"Holy shit, that worked!" Paul said as he still played with the beautiful lady Umar.
"What works?" Umar asked as she found Paul's company soothing, thousands of years alone did make her crave companionship but all she thought that was because she now has a physical form.
"Nothing, a little experiment of mine. Might do it again later though…" Paul then moved a pawn forward and the two were now again thinking their moves.
"Would that be what you did earlier? Where did that portal lead to? Even I can't seem to know where it goes." Umar was still in thought on which move she'll do next.
"I don't know but all I can say is I sent a part of me beyond the 'wall'" Paul words made Umar pause as she looked up at her new acquaintance in horror realizing what he just said but Paul only looked at her.
He already felt that whoever she was is not simple since she lived in this small realm for many years and still live. Immortal and seemed to be filled with magic, his senses seemed to have improved as his clone spent more months in the atmosphere of middle earth.
"Don't think I'll send you, only I can go to places beyond without being detected, you going there would attract many like bees is to honey." Paul didn't want to know much of his new acquaintance as he waited for her to finish her move.
"I see…" that was all Umar said as she placed her piece on the offensive. She was thoughtful as she too did indeed not notice Paul until he absorbed the small realm nearby, only with her eyes did she see him.
Even now when he is sitting in front of her she can't gauge much and she only saw a glimpse because Paul let her see as he absorbed energy at his surroundings. She knew that the power inside him might be similar to her Faltine race but somehow vaster and more mysterious.
"Your move…" Paul said as he them move a piece. It might seem he was unfocused but right now he is doing another experiment with one of his clones.
[Somewhere in space and chaos]
Paul felt that maybe he can also use his teleporting power with a clone sending it to another reality but he must see if there is something else different on how it works or how long it'll take.
This time he plans to send three wolf clones, since Paul has plenty of them and now has many precious metals and herbs he found in middle earth that he could use to make more clones.
He only needed make sure the clone gets back to him with the storage ring, he wondered how mithril behaves once he get his hands on some for experiments. He does have a fistful gathered already after making that very long tunnel.
Now for this experiment he went to look for the part of the chaotic space of the Archipelago where the wall of reality is very weak. The three clones now stood together and had been there for days channeling energy to open up the portal.
Time is rather vague in this area so Paul felt that whatever is happening where his clones are seemed indeterminate. Good thing he has that other clone as Anchor and was able to focus on that.
But now he could feel his powers channeling through the clones, slowly and surely he made sure the bodies won't break down without his help in stabilizing the determined path.
He concentrated and few hours later, a vortex as tall as a man appeared and seemed to invite his clones over. Paul looked at himselves in various angle and nodded like he was talking to another person but it was just all him.
Stepping through the vortex, the clones were sucked away and left the former space as empty as it has been since the dawn of time.
[Inside the Vortex]
"~Thiiiss isssss trrriipy~" Paul said as he found himself elongated in his one perspective while another showed himself as round as a ball and the last one made him appeared very disproportionate in body ratio.
Soon the scenery changed as Paul was greeted again with the various bubbles floating around and thus his three clones locked on where Middle Earth is.
"I don't know how this place works but this is definitely not a multiverse…" Paul said as he looked at the other worlds in curiosity.
"Damn, look at all of these free real estate." He mumbled and realized he should venture more in other worlds.
"Let's see, which one should I chose? How about that one?" Paul said and one clone of his flew there without hesitation. The clone also was able to pass through the barrier and felt the change of perspective.
"Whoa, this… this is just earth. Normal earth, nothing special here…" The Clone said as he floated in the skies of Norway.
"Hmm, maybe I should stay a bit and see what happens." Paul then found out that it was the year 2011 here and nothing much seems important but it did give him more room to exploit hidden resources.
So the clone went and stayed there to go mine various precious metals. The two outside was left in the outside where various bubbles still floats around them. They realized that not everything they see is similar to what was inside, the bubble will just show small parts of that world and not the whole picture.
So Paul kept the two floating about for hours thinking of what to do next here. It wasn't until eyes were attracted to bubble that showed many planes fighting each other. Then they looked at another that showed a volcanic eruption, another with the explosion of an atomic bomb.
"What the?" Paul looked closely at the other bubbles and was recognizing some scenes. He saw spaceships, aliens, monsters and even some spicy scenes.
"Where have I seen these before?" Paul looked closely then walked back to look at every bubble all the same time while making his clones lean on each other back to back.
"This…this is going to be fun!!" Paul smiled as he realized what these bubbles were. He now stood at an infinite space full of stories and worlds of different realities, but there was a similarity in all of these.
All the scenes here showed one thing in common and that was 'Monsters', yes monsters. The reason he felt this was closest since the Marvel Universe also has Monsters tagged in its name.
This was a void space where various differences were gathered together due to a similar 'tag'. Paul felt he should name this place 'The Tag Sections', now he realized which world his other clone was in.
It was the events before the plot of a movie he quite liked before, he knew because he found large sets of bones under the palace of the Norwegian Royal Family. It was the movie 'Troll', this meant that in the future the Kaiju sized being will appear and wreak havoc to the people here. But before that Paul was going to change the plot, why should he care for people who were idiots to begin with.
Paul liked the movie but some parts of it he hated, like how dumb government officials were when all video footage and evidences points towards the being possibly a troll. But no they will deny it and not listen to the advice of the ones they called in to understand the creature.
Like hell man, Paul was angry at the way the story progress. You call in scientist and asked for their opinion since you don't know anything but won't even listen to what they wanted to say.
You have a fifty five foot tall man made of stone impenetrable by bullets yet you dismiss fairy tales to be impossible must mean you are just full of yourself.
(A/N: Don't mind me ranting here, I'm high on paint fumes so like I always said this fic is full of crack in it.)
So Paul instantly went to hack and make a secret company to siphon money from criminal lords. In just five months he sent the world into turmoil since many politicians and hidden bosses of organizations were ousted with tons of evidences of their actions appeared in public.
Paul made this world his back yard and got many to forget about the fighting between nations since he discovered this world is on the Hollow earth theory.
This threw Paul off for a bit as he also scoured the world and found traces of other movie plots existing in this bubble.
Historical plots were given but there was a place that was really out of place here so he did deep research and found out that there indeed was a place off the map and was found during the great depression.
Photos of the events were hidden but accounts always say about an island where the so called 8th wonder of the world came from.
After a month Paul found it and was surprised at the ruins and realized this was the island where the plot of King Kong movie.
The one with the dinosaur riddled island, Paul had not even wandered in Savage land but he now has an Island full of dinosaurs. He paused in his Game with Umar and was thoughtful, he looked at the woman in front of him and realized something was wrong.
"Oh sh*t." that was all he could think off as he saw the eyes full of desire and need. But he ignored it acting like he does not understand a thing and kept controlling his clones.
"I might need to go after this game, but I'll be back. I have business to finish here." Paul smiled at this mysterious beautiful mature woman in front of him.
"I know, I'll be waiting here…" Umar does not know it but Paul had already taken root in her mind as she kept playing against him in chess and got into a stalemate.
"We'll continue this for another time…" Paul said as he vanished quickly like how dads of many men did.
(A/N: Ooff, why am I hurting here…)
[Kamar Taj]
Paul walked into the halls of Kamar Taj and realized he had been years inside the Archipelago but only hours went by in Earth. He walked in and saw the Ancient One talking to a black dude with very serious face and said.
"Should I say long time no see or just wassup?" Paul said as he unceremoniously sat and took a cup of tea that the Ancient One just poured.
"That depends, time is relative now to people like us and that normal ways humans perceive things does not apply in most cases." The yellow baldie said and sipped her tea. Mordo on the side was totally confused as to what is happening but he does not know I he should speak up or just listen at the sides.
"I see, I think you know already who I met there but all I know is her name. She might be a someone important but right now she's a chess buddy." Paul was still concentrating on the clones in the Monster Tag Section bubbles.
"I know of her, but my question is more on where did you send parts of you Mr. Esteban? Something tells me you have done something no one else tried to before and are currently doing it right now." She sipped her tea as she moved a piece in front of her.
"It is beyond something, some beings in this Multiverse could go there but they can be sensed by the natives. I on the other hand could sneak in unnoticed, hah got your pawn." Paul then moved a horse across the field.
Mordo was all the more confused as he understood nothing of what the two were talking about. And how did or when the hell did they start playing chest as his eyes just somehow registered the events.
'*sigh* I should just leave a bit.' The man walked out and the conversation suddenly changed.
"You've changed." TAO [The Ancient One]
"I know, but I am still the same somehow." Paul
"Should I keep going?" TAO
"Yes you should, he is just misguided that he placed his feet over a thin line between morality and radical thinking." Paul
"I fear for the worst." TAO
"That's why you chose someone who can handle worse, he is worse himself." Paul
"He was destined to be the best of us." TAO
"I know, that's why him being the worst decision is also a great choice." Paul
"But my future is uncertain." TAO
"Is it me?" Paul
"Yes." TAO
"I might get answers in the near future, but the present is still here to be tended at." Paul
"I hope I'll be there to learn your 'truth'." TAO
"Truth or lies, it doesn't matter." Paul
"Will she be as expected?" TAO
"Yes, she really lives up to being the strongest witch there is but her heart was broken then. I planned to prevent that as she can do more good than harm is she wants to." Paul
"Will Trump really win?" TAO
"Yes, yes he will even with his weird toupee. But things are still the same, hunger for power and authority is ever present." Paul
"I see, so many questions…" TAO
"…answered yet more questions appear again…" TAO
"…leading to the urge to seek the truth…" TAO
"…yet all you get is Lies built on the truth, checkmate." Paul
"I bid you caution, changing realities many times dull the mind." TAO
"For others it might be, but I still feel the same." Paul said as he stood up and left, then appearing on his RV. Slowly he plopped in his bed and rested as he felt he needed to rest some clones so he could focus on the other ones in another reality.
"What am I…" Paul mumbled as he made his body sleep while his soul kept watch of what is happening with his various clones.
(A/N: Do not mind the recent scene as I wrote this while I was so blasted that I kept it in as I still look at it to try and understand what the hell was I thinking and tried to make heads or tails of what I wrote. If your brain is confused, do not worry mine too did not brain when I read this.)
[Troll movie world]
"Well this is really fucked up…" Paul said as he stood in the island where the plot of the King Kong movie happened and was shocked at the natives still in the area. They tried throwing spears at him but when they saw it bounced off they went kneeling and chanting prayers to him.
"This place is useless, maybe I should get some samples to experiment on." Paul then vanished which made the natives scream in fear as they thought Paul to be the Demon.
Paul appeared to a mountain top where he saw something interesting, a tombstone for two people. One was a name for the native here but the other was in English, Carl Denham.
"This might have been the continuation of the movie plot…" Paul then walked into the cave inside and saw a large set of bones that seemed to be of a Gigantic human but if you look closely there are fangs and the body proportion is that of a gorilla.
"Kong… what secrets are hidden in your bones…" Paul then took some samples then wandered the Island. For weeks he was walking there getting more samples as he went back to Europe where he had bought an old castle from a noble.
His guise was that of a treasure hunter and mythology expert, many laughed at his titles but him appearing with four trucks full of gold and antiques made many gawk.
This was all found in Skull Island in their gulf where various ships and treasure was found sunken from many eras. Since this was an island near the Indonesian archipelago around Sumatra, most were old Chinese antiques of many dynasties.
He kept some so maybe he can sell it back in Marvel world, but Paul did not care for the money as he made more companies for acquisition of more precious metals that he needed. Even old herbs that can be found on earth were bought by Paul, deeming him to be an eccentric multi-millionaire.
Now he has an underground laboratory that was almost finished and made a great amount of discovery in the difference of Skull Island's dinosaurs compared to modern day lizards.
He also got a lot of eggs and small dinos in cages to be studied, but what Paul was now focusing on was the remains of a Ship that had the artifacts that seemed to have been owned by the ancestors of the natives.
Right now he is writing software to decode and translate the language since the current natives has developed for centuries and their current language seemed to be a bastardized version of the old text that he found.
They were preserved in great condition in Amphora Jars, other than the text he found seeds of plant species that was already thought to have been extinct. There some that was not even in records of any other than the text written by the ancestors of the natives.
Paul learned they called themselves the Taga-atu people, but from the first scrolls translated that was not the case. From the first Paul translated manually, he learned of an ancient civilization where they lived in abundance and prosperity.
Only thing different from them to other ancient civilization was that they had great advancement in the field of medicine. So much that they were able to breed a new species of beast never seen before, the Kongs.