Hello! Next chapter, please read and review. Also, the explanation later is important to not only this story, but all my other ones as well (once I make them).

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Everyone was stunned by what had just happened between Shard and the Ice King, but they refused to ask Shard about it until the few minutes he requested for rest were up. As soon as he sat back up, everyone gathered around him and started blasting him with endless questions. "Dude, how did you get so strong," asked Finn? "What kind of information can you give me on this portal tech you have," PB asked? "How do you know about my Simon?" Marceline demanded. "Hey guy, what kind of gossip do you got on other people's worlds?" asked LSP. "Everyone just calm down, said Shard, I can't answer all the questions at once. I think I should answer Finn's question first, as it may help explaining the rest."

Shard quieted everyone down, and had them all go back into the candy kingdom's castle, so they could all sit down while he told his story. "It all started about 15.5 billion years ago, even though that amount of time has never passed in any universe, and never will, He said." "Wait, you're 15.5 billion years old?" asked a skeptical Jake. "Please don't interrupt me, but yes, I am 15.5 billion years old. I age at a very slow rate."

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Flashback:

Why can't people just accept me for who I am, then I wouldn't have to do this. Ok, one last check on the machine. Primary and secondary cores are active. All systems are online, reactor energy levels at full, and the temporal manipulation laser is ready. Here goes nothing I guess. *pulls lever* *Crash* Good, the crystal is shattering. Soon the power of the control universe will be mine. *As the glowing crystal in the center of the city size underground machine cracks, its link to the control universe is enhanced.* (The control universe is one of only 3. It is orbited by the universe of reality and the universe of non-reality. 'Shard' was hated by almost everyone on the planet because of his strange ideas and 'lack of focusing on what was real.' So he decided to go to the universe of non-reality. Whenever anyone dreams, or imagines, or thinks of anything that is not true in reality, their consciousness is transported to a small section of the universe of non-reality, because everything is/can exist, just sometimes only outside the realm of reality. The Non-reality universe is also far larger than the reality one, billions of times bigger in fact.) Ok, the crystal will be cracked enough to transport me anytime now. *1 minute later* Let's do this! *Jumps towards crystal and is sucked into the crack*

*Falls and hits floor in control room universe.* Sweet! I made it here, now all I have to do is… Aha! There it is, the control panel that keeps the two universes from destroying each other. Nice, it seems easy to use. I wonder how this place got here. Oh well. Now, to make a new mini-universe, maybe about the size of the moon, with gravity strength of earth, add some air and add a little more oxygen. Now, that is most of the things I will need from the universe of reality for now, now to take a tiny bit from the other one. I want to be able to fly, I want to be strong enough to rip whole mountains up if I want to, I want telekinesis, and I want the planet to always be bright and warm like daytime, but with no sun. Ok, just a bit more left. I need some plants and animals to keep me company. Add a few tame dogs and cats. Some grass to cover the planet. A few streams of clean water. Lots of trees on the other side of the planet, a few on this side, maybe some fruit trees, and now, the last thing. I need a permanent portal generator so I can come back here to fix anything. And I want it in a mansion. Alright, all this things I want now are in this panel, now just set it to create this universe for me.

*Pulls lever to start universal generation* *Shing!* Portal is opened, looking through, Yes, this planet looks amazing! Alright, goodbye old universe, hello new one. *Walks through portal in control room universe and into the one in his mansion.* Ahh, now no one will ever have to see me again, and I will not have to see them. I think I will go for a fly around the planet. *Control universe main computer* System malfunction. Cannot close portals between here and non-reality universe, or ones between here and universe of reality. New universe unstable, cannot delete it safely. New option available, add to new universe to stabilize, then delete. *Back to Shard* Wait, I didn't tell this world to have sand in it, why is it here? I better go see what is happening. *Shard back in control universe.* Alright, what does this panel say? "Now adding to new universe, next command, delete new universe." What the? I don't think so, let's see, delete latest addition to new universe, change this setting to not let universe be deleted without manual override, and I think I will open a few new permanent portals around my world to get here easier. There, now back to my world. *Control universe main computer* Warning! Too much linked energy in one space, warping quantum foam. Temporal collapse imminent, activating final safety override. Now splitting universes.

Hey, why is this place dissolving? I have to get into that control room again; I don't know what could be wrong with that thing. I guess I should try to… What is that thing? It looks like a 'ekil skool tI ?gniht' thing? It looks like a, whoa, what just happened? Did that thing just rewind time on me? That can't be good. I just hope that it doesn't delete the portals. That would be bad.

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"And so then my universe, the universe of non-reality, the universe of reality, and the control room all temporarily crashed together into one huge universe, before splitting into an almost infinite number of universes. The reality and non-reality did not mix well, although they do now. All the new universes are mostly non-reality, but every one of them has at least something from the original reality in it. This universe, in fact, the entire multiverse this one is in, is made from a chunk of a parallel timeline from reality, and an idea for a show in a different timeline. Now, this does not mean that the universe is not real, and that nothing you do matters, it is actually a real universe now.

Unfortunally, when the split occurred, I merged with my non-real counterpart, and the split then made a slightly different version of me for each universe. The worst part is, about half of them are evil, while the other half are good. Simon's crown was one of the original weak evil versions of me. He was banished to live as an inanimate object for the rest of his nearly immortal life, because at that time we did not kill the evil ones, since we did not know the damage they could cause. Apparently he was able to gain control over his form, and took Simon's sanity, and now he wants revenge on me more than anyone else, because I, not a different version of me, was the one to banish him. You will have to fight, I have been losing power since I came to this universe, its opposite is drifting too close. Marceline, I know you don't want to hear this, and I will try to help stop it as much as I can, but if Ice King kills me, He may be able to reform his real body and then there will be nothing stopping him from destroying this entire universe. If it comes to this point, he MUST be killed."

Everyone had been listening intently to the story, and getting more shocked as he continued, until they were sitting with their mouths wide open in disbelief. Marceline looked as if she wanted to both cry and strangle Shard at the same time. Finn was the first to speak. "I knew that crown had messed with Simon, but I had no idea that it could be something as big as this. I want to help him and stop this guy." Everyone murmured among themselves, and decided that they would help Shard as well, even if they could not fight, they could still provide shelter and food and support for those who could. "Now, I think we should get a bit of rest since it is almost night, Shard said, because we have to be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow. But first, I need to have a privet 'talk' with Peppermint Butler."

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Dun dun daaaahhhhhhh!

How is this for an information chapter? Hope I didn't bore you with the really really long explanation, but it will be an important part of the story soon. Also, how does Shard know Peppermint Butler, and most importantly, how does he know of Simon before the crown? Please review!