Prologue : Background Story
Hello and welcome to my story of how this shit happened, quite interesting and complex at times actually. Now let us start from the beginning... actually that would take to long, let me give you the "short" version of how this came to be. But first of all let me tell you who this 'group' is that I mentioned. One word, or name which ever you prefer. Illuminati. NO WAIT he, he, don't go yet, they may be involved but this is not all about them no this is about my time in a different universe so bear with me here... Oh and for info I refer to them as senpai or superiors... AND we don't 'worship Satan' or bull shit like that, we have freedom to chose our own religion, thank you very much! But I digress back to the story at hand.
I was fourteen when I first joined them,still a freshman in high school. I always heard about them so I said 'fuck it, lets see if I can join'. I thought it would be a great way to distract myself, from my depression I had since I was seven, trying to find a definitive place on the internet to let me join but I found a real website to join in about 15 minute's. All I really had to do was put my contact information and name, ridiculously simple.
About four month's in I had checked my e-mail (which I haven't checked for a week) and saw I had two missed messages from senpai, the second one five hours later from the first one so I read them. The first one said that I had been invited to be a member of 'Project 501' and to reply to them withing one month. That was enough to make he excited about something. I was about to reply when I remembered the second message that said the first message was an accident and my name was mixed up from the few selected members in the Illuminati, but since I now knew about 'Project 501' I was allowed to join as well. I was not sure if I was to be excited to the fact that I still could be in the project or disappointed that I wasn't meant to be in it in the first place. I just replied 'Yes' and waited to do my part for 'Project 501'.
As more info came in to me I had the basic understanding of 'Project 501'. Lately there has been multiple occurrences of a massive spikes of energy around the globe, enough energy to power anything and everything technological within a 10 mile radius for all eternity, and members of the Illuminati had reported them to their superiors.
Even with more technologically advanced detectors and machines we had trouble being able to detect let alone predict where another spike would occur. We continued to do the math and calculations to improve on our resources. We managed to do so two years later with hard work and... well hard work is what matters I guess.
I was seventeen and had finished my year of being a junior and was starting my summer vacation. That was when I got a message from senpai. They had finally found a way to accurately predict where the next spike would be. Members who where close to one where sent a message to investigate what, how, and why it happens. Around One hundred and fifty three members (Myself Included) would be the first's to witness, experience, and find out why these occurrences would happen.
The spike was three blocks away from my house somewhere in the public park, emphasis on public. I had told senpai where it was and they seemed like it was nothing to worry about, who was I to argue with my superiors? The spike was due to happen in five days for me, anywhere from a few hours to weeks for others. So I prepared. I was planning to arrive about 5 hours earlier to see if there was anything off before the spike happened so I brought food and water... best choice of my life.
The day came and I arrived early like I said. There seemed nothing out of the normal for the first four hours but on the fifth there was more and more wind concentrating in the place the spike was said to form soon. I had my phone and it was timing down for the spike.
'5:00'...'4:30'...'4:00'
The wind was picking up and seemed to come from the point of where the spike will be. Soon my curiosity would be to much and I had moves closer to the winds source. Once I was withing 5 feet of the source it felt like dry ice. Now I have never felt dry ice but it felt how it was described so cold making you warm. A very contradicting feeling. I looked at my phone to check
'2:00'...'1:30'...'1:00'
It was about time, my heart beat increased as the timer would count down, I would have to back up a safe 30 feet from it before it appeared but I wanted to stay a little longer, the adrenaline in my body felt great. I looked at my phone for the last time before I would stay back.
'0:50'...'9̷̡̀͘͟9̶̕͟:̛͢9̛̀͢͡9̷҉̛́'...'0:01'
Now, a few things came to my mind instantaneously at that moment. 1 - What the absolute fuck? 2 - Holy shit i'm right on the position of the spike! 3 - THE FUCK PHONE!?!? 4 - Wellp, I made the best of my time here. 5 - YOLO!! and last but not least 6 - FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!
That was my first experience 'Jumping'. I can't recall allot from my first 'Jump' from one universe to another but what I do remember was this. The planet I landed clearly had the potential for life if not I would have died there. It had potential but from what I saw no complex life, emphasis on SAW,I only saw vegetation, and there was no way in hell you would get me to jump in the water, and I will explain that in a moment. From what I remember I tested its depth with multiple branches I had tied together with vines reaching about 50 feet. I remember testing it and slowly lowering the long 'branch' I put together but even with that it did not reach the bottom. It looked like a small and shallow lake. I was going to pull the branch out when something PULLED it down. I was almost stupid enough to hold on but my instincts said 'OH HELL'S NAW!'.
After that I had made sure to stay clear of the 'lake' and stayed in a small cave opening on the small mountain I saw and followed for about half a mile. Now I know your thinking 'This is some bull shit, you would NOT be that calm if you suddenly found yourself in a completely unknown place!', to which I say I wasn't... I was just trying to keep some dignity... ungrateful bastard shredding my dignity. If you weren't then I am glad at least you didn't question it, but you would not be a good lawyer if you didn't notice it... just saying.
I was there for about a day and a half but I did NOT sleep, I was way to alert from what had happened at the lake to sleep. How could I know if what I saw could walk on land? But I digress, so I was there for a day and a half before I felt what I had when I first 'Jumped'. We called the manner of transportation a 'Jump' due to the feeling we get when crossing universes. It is like the feeling when you jump, with gravity trying to pull you back down, except the feeling stays with you for about 2 - 10 minutes after you lands and makes you slightly disoriented. Did I mention I was disoriented? Well you know now. But back to the point!
As it turns out I was not the only one, there where others who where to close to the spike. Senpai had heard about what had happened to everyone since they suddenly disappeared and used everything they had to get us back. At first they didn't try for about 10 hours after hearing but they only didn't try because they thought we didn't make it. The reason for that is because as it turns out, certain humans couldn't handle that much power that close to them... they where killed in 4 different ways. A few where shocked as if struck by lighting expect much more intense. Some would just be paralyzed for a long time, coma like but not exactly. Some would actually reach 'Absolute zero', and to those of you who didn't pay attention in physics is where all the molecules in an object completely stop moving and essentially killing the body. The fourth kind was a little more... disturbing. The others would vomit violently as their internal organs bled from the inside out.
Oh but senpai didn't tell us that. When every one who came back and was still alive told them of our experience, our superiors wanted to 'Test' something. That something was us. They wanted to see if it was just luck or if we had something that separated us from them. When they told us we would be doing it again I agreed reluctantly but packed as much as I could. I brought food, water, blankets, some knifes, a couple matches, a hatchet, and some weapons, communication devices, and any means of defense senpai had given us.
The second time I had my phone out again to see if the same thing that happened last time would repeat itself. It surly did.
'0:49' ... '9̷̡̀͘͟9̶̕͟:̛͢9̛̀͢͡9̷҉̛́' ... '0:01'
I had found myself 'Jumping' for the second time. This time though I was unfortunate. There was complex life that almost noticed me IMMEDIATELY. Thank senpai for those weapons because life there was hostile as FUCK man! Now that I look at it they could have been territorial or protecting their young but my LIFE was on the line. I pulled out a rifle that would shoot High Density Radiation that would kill any living creature at close range. At long rage it would probably make them extremely sick and it would be painful for them. I still had to be careful not to let the radiation hit me but I was to busy murdering the shit out of my attackers. They looked like some weird feathery creature about the size of my torso with sharp teeth.
By the time I was safe the communication device had been set down and I contacted senpai. The connection only lasted for about four minutes before it cut. Enough time to tell them about my welcome party and thankfully they had me pulled out of there. I was way to alarmed from the hostile enemy on that planet to notice my body looked like it did when I was fourteen. Senpai managed to take me out early but not before something almost hit me with extreme speed and agility.
The summer was like that, I had 'Jumped' about one dozen times that summer. I still had school which senpai excused me from the project until next summer came. By the time summer came senpai had some wicked new toys in order for the 'Jumping' to be safer. That had invented this weird band for my wrist that would do two things. One; it would inject nanobots into my blood stream and quadrupling the healing time in case of any accidents. Two; it was also a DNA Replication Device. My band would scan all new life and store it in a memory core/chip/data bank. The information would then go into the nanobots who, if needed, would change my physical appearance. We where still working on translating foreign languages into someones natural, or most experienced, language.
It was at that time that they had told us the truth about what had happened the first time. From the initial one hundred and fifty three 'Jumpers' there where only eighty seven of those initial 'Jumpers'. The news hit most of us like we had been in the chance of death over and over every time we 'Jumped', and in a way that's true, I was not as surprised. I could tell senpai was hiding something so I was only half as shocked.
Once we knew the truth they studied us to their hearts content. They had found that we had a small change, a twist in our biological DNA. A 'mutation' if you will. The small change allowed us to survive a few minutes of an intense energy blast, allowing us to jump from one universe to another. As years came and left, senpai had found a way to tell the potential 'Jumpers' from normal people who would die on contact. Along with that our technology increased in order to survive any kind of environment. We where lucky so far to constantly hit a habitable planet by human standards and we knew our luck would run our one day so we made a small suit that allowed us to live in any gravity and conditions until we found another life form to take form of.
I had finally finished university and had my own house. Time had progressed and so did we. On my first jump after graduating it was clearly noticeable that I was in my body from when I was fourteen. When I reported this to my superiors they said others had said the same thing. Apparently when jumping to another universe our physical appearance would be that of when we first jumped. The only thing that we could change was our weight. I would work out every time I jumped in order to have some muscle in other universes.
Three months later I had heard something particularity interesting on jumping. Some jumpers have actually been in universes that humans already know of. By that I mean things we have seen and watch on TV. Now I myself at that time had not been in one. Senpai explained this, they said while someone was sleeping their mind would get glimpses of other universes and one would make a 'cartoon' or 'series' out of what they saw.
Once senpai had heard of this they decided that it would be best that any and all of our DNA Replication Devices data bank would be replicated and kept safe in a vault somewhere. Aside from having all that information they had a few new things to help the jumpers. Two where standard issue when jumping. One was a small device with nano bots that would replicate itself and make a shelter for us. Same nano bots from our DNA Replication Device so our shelter could change form of anything. Two was something else inserted into our wrist band. Hyper-Time. This would accelerate our body's molecules making us go into Hyper-Time in order for us to do something in little time or a defense for something extremely fast. basically it slows time down for us, except its not we are just moving incredibly faster.
With those two it made things way easier for us jumpers. As it turns out since our body's where exposed to the massive energy spikes time and time again, our devices fed of it. Lucky for us after just 10 jumps the devices would have energy for eternity, I had discovered that fact and reported it to senpai who said anywhere from 8-13 jumps would do it, not just ten.
Once I learned my Hyper-Time band would never drain its energy I did what any one would do. I abused the fuck out of it every time I jumped.
Some jumpers, including me, got board of the same old routine for jumping over and over again... so we got creative in jumping. Some would cartwheel into it, some would do either a back or front flip into it, myself and others simply ran and jumped into it. Several other methods I don't know the name of.
Once I was 21 I had met my first human known universe (HKU). I didn't know it at first, it was just another human universe but as I walked around I met a doctor. Sorry to disappoint you, no it wasn't Doctor Who, it was an actual doctor (Although one jumper claims to have met doctor who). One my sister was always a fan of. The one and only Doctor House. When I saw him in the street walking to his job I somehow recognized his face instantly. His universe was my first HKU I met.
I was 22 when I entered my second HKU... but this human known universe I knew all to well. But there was a problem. Unlike the other human known universes, they where up to date on our shows. This HKU was only just beginning. A wise man once said, foreknowledge of the future can be the greatest gift and the most dangerous weapon.
This is my story, of my second HKU. The HKU of the loved and hated cartoon show of My Little Pony.