"You know, Master Saren, you should listen to me when I say this that playing around with powers beyond your control is a highly dangerous idea..."
A voice spoke up, monotone in expression but sounding quite worried. This was Saren's A.I. Arius who was currently speaking from a wrist mounted device that was on Saren's right arm even though he was controlling the ship. Although Saren himself wasn't listen to him, quite tired of the A.I.'s concerns as it was voicing them over 3 cycles, meaning years. Saren was in the lab of his large dreadnaught starship out in the far reaches of space.
Saren had been building a machine that would allow him to go back in time to stop the destruction of his home world far here in the future. In fact, it had been his only motive ever since he saw the state his planet was in and his sister had been taken as well. Although unlike most, this will take him and his ship within the dimensional space that exist in another plane of existence only seen by those who are already dead. From there he can move through time even universe as long as the machine was him anchored to that world long enough for him to find his way through.
"I've heard you, Arius. I heard you a thousand times, I'm not deaf. Doing this the other way would take entirely too long, while our race can survive a really long time regardless where we are. Space is so vast and wide, to find her would almost impossible without some sort of sign. With this, I wouldn't need to think about that. Just need to find the time where all of that happened."
He was typing on a console, many holograms appeared all over the place. Displaying many different variables and equations to what he was trying to attempt while Arius was building the machine according to Saren's plans. Giving up, at least for now, he built the machine in silence as did Saren attempting to stable the dimensional matrix he was attempting to cross into until the machine was finished.
It didn't take too long for them to finish, in just a short week's time, it had been built. The machine housed a small, but potent stone in the middle of it. It was imbued with incredible power and was a gift to him by his father, rest his ashes. Saren didn't know what it did when he recieved it at first but now after researching it. He found that it drifted occasionally between worlds, disappearing only to reappear again in different ages, different places before coming back to where it originally came from. Saren took this one step further to amplify its power in order to take him along where it occasionally goes. If it can move through time then he could too.
After another couple of days of getting it ready by attaching special harnesses around the ship, he was finally ready to use it. Heading back to the bridge, he sat on his chair and brought up the display screen. The stone was stable and the machine operational. "Arius, begin the countdown. We're going to bridge over to the dimensional space." the A.I. had primed the machine and stone ready.
"I would also have to say Master Saren that we shouldn't do anything that will perhaps change time if something goes wrong. Also this is a grave offense to the highest order if the Galactic Organization finds out. We might be imprisoned or worse..."
"If everything goes right then we won't have to worry about them ever finding out."
"I suppose...Alright, the machine is primed and ready! On your mark!"
"Here we go! Crossing the dimensional barrier!"
Saren exclaimed loudly just as the stone all the way down in the lab began to shine quite brightly. Not only that the machine regulating its power began to amplify its intensity. A bright, white bubble began to slowly materialize and expand outward throughout the large ship. Slowly covering over everything even Saren himself. Just when it got to the outside of the ship, the special modifications made the bubble stop just short of the ship's parameter. Now there was a protective barrier around them to protect them for what might be on the other side. Just in a brilliant flash of light, the ship was completely gone.
Nexus, now a completely white, translucent ship was now sailing through the dimensional space outside of time and between worlds. From what Saren could see, the machine was holding just fine just like he thought it would. What he saw in this space, however, was more beautiful than anything his imagination could've ever came up with. Peace and serenity filled his being as he was honestly very content in where he was, almost forgetting his purpose for coming in the first place.
Where he was, a place of light, almost blindingly so. Fortunately, the barrier held up and Saren was allowed to see. It seemed that this world was quite celestial looking. A beautiful sky, dotted with the best and most beautiful stars it would seem like. Although they weren't stars but actual worlds. In many different times and different realities, they were all like mirrors to what he actually thought he knew. From here on his ship, where he would look at one, he could see what was exactly happening in the short time what they allowed him to see.
Arius began to comment on what he could see, taking all sorts of pictures that he could take. Briefly reminding Saren what they were here for which Saren had replied that he did in fact remembered and began to speed up the ship in order to find the time and age of his own world. Unfortunately the longer they spent, the more unstable that stone grew. It wasn't designed to stay in this space for too long of time. So after about 30 minutes had passed, the machine began to shake and the barrier began to grow small around the ship until it snapped to its actual dimensions. That's when the ship began to grow very violently.
"What the-" was the only thing Saren was able to say until the ship blasted off toward a world unknown to him. It wasn't like he could see either. The light around him was so blinding that shielding them was all he could do. His transparent ship, akin to a comet, was barreling toward a destination he did not chart but rather where the stone wanted to go. All Saren could hope for as he was trying to get up from his seat was to get to the lab to shut it off.
Unfortunately being thrown around in speeds faster than light, he doubt he could move since the force was so strong the only thing that was preventing his bones from being turned to mush along with the rest of his body was the barrier still enveloping his body coming from the stone itself. Soon enough the ship smashed into a world disappearing completely within.
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Natsu who had been sitting within Fairy Tail with Lucy, Gray and Erza was once again making a ruckus with all of them. None of them knew what was about to happen. The sky above began to turn, soon after that, waves of light began to spread outward throughout the sky then the ground started to shake. Gathering the attention of Fairy Tail and the town it was located in. Natsu ran outside with his friends in order to see what was happening. When hey looked at the sky, it looked fragmented, broken, as if a rift in spacetime had split open. Natsu narrowed his eyes as he tried to block out the light as much as possible but within a single, unbroken second he saw something. He didn't know what but he knew it was large and it was coming.
Unfortunately for him, getting out of the way was not an option because the moment he thought of something he could try to do, something hit him. It shocked him to his very core. A mixture of heavenly bliss, serenity, and calmness washed over him but also deafening pain which was a stark contrast to what he was actually feeling. Despite what he felt, the others didn't even see what happened nor what was going on. They were blinded. Saren's dreadnaught, Nexus, in its entirety had slammed into Natsu but the pain only lasted for a second. The light was now around Natsu and he was brought onto ship by a force unknown to him. The ship went through the actual ground since it wasn't bound to reality but rather a dimension still between worlds. Soon it disappeared from the world.
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When the light disappeared, Gray looked around to see that the hole in the sky was gone but Natsu wasn't here anymore. Just when he was about ask a question, the space that they were standing on exploded in fire blowing them all away from the spot. That came from Natsu who tried to get his friends away from what was going to hit them. It didn't matter in the slightest since they weren't exactly near him when it hit him. With Natsu unconscious, Arius tried to correct the machine but it was malfunctioning. Nothing was stopping it now. Saren was hit with the male that now was on his ship but regardless, on his hands and knees, he pushed him off and tried to head to the lab still despite how he was being thrown around like a pinball.
The stone began growing more unstable, jetting through even more worlds and speeding the ship along the dimensional space. Soon it barreled through another world, in the middle of space now. A starship was in hyperspace heading to another planet. This ship belonged to the legendary bounty hunter, Samus Aran. Was probably the best given her feats.
After she had charted a course to get where she needed to go, she thought the best thing she could do was go into cryosleep for a bit. It would be a long journey back to Federation space. Of course right when her ship was about to go through freezing her. An alert went by, warning Samus of impending danger. Unfortunately just as she was about to head back to her controls in order to see what it was. A flash of light blinded her in almost an instant. In just under a second, as soon as she was blinded, something had hit her ship knocking her off course in hyperspace. Instead of going flying, however, the barrier surrounding Saren's ship grafted onto hers, daisy chaining it to his before disappearing from this time and era. This resulting smash threw Samus into the ceiling of her ship, knocking her out cold. The alarm was still going on despite the fact it didn't know what was going on.
Saren, now in front of the lab's door, barreled through it and ran for the unstable machine but the moment he tried to touch it when he got to it. It shocked him throughout his body, waves of pain went through him as he was screaming for dear life then it blasted him away into a wall which he made a dent in it with his own body. He was now out cold from the force but his body now a living conduit from the stone's power transferred some of its unstable energy into his own body attempted to correct itself by burning itself out. And it did so, by jumping to a far away world. The stone transferred all of its power in its barrier that was surrounding both Saren's dreadnaught and Samus ship brought on so by the instructions of the machine.
While Lily had been sitting there on the Empire State Building, the sky had a star that was slightly brighter than the others. It began to grow brighter until a deafening explosion happened and the light came out of that explosion in droves filling the sky with it. Soon the night for a couple of minutes was no more. All there was were light and blindingly so. The explosion was so great it blew out all the windows in the city almost as instantly as it came. Rather if Lily could see it or not, a ship large enough to blanket the city easily came blasting out of that explosion and headed over the town in a speeding bullet. The force shook everything, tearing up the ground with such intensity. White lightning made of the same energy as the barrier had crashed into the ground ripping the roads up even further yet no people suffered any harm despite everything around them had been completely torn apart.
Nexus corrected itself in mid flight, heading to the harbor, rather to the water in order to stop its momentum which it did creating a huge tsunami-wave heading outward toward the ocean. It didn't get very far, however. The barrier exploded in power cutting the wave in half and also destroying a lot of the harbor but unlike how most things blow apart, everything hung in the air suspended in time. The people, the materials that had been thrown around even parts of buildings. All of that happening in literally five seconds real time. Before people knew what was going on, they looked to see that a good portion of the city was covered in broken glass and destroyed roads. Soon a lot of calls were called in for local police and fire departments. The light that was in the sky had shortly disappeared, closing the hole that Saren's ship had made and correcting this world's spacetime.
Saren's ship, Nexus and Samus's ship were not discovered yet considering it was a good distance into water and no one had seen it pass by considering it moved faster than what normal people could see.
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