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Chapter 23 - Chapter 23: Parafest part 4

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"It's been... 100 years... Constant suffering... can someone... anyone... Please... Save me..."

– Ethan Walker

Ethan Walker has been constantly reliving and dying In different scenarios for atleast 100 times. He now currently in a zombie apocalyptic themed world, located in New York inside one of the abandoned and silent buildings. He's sitted on a green couch and has his face looking up with his eyes shut. He mumbles a song for seconds before hearing a horde of zombies suddenly burst into the room.

Walker: Urgh... (He looks at the horde heading towards him) Piss off. (His eyes emit a bright reddish glow before large optic beams of energy get fired resulting in an explosion that destroys the entire room alerting and calling in More lurking zombies towards the building. He coughs before flying out the windows at high speeds and then hover 100 meters in the air) Out of all the bloody worlds, why does this one got to be boring.

"ETHAN WALKER..."

Walker: (Hearing his name by a male, he quickly turns and swings down his right hand coated in dark blueish energy solidified and made as a long 39cm blade to slice nothing before hearing the male voice again.)

"Stop. I do not wish to attack you."

Walker: (He turns around to see Barry surprising him at how He looks at after so long.) Barry Griffin. Hm... Well, this day has just gotten more and more fascinating... You can fly now?

Breacher: And much more. The universe seeks vengeance on you.

Walker: Me, Why, when I'm trying to save it?

Breacher: You are an anomaly not meant to exist in the continuity of this world.

Walker: An anomaly huh? How interesting... wait ain't you also an anomaly? Since you know... we from the same Universe and all.

Breacher: No. I've become a singularity. A vessel of vengeance for every Universe.

Walker: Hm... Like the watchers, aye? How sad.... Is that why I'm going through different fucking worlds that I keep dying in?

Breacher: Yes. This is the same realm that Zyr was imprisoned for decades.

Walker: ...Is that so... (In a blink of an eye Walker came close to Breacher's face grabbing his throat and using his hand to siphon the cosmic energy from him.)

Walker siphons 30% of the breacher's power before shovered back by the breacher who pants with his hand on his throat.

Walker looks at his hands seeing a golden aura that fades, he chuckles pleased by the result.

Walker: This is all I need to escape.

Breacher: What makes you think you can escape?

Walker: Zyr managed... (he flies away at max speeds from first going past the speed of sound to the speed of light, his clothes metal pads begin to heat up and melt as a rift opens up in the barrier of the dimensions, Walker flies straight through the rift and ends up crashing and rolling onto the streets of Chicago.) AH... (He tears off metal platings on his suit and gets up from the ground.) Hm... it worked... wait but...

Nuclear bombs drop from the sky few already making impacted that startles Walker into flying upwards to see in horror every nuclear bomb around the world dropped onto the United States.

Walker: What in the actual fack just happen... (He places both palms on his head as he feels an agonizing headache, in the middle of his headache he gets glimpses of where the shard of nexus is located, more glimpses of him along with others standing still in the muddy biome they were in last together. He shakes off the feeling and sees two trails of lightning running, he expects one of the trails to be the speeding hero Jack Drake and so flies quick enough to catch up to them. Soon as he catches up to them Marcus swings his arm back firing a well generated bolt of lightning that blasted him back but didn't stop Walker from pulling both Speedsters back to him with his energy based telekinesis hold.) Urgh...

Marcus: (grunts) Next time you won't be so lucky... (He runs away.)

Jack: tch... smoke?

Walker: Hey Jack...

Jack: How'd you get here?

Walker: Rift. You've seen the shard?

Jack: No... How'd you make a rift? I've been trying to make one for over 142 days!

Walker: Uhm... I Siphoned, Barry Griffin's power... Wait, hold up. "142 days" and still nothing?

Jack: Yeah!

Walker: hm... (he holds in a laugh.) We need to find the others.

Jack: Others?

Walker: Yeah...? Oh, right! You went missing so you don't know what's happening. Okay, so: Braddock, Xavier and I came looking for you and the shard.

Jack: Oh... well I haven't seen them. This world... its...

Walker: A prison realm that Zyr talked about.

Jack: How do you know?

Walker: I have died 100 fucking times In a row, now and Barry told me.

Jack: Where's him?

Walker: Dark side. He told me that I'm a fucking Anomaly and the universe wants revenge.

Jack: (He looks away from Walker for a second as he whispers to himself) It's finally happening... (He looks back at Walker)

Walker: We need to find Xavier and braddock before THEY too get found by The breacher.

Jack: Tch... Well then open a rift. Let's go find them.

Walker: (He extends his right arm to create the rift but nothing happens. The cosmic energy he had siphon has faded from within him.) AH shit...

Jack: Tch?! What?

Walker: I borrowed some energy from the breacher and.... its now gone.

Jack: (He sighs) Okay... I know someone who can help us.

Walker: No no no no no Jack. I see that you don't quite understand the situation we in. Any person or any event anything at all that occurs in THIS world isn't real. They are illusions made to keep us here.

Jack: An illusion... Prison realm... tch... I know how to escape.

Walker: explain.

Jack: last time I used a duplicate to run at the opposite direction while I ran at the other direction. We both ran at the exact speeds that eventually took me out.

Walker: and the duplicate?

Jack: ...tch...

Walker: Hm... It won't work. The shard is in play of all this. It can... it thinks. We not dealing with some vengeful universe.

Jack: It's testing us, observing what we willing to do just to get to it.

Walker: Indeed. And with that said. It's time we cause havoc.... (He smiles with his eyes emitting a red glow.)

?: "FALL..."

Both Walker and Jack suddenly collapse to the ground a d unable to move their bodies.

Jack: ("what just happen... my body... I can't move!" He says in thought")

Breacher: No matter where you go Smoke... You can't escape the inevitable.

Walker: ("Damn... I can't feel anything... Tch... I can't see and move my body...")

Breacher: Thank you tho. For leading me right to Jack. Now... (he snaps his fingers and the same bright fiery ball of light that has dragged burdock in, appears replacing the spot the sun was.)

Walker: (tch... that heat... that surge of energy.... I know this... tch... come on Walker try to remember what it is.)

Breacher: May the universe finally find peace.

The breacher gets shot in the chest by a beam of energy that pushes him meters to the ground, both Jack and Walker would feel able to move their bodies again however Walker's vision has become blurry.

Jack: Tch finally...

Walker: Jack! I... I cant see anything....

Jack: tch... (he'd walk up to Walker and look at his eyes seeing how they are now entirely cloudy.)

Narration: As Jack helps Walker up his feet, Walker asks the question "Who shot the bastard?" Jack's eyes widen in shock to see The one who had shot the beam of energy being none other then the one who had been thought to have been dead. The ghost from the past.