A screeching alarm rang through the facility. Red emergency lights flashed wildly as the walls trembled from the force of the containment breach.
X's body hovered inches above the ground, convulsing as an unstable gravitational field surged around him. His eyes flickered between normal human pupils and something else—something alien, infinite, unknowable.
Evelyn's heart pounded.
"Shut it down!" Richter barked. "NOW!"
A team of scientists frantically worked at their consoles, fingers flying over keyboards as they initiated the failsafe.
But it was too late.
X screamed as his entire body tore apart.
The air around him bent and twisted as he was ripped from reality itself.
And then—
He vanished.
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NOWHERE.
X floated in an endless void.
Everything was white.
A heavy silence surrounded him, pressing against his thoughts. He couldn't feel his body. He couldn't tell if he was breathing.
Then—
A voice.
"Took you long enough."
X turned.
Standing a few feet away was… himself.
But different.
The other X smirked, his stance casual, like he'd been expecting this. "Welcome to nowhere."
X's mind reeled. "What… is this place?"
The other X gestured to the endless white abyss. "This? This is what's left after you die. After you break apart. The space between realities."
X clenched his fists. "Am I dead?"
"Not exactly. But you are… disconnected."
X suddenly felt it—the cold emptiness of being untethered from reality. No past, no future, just the void.
Then, something shifted.
A fracture appeared in the space beside them.
A gaping wound in reality, showing thousands of possible timelines flickering in and out of existence.
And beyond it—
Something was watching.
X staggered backward. He couldn't see it, but he could feel it. An incomprehensible, monstrous presence lurking past the breach.
The other X's smirk faded. "You were never meant to see this."
X turned toward him. "See what?"
The other X's gaze darkened. "The truth."
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THE REAL WORLD – AREA 51 BUNKER
Evelyn stood frozen as X's body collapsed into a singularity.
The gravitational field expanded violently, pulling objects into the swirling vortex where X had stood seconds ago.
"Fall back!" Richter roared.
The soldiers scrambled, trying to escape the pull of the anomaly. A research table lifted into the air and imploded, vanishing into the singularity.
And then—
A blinding explosion of white light.
The force tore through the bunker.
Richter raised his arms to shield himself as the shockwave ripped through the lab, toppling equipment and throwing armed guards into walls.
The entire room collapsed into chaos.
And in the center of it all—
Something was forming.
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INSIDE THE FRACTURE
X stared into infinity.
The fracture in space widened, revealing glimpses of other timelines. Other versions of himself.
Some were monsters.
Some were gods.
Some were nothing at all.
The other X stood beside him. "You're seeing it now, aren't you?"
X's voice was hoarse. "What am I looking at?"
"The Final Reality. The last truth." The other X's voice was quiet. "And you were made to open the door."
X felt it then—a weight pressing against his existence.
Something beyond time and space was waiting for him to choose.
"Why me?" he whispered.
The other X exhaled slowly. "Because you're the first one who made it this far."
X clenched his fists. His body hummed with new energy. He could feel the rules of the universe cracking around him.
He looked at the fracture one last time.
Then, he made his choice.
He wasn't going to be erased.
He wasn't going to be controlled.
His voice was calm. "I choose to survive."
The other X grinned. "Then wake up."
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AREA 51 – THE REBIRTH
The explosion ripped through the facility, and for a single moment—
There was nothing.
And then—
A figure stepped out of the light.
Richter's breath caught in his throat. "Impossible…"
Standing in the wreckage, unharmed, was X.
But he was no longer human.
His body shifted and flickered, as if he existed in multiple states at once.
His eyes glowed, reflecting infinite realities.
The air around him shimmered, the very fabric of space bending to his will.
Evelyn took a step forward. "X… what happened to you?"
X met her gaze.
For the first time, he understood everything.
He smiled.
"I became real."
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