This is an idea I had in mind to mix the Isaac Asimov Foundation saga with Re Zero in this one shot.
All criticism is welcome and the spelling can be bad.
English is not my language
Both plots do not belong to me, but to their creators.
TERMINUS - Terminus is a class-E world located just beyond the ancient Prefect of Anacreon. It was first discovered in 11504 GE by Captain Elak Horbus of the Imperial Survey Service. Its location was an odd one for the role it was called upon to play in Galactic history, and yet as many writers have never tired of pointing out, an inevitable one. Located on the very fringe of the Galactic spiral, an only planet of an isolated sun, poor in resources and negligible in economic value, it was never settled in the five centuries after its discovery until the landing of the Encyclopedists in 12068 GE. ...
-Encyclopedia Galactica
Had he done what he decided? Were there chances that she regretted choosing what he just did? Was it what he deserved? Those were the words that emerged in the mind of a teenager close to thirty as he kept his gaze fixed on the immensity of galactic space where the stars were glimpsed when night covered the world. They were like pearls that shone from the concentration of light that shone on their surface, since they were luminous stars that had their own light when they were formed from the beginning of the creation of the universe.
They were always wonderful when the sky turned dark from the welcome of night, exuding their auras of mystery and intrigue.
For the young man, seeing the stars when the night of the night appeared was a hobby that helped him relax from the fatigue that always plagued him when he returned from work, healing his body and covering the old wounds that had not yet closed since those incidents. that altered you psychologically. He each time he forgot to experience those events that have marked him for all eternity, and only the clamor of the stars on a sky was the only way to calm down and feel safe from all the things that have happened to him.
Just remembering those moments that made him enter a state of anger so high that he almost lost his reason in the face of anger and sadness of being trapped in that hell that was eating away at him completely. He hated everything that he had lived there, the calamities and catastrophes that were beyond all logic to be centered in that vicious circle that had no end.
Every time when he tried to maintain his composure from the hells that he lived, he always found peace in the environment where calm and serenity reigned. The forests and plains were the only places where he could feel safe from the men around him. Evil was always around the corner when you least think about it, that was what kept him on his feet for a certain time when everything fell again. The safe zones were like a home against danger, heaven where they could feel like paradise, places where they felt safe.
Unfortunately, life was a bitch sometimes; he suffered so much that he developed a psychosis that affected him step by step with each brutality he went through on his journey to madness.
Deaths, deaths, deaths and more deaths, that was what he had to deal with every damn day of his miserable life.
He was no longer in that hellish world, Lugnica, but in Terminus, a world where he enjoyed lasting prosperity that was almost a dream come true.
There was no magic or curses or any element of fantasy, but the superior domain of science and technology that reigned in its maximum splendor.
Terminus, a world in which Subaru Natsuki felt like his true home.
'Just me and peace' he repeated those words like a divine mantra every day without counting the times he had said it when he miraculously appeared in the new world that he found without the need to carry the fear that something would happen to him. That decision that he had made when he decided to end this infinite cycle of death and destruction came to an end when he entered this new reality.
It was simply a word and, as if the Universe had heard that prayer, everything changed.
The first thing he felt when he was enveloped in infinite darkness was how a part of his soul was torn from his body in a violent way, like being dismembered into pieces or being eaten alive by some predator. Whatever happened, it caused her psychological state to plummet to the ground, further aggravating her resentment of the atrocities that assaulted her mind in a sea of images that she couldn't stop, all thanks to that mean bitch. elf with witch powers.
But even so, it was as if she had been reborn again, but with a new opportunity in another world.
Her Return by Death curse had been removed from his soul. For the first time in her life, Subaru had felt happy amid so much suffering.
He no longer had that curse implanted by the bitch!
From so many deaths, from so many disappointments and calamities that he had faced, Subaru was at peace.
If he hadn't said those words when he was at the tea party with the Sin Witches, nothing would have changed.
He's had enough of his stupid people, his stupid world, and all the things that made up that damn dump that Satella's bitch had sent him like a fucking experimentation rabbit.
He hated everything, the Roswall Mansion, its tenants who should not be named, the inhabitants of the creepy kingdom of Lugnica, everything and everyone in that world hated him in the depths of his spiteful heart.
He was stressed, upset, and exhausted, all that he had experienced first hand left him very exhausted, and at the same time thoughtful of all the facts that he had contributed, even as responsible for his own misery by getting involved in events that did not concern him in what matters. absolute.
Why did he get carried away by his actions? Why didn't he seek help instead of playing a game of politics and conspiracies? Why didn't he stay away from the dangers that had torn him apart? Simply pride, greed and gluttony, three of the mortal sins that surrounded the human being had possessed him to generate those actions, even his own Asian education made him corrupt even more. Although, in the end, all people made his mistakes by wanton actions, and he would carry them with himself as experiences he would never forget.
He was just a victim, a boy who had great aspirations to shine a better future, but sedentary lifestyle and low proactivity deceived him into being a sleepy bear without any aspirations, except for the jobs and physical activities that he had done to stay in way, which had helped him only about thirty percent, while the other percentage was deep in the depths of human ineptitude and stupidity in not doing things right.
He had always been lazy, in that he did not doubt it, although he strove to achieve merit on his own account, but he left behind things that were useful to him such as studies and grades in the old his school in Japan; On the other hand, his experiences in Lugnica served him well, especially the deaths that he accumulated through his curse, where little by little he began to absorb knowledge and educational experiences that molded him into a mature young man.
But that was a thing of the past, the important thing was to enjoy the present, the new future that he had formed when he appeared on the outskirts of a technologically advanced science fiction city. The steel buildings were huge and of different sizes, the cars flew as if they were birds, the vehicles were diverse in their designs, the people dressed like employees in gray to the common uniform.
He simply had no words to say to what he had seen when he entered very cautiously without raising suspicion. Everything was advanced, digital technologies and new machinery was what predominated on the planet.
He was not on Earth, but in a planetary colony over a thousand years in the future.
Having gathered enough information about the world he was in, he decided to start a new life: he looked for a way to create a false identification, he enrolled in a school where he managed to graduate, he studied at a university where he obtained his diploma in administration at the same time. Twenty-year-old age where he works for the Mayor of Terminus when he turns twenty-four after being selected for his IQ acquired in Lugnica. His old life as a person he wanted to get out of had been regained, his yearning for study and entrepreneurship had resurfaced.
Now he lived a life in peace, in a healthy and relaxing home in the urban area of Terminus, where the other urbanization that was about ten kilometers away was living the councilor Golan Trevize, a co-worker who was next to Otto in A grade higher and rougher than Garfield, but that didn't matter at all because it was a thing of the past.
A new reality had arisen for him in this world, and he was happy to be so for once in his life not to have a burden to be aware of others.
A short snort left his lips as his brown eyes settled on the starry sky. It was beautiful, just beautiful, a majesty made to distract people from trouble. Different from the night sky on Earth and Lugnica, but something was something from his point of view.
'Diamonds' thought Subaru with a distant look, 'that's the name given to the stars by the inhabitants of the Foundation'. The "Diamonds" were the few stars that were bright enough and close enough to shine moderately in the night sky over Terminus. It was a small group occupying a width of no more than twenty degrees, and for much of the night they were below the horizon. Apart from the group, there were a handful of fading stars, barely discernible with the naked eye. This was the scenario that one like him aspires to live in a world like Terminus that was at the extreme edge of the galaxy's outermost spiral.
Terminus, a Latin diminutive for far ends of a certain place, fitting the name as a representative way of being out of sight of the world, and that was what fascinated him.
It was the ideal place for him, an alternative version of the United States without being tied to the social pressure of Japanese politics after getting used to a more welcoming culture such as the Western one.
According to the history taught in the school where he had studied to train academically after settling in the new world he lived in, Terminus was the only planet that orbited its isolated star and had almost no metals, located in the Southwest Periphery sector of the galaxy. , the closest planet being Anacreon, 8 parsecs (26 light years) away.
Being on the fringes of the galaxy, there are almost no stars in the sky, since it was on the edge of the Galaxy that was in front of the planet Siwenna and other planets at far ends with their own solar systems such as Sayshell, Kalgan, Haven and Santanni. The only large island was the one on which Terminus City was located and there are a total of 10,000 inhabited islands on the planet. Before human occupation, there was some life on Terminus. However, once humans arrived (along with their supporting species), these native life forms were displaced and became extinct.
And as far as its history, as seen later, dates back to around five centuries ago, where the maximum governmental hegemony, the Galactic Empire that was ruled on the planet Trantor, entered its internal decline if it were not for the appearance of Hari Seldon on center stage, a mathematical scientist who created the science of psychohistory that allowed him to predict a thirty thousand year interregnum from barbarian dark ages to the rise of a New Empire.
At that time, Seldon created a plan to shorten that interregnum from thirty thousand years to one thousand years, whose project was given the name of "Foundations", governmental entities that would lay the foundations for the salvation of the entire human species that would protect the scientific and philosophical knowledge and knowledge of society. And for this, he asked Las Zenow, chief librarian of the Imperial Library of Trantor, to undertake a search to find a suitable planet, according to the established criteria. After a long search, Zenow found Terminus, which had been uninhabited for the five centuries after its discovery.
Later, continuing with his mission, Seldon manipulated the authoritarian Public Safety Commission (which ruled the capital after the death of Emperor Cleon I of the Entum Dynasty at the hands of his unstably psychological gardener where the Chen and Divart families decided to keep in order to all Trantor and the administrative sectors of the Empire) to exile his project to Terminus. The founding population consisted of one hundred thousand especially healthy scientists whose apparent purpose was to publish the Encyclopedia Galactica. In reality, his job would be to preserve science and technology and reconquer the galaxy to form the Second Empire, with Terminus being the capital of the First Foundation, and while the Second Foundation was located at the other opposite end of the galaxy, in the end of the stars.
In itself, every beginning is based on small births that became great stories, and the trajectory that Terminus had as the capital of the Foundation, and the seed that would give life to the Second Empire was not easy: everything had to be done. Everything possible so that Hari Seldon's dream came true thanks to the intervention of prominent people who were able to raise that project with the help of the Vault of Time, where the figure of the wise mathematician who instructed the events that was going to bring him appeared. to the Foundation with everything exactly pointed out in the notes written by the predictions made by psychohistory, which could be listed chronologically according to what was narrated in their classes on the founding history of Terminus:
The First Crisis took place fifty years after the colonization of Terminus; Sectors surrounding Terminus rebelled against the Empire, potentially cutting off the Encyclopedia Galactica project on Terminus, in turn establishing the Four Kingdoms, with Anacreon, Smyrno, Loris, and Daribow being the dominant powers in the Periphery. The Galactic Empire is not able to maintain its prefectures in the galactic periphery, which causes that the Foundation, located in Terminus, which is a planet poor in metals and therefore depends on trade with the Empire, must face a annexation by the powerful nation of Anacreon. The Foundation discovers that the Empire has collapsed and that it cannot be helped by it, as its rulers, the encyclopedists, believed. Thus, Salvor Hardin, mayor of Terminus, solves the crisis by resorting to knowledge from the Foundation of nuclear energy, forgotten by the new kingdoms of the periphery, making the three kingdoms opposed to Anacreon see that let this knowledge be exploited by it will turn them into vassals. In short, the first crisis is resolved through the balance of powers.
The Second Crisis occurred many years later, also under the leadership of Mayor Salvor Hardin. It unfolds when the Kingdom of Anacreon, prepared, thanks to the Foundation, for military victory even over an alliance of the other three kingdoms, decides to attack the Foundation, which has granted scientific aid and reintroduced atomic energy in the four kingdoms. However, this aid was initially rejected by the population, having to be "adorned" with a spiritual disguise, giving rise to a religion whose center was the Foundation. Thus, when attempting to attack Terminus, it was really understood by the people as an attack on the heart of their religion and sacrilege, even for the military. The crisis is resolved by the supremacy of spiritual power over earthly power, which has allowed all nuclear energy to be monopolized by the priests who are loyal to the Foundation.
The Third Crisis consisted of the conflict that existed between the Republic of Korell and the Foundation. This crisis, on the one hand, consisted of the use of the "religion of science" by a leading group to control the Foundation, and on the other, the threat of the Republic of Korell, with the support of a viceroy of the Empire, to attack the Foundation. The leaders of the Foundation instruct the merchant prince Hober Mallow to look around him and keep his eyes and ears open. Mallow proceeds to sell Korell a large amount of technology, completely free of religion. Eventually, the leader of Korell goes to war with the Foundation, but is defeated by an economic embargo, as the Korellians have become too dependent on Foundation technology.
The Fourth Crisis was the last attempt by the decaying Empire to demonstrate its supremacy, where General Bel Riose led a military attack against the First Foundation. This crisis was resolved because even though Bel Riose was a great leader and military strategist, he was also capable of destroying a large part of the Foundation's fleet. He was on the verge of success, but then Emperor Cleon II called him and Brodrig to Trantor and executed them on false charges, because they were becoming too powerful and therefore dangerous to his power. Not to mention that the Foundation itself was short of good professionals and the ineffectiveness of the politicians themselves in doing something where they were miraculously saved from their almost conquest by the Empire.
The Fifth Crisis was the most disconcerting that took everyone by surprise before the appearance of a mysterious individual who collapsed the foundations that governed the science of psychohistory, since only the actions of the existing masses in the galaxy were calculated and not that of a single individual.
This person was the Mule, a mutant with paranormal abilities that allowed him to manipulate and bend people's emotions by deploying a psychic field that allowed him to capture a pirate base that was located on an asteroid and also to conquer Kalgan, bending in the a his leader on the spot after proclaiming himself as First Citizen.
During his reign, multiple eyes fell on him as the new galactic center stage, with the Foundation and the former Independent Merchants Association being the two main characters in the plot who decided to make their moves against their new neighbor.
The Association sent Toran and Bayta Darell, two married couples who pretended to be on a honeymoon who headed to Kalgan to spy and collect information on the Mule, being a world without any particular resource or strategic value that rose to fame during the golden days of the Galactic Empire that served as a vacation resort for the imperial aristocracy for its wonderful and eccentric tropical places of jungles and spring forests with its gloomy animal fauna; It was there that they met the Mule, who at that time was dressed as the court jester with the false name of Magnificus Giganticus, knowing shrewdly that the First Foundation would come, to which he hit the mark after witnessing the apparition. of the Darell couple and Han Pritcher, captain of the Foundation Armed Forces on Kalgan beach.
The events later developed with a false dispute on the beach where the Mule took the opportunity to launch a war fleet against the star systems of the Association and the Foundation, to which, the Darells and the mutant disguised as a clown decided to enter Terminus, which at that time had fallen into the hands of an extremist oligarchy that followed the degenerate ideals of a unified galaxy by being corrupted by the power exerted after the taking of the mayoral candidacy where Indbur III, a Mayor who was neither brutal nor capable of tyranny, but a semi-stable dictatorship where he played an important role in the flow of events, since both the members of the Foundation and the Association had met in the Vault of Time in where Hari Seldon's projection would help them on the Mule threat, but unfortunately it didn't.
A civil war within the Foundation and the fight against the Association of Independent Traders, that was the Fifth Crisis that Hari Seldon had explained in his mathematical results, since the appearance of the Mule was an anomaly, a virus, a bacteria that slowly destroyed the internal system until it was completely devastated, a lesson that no one would forget after analyzing that psychohistory only foresaw the actions of the masses and not that of a single individual, which had led to the collapse of the Seldon Plan.
The Foundation had fallen in the process after a surprise attack, leaving the City of Terminus in ruins and the Association dismantled, save for a few survivors: the Darells, the psychologist Ebling Mis and the jester, who fled in search of the Second Foundation. towards the ends of the galaxy where the only option to find them was on Trantor, the ancient capital of the Galactic Empire that was nothing more than an agricultural world inhabited by peasants.
To enter the planet, permission was needed from the last monarch of the imperial dynasty of Trantor who ruled the agricultural world of Delicass, renamed Neotrantor in honor of the former splendor of the galactic capital in its golden age. Dagobert IX was the last emperor to barely have limited full powers in the face of a calm galaxy, as he only ruled twenty worlds, which was a joke compared to the might of the Empire in its once hegemonic glow. The same, since in that sector he governed it, and to enter the Galactic Library his approval was needed, which he accepted, but, everything went downhill after an insurgency by his son, Dagobert X and his entourage to seize of the throne and use the survivors of Terminus to find the Second Foundation and thus establish the old galactic government ... however, that plan was thwarted by the Mule, who used his visor to kill all the conspirators.
After what happened in Neotrantor, they continued on their way to Trantor after settling in a rural village that was about a hundred kilometers from the Library.
They went towards the headquarters until they entered the interior, where Ebling Mis began to search among the documents and videos of the thousand and one interview that Seldon had when he was alive at that time, investigating more and more, until that, at the last moment, it was all over.
Bayta Darell had killed Ebling Mis in just thirty seconds with her weapon, knowing that, later on, it became known that her partner and friend was the Mule all the time, but the mutant forgave her, both for her and her husband, understanding that the only thing that stopped him was the love and friendship he had had, something that he had lacked in his childhood because he was different, a monster, a phenomenon, a filth that did not deserve to be accepted in society because of his appearance ... until everything changed when Bayta entered the scene.
According to accounts written by Arkady, Bayta's granddaughter, he described that the Mule had felt alone, despised at birth until he was left to his own devices in an orphanage where all the children teased and bullied him for an eternity of time until reach maturity where he left his home world on his own, since an abomination like him did not deserve to live in a perfect environment such as his world, knowing that the Mule described himself as a being outside of normality: his nose was incredibly long, sticking out more than three inches from his face. His flesh seems stretched across his skull and his body was lean and gangly. Therefore, his joints, like his elbows, seemed to protrude from his tiny musculature. The Mule's shortage was glandular and could not be compensated. Furthermore, the members were at awkward angles, giving the overall impression of a poorly assembled scarecrow. It was said that he could not look at himself without mockery. The only aspect of the Mule that was blatantly ridiculous was his eyes, which were described as dark brown and perpetually sad.
A mutant, an accurate description of how differences and segregations still persisted today, even a thousand years into the future when humanity conquered the entirety of the galaxy. But, at the end of the day, humans would always be the same humans no matter how changed they were, the story of the Mule being a tragedy in which many would feel identified, especially him, who went through worse things when he was nothing more than a stubborn , arrogant and mean young man who tried to do his best in everything, but his lack of determination and low ambition made him seem sedentary in his world, reaching the time of feeling ashamed of what he was doing.
He welcomed him affectionately, even seeing in him his old reflection when he was in the same situation, to the point of crying after knowing that he died of natural causes, alone and without any company around him, since the Conversos he had manipulated Through their mental powers they did not feel affection towards dying life, finalizing to create a unified government where all were equal when thinking of a single collective memory that worked with their abilities.
The Union of Worlds that he had so determinedly created had fallen, and with it, the Foundation had resurfaced to reap the hegemony it had lost.
He wanted to fit in with everything, but he couldn't because of his low spirits.
Although he had done incredible things in Lugnica that put his own life at risk and be on the edge a million times, it was nothing more than pure hypocrisy and arrogance to stand out in something at the cost of others and of his own sanity. of the.
No matter how bad the situation had been, he always wanted to shine in his own ego to be free, but the consequences had his actions, and with it, disaster and calamity.
Being Lugnica made him bring out his true face, his own alter ego, his spirit of rebellion where he carried all the frustrations of the world that had subjected him so much to the point of feeling like a miserable trapped in the depths of darkness, but that it was a thing of the past; it had been time to create a new page in his life from scratch, seizing that third chance he had given her to avoid the mistakes he had made through his own recklessness.
He was already at peace, and in that it comforted him.
She accepted his mistakes, his stumbles, his immoral acts, and his vanity in wanting it all for himself, promising that he would never ever do it, and this was what he was made of when he concentrated on creating his own future without looking. last.
What happened, happened and there was no way to fix it, but to accept what he did, learn from what he committed and face it with a determined and determined look.
Now, what he wanted was to be at peace, enjoy his peaceful work and forget about everything he had experienced where he wrote all his adventures and misadventures in a diary that he would soon forget.
The important thing was to look forward, towards the great trajectory where all living beings had set themselves to go through them and create new writings in white pages where they had to face life, whether good or bad, where obstacles would appear and great challenges would go to come.
Everything was becoming forgotten: Lugnica, the capital, Roswall Mansion, the animals, the people, even Emilia herself was disappearing like Rem through the blowing of the wind where it erased the sand.
That was no longer important to him, but he was busy in his new position that was, in another world located at the edge of the galaxy, in a world where opportunities flourished as he smiled as he looked at the great galaxy from the starry sky of In other words, feeling that everything rotated according to their designs, even looking more in the center, where the theories that the Second Foundation was in the heart of the great galactic spiral dissolved through its windy currents.
Tomorrow would be a new day, and he was always ready to carry on with his new reality from the other end.
He no longer had his skill, but his wit and dedication.
A little short with no words, but it was all I could write. All the best.