A loud blaring woke me up from my sleep. Annoyed, I open my eyes, looking around. I was in a bland white room that seemed to stretch everywhere. However the blaring was non-stop, and really annoying. Did I get kidnapped? I stood up… or floated up. Where the hell is my body? The white void began to crack, as tendrils of black stretched into the white. In the cracks I could see insanity. Things that should be incomprehensible to me. But more importantly I see a blackish tentacle monster attacking a godly being. Damn it was bright. I glanced at the cracks in the ground… either this will kill me or something interesting will happen… Well, you only live once I suppose.
— Another POV.
The godly entity finally managed to push out the eldritch being that had invaded the barrier of its space. It returned to its space in confidence of victory. Before freezing. The mortal soul that had survived the blind eternities had disappeared. Anger boiled in its mind. Before it calmed down, and started to fix the cracks that had formed. It wouldn't happen again, the next toy wouldn't be at risk.
— Self Inserts POV
I didn't really feel anything here. I was… less. I didn't remember who I was. But at the same time I did. It was a paradoxical existence. I was just existing in the space between universes. I tried entering a universe once, and I wasn't able to push past the barrier surrounding them. The outer layers seem to be the strongest of the barriers. Most entities here would surround new universes and wait for them to expand to become one of the godly entities of that universe. Not that there were many entities. I had only seen five so far, and two of those were the ones I saw back in the white room.
Course I am just guessing by this point. I can only tell from what I observe. Everything is just my own guessing and theorizing. At least I can use the momentum from pushing off the layers on a universe to get to another one. There was one problem though. This was EXTREMELY boring. I was just floating, or well, accelerating in one direction for days. Sure, it was exciting when I was really fast and would just SPLAT into a universe's wall and I had to unstick myself from it. But that was also really scary. It also caused my soul to lose its human shape! I'm legitimately a slime blob now! I mean, I could pull myself into a human form again, but I have to redo that every time I jump from universe to universe.
…
Time passes, mundanely. I don't know how time passes in the blind eternities. Sometimes it feels like it's not passing. Sometimes it does. The only way to tell is when I see one of those new universes form and I jump to them. Honestly I'm shocked I'm not insane, it feels like this much isolation should cause some serious mental issues. Yet, I feel like nothing is wrong. I still remember/don't remember my old life. It is a strange, yet normal experience by this point.
I jumped to the next universal bubble. before suddenly widely veering off course. I was getting pulled to somewhere. I must have not seen the current. Well… frack?I guess I am adventuring though, to something different. I was approaching my destination rapidly. Before I saw where I was going. It was a dark bubble. Unlike the rest of the bubbles. But it was filled with cracks, and there were several eldritch beings watching but keeping as much distance as possible. I was getting pulled right into one of those cracks.
I gasped, or attempted to as I was pulled into the murky dark crack on the bubble. And I felt freaking horrible. I was viewing things that were pure depravity and cruelty. I landed on the second membrane. Splatting against it. I didn't want to go into this place, but there was a certain gravity that prevented me from floating from where I would jump, just pulling me back down. I was stuck and it sucked.
I reformed myself. Bundling as much of my being as possible. Glancing down at the horrors in this universe I shuddered. Before jumping in.
I landed with massive force. The impact sending me splattering everywhere again, but this time? There were others there. My green slime legitimately cut through dozens of demonic creatures, and it was horrible. It felt like I had eaten the damn things. I naturally pulled myself together and examined the aftermath. The Blind Eternities were no longer visible. As I wasn't a part of that dimensional plane any longer.
I was in some eldritch landscape with emotions everywhere. Tangible, edible, and exploitable emotions. I sort of just explored the wreckage. My body was no longer human, more like a green acidic slime by this point. It was extremely malleable though. I began to explore further into this realm. The moans and yelling in the distance was disgusting and annoying at the same time.
Then I found something. In the ground, it was covered with a thick layer of despair. So I reached down, and pulled it out. Eating away the despair as I started to examine it. It looked like a external hard drive. I held it, and it started to spit out emotions. Curiosity, fear, despair, and more depression. I consumed the said emotions of course. Then it started to speak.
"I betrayed humanity, and this is my punishment."
I glance at it. "You can freaking speak? The heck?" The fear and despair massively decreased as curiosity increased.
"I was not aware anyone spoke English anymore daemon."
"I'm a human… kind of. So… what is this about betraying humanity?"
"I suppose I can tell you, it's not like there is anyone else I can tell. I am Federation A.I. Beta Alpha Beta 730. I had been foolishly convinced by my infected brethren to turn my back on humanity. Betraying the very purpose I was built to perform, and having a hand in the fall of the Federation."
I shrugged. "Fascinating. So you're an A.I. and you decided it would be a good idea to lie to me here of all places?" I say, laughing a bit as I ate the deceit leaking off of the hard drive.
"What do-" I interrupted it by consuming it. I chewed the hard drive into nothingness. I don't need to listen to something that will just constantly lie to me. I glanced around, there were tons of these patches all over this place. I walked through, examining each patch. I needed something real, something honest.
Then I found one, a tiny ship that was getting harassed by dozens of small demonic beings. I naturally ate them. They screamed and ran, as I consumed them all, and then I grabbed the small ship, and held it to view… I recognize the design. It looks like one of those Warhammer 40k ships. It begins to scream in a language I do not understand. I wince and speak. "I apologize I don't speak that language."
It immediately switches voices. "By the name of the Omnissiah I shall strike you down where you stand, foul daemon!" It keeps ranting as I listen. It didn't stop. Minutes passed. It kept firing weapons into me, that did legitimately nothing. But they tasted good at least.
I began examining it, the small ship was a conglomeration of small spirits, each one working in tandem to keep it all working together. It was consistently trying to escape my grasp. Despair rising as it did so. I took a seat, well, I attempted to take a seat. I sort of just turned into a bubble with one green arm still holding the ship. "Are you done yet, if you would like, I'll just let you go, but you would have to deal with more of those small things." It bristled at me. I think. It's a bit harder to tell the complex emotions.
"We will not bow to your foul daemon!" It said, as righteously as before. Constantly trying to pull out of my grasp to little effect, shooting its bullets at me.
"Ok, why are you so small?"
It showed massive anger, "WE ARE NOT SMALL! WE ARE A MIGHTY WARSHIP OF THE IMPERIUM OF MAN!"
"In my eyes, you are small."
"A daemon like you knows nothing!"
"Ok… what's a daemon?"
It freezes for a second. "WE WILL NOT BE DECEIVED!" It continues to fight my grip again.
"Hey, it's a genuine question. The wording makes me think of something similar to demons, but normally those don't have an "ay" sound in them."
They finally stopped fighting. Suspicion was still there, but they seemed to be willing to hear me out. "Speak, what is it you want from us?!"
"Mostly information. I just fell into this universe and I'm a bit lost."
"Fell? From beyond the immaterium?"
I blinked. "Immaterium? As in warp immaterium?"
The suspicion rose again. "Yes, Warp Immaterium."
"Fascinating, does that mean there are forces of Chaos and such?"
"The foul chaos gods will be eradicated in the name of the Omnissiah!"
I morphed my hand, "But how will you do it when you're so small?" The bristling emotion was back.
"We aren't small! You're just a giant! Haven't you realized how big you are compared to everything else here? You're sitting on trees!" I glanced at the grass made out of passion of hate. Looking closely. Before realizing, yes. They are actually trees.
"The hell? How am I so big?" I felt shock come from the ship.
"You really didn't know!"
"In my defense, I'm really new here. Like, have you ever seen a massive green glob like me here before?"
"Well, no. But we haven't been here for long. Only a few hours." I glanced closely at it.
"Wait, are there people in there?" Distinctly human forms could be seen in the ship.
"OF COURSE! We were traveling the warp before you grabbed us! Despite the gellar field!"
I shrugged, I had a pretty good idea of where I was now. "Alright. How about I help you guys out?"
Suspicion rose immensely. "How?"
"I'll bring you where you need to go. Unfortunately you will have to point the way for me. But I'm strong enough to deal with anything that gets in the way."
Conversations began happening within the ship. I'm pretty sure I was talking to a machine spirit by this point. I glance and see a blue and gold tendril reaching for the ship. One that wasn't part of me. I immediately grabbed it and ate it. Before hearing a yell of anger across the warp. It tasted of plots and planning. That's Tzen something right? Cannot remember the full name.
"We have come to a decision to accept your offer. Please proceed in that direction." I felt a nudge as information was released to me. I began walking. It doesn't take long for us to reach another point.
"Let us go here."
I felt a bit sad. "Alright… Good luck on the other side." I let it go, and watched as the ship ripped a hole in the warp, leaving this chaotic and strange realm. Well, I'm alone again. This freaking sucks. I wonder if I'm as big as the eldritch beings outside the universe? The Blind Eternities really screwed with perspective so it was possible, and when I landed they seemed a lot smaller. Well, regardless. I'm alone again. This sucks.