I wake up and swing my arm out to shut off my alarm. My arm doesn't hit anything. In fact, my arm doesn't seem to have moved at all. That's fine. This is fine. Swatting away the creeping panic like some particularly annoying bug, I attempted to open my eyes. Surely, if everything was fine, or at least vaguely looked nothing like you're dead, then I will be ale to open my eyes, observe my surroundings and see that everything is a-okay. Except, no, my eyes do not open. Actually, I can't even feel my eyes and were you even able to normally feel your eyes?

Right. So. Something is wrong. Very very very wrong. My eyes, my arms, my legs, my body. Nothing. Not a single hint of them being anywhere present on me. Okay. Maybe now is the time for panic. What was even going on? Where was I? Because I certainly couldn't feel the soft embrace of my bed- oh and how I yearn for it now- or even whatever hard, damp floor of a dungeon a kidnapper may have left me in. And for fucks sake why can't I MOVE ANYTHING?!

My mind race, a thousand terrible possibilities poured through it a minute- kidnappers? Aliens?- each more impossible than the last when suddenly- PAIN!- lanced throughout my form. I could feel- feel!- myself change. My body broken down to in building blocks in an instant, smaller than even the smallest of subatomic particles, and rebuilt back up again faster than before. I was growing. Not in the human sense of height or age, but vastness. I could feel my body expand outwards, hundreds, thousands of miles.

Not just outwards, but also sideways, punching through the fabric of reality as if it were merely tissue. I grew, across dozens of universes at once, through 4 dimensions of spacetime. I grew, across several points of time at once. I grew, across-

And suddenly, I was no longer growing. Quite the opposite, I was shrinking. Well, less shrinking and more being rejected from space. The dozens of universes I had swiftly, and briefly, occupied seemed to almost retaliate, forcing my body back to the space in which I originally existed in. Similarly, my -limbs? Body?- that grew throughout time were forced back into one moment. Not out of rejection, but simply because my body could not find any foot hold and isn't that just another can of worms.

Finally, after what seemed to be both an instant and an eternity, the growth halted. My body, now a crystalline behemoth, radiated gold into the nothingness around me- when did my sight return and why is it so good. Actually, I seemed to be in less than nothingness. How does that even work? Surely there can't be less than nothing.

At the back of my mind, a slight tingling sensation grew, practically leaping out at me when the thought of my surrounding entered my thoughts. There was something there. But what? It seemed almost like… a repressed memory or knowledge or… [DATA].

And, at that, my mind expanded. Information flowed through me, as if I had suddenly tapped into a fountain of knowledge. At first, it was more general knowledge; where was I? Nowhere. What was I? Entity. Why was I? Unknown. However, following this the knowledge abruptly changed, drifting away from general knowledge into information about my… powers? Abilities? [SHARDS].

Almost 2 dozen names of clusters ran through my head, from seemingly basic ones like [MANAGER] and [BROADCAST], to more… interesting ones like [TIMEKEEPER] and [FORESIGHT].

With the knowledge of these… [SHARDS]... in my head I could now activate them. First, I flipped on [PANOPTICON] to try and get a better sense of where, exactly, nowhere was. As the cluster activated, my mind expanded. Knowledge of ever detail of everything, down the the smallest subatomic particles, and even smaller, down to the fundamental forces of the universe. What I saw was… nothing. What? How could that even be possible. I could, however, see my body fine; crystalline, vaguely oblong, glowing gold and about 1600 miles long.

Next, I tried to activate [FEEDER] next. However, just as with [PANOPTICON], there were some… strange reactions. As in, nothing happened. Supposedly, nowhere in there area for thousands of miles surrounding my body, was there any energy. Even in the most desolate areas of space, there should at least be some energy, whether that be light or even just background radiation. But, here (wherever that was) there was not the slightest bit of energy.

That was, as my [ANALYSIS] cluster put it, [Not Good]. Something had to be done about this. As I looked inwards towards my abilities, I tried to find some way to rectify this problem. The list of potential solutions came up frightening short. As in, there was no list of potential solutions. Shit.

As I was ruminating on the lack of solutions, my [FORESIGHT] cluster gave forth a shaky solution. My body, my [SHARDS] were capable of generating energy from nothing. What if I… donated some of it.

With nothing else to try, I began to slowly push energy out of my body and into the surrounding area. At first, nothing of notice happened. The energy simply hung around my body or diffused off into the distance.

Soon, or impossibly later, the energy began to move, to coalesce. It gravitated to one spot, right above the center of my body, and started to condense. The energy was occupying a smaller and smaller space, condensing over and over, becoming infinately small and then condensing further still. Until, eventually, it stopped. The energy had condensed into a singlarity. Infinately small, and smaller still, with emense gravity.

However, in this strange place, there was no matter for it to attract or space for it to bend. So, it attracted something else. The nothingness that made up this place seemed to swirl closer and closer around the singularity. It began to gain form, colour- many of which I had never seen before- and swirled ever closer to the singlarity.

And then, There Was Light.

Where there was Nothing, there was now Something.