Author's Note: Triple Post Today. The first 2 chapters, posted today, are only an overview of the events in the previous story. With only slight alterations, but nothing too big, beyond combining chapters and slight edits. Feel free to skip these 2 chapters.
While the 3rd chapter, posted today (Chapter 4), is a look at the new lore. Although it still uses many elements of the original story. Unfortunately that one can't be skipped, as it holds too much new lore of how this new universe works... but it may be a boring read for those that read the original story.
Chapter 5, coming soon, will be all new content.
My name... is Isshiki. I might have a middle name, probably got a last name to... but I don't know them... All I know, is my sister, Kaguya. How we were the only people on the entire planet, as far as either of us were aware.
She wasn't actually my sister, or even related to me at all, but she had taken care of me, for as far back as I can remember.
I don't remember my parents. Oh I remember little things... but not what they look like, nor the sound of their voice... only how they died. Kaguya tells me stories sometimes.
I only learned what the world USED to be like, from movies I found laying around... and well, the fantastic stories Kaguya would tell me. She had been 13, so had a better memory of the before time. In the Long Long Ago.
Kaguya told me our parents were taking us shopping, at the local "Walmart", in our small town. When suddenly, both of us collapsed, screaming. It lasted only a few moments, she insisted, but then... it stopped, and suddenly it was our parents screaming. Along with everyone else in the store.
They screamed for a full minute, spasming on the floor, with blood gushing out of every whole in their head. Before they suddenly stopped moving... my sis could always tell Colorful stories, like that. Being surrounded by so much death, definitely desensitized her.
Kaguya, being the clever person she is, had her "mutant" power, manifest, due to the trauma of watching everyone die.
At first, she thought she brought them all back... but they were mindless puppets. They would obey her... but their souls had left the body. She would talk with her parents, and play with the dead children... but they couldn't talk back... but sometimes... we would pretend they could.
I grew up with an army of Zombies. So was never scared of them.
These "Zombies", she created, were somewhat independent. And while they obeyed her orders, they couldn't preform task unless she knew how to do them.
So, not knowing how to get back to our homes, being little kids and all, we decided to stay in the Walmart.
Kaguya did her best to educate me. Going through the shelves of the Walmart, and finding various educational books and movies. Sitting in our dead parents' laps, as we read.
This is how I learned how to read and write, from the toddler read-along books. They spoke as they read the story, and I was able to develop a small vocabulary, thanks to that. The various dictionaries, helped me expand my knowledge, once I got the basic grasp of how to pronounce letters. I even got a basic understanding of math, from the Sesame Street DVDs the store sold. We lucked out, and they had the latest season for sale.
After a few months passed. Kaguya started believing no one was coming for us. And began having her Zombies move things around. We were in a shopping center, and Kaguya reorganized all the stores, and began reading a lot of "How to" books, at the library.
We managed to figure out, through trial and error, how to work the various tech in the electronics department. And moved it all into the nearby best buy.
We discovered the internet, and began reading articles from around the world.
She figured out how to use the seeds, in the gardening section, to grow more food. Using all the spoiled food as fertilizer, to enrich the soil... while I developed a taste for rat.
There were a lot of rats, around the store, always trying to get our food. So we laid down a lot of traps for them... then ate them when they were caught.
My sister learned how to turn their meat into jerky... after I innocently asked what we'd do, once our bags of jerky ran out.
We also had canned meats, and lunchables, but mostly we had dog and cat food... and rat. It wasn't as bad as I feared, and kept us relatively healthy.
As Kaguya grew bigger... she started having... urges... ones she taught me how to satisfy. Since not even she would "do it" with a Zombie.
There was an RV park, right behind the Walmart, which my Sister and I, decided to claim an RV, of our own.
A few years later, we were thankful Kaguya already figured out how to use the generators... as the local power plant shut down. Suppose it was a miracle it lasted 2 years, running by itself.
With that, we realized we needed to start leaving the safety of our Walmart, to collect gas and propane. Kaguya, of course, took her undead army with her... and left me with our parents.
That's when she discovered... a great many things.
Like how the whole town was dead, for one thing.
For another, our small town was a shipping town. With both a train... area thingy (give me a break, I've been on my own since I was three, I don't know what everything is called.) As well as an Amazon Packaging Warehouse.
We took a few weeks to mourn, what we already suspected... that we were likely the only people left on the planet.
Kaguya began moving things we wanted, from all over the town, into our shopping center. She even had the zombies, use forklifts, to transport shipping crates, all around our home.
We didn't have much to do, given school was no longer a thing. So we devoted a couple years to stacking the crates, like our own great wall, and organizing what they contained. Even brought extra shelves, from both inside the center, and from around the town, into the crates, for easier access to our stuff.
Then Kaguya used the internet, to figure out how to build stairs, and a walk way, to the higher levels of the crates. With them stacked three crates high, and all the doors facing our Walmart.
Due to how many shipping crates there were, the zombies were able to build the wall to include the RV Park, and the whole shopping center... and we would pretend we were getting it ready, if we ever found any other survivors.
Everything in the town, that could be salvaged, was placed on shelves, in our crates.
Kaguya even took a few outdoor pools, and moved them into our Walmart's parking lot. As well as a few sprinklers. Even bringing in slides, and playground equipment, from the local park... for me.
After I skinned my knee, playing in there, Kaguya had the zombies lay down thousands of padded matts, that had, thankfully, been in one of the crates. We always seemed to find, exactly what we needed.
After the power plant failed, we took extra care with the towns water plant. Reading up on how to operate it, then having zombies stationed there, to run it.
All the while, my sister collected more and more corpses, from all over the town, and adding them to her undead army.
I wasn't particularly sentimental, as growing up surrounded by the dead, I became desensitized. I just had to keep myself active, or I would go mad from the isolation. I still did normal kid things, like watching movies, reading, and playing videogames... although the media I absorbed was perhaps, a bit too mature for me...
I avoided zombie movies, as they broke my heart, seeing the innocent zombies getting killed.
Years passed. More and more. We only knew what day it was, thanks to the internet, which seemed to be run largely automatically.
It took us a few years, but we finally decked out our Walmart as our own personal "Fortress of Solitude"... by the time I was big enough to help... all the work was done. Although Kaguya did teach me how to run maintenance.
These last few years have been spent in boredom, as besides said maintenance, we couldn't figure out what other improvements to make to our fortress.
Then, about 5 years ago... I discovered an "instant messenger" that proved we weren't the last people on the planet. There were others out there, alive people, that I could talk to...
I felt nervousness, like I never had before, but reached out to them... and continued to learn.
Like how, back when I was 3 years old, all "regular" humans somehow fell dead. There brains turned to jelly. No one knew for sure what happened. But some believed it was Divine punishment, for rejecting mutants.
I learned that is what I was, a mutant, whom developed Superpowers during puberty.
That is when I figured out, I too had a power. I could bend Time and Space, to manipulate luck. It wasn't just me being oddly lucky, but I could control the fortunes of everyone else.
Later, this power evolved so that I could teleport things... across time. Kaguya, eager to see the limits of this power, after reading up some on mutant manifestations... gouged out my eyes. And then taught me to see with my temporal senses.
She always was looking out for me.
Regardless, we learned there were scattered colonies of mutants, all over the world. Whom did much as my sister had done, but with the help of the living.
My sister decided she wanted to start their own colony. And began inviting people to come join us. Inviting many people to move in... but they were scared, and a bit disgusted, at her power over the dead... so she tried to force the issue.
It had been 20 years, since the destruction of all muggles... and wizards were just now starting to realize the threat those they left behind were.
Kaguya and Isshiki were the first true "Dark" mutants, the wizarding world had to face. Kaguya was enough of a threat on her own... but Isshiki... Isshiki was an Omega level threat.
They had mounted an attack on Hogwarts, with all Harry's friends, and former enemies, being called in.
"About time you all got here," Isshiki sighed, almost lazily. As he raised his hands.
• A Few Days Later:
Kaguya and Isshiki were attacking quickly, trying to pick off all the greatest threats. To prevent them from alerting each other.
Right now, they over looked the Xavier estate, from their place on a hill a good mile away. They were pleased to see most of the Brotherhood was here. Although not overly surprised. After all, this was why they were here.
True, they were at too great a distance, for most people to be able to make out anything. But Isshiki could. He saw all things. Everything that ever was, that which was currently happening, and all that could possibly happen. The infinity of possible timelines. And he had to say, he liked this one.
He could not see with his eyes, not after Kaguya blinded him, to enhance his power. As she suspected, his 6th sense improved, alerting him to know what was happening around him.
He could see, and even manipulate, the 4th dimension. That's the reality of "Time".
Like So:
He raised his hands, focusing on all 1000 acres of the Xavier estate. That included the underground levels, as well as the underground lake. Then, he pushed the entire area out of sequence with time.
The ground shook, for all of a moment, before a large crater was left in the estate's place...
He figured out how to do this, when He accidentally pushed their fortress out of reality... that had not been a pleasant way for his mutation to manifest.
Kaguya grinned in victory, looking at her little brother. "Good, now let's move on to the next Would-be-hero's base. Soon all obstacles will be out of our way. Then, this world will be ours for the taking!"
Isshiki eyed his sister. "They are merely out of phase with our reality. The seal will break, in a few millenniums."
"We'll be long dead before that happens." Kaguya waved off.
Isshiki insisted. "Not if everything goes according to plan."
Things did not "Go as planned." Oh they succeeded in sending away all the heroes. With only the Justice League and Avengers, catching on to what they were doing. But they couldn't stop them. Isshiki "Sealing" power was too great.
But before they could truly begin their conquest. They were defeated, by Isshiki's own son. The son Kaguya gave him.
The boy also had the power of sealing, but to a much greater degree... and his prisons didn't have a time limit.
• The birth of the Universe. The temporal backlash, forced open all seals. Unleashing Isshiki, Kaguya, Orochimaru, and all manner of hell, into their parent universe.
Doctor Manhattan was ready for this, and tried to contain the fallout, with Kurama and the other demons sealed by Kiri.
The breaking of the Jinchuriki's seals, left a piece of themselves in each host. Just a small piece, enough to give their host power and guidance.
Manhattan's interference would have prevented this moment, and Harry's wish was vital to their world's future... as just because they now had a utopia, didn't mean it would stay that way.
Kiri was still a threat, and would be sticking around... war was coming. Manhattan could see it, but first things first... he had to make sure hell didn't consume their parent universe... and that it didn't follow its way back into their new pocket dimension.
Kaguya raged, floating in the void of space, her brother beside her...
Doctor Manhattan was a ways ahead... sealing the black hole, that used to be the White Lantern Sector, and currently the sole entrance into their new reality. It started as the size of a star cluster, but was now the size of a single mountain... and shrinking fast.
Kaguya and Isshiki were trying to reach it. But the various demons were keeping them away from the portal.
Suddenly, the pair froze. Manhattan had left the portal. And was now holding them in place with a million copies of himself.
"The portal has shrunk enough that it is now collapsing in on itself." Manhattan warned his fellow demons. "Everyone through now. My clones will keep them distracted, until the last possible second."
With that the Demons all fled... Including Doctor Manhattan, seconds before the black hole completely sealed behind them. Leaving only empty space. Once the Portal closed, the Manhattan clones shimmered out of existence.
"Fascinating," Kaguya turned, to find... a cat. A scrawny, purple, hair-less, humanoid cat, casually floated over to them. "It seems I'm too late." Said the cat. "But those demons were awful concerned with keeping you two out. I wonder..." the cat look thoughtful. More talking to himself then them.
Isshiki bowed, "It's an honor to meet you, Lord Beerus."
"Indeed," The cat yawned. "This must be quite thrilling for you."
Isshiki calmly, though cautiously, informed. "My Sister and I are unique manifestations. Where she holds power over life and death. Able to kill an army with a thought, and animate their corpses as her minions. I bend Time and Space, to effect luck."
"Why are you telling me this?" Beerus looked bored with the conversation.
"I have had visions of you." Explained the blind man. Whose power over space, was the only thing keeping his sister alive, in this void. "I'm aware your in the market... for an apprentice."
Beerus looked intrigued now. Never having met such a presumptuous mortal. It was quite refreshing, when compared to the cowering.
"You are the god of destruction. Our world has myths of your power," Isshiki explained. "A world that has just put itself on your hit list."
Beerus sneered, "I imagine you wish me to spare your world's new universe?"
"Not at all," Isshiki smiled. "I wish to be the one to destroy it."
Beerus eyes shot wide, "Truly?" Then slowly, he smiled. "I suppose you might make a worthy apprentice after all. How fortunate i stumbled on you."
"I do bend luck, my lord." Isshiki shrugged, almost teasingly.
Beerus grinned, "A useful skill, indeed." Looking over at the silent woman. "Can't she talk?"
"Not in space, my lord. But She will learn," Isshiki assured.
Beerus grunted, unimpressed with the mortal's sister. "I only need one apprentice, but I don't mind you using her as your first horsemen. Though I expect you to choose your others with more care. Not just because you like them."
"Naturally, my lord." Isshiki bowed.
"Let's go, my apprentice. We have much to do, to get you up to snuff. Your race will soon know, the wrath of trying to outwit the God of Destruction."
"I look forward to it," Isshiki smiled, a far to casual grin. Void of malice or passion. Merely a passing infatuation with the thought of burning the people who scorned him. He would indeed be a worthy apprentice.