Omniversal Odyssey

3. Robot Navigation System

"WHO ARE YOU!?" Elias screamed. The crystal man laughed. It was horrible gut wrenching laugh. "You can find out later." He said after finishing his mania. "I can't wait to watch each of you die. I do hope you'll allow me to indulge myself a little, however?" Everyone was grunting and trying to break out of the crystals to know avail, choosing to try and ignore the man entirely. Elias couldn't however. He was hanging onto every word. He knew the pattern. He needed to listen. "It was argued for a few straight hours about where we would send you and in what order. We even thought about what worlds would make you the most miserable. HA! We even considered just leaving you hear for a few months. But, it would've been to calm. Too consistent. We want you to be tortured. Pain, despair, we want you afraid. And we realized where we needed to send you first. It was perfect. I am ashamed to say it was not my idea. I wish it was. But no matter, success is success. Are you scared yet, Elias?"

The mention of his name caught everybody's attention. They realized that 'you' was not referring to them, but to him. "Me?" Elias was beginning to understand what he meant. And he was afraid of being right. "Yes," The man began gleefully. "YOU! AH HA! It's so wonderful that I get to be the one to send you off! Of course, I have to give the obligatory hint. I wish we could just kick you and make you figure it out yourself, but rules are rules." The man cleared his throat and leaned down, his face-less head mere inches away from Elias.

"The book of death, the edged sphere, the blood of the morbid, and the sacrifice of a lie. Not necessarily in that order." The man stood back up and walked to the wall of the warehouse. "I hope you can all figure it out in time. Collect the first three, then when you unite, sacrifice the lie. I'll be seeing you." The man snapped his fingers and a circle of fire erupter around the group. The crystals holding them turned to dust, just as the floor did. They all began falling down a bottomless hole. Elias could not keep himself together long enough to stop from fainting.

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Elias could not see anything beyond an endless dark void. The void in and of itself was not the weird thing about this dream, because of course it was dream. No, Elias knew this dream like the back of his hand. The strange thing was that he only ever dreamt it when he was Incarnate, his true form. Incarnate was the psychological and spiritual sum of his billion years of existence. Elias was a life he was living with a different personality and instincts. And he was Elias while he was dreaming, not Incarnate. So why was he dreaming of this?

Elias stood and floated in the endless void as it changed. A ground came into existence. A long grassy plain and mountains in the distance. The sky became blue and clear. A blinding sun lit it up. Then they formed. Elias saw them instantly. A young man with bright white hair and dead gray eyes. A young woman holding his lifeless body and crying. Sobbing. Screaming. It was the same thing, From where he stood, Elias could see her silver eyes. Her beautiful black hair. "I'm sorry," Elias said. It never mattered before. He couldn't change this. It was a memory. Then something different happened.

Elias felt his whole body turn to static. Like when an arm or leg goes to sleep and wakes up, but his entire body. Then a cracking sensation. Like popping your neck. "Why did you lie?" Elias couldn't help but gasp. She never spoke. Never in these dreams. "WHY DID YOU LIE!?" He couldn't breathe right. Everything was broken. Nothing made sense. His heart was spreading faster than it should. Then the world began to die. The mountains faded to dust. The sky fell. The sun screamed. It screamed. The ground fell and everything disappeared.

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"Wake up, you're okay!" Elias shot up like a catapult. He was hyperventilating. His chest ached. He was scared, no. He was terrified. "You're okay. Calm down." Elias turned to his left. He had realized his shoulders were being held. Ellie was sitting next to him, trying to get him to calm down. He had tear marks on his face and blood on his arm. "What..." Elias gasped for air and almost managed to choke on it. "What happened?"

Ellie looked at his arm then back at Elias. "It's okay. We're alive." Elias looked around quickly. They were in the middle of some forest. Tall trees surround them and a clear sunny sky could be seen above. "Where are we?" Ellie shook his head. "I don't know. The others didn't pop up anywhere around, I checked." Elias look closer at Ellie. His hair was dirty, like crusted mud had gotten to it. His clothes were ripped in small spots. "How long have I been out?" Ellie seemed to hesitate for a moment. "We've been here for a few days. I've been using a quirk of mine to slowly heal you. You had a few broken bones and were unconscious. I wasn't entirely sure you were gonna wake up til you started screaming."

"Screaming?" Ellie nodded. "I had a nightmare when I first slept here too. I think this forest is evil. Like, the supernatural kind of evil." Elias stood up and brushed off what dirt he could from his shirt and jeans, though it was considerably stained. "You come from a world with super-powers. You also jumped worlds into mine. What counts as supernatural to you?" Ellie smiled and rolled his eyes as he joined Elias in standing up.

"What do we do next? We're clearly nowhere near home. My home, that is." Ellie took a quick look around. "I think... we should climb a tree and see if there is any nearby civilization." Elias walked over to a tree. "Don't need to sound like a robot navigation system." He muttered. Elias got to one of the taller trees and looked it over. "Why didn't you do it while I was asleep?" He asked.

"I never went anywhere I couldn't see you. Something about this place sets off my fight or flight. It never seemed..." He stopped and looked at Elias, who was just standing and staring at the tree. "You can't climb it, can you?" Elias said nothing but walked back over and nodded.

Ellie used one of his Quirks to elongate his legs and look around. "See anything?" Elias shouted upward. Ellie went back down. "I think I saw a castle." Elias scoffed. "There is no way you saw a castle. Lift me up." Ellie turned Elias around and lifted him up by the armpits. When they reached over the leaves, Elias almost died on the spot. A beautiful structure with a giant spire, a vast courtyard, beautiful trees, powerful stone buildings. But it was not a castle. It was not a palace. It was a school and it's campus. And Elias knew it. Because this was not just any school. This was Beacon Academy.