6901 Part 5; Spectres In The Circuitry. Prolouge: I Will Always Find You (Like It’s Written In The Stars)
First gasped as the blast of energy hit him, throwing him back against the wall of the medical room.
He stood up, staring at Ultima in anger, ready to strike her down. But he felt his veins thrumming with power, his old, husk of a heart, a strange warmth radiating through him. He was suddenly aware of another reality, a wellspring of power emerge and pulsating through the layers of this reality from another. He stopped, wallowing in this energy, and he knew that a greater source of power was awaiting him.
“This isn’t over, Last Daughter. I will know you yet.” He disappeared, retreating back into his lair, a point that exists at the apex of existence.
He strode to the scrying pool, staring into it. “What is this power? Why-”
“You know what it is, First.” The blue goddess spoke into his mind, the blue crackling sparkles of energy moving around him.
He turned from his scrying bowl, turning to see the ghostly form of the blue goddess of creation crackled into existence. “Why now?” He asked.
“Because there are times when a goddess must intervene in the course of the universe.” She pointed at First. “You have been touched by the last daughter, you have been touched by her powers. You have some of the energy on you.”
First looked down at his hands, shocked that the burns there had healed over, the skin smooth and pale as it had been when he first emerged. “What is this?” He asked.
“You are regaining your strength. But she is too strong for you to approach, her mind too powerful, too cosmic. By the time you regain your original form, she will have absorbed all of the goddesses.” The blue goddess hummed, staring at her hands.
“I must heal. I want that energy that I felt.” He began.
“Of course. You have the strength to cross over into the universe where this energy resides, but you must hurry.” Blue continued.
First concentrated, his skin glowing with black light, his veins pulsating black. He gasped, throwing his arms up, pulling them apart as he peeled the layers of time and space apart, gazing into another universe.
He stepped through the portal, staring in awe and confusion at the source of the energy that he had been feeling. “This is where the energy was coming from?” He asked, staring at the source in confusion.
“This human is far stronger than you think.” Blue spoke through the shrinking portal at First. “You owe your existence to her. We all do.”
First stared at the young woman sitting before him. He knew she couldn’t see him, but he could see her. And he could feel her. He observed the long brown hair she had, skin paler still in the glow coming from her computer screen, the images she was staring at reflected on her glasses.
He felt nearly overwhelmed at the waves of energ flowing off of her. “How is she so powerful? Who is she?” He asked the blue goddess as he watched the portal closing.
“She is a young human woman, living in the year of 2016 on Earth.” First stared at the young woman’s face, trying to decipher her role in his future.
“What is her name?”
The blue goddess spoke the woman’s name, and First turned to the hman woman again, smiling as her turned the name over in his mind. He said her name aloud, and at the moment, the same name was spoken simultaneously in two different timelines.
In one, First spoke the woman’s name as he stared at her
In the other, Leigh gasped her name aloud as he woke up.
“Katelyn.” First grinned
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“Keightlin!” Leigh gasped.
He scrambled out of bed, grabbing his sketchbook. He slammed it down onto the bedside table, frantically flipping to the half completed portrait of the strange blue alien he’d drawn. He tried to control his shaking hands as he filled in the gaps of her portrait, eyes and glasses filling out, a somewhat secretive smirk playing on her lips.
Once he finished the portrait, Leigh wrote her name on the corner of the page, next to his own name. “Keightlin.” He whispered. “Who are you?” He asked, sighing heavily. He shook his head, sighing as he closed the sketchbook, standing up to take a walk.
When he opened the door to his room, Leigh froze when he heard Ultima’s screams echoing in the hallway, followed by what he recognized as Arin’s raptilian screeching. He grabbed his blaster from his room, running towards Ultima’s room, terrified that she was being hurt.