous to see me again?

I slapped his hand away and hugged him tightly. He was shocked by the sudden action, but was for sure happy.

"How you doing kid?" He didn't reply for a second, he was too busy enjoying the embrace of his father.

"Good. I'm good, come sit, we have much to talk about." He ushered the other sorcerers out of the meeting room. He sat back down in his original spot and I pulled up a chair next to him.

"Let's get straight to business. What happened that day? What happened to Dormammu?" Agamotto's previously happy expression was replaced with a serious one.

"When I woke up, my mother told me to immediately contact the Magic Council to take care of Dormammu. We stalled him as best as we could for them to arrive. Once they did, they restrained and captured him with the help of other extraterrestrial beings.

After they captured him, they permanently bounded him to the mirror dimension, where he should've never been seen causing destruction again. We send a group of sorcerers every month to check on him, and just recently, he completely disappeared.

We noticed that over the first few decades of your disappearance, he started to get weaker and weaker, but now we believe he's escaped in search of more power."

I took in all of the knowledge provided to me.

"Well, he didn't escape. He's dead." Agamotto's eyes widened slightly, before lowering again.

"How is he dead? You couldn't have done it. You're energy signatures weren't anywhere in this solar system, and I don't think you would randomly leave it, so how is he dead?"

"Let's just say, I poisoned him I guess, and he died. This is an incurable poison, and his death was inevitable. I wish I could've told you that, but I couldn't." I explained it in the shortest way I could.

Agamotto couldn't hold it back anymore, and asked the big question I knew he really wanted to ask about.

"Where did you go?"

"I'm not quite sure what it is myself, but what I do know, is that I won't disappear like that again. Let's say, I've tamed the beast inside." He didn't understand what I meant by that, but he didn't really need to.

"What about any geological things that happened to the planet?" He put his hand to his cleanly shaven chin and was put in deep thought.

"Well, an asteroid that was covered in Kree technology going to wipe every living thing off the face of the planet, but all of us sorcerers came together and stopped it. We reconfigured the technology and used it to build this place."

'This definitely changes things for the future. I wonder how long the dinosaurs will prosper for until the Ice Age.' Putting that aside, I thought about the more important parts.

'The asteroid was covered in Kree tech? Are they making a move now? The Kree found an asteroid, took it, and covered it in tech? Why would they do that?'

"I see. The Kree could be making a move soon for some kind of invasion. Who all resides on this planet?"

"Nobody except you, me, and my Council of Sorcerers." I nodded and thought about what to do now.

While I was thinking, I felt a pull on a mental connection I haven't felt in a while. It was Bast.

~Bast, it's been a while, how are you?~

~Not good Billy. I'll be honest with you. I need your help.~

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