Ok...He isn't dead OK...?
[Chapter 2]
Darkness, endless darkness...is this death...?
Well...I can still think...
And...it's getting very boring in here...
Does this happen every time you die...?
What will I get when I wake up...?
Some old man who offers me an apology and gives me superpowers as an aplogy...? I guess I can also ask him to let me take my plane...?
With my Hornet in another world...nah...that sounds ridiculous...
Or maybe some sort of busty and bitchy goddess who throws me in some fantasy world...
I wonder what actually happened back then...what was that thing...
Maybe a spaceship...? Aliens...?
Well...it's not my problem now...I'm dead...
Dead...
Dead...huh...?
I wonder if I hadn't joined the military...where would I be...?
Ah...yes...A homeless man on the streets...
Friends...?
Those turncoats...
I remember back to my time in High School...that dark period of my life...
For a brief moment I thought I had found something...
...something genuine
As it turned out...that genuine thing was nothing but a lie...
Both of them...were liars...
It was the Military that saved me...
With that, I had the opportunity to get away from the hell that was Chiba...
Speaking of hell...I wonder If I'm heading there...?
Hmm, maybe I'll get a first class seat there, considering all the things that I've done...
Well...I just hope...God or not...Someone get me out of here...
"Connect the next one..." What was that...?
"Done, his hearing should be restored. Hey can you hear us...?" Someone spoke.
"He can't respond. We haven't restored his vision or his sensory receptors you fool. AI resume restoration," The first voice said and the world immediately fell silent.
Then a slow thud was heard. Then another...I could now hear voices, vague and muffled but they were there. I could also make out the sound of various machinery and a lot of other unfamiliar sounds.
"Looks like he's getting better. I can now sense more brain activity. He should be able to restore his consciousness."
Are they talking about me...? Wait...could I be reincarnated...?
"Excuse me, is this the afterlife...?" I wasn't shocked that I could speak again after so long. I was shocked on the fact that it did not even sound like my voice at all. Instead of sounding human, it sounded more mechanical...like a Robot.
Right after I spoke, the whole room became silent. Then after a couple of seconds, the entire room burst into cheers. "Great, he woke up and thank God." "My god, he finally survived, fantastic." "I really didn't expect it to work, HA Ha."
"You finally woke up! I thought that it was some sort of problem. If you had an issue, we really would not know what to do." It was the voice of a excited middle age man.
"Uh, I do appreciate the fact that you are happy but why I can't feel anything either nor move. Am I paralyzed?"
"Oh? You can't see yet?" His voice now became calm.
"Yes, I can't see anything, except for me hearing, all of my senses are blocked."
That middle-aged man then shouted, "Fitz! What did you do now...? Why is he blind, did you insert the wrong cord?"
"It seems that there was a small issue, I should be fixed soon, please wait a little longer. Your current situation is very special, it will be difficult for me to explain it to you," Wow that sounded like a call centre technician...
Then the man roared again, "FITZ!" Then a younger voice replied, "Well, I know where the problem lies. It should be that the two adapters were reversed, the drawings were wrong, it wasn't my fault."
"Whatever, hurry it up."
"It's done."
The in front of my eyes was a sudden burst of light. It then slowly darkened. And then returned to the normal brightness, a variety of colours appeared, ranging from fuzzy to clear. And then I could see.
I then focused on his surroundings, looking at everything
It was a relatively small room, the floor was painted green, ceilings were ceramic white. The walls looked like they were made of metal and reflected a soft metallic-silver. Along the wall were a lot of transparent glass, with countless complex patterns and figures appearing on the glass.
"I'm not on earth...that's for sure..."
I looked at the people in front of me, they all looked quite ordinary but their skin seems very pale. It seems that they rarely see the sun. They were wearing gray robes and on everyone's chest was a round badge. After looking carefully, it looked like a map of the world. Above the badge was a white crest and it also had a series of numbers.
Looks like they all are part of some sort of Organization.
However, the equipment in the room is way too advanced for earth standards...
What is going on...?
"Well, you said that you would explain everything to me." I said focusing on the middle age man.
"Before explaining, I would like to ask you, are you sure you can see correctly?"
"Of course, I see very clearly, what does this have to do with explaining the situation?"
"Oh, that's good then." The middle-aged man then made a gesture and immediately the console turned towards me. The middle-aged man pressed a button and a picture appeared on the glass console.
"Wait a minute that's..." I could not help but exclaim loudly. The picture on the screen was something that I knew...
It was the thing that I crashed into...
"That's it, that's the thing I collided with. It suddenly appeared in front of me out of nowhere. What exactly is this thing?"
The middle-aged replied, "This patrol ship is called the 'Waverider' and we are the Time masters. The Governmental body responsible for managing time and space travel,"
Time masters...?
"You mean...this is a time ship...? You're telling me that you are from the future and, and I was killed by a patrol ship?" Having seen too many Si-fi films I made the wild guess.
That middle-aged look apologetic, and then replied, "The whole thing was completely an accident. We were carrying out an important task of confidentiality. However, as we were traveling through Space and Time, we were hit by an energy storm,"
"It order to dodge it, we had to quickly force open a crack...and then slipped into your time,"
"However, we didn't expect that just as we exited, we hit you. Your plane was only able to barely soften your impact. However, nevertheless it still crumpled like paper. Due to the suddenness of the event, and the fact that our AI had never experience such a thing before. It judged that you were launching an attack on the ship, so it increased the shield output, and it just so happened that you crashed into that shield."
"A Suicide attack?" ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS...?
"Wait, I recall that I was torn to pieces by the debris. I should have died on the spot; how am I still alive?"
Then the middle-aged man said somewhat shamefully, "We knew at the moment of impact that there was a problem, but we could not think of a remedy in time. According to our rules, we immediately started your rescue."
"However...because various parts of your body had sustained too much damage, there was no point in rescuing them. So, we did what we could with your still complete brain."
"We temporarily put your brain into a life-sustaining system. We were waiting for you to wake up. Now you are relying on this system to communicate with me."
"You mean to say...I am just a brain...?"
"It's like Stein's Gate...your consciousness and memories are still alive...and you're talking to us through a computer..." The younger man butted in but stopped when the middle age man stared at him blankly.
"Can't you send me back...? I mean you people have a time ship...?"
The middle-aged man hesitated and then said, "I'm sorry but you cannot go back to where you came from,"
"WHY...?"
"Because you have already died, you have been removed from the timeline. According to the rules we cannot send you back,"
"But didn't you save me...?"
"I theory we broke the law by saving you. You should have died in the crash, but if we hadn't saved you we would be punished for causing your death."
"So...you're screwed either way...?" The man smiled wryly.
"So...will I stay like this forever...?"
"No, we have found a solution for you...but it is slightly complicated." The man looked at me with a twinkle in his eyes.
Normally I would have ignored him or refused him blankly but right now I had no choice.
"I'm willing to hear it..." At least you should know which window of hell you will report to.
The man cleared his throat and then started to speak.
"In the 41st century when the world had gone through another world war and a World Government was set up. We detected the presence of a parallel timeline via detection of a temporal branch. In order to avoid temporal resonance from the timelines contacting, we and the government decided to close all channels into that space."
"However, the channel could not be completely closed. If the alternate branch timeline establishes contact with the main timeline, then temporal resonance could occur at any time. Thus, changing history and endangering humanity's survival."
"We found out through our investigations that an unknown group had made a unauthorized time jump and meddled with the past resulting in the change in timelines. Though the government captured the members the timeline was changed as one of them member had become part of the other time line,"
"As a result we could not just capture them and bring them back..."
"Do you get what I am trying to say...?" The man paused. Maybe because I was just a brain that I could guess what he was going to say...
"We will send you back in time to take their place."
That's gonna be a pain...
One more chapter before I pass out...
Apparently I cannot think straight now...hence the bad language and situation...hic...