Hi! My name is Lorenzo Florence and this is my story.
My story starts on a sunny day in New York just a few months after the Battle Of New York. I was walking along the sidewalk on my home when I was grabbed and dragged into an alley. In that alley, I was mugged and beaten by ten thugs. In my fear, panic, and pain my X-gene activated giving me the ability to control water, fire, earth, wind, and energy.
In my state, I was in no condition to control my new abilities and so they ran wild. Fires erupted all over the city, earthquakes created fissures, valleys, and mountains, a tsunami washed away entire buildings, and three hurricanes with 500 mph winds tore through the skies and ground, my ability to control energy came in the form of huge lightning strikes that left craters with molten slag in them.
Needless to say, a lot of people died that day and New York is nothing but a disaster zone. When the water receded all you could see was an utterly destroyed landscape that used to be a thriving part of a country.
Nature's Reckoning, as many call the event, wiped out everything from Main to Ohio and quite a bit of Canada as well.
That was eight years ago.
In that time frame, nature had reclaimed what was stolen from it by humans. All of that destroyed land is now covered in an unruly and untamed jungle. Much of the jungle is home to very dangerous plants and animals that developed thanks to my presence with the jungle. With all the dangers humans had been unable to reclaim the land.
In those eight years, I had not left what once was New York City. I decided that I would stay here and get control of my powers, and I did. I learned to control all of my powers. I could affect all of the air around the planet. I could affect all of the water on the planet. I could create a fire as hot as the sun's surface. I could control the planet itself. In fact, I did, I shifted the tectonic plates around a bit and the result was the earth looked like an entirely different planet. The earth had mountains so tall you couldn't see the tips of some. It valleys so deep you could see and feel the earth's core. With a very hot flame, I evaporated a lot of water in the oceans causing the planet to have so much more livable land.
Of course, so many changes caused billions to die. But with death came life mostly in the sea. Creatures never saw before came into being. Some I've named and most I didn't. Deep within the oceans, ginormous creatures spawned forth. I named the largest one Sea Emperor and withing time she became sentient and developed an odd form of telepathy. The second largest I named Sea Dragon and he lived near the bottom-most part of the ocean near the magma pits. And other creatures I didn't bother naming.
Now you might be wondering how all this happened in eight years, well within my first year when I was training with my energy control I had sensed three disturbances. All three were in the destroyed New York. So being curious I sought out the disturbances and found a glowing scepter, a glowing cube, and an amulet. All three radiated similar but vastly different energy signatures. But I sensed that they were only containers for the items within and the containers were dampening the items' power.
So I crushed the containers until they broke and was instantly knocked unconscious when a wave of pure power washed over me and overloaded my senses.
When I woke up I was surrounded by three stones radiating immense power. I did something that in hindsight was incredibly stupid, I reached out to the glowing green stone with my power and connected my mind to it and I was instantly bombarded with memories. I saw the Big Bang and what it produced. I saw the Infinity Stones passed from hand to hand, creature to creature. I saw the destruction they wrought when in the wrong hands. I saw who's hands they passed through.
But the two most important things I saw was Thanos and the knowledge the Time Stone acquired from Stephen.
The news of Thanos is bad, but the knowledge that Strange had is amazing. From Strange, I learned that physically handling the Stones were a really bad idea. So I , with my new knowledge of dimensional energies, gathered the energies from the Anghan, Kolph, and Yerl (Made Up) dimensions and compressed the energies into physical forms, much like how the Stones came into being.
The thing about the energy metal is that it is still energy so I can continue to manipulate it, I also have some control on how the metal interacts with the physical world, for example, I can make to where the metal can only touch certain things.
The energies from Anghan formed a dull golden metal that I formed into a simple necklace, of which I put the Time Stone in. Kolph formed a black metal which I shaped into a ring and put Space Stone in. The metal from Yerl was transparent so I formed it into a circlet and put the Mind Stone in it.
Now being curious I immediately used the Time Stone to see what would have happened had I not remade the planet.
And that future was much worse than this one.
And many of the other futures all look bleak.
All of the bleak futures focus on Thanos getting the Stones, but what if it wasn't Thanos who got the Stones?
Using the Space and Time Stones I pulled the other three Stones towards me, and out of the swirling blue and green portal came the Reality, Soul, and Power Stones.
Quickly swapping the Reality and Space Stones, I used the reality to resize the Stones until they were the size of small marbles. I then reshaped the metals into an arm bracer with six slots and within those slots laid the six gems.
I then used the Time Stone to massively speed up time on the Earth alone so those eight years were really eight million years.
Within the first five hundred years, I got pretty lonely so I used the reality stone to create four beings that were modeled after the elements I control. I created Din, the Spirit of Fire. I created Farore, the Spirit of Air. I created Nayru, the Spirit of Water. Then I created Hylia, the Spirit of Energy. And finally, I created The Great Deku Tree, as the Spirit of Earth.
And yes I'm a fan of the Legend of Zelda, there are some small changes, of course, both Din and Farore are male. I modeled Din after Loki and Farore after Steve Rogers. I modeled Nayru after Natasha Romanov and Hylia after Jean Grey. Then one day several thousand years later they decided to make beings of there own. Din created the Gorons, Nayru the Zora, Farore the fairies, the Tree created the Korok without the masks they wore in the Legend of Zelda, and Hylia created the Hylians. I created five artifacts. To the Fairies, I gave them a sword that repealed darkness. To the Korok I gave them a mask that had the ability to manipulate flora. I created the last three artifacts to resemble the Triforce that was embedded with a small portion of one of the Infinity Stones. To the Hylians I gave the Pyramid of Mind. To the Zora, I gave the Pyramid of Space. And to the Goron, I gave the Pyramid of Power.
And so for the next few millions of years, I watched as my creations wandered and interfered with the world. Curiously the world reflected Hyrule. The same sequence of events occurred with Din, Nayru, and Farore deciding on noninterference after Hylia created Link's soul and relinquished her power. The Power Pyramid falling into the bad guys' hands. The Mind Pyramid falling to Zelda and her many incarnations. The Space Pyramid falling to link and his many incarnations. The Korok recreated the mask I gave them and now every Korok wore a mask that allowed them very, very limited control over flora.
I watched Link's adventures turn out just like in the games. Currently, Link is within the Shrine of Resurrection set to wake within the year. I was excited for it as the Breath of the Wild was my favorite Zelda game but playing it over and over again It had become dull so I had thought of different ways to spice it up a bit. One way I had thought of was to insert a few characters in the world to change things and I had been pensive over and I had thought 'why not?'.
So I used the Soul Stone and retrieved a few souls from the afterlife, I had crafted bodies similar to their original ones and hidden them on the Great Plateau set to wake when Link does.
"Now what to do until then" I mused slowly floating five feet through the Gerudo Desert absentmindedly blasting a few creatures that got too hostile.
I snapped my fingers when an idea came to me.
"I could go troll people. Hmmm, but who to troll." I began thinking before my expression brightened.
"I'll go mess with Din, his anger is always amusing" I smiled brightly using the Space Stone to open a portal and going through it.
As the Trickster, as many called him, floated through the portal it started closing but before it did a scream of rage and a demented cackle could be heard before the portal closed and all was seen was a desert.
