A Collection Of Other Adventures
Mass Death
Date: July 4th, 2022
The sight was horrifying. Masses of bodies littered the streets of Downtown Cincinnati but that was far from the only place this happened. In Northgate, the gay village of Cincinnati, it was even worse. In New York City, it was beyond horrifying. Let me explain how I found myself on an alternate Earth where life for marginalized people had already reached a point completely opposite of cultural pluralism by the 246th birthday of "God's country" aka one of the most imperialistic, oppressive, and genocidal empires in history. It all started after I time traveled using one of the newly improved Quantum Leap bands to see for myself what Despair did in 1921. Dominic finally got time travel tech to fit in the bands without less performance than a full sized time machine. That massacre done by Despair was extremely gruesome. I didn't intervene because I'm not fucking up the past if I can help it.
Anyway, I headed back to the present and wrote down everything that happened. It was an off day for me and the rest of Miitopia BRAINS. We took the day off from training or whatever else we were doing to go exploring and all that fun shit. We needed it. I had spent the first half the day hanging out and bonding with the others. The 2nd half, I decided to go to other universes and document the intel on them that I would gather. I focused on alternate Earths, Minecraftias, and Miitopias as they would be among the easiest universes to understand for us. Dominic sees me finish the report and walks over: "Hey Adam. Would you like to check out more universes with me? I trust you so much and want to spend some more time with you. That and we are an ideal match as a pair in battle." I nod: "Why not. Who knows, maybe we'll need to lean on each other for emotional support. After all, not every version of Earth, Miitopia, or Minecraftia is as well off as the Minecraftia we know." "Very true. I just woke up from a nap so I'm good to go. Are you ready?" "Yes, let's do this!" And with that, we explore a bunch of worlds in different universes. Not much noteworthy though, a lot of them are pretty average. But then, we enter an Earth that has the same exact date and such that my Earth, our Miitopia, and our Minecraftia share.
"If I'm being honest, this trip has been mild and not very dangerous. We should teleport to the Cincinnati of this universe/timeline. It's for the best if we do, I know the city and surrounding area quite well. Worldwide and nationwide problems reflect immensely on the city. Which is no surprise considering how many complicit people who refuse to know any better live in the city. It is part apathy, part set in one's ways, part other stuff." He replies with a firm nod: "You keep making that a point at least once a month! Alright then, put on your Swiftdrawer costume and then we'll go there." "This Earth seems similar to mine so that is the most optimal action. There's at least 100 people in the area who know me personally. Family, teachers, school staff, and some friends." A few minutes later, we are standing in the middle of Downtown Cincinnati with horrified expressions on our faces. There's got to be several hundred if not more corpses all over the streets. Bodily fluids and even some organs outside of the bodies make it much worse.
The smell of decomposition and other things invade our nostrils with a intense force: "Dominic, whoever did this is well equipped. It could have been some of those pesky bigoted patriots, them coppers, or even worse, a portion of the people who help control and subjegate people in other countries. We need to get out of here right away. There are surveillance cameras hidden from view all over or at least I assume so. Damn it, we teleported here without thinking. Here comes unwanted attention." The shout of a copper alerts us. Dominic swears under his breath: "You're right. We got sucked into the fun and now we're paying the price. Where do you suggest we go? You know this city better than anyone in the collective." "I know just the place. It's not downtown, downtown is too public to hide really anywhere. I don't even see some alleyways or know the locations of any. It's really one of the only places where we won't run into anyone else. Did I ever tell you about the Forest Fair mall? It's as good as abandoned its days are numbered. The lighting in there doesn't even fully function anymore, it gets dim and creepy in some areas especially at night. There's so many empty stores. Then again, the Tri County Mall could be a good place to go too considering Covid must have wrecked it here too but no, that mall is not dead enough to hide in. Okay, that sounded better in my head."
Dominic accepts that just as the copper from before who we just ignored started to "rationally" choose violence to get our attention. We teleport away to the mall. Its appearance is of a long gone era. The retro vibe mixed with it being so bare was always ominous to me but now more so than ever. And just like I wanted, we're in an empty store. Dominic activates an opaque sphere field just in case to hide us better and so we can have light around us: "Now that we're here, the coppers are going to be looking for us. We have given ourselves away so easily. *yawns* This is such a pain. Ugh. If I know what you're thinking, you're about to suggest we blend in. I agree." "Yeah, you got me. My Swiftdrawer costume is awesome but it's a bad idea to wear in a place like downtown considering what we just saw. I can't believe neither of us threw up or went into complete shock. It'll be easier for you to fit in considering I may have a counterpart here that might still be alive. Thankfully, most people are at home or with their families putting on those ultimately in the grand scheme of things pointless parties that are fun but distract them from the real America. It's that special day where fireworks are launched and I'm most likely to lose sleep from not just the party I would go to almost every year. I'm done with that now." It takes some time but we got ourselves some disguises. I went for the cloth mask, ponytail, and sunglasses look along with a Yugioh t-shirt and jean shorts while Dominic put on a hair concealing hat, a nerdy as hell t-shirt, jean shorts, and some sunglasses of his own. I don't enjoy conforming with things like jean shorts but we had no choice.
Now that we look different and put our regular clothes in my seemingly normal backpack, Dominic devises a plan: "Adam, we need to infiltrate or at least watch the coppers and any other possibly guilty parties. Let's split up to lower suspicion and cover more ground. I will watch the coppers. You go to the area you're from and see what everybody's doing." "I like that idea. It's plain obvious that if this shit is happening here, it's definitely happening elsewhere. We won't let the slaughter of those people be in vain. They didn't deserve it." With that, he puts away the sphere field and we teleport off to our individual target destinations. It takes hours for me to get to mine because I needed to walk there from a good place to go from that wouldn't raise suspicion. It was really hard to figure out, okay? I even went back in time to use the cover of night to my advantage and then got back to the time I departed from. But I did it and now I'm walking in my neighborhood focusing on the house I live in first. I see some really bad signs, crime scene tape is around the house. What in the hell happened in this timeline? That's when I saw it. My brother's body. Holy shit. In my timeline, we lost our mom 4 and a half months ago. But that's not all we lost. I'm not disclosing anything more, it's sensitive information. I disguise my voice using some voice practicing I've been making myself do while training to help with my Swiftdrawer identity. I use it as I talk to the version of my favorite aunt in this timeline. She can get here fast. She talks about how her nephew who just lost his mom was killed by a masked assailant using a gun.
Such a shame too she added, mentioning that his brother had run away from home 7 years prior. I thank her for her time and comfort her. After that, I inform her that I'm going to leave as I sadly have other matters to attend to. That was risky. I couldn't act exactly like myself in that conversation so I had to be careful with my word choices. Damn it! I can't believe they got him like that in this timeline! My own brother! As I walk away, other relatives show up as the ambulance takes this universe's version of my brother away. Just a side note for the version of my brother and my favorite aunt that I'm related to and share a timeline with: writing about this and publishing it with those elements wasn't meant to downplay or offend you. Please understand. It feels weird to talk about and insert people I know for reals into all this but I guess fate has it out for me. Moving on, I notice the absence of any copper cars even though the area is full of people who blindly trust them without much thought in many cases. That potentially implicates them in all this. It takes me another 2 hours to look around much of the area. There are some corpses, some in relative to the amount they are downtown. The corpses in the area are mostly of black people. There should be ambulances zooming through the streets, the hospitals must be overloaded with victims of what has happened. I decided to check out Northgate and Over The Rhine too to confirm things.
Just as I thought: more corpses. I've seen so many in horrible shape that my mind doesn't even emotionally process them anymore. These bastards didn't want to even wait till 2024 to begin making it way worse.
It looks like Covid was responsible for this too as lots of people in the areas I visited were coughing a lot and showing other symptoms. I forgot to mention that. I convene with Dominic in the Forest Fair mall again: "Hey Dominic, the deaths weren't as bad where I lived but this timeline's version of my brother was just killed. I'm surprised no one tried to kill me considering I have a cloth mask on. I must have gotten lucky to avoid that and more coppers. A lot of people were coughing without a care. We may be extremely well protected against Covid ourselves but that doesn't mean we didn't risk our health by looking into this matter. Over The Rhine and Northgate had a lot of dead bodies too, it was brutal. What did you find out?" "Well, I found out that the coppers didn't do the killings but they didn't stop them either. In fact, I saw someone protesting their abuses of power get arrested. I also got lucky by not getting killed but that was too close. One more thing, the mayor in this timeline is called Gofast. What did he do to get people to call him that? He let this happen too and was apparently asked to stay out of it, let the citizens act out their rage towards people who thought differently by killing them." "Did you just say Gofast? This changes everything. We don't have the strength to fight back against this. If I know Gofast like I think I do considering I developed him as an ideal future version of myself for several years when I was younger, this doesn't bode well. He must have high speed and strength and be able to transform into several forms. Dominic, please get out that thing out that can be used to detect numbers."
"Huh, you never told us about Gofast. Oh well. Alright, I will. Here I go. *A few seconds pass* There are numbers in the city in the same place!" "Just as I thought, Gofast must have them. I developed him to have 2 numbers. On that note, I don't think the numbers corrupted Gofast. Years before I started playing Miitopia as a video game not knowing that the Miitopia I was playing in would be where my destiny truly began, I was quite indoctrinated into capitalism and Catholicism. Not all the way but I was a blind follower who didn't even intellectually think about my beliefs. I just learned the beliefs and accepted them. When Gofast was created as a character, I was in that state. That means this planet has a huge problem on its hands." "Holy shit." "Yes, holy shit my scientist friend." "We need to wrap up this investigation by traveling around this world." "Just as I was thinking. We can't let all these deaths consume our minds in despair. It's hard to stay calm and calculated like this when this world is in grave danger of a human caused extinction event. Even more so than the Earth I'm from. Let's start with other parts of this country, the UK, Russia, Syria, and Brazil. It's been 5 hours for us since we got to this world, we will lose some sleep." "True but that's the least of our concerns right now."
*Meanwhile in the city hall of Cincinnati* "Mr. Mayor. You won't believe this but several hours ago, 2 figures appeared nearby out of nowhere and then left after several minutes talking about wild things like other universes." Gofast, the short brown haired version of me with brown eyes and a red trench coat not unlike the one worn by Seto Kaiba, glares at who said that, his loyal minion: "Why didn't you tell me this earlier? I was busy enjoying the coverage of the sinners being punished all around the country. The homosexuals, the t****ies, the Jews, the Muslims, the poor, the blacks, the feminists, the communists, and the others. Finally, God will be pleased that we cleansed this world of that filth. Always remember to love everyone like Jesus would. Keep America great." "Well, I was away if you remember to see how the church is doing around town. Like you ordered me to. You said you wanted to know how they were dealing with any backlash. They did very well, I might add. I saw a very observant and strange man with one of those cloth masks on him. He was attractive so I foolishly didn't find him suspicious at first. Then he just disappeared out of nowhere and I got a text from the police about the 2 strangers so I came back here." "I can't believe I forgot that, I'm supposed to be perfect! Now get out of my office and leave me alone. I want to keep enjoying the punishments we're finally giving to those freaks. Wasn't there supposed to be a big event held by those disgusting furries who are all about *** and support sexual things like gay men kissing? I wonder how much justice our allies are doing for God there. When I die and go to heaven, God will definitely be pleased with my deeds. I serve him well. After all, it is I who initiated the extermination of those vermin by increasing the popularity of my beliefs and taking direct action myself. And I saved the world from the Dark Power a few months ago. Life is great! And to make it even better, more girls and women have been giving birth because we banned abortion. More babies is more money."
*Back to Swiftdrawer and Dominic* "Yep. I'm sure there's at least a few religious people who aren't bigoted scattered around the region. Though that's just a hope for a silver lining right now. Ugh. My urges for a nap keep growing over all this even though I should be shell shocked at all the corpses." "Well considering you saw me die a few times and others dying when we fought the Supreme Dark Lord and others, I guess you had enough experience with death just as I did to avoid being shell shocked. Anyway, let's go travel the world for atrocities. Aka the most grim reason to ever travel anywhere." And so we split up again and strategically hit highly populated areas around the world. New York City was one of the worst ones with all the bodies as I mentioned. Tokyo was surprisingly not as bad but it was still just awful. Dallas looked like it had a giant fucking axe or something annihilate countless lives. So much for the land of the free, right? But seriously, no matter where I went, there were people dead. The streets of Rome were swarmed in bodies and ambulances. From what I could gather, Covid had already ravaged throughout the world before this so it was a shock to see so many bodies. Then again, a lot of them looked.. decomposed. Very. In Cairo, burned queer flags practically stood out even though there were burned flags throughout so many other cities too. I just didn't really notice until I looked behind the main part of Cairo into the desert. After meeting up with Dominic in the middle of where the fuck knows where, I sighed loudly: "Death is such a tough and painful thing to deal with. It feels so wrong to be speaking like we're so calm, so much like we don't care when we do. This is by far the worst situation I've ever seen a planet in. Arguably worse than an apocalyptic wasteland."
We exchange info about different cities and it looks like the governments of the world finally truly showed their true colors in a devastating and horrific way. Most governments on many Earths use people without much care or regard for them. Same with most major companies who basically control the USA with all the money they use to steal choice and replace it with the illusion of choice. Dominic's gasps: "We can't fight this. BRAINS and our allies aren't strong enough to face this. I also noticed that the Arctic is very melted when I looked around Greenland for a little bit. That and we need rest." "Here's an idea. We'll come back in a few months to deal with the hell that is this world. Killing people because they are different from you is unacceptable. Killing your own worst enemy when you can avoid doing so has no honor. These so-called servants of God or whatever they call themselves care too much about themselves and not enough about people, plants, and animals who are suffering due to their actions. I'm not in the best condition mentally to handle this. Typically, I'd want to go in there and kick ass even against all odds but the danger is far too high too. We risked our lives many times to save existence and here we go on backing out. It feels so cowardly. I hate being ironic like this. But dealing with Yappa Yappa forced me to change some of my thinking. We need more strength to fight the horrors of this world. And to also prevent another timeline where we lose in this world from existing somehow. A reality like that is cruel because then there's another Earth condemned to damnation by its own human residents."
"I agree. We have a lot of training and thinking ahead of us. Let's get out of here before all the governments and companies go after us so desperately it's like a whole bunch of meteors all at once are trying to kill us." "Yeah. Also, I don't have anything else to say right now, I'm pooped on that front. It's all just devastating. All this death cannot truly be computed within any mortal being, ourselves included." When we get back to Miitopia, I almost want to bolt to my room cry myself to sleep after punching the wall. My brain's emotional processing is starting to work as intended again. But a few of our friends stayed up for us so I stopped myself from doing that. Instead, I try my best to fight back the tears but two still managed to escape. Bray puts one of her hands on my right shoulder: "What happened? You're very upset. We were worried about you both, you never sent us any messages and got here really late." I start full out crying as I attempt to form the words needed to explain what we saw but I can't succeed at doing such. I'm far too upset to convey it in a way that everyone could understand. Even Dominic starts crying and he's famous for not feeling much but the need to nap or chill in conversation. Bray speaks in a comforting voice: "You can't put it into words, can you? You must have seen something that is just as bad if not worse than the cruelty the SDL forced on so many worlds. I shall read your recent memories as we all agreed upon as a procedure in case this exact situation happened. Your exploits today will show everything."
She puts 2 fingers out, one to touch my forehead and one to touch Dominic's forehead. Bray and the others let us and Dominic cry it all out as she works. Once she is finished, I feel the touch of fur. It's Blaze. They're trying to help me feel better. I really appreciate that. Meanwhile, Willy runs over to Dominic to comfort him as Bray reveals what she saw from mine Dominic's horrific adventure: "I shall use the time I have before I start crying myself to explain in summary. I'm glad I had the calm spell ready for myself. They went to several universes where nothing eventful happened. Then they went to an alternate Earth where countless humans have been slaughtered. They started in Adam's home town of Cincinnati. And there they found out that the authorities and lots of anger filled civilians were responsible. Adam and Dominic saw a genocide. One nearly as destructive as the Meklord Genocide in the original future of New Domino City after Yusei Fudo's time." Blaze was giving me a big hug but froze at Bray's words. Everyone else is in shock: "We can't tell the others yet. Let's do it in the morning. We all need rest to deal with this properly."
No one objects. Instead, a deafening silence fills the air. We all comfort one another as best as we can before going to sleep. In the morning, we tell the others in Miitopia BRAINS what happened and plan what to do. We're keeping the genocide to ourselves for now so our other friends and allies aren't kept from focusing on their own affairs. When the time is right, we will. In a couple months, we will enter that world with a lot of help. Minecraftian anarchists will join us. We will occupy enough space to stop Gofast and play it by ear from there. The rest of the day, quiet discussions fill the base. We decline all mission requests that come in throughout the day and redirect them to different BRAINS branches. More serious training will begin tomorrow. That is all I have to say about this. I don't feel comfortable telling more right now. You'll hear more when I document the trip that is planned to Den City and Link VRAINS. It will be a little time before that trip, it's going to be interesting.
Outro: Thank you for reading this. It isn't quite as long as other entries in this collection but that's okay. It's a dark chapter setting up for a multi entry arc of stories/chapters with this one being the first. I am also using this to warn you readers that as a society, we are in deep deep trouble. And I'm not just talking about people living in the US either. Current events are fucked up and hurt everyone. This is not a joke or a game. Some politicians have openly talked about killing groups of people because they're different from the norm even just in the past month. They want to kill people like me. These politicians and the corporations who fund and support them see regular people as free or cheap labor and that's about it besides the hatred. If we don't comply with what they want, they will find ways to still use us if they haven't already done so. They use people who detransitioned from HRT transitioning to attack trans people as a whole. This is not okay. Capitalism and bigotry are killing the life on this planet in so many ways. I leave you with all that to think about. If you're angry with me for expressing this like this, that's honestly your problem. We cannot allow our egos to blind us from what's really important: love, friendship, survival, ecosystems, plants, animals, comradery, the will to protect, creativity, and more. More people need to be logically emotional and not emotionally illogical. Not to mention more kind. I'll see you next time I hope.