"Ah, back again now are we? It really hasn't been that long since my last tale, has it? I am rather intrigued by how you observers perceive the passing of time between stories in comparison to me…Does it take you longer to come back to here a foolish man speak, or am I the one who has to wait to take notice of your gaze again? …Heh, forgive me yet again for rambling on about pointless things. After all, I don't get much company around here…Now then, what should I tell you about today…Hmm, if my visions are correct, you should have seen the past of a certain Commander and the beginning of the greatest journey an Elemental Overlord can take…But I unfortunately don't have any interesting alternate tales to give to you as far as those two go…"

"Hmmm…Ah yes, there is still the matter of the game Mr. Reality played with the second Elemental Overlord and the denizens of Plit, and how a few mistakes nearly led to the erasure of reality…At least, that's what those who vanished from those timelines would be led to believe…The leviathan was truly incapable of wiping out all of reality…But it was still a threat that forced the higher-ups to interfere and prevent it from occurring in a few select timelines. In the end there were only two solutions to the problem, but with many variations in regards to the events that led up to that specific meeting point…If you've followed along with the main version though, then my tale shall make more sense…It begins with a failure, just like many of my tales have and shall do, and it will eventually end with the birth of someone better…"

Clash of the Elements What-If Scenario (Part 3):

Spiritual Memory

The situation is dire as can be. A mistake brought on by the Elemental Overlord Mewmaster's lack of trust in the alien Mr. Reality's words has led to him being possessed by a powerful parasite that took control of his subconscious and is in the midst of bringing his deepest desire to reality…By tearing apart the very fabric of reality itself so the existence that bored the alien would be changed into one that would please him, a grave misinterpretation of the man's desires if there ever was one…But alas, the deed has been done, and with the grotesque, indescribable leviathan known as "Shattered Reality" summoning forth an avatar onto each inhabitable planet that would herald the end of their worlds and the erasure of their existences down to their very souls.

Mewmaster stood alone above the Mushroom Kingdom and Reality Citadel to combat this mighty avatar, unaware of the true creature waiting in the shadowy depths of space that would not stop its rampage even if the lowly avatar was bested, a feat that the leviathan had no reason to be concerned about considering how easily the draconic creature was dealing with the young Overlord. With even his Phoenix Form succumbing to the beast's might, Mew laid bleeding and nearly unconscious on the roof of the citadel, and though in another timeline he succeeded in convincing himself to get back on his feet and in turn awaken the Light Reserve that would prove most efficient in besting the avatar and eventually purging the leviathan long enough to restore the damage caused to reality…Things would go much differently in this timeline…

But the one called Mew is not the focus of this tale, rather it will be the original reincarnation of the Elemental Overlord himself, Alex Whiter. You see, as the battle with Mr. Reality and in turn the Reality Avatar occurred, Alex was faced with the powerful might of the Reaper of the Midnight Channel and a spiritual illusion of the reborn Dark King, Joe Dark. With his increased strength Alex was able to best the illusion, but in this timeline the Reaper was being pushed to his limits by the Elemental Overlord's relentless defiance of his role in the universe. This was something that the ghoul found downright deplorable as he widened his eyes in anger and said to the one named Whiter without a mouth for words to passing between "You are testing my patience child…Who are you to believe that you stand a chance against a fragment of Death?!"

Alex said nothing as he kept a stern glare in his eyes and kicked himself off the ground and flew towards the hovering Reaper with flaming blade at the ready. The ghoul took out his pistol and aimed the elongated barrel at the young Overlord's head to deliver certain death both mentally and spiritually, but as the front of the barrel glowed brightly, Alex took his fingers and pulled across the seven triggers on his blade without an incantation to prelude it and quickly was engulfed in a burst of golden flames that left him with the piercing amber eyes and majestic wings of a Phoenix. With his body now protected by the souls of the Genesis Samurai and the Inner Guardians, Alex took the supposedly game-ending bullet straight into his forehead, a green shockwave exuding from the impact zone as the Reaper's eye widens and he expresses with a raspy tone of surprise "Impossi-"

It was too late for him to finish his sentence, for in his brief moment of stunned silence at what Alex Whiter had accomplished the young Overlord cut him through the center of his body and with the purifying flames that spread out from his blades he glanced over his shoulder coldly and watched as the Reaper slowly began to burn apart bit by bit in agonizing pain. "How can I die…I am part of Death, I am protected by the universe's will…I am…" The Reaper disintegrated without much further resistance, and even Alex is a bit surprised by how quickly he bested the ghoul as he returned to his base state and swung his sword to the right of him. "What is going on around here…Something isn't right." A portal that would take the Elemental Overlord back to the Reality Citadel appeared in front of him, but before he entered it he stood there in the midst of the unnerving silence and noted in light of what just happened "Please tell me Mew didn't screw up against that reality bender…"

With a concerned gritting of his teeth, Alex rushed forward into the portal and traveled across the dimensional passageway until he swiftly emerged back at the Reality Citadel on the other side. The monochrome texture in the area had faded and was replaced with a translucent almost blinding glow in all of the surroundings, signifying that Mew had broken the grip the "Midnight Channel" had on the area. But something was definitely off in spite of the lack of monochrome, it was as if everything was beginning to tear itself apart at the seams, but thus far it hadn't effected the citadel much save for the air surrounding Alex. With this unease refusing to escape his mind, the Elemental Overlord looked towards the crest of the ramp he was on and dashed onward to try and get to where the source of the disruptions was coming from in record time…

Alex zipped through the light beam puzzle in the next room without so much as hesitating between each junction, his mind and heart accelerating at a rapid pace due to the unease in his soul as he quickly reaches the other side and kicks himself off the ground to fly up past the ladder and enter the room where Mr. Reality and Mew had confronted each other just a few minutes ago. The disruptions grew more powerful, but still nothing was shown to be affected by this sensation in the room around him. Then came an unearthly tremor from outside the shattered window to the right of where Alex stood, and the Elemental Overlord turned towards it just in time to see a gargantuan black beast take flight to the rooftops above this room.

Alex could only take a glimpse of the draconic features that the creature had, but the most important detail he took note of was the lack of connection between the creature's claws and the rest of his body. It was obvious then and there that the beast was Mr. Reality, though as of this moment the boy couldn't figure out just why the alien had taken on this new form. "Curse it all…What is going on around here?!" Alex damns his lack of knowledge with his right fist clenched in anger in front of his chest, and as he grits his teeth upon realizing just how outmatched he was against the beast considering the energy exuding from it and the effect it was having on the planet as a whole he began to feel doubt that everything was going to turn out alright. His lack of understanding about the situation did not help matters.

"Alex, what is going on around here?!" Amidst the rising anger and doubt inside of his mind, Alex heard a familiar voice calling out to him from above and looked up to face the translucent orb of light that was descending without stalling. It was the original Elemental Overlord, who has been enabled to return after originally being prevented from interfering by Mr. Reality's powers. Though he was happy to see the wise spirit returning towards him, Alex couldn't help but express bitter confusion towards the Overlord as he swung his left hand out and exclaimed in rage "You tell me! Isn't this supposed to be your citadel?!" The Elemental Overlord floated in place and took pause for a moment in order to look around the room. For a moment, he almost didn't recognize this place, though the reason for that had nothing to do with how long it had been since he had been in here…

"That damn reality bender tainted my Light Citadel with that 'Midnight Channel' dimension he brought into this world…And now the Parakali are gone, damn it, this isn't good!" As the Elemental Overlord quickly descended and re-established his spiritual link with the young Alex Whiter, the boy said in bewilderment "What are the Parakali?" "Long story short, they are parasites that infect the subconscious and amplify ones powers to accomplish their deepest desire in the most dreadful way imaginable. One of them has to have gotten into the reality bender…Which if I'm correct, likely means that beast outside is the herald of reality's destruction." Alex's eyes widened in shock as he grit his teeth slightly and looked over his shoulder as if the Overlord's spirit was behind him while saying "Are you kidding me?! Tell me there is a way to stop this!"

"…" The Elemental Overlord is silent for a moment, not just because of Alex's anger desperate anger towards him, but also because he is also surprised that his successor's first reaction to the fact that a reality destroying monstrosity lied in wait outside was to place hope in him that there was a way to stop this madness. "There is one way…If we kill the source that the Parakali is attached to, reality should not have to end. If you still had your Gaia Temporis, this job might be made a little easier…" With that last sentence acting as a reminder to Alex about the unknown state of his clone, the boy swiftly turns his head towards the window and dashes towards it upon hearing the crashing of lightning bolts outside and an ominous feeling deep in his gut.

At the very edge of the windowsill, Alex looks down at the lowest roof of this grand citadel and having now gotten within a closer vicinity of Mew's energy signature the Elemental Overlord bends his head down slightly and widens his eyes upon noticing the body of his clone. Mew was battered, his Phoenix wings bent out of alignment as blood leaked out all around from his back and front. His sword was resting against the ground on the right, while the Time Stone sat untouched by the puddle of blood to the left of him. "No way…" Alex stuttered out a response in utter disbelief of what he was witnessing. While it was true that Mew was weaker than he was, Alex had every right to assume that he would have been able to do some permanent harm to the beast before he fell…But the draconic monstrosity could be felt at its full power just by standing right where Alex currently was.

"You expect me to kill this beast when even my clone didn't manage to harm it?!" The boy exclaims to the Elemental Overlord out of panic and desperation. The original's spirit spoke not a word as it hovered behind Alex and looked down at Mew's body, noticing a strange twitch in his arms as if he was going to get back onto his feet despite the impossible odds set against him. He also caught a glimmer of light radiating from the back of the clone's head. The spirit smiled, but once again said nothing despite knowing full well what was about to happen with the young Overlord and the original's Light Reserve. Within seconds, Alex noticed the movements of his clone and regained hope as he noted with abject shock in both his agape mouth and shrunken pupils "W-What is going on down there?"

Mew got back onto his knees and slowly tried to reach out towards his sword with his quivering right hand while his left hand was placed against his chest in pain. One could not see his clenched eyelids and tearing face from afar, so no one knew just how hard he was trying to continue a pointless struggle against a beast he had no way of defeating. Watching his clone rise up from the bowels of defeat with all of might gave Alex a glimmer of hope in this situation, and in turn he felt a bit of respect towards Mew for finding bravery when he himself was panicking deep down beyond the detection of the Elemental Overlord's spirit. Clenching his fists together and trying his hardest to crack a smile for the first time in a long while, Alex had no idea as to just how quickly his hopes would be crushed…

Do you know how quickly a lightning bolt can come down from the sky? Even the sharpest of eyes can only catch its appearance for a nanosecond, and only those adept in their control of the element will be able to predict where they will fall down from. These lightning bolts, however, were derived from the chaotic energies of a possessed reality bender, and thus there was no way to know just where they would land until it was far too late to do anything to stop them. That's right…The one major thing that defined the difference between this timeline and the one you are more familiar with was a random element that couldn't have been controlled by any outside forces. As Mew prepared to stand up with the ring of light slowly spreading around his body, one bolt just happened to come down from the sky without warning and struck the young Overlord completely, and within a drawn out second of motionless, fear-struck glaring that felt like an eternity Alex saw as Mew was haphazardly wiped from existence with the only thing left behind being his sword…Which falls flat onto the ground once more beside the tear in reality that opened up where the young Overlord once stood.

It was so sudden that Alex didn't even have a chance to blink his eyelids until after the event had happened, and the boy fell to his knees while his body became completely stiff in disbelief. The backs of his hands laid against the ground, as he trembled in fear and coldly began to accept that success wasn't possible against such a behemoth. There was no way for any outside force to snap the boy out of his stupor, a cold fact that the cloaked being known as the Chronicler grimly realizes as he floated above the citadel beyond the gaze of the Elemental Overlord's spirit and began to write down the last days of history for this timeline on the books held up by his multiple tangent hands. When existence had been wiped clean, the Chronicler would remove himself from this blank timeline as the higher-ups purged it from the "Multiverse Tree" never to speak of it again, while the Chronicler would insert himself into another timeline and record the events that unfolded from the time when he had entered the prior world…

As he assumed that now would be the best time to close the book on Alex Whiter's life in this timeline, the Chronicler glanced to the right and was surprised to see the Elemental Overlord slowly rising up while his body was slightly arched forward like a zombie, and he began to head past the windowsill without any regard for the danger around him. Reality was tearing itself apart across the planet as everyone on the ground panicked, and all those echoing screams fell on deaf ears as Alex moved towards the ground where Mew's blade lies with his only thoughts being spent towards bewilderment over the fact that the very moment he comes to respect Mew for being more than just a clone of himself, especially after all that was said earlier between the two of them, the young Overlord was just wiped from existence without him even getting to directly acknowledge his respect towards him.

There was no afterlife for Mew, no Heaven or Hell for him to be in because he was wiped clean from existence down to his very soul. So in the end, Mew was wiped out with his last memories of him being that of their argument. There was no way to redeem himself in the eyes of his counterpart, no way to pat him on the shoulder and commend him for his bravery, and no way to even undo his erasure as far as the Elemental Overlord could tell. All that was left was Mew's sword, which Alex held in his shaking palms as he kneeled onto the ground and tears began to leave his eyes. "W-Why did this have to happen to you…" The boy blurbs out a tearful inquiry that would receive no answer from any faction either mortal or immortal, and as Alex bends his head down and lets the teardrops patter down onto the blade the entire planet begins to quake to forewarn the world that the end was mere minutes away from happening.

Bells began to chime from afar, counting down the seconds to doomsday as the Chronicler wrote down Alex's final acts of melancholy on the roof of the Light Citadel and thought to himself "Another timeline doomed to non-existence…It disgusts me how well I can take this by now." The Chronicler used his ghastly pen to period the last sentence in Alex's book, and with a push of his disfigured fingers he began to close it nice and slow when all of a sudden a sharp, angered presence caught his attention and a recognition of said emotions directed his attention back towards the Elemental Overlord as he felt a vibration of raw power shake through the dimensions and affect his body just a tinge. He saw an amber-golden glow radiating out from the blade that once belonged to Mew as he witnessed Alex Whiter trembling and rising up off the ground with Mew's blade grasped tightly by the handle in his right hand.

"W-What is this?" The Chronicler expresses shock for the first time in what happened to be an eternity for him as he releases his grip on the cover of Alex's book and lets it open up so history can keep being recorded as the Elemental Overlord continues to show life despite how soon it would be until it all came down around him. With his tearful eyes drying up slowly as his teeth were grit in bitter rage, Alex ignited Mew's blade with swirling crimson flames while swinging his left arm out beside himself and drawing forth his own curved amber sword from a wreath of fire, grasping that with equal strength as his body released an angered burst of red hot flames that swirled together like a vortex until it compressed into an aura around his figure.

Alex had enough with holding back his emotions, especially when he has seen far too many good people fall while the ones responsible for their demises have gone nearly unpunished. If reality was truly coming to an end, then there was no way that the boy would be able to take down the man responsible for his greatest pain in time, so he would have to make do with the closest source of his current grief, and that was the alien whose foolish game caused the senseless erasure of Mewmaster. "GRAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Widened his mouth to roar in bitter rage, Alex turned around and without hesitation he kicked against the ground and thrust through the air without straight past the stunned Chronicler, who notes in his book that it shouldn't have been possible for the Elemental Overlord as he was now to wield twice his normal level of power in this singular body of his…

Alex left behind a scar of pure rage into the skies above the Light Citadel as he zipped towards the draconic monstrosity the second it began its climatic roar. The flames seethed out of the Elemental Overlord's eyes like hellfire as he swung his swords out beside himself and through pure primal instinct he pulled the red trigger on each of his swords and felt as the heat of a thousand suns burned through his body and spread out in the form of yellowish flames that compressed into the ethereal form of a collapsing sun that shone brighter than anything the people on the planet had seen before. In fact, without even intending it, Alex blinded thousands of denizens that bothered to take even a peek at the scene unfolding in the sky.

The Elemental Overlord thrust right out of the sun with fire lashing out against his backside as his body retains a full, nova-like glow that extends beyond the length of his blades as he swung them forward in an "X" shape and charged at the beast as it finally reacted to his sudden presence. But the draconic monstrosity didn't get a chance to fight back, as after a whirling explosion of volcanic sword slashes that brings Alex hurtling through the body while carving up and disintegrating every bit of flesh in sight with the intense heat pushing out from his swords. When the boy finally pushes out from the other side of the creature, all that remains of it are a few pieces of flesh that glow brightly on the inside, and even they don't last long as Alex swings his swords out diagonally and breaks the glowing veil around him to reveal a type of translucent crimson glow surrounding a type of samurai armor that was similar to the one in his "Flame Samurai" form only with a more slick metallic appearance and orange-yellow spikes extended out from his shoulder pads. He also wielded two amber katanas that were so bright that one could say they were forged from the heart of a dying nova.

After unveiling his new form, Alex calms down slightly and uses his powers with a thought to summon forth a barrage of apocalyptic meteors that bombard the remains of the beast to ensure its destruction with concentrated explosions of brimstone and fire that doesn't extend beyond the scope of the draconic creature. All that remained after this display of brute force was the scalding ring of ash where fire crackled and smoke rose into the trembling skies. Despite how swiftly the beast was dealt with, it didn't appear to be enough to stop Armageddon from occurring on Plit. But with the heightened senses brought on by this strange new form Alex glanced up towards the deteriorating atmosphere of the planet and detected the true source of reality's slow destruction resting far out into space.

Clenching the handles of his blades while channeling all of his rage into the flames of his swords, Alex turned around and kicked off into space, caring little at the moment about the fact that Plit was being wiped from existence as he left the planet's decaying atmosphere and arrived in the cold depths of space where the culprit for reality's erasure lied across the infinite expanse in the form of a phantasmal black leviathan with multiple tendrils flailing up and down across its grotesque serpentine form. With two detached hands floating off from the rest of its body, the leviathan looks down at the incandescent miniature speck that was Alex Whiter. The being was bewildered by the fact that the Elemental Overlord wasn't erased from existence like most other things that had been in the range of his tendrils thus far. "How are you still alive?" The leviathan snarls out in disbelief at Alex, especially as it looks forward at the vanishing planet of Plit and senses that no one else is around there anymore.

Alex was silent, his eyebrows arched in anger as his glowing amber visage floated in the blank depths of space with his body now strong enough to no longer require oxygen to breathe. "Heh…" The leviathan laughs as he notices the Elemental Overlord clasp the handle of his right sword hard enough that the blade taps against the metal plates attached to his hips, and the being knows then and there that Alex was ready to battle him. "Are you truly serious child? You wish to fight me when I have already wiped much of this pathetic reality away?" Alex once again says nothing as he refuses to lift his head up to look at the leviathan, and with a bellowing chuckle that echoes across the blank black expanse it says "Have nothing to say? Such a boring being you are…Just like every other inhabitant in this vanishing universe, you are worthless to the core…"

"…What did you say?" Alex finally muttered something out as the leviathan struck a nerve in relation to the Elemental Overlord's patience, and as the serpentine force of destruction leans its head down to stare at Alex he says "You are worthless, a truth you will have to come to accept while you still have a mind capable of doing so…" The boy knew what the leviathan was truly referring to though, and the grave insult towards the lives erased by the creature's malicious interpretation of the alien's desires. As anger and pure elemental energy welled up inside of Alex's body, the entirety of space began to quake violently in the face of the boy's presence while he took both katanas and held them upwards while crossing his arms so both blades were placed on the opposite sides of where they should be and a crisp golden aura began to come into existence around his body.

"How DARE you call anyone worthless you indecent, manipulative parasite! Do you think you have the right to judge the people you erase when you are nothing without a subconscious to latch onto?! Everyone you removed from this universe had a purpose, a dream…They were strong, maybe not in strength, but in spirit…And you just wiped them all out simply to appease the boredom of a wretched alien?! You understand nothing, and I won't give you or your host a chance to do so…Nor will you wipe out anymore of this universe so long as I am in command of the full might of both myself and my equal! This is the end of you leviathan…" Alex thrusts both of his arms out beside his body and stiffens himself as the blades spin around rapidly and flames shoot out in the form of two gigantic pillars that are nearly as tall as the leviathan's head. The Elemental Overlord then waits until the triggers are even with his palms, at which point he mentally calls out to them while exclaiming "Final Trigger: APEX PHOENIX!"

All seven triggers across both swords are pulled one at a time down the line, and when all of them have perfectly synchronized together everything in the entire universe goes silent for just a fleeting moment before the leviathan's eyes are overwhelmed by a galaxy-sized eruption of scalding golden, neon flames. This nearly blinding, impossible display of raw power presses against the front of the leviathan's miniscule by comparison face, his ethereal skin melting down bit by bit as he struggles to keep his eyelids cracked open to peer at the hot white glowing figure in the middle of this flaming maelstrom of elemental energy. "W-What is this madness?!" The leviathan could not feel and thus not comprehend the immense strength of his opponent anymore, and he was barely able to see the mighty deity that was standing in the midst of this million supernova hot field of flames with his body perfectly stiffened in the same pose it was when the transformation began.

Expending most of its energy to erase the existence of the heat that was melting him down by the second, the leviathan was unable to tell just what Alex was doing in the center of this mighty blaze, and with the luminosity of the brightest star multiplied fifty times radiating around the Elemental Overlord's body the boy pulled his right arm behind himself. The mere motion of his limb pulled the entire universe towards the direction his arm had moved in, which included the leviathan himself much to the being's horror. As he was drawn in closer, his body quaked madly in fear as Alex drew on the power of every soul in his body and compressed it all together into his right fist in the form of a glowing rainbow, almost mirage-like cache of fire that is so powerful that the power of the flames expands so far out that the thin edge disintegrates a tenth of the leviathan's face.

There was no way to describe the pain that such a grotesque abomination could have been feeling at the time, nor was there any way to even mention how much fear was buried within the creature's mind as he floated helplessly in the midst of this maelstrom and watched as Alex stood in place with such force that his feet began to press against the fabric of reality itself and caused it to crack. The Elemental Overlord looked on ahead, thinking about nothing else besides the faces of every person who he had lost to this monster until he reached Mew's, whose image he brought into view as him turning towards him and giving a thumbs up with a smile that said "Alright, lets do this…" It was at that point that Alex knew he was ready to face the leviathan and end this torment once and for all. He opened his mouth, his voice echoing like that of a benevolent deity as he said in a whisper that shook the universe slightly "Apex Overlord Fist…"

The galaxy-sized burst of elemental energy that had eclipsed the leviathan's face thus turns into a glorious roaring Phoenix that bonds with its master at his command and follows him as he thrusts his radiating fist forward and charges through the entirety of the leviathan's body after puncturing through the cosmic boundaries of its mouth. Alex keeps moving forward, making not a single change away from his set path as the energy is pulled behind him through the leviathan's gut in the form of a trail of thick volatile, elemental radiation. Everything goes by so slowly for the Elemental Overlord as he travels through this near-infinite body, that the trip feels as though it lasts for an entire minute before he finally breaks through the tail of the leviathan and he stops in place at the edge of the universe with his body still retaining the blinding luminescent glow that he had in the middle of the burning maelstrom.

What felt like a minute in actuality took Alex only a second to accomplish. At first the leviathan appears to be unaffected by the attack, but then the true reality of it all comes to light as glowing cracks filled with solar energy appears all across the beast's body bit by bit, the beast's face frozen in place as its eyes have already vanished and the surface of its face slowly cracks apart. After a couple more seconds of pure silence as the noise from the rupturing body grinds to a halt, the leviathan explodes in a fantastic display of space-based pyrotechnics. There is really no way to describe this detonation as it was far beyond the scale and might of anything that had ever been seen before in this universe…The sounds of the explosion would kill any mortals that were the vicinity, let alone the flames exerted from the crest of the detonation itself…The process lasted a total of thirty seconds, but it did its job…Both the Parakali and Mr. Reality perished in the explosion, never to be seen again…And unknowingly, Alex got rid of his only chance to ever bring back to existence everyone who had been wiped out by the leviathan…

"…At the end of the grand battle, even though most of the universe would never be restored again, Alex's efforts did allow for 20% of the universe to survive…Unfortunately, 3% of the remaining worlds were torn apart so much by the beginning of the leviathan's erasure powers that their ecosystems have been thrown out of alignment and it will only be a matter of time before the life forms on them perish…Either normally or because the higher-ups saw fit to eliminate the worlds themselves. As for the balance of the universe, as the higher-ups surveyed the events that unfolded, they found that the timeline maintained a perfect balance between light and darkness…So in the end, they chose to keep the timeline intact.

And what of Alex? Despite how much he lost from these events, the Elemental Overlord refused to commit suicide…He chose to stay alive and defend what was left of this universe with both his blade and that of the erased Mewmaster. The Time Stone managed to survive the erasure of Plit somehow, and Alex picked that back up one random day…Vowing then and there to never let go of it so long as he lived. But with all the power the Elemental Overlord now had, the higher-ups were concerned that they would be unable to keep him from accessing other timelines on the off-chance he gets bored with the much more limited universe…

So in a strange move for them, they brought this Alex Whiter to their chambers and offered him a job…Alex would get to access the multiverse, but he would be working to stop temporal anomalies from escaping into other timelines and causing havoc to those universes. This was the higher-ups way of alleviating Alex's boredom by allowing him to see what other universes looked like while also freeing up their own efforts in regards to the timeline leaping threats that had been popping up lately so they can focus more on the prime timeline…With the job accepted, Alex would head out into the multiverse, carrying within him the 'spirit' of his equal for the rest of time as he would never again set foot in a universe that he failed to stop Mew and the rest of his friends on Plit from perishing in."…

What-If 3.1: The End…?