Ch. 171: Noah and the New Genesis (3)

"It seems higher divinity was unnecessary." The moment that I appeared from the time rip that I'd created, I immediately took stock of my energy reserves. While creating the time rip had taken a truly stupid amount of energy, to the point where I was unsure if the Grand Minister himself could have done it without some sort of foreknowledge on the physics behind, the second one had taken almost no effort at all, comparatively speaking. In fact, now that I knew how to do it, I was certain that I'd be able to do it consecutively with roughly a Destroyer's worth of energy, so I immediately reapplied my seals, robbing my body of the energy required to maintain my Divine Aspect.

As soon as my mind and body returned to normal, the whiplash from everything that I'd done in my Divine mode hit me like a freight train, causing me to double over and vomit on the spot.

"Not like riding a bike at all..." I muttered to myself, leaning against a tree to support myself as I realized just how horrible I'd been to Chronoa. "Let's never pull my full power out... ever again." I swore to myself. Now that I'd gotten a taste of time travel personally, the only reason I'd ever have to do so again would be if the Grand Zeno decided to attempt to destroy me, so I really hoped that keeping my promise to myself was a possibility. Just remembering how my brain had worked while I'd been on that high, sent shivers down my spine.

I now understood why Zeno had casually destroyed all of those universes in the past.

Shaking my head to rid myself of the shivers running down my spine, I decided to focus on the mission at hand. There wasn't any point in what I'd just done if I didn't complete my mission here.

Looking around, I knew right away that my latest attempt at time travel had been a complete success. I'd landed in a familiar forest, and I could sense some familiar energies nearby, just out of eyesight. More specifically, I'd landed less than a mile away from the home I'd only snuck out of less than an hour ago from my perspective, and I could sense my parents inside, having dinner.

Naturally, their energies weren't exactly as I remembered them. Both of their energies were almost unrecognizably weaker. Dad's energy especially, was far different than that of the man that'd just come home the other day, like a hissing kitten, wild and weak as a stiff breeze. 

At this point in time, I didn't have to worry about him sensing me out by my energy. With my body still configured to hold the entirety of my power, my energy had the same purity as a high-tier god's. Normal mortals couldn't sense me at all.

"Alright. Let's do this." I chose this exact moment in time for a reason. Gohan and I had only just been conceived. While Chichi had already learned that she was pregnant, she didn't yet know that she was pregnant with twins.

Slowly, I encircled my unaware mother with a small mist of my energy. Nobody would be able to perceive it unless they could sense divine power, not even my dad, who was in the room with her. As my energy permeated her body, I could sense the beating of two distinct souls inside her belly, just barely separated. Those were fetal me, and fetal Gohan. Differentiating between the two was as easy as breathing for me. Gohan's soul was tranquil, blank. His soul was completely bare, and even if he had been conscious, he wouldn't have been capable of thinking a thing.

Meanwhile, my young soul was a raging whirlwind of regrets and anger. I was probably having some kind of nightmare at the moment, one that I wouldn't remember later. There were almost sixteen years' difference between the two souls in terms of depth.

Then, with a small "Pop!" the air a few inches above my hands, as a baby appeared above it and landed in my arms. Immediately, her blue eyes opened wide as the young infant with my younger self's soul awoke abruptly. Essentially, I'd used the same technique here as Whis had to birth Bulma, but I'd placed my own spin on it.

"Wait a moment. I'll explain everything." I whispered to the younger version of me, stepping through another seam in time.

...

I was genuinely shocked by what I saw on the other side of the time seam that I'd just gone through. My wide-eyed, surprised expression probably looked comically similar to that of the baby in my arms as I stepped through the portal to the center of time once more and found an entire city of Core girls darting about every which way.

I could sense my connection to each and every girl here, but I almost didn't believe that they were actually my own Core girls. Their power levels averaged out at around Chelsea's level, and they were all darting about as if they had some job to do. Some of them even vanished into time-rifts mid-step, while others appeared from time-rifts in random locations, wearing all manners of strange clothing.

"Surprised? You really shouldn't be. You created this, after all." 

I spun around in response to the voice. "Chronoa..." I faltered. I didn't know what to say to the Kai. 

"Don't worry, I get it, Hanna. Time moves forward, after all. Let's let the past stay the past, alright?" Chronoa said, pardoning me for what I'd done to her during our last meeting. "In the original timeline, there was no use for the Time Patrol. Time Travellers were killed by you and your girls the moment that you noticed them learning how to mess with the fabric of time, without fail. But after you took her out of the equation, that all changed. Hanna, Now, there are three universes, and each of them needs someone